A   Dictionary   of 
Classified  Quotations 


From  Authors  of  all  Nations  and  Periods, 

grouped    under    Subject  -  Headings,    with 

full    Index    of    Gross  -  References    and 

Annotated  List  of  Authors 


By 

W.  GURNET  BENHAM 


New    York 

THOMAS    Y.    GROWELL    COMPANY 
Publishers 

Printed  in  Great  Britain 


PREFACE 

DICTIONARIES  of  Quotations  are  usually  bought  for  one  of  two  pur- 
poses— either  to  assist  in  finding  the  exact  locale  and  wording  of 
some  well-  or  half-remembered  line,  or  to  help  a  writer  or  speaker  to 
do  with  effect  what  Montaigne  spoke  of  when  he  said  "  I  quote 
others  only  the  better  to  express  myself." 

This  book  of  CLASSIFIED  QUOTATIONS  is  intended  primarily  for 
the  use  of  those  who  write,  speak,  or  teach  ;  and  the  compiler 
confidently  anticipates  that,  owing  to  its  arrangement  and  to  the  very 
large  number  of  subjects  of  which  it  treats,  it  will  be  of  value  alike 
to  the  clergyman,  the  lecturer,  the  journalist,  and  the  author  ;  that 
it  will  not  only  recall  to  writers  and  to  speakers  the  most  striking 
phrases  of  their  predecessors  on  almost  any  subject,  but  will  also  guide 
them  to  ideas  which  otherwise  might  not  suggest  themselves  ;  that 
it  will  save  the  after-dinner  speaker  time,  trouble,  and  anxiety  in  the 
preparation  of  his  speech ;  and  that  it  will  prove  itself  a  continuous 
source  of  interest  and  of  useful  information  to  the  general  reader. 

Whilst  including  the  favourite  household  words,  which  can 
never  wear  out  with  use,  the  present  volume  contains  many  thousands 
of  quotable  passages  and  sayings  not  hitherto  included  in  any  similar 
collection.  These  have  been  chosen  with  care,  and  often  as  the 
result  of  extensive  research.  Extracts  from  the  Greek,  Latin,  French, 
German,  Spanish,  Italian,  and  other  languages  are  given  in  English 
form  ;  and  a  large  amount  of  time  and  trouble  has  been  spent'  in 
locating  the  quotations  with  such  exactitude  as  will  enable  the 
student  to  refer  to  their  setting  in  the  work  from  which  they 
come. 

"  The  art  of  quotation,"  said  Isaac  D'Israeli,  "  requires  more 
delicacy  in  the  practice  than  those  conceive  who  see  nothing  more 
in  a  quotation  than  an  extract."  All  definitions  are  dangerous,  and 
to  define  a  "  quotation  "  is  a  thing  as  elusive  and  difficult  as  to  ex- 
plain precisely  what  constitutes  an  article  of  virtu.  In  the  end 
the  humble,  unpopular  test  of  "  utility "  is  the  best,  let  the  con- 
noisseurs rail  as  they  will,  provided  always  that  we  realize  that  not 


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the  least  useful  things  in  this  world  are  those  that  can  give  pleasure, 
enlightenment,  and  inspiration. 

This  same  utility  is  also  the  reason  for  attempting  the  difficult — 
sometimes  impossible — task  of  "  classifying  "  a  collection  of  literary 
gems  and  curiosities.  Not  a  few  quotations  object  to  be  classified  ; 
others  demand  classification  under  many  different  headings.  But  on  the 
whole  the  advantages  of  a  system  of  classification  outweigh  the  dis- 
advantages. Busy  men  and  women  require  to  be  helped  in  their  quest 
for  the  word  in  season,  or  for  the  inspiration  which  may  be  obtained 
from  the  varied  ideas  of  the  world's  thinkers,  of  different  periods, 
nationalities,  religions,  politics,  and  temperaments. 

Nearly  two  thousand  separate  subject-headings  have  been  in- 
troduced in  this  book,  some  of  them  necessarily  overlapping  one 
another.  Readers  who  do  not  at  once  find  the  lucky  words  under 
the  particular  heading  which  they  have  selected,  should  turn  to  the 
Index  of  Cross-References  (p.  565),  which  will  guide  them  to  other 
passages  appropriate  for  their  purpose.  But  in  using  this  or  any 
similar  work  of  reference  D'Israeli's  saying,  quoted  above,  should  be 
borne  in  mind,  for  it  must  be  remembered  that  the  art  of  quotation 
depends  very  largely  on  the  taste,  discernment,  and  ingenuity  of 
those  who  practise  it. 

W.   GURNEY   BENHAM. 


Whitcfriars  Club, 

London. 


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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

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INDEX  OF  SUBJECT-HEADINGS  WITH  CROSS-REFERENCES         .     565 
LIST  OF  AUTHORS  QUOTED    .        .        . 


A  DICTIONARY  OF 
CLASSIFIED  QUOTATIONS 


ABASEMENT 

At  whose  sight  all  the  stars  hide  their 
diminished  heads. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost:  Bk.  4,  34 

Ye  little  stars !  hide  your  diminished 
rays  !  POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  3,  282. 

ABILITY 

The  winds  and  waves  are  always  on 
the  side  of  the  ablest  navigators. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  68. 

ABSENCE 

Absence  makes  the  heart  grow  fonder. 
T.  H.  BAYLY. — Isle  of  Beauty. 

To  that  loved  land,  where'er  he  goes, 
His  tenderest  thoughts  are  cast ; 

And  dearer  still,  through  absence,  grows 
The  memory  of  the  past. 

J.  D.  BURNS. — Song. 

But  aye  the  tear  comes  in  my  ee, 
To  think  on  him  that's  far  awa'. 
BURNS. — Oh,  how  can  I  be  Blithe  ? 

Absence  is  to  love  what  wind  is  to 
fire ;  it  puts  out  the  little  and  kindles 
the  great.  BUSSY. 

Absence  !     Is  not  the  heart  torn  by  it. 
From    more    than    light,    or    life,    or 

breath  ? 

'Tis  Lethe's  gloom,  but  not  its  quiet, 
The  pain  without  the  peace  of  death. 
CAMPBELL. — A  bsence. 

That  out  of  sight  is  out  of  mind 
Is  true  of  most  we  leave  behind. 

A.  H.  CLOUGH. — Songs  of  Absence. 

Absence  from  whom  we  love  is  worse  than 

death, 

And  frustrate  hope  severer  than  despair. 
COWLEY. — Despair  at  his  Separation. 

Love  reckons  hours  for  months,  and  days 

for  years  ; 
And  every  little  absence  is  an  age. 

DRYDEN. — Amphitryon. 

B 


The    farther    off,    the    more    desired 
thus  lovers  tie  their  knot. 

HENRY  HOWARD,  EARL  OF  SURREY 
— The  Faithful  Lover 

Though  lost  to  sight,  to  memory  dear. 
GEO.  LINLEY. — Song  (c.  1835),  but 
found  as  an  "  axiom  "  in  "  Gentleman's 
Magazine,"  Jan.,  1827.  "  The  absent 
claim  a  sigh,  the  dead  a  tear,"  has  been 
added  as  a  second  line. 

Absence  not  long  enough  to  root  out  quite 
All  love,  increases  love  at  second  sight. 
THOS.  MAY.— Henry  11. 

Alas,  what  winds  can  happy  prove 
That  bear  me  far  from  her  I  love  ? 

PRIOR. — Song. 
A  bright  adieu 
For  a  brief  absence  proves  that  love  is 

true  ; 

Ne'er  can  the  way  be  irksome  or  forlorn 
That  winds  into  itself  for  sweet  return. 
WORDSWORTH. — Memorials  of  a  Tour 
in  Scotland. 

Absent  in  body,  but  present  in  spirit, 
i  Corinthians  v,  3. 

Herte  soon  forgets  what  the  eye   sees 
not.  Cursor  Mundi  (c.  1250). 

ABSTINENCE 

And  made  almost  a  sin  of  abstinence. 
DRYDEN. — A  Good  Parson,  I.  n. 

And  must  I  wholly  banish  hence 

These  red  and  golden  juices, 
And  pay  my  vows  to  Abstinence, 

That  pallidest  of  Muses  ? 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — To  a  Maiden  whc 
bade  me  shun  Wine. 

ABSTRUSENESS 

This  young  man  expresses  himself  in 
terms  too  deep  for  me. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Patience 

Who,  too  deep  for  his  hearers,  still  went 

on  refining, 
And   thought  of  convincing    while   they 

thought  of  dining. 

GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 


ABSURDITY 


ACCUSATION 


When  he  to  whom  one  speaks  does  not 
understand,  and  when  he  who  speaks  does 
not  understand  himself,  that  is  meta- 
physics. VOLTAIRE. 

Abstrusest  matter,  reasonings  of  the  mind 
Turned  inward. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  i. 

ABSURDITY 

They  are  of  all  most  subject  to  it  [ab- 
surdity] that  profess  philosophy.  For  it  is 
most  true  that  Cicero  saith  of  them 
somewhere,  that  there  can  be  nothing  so 
absurd  but  may  be  found  in  the  books  of 
philosophers. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  Bk.  i,  ch.  5. 

ABUNDANCE 

Not  more  than  others  I  deserve, 
Yet  God  has  given  me  more. 

I.  WATTS. — Praise  for  Mercies. 

ABUSE 

Letting  the  rank  tongue  blossom  into 
speech.  BROWNING. — Caliban. 

Never  slang  a  cabman — he  can  beat 
you.  H.  J.  BYRON. — Mirth. 

Poets,  like  disputants,  when  reasons  fail, 

Have  one  sure  refuge  left — and  that's  to 

rail.  DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Ep. 

There  must  be  something  good    in    you, 

I  know, 
Or  why  does  everyone  abuse  you  so  ? 

SIR  OWEN  SEAMAN. — Praise  of  Fog. 

The  ears  can  endure  an  injury  better 
than  the  eyes.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

If  it  is  abuse,  why,  one  is  sure  to  hear 
of  it  from  one  damned  good-natured  friend 
or  another. 

SHERIDAN. — The  Critic,  Act  i,  i. 

But    from    sharp    words    and    wits    men 

pluck  no  fruit ; 
And  gathering  thorns  they  shake  the  tree 

at  root ; 

For  words  divide  and  rend, 
But  silence  is  most  noble  till  the  end. 

SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 

Detraction  and  spitefulness  are  eagerly 
received.  TACITUS. — Hist.  Bk.  i. 

He  should  have  a  hail  pow 

[a  sound  head], 
That  calls  his  neighbour  nikkienow. 

Scottish  prov.  (Ray). 

Keep  your  kiln-dried  taunts  for  your 
mouldy-haired  maidens.  Scottish  prov. 

Sticks  and  stanes  may  break  my  banes, 
But  names  will  never  hurt  me. 

Scottish  saying. 


ABUSES 

There  are  four  good  mothers,  of  whom 
are  often  born  four  unhappy  daughters. 
Truth  begets  Hatred  ;  Happiness,  Pride  ; 
Security,  Danger  :  and  Familiarity.  Con- 
tempt. 
STEELE. — Guardian,  No.  o  (Mar.  17,  I713)« 

The  older  the  abuse  the  more  sacred 
it  is.  VOLTAIRE. — Les  Guebres. 

ACCOMPLISHMENT 

To  stretch  the  octave  "twixt  the  dream  and 

deed, 
Ah,  that's  the  thrill ! 

R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — The  Decadent  to 
his  Soul. 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS 

All  his  perfections  were  so  rare, 
The  wit  of  man  could  not  declare 
Which  single  virtue,  or  which  grace 
Above  the  rest  had  any  place. 

BUTLER. — Miscell.  Thoughts. 

A  man  of  letters,  manners,  morals,  parts. 
COWPER. — Tirocinium,  673. 

He  combined  the  manners  of  a  marquis 
with  the  morals  of  a  Methodist. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

A  combination,  and  a  form,  indeed, 
Where  every  god  did  seem  to  set  his  seal 
To  give  the  world  assurance  of  a  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

ACCOUNTANCY 

What  is  an  inaccurate  accountant  good 
for  ?  "  Silly  man,  that  dost  not  know  thy 
own  silly  trade  !  "  was  once  well  said  ; 
but  the  trade  here  is  not  silly. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 
(May  7,  1789). 
ACCUSATION 

Heedless    of    grammar   they   all   cried, 
"  That's  him  !  " 
R.  H.  BARHAM. — Jackdaw  of  Rheims. 

Demon — with   the   highest   respect   for 
you — behold  your  work  ! 
DICKENS.— Our  Mutual  Friend,  Bk.  4,  ch.  5. 

The  charge  is  prepared,  the  lawyers  are 

met ; 

The  judges  all  ranged — a  terrible   show  ! 
GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 

I  will  make  a  Star-Chamber  matter  of  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  i,  i 

Believe  not  each  accusing  tongue, 
As  most  weak  persons  do ; 

But  -still  believe  that  story  wrong, 
Which  ought  not  to  be  true. 

SHERIDAN  (Attributed) 


ACHIEVEMENT 


ACTION 


ACHIEVEMENT 

I  did  some  excellent  things  indifferently, 
Some  bad  things  excellently.     Both  were 

praised  ; 

The  latter  loudest. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  3. 

I  die,  but  first  I  have  possessed, 
And  come  what  may,  I  have  been  blessed. 
BYRON. — The  Giaour,  I.  1113. 

The  hand  that  rounded  Peter's  dome, 
And  groined  the  aisles  of  Christian  Rome, 
Wrought  in  a  sad  sincerity ; 
Himself  from  God  he  could  not  free ; 
He  builded  better  than  he  knew  ; — 
The  conscious  stone  to  beauty  grew. 

EMERSON. — The  Problem. 

I've    touched    the    height    of    human 

happiness, 

And  here  I  fix  nil  ultra. 
FLETCHER  and  MASSINGER. — Prophetess, 

Act  4. 

Each  morning  sees  some  task  begun, 
Each  evening  sees  it  close ; 

Something  attempted,  something  done, 
Has  earned  a  night's  repose. 

LONGFELLOW. — Village  Blacksmith. 

I  write  nil  ultra  to  my  proudest  hopes. 
MASSINGER. — New  Way  to  Pay  Old  Debts, 

Act  4. 

She  whom  I  love  is  hard  to  catch  and 

conquer, 
Hard,  but  O  the  glory  of  the  winning  were 

she  won ! 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Love  in  the  Valley,  st.  2. 

Nothing  is  here  for  tears,  nothing  to  wail 
Or  knock  the  breast ;    no  weakness,  no 

contempt, 
Dispraise  or  blame,  nothing  but  well  and 

fair 

And  what  may  quiet  us  in  a  death  so  noble. 
MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  1.  1721. 

Discoveries  old  of  Wisdom's  ways, 
And   works   still   pregnant   with    the   in- 
ventor's praise. 

PINDAR. — Olympian   Odes,  13,   17 
(Moore  tr.). 

The  more  the  marble  wastes, 
The  more  the  statue  grows. 
MRS.  H.  ROSCOE  (tr.  of  Michael  Angela). 

Yet  through  good  heart,  and  our  Lady's 

grace, 

At  length  he  gained  the  landing-place. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  i,  st.  29. 

If  you  have  writ  your  annals  true,  'tis  there, 
That  like  an  eagle  in  a  dove-cote,  I 
Fluttered  your  Volscians  in  Corioli : 
Alone  I  did  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  5,  5. 


And  now  the  matchless  deed's  achieved, 
Determined,  dared,  and  done. 
CHRISTOPHER  SMART. — To  David,  st.86. 

The  vulgar  is  content  if  he  has  fulfilled 
his  duty.  To  the  hero  more  is  necessary. 
He  must  exceed  that :  he  must  exceed 
our  hope.  VOLTAIRE. — Tancrede. 

He  set  his  face  against  the  blast. 
His  feet  against  the  flinty  shard, 

Till  the  hard  service  grew  at  last 
Its  own  exceeding  great  reward. 

WHITTIER. — Sumner,  st.  10. 

Much  done,  and  much  designed,  and 
more  desired. 

WORDSWORTH. — Evening  Walk. 

And  all  may  do  what  has  by  man  been 
done.        YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

ACQUAINTANCESHIP 

We  met — 'twas  in  a  crowd. 

T.  H.  BAYLY. — Song. 

To  meet,  to  know,  to  love — and  then  to 

part, 
Is  the  sad  tale  of  many  a  human  heart. 

CO  LERI D  GE . Couplet. 

Acquaintance  I  would  have,  but  when't 

depends 
Not  on   the   number  but    the   choice   of 

friends.  A.  COWLEY. — Of  Myself. 

VVery  glad  to  see  you,  indeed,  and  hope 
our  acquaintance  may  be  a  long  'un,  as  the 
gen'l'm'n  said  to  the  fi"  pun"  note. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  25. 

Ships  that  pass  in  the  night,  and  speak 

each  other  in  passing  ; 
Only  a  signal  shown,  and  a  distant  voice 

in  the  darkness. 
So  on  the  ocean  of  life  we  pass  and  speak 

one  another, 
Only  a  look  and  a  voice,  then    darkness 

again  and  silence. 

LONGFELLOW. — Elizabeth,  c.  4. 

ACQUIESCENCE 

The  habit  of  agreeing  seems  to  be 
dangerous  and  slippery. 

CICERO. — Acad.,  2,  21. 

ACQUISITIVENESS 

Ye  come  o'  the  McTabs,  but  no  o'  the 
McGies.  Scottish  prov. 

ACTION 

Let  every  action  be  directed    to  some 
definite  object,  and  perfect  in  its  way. 
MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Meditations,  Bk.  4,  2. 

He  that  works  and  does  some  P(  em, 
not  he  that  merely  says  one,  is  worthy  of 
the  name  of  Poet. 

CARLYLE. — Cromwell,  Intro. 


ACTIONS 


ACTORS 


The  whole  praise  of  virtue  lies  in  action. 
CICERO.— De  Officiis,  Book  i,  6. 

Not  one  of  those  men  who  in  words  are 

valiant, 

But  when  it  comes  to  action,  skulk  away. 
COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini,  Act  5,  4 

And  all  agog 
To  dash  through  thick  and  thin. 

COWPER. — John  Gilpin,  st.  10. 

Oh  give  my  youth,  my  faith,  my  sword 

Choice  of  the  heart's  desire ; 
A  short  life  in  the  saddle,  Lord, 
Not  long  life  by  the  fire  ! 

LOUISE  I.  GUINEY  (b.  1861). — Knight 
Errant 

Thinking  the  deed,  and  not  the  creed, 
Would  help  us  in  our  utmost  need. 
LONGFELLOW. — Tales    of  a    Wayside 
Inn,  Part  i,  Prelude. 

So  much  one  man  can  do, 
That  does  both  act  and  know. 

MARVELL. — Horatian  Ode. 

For  bragging  time  was  over  and  fighting 
time  was  come 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Hawke. 

To  all  the  sensual  world  proclaim, 
One  crowded  hour  of  glorious  life 
worth  an  age  without  a  name. 
Used  by  SCOTT  as  heading  to  ch.  34 
of  Old  Mortality,  first  published 
in  The  Bee  (Edinburgh,  1791)  as 
one  of  a  set  of  verses  by  MAJOR 
T.  O.  MORDAUNT  (1730-1809). 

To  harps  preferring  swords, 
And  everlasting  deeds  to  burning  words  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt  i,  10. 

ACTIONS 

In  idle  wishes  fools  supinely  stay ; 
Be  there  a  will,  and  wisdom  finds  a  way. 
CRABBE. — Birth  of  Flattery 

Our  deeds  still  travel  with  us  from  afar, 
And  what  we  have  been  makes  us  what  we 
are. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Middlemarch,  Heading 
to  Chapter  70. 

He  who  does  a  good  deed  is  instantly 
ennobled.  He  who  does  a  mean  deed  is 
by  the  action  itself  contracted. 

EMERSON. — Address,  July  15,  1838. 

Man  is  his  own  star,  and  the  soul  that  can 
Render  an  honest  and  a  perfect  man, 
Commands  al1  light,  all  influence,  all  fate  ; 
Nothing  to  him  tails  early  or  too  late. 


Our  acts  our  angels  are,  or  good  or  ill. 
Our  fatal  shadows  that  walk  by  us  stilj- 
JOHN  FLETCHER. — On  an  Honest  Man  s 
Fortune. 

If  thou  do  ill.  the  joy  fades,  not  the  pains  ; 
If    well,    the    pain    doth    fade,    the    joy 
remains. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch  (ad  fin.). 

Virtue's  achievement,  Folly's  crime, 
Whate'er  of  guilt  or  good  the  past  has 

known, 
Not  e'en  the  Sire  of  all  things,  mighty 

Time, 
Hath  power  to  change,  or  make  the  deed 

undone. 
PINDAR. — Olympian  Odes,  2,  29  (Moore  tr.). 

But  the  gods  hear  men's  hands  before 
their  lips.  SWINBURNE. — Atalanta  Althaea. 

ACTIVITY 

There  are  indeed  some  spirits  so  ardent 
that  change  of  employment  to  them  is 
rest,  and  their  only  fatigue  a  cessation 
rom  activity.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

A  generous  ardour  boils  within  my  breast, 
Eager  of  action,  enemy  to  rest. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  9  (Dryden  tr.). 

A  ranging  foot  is  aye  getting — an  it 
were  but  a  thorn.  Scottish  prov. 

ACTORS 

The  Poet,  to  the  end  of  time, 

Breathes  in  his  works  and  lives  in  rhyme  ; 

But  when  the  Actor  sinks  to  rest, 

And  the  turf  lies  upon  his  breast, 

A  poor  traditionary  fame 

Is  all  that's  left  to  grace  his  name. 

W.  COMBE. — Dr.  Syntax,  c.  24. 

On  the  stage    he    was    natural,     simple, 

affecting ; 
"Twas  only  that,  when  he  was  off,  he  was 

acting.          GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

What  are  the  hopes  of  man  ?  I  am 
disappointed  by  that  stroke  of  death 
which  has  eclipsed  the  gaiety  of  nations, 
and  impoverished  the  public  stock  of 
harmless  pleasure. 

JOHNSON. — Alluding  to  Garrick's 
Death. 

The    drama's   laws  the  drama's  patrons 

give, 
For  we  that  live  to  please  must  please  to 

live.  JOHNSON. — Prologue,  1747. 

Let  them  be  well  used,  for  they  are  the 
abstracts  and  brief  chronicles  of  the  time 
after  your  death  you  were  better  have  a 
bad  epitaph  than  their  ill  report  while  you 
live.       SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2   2. 


ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT 


ADVENTURE 


I  have  thought  some  of  nature's  journey- 
men had  made  men,  and  not  made  them 
well,  they  imitated  humanity  so  abomin- 
ably. SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Tear  a  passion  to  tatters,  to  very  rags, 
to  split  the  ears  of  the  groundlings ; 
who  for  the  most  part  are  capable  of 
nothing  but  inexplicable  dumb  shows  and 
noise.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

The  best  in  this  kind  are  but  shadows. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 

Dream,  Act  5,  i. 

French  comedians,  expert  troubadours 
in  the  high  science,  the  greatest  of  all  the 
arts,  the  great  art  of  pleasure. 

VOLTAIRE. — Princesse  de  Navarre. 

ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT 

There  is  something  picturesque  in  an 
Act  of  Parliament. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Slavery,  ch.  i. 

ADAM  AND  EVE 

Adam,  the  goodliest  man  of  men  since  born 

His  sons  ;  the  fairest  of  her  daughters  Eve. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  323. 

ADAPTABILITY 

Read  in  the  temper  that  he  wrote, 
And  may  his  gentle  spirit  guide  thee  ! 

ROGERS. — Voyage  of  Columbus. 

Every  time 
Serves  for  the  matter  that  is  then  born 

in  it. 

SHAKESPEARE — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  2,  2. 

Be  soople,  Davie,  in  things  immaterial. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Kidnapped. 

I  am  made  all  things  to  all  men. 
i  Corinthians  ix.  22   (I  am  become  all 
things  to  all  men.     R.  V.). 

ADMIRATION 

A  fool  always  finds  a  greater  fool  to 
admire  him.  BOILEAU. — Art  Poitique. 

It  seems  to  me  that  men  do  not  love 
what  they  are  compelled  to  admire. 
DUCLOS. — On  the  Manners  of  the  Age. 

There  is  a  species  of  benevolence  which 
ought  to  have  an  appropriate  name, .... 
a  love  of  excellence, — a  benevolence  ex- 
cited by  all  superiority  in  good,  as  envy 
is  the  hatred  excited  by  that  superiority, 
....  an  admiration  which  no  disparity  of 
situation,  no  spirit  of  party,  none  of  the 
hateful  and  disuniting  feelings  can  ex- 
tinguish. SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on 
Moral  Philosophy,  No.  22. 


We  indeed  hear  it  not  seldom  said  that 
ignorance  is  the  mother  of  admiration. 
No  falser  word  was  ever  spoken,  and 
hardly  a  more  mischievous  one. 

ARCHBP.  TRENCH. — Study  of  Words. 

Small  is  the  worth 

Of  beauty  from  the  light  retired  ; 

Bid  her  come  forth, 

Suffer  herself  to  be  desired 

And  not  blush  so  to  be  admired. 

WALLER. — Go,  Lovely  Rose. 

ADMISSION 

The  very  head  and  front  of  my  offending 
Hath  this  extent,  no  more. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3 

Fain  would  I  dwell  on  form,  fain,  fain 
deny 

What  I  have  spoke  :  but  farewell,  com- 
pliment. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  a,  a. 

I  own  the  soft  impeachment  fMrs. 
Malaprop].  SHERIDAN. — Rivals,  Act  5,  3. 

ADMONITION 

Admonish  your  friends  in  private  ; 
praise  them  in  public.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

ADORNMENT 

But  who  is  this  ?     What  thing  of  sea  or 

land? 

Female  of  sex  it  seems, 
That  so  bedecked,  ornate,  and  gay, 
Comes  this  way  sailing. 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  I.  710. 

ADSUM 

As  the  last  bell  struck,  a  peculiar  sweet 
smile  shone  over  his  face,  and  he  lifted  up 
his  head  a  little,  and  quickly  said,  "  Ad- 
sum  !  "  and  fell  back.  It  was  the  word  we 
used  at  school,  when  names  were  called  ; 
and  lo,  he,  whose  heart  was  as  that  of  a 
little  child,  had  answered  to  his  name, 
and  stood  in  the  presence  of  The  Master. 
THACKERAY. — Newcomes,  Bk.  2,  c.  42. 

ADVANTAGE 

It's  them  as  takes  advantage  that  gets 
advantage  i'  this  world. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Adam  Bede,  ch.  32. 

Advantage  is  a  better  soldier  than 
rashness. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V,  Act  3,  6. 

Coigne  of  vantage. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  x,  6. 

ADVENTURE 

Mortals,  who  sought  and  found,  by  dan- 
gerous roads, 

A  path  to  perpetuity  of  fame. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  105. 


ADVERSITY 


ADVERTISEMENT 


The  fruit  of  my  tree  of  knowledge  is 
plucked,  and  it  is  this,  "  Adventures  are  to 
the  Adventurous."  Written  in  the  Album 
of  Minerva,  by  Ixion  in  Heaven. 

DISRAELI. — Ixion,  Ft.  2,  2. 

Wherein    I    spoke    of    most    disastrous 

chances, 

Of  moving  accidents  by  flood  and  field, 
Of  hair-breadth  'scapes  i'   the  imminent 

deadly  brccich, 

Of  being  taken  by  the  insolent  foe 
And  sold  to  slavery. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  I,  3. 

She  gave  me  for  my  pains  a  world  of 

sighs  ; 
She     swore, — In     faith,     'twas     strange, 

'twas  passing  strange  ; 
'Twns  pitiful,  'twas  wondrous  pitiful ; 
She  wished  she  had  not  heard  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act.  i,  3. 

ADVERSITY 

Ah,     life     of     man !      When     most     it 

prospcreth, 
It  is  but  limned  in  outline ;    and  when 

brought 
To  low  estate,  then  doth  the  sponge,  full 

soaked, 
Wipe  out  the  picture  with  its  frequent 

touch  ; 
And  this  I  count  more  piteous  e'en  than 

that. 

/ESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  1327 
(Plumplre  />.). 

Prosperity  is  the  blessing  of  the  Old 
Testament.  Adversity  is  the  blessing  of 
the  New,  which  carrieth  the  greater 
benediction.  BACON. — Essays,  5,  Adversity. 

Virtue  is  like  precious  odours,  most 
fragrant  when  they  are  incensed  and 
crushed ;  for  prosperity  does  best  dis- 
cover vice,  but  adversity  doth  best  dis- 
cover virtue.  BACON. — Ib. 

No  greater  grief  than  to  remember  days 
Of  joy,  when  misery  is  at  hand. 

H.  F.  CARV. — Tr.  Dante,  c.  5,  1.  118. 

0  sodeyn  wo  !  that  ever  art  successour 
To  worldly  blisse ! 

CHAUCER. — Man  of  Law's  Tale,  I.  4841. 

For  of  fortunes  sharp  adversitee 
The  worst  kimle  of  infortune  is  this, 
A  man  to  have  been  in  prosperitce 
And  it  remcmbren,  whan  it  passed  is. 
CHAUCER. — Troilus  and  Cressid,  13k.  3 
v.  1625^ 

Let  Fortune  empty  her  whole  quiver  on 
me, 

1  have  a  soul  that,  like  an  ample  shield, 
Can  take  in  all,  and  verge  enough  for  more. 

DRYDEN. — Don  Sebastian,  Act  i,  i! 


For  friendship,  of  itself  a  holy  tie, 
Is  made  more  sacred  by  adversity. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  Pt.  3,  47. 

Bad  times  have  a  scientific  value. 
These  are  occasions  a  good  learner  would 
not  miss. 

EMERSON. — Conduct   of  Life, 
Considerations  by  the  way. 

The  greatest  object  in  the  universe,  says 
a  certain  philosopher,  is  a  good  man  strug- 
gling with  adversity;  yet  there  is  a  still 
greater,  which  is  the  good  man  that  comes 
to  relieve  it. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  c.  30. 

In  his  adversity  I  ever  prayed  that  God 
would  give  him  strength  ;  for  greatness  he 
could  not  want.  BEN  JONSON. — Of  Bacon. 

In  the  adversity  of  our  best  friends  we 

ever  find  something  not  displeasing  to  us. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  99. 

Sweet  are  the  uses  of  adversity ; 
Which  like  the  toad,  ugly  and  venomous, 
Wears   yet  a  precious  jewel  in  his  head. 
SHAKESPEARE. — .4s  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  i. 

A  man  I  am  crossed  with  adversity. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  4,  i. 

I  have  been  near,  I  have  been  far,  my  back's 

been  at  the  wall, 
Yet  aye  and  ever  shone  the  star  to  guide 

me  through  it  all ; 
The  love  of  God,  the  help  of  man,  they 

both  shall  make  me  bold, 
Against  the  gates  of  darkness  as  beside 

the  Gates  of  Gold.     R.  L.  STEVENSON. 

In  the  day  of  prosperity  be  joyful,  but 
in  the  day  of  adversity  consider. 

Ecclesiastes  vii,  14. 

The  wind  in  one's  face  makes  one  wise. 
Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert) 

ADVERTISEMENT 

If  you  wish  in  this  world  to  advance, 
Your  merits  you're  bound  to  enhance ; 
You  must  stir  it  and  stump  it, 
And  blow  your  own  trumpet, 
Or,  trust  me,  you  haven't  a  chance. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

Great  is  advertisement !  'tis  almost  fate ; 
But,  little  mushroom  men,  of  puff-ball 

fame, 

Ah,  do  you  dream  to  be  mistaken  great 

And  to  be  really  great  are  just  the  same  ? 

R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — Tennyson. 

Great  is  advertisement  with  little  men. 
SIR  OWEN  SEAMAN. — Ode  to  Spring. 


ADVICE 


AFFABILITY 


Yes,  sir,  puffing  is  of  various  sorts  ; 
the  principal  are  the  puff  direct,  the  puff 
preliminary,  the  puff  collateral,  the  puff 
collusive,  and  the  puff  oblique,  or  puff 
by  implication. 

SHERIDAN. — Critic,  Act  i,  2. 

ADVICE 

A  woman  seldom  asks  advice  before 
she  has  bought  her  wedding  clothes. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  518. 

Woman's  advice  is  either  too  dear  or 
too  cheap. 

ALBERTANO  OF  BRESCIA. — Liber 
Consolatiotiis. 

The  worst  men  give  oft  the  best  advice. 
P.  J.  BAILEY. — Festus. 

In   ploughman   phrase,    "  God   send   you 

speed," 

Still  daily  to  grow  wiser  ; 
And  may  ye  better  reck  the  rede 
Than  ever  did  th'  adviser. 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  a   Young  Friend. 

Ah,  gentle  dames  !  it  gars  me  greet 
To  think  how  mony  counsels  sweet, 
How  mony  lengthened,  sage  advices 
The  husband  frae  the  wife  despises  ! 

BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

Good  but  rarely  came  from  good  advice. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  14,  66. 

Advice  is  seldom  welcome  ;  and  those 
who  want  it  the  most,  always  like  it  the 
least. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Letter  to  his 
Son,  Jan.  29,  1748. 

We  ask  advice,  but  we  mean  approba- 
tion. C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

They  first  condemn  that  first  advised 
the  ill.  DRYDEN. — Absalom,  Pt.  2.  183. 

It  is  easier  to  give  advice  than  to  bear 
sufferings  manfully. 

EURIPIDES. — A  Icestis. 

We  ask  advice,  but  we  are  not  particular 
about  its  being  good.  Quite  the  reverse. 
Good  advice  is  often  annoying ;  bad 
advice  never  is. 

E.  GONDINET. — Gavaut,  Minard,  el  Cie. 

Extremely    foolish    criticism    is    likely 

to  be  uttered  by  those  who  are  looking 

at   the  labouring   vessel   from   the  land. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 

Bk.  2,  ch.  2. 

One  gives  nothing  so  liberally  as  advice. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  no. 

I  know  your  worship's  wise,   and  needs 

no  counsel ; 
Yet,  if  in  my  desire  to  do  you  service, 


I  humbly  offer  my  advice  (but  still 
Under  correction),  I  hope  I  shall  not 
Incur  your  high  displeasure. 

MASSINGER. — New   Way  to   Pay   Old 
Debts,  Act  2. 

Giving  advice  is  many  times  only  the 
privilege  of  saying  a  foolish  thing  oneself, 
under  pretence  of  hindering  another  from 
doing  one. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

A  man  is  badly  in  need  of  advice  when 
he  has  many  advisers. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

An  angry  man  regards  even  advice  as 
a  crime.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Ann  will  do  just  exactly  what  she  likes. 
And  what's  more,  she'll  force  us  to  advise 
her  to  do  it ;  and  she'll  put  the  blame  on 
us  if  it  turns  out  badly. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Advice  gratis  seldom   great  is. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

He  had  only  one  vanity ;  he  thought 
he  could  give  advice  better  than  any  other 
person. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Man   that    Corrupted 
Hadleyburg. 

It  is  always  a  silly  thing  to  give  advice, 
but  to  give  good  advice  is  absolutely 
fatal. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  undet 
Socialism. 

Women's  counsels  are  often  fatal. 
Icelandic  prov.  (Quoted  by  Chaucer, 
Nun  Priest's  Tale,  436). 

Advice  most  needed  is  least  heeded. 

Prov. 

Who  works  in  the  public  square  will 
have  many  advisers.  Spanish  prov. 

ADVOCACY 

A  certain  lawyer,  on  being  asked  why 
he  defended  so  many  bad  causes,  replied 
that  he  did  so  because  he  had  lost  so 
many  good  ones.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Doubt  not,  my  lad,  I'll  play  the  orator, 
As  if  the  golden  fee,  for  which  I  plead, 
Were  for  myself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  3,  5. 

AFFABILITY 

He  is  a  Gentleman,  because  his   nature 

Is  kinde  and  affable  to  everie  Creature. 

BARNFIELD. — Shepherd's  Content  (1594). 

The    fient    a    pride,    nae    pride    had    he, 
Nor  sauce,  nor  state,  that  I  could  see. 
BURNS. — On  meeting  with  Lord  Daer. 


AFFECTATION 


AFFECTION,  PARTIALITY  OF 


Bear  in  mind  then  that  by  pleasing  men 
it  becomes  possible  to  accomplish  some- 
thing ;  but  austerity  might  as  well  dwell 
in  a  desert. 
PLATO. — Epistle  4  (To  Dion  of  Syracuse). 

AFFECTATION 

I  would  give  the  universe  for  a  disposi- 
tion less  hard  to  please.  Yet  after  all, 
what  is  pleasure  ?  When  one  has  seen 
one  thing,  one  has  seen  everything.  O, 
'tis  heavy  work  !  [Mr.  Meadows,  "  Man  of 
the  Ton."] 

MME.    D'ARBLAY    (Miss    BURNEY). — 
Cecilia,  Bk.  2,  c.  6. 

Papa,  potatoes,  poultry,  prunes  and 
prism  are  all  very  good  words  for  the 
lips  ;  especially  prunes  and  prism. 

DICKENS. — Little   Dorr  it,  Pt.  2,  ch.  5. 

They  are  the  affectation  of  affectation. 
FIELDING. — Joseph  Andrews,  Bk.  3,  c.  3. 

A  most  intense  young  man, 
A  soul-ful  eyed  young  man, 
An  ultra -poetical,  super-aesthetical 
Out-of-the-way  young  man. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Patience. 

Die  of  a  rose  in  aromatic  pain. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  200. 

Why,    is    it    not    a    lamentable    thing, 
grandsire,  that  we  should  be  thus  afflicted 
with    these  strange    flies,    these   fashion- 
mongers,   these  pardon-mes  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  4. 

AFFECTION 

The  world  has  little  to  bestow 
Where  two  fond  hearts  in  equal  love  are 
joined.          MRS.  BARBAULD. — Delia. 

None  are  so  desolate  but  something  dear, 

Dearer  than  self,  possesses  or  possessed 

A  thought,  and  claims  the  homage  of  a 

tear. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  24. 

It  behoves 
Those  who  are  wise  to  love  their  children 

first, 

Their  aged  parents  next,  and  native  land, 
Whose  growing  fortunes  they  are  bound 

to   improve, 
And  not  dismember  it. 

EURIPIDES.— Suppliants,  508  (Woodhull 

tr.). 

Dear  lost  companions  of  my  tuneful  art, 
Dear,  as  the  light  that  visits  these  sad 

eyes, 
Dear,  as  the  ruddy  drops  that  warm  my 

heart.  GRAY. — Bard  c.  i. 


Scorn  no  man's  love,  though  of  a  mean 

degree ; 
Love  is  a  present  for  a  mighty  king. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Was  there  a  nearer  one 
Still,  and  a  dearer  one, 
Yet,  than  all  other  ? 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs. 

Talk   not   of   wasted    affection,    affection 

never  was  wasted  ; 
If  it  enrich  not  the  heart  of  another,  its 

waters,  returning 
Back  to  their  springs,  like  the  rain,  shall 

fill  them  full  of  refreshment. 

LONGFELLOW. — Evangeline,  Pt.  2. 

Something  the  heart  must  have  to 
cherish.  LONGFELLOW. — Wilhelm  Meister. 

Come,  live  in  my  heart  and  pay  no  rent  ! 
S.  LOVER. — Song  "  Vourneen." 

If  you  have  any  care  for  me,  take  care 
of  yourself.  OVID. — Heroides,  13. 

I  do  receive  your  offered  love,  like  love, 
And  will  not  wrong  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

Love  comforteth,  like  sunshine  after  rain. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis, 

st.  134. 

The  affection  of  young  ladies  is  of  as 
rapid  growth  as  Jack's  beanstalk,  and 
reaches  up  to  the  sky  in  a  night. 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  ch.  4. 

AFFECTIONS 

Of  all  the  tyrants  that  the  world  affords 

Our  own  affections  are  the  fiercest  lords. 

WM.  ALEXANDER  (EARL  OF  STIRLING). 

— Julius  C&sar. 

A  woman's  whole  existence  is  a  history 
of  the  affections. 
WASHINGTON  IRVING. — The  Broken  Heart. 

Glorious  is  the  blending 
Of  right  affections,  climbing  or  descending 
Along  a  scale  of  light  and  life,  with  rarcs 
Alternate,    carrying    holy    thoughts    and 

prayers.         WORDSWORTH. — Humanity 

1.28. 
AFFECTION,    PARTIALITY    OF 

The  apples  she  had  gathered  smelt  most 

sweet, 

The  cake  she  kneaded  was  the  savoury  meat: 
But  fruits  their  odour  lost,  and  meats  their 

taste, 

If  gentle  Abra  had  not  decked  the  feast ; 
Dishonoured     did     the    sparkling    goblet 

stand, 

Unless  received  from  gentle  Abra's  hand. 
PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  2,  49^. 


AFFECTION,  UNREQUITED 


AFTERNOON 


AFFECTION,   UNREQUITED 

If  you  could  see  my  legs  when  I  take 
my  boots  off,  you'd  form  some  idea  of 
what  unrequited  affection  i?. 

DICKENS. — Dombey,  c.  48. 

AFFINITIES 

There  is  a  story  told  [said  Diotima  to 
Socrates]  that  they  who  are  in  love  are  in 
search  of  their  other  halt. 

PLATO. — The  Banquet,  31. 

The  fountains  mingle  with  the  river, 

And  the  rivers  with  the  ocean. 
The  winds  of  heaven  mix  for  ever, 

With  a  sweet  emotion ; 
Nothing  in  the  world  is  single  ; 

All  things,  by  a  law  divine, 
In  one  another's  being  mingle — 

Why  not  I  with  thine  ? 

SHELLEY. — Love's  Philosophy. 

Two  shall  be  born  the  whole  wide  world 

apart, 
And  speak  in  different  tongues,  and  have 

no  thought 
Each  of  the  other's  being,  and  no  heed. 

And   all  unconsciously,   shape  every  act 
And   bend  each  wandering   step   to   this 

one  end, — 
That  one  day,  out  of  darkness,  they  shall 

meet 
And  read  life's  meaning  in  each  other's 

eyes.   SUSAN  MARK  SPALDING. — Fate. 

AFFLICTION 

For  the  tear  is  an  intellectual  thing, 
And  a  sigh  is  the  sword  of  an  Angel  King ; 
And  the  bitter  groan  of  a  martyr's  woe 
Is  an  arrow  from  God  Almighty's  bow. 
WM.  BLAKE. — The  Grey  Monk. 

For  the  poet  saith  that  we  oughte 
paciently  to  take  the  tribulacions  that 
come  to  us,  when  we  think  and  consider 
that  we  have  deserved  to  have  them. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus,  sec.  46. 
(The  name  of  "  the  poet  "  is  not  known.) 

Pain  after  pain,  and  woe  succeeding  woe — 

Is  my  heart  destined  for  another  blow  1 

COLERIDGE. — On  his  Sister's  Death. 

But  misery  still  delights  to  trace 
Its  semblance  in  another's  case. 

COWPER. — The  Castaway. 

If  aught  can  teach  us  aught,  Affliction's 

looks, 

(Making  us  pry  into  ourselves  so  near), 
Teach  us  to  know  ourselves,  beyond  all 

books, 

Or   all   the   learned   schools   that   ever 
were. 

SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum, 
sec.  i,  st.  38. 


O  suffering,  sad  humanity  ! 
O  ye  afflicted  ones  who  lie 
Steeped  to  the  lips  in  misery, 
Lone  ing,  and  yet  afraid  to  die, 
Patient,  though  sorely  tried  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — Goblet  of  Life. 

Alas  !  by  some  degree  of  woe 

We  every  bliss  must  gain  ; 
The  heart    can   ne'er  a  transport   know, 

That  never  feels  a  pain. 

GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Song. 

We  bear  it  calmly,  though  a    ponderous 

woe, 
And  still  adore  the  hand  that  gives  the 

blow.    J.  POMFRET. — To  his  Friend,  45. 

Heaven   is  not   always  angry  when   He 

strikes, 
But  most  chastises  those  whom  most  He 

likes.  J.  POMFRET. — Ib.,  89. 

Our  griefs  how  swift !  our  remedies  how 
slow  !  PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  2,  352. 

'Tis  a  cruelty 
To  load  a  falling  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  5,  2. 

For  our  light  affliction,  which  is  but  for 
a  moment,  worketh  for  us  a  far  more 
exceeding  and  eternal  weight  of  glory. 

2  Corinthians  iv,  17. 

AFFRONTS 

Young  men  soon  give   and   soon    forget 

affronts ; 
Old  age  is  slow  in  both. 

ADDISON. — Goto,  Act  2. 

A  moral,  sensible,  and  well-bred  man 
Will  not  affront  me,  and  no  other  can. 
COWPER. — Conversation. 

To  one  well-born  the  affront  is  worse  and 

more, 

When  he's  abused  and  baffled  by  a  boor. 
DRYDEN. — Satire  on  the  Dutch,  I.  27. 

If  slighted,  slight  the  slight  and  love  the 
slighter. 

Given  by  C.  H.  SPURGEON  as  "  conduct 
worthy  of  a  noble  mind." 


AFRICA 

Africa  ever  brings  evil. 


ARISTOTLE. 


Always  something  new  out  of  Africa. 
PLINY. — Nat.  Hist.  8,  6. 

AFTERNOON 

In  the  posteriors  of  this  day :    which 
the  rude  multitude  call  the  afternoon. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  5.  i. 


AFTER-THOUGHTS 


AGES,  THE  SEVEN 


AFTER-THOUGHTS 

Second  thoughts  are  admissible  in 
painting  and  poetry  only  as  dressers  of 
the  first  conception.  No  great  idea  was 
ever  formed  in  fragments. 

HENRY   FUSELI. — Aphorisms   of  Art. 

His  sayings  are  generally  like  women's 
letters ;  all  the  pith  is  in  the  postscript. 
[In  reference  to  Chas.  Lamb.] 

HAZLITT. — Boswell  Redivivus. 

AFTER-WISDOM 

Of  all  the  horrid,  hideous  sounds  of  woe, 
Sadder  than  owl-songs  on  the  midnight 

blast, 

Is  that  portentous  phrase,  "  I  told  you  so." 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  14,  st.  50. 

AGE 

Age  will  not  be  defied. 
BACON. — Of  Regiment  of  Health. 

Alonzo  of  Arragon  was  wont  to  say  in 
commendation  of  age,  "  That  age  appeared 
to  be  best  in  four  tilings :  old  WCKX!  best 
to  burn  ;  old  wine  to  drink  ;  old  friends  to 
trust ;  and  old  authors  to  read." 

BACON. — Apophthegms  134. 

I've  seen  sae  mony  changefu*  years, 
On  earth  I  am  a  stranger  grown  ; 

I   wander  in  the  ways  of  men, 
Alike  unknowing  and  unknown. 
BURNS. — Lament  for  Earl  ofGlencairn. 

Year's  steal 
Fire  from  the  mind,  as  vigour  from  the 

lirnb  ; 

And  life's  enchanted  cup  but  sparkles  near 
the  brim. 

BYRON.— Childe  Harold,  c  3,  st.  8. 

And  wrinkles,  the  d — d  democrats,  won't 
flatter. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  10,  st.  24. 

'Tis  well  to  give  honour  and  glory  to  Age, 

With  its  lessons  of  wisdom  and  truth  ; 
Yet  who  would  not  back  to  the  fanciful 

page, 

And  the  fairy  tale  read  but  in  youth  ? 
ELIZA  COOK. — Stanzas. 

Age  is  like  love,  it  cannot  be  hid. 

DEKKER. — Old  Fortunalus. 

For  never  any  man  was  yet  so  old 
But  hoped  his  life  one  winter  more  might 
hold. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM,  Old  Age,  PL  i,  /.  135. 

Our  nature  here  is  not  unlike  our  wine  ; 
Some  sorts,  when  old,  continue  brisk  and 
fine. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM.— Ib.,  /'/.  3,  /.  245. 


She  may  very  well  pass  for  forty-three 
In  the  dusk  with  a  light  behind  her. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Trial  by  Jury. 

Women   and   music   should   never   be 
dated. 

GOLDSMITH. — She  Stoops  to  Conquer, 
Act  3. 

I'm  wearin'  awa' 
To  the  land  o'  the  leal. 
BARONESS  NAIRN. — Land  o'  the  Leal. 

My  age  is  as  a  lusty  winter, 
Frosty,  but  kindly. 

SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It, 
Act  2,  3 

The  lean  and  slippered  pantaloon. 
With  spectacles  on  nose  and  pouch  on  side  ; 
His  youthful  hose,  well  saved,  a  world  too 

wide 
For  his  shrunk  shank. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  7. 

Men  are  as  old  as  they  feel,  women  are 
as  old  as  they  seem.  Italian  prov. 

AGES,  THE  SEVEN 

And  one  man  in  his  time  plays  many  parts, 
His  acts  being  seven  ages.  At  first  the 

infant, 

Mewling  and  puking  in  the  nurse's  arms. 
And  then  the  whining  schoolboy  with  his 

satchel, 
And   shining  morning  face,  creeping  like 

snail 

Unwillingly  to  school.  And  then  the  lover, 
Sighing  like  furnace,  with  a  woful  ballad 
Made  to  his  mistress'  eyebrow.  Then  a 

soldier, 
Full  of  strange  oaths,  and  bearded  like  the 

pard, 
Jealous  in  honour,  sudden  and  quick  in 

quarrel, 

Seeking  the  bubble  reputation 
Even  in  the  cannon's  mouth.    And  then 

the  justice, 

In  fair  round  belly,  with  good  capon  lined, 
With  eyes  severe,  and  beard  of  formal  cut, 
Full  of  wise  saws  and  modern  instances ; 
And  so  he  plays  his  part.  The  sixth  age 

shifts. 

Into  the  lean  and  slippered  pantaloon, 
With  spectacles  on  nose,  and  pouch  on  side ; 
His  youthful  hose,  well  saved,  a  world  too 

wide 
For  his  shrunk  shank  ;   and  his  big  manly 

voice, 

Turning  again  toward  childish  treble,  pipes 
And  whistles  in  his  sound.  Last  scene  of 

all, 

That  ends  this  strange  eventful  history, 
Is  second  childishness,  and  mere  oblivion, — 
Sans   teeth,   sans  eyes,   sans   taste,   sans 

everything. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 


AGREEABLENESS 


AGRICULTURE 


AGREEABLENESS 

"  My  idea  of  an  agreeable  person,"  said 
Hugo  Bohun,  "is  a  person  who  agrees 
with  me."  DISRAELI. — Lothair,  c.  41. 

Whate'er  you  think,  good  words,  I 
think,  were  best. 

SHAKESPEARE. — K.  John,  Act  4,  2. 

I  laugh  not  at  another's  loss, 
I  grudge  not  at  another's  gain. 

Byrd's  Collection  (c.  1585). 

AGREEMENT 

By  agreement  small  things  grow ;  by 
discord  great  things  go  to  pieces. 

SALLUST. — Jtigurtha. 

Where  they  do  agree  on  the  stage,  their 
unanimity  is  wonderful. 

SHERIDAN. — Critic,  Act  2,  2. 

Ah  !  don't  say  that  you  agree  with  me. 
When  people  agree  with  me  I  always  feel 
that  I  must  be  wrong. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions. 

It's  my  earnest  desire  to  see  a'  the  haill 
warld  shakin'  hauns. 

J.  WILSON— Nodes  (Eltrick  Shepherd). 

Transcendent  over  time,  unbound  by 

place, 

Concord  and  Charity  in  circles  move. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  3,  14. 

Gentlemen,  I  say  ditto  to  Mr.  Burke. — 
Speech  by  Mr.  Cruder  on 
returning  thanks  for  election 
as  Burke's  colleague, 

Can  two  walk  together,  except  they  be 
agreed  ?  Amos  iii,  3. 

Agree  with  thine  adversary  quickly, 
whiles  thou  art  in  the  way  with  him. 

St.  Matthew  v,  25. 

AGRICULTURE 

In  agriculture  if  you  do  one  thing  late, 
you  are  late  in  all  things.  CATO. 

Of  all  things  from  which  gain  is  obtained, 
nothing  is  better  than  agriculture,  nothing 
more  productive,  more  delightful,  more 
worthy  of  a  man  or  of  a  freeman. 

CICERO. — De  Ofliciis. 

Cows  are  my  passion. 

DICKENS. — Dombcy,  c.  21. 

Men  do  not  like  hard  work,  but  every 
man  has  an  exceptional  respect  for  tillage, 
and  a  feeling  that  this  is  the  original 
calling  of  his  race. 

EMERSON. — Farming. 


Agriculture  is  the  foundation  of  manu- 
factures, since  the  productions  of  nature 
are  the  materials  of  art. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall. 

All  taxes  must,  at  last,  fall  upon 
agriculture.  GIBBON. — Ib. 

A   time  there  was,  ere  England's  griefs 

began, 
When  every  rood  of  ground  maintained  its 

man.     GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

O  happy  life !    if  that  their  good 
The  husbandmen  but  understood. 

HERRICK  (From  Virgil). 

Earth  is  so  kindly  there  (Australia)  that 
tickle  her  with  a  hoe  and  she  laughs  with  a 
harvest.  D.  JERROLD. — Letter. 

In  every  way  agriculture  is  the  first 
calling  of  mankind  ;  it  is  the  most  honest, 
the  most  useful,  and  consequently  the 
noblest  which  he  can  exercise. 

ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

There  is  no  ancient  gentlemen  but 
gardeners,  ditchers,  and  gravemakcrs ; 
they  hold  up  Adam's  profession. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

He  gave  it  for  his  opinion,  "  that  who- 
ever could  make  two  ears  of  corn,  or  two 
blades  of  grass,  to  grow  upon  a  spot  of 
land  where  only  one  grew  before,  would 
deserve  better  of  mankind,  and  do  more 
essential  service  to  his  country,  than  the 
whole  race  of  politicians  put  together. 

SWIFT. — Brobdingnag. 

The   sire   of   gods   and   men,    with   hard 

decrees, 

Forbids  our  plenty  to  be  bought  with  ease, 
And  wills  that  mortal  men,  inured  to  toil, 
Should  exercise  with  pains  the  grudging 

soil. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk,  i  (Dryden  lr.). 

O  husbandmen,  happy  beyond  measure 

if  they  only  knew  their  own  good  fortune  ! 

VIRGIL. — Ib.,  2. 

No  laws,  divine  or  human,  can  restrain 
From  necessary  works  the  labouring  swain ; 
E'en  holy-days  and  feasts  permission  yield 
To  float  the  meadows  or  to  fence  the  field. 
VIRGIL. — Ib.,  Bk.  i  (Dryden  tr.). 

O  happy,  if  he  knew  his  happy  state, 
The  swain,  who,  free  from  business  and 

debate, 

Receives  his  easy  food  from  Nature's  hand, 
And  just  returns  of  cultivated  land  ! 

VIRGIL. — Ib.,  Bk.  2  (Dryden  tr.). 

Their  soil  was  barren  and  their  hearts 
were  hard. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  7  (Dryden  tr.). 


II 


AILMENTS 


ALLEGORICAL  ART 


The  art  %vhich  feeds  the  world  is  a  thank- 
less calling.  VOLTAIRE. — Le  Temps  Present. 

I  believe  that  a  sensible  peasant  knows 
more  about  agriculture  than  authors  who 
from  the  seclusion  of  their  libraries  issue 
instructions  as  to  how  the  earth  is  to  be 
ploughed.  VOLTAIRE. — Letter. 

Give  fools  their  gold,   and  knaves  their 

power  ; 

Let  fortune's  bubbles  rise  and  fall ; 
Who  sows  a  field  or  trains  a  flower 
Or  plants  a  tree  is  more  than  all. 

WHITTIER. — Lints  (Amesbury). 

He  who  sows  the  ground  with  care  and 
diligence  acquires  a  greater  stock  of 
religious  merit  than  he  could  gain  by  the 
repetition  of  ten  thousand  prayers. 

ZOROASTER   (as  quoted  by  Gibbon). 

Whose  talk  is  of  bullocks. 

Ecclesiasticus  xxxviii,  25. 

Hope  sustains  the  husbandman. 

Latin  prov. 

The  first  men  in  the  world  were  a 
gardener,  a  ploughman,  and  a  grazier. 

Old  Saying. 

Cop  and  horn  go  together  [Referring 
to  prices  of  corn  and  cattle].  Prov.  (Ray). 

Where  there  is  muck  there  is  luck. 
Quoted  by  Dr.  Sheridan  as  a  Scottish  saying. 
Letter,  1735. 

He  that  by  the  plough  would  thrive, 
Himself  must  either  hold  or  drive. 

Old  Saying  (Ray). 

To  break  a  pasture  will  make  a  man, 
To  make  a  pasture  will  break  a  man. 
Suffolk  Saying. 

Nae  hurry  wi*  your  corns, 
Nae  hurry  wi'  your  harrows  ; 
Snaw  lies  ahint  the  dike, 
Mair  may  come  and  fill  the  furrows. 
Scottish  prov. 

As  ane  flits,  anither  sits,  and  that  keeps 
mailins  [farms]  dear.  Scottish  prov. 

AILMENTS 

Most  of  those  evils  we  poor  mortals  know 
From  doctors  and  imagination  flow. 

C.  CHURCHILL. — Night,  v.  69. 

We  are  so  fond  of  each  other,  because 
our  ailments  are  the  same. 

SWIFT.— To  Stella,  Feb.  i,  1711. 

AIM 

The  aim,  if  reached  or  not,  makes  great 

the  life ; 
Try  to  be  Shakespeare,  leave  the  rest  to 

fate  I     BROWNING. — Bishop  Blougram. 


Who  aimeth  at  the  sky, 
Shoots  higher  much  than  he  that  means  a 
tree.  HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Who  shoots  at  the  midday  sun,  though 
he  be  sure  he  shall  never  hit  the  mark, 
yet  as  sure  he  is  he  shall  shoot  higher  than 
he  who  aims  at  a  bush. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY,  Arcadia,  Bk.  2. 

A  noble  aim, 
Faithfully  kept,  is  as  a  noble  deed. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  Natvjnal 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  No.  19. 

All  in  a  row, 
Bend  the  bow, 

Shoot  at  the  pigeon  and  kill  the  crow. 
Old  Nursery  Rhyme. 

ALARMS 

What  man  dare,  I  dare : 
Approach  thou  like  the  rugged  Russian 

bear, 

The  armed  rhinoceros,  or  the  Hyrcan  tiger  ; 
Take  any  shape  but  that,  and  my  firm 

nerve 
Shall  never  tremble. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

Or  in  the  night,  imagining  some  fear, 
How  easy  is  a  bush  supposed  a  bear !  i 
SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  5,  i. 

ALCOHOL 

O  madness,  to  think  use  of  strongest  wines 
And  strongest  drinks  our  chief  support  of 

health  ; 
When  God,  with  these  forbidden,  made 

choice  to  rear 
His    mighty    champion,    strong    beyond 

compare, 
Whose  drink  was  only  from   the  liquid 

brook.      MILTON.— -Samson  A  gonistes. 

ALE 

Your  best  barley  wine,  the  good  liquor 
that  our  honest  forefathers  did  use  to 
drink  of. 

IZAAK  WALTON.— Complete  Angler,  c.  5. 

Bring  us  in  no  beef  for  there  is  many  bones, 
But  bring  us  in  good  ale,  for  that  goth 
down  at  once. 

Song  (i4th  or  i$th  Century). 

ALIBI 

Oh,  Sammy,  Sammy,  vy  worn't  there 
a  alleybi  ?  DICKENS.— Pickwick,  c.  34. 

ALLEGORICAL  ART 

I  had  rather  see  the  portrait  of  a  dog 
that  I  know  than  all  the  allegorical  paint- 
ings they  can  show  me  in  the  world. 
JOHNSON.— Remark  as  recorded  by  Sit 
John  Hawkins. 


12 


ALLIANCE 


AMBITION 


ALLIANCE 

A  sudden  thought  strikes  me  ;  let  us 
swear  an  eternal  friendship. 

J.  H.  FRERE. — Rovers,  Act  i,  i. 

United  thoughts  and  counsels,  equal  hope, 
And  hazard  in  the  glorious  enterprise. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  I.  88. 

ALLITERATION 

Who   often,    but    without    success,    have 

prayed, 

For  apt  alliteration's  artful  aid. 
C.  CHURCHILL. — Prophecy  of  Famine,  v.  86. 

Begot  by  butchers  and  by  beggars  bred, 
How  high  his  Honour  holds  his  haughty 
head.     Anon. — Anthologia  Oxoniensis 
(1846).     On  Cardinal  Wolsey. 

ALLUREMENT 

The  look  of  love  alarms, 
Because  'tis  filled  with  fire ; 
But  the  look  of  soft  deceit 
Shall  win  the  lover's  hire  ; 
Soft  deceit  and  idleness, 
These  are  beauty's  sweetest  dress. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Couplets  and  Fragments. 

How  cheerfully  he  seems  to  grin, 
How  neatly  spreads  his  claws, 

And  welcomes  little  fishes  in 
With  gently  smiling  jaws  ! 
C.  L.  DODGSON. — Alice  in  Wonderland,  c.  2. 

ALMANAC 

The  cheap  convenience  of  an  almanac, 
which  enters  into  the  comforts  of  every 
fireside  in  the  country,  could  not  be  en- 
joyed but  for  the  labours  and  studies  of 
the  profoundest  philosophers. 
EDW.  EVERETT. — Lecture  on  the  Workins 
Man's  Party  (c.  1835). 

ALOOFNESS 

His  was  the  lofty  port,  the  distant  mien, 

That  seems  to  shun  the  sight — and  awes 

if  seen.  BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  16. 

I  strove  with  none,  for  none  was  worth  my 

strife  ; 

Nature  I  loved  ;   and  next  to  Nature,  Art. 
I  warmed  both  hands  before  the   fire  of 

life ; 
It  sinks,  and  I  am  ready  to  depart. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Last  Fruit. 

And  stood  aloof  from  other  minds 
In  impotence  of  fancied  power. 

TENNYSON. — A  Character. 

ALTERNATIVES 

It's  very  hard  to  lose  your  cash, 
But  harder  to  be  shot. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Music  Grinders. 


A  door  must  be  either  open  or  shut. 

French  prov. 

ALTRUISM 

The  eternal,  not  ourselves,  which  makes 
for  righteousness. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Literature  and  Dogma,  c*  8. 

Each  man  should  bear  his  own  discom- 
forts rather  than  abridge  the  comforts  of 
another  man. 

CICERO  (adapted).     See  De  Antic.,  16,  57. 

He  never  errs  who  sacrifices  self, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — New  Timon,  Part  4,  3 

This  is  the  highest  learning, 

The  hardest  and  the  best : 
From  self  to  keep  still  turning, 

And  honour  all  the  rest. 
G.  MACDONALD. — After  Thomas  a  Kempis. 

Through  self-forgetfulness  divine. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Lark  Ascending- 

AMATEURS 

Every  artist  was  first  an  amateur. 

EMERSON. — Progress  of  Culture. 

AMBASSADORS 

An  ambassador  is  an  honest  man  sent 
to  lie  abroad  for  the  commonwealth. 

SIR  H.  WOTTON. — In  an  Album. 

AMBIGUITY 

Obscurity    illustrated     by     a     further 

obscurity.  BURKE. — Impeachment  of 

Hastings  (May  5,  1789). 

Thus  Oracles  of  old  were  still  received, 
The    more    ambiguous,    still    the    more 

believed. 
GEO.  FARQUHAR. — Letter  from  Gray's  Inn. 

Out  of  the  same  mouth  proceedeth 
blessing  and  cursing.  My  brethren,  these 
things  ought  not  so  to  be. 

St.  James  iii,  10. 

Thou  shalt  go  thou  shalt  return  never 
in  battle  shalt  thou  perish. 

Utterance    of   the    Oracle    capable    of 

favourable  or  unfavourable  construction, 

according  to  punctuation. 

There's  mair  knavery  amang  kirkmen 
than  honesty  amang  courtiers. 

Scottish  saying. 

AMBITION 

To  bliss  unknown   my  lofty  soul  aspires, 
My  lot  unequal  to  my  vast  desires. 
DR.  J.  ARBUTHNOT. — Gnothi  Seauton,  I.  53. 

He  would  have  been  greater  to  posterity 
if  he  had  been  willing  to  be  smaller. 
AUBROTUS  MIR/EUS  (said  of  Erasmus). 


AMBITION 


AMBITION 


The  strongest  poison  ever  known 
Came  from  Ca>sar's  laurel  crown. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverb. 

The  same  sun  which  gilds  all  nature, 
and  exhilarates  the  whole  creation,  does 
not  shine  upon  disappointed  ambition. 

BURKE. — Present  State  of  Nation. 

This  Siren  song  of  ambition. 

BURKE. — Speech  (1780). 

Ambition  can  creep  as  well  as  soar. 
BURKE. — Letters  on  a  Regicide  Peace. 

Whose    game    was    empires    and    whose 

stakes  were  thrones  ? 
Whose    table    earth — whose    dice    were 

human  bones  ? 

BYRON. — Age  of  Bronze,  3. 

Affection  chained  her  to  that  heart ; 
Ambition  tore  the  links  apart. 

BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  i,  6. 

Ambition  is  the  only  power  that  combats 
love.  C.  GIBBER. — Casar  in  Egypt,  Act  i. 

For  what   are    riches,   empire,   power, 

But   larger   means   to  gratify   the   will  ? 

CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  2,  3. 

What  shall  I  do  to  be  for  ever  known, 

And   make   the  age   to  come  my  own  ? 

COWLEY.— The  Moth. 

Glory   and  empire  are  to  female  blood 

More  tempting  dangerous  rivals  than  a  god. 

J.  CROWNE. — Destruction  of  Jerusalem, 

Pt.  i,  Act  3,  2. 

Be  not  with  honour's  gilded  baits  beguiled, 

Nor  think  ambition  wise  because  'tis  brave. 

SIR  W.  D'AVENANT. — Gondibert, 

Bk.  i,  5,  75. 

Remember  Milo's  end, 
Wedged  in  the  timber  which  he  strove  to 
rend. 

WENTWORTH  DILLON  (4x11  EARL  OF 
KOSCOMMON). — On  Translated  Verse. 

Desire  of  greatness  is  a  godlike  sin. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom    and    Achitopliel, 
Pt.  i,  I.  372. 
Either  I  am 
The  foremost  horse  in  the  team,  or  I  am 

none. 

FLETCHER  (and  SHAKESPEARE  ?). — Two 
Noble  Kinsmen,  Act  i. 

Not  to  swim 
I'  the  lead  o'  th'  current  were  almost  to 

sink. 
FLETCHER  (and  SHAKESPEARE  ?). — Ib. 

Ambition  is  but  Avarice  on  stilts  and 
masked. 

W.  S.  LANDCR. — Imaginary 
Conversations. 


The  greatest  ambition  has  not  the  least 
appearance  of  being  ambition,  when  it 
is  found  in  a  position  where  it  is  absolutely 
impossible  to  realise  its  aspirations. 

LA   ROCHEFOUCAULD,    Maxim  91. — 

(Declared  by  George  Eliot  to  be  one  of 

fits  most  acute  sayings.) 

But  what  will  not  ambition  and  revenge 
Descend  to  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9, 1.  168. 

His   trust   was  with   th'   Eternal   to   be 

deemed 
Equal  in  strength  ;  and  rather  than  be 

less, 
Cared  not  to  be  at  all. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  44. 

Vain  hopes,  vain  aims,  inordinate 
desires.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  808. 

Those  who  write  against  glory  desire 
to  have  the  glory  of  having  written  well ; 
and  those  who  read  wish  for  the  glory  of 
having  read ;  and  I  myself,  in  writing 
this,  have  perhaps  that  yearning,  and  so 
also  perhaps  have  those  who  read  me. 
PASCAL. — Pensees. 

You   thought   to   grasp    the   world;   but 

you  shall  keep 
Its  curses  only  crowned  upon  your  brow. 

EDEN   PHILLPOTTS. — Unto  this  Last. 

If  Wealth  and  Worth  and  Happiness  and 

Fame 
Be  thine,   among  the  Gods  seek  not  to 

inscribe  thy  name. 
PINDAR. — Olympic  Odes,  5,  55  (Moore  tr.), 

Pride  still  is  aiming  at  the  blest  abodes, 

Men  would  be  angels,  anpels  would  be  gods. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  125. 

Who  pants  for  glory  finds  but  short  repose. 

A  breath  revives  him  or  a  breath  o'erthrows. 

POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  300. 

The  glorious  fault  of  angels  and  of 
gods.  POPE. — Elegy,  I.  14. 

I  hold  ambition  of  so  airy  and  light  a 

quality  that  it  is  but  a  shadow's  shadow. 

SHAKESPEARE.—  Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

The  very  substance  of  the  ambitious 
is  merely  the  shadow  of  a  dream. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

Fare  thce  well,  great  heart ! 
Ill-weaved  ambition,  how  much  art  thou 

shrunk  ! 

When  that  this  body  did  contain  a  spirit, 
A  kingdom  for  it  was  too  small  a  bound  : 
But  now  two  paces  of  the  vilest  earth 
Is  room  enougn. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Henry  IV. ,  Pt,  i,  Act  5. 


AMENABILITY 


AMERICA 


I  have  touched  the  highest  point  of   all 

my  greatness, 

And  from  that  full  meridian  of  my  glory 
I  haste  now  to  my  setting  :  I  shall  fall 
Like  a  bright  exhalation  in  the  evening, 
And  no  man  see  me  more. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

I  have  ventured, 
Like   little   wanton   boys   that   swim   on 

bladders, 

This  many  summers  in  a  sea  of  glory  ; 
But  far  beyond  my  depth. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Cromwell,  I  charge  thee,  fling  away  am- 
bition : 
By  that  sin  fell  the  angels. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Lowliness  is  young  ambition's  ladder, 
Whereto  the  climber-upward  turns  his 

face  ; 
But   when   he   once   attains   the  upmost 

round, 

He  then  unto  the  ladder  turns  his  back, 
Looks  in  the  clouds,  scorning  the  base 

degrees 
By  which  he  did  ascend. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  2,1. 

I  have  no  spur 

To  prick  the  sides  of  my  intent,  but  only 
Vaulting  ambition,  which  o'erleaps  itself, 
And  falls  on  the  other. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

Yet  peace  begins  just  where  ambition  ends. 
YOUNG. — NiglU  Thoughts,  5. 

Ambition  !  powerful  source  of  good  and  ill ! 
YOUNG. — Ib.,  6. 

The  trap  to  the  highborn  is  ambition. 
Ancient  British  or  Welsh  prov.  (Ray). 

No  priestling,  small  as  he  may  be, 
But  wishes  some  day  Pope  to  be. 

Prov.  (cited  b\>  Heine,  in  his 
"  Confessions  "). 

He  that  hews  over  high, 

The  chips  will  fall  into  his  eye. 

Prov.  (Scottish?). 

AMENABILITY 

I  am  of  a  constitution  so  general,  that 
it  consorts  and  sympathiseth  with  all 
things.  I  have  no  antipathy  or,  rather, 
Idiosyncrasy. 

SIR  THOS.  BROWNE. — Re'.igio  Medici, 
Pt.  z,  sec.  i. 

He  needs  not  fear  to  be  chidden. 
That  sits  where  he  is  bidden. 

Tr.  of  French  prov    (Colgrave). 


AMERICA 

Yet  still  from  either  beach 
The  voice  of  blood  shall  reach, 
More  audible  than  speech, 

"  We  are  one  !  " 
W.  ALLSTON. — America  to  Great  Britain. 

Westward  the  course  of  empire  takes 
its  way. 

BISHOP  BERKELEY. — Prospect  of 
Planting  Arts  and  Learning  in  America. 

I  called  the  New  World  into  existence 
to  redress  the  balance  of  the  Old. 
GEO.  CANNING. — King's  Message,  1826. 

Columbia,  Columbia,  to  glory  arise, 
The  queen  of  the  world  and  the  child  of 
the  skies. 

DR.  T.  DWIGHT. — Columbia. 

In  America  the  geography  is  sublime, 
but  the  men  are  not ;  the  inventions  are 
excellent,  but  the  inventors  one  is  some- 
times ashamed  of. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life, 
Considerations  by  the  Way  . 

One  of  our  statesmen  said,  "  The  curse 
of  this  country  is  eloquent  men." 

EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

Thou,   O   my   country,   hast   thy  foolish 

ways, 
Too    apt    to    purr    at    every    stranger's 

praise. 

O.   W.   HOLMES. — After-dinner  Poem. 

Boston  State-house  is  the  hub  of  the 
Solar  System. 

O.  W   HOLMES. — Autocrat  of  Breakfast 

Table. 

Hail,   Columbia  !   happy  land  ! 
Hail,  ye  heroes  !  heavenborn  land  ! 
Who  fought  and  bled  in  Freedom's  cause; 
DR.   J.   HOPKINSON. — Hail,  Columbia. 

Oh  !  but  for  such,  Columbia's  days  were 

done  ; 
RanK  without  ripeness,  quickened  without 

sun, 

Crude  at  the  surface,  rotten  at  the  core, 
Her   fruits   would   fall   before  her  spring 

was  o'er. 
T.  MOORE. — To  the  Hon.  W.  R.  Spencer. 

The  indignant  land, 

Where  Washington  hath  left 

His  awful  memory, 

A  light  for  after  times. 

SOUTHEV. — Ode,  1814. 

God  sifted  a  whole  Nation  that  He  might 

send  choice  grain  over  into  this  wilderness. 

WM.   STOUGHTON. — Sermon  :  New 

England's  True  Interests. 


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AMERICANS 


ANGER 


The  youth  of  America  is  their  oldest 
tradition.     It  has  been  going  on  now  for 
three  hundred  years. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  no  Importance, 

Act  i. 
AMERICANS 

Our  American  people  cannot  be  taxed 
with  slowness  in  performance,  or  in 
praising  their  performance. 

EMERSON. — Success. 

And  ne'er  shall  the  sons  of  Columbia  be 

slaves 
While  the  earth  bears  a  plant,  or  the  sea 

rolls  its  waves. 
ROBT.  TREAT  PAINE. — Adams  and  Liberty. 

He    [Jonathan]    was    rather    an    odd- 
looking   chap,   in   truth,   and  had  many 
queer    ways ;    but    everybody    that    had 
seen    John    Bull    saw    a    great    likeness 
between  them,  and  swore  he  was  John's 
own  boy,  and  a  true  chip  of  the  old  block. 
J.  K.  PAULDING. — History  of  John 
Bull  and  Brother  Jonathan  (1816). 

Be  proud  of  those  strong  sons  of  thine 
Who  wrenched  their  rights  from  thee  ! 
TENNYSON. — England  and   America 
in  1782. 

AMIABILITY 

God  has  given  us  tongues  that  we  may 

say  something  pleasant  to  our  fellow-men. 

HEINE. — Confessions. 

That  you  may  be  loved,  be  lovable. 
OVID. — Ars  Amat. 

And  if  thou  wouldst  be  happy,  learn  to 
please.  PRIOR. — Solomon,  2,  266. 

AMOROUSNESS 

The  landlady  and  Tarn  grew  gracious, 
Wi'  favours  secret,  sweet,  and  precious. 
BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

Still  amorous,  and  fond,  and  billing. 
Like  Philip  and  Mary  on  a  shilling. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  i 

Of  temper  amorous  as  the  first  of  May. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  i,  2 

AMUSEMENT 

Amusement  is  the  happiness  of  those 
that  cannot  think. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Who  lives  without  folly  is  not  so  wise 
as  he  thinks.  French  prov. 

ANACHRONISMS 

He  [Apollo  after  hearing  the  accusation 
against  Virgil  of  making  .(Eneas  and  Dido 
cotemporary]  decreed  for  the  future  no 


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poet  should  presume  to  make  a  lady  die 
lor  love  two  hundred  years  before  her 
birth.  DRYDEN. — Dedic.  of  jEneid. 

ANALYSIS 

Analysis  kills  love,  as  well  as  other 
things. 

DR.  J.  BROWN. — Horce  Subsecivce, 
Oh,  I'm  Wat. 

ANARCHY 

I  am  of  his  mind  that  said,  "  Better 
it  is  to  live  where  nothing  is  lawful  than 
where  all  things  are  lawful." 

BACON. — Church  Controversies 

O  what  a  parish,  what  a  terrible  parish; 

O  what  a  parish  is  Little  Dunkel ! 
They  hae  hangit  the  minister,   drowned 

the  precentor, 

Dung  down  the  steeple  and  drucken  the 
bell.  ANON. 

ANECDOTAGE 

When  a  man  fell  into  his  anecdotage  it 

was  a  sign  for  him  to  retire  from  the  world. 

DISRAELI. — Lothair,  c.  29. 

But  oh  !  the  biggest  muff  afloat 
Is  he  who  takes  to  anecdote. 

H.  S.  LEIGH. — Men  I  Dislike 

The  world  is  in  its  anecdotage. 

ROGERS  (Attributed). 

ANGELS 

'Tis  only  when  they  spring  to  Heaven  that 

angels 
Reveal  themselves  to  you. 

BROWNING. — Paracelsus,   Pt.   5. 

This  world  had  angels  all  too  few, 
And  heaven  is  overflowing. 

COLERIDGE. — To  a  Young  Lady. 

ANGER 

On  my  heart's  prow  a  blast  blows  mightily 
Keen  wrath  and  loathing  fierce. 

AESCHYLUS. — ChoephorcB,  387  (Plump- 
tre  tr.)  . 

The  angry  man  always  thinks  that  he 
can  do  more  than  he  can. 

ALBERTANO    OF    BRESCIA. — Liber 
Consolationis 

When  most  angry  and  vexed  remember 
that  life  lasts  but  a  moment  and  that 
we  shall  be  soon  all  in  our  graves. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  n,  18. 

Anger  makes  dull  men  witty,  but  it 
keeps  them  poor. 

BACON. — Certain  Apophthegms   (At- 
tributed to  Queen  Elizabeth). 


ANGER 


ANGLERS  AND  ANGLING 


Few  men  ran  afford  to  be  angry. 

A.  BIRRELL. — Edmund  Burke. 

I  was  angry  with  my  friend : 

I  told  my  wrath,  my  wrath  did  end. 

I  was  angry  with  my  foe  : 

I  told  it  not,  my  wrath  did  grow. 

WM.  BLAKE. — A  Poison  Tree. 

To  be  in  a  passion  you  good  may  do, 
But  no  good  if  a  passion  is  in  you. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

The  thing  I  pity  most 
In  men  is — action  prompted  by  surprise 
Of  anger.          BROWNING. — A  Forgiveness. 

Where  sits  our  sulky,  sullen  dame, 
Gathering  her  brows  like  gathering  storm, 
Nursing  her  wrath  to  keep  it  warm. 

BURNS. — Tarn  o'   Shunter. 

Is  nat  this  [anger]  a  cursed  vice  ?  Yis, 
certes.  Alias  !  it  binimeth  [taketh  away] 
from  man  his  wit  and  his  resoun  and  al 
his  debonaire  [gentle]  lyf  espirituel,  that 
should  kepe  his  soule. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  34. 

He  who  quells  an  angry  thought  is 
greater  than  a  King. 

ELIZA  COOK. — Anger. 

Of    all    bad    things    by    which    mankind 

are  cursed, 
Their  own  bad   tempers  surely  are   the 

worst.    R.CUMBERLAND. — Menander. 

Call  for  the  grandest  of  all  human 
sentiments,  what  is  that  ?  It  is  that  a 
man  should  forget  his  anger  before  he 
lies  down  to  sleep. 

DE    QUINCEY. — Opium   Eater. 

Beware  the  fury  of  a  patient  man. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel. 

Like  women's  anger,  impotent  and 
loud.  DRYDEN. — To  Sir  G.  Kneller. 

Jupiter   is   always  in   the  wrong,   you 

know,  when  he  has  recourse  to  his  thunder. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Griselda,  c.  15. 

Well, — no  offence  : 

Thar  ain't  no  sense 

In  gittin  riled. 

BRET  HARTE. — Jim. 

Anger  is  short  madness. 

HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i. 

As  bodies  through  a  mist,  so  actions 

through  anger,  seem  greater  than  they  are. 

PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

To  be  angry  is  to  revenge  the  fault  of 
others  upon  ourselves. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


He  who  conquers  his  wrath  overcomes 
his  greatest  enemy.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

The  law  sees  the  angry  man  ;  the  angry 
man  does  not  see  the  law. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

When  an  angry  man  comes  to  himself, 
then  he  is  angry  with  himself. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Delay  is  the  best  remedy  for  anger. 

SENECA. — DC  Ira. 

Carries  anger  as  the  flint  bears  fire  ; 
Who,    much     enforced,    shows    a    hasty 

spark, 
And  straight  is  cold  again. 

SHAKESPEARE — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  4,  3. 

Think  when  you  are  enraged  with 
anyone,  what  would  probably  become 
your  sentiments  should  he  die  during  the 
dispute. 

SHENSTONE. — Men  and  Manners. 

'Tis  the  noblest  mood 
That  takes  least  hold  on  anger. 
SWINBURNE. — Bothwett,  Act  2,  4. 

Can  heavenly  minds  such  high  resentment 

show, 

Or  exercise  their  spite  in  human  woe  ? 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  i  (Dry den). 

Is  there  such  rage  in  heavenly  minds  ? 
VIRGIL. — Ib. 

But,  children,  you  should  never  let 
Your  angry  passions  rise  ; 

Your  little  hands  were  never  made 
To  tear  each  other's  eyes. 

I.  WATTS. — Against  Quarrelling. 

I  canna  be  angry  for  lauchin. 

J.  WILSON.— Noctes,  35  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

Be  not  as  a  lion  in  thy  house,  nor 
frantick  among  thy  servants. 

Ecclesiasticus  iv,  30. 

Envy  and  wrath  shorten  the  life. 

Ib.  xxx,  24. 

ANGLERS   AND  ANGLING 

And  angling  too,  that  solitary  vice, 
Whatever  Izaak  Walton  sings  or  says : 
The   quaint    old    cruel   coxcomb,    in    his 

gullet 
Should  have  a  hook,  and  a  small  trout  to 

pull  it. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  13,  st.  106. 

He  minded  not  his  friends'  advice 
But  followed  his  own  wishes ; 

But  one  most  cruel  trick  of  his 
Was  that  of  catching  fishes. 

JANE  TAYLOR. — Little  Fisherman 


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ANGUISH,  MENTAL 


ANTICIPATION 


Angling  is  somewhat  like  poetry,  men 
are  to  be  born  so. 

I.    WALTON. — Complete  Angler,  eft.  i. 

I  am,  sir,  a  brother  of  the  angle. 

I.  WALTON. — Ib. 

We  may  say  of  angling  as  Dr.  Boteler 
said  of  strawberries,  "  Doubtless  God 
could  have  made  a  better  berry,  but 
doubtless  God  never  did  "  ;  and  so,  if 
I  might  be  judge,  "  God  never  did  make 
a  more  calm,  quiet,  innocent  recreation 
than  angling."  I.  WALTON. — Ib.,  c.  5. 

This  dish  of  meat  is  too  good  for  any 
but  anglers,  or  very  honest  men. 

I.  WALTON. — Complete  Angler,   The 
Angler's  Wish,  ch.  8. 

ANGUISH,  MENTAL 

While  the  vexed  mind,  her  own  tormentor 

plies 
A  scorpion  scourge,  unmarked  by  human 

eyes. 

JUVENAL. — 13,  195  (Gifford  lr.), 

Canst    thou    not    minister    to    a    mind 

diseased  ; 

Pluck  from  the  memory  a  rooted  sorrow, 
Raze  out  the  written  troubles  of  the  brain  ; 
And,  with  some  sweet  oblivious  antidote, 
Cleanse  the  stuffed  bosom  of  that  perilous 

stuff, 
Which  weighs  upon  the  heart? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  3. 

Not  poppy,  nor  mandragora, 
Nor  all  the  drowsy  syrups  of  the  world, 
Shall  ever  medicine  thee  to  that  sweet 

sleep, 
Which  thou  ow'dst  yesterday. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

ANIMALS 

Animals  are  such  agreeable  friends — 
they  ask  no  questions,  they  pass  no 
criticisms. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Scenes  of  Clerical 
Life.  Mr.  Gilfil's  Love  Story. 

ANIMALS,  FUTURE   EXISTENCE  OF 

Though  I  am  far  from  denying  that  to 
this  day  the  counsels  of  Divine  Goodness 
regarding  dumb  creatures  are,  for  us, 
involved  in  deep  obscurity,  yet  we  see 
nevertheless  that  Scripture  foretells  for 
them  a  "  glorious  liberty  "  ;  and  we  are 
assured  that  the  compassion  of  Heaven, 
to  which  we  owe  so  much,  will  not  be 
wanting  to  them. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  19 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

There  is  another  world 
For  all  that  live  and  move  ,  ,  .  a  better 
one  1 


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Where  the  proud  bipeds,  who  would  fain 

confine 

Infinite  goodness  to  the  little  bounds 
Of  their  own  charity,  may  envy  thee. 
SOUTHEY. — On  the  Death  of  a  Spaniel. 

ANNIHILATION 

Oh  threats  of  Hell  and  hopes  of  Paradise  ! 
One  thing  at  least  is  certain — This  life 

flies; 

One  thing  is  certain,  and  the  rest  is  Lies  ; 
The  flower  that  once  has  blown  for  ever 

dies.  FITZGERALD. — Omar. 

ANNOTATION 

Notes  are  often  necessary,  but  they  are 
necessary  evils. 

JOHNSON. — Pref.  to  Shakespeare. 

Note  this  before  my  notes. 
There  is  not  a  note  of  mine  that's  worth 
the  noting. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3. 

ANONYMITY 

While  he  [Junius]  walks  like  Jack  the 

Giant- Killer   in   a   coat    of  darkness,  he 

may  do  much  mischief  with  little  strength. 

JOHNSON. — Falkland's  Islands. 

ANSWER 

Ambiguous,  and  with  double  sense  delud- 
ing, 

Which    they    who    asked    have    seldom 

understood. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  435. 

Had  I  as  many  mouths  as  Hydra,  such 
an  answer  would  stop  them  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

ANTICIPATION 

Like  one  that  on  a  lonesome  road 

Doth  walk  in  fear  and  dread, 

And   having   once    turned   round,    walks 

on, 

And  turns  no  more  his  head  ; 
Because  he  knows  a  frightful  fiend 
Doth  dose  behind  him  tread. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  6. 

Why  should  we 

Anticipate  our  sorrows  ?     'Tis  like  those 
That  die  for  fear  of  death. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — The  Sophy. 

Nothing  is  so  good  as  it  seems  before- 
hand. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Silas  Marncr,  c.  18. 

Truth  is  for  other  worlds,  and  hope  for 

this  ; 
The  cheating  future  lends  the  present's 

bliss.     O.  W.  HOLMES.— Old  flayer. 


ANTI-CLIMAX 


APPARITIONS 


ANTI-CLIMAX 

The  mountains  laboured  with  prodigious 

throes, 
And  lo  !  a  mouse  ridiculous  arose. 

P.   FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

ANTIQUITIES 

Antiquities  are  history  defaced,  or  some 
remnants  of  history  which  have  casually 
escaped  the  shipwreck  of  time. 
BACON. — Advancement  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Who  studies  ancient  laws  and  rites, 

Tongues,   arts  and   arms,   and  history, 
Must  drudge,  like  Selden,  days  and  nights, 
And  in  the  endless  labour  die. 

BENTLEY. — Who  Strives  to  Mount 
Parnassus'  Hill. 

Veneration  of  antiquity  is  congenial 
to  the  human  mind. 

BURKE. — Tracts  on  Popery  Laws,  c.  3, 

PL  2. 

Age  shakes  Athena's  tower,   but  spares 
grey  Marathon. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  st.  88. 

To  look  back  to  antiquity  is  one  thing  ; 
to  go  back  to  it  is  another. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Nothing  can  be  preserved  that  is  not 
good.  EMERSON. — Books. 

I  love  everything  that's  old  :  old  friends, 
old   times,   old  manners,   old  books,   old 
wine. 
GOLDSMITH. — She  Stoops  lo  Conquer,  Act  I. 

The  ridiculous  part  of  John's  [John 
Bull's]  character  is  his  love  of  an  absurdity, 
an  injustice — it  may  be  an  acute  incon- 
venience— from  its  very  antiquity. 

D.  JERROLD. — Heads  of  the  People. 

Woodman,  spare  that  tree  ! 

Touch  not  a  single  bough  ! 
In  youth  it  sheltered  me, 

And  I'll  protect  it  now. 
G.  P.  MORRIS. —  Woodman,  Spare  that  Tree. 

Whatever  authority  antiquity  may 
possess,  truth  always  has  the  advantage, 
however  newly  discovered,  because  she 
is  always  more  ancient  than  all  the  opinions 
man  has  held  on  the  matter. 

PASCAL. — Pennies. 

By  many  a  temple  half  as  old  as  Time. 
ROGERS. — Italy,  A   Farewell  (1839). 

Your  modern  antiques  and  your  anti- 
quated moderns. 

SCOTT. — Tales  of  Crusaders. 

Old  thanks,  old  thoughts,  old  aspirations, 

Outlive  men's  lives  and  lives  of  nations. 

SWINBURNE. — Age  and  Song. 


Is  not  old  wine  wholesomest,  old 
pippins  toothsomest,  old  wood  burn 
brightest,  old  linen  wash  whitest  ? 

WEBSTER. — West-Ward  Hoe. 

While    poring    antiquarians    search     the 

ground, 
Upturned  with  curious  pains,  the  Bard, 

a  Seer, 
Takes    fire.    The    men   that    have    been 

reappear. 

WORDSWORTH. — Miscellaneous  Sonnets, 
Pt.  3,  20. 
As  statues  moulder  into  worth. 

Ascribed  to  Paul  Whitehead. 

Everything  ancient  is  to  be  respected. 
Greek   prov. 

ANXIETY 

And  slowly  dropping  on  the  heart  in  sleep 

Comes  woe-recording  care, 
And  makes  the  unwilling  yield  to  wiser 

thoughts. 
/ESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon  (Plumptre  tr.). 

Suspense,  the  only  insupportable  mis- 
fortune of  life. 

LORD  BOLINGBROKE. — Letter,  1725. 

One  morn  a  Peri  at  the  gate 
Of  Eden  stood  disconsolate. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

I  would  it  were  bed-time,  Hal,  and  all 
well.  SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  I V.,  Act  5,  i . 

APATHY 

But  not  to  understand  a  treasure's  worth 
Till   time  has  stolen  away   the  slighted 

good, 

Is  cause  of  half  the  poverty  we  feel, 
And  makes  the  world  the  wilderness  it  is. 

COWPER. — Winter  Walk  at  Noon,  50. 

A  people  sunk  in  apathy  and  fear. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National  Inde- 
pendence, Pt.  2,  No.  25  (1805). 

APOLOGY 

No  'polligy  ain't  gwine  ter  make  hair 
come  back  where  the  biling  water  hit. 

J.   C.  HARRIS. — Uncle  Remus. 

APPARITIONS 

Ghost,  kelpie,  wraith, 
And  all  the  trumpery  of  vulgar  faith. 
CAMPBELL. — Pilgrim  of  Glencoe. 

Whence  and  what  art  thou,  execrable 
shape  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  1.  81. 

Be  thy  intents  wicked  or  charitable, 
Thou  com'st  in  such  a  questionable  shape 
That  I  will  speak  to  thee. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  I,  4. 


APPEAL 


APPLAUSE 


APPEAL 

Awake,  arise,  or  be  for  ever  fallen  ! 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  330. 

Strike,  but  hear. 
THEMISTOCLES  (according  to  Plutarch). 

I  would  appeal  to  Philip,  but  to  Philip 
sober.  VAL.  MAXIMUS. — Bk.  6. 

I  appeal  unto  Ca?sar.      Acts  xxv,   n. 

APPEARANCE 

A  thing  may  look  specious  in  theory 
and  yet  be  ruinous  in  practice.  A  thing 
may  look  evil  in  theory  and  yet  be  in 
practice  excellent. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings, 
Feb.,  1788. 

The  world  that  never  sets  esteem 
On  what  things  are,  but  what  they  seem. 
BUTLER. — Elephant  in  the  Moon. 

The  world  is  an  old  woman,  and  mis- 
takes any  gilt  farthing  for  a  gold  coin. 

CARLYLE. — Sartor,  Bk.  2,  ch.  4. 

And  be  ye  wys,  as  ye  ben  fair  to  see, 
Wei  in  the  ring  then  is  the  ruby  set. 
CHAUCER. — Troilus,  Bk.  2. 

Keep  up  appearances  ;  there  lies  the  test  ; 
The  world  will  give  thee  credit  for  the  rest. 
Outward  be  fair,  however  foul  within  ; 
Sin,  if  thou  wilt,  but  then  in  secret  sin. 
C.  CHURCHILL. — Night,  311. 

Things  are  seldom  what  they  seem  ; 
Skim  milk  masquerades  as  cream. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Pinafore. 

Men  are  valued  not  for  what  they  are, 
but  for  what  they  seem  to  be. 

(rst)  LORD  LYTTON. — Money,  Act  i. 

Be  not  afraid  of  every  stranger ; 
Start  not  aside  at  every  danger  ; 
Things  that  seem  are  not  the  same ; 
Blow  a  blast  at  every  flame. 

G.  PEELE.— Old  Wives'  Tale. 

Whether  the  fellow  do  this  out  of  kind- 
ness or  knavery,  I  cannot  tell ;  but  it  is 
pretty  to  observe. 

PEPYS. — Diary,  Oct.  7,  1665. 

We'll  have  a  swashing  and  a  martial 
outside. 
SHAKESPEARE.— As  You  Like  It,  Act  i,  3. 

Seems,  madam  ?  Nay,  it  is,  I  know 
not  seems. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

The  devil  hath  power 
To  assume  a  pleasing  shape. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.t  Act  2,  2. 


20 


Assume  a  virtue,  if  you  have  it  not. 
SHAKESPEARE.  ~Ib.,  Act  3,  4. 

The  world  is  still  deceived  with*  orna- 
ment. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 

Was    ever    book,    containing    such    vile 

matter, 
So  fairly  bound  ?     O  that  deceit  should 

dwell 

In  such  a  gorgeous  palace  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  3,  2. 

Ye  are  like  unto  whited  sepulchres, 
which  indeed  appear  beautiful  outward, 
but  are  within  full  of  dead  men's  bones, 
and  of  all  uncleanness. 

St.  Matthew  xxiii,  27. 

Judge  not  according  to  the  appearance. 
St.  John  vii,  24. 

APPETITE 

Cursed  with  an  appetite  keen  I  am, 

And  I'll  subdue  it — 

And  I'll  subdue  it — 
And  I'll  subdue  it — with  cold  roast  lamb. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

He  is  a  very  valiant  trencher-man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  i,  i. 

APPLAUSE 

Envy  itself  is  dumb,  in  wonder  lost, 
And  factions  strive  which  shall  applaud 
him  most. 

ADDISON. — The  Campaign. 

Applause  is  the  spur  of  noble  minds, 
the  end  and  aim  of  weak  ones. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

And  even  the  ranks  of  Tuscany 
Could  scarce  forbear  to  cheer. 

MACAULAY. — Horatius. 

Fate  cannot  rob  you  of  deserved  applause, 

Whether  you  win  or  lose  in  such  a  cause. 

MASSINGER. — Bashful  Lover,  Act  i,  2. 

I  love  the  people, 

But  do  not  like  to  stage  me  to  their  eyes 
Though  it  do  well,  I  do  not  relish  well 
Their  loud  applause  and  aves  vehement ; 
Nor  do  I  think  the  man  of  safe  discretion' 
That  does  affect  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  i,  i. 

I  would  applaud  thee  to  the  very  echo 
That  should  applaud  again. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Macbeth,  Act  5,  3. 

He  only  is  a  great  man  who  can  neglect 
the  applause  of  the  multitude,  and  enjoy 
himself  independent  of  its  favour. 

STEELE. — Spectator,  vol.  3,  172. 


APPREHENSION 


ARCHITECTURE 


APPREHENSION 

Some  of  your  griefs  you  have  cured, 
And   the  sharpest  you  still  have  sur- 
vived, 

But  what  torments  of  pain  you  endured 
From  evils  that  never  arrived  ! 

EMERSON. — From  the  French. 

We  will  not  woo  foul  weather  all  too  soon, 
Or  nurse  November  in  the  lap  of  June. 
HOOD. — Plea  of  the  Midsummer  Fairies. 

What   you   fear   happens   sooner   than 
what  you  hope.  PUBLILIUS   SYRUS. 

Present  fears 

Are  less  than  horrible  misgivings. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

All  things  are  less  dreadful  than  they 
seem.       WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets, 

Pt.  i,  7. 

I  would  it  were  not  as  I  think, 
I  would  I  thought  it  were  not. 

SIR  T.  WYATT. — He  lamenteth. 

APPROBATION 

Reproof  on  her  lips  but  a  smile  in  her  eye. 
S.  LOVER. — Rory  O'More. 

Approbation  from  Sir  Hubert  Stanley 
is  praise  indeed. 

T.  MORTON. — Cure  for  Heartache. 

APRIL 

Oh,  to  be  in  England  now   that  April's 
there  ! 

BROWNING. — Home  Thoughts 
from  Abroad. 

Tis  a  month  before  the  month  of  May, 

And  the  spring  comes  slowly  up  this  way. 

COLERIDGE. — Christabel,  Pt.  i. 

When  well  apparelled  April  on  the  heel 
Of  limping  winter  treads. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  i,  2. 

The  uncertain  glory  of  an  April  day. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  i,  i. 

April,  April, 

Laugh  thy  girlish  laughter  ; 
Then,  the  moment  after, 
Weep  thy  girlish  tears  ! 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — April. 

When  the  cuckoo  comes  to  the  bare  thorn, 
Sell  your  cow  and  buy  your  corn ; 
But  when  she  comes  to  the  full  bit, 
Sell  your  corn  and  buy  your  sheep. 

"North  England  saying  (Halliwell). 

When  April  blows  his  horn, 
It's  good  both  for  hay  and  corn. 

Old  Saying  (Ray). 


ARBITRATORS 

Men  who  are  engaged  in  settling  difficult 
questions  should  be  devoid  of  hatred,  of 
friendship,  of  anger,  and  of  soft  hearted- 
ness.        SALLUST. — Catilina,  51,  i  (From 
Casar's  Oration). 

ARCHBISHOPS 

I  have  no  illusion  left  but  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury. 

SYDNEY   SMITH. — Saying. 

ARCHITECTURE 

How  reverend  is  the  face  of  this  tall  pile, 
Whose  ancient  pillars  rear  their  marble 

heads 
To  bear  aloft  its  arched  and  ponderous 

roof, 
By  its  own  weight  made  steadfast  and 

immoveable, 
Looking  tranquillity  ! 

CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  2,  i. 

The  Gothic  cathedrals  were  built  when 
the  builder  and  the  priest  and  the  people 
were  overpowered  by  their  faith.  Love 
and  fear  laid  every  stone. 

EMERSON. — A  rt. 

A  thing  of  ugliness  is  potent  for  evil. 
It  deforms  the  taste  of  the  thoughtless  ; 
it  frets  the  man  who  knows  how  bad  it  is  ; 
it  is  a  disgrace  to  the  people  who  raised 
it — an  example  and  an  occasion  for  more 
monstrosities. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council,  Bk.  i, 

ch.  10. 

A  style  of  Architecture  [Gothic  Deco- 
rated] which,  to  me  at  least,  is,  in  com- 
parison with  all  others,  the  most  beautiful 
of  all,  and  by  far  the  most  in  harmony 
with  the  mysteries  of  religion. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  3 
(E.  K.Francis  tr.). 

With  antique  pillars  massy  proof, 
And  storied  windows  richly  dight, 
Casting  a  dim  religious  light. 

MILTON. — //  Penseroso,  159. 

Good  architecture  is  essentially  religious 
— the  production  of  a  faithful  and  virtuous, 
not  of  an  infidel  and  corrupted  people. 
But  .  .  .  good  architecture  is  not  eccle- 
siastical. ...  It  has  always  been  the 
work  of  the  commonalty,  not  of  the 
clergy.  RUSKIN. — Lecture  No.  2,  Crown 
of  Wild  Olive. 

Among  the  first  habits  that  a  young 
architect  should  learn,  is  that  of  thinking 
in  shadow. 

RUSKIN. — Seven  Lamps,  c.  3,  13. 

No  architecture  is  so  haughty  as  that 
which  is  simple. 

RUSKIN. — Stones  of  Venice,  c.  6,  73. 


ARCHIVES 


ARITHMETIC 


Architecture  is  frozen  music. 
SCHELLING. — Philosophic  der  Kunsl. 

Built  ere  the  art  was  known 
By  pointed  aisles,  and  shafted  stalk, 
The  arcades  of  an  alleyed  walk 
To  emulate  in  stone. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  2,  10. 

In  Saxon  strength  that  abbey  frowned, 
With  massive  arches  broad  and  round. 
SCOTT. — Ib. 

Built 

To  music  ;  therefore  never  built  at  all, 
And  therefore  built  for  ever. 

TENNYSON. — Garcth  and  Lynelle. 

They  dreamt  not  of  a  perishable  home 
Who  thus  could  build. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  PI,  3,  45 
(Of  Westminster  Abbey). 

ARCHIVES 

Of   all   countries   England    is,    without 

contradiction,  the  one  which  has  the  most 

ancient  archives,  and  the  most  consecutive. 

VOLTAIRE. — Pyrrhonism  of  History. 

ARGUMENT 

For  still  the  longer  we  contend, 
We  are  but  further  off  the  end. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  PI.  3,  c.  i. 

Though  syllogisms  hang  not  on  my  tongue, 
I  am  not  surely  always  in  the  wrong ; 
'Tis  hard  if  all  is  false  that  I  advance  ; 
A  fool  must  now  and  then  be  right  by 
chance. 

COWPER. — Conversation,  I.  93. 

Rather  a  tough  customer  in  argeyment, 

Joe,  if  anybody  was  to  try  and  tackle  him. 

DICKENS. — Barnaby  Rudge,  ch.  i. 

It  is  in  the  nature  of  foolish  reason  to 
seem  good  to  the  foolish  reasoner. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such, 
Looking  Inward. 

It's  only  d— d  fools  who  argue.  Never 
contradict,  never  explain,  never  apologize. 
These  are  the  secrets  of  a  happy  life. 

LORD  FISHER. — Letter  to  Times,  Sept.  5, 

1919] 

He  argued  high,  he  argued  low, 
He  also  argued  round  about  him. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— Sir  Macklin. 

In  arguing  too  the  parson  owned  his  skill, 

For  ev'n  when  vanquished,  he  could  argue 

still.     GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

I  find  you  want  me  to  furnish  you  with 

argument    and    intellects    too.     No,    sir, 

there  I  protest  you  are  too  hard  for  me. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield. 


Be  calm  in  arguing  ;   for  fierceness  makes 
Error  a  fault  and  truth  discourtesie. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

His  [Berkeley's]  arguments  admit  of 
no  answer  and  produce  no  conviction. 

HUME. — Of  Bishop  Berkeley. 

In   argument  with  men  a    woman    ever 

Goes  by  the  worse,  whatever  be  her  cause. 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonisles,  903. 

You  have  not  converted  a  man  because 
you  have  silenced  him. 

LORD  MORLEY. — On  Compromise. 

In  overmuch  disputation  the  truth  is 
lost.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

You  shall  never  take  her  without  her 
answer,  unless  you  take  her  without  her 
tongue. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  4,  i. 

The  Retort  courteous  .  .  .  the  Quip 
modest  .  .  .  the  Reproof  valiant  . .  .  the 
Countercheck  quarrelsome  . . .  the  Lie  cir- 
cumstantial .  .  .  the  Lie  direct. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  4. 

Heat  is  in  proportion  to  the  want  of 
true  knowledge. 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  Vol.  4. 

The  sombre  Englishman,  even  in  his 
love  affairs,  always  wants  to  reason. 
The  Frenchman  is  more  reasonable  than 
that.  VOLTAIRE. — Les  Originaux. 

I  hate  a'  argling  and  hargarbargling 
o'  argument  ower  ane's  toddy. 

J.  WILSON.— Noctes,  13. 

Bluster,  splutter,  question,  cavil  !  But 
be  sure  your  argument  be  intricate  enough 
to  confound  the  court. 

WYCHERLEY. — Plain  Dealer. 

ARITHMETIC 

What  is  the  meaning  of  these  damned 
little  dots? 

LORD       RANDOLPH       CHURCHILL. — 

Remark    attributed   to    him   on    being 

presented    with    some    official    returns 

worked  out  in  decimal  points. 

"  Well  done,  my  boy  !  "  the  joyful  father 

cries  ; 

"  Addition  and  subtraction  make  us  wise." 
P.  FRANCIS.— Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

That  arithmetic  is  the  basest  of  all  the 
mental  activities  is  proved  by  the  fact  that 
it  is  the  only  one  that  can  be  accomplished 
by  a  machine. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Psychological  Observa- 
tions 


22 


ARMOUR 


ART 


Lucy,  dear  child,  mind  your  arithmetic. 
...  In  that  first  sum  you  had  carried  two 
(as  a  cab  is  licensed  to  do),  and  you  ought, 
dear  Lucy,  to  have  carried  but  one.  Is 
this  a  trifle  ?  What  would  life  be  without 
arithmetic,  but  a  scene  of  horrors  ? 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter,  July  22,  1835. 

ARMOUR 

They  carved  at  the  meal 
With  gloves  of  steel ; 
And   they  drank    the  red   wine   through 
the  helmet  barred. 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel. 

ARRIVAL 

We're  here  because  we're  here, 
Because  we're  here,  because  we're  here ; 
Oh,  here  we  are,  oh,  here  we  are, 
Oh,  here  we  are  again. 

Popular  Soldier  Song  (c.  1916). 

ART 

Art  still  has  truth,  take  refuge  there. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Memorial   Verses. 

The  lyf  so  short,  the  craft  so  long  to  lerne, 

Th'  assay  so  hard,  so  sharp  the  conquering. 

CHAUCER. — Assembly  of  Foules,  v.  i. 

Careless  she  is  with  artful  care, 
Affecting  to  seem  unaffected. 

CONGREVE. — Amoret. 

The  conscious  utterance  of  thought,  by 
speech  or  action,  to  any  end,  is  Art. 

EMERSON. — Art. 

The  statue  is  then  beautiful  when  it 
begins  to  be  incomprehensible. 

EMERSON. — Love. 

When    they    talked    of    their    Raphaels, 

Correggios,  and  stuff. 
He  shifted   his   trumpet   and   only   took 

snuff.  GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Rules  and  models  destroy  genius  and 
art.  HAZLITT. — Essay  on  Taste. 

Deeds  are  the  offspring  of  words,  but 
Goethe's  pretty  words  are  childless.  That 
is  the  curse  of  all  which  has  originated 
in  mere  art. 

HEINE. — The  Romantic  Sclwol. 

Art  is  the  application  of  knowledge  to 

a    practical    end.     If    the    knowledge    be 

merely   accumulated   experience,   the   art 

is   empirical. 

SIR  J.  HERSCHEL. — Influence  of  Science. 

Life  is  short  and  the  art  is  long. 
HIPPOCRATES. — Aphorisms  (In  refer- 
ence to  the  art  of  healing). 

But  the  Devil  whoops,  as  he  whooped  of 

old  : 
"  It's  clever,  but  is  it  Art  ?  " 

KIPLING. — Conundrum  of  the  Workshop. 


And  what  is  art ;  whereto  we  press, 
Through   pain   and   prose   and   rhyme, 

When  Nature  in  her  nakedness 
Defeats  us  every  time  ? 

KIPLING. — Edge  of  the  Evening. 

'Tis  the  fault  of  all  art  to  seem  antiquated 

and  faded  in  the  eyes  of  the  succeeding 

generation.         A.  LANG. — Letters  to  Dead 

Authors — Jane  Austen. 

Nietzsche  says  :  "  Art  is  with  us  that  we 
shall  not  perish  of  too  much  truth  "  ; 
but  there  is  no  fear  of  any  such  surfeit. 
Truth  is  a  rare  bird  still — so  rare  that 
few  recognise  it  even  if  the  artist  show 
it  to  them. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

They  [the  sportsmen]  doubted  and  mis- 
trusted artists,  dividing  them  roughly 
into  two  classes.  Some  they  held  harm- 
less lunatics  ;  some,  who  employed  art  in 
propaganda,  they  regarded  as  dangerous 
lunatics.  But  they  agreed  that  all  must 
be  lunatic.  EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — Ib. 

The  learned  understand  the  theory  of 
art,  the  unlearned  its  pleasure. 

QUINTII.IAN. 

Art  should  set  itself  a  goal  which  is 
unceasingly  retiring.  A.  DE  RIVAROL. 

Art,  properly  so  called,  is  no  recreation. 

It   cannot  be  learned  at  spare  moments, 

nor  pursued  when  we  have  nothing  better 

to  do.     RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Vol.  2, 

sec.  i,  ch.  i,  2. 

Every  art  is  an  imitation  of  nature. 
SENECA. — Ep.  65. 

He  does  it  with  a  better  grace,  but  I 
do  it  more  natural. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  3. 

Roebuck  believes  in  the  fine  arts  with 
all  the  earnestness  of  a  man  who  does 
not  understand  them. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

There  is  no  Art  delivered  to  mankind 
that  hath  not  the  works  of  Nature  for 
his  principal  object. 

SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for 
Poelrie. 

And,  that  which  all  faire  workes  doth  most 

aggrace, 

The  art,  which  all  that  wrought,  appeared 
in  no  place. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene, 
bk.  2,  c.  12,  st.  58. 

The  assertion  that  art  may  be  good 
art  and  at  the  same  time  incomprehensible 
to  a  great  number  of  people,  is  extremely 
unjust ;  and  its  consequences  are  ruinous 
to  art  itself.  TOLSTOY. 


ARTFULNESS 


ARTS,  THE 


To  keep  in  sight   Perfection,   and  adore 

The  vision,  is  the  artist's  best  delight. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Epigram. 

There  never  was  an  artistic  period.  There 
never  was  an  art-loving  nation. 

J.  McN.  WHISTLER. — Ten  o'clock. 

The  secret  of  life  is  in  art. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — English  Renaissance. 

A  true  artist  takes  no  notice  whatever 
of  the  public. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  under 
Socialism. 

Art  should  never  try  to  be  popular. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Ib. 

Where  art  is  too  conspicuous,  truth 
seems  to  be  wanting.  Latin  prov. 

ARTFULNESS 

The  dodgerest  of  all  the  dodgers. 
DICKENS. — Mutual  Friend,  Bk.  2,  c.  13. 

ARTIFICES 

"  Chops  and  Tomata  Sauce.  Yours, 
Pickwick."  Chops  !  Gracious  heavens  ! 
and  Tomata  Sauce  !  Gentlemen,  is  the 
happiness  of  a  sensitive  and  confiding 
female  to  be  trifled  away  by  such  shallow 
artifices  as  these  ? 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  34. 

ARTISTRY 

That's   the   wise   thrush  ;   he  sings  each 

song  twice  over 

Lest  you  should  think  he  never  could  re- 
capture 
The  first  fine  careless  rapture. 

BROWNING. — Home  Thoughts  from 
Abroad. 

ARTISTS 

The  poison  of  the  honey-bee 
Is  the  artist's  jealousy. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

The  number  of  pure  artists  is  small. 
Few  souls  are  so  finely  tempered  as  to 
preserve  the  delicacy  of  meditative 
feeling,  untainted  by  the  allurements  of 
accidental  suggestion. 

DR.  J.  BROWN. — Horee  Subseciva 
(A.  H.  Hallam). 

The  artist  who  is  to  produce  a  work 
which  is  to  be  admired  ...  by  all  men, 
.  .  .  must  disindividualize  himself,  and 
be  a  man  of  no  party,  and  no  manner, 
and  no  age,  but  one  through  whom  the 
soul  of  all  men  circulates,  as  the  common 
air  through  his  lungs. 

EMERSON. — Art. 

Every  artist  has  got  to  be  a  man, 
woman,  and  child  rolled  into  one. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 


The  true  artist  will  let  his  wife  starve, 
his  children  go  barefoot,  his  mother  drudge 
for  his  living  at  seventy,  sooner  than  work 
at  anything  but  his  art. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

A  great  painter  is  not  'satisfied  with 
being  sought  after  and  admired  because 
his  hands  can  do  more  than  ordinary 
hands,  .  .  .  but  he  wants  to  be  fed 
as  if  his  stomach  needed  more  food  than 
ordinary  stomachs.  ...  A  day's  work  is 
a  day's  work,  neither  more  nor  less,  and 
the  man  who  does  it  needs  a  day's  susten- 
ance, a  night's  repose,  and  due  leisure, 
whether  he  be  painter  or  ploughman. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist, 
ch.  5  (Sidney  Trefusis). 

The  rascal  of  a  painter,  poet,  novelist, 
or  other  voluptuary  in  labour,  is  not 
content  with  his  advantage  in  popular 
esteem  over  the  ploughman ;  he  also 
wants  an  advantage  in  money. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— Ib. 

I  have  seen  no  men  in  life  loving  their 
profession  so  much  as  painters,  except, 
perhaps,  actors,  who,  when  not  engaged 
themselves,  always  go  to  the  play. 

THACKERAY. — Philip,  Bk.  i,  17. 

The  Grecian  artist  gleaned  from  many 
faces, 

And  in  a  perfect  whole  the  parts  com- 
bined. H.  T.  TUCKERMAN. — Mary. 

Artists,  like  the  Greek  gods,  are  only 
revealed  to  one  another. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Lecture  on  the  English 
Renaissance. 

High  is  our  calling,  Friend  !  Creative  Art 
Demands  the  service  of  a  mind  and  heart, 
And  oh,  when  Nature  sinks,  as  oft  she 

may, 

Still  to  be  strenuous  for  the  great  reward 
And  in  the  soul  admit  of  no  decay, — 
Great  is  the  glory,  for  the  strife  is  hard  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — From  Sonnets,  Pt.  2, 
No.  3  (To  B.  R.  Haydon). 

ARTS,  THE 

All  liberal  and  humane  studies  are  linked 
together  by  a  certain  bond  of  union. 

CICERO. — De  Oratore  3    6. 

All  the  arts  have  a  sort  of  common 
bond,  and  are  connected  by  a  sort  of 
relationship.  CICERO. — Pro  Archia. 

Honour  nourishes  the  arts,  and  all  are 
kindled  to  study  by  love  of  glory. 

CICERO. — fuse.  Quasi. 

Our  arts  are  happy  hits.  We  are  like 
the  musician  on  the  lake,  whose  melody 
is  sweeter  than  he  knows. 

EMERSON. — Art. 


ASCETICISM 


ASPIRATION 


The    Arts    are   sisters ;    Languages  are 
close  kindred  ;   Sciences  are  fellow-work- 
men.   SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.2,ch.  i. 

All  the  arts  are  brothers.  Each  of 
them  lights  up  another,  and  thence  results 
a  universal  light. 

VOLTAIRE. — Note  on  Ode  upon  the 
death  of  the  Princess  de  Bareith. 

This  island  [Britain],  which  has  pro- 
duced the  greatest  philosophers  in  the 
world,  is  not  so  fertile  as  regards  the  fine 
arts.  Unless  the  English  apply  themselves 
to  follow  the  precepts  of  Pope  and  Addison, 
they  will  not  approach  other  nations  in 
matters  of  taste  and  literature. 

VOLTAIRE. — Pref.  Letter  to  Merope. 

Those  who  love  the  arts  are  all  fellow- 
citizens. 

VOLTAIRE. — Zaire,  Dedication  to  Mr. 
Falkener . 

ASCETICISM 

In  hope  to  merit  Heaven  by  making 
earth  a  Hell. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  20. 

We  need  not  bid,  for  cloistered  cell, 
Our  neighbour  and  our  work  farewell. 
KEBLE. — Morning. 

If  all  the  world 
Should,  in  a  pet  of  temperance,  feed  on 

pulse, 
Drink  the  clear  stream,  and  nothing  wear 

but  frieze, 

Th*  All-giver  would  be  unthanked,  would 
be  unpraised. 

MILTON. — Comus,  I.  720. 

Great  things  are  granted  unto  those 
That  love  not — far  off  things  brought  close, 
Things  of  great  seeming  brought  to  nought, 
And  miracles  for  them  are  wrought. 
WM.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise,  Story 
of  Acontius  and  Cydippe,  997. 

ASIA  MINOR 

There  is  no  trust  to  be  placed  in  the 
populations  of  Asia  Minor. 

Founded     on    passages     in     Cicero's 

"  Oratio  pro  Flacco,"  in  which  deceit 

is  ascribed  to  the  Greek  race. 

ASPIRATION 

We  ought  to  live  with  the  gods.     This 
a  man  does  whose  soul  is  always  content 
with  the  appointments  of  Providence. 
M.  AURELIUS. — Meditations,  Bk.  5,  27. 

By    aspiring    to    a    similitude    of   God 
in  goodness  or  love,  neither  man  nor  angel 
ever  transgressed  or  shall  transgress. 
BACON. — Advancement  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 


Great   things   are   done   when   men   and 

mountains  meet ; 
These  are  not  done  by  jostling  in  the 

street. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Couplets  and  Fragments. 

O  youth  whose  hope  is  high, 
Who  dost  to  Truth  aspire, 
Whether  thou  live  or  die, 
O  look  not  back  nor  tire. 

ROBERT  BRIDGES. — Song. 

Carpet-dusting,  though  a  pretty  trade, 
Is  not  the  imperative  labour,  atter  all. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  i. 

Ah,  but  a  man's  reach  should  exceed  his 

grasp, 
Or  what's  a  heaven  for  ? 

BROWNING. — Andrea  del  Sarto. 

For  thence, — a  paradox 
Which  comforts  while  it  mocks, — 
Shall  life  succeed  in  that  it  seems  to  fail : 
What  I  aspired  to  be 
And  was  not,  comforts  me. 

BROWNING. — Rabbi  Ben  Ezra,  7. 

"Tis  not  what  man  Does  which  exalts  him, 
but  what  man  Would  do. 

BROWNING. — Saul,  st.  18. 

The  love   of    higher   things   and   better 

days ; 
The    unbounded    hope,    and    heavenly 

ignorance 
Of  what  is  called  the  world,  and  the  world's 

ways.      BYRON. — Don  Juan,  16,  108. 

Hitch  your  waggon  to  a  star. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

The  restless  throbbings  and  burnings 

That  hope  unsatisfied  brings ; 
The  weary  longings  and  yearnings 
For  the  mystical  better  things. 
A.   L.   GORDON. — Wormwood  and 
Nightshade. 

Our    heart    is    in    heaven,  our   home  is 
not  here.       BISHOP  HEBER. — Hymn. 

She  [Io]  teaches  us  [in  "  Prometheus  "] 
that  in  some  way  or  other  a  sort  of 
Nemesis  hangs  over  men  who  are  overbold 
in  aspiration  :  whether,  like  Prometheus, 
they  devise  methods  and  expedients 
for  alleviation  of  common  ills ;  or,  as  Io, 
indulge  in  building  castles  in  the  air, 
which  is  the  way  with  most  of  us  in  the 
ignorance  of  our  early  years. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  23 
(£.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

The  shades  of  night  were  falling  fast, 
As  through  an  Alpine  village  passed 
A  youth,  who  bore,  'mid  snow  and  ice, 
A  banner,  with  the  strange  device, 
Excelsior  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — Excelsior 


ASSASSINATION 


ASSOCIATION 


Long  H  thr  way 

And   hard,   that  out  of  hell  leads  up  to 
light. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  z.  432. 

Higher,  higher  will  we  climb 

Up  the  mount  of  glory, 
That  our  names  may  live  through  time 

In  our  country's  story. 

MOORE. — Aspirations  of  Youth. 

Paternal  Jove  !  the  wish  that  fires  his 

breast 

His  lip  reveals  not :  but  all  things  in  thee 
End     and    begin :    by    dangers     none 

repressed, 

His  toil-trained  heart  but  asks  what  all 
the  brave  would  be. 
PINDAR. — Nemesis,  10,  55  (Moore  tr.). 

If  the  company  will  be  persuaded  by  me, 
remembering  the  soul  to  be  immortal,  able 
to  bear  all  evil  and  all  good,  we  shall 
always  persevere  in  the  road  which  leads 
upwards,  that  so  we  may  be  friends  both 
to  ourselves  and  to  the  gods,  even  whilst 
we  remain  on  this  earth,  and  afterwards 
when  we  receive  the  rewards  of  justice, 
like  victors  assembled  together. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  10,  16. 

Agatha  .  .  .  often  endured  the  mortifi- 
cation of  the  successful  clown,  who  believes, 
whilst  the  public  roars  with  laughter  at 
him,  that  he  was  born  a  tragedian. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  4. 

The  desire  of  the  moth  for  the  star, 
Of  the  night  for  the  morrow, 

The  devotion  to  something  afar 
From  the  sphere  of  our  sorrow. 

SHELLEY. — To . 


For  to  the  highest  she  did  still  aspyre. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  c.  3,  n. 

I  held  it  truth  with  him  who  sings 
To  one  clear  harp  in  divers  tones, 
That  men  may  rise  on  stepping-stones 

Of  their  dead  selves  to  higher  things. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  i. 

The  thirst  to  know  and  understand, 

A  large  and  liberal  discontent : 
These  are  the  goods  in  life's  rich  hand, 
The  things  that  are  more  excellent. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Things  that  are 
more  Excellent. 

We  live  by  admiration,  hope,  and  love, 
And  even  as   these  are  well  and    wisely 

fixed 
In  dignity  of  being,  we  ascend. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4. 

We  know  the  arduous  strife,  the  eternal 

laws, 

To  which  the  triumph  of  all  good  is  given, 
High  sacrifice,  and  labour  without  pause, 


Even  to  the  death  :  else  wherefore  should 

the  eye 
Of  man  converse  with  immortality  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  14. 

Too  low  they  build  who  build  beneath 
the  stars.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

ASSASSINATION 

But   now  some   demon,   or   evil   spirit 
surely,  with  iniquity  and    impiety,   and, 
more  important  still,  with  the  audacity  of 
ignorance,  in  which  all  evils  are  rooted, 
and  whence  they  all  spring  up  and  after- 
wards produce  most  bitter  fruit,  has  again 
subverted  and  destroyed  everything. 
PLATO. — Epistle  7  (Of  the  Assassination 
of  Dion). 

If  I  could  find  example 
Of  thousands  that  had  struck  anointed 

kings, 
And  flourished  after,  I'd  not  do  't ;  but 

since 
Nor  brass,  nor  stone,  nor  parchment  bears 

not  one, 

Let  villainy  forswear  't. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  i,  2. 

ASSEVERATION 

How  haughtily  he  cocks  his  nose, 
To  tell  what  every  schoolboy  knows  ; 
And  with  his  finger  and  his  thumb 
Explaining,  strikes  opposers  dumb. 

SWIFT. — Country  Life. 

By  G — ,  gentlemen,  I  tell  you  nothing 
but  the  truth  ;  and  the  d — 1  broil  them 
eternally  that  will  not  believe  me. 

SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub. 

ASSIDUITY 

Ease  from  this  noble  miser  of  his  time 
No   moments   steals ;   pain   narrows   not 
his  cares. 

WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets, 
Pt.  i,  26  (Alfred). 

ASSOCIATION 

I  love  it — I  love  it,  and  who  shall  dare 

To  chide  me  for  loving  that  old  Arm-chair  ? 

ELIZA  COOK. — The  Old  Arm-chair. 

Men  who  are  rascals  severally  are  highly 
worthy  people  in  the  mass. 

MONTESQUIEU. 

Things  worthless  singly  are  useful 
collectively.  OVID. — Rem.  Am.,  420. 

Oh  !  while  along  the  stream  of  time  thy 

name 

Expanded  flies,  and  gathers  all  its  fame, 

Say,  shall  my  little  bark  attendant  sail, 

Pursue  the  triumph  and  partake  the  gale  ? 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  383. 


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ASTRONOMY 


AUDACITY 


One  bunch  of  grapes  ripens  another. 
SUIDAS  (Greek). 

ASTRONOMY 

For  ever  singing,  as  they  shine, 
"  The  Hand  that  made  us  is  divine." 
ADDISON. — Spectator,  Ode,  466. 

These    earthly    godfathers    of    heaven's 

lights, 

That  give  a  name  to  every  fixed  star, 
Have  no  more  profit  of  their  shining 

nights 

Than  those  that  walk  and  wot  not  what 
they    are. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 

Give  me  the  ways  of  wandering  stars  to 

know, 
The  depths  of  heaven   above,  and  earth 

below  ; 

Teach  me  the  various  labours  of  the  rnoon, 
And  whence  proceed  the  eclipses  of  the  sun. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  2  (Dry den  tr.). 

ATHEISM 

God  never  wrought  miracle  to  convince 
atheism,  because  his  ordinary  works 
convince  it.  BACON. — Essays,  Of  Atheism. 

Atheism  is  rather  in  the  lip  than  in  the 
heart  of  man.  BACON. — Ib. 

An  atheist's  laugh's  a  poor  exchange 

For  Deity  offended. 
BURNS. — Epistle  to  a  Young  Friend. 

Forth  from  his  dark  and  lonely  hiding- 
place 

(Portentous  sight  !}    the  owlet  Atheism, 

Sailing    on    obscene    wings    athwart    the 
noon, 

Drops   his   blue   fringed   lids,   and   holds 
them  close. 

And  hooting  at  the  glorious  sun  in  Heaven, 

Cries  out,  "  Where  is  it  ?  " 

COLERIDGE. — Fears  in  Solitude. 

Virtue  in  distress  and  vice  in  triumph, 
Make  atheists  of  mankind. 

DRYDEN. — Cleomenes,  Act  4. 

ATHENS 

Athens,  the  eye  of  Greece,  mother  of  arts 
And  eloquence. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  240. 

ATHLETICISM 

His  limbs  were  cast  in  manly  mould, 
For  hardy  sports  or  contest  bold. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  i,  21. 

ATOMS 

An  accidental  and  fortuitous  concourse 
of  atoms.  LORD  PALMERSTON  (1857). 


ATTACK 

No  skill  in  swordsmanship,  however  just, 

Can  be  secure  against  a  madman's  thrust. 

COWPER. — Charity. 

Once  more  into  the  breach,  dear  friends, 

once  more, 
Or  close  the  wall  up  with  our  English 

dead.  SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V . 

ATTAINMENT 

What  at  a  distance  charmed  our  eyes, 
Upon  attainment  droops  and  dies. 

J.  CUNNINGHAM. — Hymen. 

ATTENTION 

That  ancient  and  patient  request, 
Verbera,  sed  audi  [Strike,  but  hear]. 
BACON. — Advancement  oj  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

These  things  to  hear 
Would  Desdemona  seriously  incline. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

All  speech,  written  or  spoken,  is  a  dead 
language,  until  it  finds  a  willing  and 
prepared  hearer. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Lay  Morals. 

And  listens  like  a  three  years'  child. 
WORDSWORTH. — Lines  added  to  the 
A  ncient  Mariner. 

ATTRACTIVENESS 

Saith  he,  "  Yet  are  you  too  unkind, 
If  in  your  heart  you  cannot  find 
To  love  us  now  and  then." 

DRAY  TON. — Pastorals,  Eclogue,  4. 

Here's  metal  more  attractive. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

A  sweet  attractive  kind  of  grace  : 
A  full  assurance  piven  by  looks — • 

Continual  comfort  of  a  face, 

The  lineaments  of  Gospel  books. 
SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Friend's  Passion. 

AUDACITY 

You  have  deeply  ventured  ; 
But  all  must  do  so  who  would  greatly  win. 
BYRON. — Marino  Faliero,  i,  2. 

What  we  need  for  victory  is  audacity, 
audacity,  and  for  ever  audacity. 

DANTON. — September,  1792. 

"  To  dare  "  is  the  secret  of  success  in 
literature,  as  it  is  in  revolutions — and  in 
love.  HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy. 

Be  stirring  as  the  time  ;  be  fire  with  fire  ; 
Threaten  the  threatener,  and  outface  the 

brow 
Of  bragging  horror. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  5. 


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AUTHORS 


O,  what  men  dare  do  !     What  men  may 

do! 
What  men   daily  do,  not  knowing  what 

they  do  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  i. 

AUGURIES 

Hear  ye  not  the  hum 
Of  mighty  workings  ? 

KEATS. — To  Haydon. 

According  to  fates  and  destinies,  and 
such  odd  sayings,  the  sisters  three,  and 
other  branches  of  learning. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  2 . 

Against  ill  chances  men  are  ever  merry ; 
But  heaviness  foreruns  the  good  event. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  4. 

AUSTRALIA 

Britannia,  when  thy  heart's  a-cold, 
When  o'er   thy  grave  has  grown   the 
moss, 

Still   "  Rule  Australia  "   shall  be  trolled 
In  Islands  of  the  Southern  Cross. 

A.  LANG. — Ballade  of  the  Southern  Cross. 

AUTHORITY 

Authority  is  a  disease  and  cure, 

Which   men  can  neither  want  nor  well 

endure. 

S.   BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

I  would  rather  err  with  Plato  than  per- 
ceive the  truth  with  these  others. 

CICERO. — Tusc.  Quttst. 

Time  has  made  this  question  without 
question. 

SIR  E.  COKE. — Institutes,  No.  3,  302. 

I  am  monarch  of  all  I  survey, 
My  right  there  is  none  to  dispute. 

COWPER. — Alex.  Selkirk. 

Young  folks  are  smart,  but  all  ain't  good 
thet's  new  ; 

I  guess  the  gran'thers  they  knowed  sun- 
thin',  tu.  J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow 
Papers,  2nd  Ser.,  2. 

And  Art  made  tongue-tied  by  authority. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  66. 

AUTHORS 

Indeed    I    should    doubt    if    my   drama 

throughout 

Exhibit  an  instance  of  woman  in  love. 
ARISTOPHANES. — Frogs,  1335  (Freretr.). 

Time,  which  is  the  author  of  authors. 
BACON. — Advancement  of  Learning,  Bk.  i. 

No  man  was  ever  written  out  of  reputa- 
tion but  by  himself. 
R.  BENTLEY. — Monk's  Life  ofBentley,  p. go. 


The  author  of  "  Amelia,"  .  .  .  whose 
works  it  has  long  been  the  fashion  to 
abuse  in  public  and  to  read  in  secret. 

BORROW. — Bible  in  Spain. 

Then  read  my  fancies  ;    they  will  stick 
like  burrs. 
BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  i. 

One   hates   an   author   that's   all  author 

fellows 

In  foolscap  uniform  turned  up  with  ink. 
BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  75. 

The  Ariosto  of  the  North  (Sir  Walter 
Scott).  BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4, 

st.  40. 

What  is  writ  is  writ, — 
Would  it  were  worthier  !    but  I  am  not 

now 
What  I  have  been. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  st.  185. 

Sighing  that  Nature  formed  but  one  such 

man, 

And  broke  the  die — in  moulding  Sheridan. 
BYRON. — Death  of  Sheridan. 

That  unspeakable  shoeblack  -  seraph 
Army  of  Authors.  CARLYLE. — Boswell. 

Little  do  such  men  know — the  toil,  the 

pains, 

The  daily,  nightly  racking  of  the  brains, 
To   range   the   thoughts,    the   matter   to 

digest, 

To  cull  fit  phrases,  and  reject  the  rest. 
C.  CHURCHILL. — Gotham,  Bk.  2,  n. 

There  are  three  difficulties  in  authorship 
— to  write  anything  worth  the  publishing 
— to  find  honest  men  to  publish  it — and 
to  get  sensible  men  to  read  it. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon.    Preface. 

Literature  has  her  quacks  no  less  than 
medicine,  and  they  are  divided  into  two 
classes, — those  who  have  erudition  without 
genius,  and  those  who  have  volubility 
without  depth.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Let  authors  write  for  glory  and  reward  ; 
Truth  is  well  paid  when  she  is  sung  and 
heard. 
BISHOP  CORBET. — On  Lord  W.  Howard. 

Whose  prose  was  eloquence,  by  wisdom 

taught, 

The  graceful  vehicle  of  virtuous  thought ; 
Whose  verse  may  claim,  grave  masculine 

and  strong, 

Superior  praise  to  the  mere  poet's  song. 
COWPER. — On  Dr.  S.  Johnson. 

None  but  an  author  knows  an  author's 

cares, 
Or  Fancy's  fondness  for  the  child  she 

bears. 
COWPER. — Progress  oj  Error,  I.  515. 


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AUTHORS 


Till  authors  hear  at  length  one  general 

cry, 
Tickle  and  entertain  us,  or  we  die  ! 

COWPER. — Retirement,  I.  707. 

Who  often  reads  will  sometimes  wish 
to  write.  CRABBE. — Edward  Shore. 

But  years  had  done  this  wrong, 
To  make  me  write  too  much,  and  live  too 
long. 
DANIEL. — Philotas,  Dedication,  I.  106. 

The  character  of  a  good  writer,  wherever 
he  is  to  be  found,  is  this,  namely,  that  he 
writes  so  as  to  please  and  serve  at  the  same 
time.  DEFOE. — Universal  Spectator,  1728. 

To  him  no  author  was  unknown, 
Yet  what  he  wrote  was  all  his  own. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — On  A.  Cowley's  Death. 

I  think  the  author  who  speaks  about  his 
own  books  is  almost  as  bad  as  a  mother 
who  talks  about  her  own  children. 

DISRAELI. — Speech,  Nov.  19,  1870. 

When  a  poet  is  thoroughly  provoked, 
he  will  do  himself  justice,  however  dear 
it  cost  him  ;  animamque  in  vulnere  ponit 
[and  he  puts  his  whole  soul  into  the 
wound].  DRYDEN. — Dedication  of  JEneas. 

The  pleasing  punishment  of  publication. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such, 

Looking  Inward. 

Talent  alone  cannot  make  a  writer. 
There  must  be  a  man  behind  the  book. 

EMERSON. — On    Goethe. 

Authors  and  readers  are  separated  by 
a  great  gulf  of  which  happily  neither  is 
conscious.  GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  13. 

Thou  source  of  all  my  bliss  and  all  my 

woe, 
That    found'st    me    poor    at    first,    and 

keep'st  me  so. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

The  pen  of  a  man  of  genius  is  always 
greater  than  himself ;  it  extends  far 
beyond  his  temporary  purpose. 

HEINE. — Don   Quixote. 

A  writer  of  course  cannot  get  beyond 
his  own  ideal,  but  at  least  he  should  see 
that  he  works  up  to  it :  and  if  it  is  a  poor 
one,  he  had  better  write  histories  of  the 
utmost  concentration  of  dulness,  than 
amuse  us  with  unjust  and  untrue  imagin- 
ings. SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  6. 

With  the  greatest  possible  solicitude 
avoid  authorship.  Too  early  or  immoder- 
ately employed  it  makes  the  head  waste 
and  the  heart  empty. 

HERDER. — Tr.  by  S.  T.  Coleridge. 


If  it  be  well  considered,  the  praise  of 
ancient   authors   proceeds   not   from   the 
reverence  of  the  dead,  but  from  the  com- 
petition and  mutual  envy  of  the  living. 
HOBBES. — Leviathan    Conclusion. 

All  writers  love  the  groves  and  flee  from 
cities.  HORACE. — Ep.  2,  2. 

Corneille  is  to  Shakespeare  as  a  clipped 
hedge  is  to  a  forest. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

The  chief  glory  of  every  people  arises 
from  its  authors. 

JOHNSON. — Dictionary  (Pref.). 

For  we  that  live  to  please  must  please 
to  live.  JOHNSON. — Prologue. 

A  man  will  turn  over  half  a  library  to 
make  one  book.  JOHNSON. — Remark. 

No  man  but  a  blockhead  ever  wrote 
except  for  money.  JOHNSON. — Remark. 

There  marks  what  ill  the  scholar's  life  assail, 
Toil,  envy,  want,  the  patron,  and  the  gaol. 
JOHNSON. — Vanity  of  Human  Wishes 

Many  are  possessed  by  the  incurable 
itch  of  writing.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  j. 

In  a  word  too  much  applause  is  given 

to  wit  and  smartness,  too  little  to  reality 

and  truth.         KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry, 

No.  I  (E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

An  author,  like  a  host,  shows  his  ability 

most  surely  if  his  readers  are  dismissed 

with  an  appetite  whetted  but  not  satisfied. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  5. 

There  are  two  literary  maladies — 
writer's  cramp  and  swelled  head.  The 
worst  of  writer's  cramp  is  that  it  is  never 
cured  ;  the  worst  of  swelled  head  is  that 
it  never  kills. 

COULSON  KERNAHAN. — Lecture. 

It  is  not  a  question  of  my  being  an 
author — but  it  seems  to  me  that  a  man  of 
the  world  may  have  thoughts  and  record 
them  in  a  little  notebook. 

LABICHE. — Perrvchon   in   "  Le   Voyage 
de  M.  Perrichon." 

Slave-merchants,  scalpers,  cannibals  agree : 
In  Letter-land  no  brotherhood  must  be. 
If  there  were  living  upon  earth  but  twain, 
One  would  be  Abel  and  the  other  Cain. 
W.  S.  LANDOR. — Miscell.,  278. 

For  as  from  sweetest  flowers  the  labouring 

bee 
Extracts  the  precious  juice,  Great  Soul, 

from  thee 

We  all  our  Golden  Sentences  derive — 
Golden,  and  fit  eternally  to  live. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  3,  n 
(Creech,  tr.). 


AUTHORS 


AUTHORS 


Write,  something  great. 

MAKIIAL. — Epig.,  Bk.    i,   108. 

Things  unattempted  yet  in  prose  or 
rhyme.  MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  13k.  i,  16. 

He  who  would  not  be  frustrate  of  his 

hope  to  write  well  hereafter  in  laudable 

things  ought  himself  to  be  a  true  Poem. 

MILTON. — Apology  against  a  pamphlet 

called  Smectymnuus  (1642). 

He  [Rudyard  Kipling]  possesses  the 
inkpot  which  turns  the  vilest  tin  idiom 
into  gold.  GEO.  MOORE. — Avowals  (1919). 

Whate'er  my  fate  is,  'tis  my  fate  to 
write.  J.  OLDHAM. — To  a  Friend. 

Good  sense  must  be  the  certain  standard 

still 
To  all  that  will  pretend  to  writing  well. 

J.  OLDHAM.— Ode  on  St.  Cecilia's  Day. 

Let  others  write  for  glory  or  reward  ; 
Truth  is  well  paid  when  she  is  sung  and 

heard. 
SIR  T.  OVERBURY. — On  Lord  Effingham. 

To  'great  poets  there  is  no  need  of  a 
gentle  reader :  they  hold  him  captive, 
however  unwilling  and  unmanageable. 

OVID. — Ep.  ex  Pont.]  3,  4,  9. 

Be  sure,  whatever  you  propose  to  write, 
Let  the  chief  motive  be  your  own  delight. 
C.  PITT. — Tr.  of  V Ida's  Art  of  Poetry,  Bk.  i. 

"  'S  death,  I'll  print  it, 
And  shame  the  fools." 

POPE. — Pro/,  to  Satires,  t.  61. 

Who  shames  a  scribbler  ?    break  one  cob- 
web through, 

He  spins  the  slight,  self-pleasing  thread 
anew  ; 

Destroy  his  fib  or  sophistry,  in  vain, 

The  creature's  at  his  dirty  work  again. 

POPE.— Ib.,  I.  89. 

The  mob  of  gentlemen  who  wrote  with 
ease.  POPE. — Satires,  Bk.  2,  Ep.  i,  108. 

Authors  in  France  seldom  speak  ill  of 
each  other  but  when  they  have  a  personal 
pique  ;  authors  in  England  seldom  speak 
well  of  each  other  but  when  they  have  a 
personal  friendship. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

In  an  age 

Of  savage  warfare  and  blind  bigotry, 
He  cultured  all  that  could  refine,  exalt, 
Leading  to  better  things. 

ROGERS.— Italy,  Arqud  (Of  Petrarch). 

It  is  too  difficult  to  think  nobly  when 
one  only  thinks  to  get  a  living. 

ROUSSEAU. — Confessions,  2,  9. 


There  are  two  kinds  of  authors — those 
who  write  for  the  subject's  sake,  and  thobc 
who  write  for  the  sake  of  writing. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

I  have  perhaps  been  the  most  volumin- 
ous author  of  the  day  ;  and  it  is  a  comfort 
to  me  to  think  I  have  tried  to  unsettle  no 
man's  faith,  to  corrupt  no  man's  principle, 
and  that  I  have  written  nothing  which  on 
my  death-bed  I  should  wish  blotted. 

SCOTT. — Remark  to  Lockhart, 

May  10,  1832  (He  died  Sept.  21,  1832). 

I  envy  the  old  hermit  of  Prague,  who 
never  saw  paper  or  ink. 

SCOTT. — Diary,  Feb.,  1826. 

Devise,  wit !  write,  pen  !  for  I  am  for 
whole  volumes  in  folio. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  2. 

The  poetry  of  despair  will  not  outlive 
despair  itself.  Your  nineteenth  century 
novelists  are  only  the  tail  of  Shakespeare. 
Don't  tie  yourself  to  it ;  it  is  fast  wriggling 
into  oblivion. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist, 
Appendix. 

Learn  to  write  well,  or  not  to  write  at 
all.  J.  SHEFFIELD. — On  Satire. 

You  write  with  ease  to  show  your  breeding, 
But  easy  writing's  curst  hard  reading. 

SHERIDAN. — Clio's  Protest. 

I  that ...  am  admitted  into  the  company 
of  the  Paper-blurrers  do  find  the  very 
true  cause  of  our  wanting  estimation  is 
want  of  desert. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for  Poelrie. 

I  know  of  no  reason  why  he  [Dugald 

Stewart]   is  not  ranked  among  the  first 

writers  of  the  English  language,   except 

that  he  is  still  alive  ;  and  my  most  earnest 

and  hearty  wish  is  that  that  cause  of  his 

depreciation  may  operate  for  many  years. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 

Philosophy,  No.  3. 

Ask  my  pen  ;  it  governs  me — I  govern 
not  it. 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  Vol.  6, 
ch.  6. 

Blot  out,  correct,  insert,  refine, 
Enlarge,  diminish,  interline  ; 
Be  mindful,  when  invention  fails, 
To  scratch  your  head  and  bite  your  nails. 
SWIFT.— On  Poetry. 

He  [Lord  Macaulay]  reads  twenty  books 

to  write  a  sentence  ;   he  travels  a  hundred 

miles  to  make  a  line  of  description. 

THACKERAY.— Nil  nisi  Bonum  (Cornhill 

Feb.,   1860). 


AUTOCRACY 


AVARICE 


Tutored  by  thee,  hence  poetry  exalts 
Her  voice  to  ages,  and  informs  the  page 
With  music,  image,  sentiment,  and  thought, 
Never  to  die. 

THOMSON. — Summer  (Used  for  his  epitaph 
in  Westminster  Abbey). 

If   writing   was   drink   I   should   be   a 
drunkard ;     I    simply   could   not    refrain 
from  it.     It  has  filled  my  life  with  happi- 
ness.    KATHARINE  TYNAN. — Years  of  the 
Shadow  (1919). 

Bitten  by  the  dog  Metromania  (mania 
for  versification),  I  was  taken  with  the 
disease  and  became  an  author  also. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Pauvre  Diable. 

Their  faults  [those  of  the  Greek  drama- 
tists] are  due  to  the  age  in  which  they 
lived  ;  their  beauties  belong  to  themselves 
alone. 

VOLTAIRE. — Prefatory  Letter  to  (Edipus. 

This  great  man  (Corneille)  is  always 
superior  to  others,  but  he  is  not  always 
equal  to  himself.  VOLTAIRE. — Ib. 

An  author  may  be  good  in  spite  of  some 
faults,  but  not  in  spite  of  many  faults. 
VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

Nature's  refuse  and  the  dregs  of  men, 
Compose  the  black  militia  of  the  pen. 
YOUNG. — Epistle  to  Pope. 

He  was  the  interpreter  of  nature., 
dipping  his  pen  into  his  mind. 

Old  Greek  Saying. 

It  was  well  known  that  the  Dean 
[Swift]  could  write  finely  upon  a  broom- 
stick. 

Remark  attributed  to  Stella  (Mrs. 
Johnson)  in  reference  to  Dean  Swift's 
poems  to  Vanessa  (Miss  Vanhomrigh). 

AUTOCRACY 

Law  and  arbitrary  power  are  in  eternal 
enmity.  BURKE. — Speech,  1788. 

AUTOMOBILES 

It  didn't  want  no  stable,  it  didn't  ask  no 

groom, 
It  didn't  need  no  nothin'  but  a  bit  o" 

standin"   room. 
Just  fill  it  up  with  paraffin  an'  it  would 

go  all  day  ; 
Which  the  same  should  be  agin  the  law, 

if  I  could  "ave  my  way. 

SIR  A.  C.  DOYLE. — The  Groom's  Story. 

AUTUMN 

Now  autumn's  fire  burns  slowly  along  the 

woods, 
And  day  by  day  the  dead  leaves  fall  and 

melt. 
W.  ALLINGHAM. — Autumnal  Sonnet. 


The  melancholy  days  are  come, 

The  saddest  of  the  year, 
Of  wailing  winds,  and  naked  woods, 
And  meadows  brown  and  sere. 
W.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — Death  of  the 
Flower: 

Of  seasons  of  the  year  the  autumn  is 
most  melancholy.  w 

,  BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy. 
Pt.  i,  sec.  i 

Touched  with   the  dewy  sadness  of  the 

time, 
To  think  how  the  sweet  months  had  spent 

their  prime. 
HOOD. — Plea  of  the  Midsummer  Fairies. 

Boughs  are  daily  rifled 
By  the  gusty  thieves, 

And  the  Book  of  Nature 
Getteth  short  of  leaves. 

HOOD  . — Seasons. 

Autumnal  frosts  enchant  the  pool, 
And  make  the  cart  ruts  beautiful. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — House  Beautiful 

What  pensive  beauty  autumn  shows, 

Before  she  hears  the  sound 
Of  winter  rushing  in,  to  close 

The  emblematic  round  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Thoughts  on  the  Seasons. 

AVARICE 

In  all  the  world  there  is  no  vice 
Less  prone  to  excess  than  avarice. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

So  for  a  good  old-gentlemanly  vice, 
I  think  I  must  take  up  with  avarice. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  st.  216. 

He  lives  poor,  to  die  rich,  and  is  the  mere 
jailor  of  his  house,  and  the  turnkey  of  his 
wealth.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon,  No.  24. 

It  is  evident  insanity  to  live  in  penury 
in  order  that  you  may  die  rich. 

JUVENAL. — Sat.  14. 

A  very  few  pounds  a  year  would  ease 

a  man  of  the  scandal  [reproach]  of  avarice. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

The  miser  is  as  much  in  want  of  what 
he  has,  as  what  he  has  not. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Many  things  are  wanting  to  poverty, 
all  things  to  avarice.  PUBLIUUS  SYRUS. 

The  name  of  the  servant  of  Mammon  is 
Miser,  that  is,  miserable. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — Salt-cellars. 

It  is  sad  to  grow  old  ;  one  has  less  time 
left  for  growing  rich. 
VOLTAIRE. — Gripon  in  "  La  Femme  qui  a 

Raison" 


AVERSION 


BANQUETS 


AVERSION 

I  do  not  love  thee,  Dr.  Fell, 
The  reason  why,  I  cannot  tell ; 
But  this  I  know,  and  know  full  well, 
I  do  not  love  thee,  Dr.  Fell. 

TOM  BROWN. — After  Martial. 

My  aversion,  my  aversion,  my  aversion 
of  all  aversions  ! 

WYCHERLEY. — Plain  Dealer,  Act  2,  I. 

What  things  we  see  when  we  don't  have 
a  gun  ! 

American  Colloquialism, published  in  this 
form  in   "  Troy  Times,"  Dec.  26,   1883. 

AVIATION 

He  shall  have  chariots  easier  than  air, 
That  I  will  have  invented. 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — A  King  and 
no  King  (1610  ?),  Act  5. 

God  never  meant  that  man  should  scale 

the  heavens 
By  strides  of  human  wisdom. 

COWPER. — Garden,   221. 

Possibly  this  was  only  a  figure  of  speech, 
like  that  of  Bishop  Wilkins  [1614-1672], 
who  prophesied  that  the  time  would  come 
when  gentlemen,  when  they  were  to  go  a 
journey,  would  call  for  their  wings  as 
regularly  as  they  call  for  their  boots. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Essay  on  Irish 
Bulls,  ch.  2. 

Volatile  spirits,  light  mercurial  humours, 
Oh  give  us  soon  your  sky  adventures  truly 
With  full  particulars,  correcting  duly 

All  flying  rumours. 

HOOD. — To  Messrs.  Green,  Holland,  and 
Monck  Mason  on  their  late  Balloon 
Expedition  (Comic  Annual,  1837). 

Above  the  smoke  and  stir  of  this  dim  spot, 
Which  men  call  Earth. 

MILTON. — Comus,  5. 

O,  for  a  horse  with  wings  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  2. 

Guarded  with  ships,  and  all  the  sea  our 

own, 
From  heaven  this  mischief  on  our  heads 

is  thrown. 

WALLER.— To  Lord  Falkland. 

AWKWARDNESS 

God  may  forgive  sins,  he  said,  but 
awkwardness  has  no  forgiveness  in 
heaven  or  earth. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

He  stood  a  spell  on  one  foot  fust, 

Then  stood  a  spell  on  t'other, 
An'  on  which  one  he  felt  the  wust 
He  couldn't  ha'  told  ye  nuther. 
J.  R.  LOWELL.—  Biglow  Papers,  series  2. 
The  Courtin'. 


There  is  always  war  between  Ungraceful- 
ness  and  Love.  PLATO. — Banquet,  21. 

It  is  very  pleasantly  said  of  the  awk- 
wardness of  Englishwomen  that  they  seem 
to  have  two  left  arms. 

A.  DE  RIVAROL. — Traits  et  Bans  Mots. 


B 


BABIES 

Every  baby  born  into  the  world  is  a 
finer  one  than  the  last. 

DICKENS. — Nicholas  Nickleby,  ch.  26. 

"  Where  did  you  come  from,  baby  dear  ?  " 
"  Out  of  the  everywhere  into  the  here." 
GEO.    MACDONALD. — Baby. 

BACHELORS 

One  was  never  married,  and  that's  his 

hell ;    another  is,  and  that's  his  plague. 

BURTON. — Anat.  of  Melan.,  Pt.  i. 

At  three  score  winters'  end  I  died, 
A  cheerless  being,  lone  and  sad ; 
The  nuptial  knot  I  never  tied, 
And  wish  my  father  never  had. 

COWPER. — Tr.  of  Greek  Epitaph 
on  an  old  Bachelor. 

Lord  of  yourself,  uncumbered  with  a 
wife.  DRYDEN. — To  John  Dryden. 

The  only  comfort  of  my  life 
Is  that  I  never  yet  had  wife. 

HERRICK. — Hesperides,  No.  1053. 

A  bachelor  is  a  man  who  shirks  responsi- 
bilities and  duties. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  18. 

BACK  NUMBERS 

And  then  like  almanacs,  whose  dates  are 

gone, 
They  are  thrown  by  and  no  more  looked 

upon.  DEKKER. — Honest  Whore, 

Pt.  2,  Act  4,  i. 

BANISHMENT 

Eating  the  bitter  bread  of  banishment. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  i. 

BANQUETS 

"  Music  hath  charms  to  soothe  a  savage 

beast," 

And  therefore  proper  at  a  sheriff's  feast. 
JAMES  BRAMSTON. 
Truth  that  peeps 

Over  the  glass's  edge  when  dinner's  done, 
And  body  gets  its  sop,  and  holds  its  noise, 
And  leaves  the  soul  free  a  little. 

BROWNING.— Bishop  Blougram. 


BARGAINS 


BEAUTY 


Keen  appetite 

And   quick   digestion   wait   on   you   and 
yours.     DRYDEN. — Cleomenes,  Act  4,  i. 

London's  the  dining-room  of  civilisation. 
MIDDLETON. — City  Pageant  (1617). 

You'll   have  no  scandal  while   you  dine, 
But  honest  talk  and  wholesome  wine. 
TENNYSON. — To  the  Rev.  F.  D.  Maurice. 

BARGAINS 

Here's  the  rule  for  bargains :  "  Do 
other  men,  for  they  would  do  you." 

DICKENS. — Martin   Chuzzlewit. 

The   propensity   to   truck,   barter   and 
exchange   one   thing   for   another  ...  is 
common  to  all  men,  and  to  be  found  in 
no  other  race  of  animals. 
ADAM  SMITH. — Wealth  of  Nations,  Bk.  i,  2. 

It  is  naught,  it  is  naught,  saith  the 
buyer  :  but  when  he  is  gone  his  way,  then 
he  boasteth.  Proverbs  xx,  14. 

There  are  more  foolish  buyers  than 
foolish  sellers.  Prov. 

BARONETS 

All  baronets  are  bad. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

BARRISTERS 

My  learned  profession  I'll  never  disgrace 

By  taking  a  fee  with  a  grin  on  my  face, 

When  I  haven't  been  there  to  attend  to  the 

case.    SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

And  many  a  burglar  I've  restored 
To  his  friends  and  his  relations. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Trial  by  Jury, 

He  (a  barrister)  hires  out  his  anger  and 
his  words.  SENECA. — Hercules  Furens,  173. 

O  perilous  mouths, 
That  bear  in  them  one  and  the  selfsame 

tongue, 

Either  of  condemnation  or  approof, 
Bidding  the  law  make  courtesy  to  their 

will! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure     for      Measure, 

Act  2,  4. 

BATHOS 

So  in  this  way  of  writing  without  thinking 

Thou  hast  a  strange  alacrity  in  sinking. 

T.  SACKVILLE  (LORD  DORSET). — Satire. 

I  have  a  kind  of  alacrity  in  sinking. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  3,  5. 

From  Flecknoe  down  to  Howard's  time, 
How  few  have  reached  the  low  sublime  ! 
SWIFT.— On  Poetry. 
BATTLES 

There's  some  say  that  we  wan,  some  say 
that  they  wan, 


Some  say  that  naiie  wan  at  a',  man, 
But  one  thing  I'm  sure,  that  at  Sheriff - 

Muir, 

A  battle  there  was  which  I  saw,  man. 
And  we  ran  and  they  ran,  and  they  ran 

and  we  ran, 

And  we  ran,  and  they  ran  awa',  man. 
MURDOCH  MCLENNAN. — Sheriff-Muir 
(referring  to  an  indecisive  battle  in  the 
valley  of  Sheriff-Muir,  Nov.,  1715). 

When  the  hurly-burly's  done, 
When  the  battle's  lost  and  won. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  i. 

A  captain  forth  to  battle  went, 
With  soldiers  neat  and  trim. 
ANN  and  JANE  TAYLOR. — Hymns  for 
Infant  Minds,  No.  91. 

The  glory  and  grief  of  battle  won  or  lost 
Solders  a  race  together — yea,  though  they 

fail, 
The  names  of  those  who  fought  and  fell 

are  like 

A  banked-up  fire  that  flashes  out  again 
From  century  to  century. 

TENNYSON. — The  Cupf 

God  of  battles,  was  ever  a  battle  like 
this  in  the  world  before  ? 

TENNYSON. — The  Revenge. 

Nothing  except  a  battle  lost  can  be  half 
so  melancholy  as  a  battle  won. 
DUKE  OF  WELLINGTON. — Despatch,  1815. 

He  saith  among  the  trumpets,  Ha,  ha  ; 
and  he  smelleth  the  battle  afar  off. 

Job  xxxix,  25. 

BEACH 

On  Margate  beach,  where  the  sick  one 

roams, 

And  the  sentimental  reads ; 
Where  the  maiden  flirts,  and  the  widow 

comes, 
Like  the  ocean — to  cast  her  weeds. 

HOOD. — Mermaid  of  Margate. 

Come  Unto  these  yellow  sands, 

And  then  take  hands : 
Curtsied  when  you  have,  and  kissed, 
The  wild  waves  whist.     ["  whist "  = 
silenced.] 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  a. 

BEATING 

A  woman,  a  dog,  and  a  walnut  tree, 
The  more  you  beat  them  the  better  they'll 
be. 

Old  Saying  found  in  Danish  and 
other  languages. 

BEAUTY 

The  best  part  of  beauty  is  that  which 
a  picture  cannot  express. 

BACON.- — Collection  of  Sentences. 


BEAUTY 

Sure  there  is  music  even  in  Beauty, 
and  the  silent  note  which  Cupid  strikes, 
far  sweeter  than  the  sound  of  an  instru- 
ment. For  there  is  a  music  wherever 
there  is  harmony,  order,  or  proportion. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  2,  9. 

A  worthless  woman  !    mere  cold  clay, 
As  all  false  things  are,  but  so  fair 

She  takes  the  breath  of  men  away, 
Who  gaze  upon  her  unaware. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Bianca. 

If  you  get  simple  beauty,  and  nought  else, 

You  get  about  the  best  thing  God  invents. 

BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo  Lippi. 

Too  bright,  too  beautiful  to  last. 

VV.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — The  Rivulet. 

All  that  is  beautiful  shall  abide, 
All  that  is  base  shall  die. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Balder,  Pt.  7,  5. 

A  pretty  woman  is  a  welcome  guest. 

BYRON. — Beppo,  23. 

The  light  of  love,  the  purity  of  grace, 
The  mind,  the  Music  breathing  from  her 
face.  BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  i,  6. 

Who  hath  not  proved  how  feebly  words 

essay 

To  fix  one  spark  of  Beauty's  heavenly  ray  ? 
BYRON. — Ib. 

His    changing    cheek,    his    sinking   heart 

confess 

The  might — the  majesty  of  Loveliness. 
BYRON. — Ib. 

Whose  large  blue  eyes,   fair  locks,   and 

snowy  hands 

Might  shake  the  saintship  of  an  anchorite. 
BYRON. — Childt  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  n. 

The  fatal  gift  of  beauty. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  4,  st.  42. 

The  women   pardoned   all   except   her 
face.        BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  5,  st.  113. 

He  could  not  slay  a  thing  so  fair. 

BYRON. — Parisina,  st.  7. 

Without  the  smile  from  partial  beauty 

won, 
Oh,  what  were  man  ? — a  world  without  a 

sun. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  z. 

There  is  a  garden  in  her  face, 
Where  roses  and  white  lilies  grow. 

T.  CAMPION. — Cherry  Ripe. 

The  beautiful  is  vanished  and  returns 

not.  CotERiDGE. — Death  of 

Wnllenstein,  5,  i. 

No  beauty's  like  the  beauty  of  the  mind. 
JOSHUA  COOKE.-A  Good  Wife. 


BEAUTY 

Beauty,  like  sorrow,  dwelleth  every- 
where. 

T.  DEKKER. — Old  Fortunatus,  Act  3,  i. 

Trust  not  too  much  to  that  enchanting 

face  ; 
Beauty's  a  charm,  but  soon  the  charm  will 

pass.        DRYDEN. — Virgil,  Pastoral  2. 

Beauty,  truth,  and  goodness  are  not 
obsolete :  they  spring  eternal  in  the 
breast  of  man.  EMERSON. — Art. 

One  more  text  from  the  mythologists  .  .  . 
"  Beauty  fides  upon  a  lion  !  "  Beauty  rests 
on  necessities.  The  line  of  beauty  is  the 
result  of  perfect  economy. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life. 

Rhodora  !   if  the  sages  ask  thee  why 
This  charm  is  wasted  on  the  marsh  and 

sky, 
Tell  them,  dear,  that  if  eyes  were  made 

for  seeing, 

Then  Beauty  is  its  own  excuse  for  being. 
EMERSON. — The  Rhodora. 

Beauties  they  are,  but  beauties  out  of 
place.  P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

Nature,  that  wisely  nothing  made  in  vain, 

Did  make  you  lovely  to  be  loved  again. 

R.  HEATH.— Jo  Clarastella. 

Beauty  and  beauteous  words  should  go 
together.  GEO.  HERBERT. — Forerunners. 

O  lovelier  daughter  of  a  lovely  mother  ! 
HORACE. — Odes,  Bk.  i. 

Beauty  enough  to  make  a  world  to  dote. 
JAMES  I  (of  Scotland). — King's  Quair. 

Rare  is  the  agreement  between  beauty 
and  modesty.  JUVENAL. — Sat.,  10. 

A  thing  of  beauty  is  a  joy  for  ever ; 
Its  loveliness  increases  ;    it  will  never 
Pass  into  nothingness  ;   but  still  will  keep 
A  bower  quiet  for  us,  and  a  sleep 
Full  of  sweet  dreams,  and  health,  and  quiet 
breathing. 

KEATS. — Endymion,  Bk.  i. 

"  Beauty  is  truth,  truth  beauty," — that 

is  all 

Ye  know  on  earth,  and  all  ye  need  to  know. 
KEATS. — Grecian  Urn. 

Oh  !  could  you  view  the  melody 

Of  every  grace, 
And  music  of  her  face, 

You'd  drop  a  tear, 
Seeing  more  harmony 

In  her  bright  eye, 
Than  now  you  hear. 
R.  LOVELACE. — Orpheus  to  Beasts. 

Beauty  and  sadness  always  go  together, 

G.  MACDONALD. — Within  and  Without. 

Pt.  4,  sec.  3. 


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BEAUTY 


BEAUTY 


All  the  eminent  and  canonised  beauties, 

By  truth  recorded,  or  by  poets  feigned. 

MASSINGER. — Bashful  Lover,  Act  4,  i. 

At  the^best,  my  lord,  she  is  a  handsome 

picture, 
And,  that  said,  all  is  spoken. 

MASSINGER. — Gt.  Duke,  Act  3,  i. 

Beauty  is  the  elimination  of  super- 
fluities. MICHAEL  ANGELO. 

Where  perhaps  some  beauty  lies, 
The  Cynosure  of  neighbouring  eyes. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  I.  79. 

Beauty  stands 

In  the  admiration  only  of  weak  minds 
Led  captive. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  220. 

As  rich  and  purposeless  as  is  the  rose, 
Thy  simple  doom  is  to  be  beautiful. 

STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Marpessa,  I.  51. 

The  beautiful  consists  in  utility  and 
fitness  for  the  production  of  some  good 
purpose.  PLATO. — Hippias  Major,  37. 

If  to  her  share  some  female  errors  fall, 
Look  on  her  face,  and  you'll  forget  them 
all.     POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  2, 17. 

And  beauty  draws  us  with  a  single  hair. 
POPE. — Ib..  c.  2,  28. 

Take  away  from  our  hearts  the  love 
of  the  beautiful  and  you  take  away  the 
charm  of  life.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

I  have  always  believed  that  good  is 
only  the  beautiful  put  into  action,  that 
one  is  intimately  linked  with  the  other, 
and  that  they  both  have  one  common 
source  in  well-ordered  nature. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

Is  she  not  more  than  painting  can  express, 

Or  youthful  poets  fancy  when  they  love  ? 

N.  ROWE. — Fair  Penitent,  Act  3,  i. 

It  is  evident  that  the  sensation  of 
beauty  is  not  sensual  on  the  one  hand, 
nor  is  it  intellectual  on  the  other  ;  but  is 
dependent  on  a  pure,  right,  and  open 
state  of  the  heart. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  2, 
sec.  i,  ch.  2,  8. 

Neither  is  there  any  better  test  of 
beauty  than  its  surviving  or  annihilating 
the  love  of  change,  a  test  which  the 
best  judges  of  art  have  need  frequently 
to  use.  RUSKIN. — Ib.,  vol.  2,  sec.  2,  ch.  2,  7. 

It  [Repose]  is  the  most  unfailing  test  of 
beauty,  whether  of  matter  or  of  motion. 
Nothing  can  be  ignoble  that  possesses  it  ; 
nothing  right  that  has  it  not. 

RUSKIN. — Ib.,  vol.  2,  sec.  2,  ch.  3,  5. 


Many  very  sublime  pictures  derive  their 
sublimity  from  the  want  of  it  [symmetry], 
but  they  lose  proportionally  in  the  diviner 
quality  of  beauty. 

RUSKIN. — Ib.,  vol.  2,  sec.  2,  ch.  4,  4. 

Beautiful  things  are  useful  to  men  be- 
cause they  are  beautiful,  and  for  the  sake 
of   their  beauty  only ;   and   not   to  sell, 
or  pawn — or  in  any  other  way  turn  into 
money.     RUSKIN. — Pref.  to  Revised  edition 
of  "  Modern  Painters,"  vol.  2  (1882). 
Described  by  him  as  "the  beginning 
of  all  my  political  economy." 

And  ne'er  did  Grecian  chisel  trace 
A  Nymph,  a  Naiad,  or  a  Grace, 
Of  finer  form  or  lovelier  face  ! 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  i,  st.  18. 

If  ladies  be  but  young  and  fair, 
They  have  the  gift  to  know  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

Well,  I  am  not  fair,  and  therefore  I 
pray  the  gods  make  me  honest. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

Beauty  itself  doth  of  itself  persuade 
The  eyes  of  men  without  an  orator. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  st.  5. 

Beauty  is  but  a  vain  and  doubtful  good. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Passionate  Pilgrim,  st.  n. 

There's  nothing  ill  can  dwell  in  such  a 

temple ; 

If  the  ill  spirit  have  so  fair  a  house, 
Good  things  will  strive  to  dwell  with  't. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2 

For  he  being  dead,  with  him  is  beauty 

slain, 
And,  beauty  dead,  black  chaos  comes 

again. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  170. 

And  narcissi,  the  fairest  among  them  all, 
Who  gaze  on  their  eyes  in  the  stream's 

recess, 
Till  they  die  of  their  own  dear  loveliness. 

SHELLEY. — Sensitive  Plant,  Pt.  i,  st.  5. 

The  saying  that  beauty  is  but  skin 
deep  is  but  a  skin  deep  saying. 

HERBERT  SPENCER. — Personal  Beauty. 

The  hearts  of  men,   which  fondly  here 
admyre 

Fair  seeming  shewes,  .  .  .  may  lift  them- 
selves  up   hyer, 

And  learn  to  love,  with  zealous  humble 
dewty, 

Th'  Eternall  Fountaine  of  that  heavenly 
Beauty. 
SPENSER. — Hymn  of  Heavenly  Beauty. 

A  rosebud  set  with  little  wilful  thorns, 

And  sweet  as  English  air  could  make  her, 

she.    TENNYSON. — Princess,  Prol.,  153. 


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BED 


BEGINNINGS 


Beauty,  madam,  pleases  only  the  eyes  ; 
sweetness  charms  the  mind. 

VOLTAIRE. — Nanine. 

How  small  a  part  of  time  they  share 
That  are  so  wondrous  sweet  and  fair  ! 

E.  WALLER. — Go,  Lovely  Rose. 

O  be  less  beautiful,  or  be  less  brief ! 

SIR  WM.  WATSON. — Autumn. 

Beauty  is  the  only  thing  that  time 
cannot  'harm.  Philosophies  fall  away 
like  sand,  creeds  follow  one  another,  but 
what  is  beautiful  is  a  joy  for  all  seasons, 
a  possession  for  all  eternity. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Lecture  on  the  English 
Renaissance. 

If  she  be  not  so  to  me, 
What  care  I  how  fair  she  be? 
G.  WITHER. — Shepherd's  Resolution. 

She  seemed  a  thing  that  could  not  feel 

The  touch  of  earthly  years. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  of  the  Imagination, 

No.  ii. 

And  beauty  born  of  murmuring  sound 
Shall  pass  into  her  face. 

WORDSWORTH. — Three  Years. 

Beautiful  as  sweet ! 
And    young   as   beautiful !    and   soft   as 

young  ! 

And  gay  as  soft  !  and  innocent  as  gay  ! 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

Beauty  without  virtue  is  a  flower 
without  perfume.  French  prov. 

Every  woman  would  rather  be  beautiful 
than  good.  German  prov. 

Everything  beautiful  is  lovable. 

Latin  prov. 

The  fairer  the  hostess  the  fouler  the 
reckoning.  Prov.  (Ray). 

A  handsome  hostess  makes  a  dear 
reckoning.  Saying  quoted  by  Bishop 
Corbet  (c.  1632)  and  derived  from  the  French. 

BED 

Bed  is  a  bundle  of  paradoxes  :  we  go 
to  it  with  reluctance,  yet  we  quit  it  with 
regret ;  and  we  make  up  our  minds  every 
night  to  leave  it  early,  but  we  make  up 
our  bodies  every  morning  to  keep  it  late. 
C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Oh,  bed  !  oh,  bed  !  delicious  bed ! 
That   heaven   upon   earth    to   the  weary 
head  !          HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Whoever  thinks  of  going  to  bed  before 
twelve  o'clock  is  a  scoundrel. 

JOHNSON  — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Sir  John  Hawkins. 


In  bed  we  laugh,  in  bed  we  cry, 
And   born   in   bed,   in  bed   we   die  ; 
The  near  approach  a  bed  may  show 
Of  human  bliss  to  human  woe. 

JOHNSON. — tr.  of  Benserade. 

'Tis    very   warm    weather    when   one's 
in  bed.  SWIFT. — Letter,  1710. 

BEER 

Yes,     my    soul    sentimentally    craves 
British  beer.      CAMPBELL. — From  Algiers. 

For  a  quart  of  ale  is  a  dish  for  a  king. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  2. 

They  who  drink  beer  will  think  beer. 
AUr.  to  Warburton.  (Parodied  :  "  They 
who  drink  water  will  think  water.") 

BEES 

Nature's  confectioner,  the  bee. 

J.  CLEVELAND. 

Swarm  o*  bees  i'  May 
'S  woth  a  load  o'  hay  ; 
Swarm  o'  bees  i'  June 
'S  woth  a  silver  spune ; 
Swarm  o*  bees  i'  July 
'S  not  woth  a  fly. 

Derbyshire  Saying,  as  recorded  in  "  Notes 
and  Queries,"  May  27,  1911. 

BEGGARS 

He  was  the  beste  beggere  in  his  hous. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

Of  avaryce  and  of  swich  cursednesse 
Is  al  my  preching,  for  to  make  them  free 
To  give  their  pence,  and  namely  unto  me. 
CHAUCER. — Pardoner's  Tale,  V .  12335. 

A  beggar's  life  is  for  a  king. 

F.  DAVISON. — Song. 

Patience,  the  beggar's  virtue. 
MASSINGER. — New  Way  to  Pay  Old  Debts. 

Pity  the  sorrows  of  a  poor  old  man, 
Whose  trembling  limbs  have  brought  him 
to  your  door. 

T.  Moss. — Beggar's  Petition. 

You  taught  me  first  to  beg,  and    now, 

methinks, 
You  teach  me  how  a  beggar  should  be 

answered.     SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant 
of  Venice,  Act  4,  i. 

It  is  one  beggar's  woe, 

To  see  another  by  the  door  go. 

Prov.  (Ray). 

BEGINNINGS 

"  The  contrast  of  beginning  and  end," 
said  the  general  [Kinsalej,  "  is  almost 
always  melancholy." 

MME.  D'ARBLAY'. — Camilla,  Bk.  3,  c.  12. 


BEGINNINGS 


BELLS 


My  way  is  to  begin  with  the  beginning. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan.   Canto  i,  st.  7. 

Nothing  so  difficult  as  a  beginning 
In  poesy,  unless  perhaps  the  end. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  4,  st.  i . 

The  beginnings  of  all  things  are  small. 
CICERO. — De    Finibus. 

Every  evil  thing  -is  easily  stifled  at  its 
birth  ;  allowed  to  become  old  it  generally 
becomes  too  powerful. 

CICERO. — Philippics,  Bk.  5,  n. 

The  bud  may  have  a  bitter  taste, 
But  sweet  will  be  the  flower. 

COWPER. — Hymn. 

Run  a  moist  pen  slick  through  every- 
thing and  start  afresh. 

DICKENS. — M.  Chuzzlewit,  c.  17. 

Every  beginning  is  cheerful.     GOETHE. 

Withstand  the  beginnings ;  when  the 
evils  have  become  rooted  the  remedies 
are  too  late.  OVID. — Rent.  Am. 

Things  are  always  at  their  best  in  their 
beginning.  PASCAL. — Lettres  provinciales. 

Whilst  we  deliberate  about  beginning, 
it  becomes  too  late  to  begin.  QUINTILIAN  . 

That  is  the  true  beginning  of  our  end. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 

Dream,  Act  5,  i . 

Every  man  must  submit  to  be  slow 
before  he  is  quick  ;  and  insignificant 
before  he  is  important. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,   No.    19. 

Each  goodly  thing  is  hardest  to  begin. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  c.  5,  st.  6. 

Few  men,  drinking  at  a  rivulet,  stop 
to  consider  its  source. 

M.  F.  TUPPER. — Of  Gifts. 

Others  shall  sing  the  song, 
Others  shall  right  the  wrong, 
Finish   what   I   begin, 
And  all   I  fail  of  win. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Triumph. 

The   beginning   is   half   of    the   whole. 
Greek  saying  (ascribed  to  Pythagoras). 

The  difficult  thing  is  to  get  your  foot 
in  the  stirrup.  Old  saying. 

The  deil's  aye  gude  to  beginners. 

Scottish  prov. 

Begin  on  porridge  that  you  may  end 
with  chicken.  Scottish  saying. 

The  first  dish  pleaseth  all. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 


BELIEF 

To  its  own  impulse  every  creature  stirs  r 

Live  by  thy  light,  and  Earth  will  live  by 

hers.  M.  ARNOLD. — Religious 

Isolation. 

We  are  born  believing.  A  man  bears 
beliefs,  as  a  tree  bears  apples. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life,  Worship. 

Ah  me  !  we  believe  in  evil, 

Where  once  we  believed  in  good  ; 
The  world,  the  flesh,  and  the  devil 
Are   easily    understood. 

A.  L.  GORDON. — Wormwood  and 
Nightshade. 

All  I  can  say  is  you  are  not  "  experte 
credo,"  or  expert  at  believing. 

HOOD. — The  Rope  Dancer,  1834. 

A  thing  that  nobody  believes  cannot  be 
proved  too  often. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Devil's  Disciple. 

He  in  his  heart 

Felt  that  misgiving  which  precedes  belief 
In  what  was  disbelieved. 

SOUTHEY. — Joan  of  Arc,  Bk.  i 

No  soul  can  believe  but  by  the  permis- 
sion of  God  .  .  .  but  signs  are  of  no  avail, 
neither  preachers,  unto  people  who  will 
not  believe.  Koran,  ch.  10. 

BELLS 

The  vesper  bell  from  far 
That  seems  to  mourn  for  the  expiring  day. 
H.  F.  CARY. — Dante's  Purgatory  ,c.  8,  6. 

The  sound  of  the  church-going  bell. 

COWPER. — Alex.  Selkirk. 

How  soft  the  music  of  those  village  bells, 
Falling  at  intervals  upon  the  ear, 
In  cadence  sweet ! 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Sundays  observe  ;   think  when  the  bells 

do  chime, 
'Tis  angels'  music. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Bells  are  Music's  laughter. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Dear    bells  !    how    sweet    the    sound    of 

village  bells, 

When  on  the  undulating  air  they  swim  ! 
Now   loud    as    welcome !    faint   now,    as 

farewells.     HOOD. — Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

They  went  and  told  the  sexton, 
And  the  sexton  tolled  the  bell. 

HOOD. — Sally  Brown. 

Those  evening  bells  !  those  evening  bells  ! 
How  many  a  tale  their  music  tells 
Of  youth  and  home  and  that  sweet  tune 
When  last  I  heard  their  soothing  chime. 
MOORE. — Evening  Bells. 


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BENEFITS 


BEREAVEMENT 


Silence  that  dreadful  bell  ! 

SHAKESPEARE.— Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Ring  out  wild  bells  to  the  wild  skys 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  106. 

Differing  in  size, 

In   note   and    weight, 

Yet,  small  or  great, 
We  harmonise. 
Inscription  on  bell,  Colchester  Town  Hall. 

BENEFITS 

A  benefit  loses  its  grace  in  being  too 
much  published.  CORNEILLE. — Theodore. 

On  adamant  our  wrongs  we  all  engrave, 
But  write  our  benefits  upon  the  wave. 
DR.W.  KING. — Art  of  Love. 

To  do  well  to  a  bad  man  is  as  great  a 
danger  as  to  do  ill  to  a  good  one. 

PLAUTUS. — Panulus,  Act  3,  3. 

Much  of  what  is  great,  and  to  all  men 

beneficial, .  has    been    wrought    by    those 

who  neither  intended  nor  knew  the  good 

they  did.          RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters, 

vol.  2,  sec.  3,  ch.  4,  8. 

He  has  received  a  favour  who  has 
granted  one  to  a  worthy  person. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Benefits  are  pleasing  up  to  that  point 

when  they  seem  to  be  capable  of  requital ; 

when    they    far    exceed    that    possibility 

hatred  is  returned  instead  of  gratitude. 

TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  4,  18. 

BENEVOLENCE 

A  heart  to  pity  and  a  hand  to  bless. 

C.   CHURCHILL. — Prophecy  of  Famine, 

I.  178. 

Careless  their  merits  or  their  faults  to 

scan, 
His  pity  gave  ere  charity  began. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

He  chid  their  wanderings  but  relieved 
their  pain.  GOLDSMITH. — Ib. 

Large   was   his   bounty   and   his   soul 
sincere.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

Officious,  innocent,  sincere, 

Of  every  friendless  name  the  friend. 

JOHNSON. — On  R.  Levett. 

To  relieve  the  oppressed  is  the  most 
glorious  act  a  man  is  capable  of.  It  is 
in  some  measure  doing  the  business  of 
God  and  Providence. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

When  that  the  poor  have  cried,  Cajsar 

hath  wept : 

Ambition  should  be  made  of  sterner  stuff. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ceesar,  Act  3,  2. 


Miracles  are  good,  but  to  comfort  one's 
brother,  to  extricate  a  friend  from  the 
depths  of  misery,  to  pardon  one's  enemies 
their  virtues— that  is  the  greater  miracle 
which  no  longer  takes  place. 

VOLTAIRE. — Discours  7. 

BEQUESTS 

He  that  defers  his  charity  until  he  is 

dead,  is,  if  a  man  weighs  it  rightly,  rather 

liberal  of  another  man's  than  of  his  own. 

BACON. — Collection  of  Sentences. 

This  seems  to  me  to  be  ambition,  not 
charity.  (Of  charitable  bequests.) 

ERASMUS. — Conviviutn  Religiosum. 

Die  and  endow  a  college,  or  a  cat. 

POPE. — Ep.,  3. 

The  man  who  has  not  made  his  will  at 
forty  is  worse  than  a  fool — almost  a 
knave.  J.  WILSON. — Nodes. 

BEREAVEMENT 

Dreams  dawn  and  fly,  friends  smile  and 

die 

Like  spring  flowers  ; 
Our  vaunted  life  is  one  long  funeral. 

M.  ARNOLD. — A  Question. 

Something   is   broken   which   we   cannot 

mend. 
God  has  done  more  than  take  away  a 

friend 

In  taking  you  ;  for  all  that  we  have  left 
Is  bruised   and  irremediably  bereft.  .  . 
Here  is  no  waste, 
No  burning  might-have-been, 
No  bitter  after-taste, 
None  to  censure,  none  to  screen, 
Nothing   awry,   nor   anything   misspent ; 
Only  content,  content  beyond  content, 
Which  hath  not  any  room  for  betterment. 
M.  BARING. — On  the  death  of  Lord 
Lucas,  R.F.C. 

Fled,  like  the  sun  eclipsed  at  noon  appears, 

And  left  us  darkling  in  a  world  of  tears. 

BURNS. — yd  Epistle  to  R.  Graham. 

Hark  !  to  the  hurried  question  of  Despair, 
"  Where  is  my  child  ?  " — an  echo  answers 

"  Where  ?  " 

BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  2,  st.  27. 

Could  not  the  grave  forget  thee,  and  lay 

low 
Some  less  majestic,  less  beloved  head  ? 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  st.  168. 

Thee  to  deplore  were  grief  misspent  indeed ; 
It  were  to  weep  that  goodness  has  its 

meed. 
That  there  is  bliss  prepared  in   yonder 

sky, 

And  glory  for  the  virtuous  when  they  die. 
COWPER. — In  Memory  of  J.  Thornton. 


BEREAVEMENT 


BEREAVEMENT 


Oh,  that  those  lips  had  language.      Life 

has  passed 
With  me  but  roughly  since  I  heard  thee 

last. 
COWPER. — On  his  mother's  picture. 

The  Leaves  of  Life  keep  falling  one  by 

one.       FITZGERALD. — Rubaiyat,  st.  8. 

(Not  in  ist  Ed.) 

Our  light  is  flown, 
Our  beautiful,  that  seemed  too  much  our 

own 
Ever  to  die  ! 

MRS.  HEMANS. — The  Two  Voices. 

'Tis  sweet,  as  year  by  year  we  lose 
Friends  out  of  sight,  in  faith  to  muse 
How  grows  in  Paradise  our  store. 

KEBLE. — Burial. 

Then  fell  upon  the  house  a  sudden  gloom, 
A  shadow  on  those  features  fair  and  thin, 
And  softly,  from  that  hushed  and  dark- 
ened room, 

Two  angels  issued  where  but  one  went  in. 
LONGFELLOW. — Death  of  Maria  Lovell. 

Oh,  not  in  cruelty,  not  in  wrath, 
The  Reaper  came  that  day ; 

'Twas  an  angel  visited  the  green  earth, 
And  took  the  flowers  away. 

LONGFELLOW. — The  Reaper. 

The  air  is  full  of  farewells  to  the  dying, 
And  mournings  for  the  dead. 

LONGFELLOW. — Resignation. 

There  is  no  flock,  however  watched  and 

tended, 

But  one  dead  lamb  is  there  ! 
There  is  no  fireside,  howsoe'er  defended, 
But  has  one  vacant  chair. 

LONGFELLOW. — Ib. 

In  this  dim  world  of  clouding  cares, 
We  rarely  know,  till  'wildered  eyes 
See  white  wings  lessening  up  the  skies, 

The  angels  with  us  unawares. 

G.  MASSEY. — Babe  Christabel. 

Although  my  life  is  left  so  dim, 
The  morning  crowns  the  mountain  rim ; 
Joy  is  not  gone  from  summer  skies, 
Nor  innocence  from  children's  eyes, 
And  all  these  things  are  part  of  him. 

ALICE  MEYNELL. — Parted. 

Angels,  as  'tis  but  seldom  they  appear, 
So  neither  do  they  make  long  stay; 
They  do  but  visit,  and  away. 

JOHN  NORRIS. — To  the  Memory  of  my 
dear  Niece. 

Weep  not  for  friends  departed, 
But  shed  the  bitter  tear 

For  those  who,  broken-hearted, 
Are  doomed  to  linger  here. 

THOS.  OLIFHANT. — Imitated  from  the 
German  of  Franz  Schubert. 


Those  whom  he  loved  so  long,  and  sees 

no  more  ; 
Loved    and    still    loves — not    dead,  but 

gone  before.    ROGERS. — Human  Life. 

Weep  not,  O  friend,  we  should  not  weep  ; 

Our  friend  of  friends  lies  full  of  rest  ; 

No  sorrow  rankles  in  her  breast, 
Fallen  fast  asleep. 
She  sleeps  below, 

She  wakes  and  laughs  above ; 

To-day,  as  she  walked,  let  us  walk  in 

love  ; 
To-morrow,  follow  so. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — My  Friend. 

Grief  fills  the  room  up  of  my  vacant  child. 
Lies  in  his  bed,  walks  up  and  down  with 

me, 

Puts  on  his  pretty  looks,  repeats  his  words, 
Remembers  me  of  all  his  gracious  parts, 
Stuffs  out  his  vacant  garments  with  his 

form. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  3,  4. 

What,  all  my  pretty  chickens  and  their 

dam, 
At  one  fell  swoop  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4,  3. 

But  I  must  also  feel  it  as  a  man  : 

I  cannot  but  remember  such  things  were, 

That  were  most  precious  to  me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Oh  !  when  a  Mother  meets  on  high 
The  Babe  she  lost  in  infancy, 

Hath  she  not  then,  for  pains  and  fears, 
The  day  of  woe,  the  watchful  night, 

For  all  her  sorrow,  all  her  tears, 
An  overpayment  of  delight. 
SOUTHEY., — Curse  of  Kehama,  PI.  10,  n. 

Birds  sing  on  a  bare  bough  ; 
O  believer,  canst  not  thou  ? 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

The  thorns  he  spares  when  the  rose  is 

taken  ; 
The  rocks  are  left  when  he  wastes  the 

plain  ; 

The  wind  that  wanders,  the  weeds  wind- 
shaken, 
These  remain. 

SWINBURNE. — Forsaken  Garden. 

Farewell :  how  should  not  such  as  thou 

fare  well, 
Though  we  fare  ill  that  love  thce,  and 

that  live, 
And  know,  whate'er  the  days  wherein  we 

dwell 

May  give  us,  thee  again  they  will  not 
give. 

SWINBURNE. — In  Memory  of 
J.  W.  Inchbold. 

As  often  as  a  man  loses  his  own  relatives 
so  often  he  dies.  PUBLILIUS    SYRUS. 


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BETRAYAL 


BIBLE 


I  am  in  sonic  little  disorder  by  reason 
of  the  death  of  a  little  child  of  mine,  a 
boy  that  lately  made  us  very  glad :  but 
now  he  rejoices  in  his  little  robe,  while  we 
think,  and  sigh,  and  long  to  be  as  safe  as 
he  is.  JEREMY  TAYLOR. — Letter  to  John 

Evelyn. 

As  those  we  love  decay,  we  die  in  part, 
String   after   string   is  severed  from   the 
heart. 

THOMSON. — Death  of  Mr.  Aikman. 

How   fast   has  brother   followed   brother 
From  sunshine  to  the  sunless  land  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — On  the  death  of  James 

Hogg. 

But  she  is  in  her  grave,  and  oh, 
The  difference  to  me  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — She  dwelt  among  the 
untrodden  ways. 

BETRAYAL 

Just  for  a  handful  of  silver  he  left  us, 
Just  for  a  riband  to  stick  in  his  coat. 
BROWNING. — The  Lost  Leader. 

We  never  are  but  by  ourselves  betrayed. 
CONGREVE. — Old  Bachelor,  Act  3,  i. 

When  lovely  woman  stoops  to  folly, 
And  finds,  too  late,  that  men  betray, 

What  charm  can  soothe  her  melancholy, 
What  art  can  wash  her  guilt  away  ? 
GOLDSMITH. — On  Woman. 

When  a  man  talks  of  love,  with  caution 

hear  him  ; 
But  if  he  swears,  he'll  certainly  deceive 

thee.  T.  OTWAY. — Orphan. 

Call  you  that  backing  of  your  friends  ? 
A  plague  upon  such  backing  !  Give  me 
them  that  will  face  me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Act  2,  4. 

He  who  betrays  his  friend  shall  never  be 

Under  one  roof,  or  in  one  ship,  with  me. 

SWIFT. — Horace,  Odes,  3,  2. 

Authority  forgets  a  dying  king. 
TENNYSON. — Passing  of  Arthur,  I.  289. 

BIBLE 

If  most  of  Genesis  be  hopeless  fiction, 
Yet  hath  that  fiction  more  poetic  worth, 

(This  one  may  say,  defying  contradiction), 

Than  any  scientific  "  truth  "  on  earth. 

G.  BARLOW. — Poetry  and  Science,  31. 

Holy  Bible,  book  divine, 
Precious  treasure,  thou  art  mine. 

JOHN  BARTON,  SEN.  (b.  1773). 

The  sire  turns  o'er,  wi'  patriarchal  grace, 

The  big  ha'  Bible,  ance  his  father's  pride. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 


Perverts  the  Prophets  and  purloins  the 
Psalms.  BYRON. — English  Bards. 

His  studie  was  but  litel  on  the  Bible. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

The  sacred  book  no  longer  suffers  wrong, 

Bound  in  the  fetters  of  an  unknown 
tongue, 

But  speaks  with  plainness  art  could  never 
mend, 

That  simplest  minds  can  soonest  com- 
prehend. COWPER. — Hope,  450. 

And  of  all  arts  sagacious  dupes  invent, 
To  cheat  themselves  and  gain  the  world's 

assent, 
The  worst  is — Scripture  warped  from  its 

intent.     COWPER. — Progress  of  Error. 

Just    knows,    and    knows   no   more,    her 

Bible  true, 
A   truth   the   brilliant   Frenchman   never 

knew.  COWPER. — Truth,  328. 

What  none  can  prove  a  forgery  may  be 

true  ; 
What  none  but  bad  men  wish  exploded, 

must. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk,  617. 

You  rule  the  Scripture,  not  the  Scripture 

you. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther,  Pt.  2,187 

He  that  has  lost  his  God  can  find  Him 
again  in  this  book,  and  towards  the  man 
who  has  never  known  Him  it  wafts  the 
breath  of  the  divine  word. 

HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy,  Pref. 

(1852). 

Bibles  laid  open,  millions  of  surprises. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

The  book  of  books,  the  storehouse  and 
magazine  of  life  and  comfort,  the  Holy 
Scriptures. 

HERBERT. — Priest  to  the  Temple,  c.  4 

It  is  not  the  bare  words  but  the  scope  of 
the  writer  that  giveth  the  true  light  by 
which  any  writing  is  to  be  interpreted  ; 
and  they  that  insist  upon  single  texts, 
without  considering  the  main  design, 
can  derive  nothing  from  them  clearly  ; 
but  rather  by  casting  atoms  of  Scripture, 
as  dust  before  men's  eyes,  make  every- 
thing more  obscure  than  it  is. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  43 

On  Bible  stilts  I  don't  affect  to  stalk, 
Nor  lard  with  Scripture  my  familiar  talk. 
HOOD. — Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

If  I  am  not  mistaken,  nearly  half  the 
sacred  volume  was  written  in  metre. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  40 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 


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BIGOTRY 


BIRDS 


There  is  a  book,  who  runs  may  read, 
Which  heavenly  truth  imparts, 

And  all  the  lore  its  scholars  need, 
Pure  eyes  and  Christian  hearts. 

KEBLE. — Septuagesima. 

A  man  of  confined  education,  but  of 
good  parts,  by  constant  reading  of  the 
Bible  will  naturally  form  a  more  winning 
and  commanding  rhetoric  than  those  that 
are  learned.  HENRY  MORE  (1614-1687). 

The  Scripture,  in  time  of  disputes,  is 
like  an  open  town  in  time  of  war,  which 
serves  indifferently  the  occasions  of  both 
parties.  Each  makes  use  of  it  for  the 
present  turn  and  then  resigns  it  to  the 
next  comer  to  do  the  same. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects 

This  bears  the  seed  of  immortality, 
For  every  soul  that  reads  it  feels  the 

search 
Of    answering    thought,    and    thousands 

there  may  be 

Saying   at    once,   "How   straight    that 
looks  at  me  !  " 
EDNA  D.  PROCTOR. — The  Living  Book. 

Within  that  awful  volume  lies 
The  mystery  of  mysteries. 

And  better  had  they  ne'er  been  born, 
Who  read  to  doubt  or  read  to  scorn. 

SCOTT. — Monastery,  ch.  12. 

Scrutamini  Scripturas.  These  two  words 
have  undone  the  world. 

SELDEN. — Bible. 

The  devil  can  cite  scripture  for  his  purpose. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  i,  3. 

And  he  who  guides  the  plough,  or  wields 

the  crook, 

With  understanding  spirit  now  may  look 
Upon    her   records,   listen    to    her    song, 
And  sift  her  laws. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  29. 

Mighty  in  the  Scriptures. 

Acts  xviii,  24. 

BIGOTRY 

Bigotry  murders  Religion,  to  frighten 
fools  with  her  ghost. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

When  too  much  zeal  doth  fire  devotion, 
Love  is  not  love,  but  superstition. 

BISHOP  CORBET. — To  Lord  Mordant. 

Fanatic    fools,    that    in    those    twilight 

times, 
With  wild  religion  cloaked  the  worst  of 

crimes. 

J.  LANGHORNE. — Country  Justice. 


But  oh,  what  mighty  magic  can  assuage 
A  woman's  envy  and  a  bigot's  rage  ? 
LORD  LANSDOWNE. — Progress  of  Beauty, 

I.     101. 

The  worst  of  madmen  is  a  saint  run  mad. 
POPE. — Satires,  Ep.  6,  27. 

Singly  he  faced  the  bigot  brood, 

The  meanly  wise,  the  feebly  good  ; 

He  pelted  them  with  pearl,  with  mud  ; 

He  fought  them  well, — 
But  ah,  the  stupid  million  stood, 

And  he,— he  fell! 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Tomb  of  Burns. 

BILLIARDS 

A  man  who  wants  to  play  billiards  must 

have  no  other  ambition.     Billiards  is  all. 

E.  V.  LUCAS. — Character  and  Comedy. 

Half  the  time  often  lost  in  learning  to 

play  the  beautiful  but  pernicious  game  of 

billiards   would   be   sufficient    to   give    a 

youth  mastery  of  that  art  [of  drawing]. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,   12. 

To  play  billiards  well  is  the  sign  of  a 
mis-spent  youth. 

Saying  quoted  by  Herbert  Spencer 

BIOGRAPHERS 

Would  that  every  Johnson  in  the 
world  had  his  veridical  Boswell,  or  leash 
of  Boswells!  CARLYLE. — Voltaire. 

A  well-written  life  is  almost  as  rare  as 
a  well-spent  one.  CARLYLE. — Richter. 

The  talents  of  a  biographer  are  often 
fatal  to  his  reader. 
Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Castle  Rackrent,  Pref. 

There  is  properly  no  history,  only  bio- 
graphy. EMERSON. — History. 

After  my  death  I  wish  no  other  herald, 
No  other  speaker  of  my  living  actions, 
To  keep  mine   honour  from  corruption, 
Than     such     an     honest     chronicler     as 

Griffith. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

Reader,  pass  on,  nor  idly  waste  your  time, 
In  bad  biography  or  bitter  rhyme, 
For  what  I  am  this  cumbrous  clay  insures, 
And  what  I  was  is  no  affair  of  yours. 
Epitaph,   said   to  be  in  Peterborough 
Churchyard. 

BIRDS 

I  value  my  garden  more  for  being  full 
of  blackbirds  than  of  cherries,  and  very 
frankly  give  them  fruit  for  their  songs. 
ADDISON. — Spectator,  477. 


BIRDS 


BIRTHDAYS 


Proof  they  give,  too,  primal  powers, 
Of  a  prescience  more  than  ours, 
Teach  us,  while  they  come  and  go, 
When  to  sail  and  when  to  sow. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Poor  Matthias. 

He  who  shall  hurt  the  little  wren 
Shall  never  be  beloved  by  men. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

And  many  a  silly  thing 
That  hops  and  cheeps, 
And  perks  his  tiny  tail, 

And  sideways  peeps, 
And  flitters  little  wing, 
Seems  in  his  consequential  way 

To  tell  of  Spring. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE.— Ode  to  Spring. 

"  None  but  the  lark  so  shrill  and  clear  .' 
Now  at  Heaven's  gate  she  claps  her  wings, 
The  morn  not  waking  till  she  sings." 

JOHN  LYLY. — Alexander  and  Cam- 
paspe,  Act  i. 

A  bird  knows  nothing  of  gladness, 

Is  only  a  song-machine. 
G.  MACDONALD. — Book  of  Dreams,  Pt.  2,  2. 

Quaintest,  richest  carol  of  all  the  singing 

throats.     [The  blackbird.] 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Love  in  the  Valley,  st.  17. 

Gone  to  the  world  where  birds  are  blest  ! 
Where  never  cat  glides  o'er  the  green. 
ROGERS. — Epitaph  on  a  Robin. 

At  earliest  dawn  his  thrilling  pipe  was 

heard  ; 

And  when  the  light  of  evening  died  away, 
That  blithe  and  indefatigable  bird 
Still  his  redundant  song  of  joy  and  love 

preferred.     [The  thrush.] 
SOUTHEY. — Tale  of  Paraguay,  Dedication. 

The  sober-suited  songstress.   [The  night- 
ingale.] THOMSON. — Sitmtner,  746. 

The  bird  whom  man  loves  best, 
The  pious  bird  with  the  scarlet  breast, 
Our  little  English  robin. 

WORDSWORTH.— The  Redbreast. 

If  the  cock  moult  before  the  hen, 
We  shall  have  weather  thick  and  thin  ; 
But  if  the  hen  moult  before  the  cock, 
We  shall  have  weather  hard  as  a  block. 
North  England  saying. 

Robins  and  wrens 
Are  God  Almighty's  friends ; 
Martins  and  swallows 
Are  God  Almighty's  scholars. 
From   A.   S.   Cooke's   "Off  the  Beaten 
Track  in  Sussex  "  (1912). 

The  robin  redbreast  and  the  wren 
Are  God  Almighty's  cock  and  hen. 

Old  English  saying. 


Seagull,  seagull,  sit  on  the  sand  ; 
It's  never  good  weather  when  you're  on 
the  land.  Old  Scottish  rhyme. 

On  the  first  of  March,  the  crows  begin  to 

search  ; 

By  the  first  of  April,  they  are  sitting  still  ; 
By  the  first  of  May,  they're  a'  flown  away  ; 
Croupin'  greedy  back  again  in  October's 

wind  and  rain. 
Old  Scottish  rhyme  (Cheviot's  Collection). 

One  magpie's  joy ; 
Two's  grief ; 
Three's  a  marriage  ; 
Four's  death. 
Old  Scottish  saying  (Cheviot's  Collection). 

BIRTH 

For  the  child's  gone  that  never  came. 
W.  COMBE. — Syntax  in  Search  of 
Consolation. 

The    pleasing    punishment    that    women 

bear. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Comedy  of  Errors,  Act  i,  i. 

What  ailed  thee  then  to  be  born  ? 

SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 

Our  birth  is  but  a  sleep  and  a  forgetting  ; 
The  Soul  that  rises  with  us,  our  life's  Star, 
Hath  had  elsewhere  its  setting, 

And  cometh  from  afar  ; 
Not  in  entire  forgetfulness, 
And  not  in  utter  nakedness, 
But  trailing  clouds  of  glory  do  we  come 
From  God,  who  is  our  home. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of  Im- 
mortality, c.  5. 

BIRTH,  NOBLE 

Do,  as  your  great  progenitors  have  done, 

And,  by  their  virtues,  prove  yourself  their 

son.    DRYDEN.— Wife  of  Bath,  I.  398. 

In  some,  greatness  of  birth  is  apt  to 
produce  meanness  of  mind. 

GREGORY. — Dial. 

What   can    ennoble   sots,    or   slaves,    or 

cowards  ? 

Alas  !  not  all  the  blood  of  all  the  Howards. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,   315. 

Nothing  like  blood,  sir,  in  hosses 
dawgs,  and  men.  [James  Crawley.] 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  c.  35. 

The  first  king  was  a  fortunate  soldier. 
He  who  serves  his  country  well  has  no 
need  of  ancestors. 

VOLTAIRE.— Mtrope. 
BIRTHDAYS 

Born  of  a  Monday,  fair  in  face ; 

Born  of  a  Tuesday,  full  of  God's  grace  • 

Born  of  a  Wednesday,  merry  and   glad  • 


BIRTHPLACE 


BLASPHEMY 


Born  of  a  Thursday,  sour  and  sad  ; 
Born  of  a  Friday,  godly  given  ; 
Born  of  a  Saturday,  work  for  your  living ; 
Born  of  a  Sunday,  ne'er  shall  we  want, 
So  there  ends  the  week  and  there's  an 
end  on  "t. 

BRAND'S  Popular  Antiquities. 

Monday's  child  is  fair  in  face, 
Tuesday's  child  is  full  of  grace, 
Wednesday's  child  is  full  of  woe, 
Thursday's  child  has  far  to  go, 
Friday's  child  is  loving  and  giving, 
Saturday's  child  works  for  its  living ; 
And  a  child  that's  born  on  Christinas  day, 
Is  fair  and  wise,  and  good  and  gay. 

Old  Rhyme  (Halliwell). 

BIRTHPLACE 

And  for  their  birthplace  moan,  as  moans 
the  ocean-shell. 
MRS.  HEMANS. — Forest  Sanctuary,  st.  4. 

Seven  cities  warred  for  Homer  being  dead, 

Who  living  had  no  roof  to  shroud  his  head. 

THOS.  HEYWOOD. — Hierarchic. 

Every  man  has  a  lurking  wish  to  appear 
considerable  in  his  native  place. 

JOHNSON. — Letter,  1770. 

There  may  be  fairer  spots  of  earth, 
But  all  their  glories  are  not  worth 
The  virtue  of  the  native  sod. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — An  Invitation. 

The  first  requisite  to  happiness  is  that 
a  man  be  born  in  a  famous  city. 
"  Euripides  or  some  other,"  according  to 

Plutarch. 

It  matters  less  to  a  man  where  he  is 
born  than  how  he  can  live. 

Turkish  prov. 

BIRTH-RATE 

Every  minute  dies  a  man 

And  one  and  one-sixteenth  is  born. 
Parody  (by  BABBAGE,  the  mathematician) 
of  Tennyson's  "Every  moment  dies  a  man." 

BIRTHRIGHT 

His  birthright  sold,  some  pottage  so  to 

gain.  EARL  OF  STIRLING. — 

Doomsday,  6th  Hour,  39. 

BISHOPS 

In  the  days  of  gold, 
The  days  of  old, 
Crozier  of  wood, 
And  bishop  of  gold  ! 
Now  we  have  changed 
That  law  so  good 
To  crozier  of  gold 
And  bishop  of  wood. 
LONGFELLOW. — Golden  Legend,  4  (Friar 
Paul's  song). 


Come  then,  my  brethren,  and  be  glad, 

And  eke  rejoice  with  me  ; 
Lawn  sleeves  and  rochets  shall  go  down, 

And  hey  !  then  up  go  we  ! 

F.  QUARLES. — Shepherd's  Oracles. 

Now   hear    an    allusion : — A   mitre,    you 

know, 

Is  divided  above  but  united  below. 
If  this  you  consider,  our  emblem  is  right  ; 
The  bishops  divide,  but  the  clergy  unite. 

SWIFT. — On  the  Irish  Bishops,  1731. 

A  bishop  then  must  be  blameless. 

I  Timothy  iii,  2. 

WeePs  him  and  wae's  him,  that  has  a 
bishop  in  his  kin.  Scottish  prov. 

BITTERNESS 

Much  I  muse, 

How  bitter  can  spring  up  where  sweet  is 
sown. 
DANTE. — Paradise,  c.  8  (Gary's  tr.). 

His  acrid  words 

Turn  the  sweet  milk  of  kindness  into  curds. 
O.  W.  HOLMES.— The  Moral  Bully. 

And  taunts  he  casten  forth  most  bitterly. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  2,  st.  80. 

But  hushed  be  every  thought  that  springs 
From  out  the  bitterness  of  things. 

WORDSWORTH. — Elegiac  Stanzas,  1824. 

The  iron  entered  into  his  soul. 

Church  Psalter,  cv,  18. 

BLACKBALLING 

A  custom  was  of  old  and  still  remains, 
Which  life  or  death  by  suffrages  ordains  : 
White  stones  and  black  within  an  urn  are 

cast ; 
The  first  absolve,  but  fate  is  in  the  last. 

DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid  Metam.,  Bk.  15. 

BLARNEY  STONE 

The  stone  this  is, 
Whoever  kisses, 
He  never  misses 

To  grow  eloquent. 
'Tis  he  may  clamber 
To  my  lady's  chamber, 
Or  be  a  member 

Of  Parliament. 

ANON. — Quoted  in  Lockhart's  Life  of  Scott, 

ch.  63 

BLASPHEMY 

That  they  may  be  considered  wise  they 
rail  at  heaven. 

PH.EDRUS. — Fables,  Bk.  4. 

To  blaspheme  the  gods  is  a  hateful  form 
of  cleverness.         PINDAR. — Pythian  Odes, 

c.  9,  40. 


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BLESSING 


BLESSING 

A  double  blessing  is  a  double  grace. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

BLINDNESS 

Blinder 

Than  a  trebly-bandaged  mole. 
C.  S.  CALVERLEY. — On  hearing  the  Organ. 

Dear  to  the  Muse  was  he, 
Who  yet  appointed  him  both  good  and  ill ; 
Took  from  him  sight,  but  gave  him  strains 

divine. 
HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  8,  62  (Cowper  tr.). 

A  blind  man  is  a  poor  man,  and  blind  a 

poor  man  is  ; 
For  the  former  seeth  no  man,  and  the 

latter  no  man  sees. 
LONGFELLOW. — From  Friedrich  von  Logan. 

Seasons  return,  but  not  to  me  returns 
Day  or  the  sweet  approach  of  even  or 

morn, 

Or  sight  of  vernal  bloom,  or  summer's  rose, 

Or  flocks,  or  herds,  or  human  face  divine. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  41. 

From  the  cheerful  ways  of  men 
Cut  off,  and  for  the  book  of  knowledge  fair 
Presented  with  an  universal  blank 
Of  Nature's  works,  to  me  expunged  and 

razed, 
And  wisdom  at  one  entrance  quite  shut 

out.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  3,  46. 

To  live  a  life  half  dead,  a  living  death. 
MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  100. 

He  that  is  strucken  blind,  cannot  forget 
The  precious  treasure  of  his  eyesight  lost. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  i,  i. 

A  picture  gallery  is  a  dull  place  for  a 
blind  man. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Being  too  blind  to  have  desire  to  see. 
TENNYSON. — Holy  Grail,  I.  868. 

BLOCKADE 

The  British  blockade  won  the  war ; 
but  the  wonder  is  that  the  British  block- 
head did  not  lose  it. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— O'Flaherty,  V.C.,  Pref. 
(1919)- 

Our  stern  foe 
Had  made  a  league  with  Famine. 

SOUTHEY.— Joan  of  Arc,  Bk.  2. 

BLOODTHIRST1NESS 

I  love  a  dire  revenge : 
Give  me  the  man  that  will  all  others  kill, 

And  last  himself. 

BEAUMONT  and  FLETCHER. — Little  French 
Lawyer,  Act  4,  i. 


BLUSHES 

His  word  was  still — Fie,  fob  and  fum, 
I  smell  the  blood  of  a  British  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  4. 

Brutes  never  meet  in  bloody  fray, 
Nor  cut  each  other's  throats  for  pay. 
SWIFT. — Logicians  Refuted. 

And  he  that  was  of  mildest  mood 
Did  slaye  the  other  there. 
Children  in  the  Wood  (Old  Ballad). 

BLOWS 

Another's  sword  has  laid  him  low, 
Another's  and  another's, 
And  every  hand  that  dealt  the  blow — 
Ah  me  !    it  was  a  brother's. 

CAMPBELL. — O'Connor's  Child,  10. 

Gregory,  remember  thy  swashing  blow. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  i,  i. 

BLUNDERS 

Your  blunderer  is  as  sturdy  as  a  rock. 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  538. 

It  was  worse  than  a  crime  ;  it  was  a 
blunder.  FOUCHE  (1763-1820). 

It  is  not  allowable  to  make  a  mistake 
twice  in  war. 

PLUTARCH  (A  maxim  attributed  to  Lama- 
chus,  Athenian  general). 

You  have  made  this  hash  ;  it  is  for  you 
to  swallow  it  all.  TERENCE. — Phormio. 

Against  a  foe  I  can  myself  defend, 
But  Heaven  protect  me  from  a  blunder- 
ing friend. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Sales  Attici. 

It  is  disgraceful  to  stumble  twice  against 
the  same  stone.  Greek  prov. 

BLUNTNESS 

He   would   not   flatter   Neptune   for   his 

trident, 
Or  Jove  for's  power  to  thunder. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  3,  i. 

This  rudeness  is  a  sauce  to  his  good  wit, 
Which  gives  men  stomach  to  digest  his 

words 

With  better  appetite. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Cezsar,  Act  i,  2. 

He  cannot  flatter,  he — 
An  honest  mind  and  plain — he  must  speak 

truth  ! 

An  they  will  take  it,  so  ;  if  not,  he's  plain. 
These  kind  of  knaves  I  know. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  2,  2. 

BLUSHES 

The  question  [with  Mr.  Podsnap]  about 
everything  was,  would  it  bring  a  blush 
into  the  cheek  of  the  young  person  ? 

DICKENS. — Our  Mutual  Friend. 


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BLUSTER 


BONDAGE 


With  a  smile  that  glowed 
Celestial  rosy  red,  love's  proper  hue. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  618. 

The  man  that  blushes  is  not  quite  a 
brute.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts. 

BLUSTER 

A  noisy  man  is  always  in  the  right. 
COWPER. — Conversation. 

A   foutra   for   the   world   and   worldlings 

base  ! 
I  speak  of  Africa  and  golden  joys. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Act  5,  3. 

From  my  heart-string 
I  love  the  lovely  bully. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V .,  Act  4,  i. 

He  speaks  plain  cannon — fire  and  smoke 

and  bounce. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  2,  2. 

BOASTING 

Man  often  indulges  too  much  in  vain- 
glory about  his  contempt  of  vainglory. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. 

Quoth  she,  I  told  thee  what  would  come 
Of  all  thy  vapouring,  base  scum. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

For  bragging-time  was  over,  and  fight- 
ing time  was  come. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Hawke. 

Ah,  this  thou  should'st  have  done, 
And  not  have  spoke  on't ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  2,   7. 

Let  not  him  that  girdeth  on  his  armour 
boast  himself  as  he  that  putteth  it  off. 

i  Kings  xx,  ii  (Revised  Version}. 

Brag's  a  good  dog,  but  he  hath  lost  his 
tail.  Prov. 

Brag's  a  good  dog,  but   Holdfast  is  a 
better.  Prov 

BOATING 

Drifting  down  on  the  dear  old  river, 
O,  the  music  that  interweaves  ! 

The  ripples  run  and  the  sedges  shiver  : 
O,  the  song  of  the  lazy  leaves  ! 
J.  ASHBY-STERRY. — Drifting  Down. 

And  all  the  way  to  guide  their  chime 
With  falling  oars  they  kept  the  time. 

A.    MARVELL. — Bermudas. 

BOGIES 

I'm  ole  man  Spewter-Splutter  wid  long 

claws,     en    scales     on     my     back  !     I'm 

snaggle-toofed  en  double-j'inted  !     Gimme 

room  !     J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 

Remus,  ch.  22. 


Why  does  the  nurse  tell  the  child  of 
Rawhead  and  Bloody-bones  ?  To  keep 
it  in  awe.  SELDEN. — Priests  of  Rome. 

BOLDNESS 

In  civil  business,  what  first  ? — Boldness. 
What  second  and  third  ? — Boldness. 
And  yet  boldness  is  a  child  of  ignorance 
and  baseness.  BACON. — Of  Boldness,  12. 

What  action  is  to  the  orator,  that 
boldness  is  to  the  public  man — first, 
second,  and  third. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i.  Bk.  6,  33. 

Boldness  be  my  friend  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  i,  7. 

Virtue  is  bold  and  goodness  never 
fearful. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  3,  i. 

But  flies  an  eagle  flight,  bold,  and  forth  on, 
Leaving  no  track  behind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  i,  i. 

Be   bolde,  Be    bolde,    and    everywhere,  Be 
bolde. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  c.  11,  st.  54. 

Be  not  too  bolde. 

SPENSER. — Ib 

BOMBAST 

With    ravished    ears 
The    monarch    hears, 
Assumes   the   god, 
Affects  to  nod, 

And  seems  to  shake  the  spheres. 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.    2. 

Bombast  and  words  a  foot-and-a-half  long. 
HORACE. — De  Arte  Poetica. 

Be  exceeding  proud.  Stand  upon  your 
gentility,  and  scorn  every  man.  Speak 
nothing  humbly. 

BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man  in  his  Humour, 

Acts. 

And    thou   Dalhousic,  the   great   God   of 

War, 

I  ieutenant-Colonel  to  the  Earl  of  Mar. 
POPE. — Art  of  Sinking,  ch.  9. 

I  will  do  it  in  King  Cambyses'  vein. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  2,  4. 

This  is  Ercles'  vein. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  i,  2. 

BONDAGE 

So  free  we  seem,  so  fettered  fast  we  are 
BROWNING. — Andrea  del  Sirto 


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A  fool  I  do  him  firmely  hold 
That  loves  his  fetters,  though  they  were 
of   gold. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  3,  c.  g. 

BOOK  INSCRIPTIONS 

This  book  is  one  thing, 

And  hemp  is  another  ; 

Steal   not   the   one 

For  fear  of   the  other ; 

For  if  you  steal  this  book, 

It  is  very  true 

A    harder    thing   hereafter 

Will  ensue  to  you.      MS.  (c.  1693)- 

This  book,  a  child  of  Adam's  race, 
Among    my    human    friends    I    place, 
Whereof  this  label  on  his  face 

The  token  and  the  pledge  is. 
Then,   gentle  reader,   of  your  grace, 
Preserve  my  friend  from  usage  base, 
Have  pity  on   his  helpless  case, 

And  reverence  his  edges.          ANON. 

Small  is  the  wren  ; 

Black  is  the  rook  ; 
Blacker  the  sinner 

Who  steals  this  book. 

Traditional  Rhyme. 

Steal   not   this  book   for  fear  of  shame, 
For  in  it  is  the  owner's  name, 
And  when  you  die  the  Lord  will  say, 
Where  is  that  book  you  stole  away  ? 

Old  Schoolbook  Inscription. 

BOOK  LEARNING 

And  let  a  scholar  all  Earth's  volumes  carry, 
He  will  be  but  a  walking  dictionary. 

CHAPMAN. — Tears  of  Peace. 

He  that  takes  up  conclusions  on  the 
trust  of  authors,  and  doth  not  fetch  them 
from  the  first  items  in  every  reckoning, 
which  are  the  significations  of  names 
settled  by  definitions,  loses  his  labour 
and  does  not  know  anything,  but  only 
believeth.  HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  5. 

Deep  versed  in  books  and  shallow  in 
himself. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  327. 

The  bookful  blockhead,  ignorantly  read, 

With  loads  of  learned  lumber  in  his  head. 

POPE. — Criticism,  I.  612. 

His  knowledge  of  books  had  in  some 
degree  diminished  his  knowledge  of  the 
world.  W.  SHENSTONE. — A  Character. 

Nature's  fair  table-book,  our  tender  souls, 
We  scrawl  all  o'er  with  old  and  empty 

rules, 

Stale  memorandums  of  the  schools  ; 
For  learning's  mighty  treasures  look 
Into  that  deep  grave,  a  book. 

SWIKT.— To  Sir  W.  Temple. 


BOOKS 

A  man  of  one  book  (i.e.  a.  learned  man). 
THOS.  AQUINAS. 

Libraries  .  .  .  are  as  the  shrines  where 
all  the  relics  of  the  ancient  saints,  full 
of  true  virtue,  and  that  without  delusion 
or  imposture,  are  preserved  and  reposed. 
BACON. — Advancement  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Books  will  speak  plain  when  counsellors 
blanch.  BACON. — Of  Counsel,  20. 

Some  books  are  to  be  tasted,  others  to 
be  swallowed,  and  some  few  to  be  chewed 
and  digested.  BACON. — Of  Studies,  50. 

Histories  make  men  wise  ;  poets,  witty  ; 
the  mathematics,  subtile  ;  natural  philo- 
sophy, deep ;  moral,  grave ;  logic  and 
rhetoric,  able  to  contend.  BACON. — Ib. 

Books  are  the  shrine  where  the  saint 
is,  or  is  believed  to  be. 

BACON. — To  Sir  T.  Bodley. 

A  borrowed  book  is  but  a  cheap  pleasure, 
an  unappreciated  and  unsatisfactory 
tool.  To  know  the  true  value  of  books 
.  .  .  you  must  first  feel  the  sweet  delight 
of  buying  them.  J.  M.  BALDWIN. 

Read    bookes,    hate    Ignorance,    the    foe 

to  Art, 

The   dam   of   Error,    Envy   of   the  hart. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Affectionate 

Shepheard  (1594). 

A  home  without  books  is  like  a  house 
without  windows;  no  man  has  the  right 
to  bring  up  children  without  books  to 
surround  them.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Books  are  men  of  higher  stature. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Lady  Geraldine's 
Courtship. 

Some  said,  John,   print   it ;   others   said, 

Not  so ; 
Some  said,  It  might  do  good  ;  others 

said  No. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  z. 

You  only,  O  books,  are  liberal  and  inde- 
pendent. You  give  to  all  who  ask,  and 
enfranchise  all  who  serve  you  assiduously. 

RICHARD  DE  BURY,  BISHOP  OF  DURHAM 
(1281-1345) . — Ph  Hob  iblon. 

Affects  all  books  of  past  and  modern  ages, 

But  reads  no  further  than  their  title  pages. 

S.  BUTLER. — Human  Learning. 

'Tis  pleasant  sure  to  see  one's  name  in 

print ; 

A  book's  a  book,  although  there's  nothing 
in  't.     BYRON. — English  Bards,  I.  51. 

A  big  book  is  a  big  evil. 

CALLIMACHUS  (Greek). 


BOOKS 


BOOKS 


For  him  was  lever  have  at  his  beddes  heed. 
Twenty  bokes,  clad  in  black  or  reed, 
Of  Aristotle  and  his  philosophye, 
Than  robes  riche,  or  fithele  or  gay  sautrye. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

In  books  a  prodigal,  they  say, 
A  living  cyclopedia. 
COTTON  MATHER. — On  Anne  Bradstrect. 

Come,  my   best   friends,   my  books,   and 
lead  me  on  !       COWLEY. — The  Motto. 

'Twere  well  with  most  if  books  that  could 

engage 
Their  childhood,  pleased  them  at  a  riper 

age.  COWPER. — Tirocinium,  147. 

Books    cannot    always    please,    however 

good  ; 

Minds  are  not  ever  craving  for  their  food. 
CRABBE. — The  Borough,  Letter  24. 

These  are  the  tombs  of  such  as  cannot 
die.  CRABBE. — Library. 

Books  should  to  one  of  these  four  ends 

conduce, 
For  wisdom,  piety,  delight,  or  use. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Prudence,  I.  83. 

Choose  an  author  as  you  choose  a  friend. 

W.  DILLON  (E.  of  Roscommon). — On 

Translated  Verse,  96. 

An  author  may  influence  the  fortunes 
of  the  world  to  as  great  an  extent  as  a 
statesman  or  a  warrior.  A  book  may  be 
as  great  a  thing  as  a  battle. 

DISRAELI. 

The  three  practical  rules,  then,  which  I 
have  to  offer,  are  :  i.  Never  read  any  book 
that  is  not  a  year  old.  2.  Never  read  any 
but  famed  books.  3.  Never  read  any 
but  what  you  like.  "EMERSON. — Books. 

There  must  be  a  man  behind  the  book. 
EMERSON. — Goethe. 

'Tis  the  good  reader  that  makes  the 
good  book.  EMERSON. — Success. 

The  princeps  copy,  bound  in  blue  and 
gold.  J.  FERRIAR. — Bibliomania. 

That    place    that    does    contain 
My  books,  the  best  companions,  is  to  me 
A  glorious  court,  where  hourly  I  converse 
With  the  old  sages  and  philosophers. 

FLETCHER    and    MASSINGER. — Elder 
Brother,  Act  i,  2. 

He  breaks  his  fast 

With  Aristotle,  dines  with  Tully,  takes 
His  watering  with  the  Muses,  sups  with 
Livy.      FLETCHER  and  MASSINGER. — Ib, 

Learning  hath   gained   most  by   those 

books  by  which  the  printers  have  lost. 

T.  FULLER. — Of  Books. 


Books  teach  us  very  little  of  the  world 
GOLDSMITH. — Letter,  1739. 

A  book  may  be  amusing  with  numerous 
errors,  or  it  may  be  very  dull  without  a 
single  absurdity. 
GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  Preface. 

The  scholar  only  knows  how  dear  these 
silent  yet  eloquent  companions  of  pure 
thoughts  and  innocent  hours  become 
in  the  season  of  adversity.  When  all 
that  is  worldly  turns  to  dross  around  us, 
these  only  retain  their  steady  value. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

Was  there  ever  yet  anything  written 
long  that  was  wished  longer  by  its  readers  ? 
— except  Don  Quixote,  Robinson  Crusoe, 
and  the  Pilgrim's  Progress. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzl. 

Books  without  the  knowledge  of  life 
are  useless,  for  what  should  books  teach 
but  the  art  of  living  ? 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

As  in  feeling  a  pulse  it  is  not  always 
easy  for  a  doctor  to  detect  whether  the 
beating  comes  from  himself  or  from  his 
patient,  so  the  case  is  exactly  the  same 
in  the  close  union  and  mingling  of  the 
minds  of  author  and  reader. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  31 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

Books  which  are  no  books  .  .  .  things 
in  books'  clothing.  LAMB. — On  Books. 

I  love  to  lose  myself  in  other  men's 
minds.  LAMB. — Ib. 

I  mean  your  borrowers  of  books — those 
mutilators  of  collections,  spoilers  of  the 
symmetry  of  shelves,  and  creators  of 
odd  volumes.  LAMB. — Two  Races. 

One  gift  the  Fairies  gave  me  . . . 
The  love  of  Books,  the  Golden  Key 
That  opens  the  Enchanted  Door. 

ANDREW  LANG. — Ballads  of  the 
Bookworm . 

What  are  my  books  ?     My  friends,  my 

loves, 
My    church,    my    tavern,    and    my    only 

wealth. 

R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — My  Books. 

A  reading-machine,  always  wound  up  and 

going, 
He  mastered  whatever  was  not  worth  the 

knowing. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Fable  for  Critics. 

When  the  dim  presence  of  the  awful  night 
Clasps  in  its  jewelled  arms  the  slumber- 
ing earth, 
Alone  I  sit  beside  the  lowly  light, 


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BOOKS 


BOOKS 


That  like  a  dream-fire  flickers  on  my 

hearth, 
With    some    joy-teeming   volume  in   my 

hand — • 

A  peopled  planet,  opulent  and  grand. 
JAMES  MACFARLAN. — The  Book  World 

(1859). 

A  good  book  is  the  precious  life-blood 
of  a  master-spirit,  imbalmed  and  treasured 
up  on  purpose  to  a  Life  beyond  Life. 

Mi  LTON. — A  reopagitica . 

As  good  almost  kill  a  Man  as  kill  a 
good  Book.  Who  kills  a  Man  kills  a 
reasonable  creature,  God's  image ;  but 
he  who  destroys  a  good  Book,  kills  reason 
itself,  kills  the  image  of  God,  as  it  were, 
in  the  die.  MILTON. — Ib. 

Every  abridgment  of  a  book  is  a  stupid 
abridgment.  MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  3. 

The  best  books  are  those  which  every 
reader  feels  that  he  could  have  written  ; 
the  natural,  which  alone  is  good,  is  entirely 
familiar  and  common. 

PASCAL. — Pensees. 

I  have  for  my  friends  books,  friends 
extremely  agreeable,  of  all  ages,  of  every 
land  ;  of  easy  access,  for  they  are  always 
at  my  service  ;  I  admit  them  to  my  com- 
pany, and  dismiss  them  from  it,  whenever 
I  please.  They  are  never  troublesome, 
but  immediately  answer  every  question 
I  ask  them.  PETRARCH. 

A  book  is  a  friend  that  never  betrays 

US.  GUILBERT    DE    PlXER^COURT. 

He  [Pliny  the  Elder]  read  no  books 
without  making  extracts  ;  and  he  used  to 
say  there  was  no  book  so  bad  but  that 
profit  might  be  derived  from  some  part 
of  it.  PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. — Ep. 

Timotheus  said  that  they  who  dine 
with  Plato  never  complain  the  next 
morning.  PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

While  I  pondered,  weak  and  weary, 
Over  many  a  quaint  and  curious  volume 
of  forgotten  lore. 

E.  A.  POE. — Raven,  st.  i. 

For  some  in  ancient  books  delight ; 
Others  prefer  what  moderns  write  ; 
Now  1  should  be  extremely  loth 
Not  to  be  thought  expert  in  both. 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  i,  519. 

Holds  secret  converse  with  the  Mighty 
Dead.  ROGERS. — Human  Life. 

The    Frenchman   reads   much,   but   he 

only  reads  new  books,  or  rather  he  runs 

through  them,  less  for  the  sake  of  reading 

them  than  to  say  that  he  has  read  them. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 


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How  learned  many  a  man  would  be  if 
he  knew  all  that  is  in  his  own  books ! 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

It  would  be  a  good  thing  to  buy  books 

if  we  could  also  buy  the  time  to  read  them. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Reading. 

Waverley  drove  through  the  sea  of 
books,  like  a  vessel  without  a  pilot  or 
a  rudder.  SCOTT. — Waverley,  ch.  36. 

A  crowd  of  books  distracts  the  mind. 
SENECA. — Ep.  2. 

Leisure  without  books  is  death,  and  the 
burial  of  a  man  alive.  SENECA. — Ep.  82. 

As  painfully  to  pore  upon  a  book, 

To  seek  the  light  of  truth  ;  while  truth 

the  while 

Doth  falsely  blind  the  eyesight  of  his  look  : 
Light,  seeking  light,  doth  light  of  light 
beguile. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 
My  library 
Was   dukedom   large    enough. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2. 

I  always  know  when  Lady  Slattern  has 
been  before  me.  She  has  a  most  observ- 
ing thumb.  SHERIDAN. — Rivals,  Act  i,  2. 

As  I  never  return  books,  I  make  a  rule 
never  to  borrow  them. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter,  Sept.  17,  1844. 

No  furniture  so  charming  as  books. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Sayings,  Vol.  i. 

My  days  among  the  dead  are  passed  ; 

Around  me  I  behold, 
Where'er  these  casual  eyes  are  cast, 

The  mighty  minds  of  old ; 
My  never-failing  friends  are  they, 
With  whom  I  converse  day  by  day. 

SOUTHEY. — Occas.  Pieces,  18. 

If  there  should  be  another  flood, 

For  refuge  hither  fly  ; 
Though  all  the  world  should  be  submerged, 
This  book  will  still  be  dry. 

Saying  quoted  or  invented  by 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. 

Books,  like  proverbs,  receive  their  chief 

value    from    the    stamp    and    esteem    of 

ages  through  which  they  have  passed. 

SIR  W.  TEMPLE. — Ancient  and  Modern 

Learning. 

But  every  page  having  an  ample  marge, 
And  every  marge  enclosing  in  the  midst 
A  square  of  text  that  looks  a  little  blot. 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  667. 


BOOKS 


BOREDOM 


There  studious  let  me  sit, 
And  hold  high  converse  with  the  Mighty 
Dead. 
THOMSON. — Seasons,   Winter,  431. 

Book  love,  my  friends,  is  your  pass  to 
the  greatest,  the  purest,  and  the  most 
perfect  pleasure  that  God  hath  prepared 
for  His  creatures.  A.  TROLLOPE. 

This  little  book  fed  me  in  a  very  hungry 
place.  MARK  TWAIN. — Tramp  Abroad. 

Is  a  book  bad  ?  Nothing  can  plead  for 
it.  Is  it  good  ?  All  the  kings  cannot 
crush  it.  They  suppress  it  at  Rome, 
and  in  London  they  admire  it ;  the  Pope 
proscribes  it,  and  all  Europe  wants  to 
read  it. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  King  of  Denmark. 

The  multitude  of  useless  books  is  so 
immense  that  the  life  of  a  man  would  not 
suffice  to  make  a  catalogue  of  them. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  M.  Marin,  July  5, 

1769. 

Books    should    be    treated    like    men- 
Choose    the    most    reasonable,    examine 
them,  arid  never  give  up  your  judgment 
except  to  evidence. 
VOLTAIRE. — L'Homme  aux  Quarante  Ecus. 

Books  govern  the  world,  or  at  any  rate 
all  nations  which  possess  the  faculty  of 
writing.  VOLTAIRE. — On  the  Old  Testament. 

Titles  of  books  are  like  those  of  men, 
in  the  eyes  of  a  philosopher.  He  judges 
nothing  by  titles. 

VOLTAIRE. — On  the  Witt  of  Cardinal 
Alberoni. 

It  is  necessary  to  be  on  one's  guard 
against  books,  even  more  than  judges 
are  against  advocates. 

VOLTAIRE. — Printed  Falsehoods. 

To   lend    a    byuck    is    to   lose    it — an' 

borrpwin's  but  a  hypocritical  excuse  for 

stealin'  and  should  be  punished  wi"  death. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  30  (The 

Ettrick  Shepherd) . 

Go  forth,  my  little  book  !  pursue  thy  way  ! 
Go  forth,  and  please  the  gentle  and  the 
good. 
WORDSWORTH. — Desultory  Stanzas. 

More  sweet  than  odours  caught  by  him 

who  sails 

Near  spicy  shores  of  Araby  the  blest, 
A  thousand  times  more  exquisitely  sweet, 
The  freight  of  holy  feeling  which  we  meet, 
In   thoughtful  moments,   wafted   by   the 

gales 
From   fields   where   good   men    walk,    or 

bowers  wherein  they  rest. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  39. 


If  in  this  book  Fancy  and  Truth  agree  ; 
If    simple    Nature,     trained    by    careful 

Art, 
Through  it  have  won  a  passage  to  thy 

heart, 

Grant  me  thy  love — I  claim  no  other  fee. 

WORDSWORTH. — Miscell.  Sonnets, 

Pt-  3,  39- 

Dreams,  books,  are  each  a   world  ;    and 

books,  we  know. 
Are  a  substantial  world,  both  pure  and 

good. 

WORDSWORTH. — Personal  Talk,  3. 

Of  making  many  books  there  is  no  end  ; 

and  much  study  is  a  weariness  of  the  flesh. 

Ecclesiastes  xii,  12. 

Behold,    my   desire   is  ...  that    mine 
adversary  had  written  a  book. 

Job  xxxi,  35. 

The  dead  are  the  best  advisers. 

Latin  saying. 

Woe  be  to  him  that  reads  but  one  book ! 
Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert)  from  the  Latin. 

Books  and  friends  should  be  few  and 
good.  Spanish  prov. 

0  !  for  a  booke  and  a  shadie  nooke, 
Eyther  indore  or  out ; 

With   the  grene  leaves  whispering  over- 

heade, 
Or  the  street  cryes  all  about. 

Quoted  by  Lord  Avebury  as  "  An  Old 
Song,"  but  probably  modern  and  said 
to  be  written  by  John  Wilson,  London 
bookseller  (d.  1889),  as  a  "  motto " 
for  his  second-hand  catalogue,  c.  1888. 

BOREDOM 

By   thy  long   grey  beard   and   glittering 

eye, 
Now  wherefore  stopp'st  thou  me  ? 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner. 

We  almost  always  get  bored  with  those 
whom  we  bore. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  634. 

People  always  get  tired  of  one  another. 

1  grow   tired  of  myself  whenever   I   am 
left  alone  for  ten  minutes,  and  I  am  certain 
that  I  am  fonder  of  myself  than  anyone 
can  be  of  another  person. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  4. 

In  order  not  to  displease  too  much,  one 
must  submit  to  be  frequently  bored. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire. 

The  secret  of  boring  is  the  practice  of 
saying  everything. 

VOLTAIRE. — Discourse  on  Man. 

Repose  is  a  good  thing,  but  boredom  is  its 
brother.  VOLTAIRE 


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BRIBERY 


BORROWERS   AND   LENDERS 

The  human  species,  according  to  the 
best  theory  I  can  form  of  it,  is  composed  of 
two  distinct  races,  the  men  who  borrow,  and 
the  men  who  lend.  LAMB. — Two  Races. 

Neither  a  borrower  nor  a  lender  be, 
For  loan  oft  loses  both  itself  and  friend, 
And  borrowing  dulls  the  edge  of  husbandry. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

Let  us  all  be  happy  and  live  within 
our  means,  even  if  we  have  to  borrer  the 
money  to  do  it  with. 

ARTEMUS  WARD  (C.  F.  BROWNE). — 
Natural  History. 

The  borrower  is  servant  to  the  lender. 
Proverbs  xxii,  7. 

BOUNDARIES 

Mountains  interposed, 
Make  enemies  of  nations,  who  had  else, 
Like   kindred    drops,    been   mingled    into 
one.      COWPER. — Time  Piece,  I.  17. 

BOYHOOD 

Not  when  the  sense  is  dim, 

But  now  from  the  heart  of  joy, 

I  would  remember  Him  : 
Take  the  thanks  of  a  boy. 

H.  C.  BEECHING. — Prayers. 

The  schoolboy  spot 

We   ne'er   forget,    though    there   we   are 
forgot.     BYRON. — Don  Juan,  i,  130. 

Few  boys  are  born  with  talents  that  excel, 
But  all  are  capable  of  living  well. 

COWPER. — Tirocinium,  509. 

I  only  know  two  sorts  of  boys  :  mealy 
boys  and  beef-faced  boys. 

DICKENS. — Oliver  Twist,  c.  14. 

The  microcosm  of  a  public  school. 

DISRAELI. — Vivian  Grey,  c.  2. 

Far  happier  is  thy  head  that  wears 
That  hat  without  a  crown. 

HOOD. — Clapham  Academy. 

O  dearest,  dearest  boy  !  my  heart 
For  better  lore  would  seldom  yearn, 
Could   I   but   teach   the  hundredth   part 
Of  what  from  thee  I  learn. 

WORDSWORTH. — Anecdote  for  Fathers. 

An  angelic  boyhood  becomes  a  Satanic 

old  age.     Latin  Mediaeval  prov.,  described 

by  Erasmus  as  "  invented  by  Satan." 

Forty  years  on,  growing  older  and  older 
Shorter  in  wind  as  in  memory  long, 

Feeble  of  foot  and  rheumatic  of  shoulder 
What  will  it  help  you  that  once  you 
were  young  ? 

Harrow  School  Song,  "  Forty  Years  On  " 


BRAGGADOCIO 

'Tis  easier  far  to  flourish  than  to  fight. 
DRY  DEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther. 

Gross    feeders,    lion-talkers,    lamb-like 
fighters.  DRYDEN. — Spanish  Friar,  Act4,2. 

BRAINS 

I  abhor  brains 

As  I  do  tools  :    they're  things  mechanical. 
J.  S.  KNOWLES. — Hunchback,  Act  3,  i. 

I  mix  them  with  my  brains,  sir. 
JOHN  OPIE. — Reply  to  question  "  With 
what  do  you  mix  your  colours  ?  " 

BREAD 

Man  doth  not  live  by  bread  only. 

Deuteronomy  viii,  3. 

BREAKFAST    ' 

And  then  to  breakfast,  with  what  appe- 
tite you  have. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

I  think  breakfasts  so  pleasant  because 
no  one  is  conceited  before  one  o'clock. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

When  a  man  'as  breakfast  every  day, 
he  don't  know  what  it  is. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON  (and  L.  OSBORNE). — 
Ebb-Tide,  ch.  2. 

BREEDING 

Good  breeding  is  the  blossom  of  good 
sense.  YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame. 

Meat  feeds,  claith  deeds  (clothes),  but 
breeding  maks  the  man.  Scottish  prov. 

BREVITY 

Would'st  thou  foil  the  censurer's  sneer 
Thy  copious  theme  in  narrowest  pale 
Confine  ;  nor  pall  the  impatient  ear 
That  throbs  for  fresh  delights,  and  loathes 

the  lengthening  tale. 
PINDAR. — Pythian  Odes,  9,  133  (Moore  tr.). 

The  Lacedemonian  wisdom  consisted 
of  brief  and  memorable  sayings  [uttered 
by  the  seven  Wise  Men]  .' .  .  This  was 
the  manner  of  philosophy  among  the 
ancients — a  certain  laconic  brevity  of 
speech.  PLATO. — Protagoras,  82. 

Brevity  is  the  soul  of  wit. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Not  that   the  story  need  be  long,  but 

it  will  take  a  long  while  to  make  it  short. 

H.  D.  THOREAU. — Letter  to  a  Friend. 

BRIBERY 

Moved  by  the  rhetoric  of  a  silver  fee. 
GAY. — Trivia,  Bk.  3,  318. 


BRIDES  AND  BRIDEGROOMS 


BRITAIN 


Turn  from  the  glittering  bribe  thy  scornful 

eye, 
Nor  sell  for  gold  what  gold  could  never 

buy.  JOHNSON. — London. 

Omnes  diligunt  munera.  They  all  love 
bribes.  Bribery  is  a  princely  kind  of 
thieving.  .  .  .  Nowadays  they  call  them 
gentle  rewards.  Let  them  leave  their 
colouring,  and  call  them  by  their  Christian 
name — bribes. 

BISHOP  LATIMER. — Sermon. 

Let  speculative  men  reason  or  rather 
refine  as  they  please,  it  will  ever  be  true 
among  us,  that  as  long  as  men  engage  in 
the  public  service  upon  private  ends  .  .  . 
it  will  be  safer  to  trust  our  property  and 
constitution  in  the  hands  of  such  who  have 
paid  for  their  election,  than  of  those  who 
have  obtained  them  by  servile  flatteries 
of  the  people. 

SWIFT.— Contests  and  Dissensions,  ch.  4. 

It  is  an  old  maxim  that  every  man  has 
his  price.  The  Bee  (i  733-4)  • 

A  hoarseness  caused  by  swallowing 
gold  and  silver. 

Plutarch  says  thai  this  was  said  of 
Demosthenes,  when  he  pretended  in- 
ability to  plead  owing  to  having  lost  his 


Yet  one  of  them,  more  hard  of  heart, 

Did  vowe  to  do  his  charge, 
Because  the  wretch,  that  hired  him, 
Had  paid  him  very  large. 

The  Children  in  the  Wood. 
Black-letter  ballad,  st.  12. 

BRIDES   AND   BRIDEGROOMS 

That   Adam,   called    "  the  happiest   of 
men."  BYRON.- — Don  Juan,  14,  55. 

The  bride  hath  paced  into  the  hall, 
Red  as  a  rose  is  she. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  i. 

Holy  and  pure  are  the  drops  that  fall 
When    the    young    bride    goes   from   her 

father's  hall ; 

She  goes  unto  love  yet  untried  and  new  ; 
She  parts  from  love  which  hath  still  been 

true. 

MRS.  HEMANS. — Bride  of  the  Greek  Isle. 

Blest  is  the  Bride  on   whom  the  sun 
doth  shine. 

HERRICK. — 284,  Nuptial  Song. 

Nothing  is  to  me  more  distasteful  than 

that  entire  complacency  and  satisfaction 

which  beam  in  the  faces  of  a  new-married 

couple — in  that  of  the  lady  particularly. 

LAMB. — A   Bachelor's  Complaint. 


And  doubtful  joys  the  father  move, 
And  tears  are  on  the  mother's  face, 
As,  parting  with  a  long  embrace, 

She  enters  other  realms  of  love. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  40. 

BRIDESMAIDS 

Bridesmaids  may  soon  be  made  brides. 
One  wedding  brings  on  another. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

A  happy  bridesmaid  makes  a  happy 
bride.  TENNYSON. — The  Bridesmaid. 

BRILLIANCY 

How  inferior  for  seeing  with  is  your 
brightest  train  of  fireworks  to  the  humblest 
farthing  candle.  CARLYLE. — Diderot. 

BRITAIN 

This  most  happy  and  glorious  event, 
that  this  Island  of  Britain,  divided  from 
all  the  world,  should  be  united  in  itself. 
BACON. — Advancement  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

There  are  no  countries  in  the  world  less 
known  by  the  British  than  these  self-same 
British  Islands.  G.  BORROW. — Lavengro. 

Be  Britain  still  to  Britain  true, 

Among  oursels  united  ; 
For  never  but  by  British  hands 

Maun  British  wrangs  be  righted! 
BURNS. — Dumfries   Volunteers. 

Britannia  needs  no  bulwarks, 
No  towers  along  the  steep, 

Her  march  is  on  the  mountain  waves, 
Her  home  is  on  the  deep. 

CAMPBELL. — Ye  Mariners. 

Oh  it's  a  snug  little  island, 
A  right  little,  tight  little  island  ! 
Search  the  globe  round,  none  can  be  found 
So  happy  as  this  little  island. 

THOS.  DIBDIN. — Snug  Little  Island. 

What  should  they  know  of  England 
Who  only  England  know  ? 

KIPLING. — English  Flag. 

Rejoice,  O  Albion  !  severed  from  the  world, 
By  Nature's  wise  indulgence. 

JOHN  PHILIPS. — Cider,  Bk.  2. 

Britain  is 
A  world  by  itself;   and  we  will  nothing 

pay 
For  wearing  our  own  noses. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  i. 

You  shall  find  us  in  our  salt-water 
girdle.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Prithee,  think 
There's  livers  out  of  Britain. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  4. 


BRITISH  FLAG 


BROTHERHOOD 


Hath  Britain  all  the  sun  that  shines  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbdinc,  Act  3,  4. 

Hail,    happy    Britain  !    highly    favoured 

isle, 
And  Heaven's  peculiar  care  ! 

W.  SOMERVILLE. — The  Chase,  Bk.   i. 

Thank  Him  who  isled  us  here,  and  roughly 

set 
His  Britain  in  blown  seas  and  storming 

showers. 

TENNYSON. — On  Wellington,  st.  7. 

God   bless   the   narrow   sea  which   keeps 

her  off, 
And    keeps    our    Britain,    whole    within 

herself, 

A  nation  yet,  the  rulers  and  the  ruled. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  Conclusion 

No  little  German  state  are  we, 

But  the  one  voice  of  Europe ;  we  must 
speak. 

TENNYSON. — Third  of  February. 

Broad-based  upon  her  people's  will, 
And  compassed  by  the  inviolate  sea. 
TENNYSON. — To  the  Queen. 

This  was  the  charter  of  the  land, 

And   guardian  angels  sung  the  strain  ; 
"  Rule,  Britannia  !     rule  the  waves  ! 
Britons  never  will  be  slaves." 

THOMSON. — Mask  of  Alfred 
(authorship  disputed). 

Whether  this  portion  of  the  world  were 

rent 

By  the  rude  ocean  from  the  continent, 
Or  thus  created,  it  was  sure  designed 
To  be  the  sacred  refuge  of  mankind. 

WALLER. — To  my  Lord  Protector, 
st.  7. 

Rome,  though  her  eagle  through  the  world 

had  flown, 

Could  never  make  this  island  all  her  own. 
WALLER. — Ib.,  si.  17. 

BRITISH  FLAG 

Whose  flag  has  braved  a  thousand  years' 
The  battle  and  the  breeze  ! 

CAMPBELL. — Ye  Mariners. 

The    meteor   flag    of    England    shall    yet 
terrific  burn.  CAMPBELL. — Jb.  4. 

With  Freedom's  lion-banner 
Britannia  rules  the  waves. 

CAMPBELL. — To  the  Germans. 

Take  'old  o'   the  Wings  o'   the  Mornin', 
An'    flop   round    the   earth    till    you're 

dead  ; 
But  you  won't  get  away  from  the  tune 

that  they  play 
To  the  bloomin"  old  rag  overhead. 

KIPLING. — Widow  at  Windsor. 


BRITONS 

As  long  as  faith  and  freedom  last, 

And  earth  goes  round  the  sun, 
This  stands — The  British  line  held  fast, 
And  so  the  fight  was  won. 

H.  BEGBIE. — The  Living  Line  (April  2, 

1918). 

The  fickleness  which  is  attributed  to 
us  as  we  are  islanders. 

MILTON. — Ready  and  Easy  Way  (1660). 

Britons,   strike   home  !     Revenge   your 
country's    wrongs  ! 
GEO.  POWELL. — Bonduca  (1696  version). 

BROADMINDEDNESS 

Just  as  he  [Homer]  could  speak  of  the 
rich  and  royal  without  envy,  so  he  could 
deal  with  the  poorest  of  the  poor  without 
a  touch  of  slight  or  contempt. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  14 
(E.  K    Francis  tr.). 

BROTHERHOOD 

For  'a  that,  and  a'  that, 

It's  comin'  yet  for  a*  that, 
That  man  to  man,  the  warld  o'er, 
Shall  brothers  be  for  a'  that. 

BURNS. — Is  there,  for  Honest  Poverty  ? 

Father  and  mother 
Ask  reverence  ;    a  brother,  only  love. 
T.  CAMPION. — Fortune  and  Glory. 

The  political  brotherhood  which  philo- 
sophy teaches  us  is  more  beneficial  to  us 
than    the    merely    spiritual    brotherhood, 
for  which  we  are  indebted  to  Christianity. 
HEINE. — The  Romantic  School. 

No  distance  breaks  the  tie  of  blood  ; 
Brothers  are  brothers  evermore. 

KEBLE. — Christian  Year,  2nd 
Sunday  after  Trinity. 

A  brother  is  a  friend  given  by  nature. 
J.  B.  LEGOUVE. 

We    few,     we    happy    few,    we    band    of 
brothers. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  4,  3. 

And  when,  with  grief,  you  see  your  brother 

stray, 

Or  in  a  night  of  error  lose  his  way, 
Direct  his  wandering  and  restore  the  day. 
To  guide  his  steps  afford  your  kindest  aid, 
And  gently  pity  whom  ye  can't  persuade  ; 
Lpave  to  avenging  Heaven  his  stubborn 

will, 

For,  O  remember,  he's  your  brother  still. 
SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

Let  brotherly  love  continue. 

2  Timothy  xiii,    i . 


BRUTALITY 


BUSINESS 


BRUTALITY 

They  are  neither  man  nor  woman — 
They  are  neither  brute  nor  human, 
They  are  Ghouls  ! 

E.  A.  POE. — The  Bells. 

The  time  and  my  intents  are  savage-wild  ; 
More  fierce,  and  more  inexorable  far, 
Than  empty  tigers,  or  the  roaring  sea. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  3,  5. 

Like  brute  beasts  that  have  no  under- 
standing. 

Common  Prayer.  Marriage  Service. 

BUILDING 

A   noble   craft,    that   of   a  mason  !     A 

good  building  will  last  longer  than  most 

books — longer  than  one  book  in  a  million. 

CARLYLE. — Remark  referring  to 

Auldgarth  Bridge. 

Build  houses  of  five  hundred  by  a  hun- 
dred feet,  forgetting  that  of  six  by  two. 
FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  2,  c.  8. 

No  hammers  fell,  no  ponderous  axes  rung  ; 
Like   some   tall   palm   the   mystic   fabric 

sprung. 
Majestic  silence.  HEBER. — Palestine. 

Anon  put  of  the  earth  a  fabric  huge 
Rose  like  an  exhalation. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.   i,  710. 

I  seldom  see  a  noble  building,  or  any 
other  piece  of  magnificence  and  pomp, 
but  I  think  how  little  is  all  this  to  satisfy 
the  ambition  or  to  fill  the  idea  of  an  im- 
mortal soul. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

The  man  who  builds,  and  wants  where- 
with to  pay, 

Provides  a  home  from  which  to  run  away. 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame. 

Building  is  a  sweet  impoverishing. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

The  grandsire  buys,  the  father  bigs 
(builds),  the  son  sells,  and  the  grandson 
thigs  (begs).  Scottish  saying. 

BULLIES 

He  was  a  coward  to  the  strong  ; 
He  was  a  tyrant  to  the  weak. 

SHELLEY. — Rosalind. 

BURDENS 

Respect  the  burden.  NAPOLEON. 

For  every  man  shall  bear  his  owa  burden. 
Galatians  vi,  5.   | 


BURGLARS 

A  terrier  tyke  and  a  rusty  key 

Were  Johnnie  Armstrong's  Jeddart  fee. 

Scottish  saying,  founded  on  a  statement 

that  Johnnie   Armstrong,   a   convicted 

moss  trooper,  was  offered  his  life  if  he 

would     disclose    the    best     safeguards 

against   marauders.     He  replied,    "  A 

terrier  and  rusty  locks." 

BURIAL 

So  peaceful  rests,  without  a  stone,  a  name, 

What  once  had  beauty,  titles,  wealth,  and 

fame.  POPE. — Elegy,  69. 

We  carved  not  a  line  and  we  raised  not 

a  stone, 

But  we  left  him  alone  with  his  glory. 
C.  WOLFE. — Burial  of  Sir  John  Moore. 

Denied  the  charity  of  dust,  to  spread 
O'er  dust.      YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

BUSINESS 

The  playthings  of  our  elders  are  called 
business. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. — Con/.,  Bk.  i. 

No-wher  so  bisy  a  man  as  he  ther  nas, 
And  yet  he  semed  bisier  than  he  was. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

Hackneyed  in  business,  wearied  at  that 

oar, 
Which  thousands,  once  fast  chained  to, 

quit  no  more. 

Co  WP  E  R  . — Retirement . 

You  Irish  gentlemen  [said  the  attorney] 
are  rather  in  too  great  a  hurry  in  doing 
business.  Business,  sir,  is  a  thing  that 
must  be  done  slowly  to  be  done  well. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Essay  on  Irish 
Bulls,  ch.  3. 

A  business  that  makes  nothing  but 
money  is  a  poor  kind  of  business. 

HENRY  FORD  (American  millionaire), 
Jan.  1919. 

Curse   on    that   man    that   business   first 

designed, 
And    by    't  enthralled   a  freeborn  lover's 

mind.  J.  OLD  HAM. — Absence. 

Being  asked  whether  he  was  at  leisure, 
Dionysius  the  elder  said,  "  No,  nor  do 
I  ever  expect  to  be." 

PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

A  man  of  wit  is  not  incapable  of  business, 
but  above  it.  A  sprightly,  generous  horse 
is  able  to  carry  a  pack  saddle  as  well  as 
an  ass,  but  he  is  too  good  to  be  put  to 
the  drudgery. 

POPE. — "Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


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CALUMNY 


BUSY-BODIES 

But  so  many  books  thou  readest, 
But  so  many  schemes  thou  breedest, 
But  so  many  wishes  feedest, 

That  thy  poor  head  almost  turns. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Second  Best. 

Zeus  hates  busy-bodies  and  those  who 
do  too  much. 

EURIPIDES. — As  quoted  by  Emerson 
in  essay  on  "  Success.'' 

There  is  nothing  in  the  world  more  un- 
seemly than  an  aged  busy-body. 

MARTIAL. — 4,  79. 

"  O  Hercules,"  said  Phocion,  when 
busy-bodies  tried  to  interfere  with  his 
military  dispositions  and  alter  his  plans, 
"  how  many  generals  we  have,  and  how  few 
soldiers  !  "  JPLUTARCH. — Life  of  Phocion. 

BUTTER 

Butter  is  mad  twice  a  year  [in  the  ex- 
tremes of  tempera turel.  Prov. 

Butter  is  gold  in  the  morning,  silver  at 
noon,  lead  at  night.  Prov.  (Ray). 

Butter  to  butter's  nae  kitchen. 
Scottish  prov.,  meaning  "  like  to  like 
is  no  relish." 

BUTTONS 

My  father  was  an  eminent  button-maker 
at  Birmingham  .  .  .  but  I  had  a  soul 
above  buttons. 

G.  COLMAN. — Sylvester  Daggerwood. 


CABALS 

O  my  soul,  come  not  thou  into  their 
secret ;  unto  their  assembly,  mine  honour, 
be  not  thou  united.  Genesis  xlix,  6. 

CALAMITY 

Calamity 

Is  man's  true  touchstone. 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Triumph 
of  Honour,  Sc.  i. 

Never  did  any  public  misery 

Rise  of  itself  ;  God's  plagues  still  grounded 

are 
On  common  stains  of  our  humanity. 

F.  GREVILLE. — Treatie  of  Warres. 

Romeo,   come   forth ;   come   forth,    thou 

fearful  man ; 

Affliction  is  enamoured  of  thy  parts, 
And  thou  art  wedded  to  calamity. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Borneo  and  Juliet, 
Act  3,  3. 


CALCULATION 

For  he  by  geometric  scale 
Could  take  the  size,  of  pots  of  ale, 
And  wisely  tell  what  hour  o'  the  clay 
The  clock  does  strike  by  algebra. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

CALLOUSNESS 

So  perish  all  whose  breast  ne'er  learned  to 

glow 

For  other's  good  or  melt  at  other's  woe. 

POPE. — Elegy  to  the  Memory  of  an 

Unfortunate  Lady,  45. 

You  blocks,  you  stones,  you  worse  than 

senseless  things  ! 

O  you  hard  hearts,  you  cruel  men  of  Rome, 
Knew  you  not  Pompey  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Caesar,  Act  i,  i. 

He  jests  at  scars  that  never  felt  a  wound. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  2. 

Hearts  which  lapse  of  years, 
And     that    half-wisdom    half-experience 

gives, 
Make  slow  to  feel. 

WORDSWORTH. — The  Old  Cumberland 
Beggar. 

CALM 

The  torrent's  smoothness,  ere   it  dash 
below.   CAMPBELL. — Gertrude  of  Wyoming, 

Pt-3,  5- 

Calmness  is  great  advantage  ;  he  that  lets 

Another  chafe,  may  warm  him  at  his  fire. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Hence  in  a  season  of  calm  weather, 
Though  inland  far  we  be, 
Our  souls  have   sight  of  that  immortal 

sea 
Which  brought  us  hither. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality. 

No  motion  but  the  moving  tide,  a  breeze, 

Or  merely  silent  nature's  breathing  life. 

WORDSWORTH. — Elegiac  Stanzas,  1805. 

With  heart  as  calm  as  lakes  that  sleep 
In  frosty  moonlight  glistening  ; 
Or  mountain  rivers,  where  they  creep 
Along  a  channel  smooth  and  deep, 
To  their  own  far-off  murmurs  listening. 
WORD  swo  RTH  . — Memory. 

CALUMNY 

It  is  a  royal  experience  to  be  ill-spoken 
of  for  good  deeds. 

ANTISTHENES. — As  quoted  by  Marcus 
Aurelius,  7,  3:'). 

Calumniate,  calumniate  !     Something  will 
always  stick. 
BEAUMARCHAIS. — Barbier  de  Seville. 


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CANDOUR 


Innocence  is  a  defence 
For  nothing  else  but  patience. 
'Twill  not  bear  out  the  blows  of  fate 
Nor  fence  against  the  tricks  of  state  ; 
Nor  from  the  oppression  of  the  laws 
Protect  the  plain'st  and  justest  cause  ; 
Nor  keep  unspotted  a  good  name 
Against  the  obloquies  of  fame. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

As  long  as  there  are  readers  to  be  de- 
lighted with  calumny,  there  will  be  found 
reviewers  to  calumniate. 

COLERIDGE. — Biographia 
Liter  aria,  ch.  3. 

Calumny  always  makes  the  calumniator 
worse,  but  the  calumniated — never. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

The  man  that  dares  to  traduce,  because 

he  can 
With  safety  to  himself,  is  not  a  man. 

COWPER. — Expostulation,  I.  432. 

Assailed   by  scandal   and   the  tongue  of 

strife, 
His  only  answer  was  a  blameless  life. 

COWPER. — Hope,  I.  578. 

He  turneth  praising  into  blame. 
And  worship  into  worldes  shame. 
GOWER. — Confessio  Amanlis,  Bk.  2. 

Slander,  that  worst  of  poisons,  ever  finds 
An  easy  entrance  to  ignoble  minds. 

LORD  J.  HERVEY. — Juvenal. 

With  favour  graced,  the  evil-doer  stands, 
Nor  curbs  with  shame  nor  equity  his  hands ; 
With  crooked  slanders  wounds  the  virtuous 

man, 

And  stamps  with  perjury  what  hate  began. 
HESIOD. — Works  and  Days  (Elton  tr.). 

Calumnies  are  answered  best  with 
silence. 

BEN  JONSON. — Volpone,  Act  2,  2. 

For  good  deeds,  evil  report — that  is  the 
King's  portion. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — 7,  36. 

A  mind  conscious  of  rectitude  laughs 
at  the  lies  of  rumour.  OVID. — Fast. 

Those  who  convey  and  those  who  listen 
to  calumnies,  should,  if  I  had  my  way, 
all  hang,  the  former  by  their  tongues,  the 
latter  by  their  ears.  PLAUTUS. — Pseudolus. 

At  every  word  a  reputation  dies. 
POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  3,   16. 

It  often  happens  that  those  are  the  best 
people  whose  characters  have  been  most 
injured  by  slanders  ;  as  we  usually  find 
it  to  be  the  sweetest  fruit  which  the  birds 
have  been  picking  at. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


The  malice  of  one  man  quickly  becomes 
the  ill  word  of  all.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

The  chariest  maid  is  prodigal  enough, 
If  she  unmask  her  beauty  to  the  moon ; 
Virtue     itself     "scapes     not     calumnious 
strokes. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

Be  thou  as  chaste  as  ice,  as  pure  as 
snow,  thou  shalt  not  escape  calumny. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

Back-wounding  calumny 
The  whitest  virtue  strikes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  3,  2. 

Through  slander,  meanest  spawn  of  hell, — 
And  women's  slander  is  the  worst. 

TENNYSON. — Letters,  5. 

I  am  small  and  scandalous 
And  love  to  hear  bad  tales. 
TENNYSON. — Queen  Mary,  Act  5,  2. 

Evil-speaking  is  the  immortal  daughter 
of  Self-love  and  Idleness. 
VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Marquise  de  Chaielet. 

If  there  were- no  hearers,  there  would  be 
no  back-biters.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert) 

Half  the  world  delights  in  slander  and 
the  other  half  in  believing  it.  French  prov. 

CAMBRIDGESHIRE 

For  England's  the  one  land  I  know 
Where  men  with  Splendid  Hearts  may'go  ; 
And  Cambridgeshire,  of  all  England, 
The  shire  for  Men  who  Understand. 

RUPERT  BROOKE. — Grantchester . 

CANDIDATES 

Candidates  are  creatures  not  very  sus- 
ceptible of  affronts,  and  would  rather, 
I  suppose,  climb  in  at  a  window  than  be 
absolutely  excluded.  COWPER. — 

Letter,  c.  1775. 

Mr.  Grenville  [the  parliamentary  candi- 
date] squeezed  me  by  the  hand  again, 
kissed  the  ladies,  and  withdrew.  He 
kissed  likewise  the  maid  in  the  kitchen, 
and  seemed  upon  the  whole  a  most  loving, 
kissing,  kind-hearted  gentleman.  Ib. 

Sertin  citizens  of  Baldinsville  axed  me 
to  run  fur  the  Legislator.  Sez  I,  "  My 
frends,  dostest  think  I'd  stoop  to  that 
there  ?  "  ARTEMUS  WARD. — Interview  with 
President  Lincoln. 
CANDOUR 

The  artlessness  of  unadorned  truth, 
however  sure  in  theory  of  extorting  ad- 
miration, rarely  in  practice  fails  inflicting 
pain  or  mortification. 

MME.  D'ARBLAY. — Camilla,  Bk.  7,  c.  8. 


CANNON 


CARELESSNESS 


Give  me  the  avowed,  the  erect,  the  manly 

foe ; 
Bold    I    can  meet — perhaps  may   turn — 

his  blow  ; 
But  of  all  plagues,  good  Heaven,  thy  wrath 

can  send, 
Save,  save,  oh  !  save  me  from  the  Candid 

Friend. 

G.  CANNING. — New  Mortality. 

I  hate  him  that  my  vices  telleth  me. 
CHAUCER. — Wife  of  Bath's  Prologue. 

CANNON 

The  last  argument  of  Kings. 
Inscription  (Latin)  on  a  French  cannon, 
temp.  Louis  XIV. 

CANT 

Till  Cant  cease  nothing  else  can  begin. 
CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Bk.  3, 

ch.  7. 

It  is  now  almost  my  sole  rule  of  life  to 
clear  myself  of  cants  and  formulas,  as  of 
poisonous  Nessus  shirts. 

CARLYLE. — Letter,  1835. 

The  English   and   the  Americans  cant 
beyond  all  other  nations. 
EMERSON. — English  Traits,  13,  Religion. 

My  dear  friend,  clear  your  mind  of 
cant.  JOHNSON. — Remark  to  Bosw ell,  1783. 

CAPITAL 

Their  money  is  their  plough. 
CHAUCER. — Shipman's  Tale,  v.  13218. 

CAPITAL  PUNISHMENT 

Hasn't  a  doubt — zample — far  better 
hang  wrong  fler  than  no  fler.  (The 
"  debilitated  cousin.") 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  53. 

All  greatness,  all  power,  all  authority 
depends  on  the  executioner.  .  .  .  Take 
away  this  incomprehensible  agent  from 
the  world,  and  in  the  same  moment  order 
gives  place  to  chaos,  thrones  crash,  and 
society  disappears. 

JOSEPH  DE  MAISTRE  (1753-1821). — Soirees 
de  St.  Pitersbourg. 

Hanging  is  the  worst  use  a  man  can  be 
put  to.  SIR  H.  WOTTON. — A  Parallel. 

CAPTIVITY 

A  Robin  Redbreast  in  a  cage 
Puts  all  heaven  in  a  rage. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

Although  his  cage  of  gold  be  never  so  gay 
Yet  had  this  bkd,  by  twenty  thousandfold 
Lever  in  a  forest,  that  is  rude  and  cold, 
Go  eten  wormes,  and  swich  wrecchednesse! 
CHAUCER. — Manciple's  Tale,  v.  17112 


Who  can  divine  what  impulses  from  God 
Reach  the  caged  lark  within  a  town  abode, 
From  his  poor  inch  or  two  of  daisied  sod  ? 
O  yield  him  back  his  privilege  !  No  sea 
Swells  like  the  bosom  of  a  man  set  free  ; 
A  wilderness  is  rich  with  liberty. 

WORDSWORTH. — Liberty. 

CARDS 

With  spots  quadrangular  of  diamond  form, 

Ensanguined  hearts,  clubs  typical  of  strife, 

And  spades  the  emblem  of  untimely  graves. 

COWPER. — Winter  Evening,  217. 

A  clear  fire,   a  clean  hearth,  and   the 
rigour  of  the  game.     LAMB. — Mrs.  Battle 

on  Whist. 

They   do   not   play   at  cards,  but  only 
play  at  playing  at  them.          LAMB. — Ib. 

See  how  the  world  its  veterans  rewards ! 
A  youth  of  frolics,  an  old  age  of  cards. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  z,  243. 

You  do  not  play  at  whist,  sir  ?  Alas,  what 
a  sad  old  age  you  are  preparing  for  your- 
self !  TALLEYRAND. 

Cards  are  the  devil's  prayer  book. 
German  prov.  (A  Dutch  saying  describes 
cards  as  "  the  Bible  of  52   leaves.") 

CARE 

They  say  it  was  care  killed  the  cat, 
That  starved  her  and  caused  her  to  die  ; 
But  I'll  be  much  wiser  than  that, 
For  the  devil  a  care  will  care  I. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Rose,  Thistle,  and 
Shamrock,  Act   3,   2    (Old  Rhyme?). 

Care  that  is  entered  once  into  the  breast. 
Will   have   the   whole  possession,    ere   it 
rest. 
BEN  JONSON. — Tale  of  a  Tub,  Act  i,  7. 

Care 

Sat  on  his  faded  cheek  ;  but  under  brows 
Of  dauntless  courage. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  601. 

Care  killed   the  cat,  but  sobered  the 
kit.       Prov.  (Spurgeon's  version  in  "  Salt- 
Cellars.") 

CARELESSNESS 

We  do  not  what  we  ought, 
What  we  ought  not,  we  do, 

And  lean  upon  the  thought 

That  chance  will  bring  us  through. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Empedocles. 

I  hae  naething  to  lend — • 
I'll  borrow  from  naebody. 

If  naebody  care  for  me, 
I'll  care  for  naebody. 

BURNS. — /  hae  a  wife. 


CASTLES  IN  THE  AIR 


CAUTION 


Life  is  all  a  variorum, 

We  regard  not  how  it  goes  ! 

Let  them  cant  about  decorum 
Who  have  characters  to  lose. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars 

Alas,  regardless  of  their  doom, 

The  little  victims  play  ! 
No  sense  have  they  of  ills  to  come 

Nor  care  beyond  to-day. 

GRAY. — Eton  College. 

Time  to  me  this  truth  has  taught, 
('Tis  a  treasure  worth  revealing) — 

More  offend  by  want  of  thought 
Than  by  any  want  of  feeling. 

CHARLES  SWAIN. 

CASTLES   IN  THE   AIR 

For  a"  sae  sage  he  looks,  what  can  the 

laddie   ken  ? 
He's  thinking  upon  naething,  like  mony 

mighty  men  ; 
A  wee  thing  maks  us  think,  a  sma'  thing 

maks  us  stare  ; 
There   are   mair   folks   than   him   biggin' 

castles  in  the  air. 
JAS.  BALLANTINE. — Castles  in  the  Air. 

Castles  in  the  air  cost  a  vast  deal  to 

keep  up.  (ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Lady 

of  Lyons,  Act  i,   3. 

CASUALNESS 

He  was  fresh,  and  full  of  faith  that 
"  something  would  turn  up." 

DISRAELI. — Tancred,  Bk.  3,  c.  6. 

I  suppose,  to  use  our  national  motto, 
"  something  will  turn  up "  [Motto  of 
Vraibleusia] .  DISRAELI. — Popanilla,  c.  7. 

CASUISTRY 

But  all  was  false  and  hollow,  though  his 

tongue 
Dropped    manna,    and    could    make    the 

worse  appear 

The  better  reason,   to  perplex  and  dash 
Matured  counsels. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  112. 

Vain  wisdom  all,  and  false  philosophy ; 
Yet  with  a  pleasing  sorcery  could  charm 
Pain  for  a  while,  or  anguish,  and  excite 
Fallacious  hope,  or  arm  th'  obdured  breast 
With  stubborn  patience  as  with  triple 
steel.  MILTON. — lb.,  Bk.  2,  565. 

To  prove  by  reason,  in  reason's  despite, 

That  right  is  wrong,  and  wrong  is  right, 

And  white  is  black,  and  black  is  white. 

SOUTHEV. — All  for  Love,  Pi.  9. 

CATCHWORDS 

Man  is  a  creature  who  lives  not  upon 
bread  alone,  but  principally  by  catch- 
words. R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Virginibus. 


CATS 

A  harmless  necessary  cat. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant   of  Venice 
Act  4,   L 

CAUSE 

This  is  not  the  cause  of  faction,  or  of 
party,  or  of  any  individual,  but  the  com 
mon  interest  of  every  man  in  Britain. 

J  UNI  us. — Letter  i. 

It  is  the  cause,  it  is  the  cause,  my  soul — 
Let  me  not  name  it  to  you,  you  chaste 

stars  ! — - 
It  is  the  cause. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,   L 

CAUSE  AND  EFFECT 

Happy  the  man,  who,  studying  Nature's 

laws, 
Through    known    effects    can    trace    the 

secret  cause. 
VIRGIL.— Georgics,  Bk.  2  (Dryden  tr.). 

Let    Pheelosophers   ken    causes — Poets 

effecks.  JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,  16 

(Ettrick  Shepherd). 

As  if  a  wheel  had  been  within  a  wheel. 
Ezekiel  x,  10  (R.V.). 

Behold,  how  great  a  matter  a  littb 
fire  kindleth !  St.  James  iii,  5. 

CAUTION 

Sir  Roger  told  them,  with  the  air  of  a 
man  who  would  not  give  his  judgment 
rashly,  that  much  might  be  said  on  both 
sides.  ADDISON. — Spectator  (112). 

Early  and  provident  fear  is  the  mother 
of  safety.  BURKE. — Speech,  1792. 

But  cautious  Queensberry  left  the  war. 
The  unmannered  dust  might  soil  his  star 
Besides,  he  hated  bleeding. 

BURNS. — Second  Epistle  to  Robert 
Graham. 

There  for  bihoveth  him  a  ful  long  spoon, 
That  shall  etc  with  a  feend. 

CHAUCER. — Squire's  Tale. 

He  would  not  with  a  peremptory  tone 

Assert  the  nose  upon  his  face  his  own. 

COWPER. — Conversation,  I.  121. 

One  who  by  delay  restored  our  affairs 
to  us  ;  for  he  did  not  esteem  public  rumour 
above  public  safety. 

ENNIUS  (of  Quintus  Maximus,  as  cited 
by  Cicero,  De  Senectute,  4,   10). 

He  who  by  discretion 
His  conduct  regulates,  desists  in  time ; 
And  caution  I  esteem  the  truest  valour. 
EURIPIDES. — Suppliants,   516 
(Woodhull  tr.). 


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CAVILLERS 


CHALLENGE 


Brer  Fox,  he  lay  low. 
J.  C.  HARRIS.— Old  Planter  Legend. 

Hear  all  men  speak  ;  but  credit  few  or 
none.          HERRICK. — Hesperides,  No.  177. 

Give  thy  thoughts  no  tongue, 
Nor  any  unproportioned  thought  his  act. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

Wisely  and  slow  ;  they  stumble  that  run 
fast.     SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 

Act  2,  3. 

Somewhat  is  sure  designed  by  fraud  or 

force  ; 
Trust  not  their  presents  nor  admit  the 

horse. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  2  (Dryden). 

Sleep  over  it  or  you  may  weep  over  it. 
Old  saying. 

Little  boats  must  keep  the  shore  ; 
Larger  ships  may  venture  more. 

Prov.  (Ray). 

CAVILLERS 

So  those  who  play  a  game  of  state, 
And  only  cavil  in  debate, 
Although  there's  nothing  lost  or  won, 
The  public  business  is  undone. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  z. 

Wilt   thou   show   the  whole  wealth  of 
thy  wit  in  an  instant  ?     I  pray  thee,  under- 
stand a  plain  man  in  his  plain  meaning. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  5- 

A  fault-mender  is  better  than  a  fault- 
finder. Prov. 

They   who   only   seek    for   faults   find 
nothing  else.  Prov. 

Stones    are    thrown    only    at    fruitful 
trees.  French  prov. 

Any  silly  little  soul 
Easily  can  pick  a  hole. 

Old  saying. 

CELIBACY 

Marriage  has  many  pains,  but  celibacy 
has  no  pleasures.         JOHNSON. — Rasselas. 

CELTS 

It  is  not  the  question  of  race  ;  it  is  the 
land  itself  that  makes  the  Celt. 
G.  MOORE. — Bending  of  the  Bough,  Act  3. 

CENSORIOUSNESS 

I  am  not  of  those  miserable  males 
Who  sniff  at  vice,  and  daring  not  to  snap, 
Do  therefore  hope  for  heaven. 

GKO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love. 


Jupiter  gives  us  two  wallets.  Hanging 
behind  each  man's  back  is  oue  full  of  his 
own  faults  ;  in  front  is  a  heavy  one  full 
of  other  people's. 

PH^EDRUS. — Fab.,  Bk.  4  (see  Shakespeare's 
Troilus  and  Cressida,  Act  3,  3). 

Attacking,  when  he  took  the  whim, 
Court,  city,  camp — all  one  to  him. 
SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

Our  two  eyes  do  not  improve  our  lot. 
One  serves  us  to  see  the  good  things  and 
the  other  the  evil  things  of  life.  Many 
folk  have  the  habit  of  closing  the  former. 
Happy  are  the  one-eyed  who  have  lost 
their  evil  eye.  Mesrour  was  an  example. 
He  was  one-eyed  from  birth.  He  did 
not  possess  the  eye  which  sees  the  bad 
side  of  things. 

VOLTAIRE. — The  One-eyed  Porter. 

CENSURE 

He  who  discommendeth  others  obliquely 
commendeth  himself. 

SIR  T.   BROWNE. — Christian  Morals. 

No  man  can  justly  censure  or  condemn 
another,    because   indeed   no    man    truly 
knows  another. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  2,  4. 

O  mortal  men  !  be  wary  how  ye  judge  ! 
H.  F.  CARY. — Dante's  "  Paradise," 
c.  20,  125. 

Thou  best  humoured  man  with  the 
worst  humoured  muse. 

GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

No  further  seek    his    merits  to  disclose, 

Or  draw  his  frailties  from  their  dread 

abode.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

CEREMONY 

Ceremony  keeps  up  all  things. 

SELDEN.— Table  Talk. 

CHALLENGE 

He  swore  by  a'  was  swearing  worth, 
To  speet  him  like  a  pliver, 

Unless  he  wad,  from  that  time  forth, 
Relinquish  her  for  ever. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

"  Who  dares  this  pair  of  boots  displace 
Must  meet  Bombastes  face  to  face." 
Thus  do  I  challenge  all  the  human  race. 
W.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastes. 

I'll  speak  to  it,  though  hell  itself  should 

gape, 
And  bid  me  hold  my  peace. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 


"  Dar'st  thou,  Cassius,  now, 
Leap  in  with  me  into  this  angry  flood, 


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CHAMPAGNE 


CHANGE 


And  swim  to  yonder  point  ?  "     Upon  the 

word, 

Accoutred  as  I  was,  I  plunged  in, 
And  bade  him  follow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  2. 

CHAMPAGNE 

Produced,  rightly  deeming  he  would  not 

object  to  it, 
An  orbicular  bulb  with  a  very  long  neck 

to  it. 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Mr.  Peters's  Story. 

The  foaming  grape  of  Eastern  France. 

TENNYSON. — In    Memoriam, 

Conclusion,  20. 

CHAMPIONS 

Greatly  unfortunate,  he  fights  the  cause 
Of  honour,  virtue,  liberty,  and  Rome. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i. 

For  thou  wert  still  the  poor  man's  stay, 
The   poor   man's   heart,    the  poor  man's 

hand  : 

And  all  the  oppressed  who  wanted  strength 
Had  thine  at  their  command. 

WORDSWORTH. — Memorials  of  Tour  in 
Scotland,   No.   11   (Rob  Roy's  Grave). 

CHANCE 

Yet  they,  believe  me,  who  await 
No  gifts  from  chance,  have  conquered  fate. 
M.  ARNOLD  — Resignation,  I.  247. 

For  "  up  an"  down  an'  round,"  said  'e, 

"  goes  all  appointed  things, 
An'     losses    on    the    roundabouts    means 
profits  on   the  swings  !  " 
P.  R.  CHALMERS. — Roundabouts  and 
Swings. 

Chance  fights  on  the  side  of  the  prudent. 
EURIPIDES. — Pirithous. 

The  happes  over  mannes  head 
Ben  honge  [are  hanging]   with  a  tender 
thread. 

GOWER. — Confessio  A  mantis,  Bk.  6. 

I  shot  an  arrow  into  the  air, 

It  fell  to  earth,  I  know  not  where. 

LONGFELLOW. — The  Arrow  and  the  Song 

Always   have   an    eye    to   the    mayne, 

whatsoever  thou  art  chaunced  at  the  buy. 

LYLY. — Euphues. 

The   slings   and   arrows   of   outrageous 
fortune.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

If  Hercules  and  Lichas  play  at  dice, 
Which  is  the  better  man  ?     The  greater 

throw 
May   turn   by   fortune   from   the   weaker 

hand  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,   i. 


A  chance  may  win  that  by  mischance 
was  lost. 

R.  SOUTHWELL. — Times  go  by  Turns. 

It  chaunst  (eternall  God  that  chaunce 
did  guide). 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  2. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  chance.     We 
have  invented    this    word  to  express  the 
known  effect  of  every  unknown  cause. 
VOLTAIRE. — The  Ignorant  Philosopher,  13. 

The  race  is  not  to  the  swift,  nor  the  battle 
to  the  strong,  neither  yet  bread  to  the 
wise,  nor  yet  riches  to  men  of  understand- 
ing, nor  yet  favour  to  men  of  skill ;  but 
time  and  chance  happeneth  to  them  all. 
Ecclesiastes  ix,  n. 

Our  cause  God's  is, 
But  the  odds  is 
Ten  tunes  ten  to  one. 
Royalist   lines   in   MS.  (c.  1649)  found 
in  Archdeacon  Plume's  Library,  Maldon, 
Essex. 

CHANGE 

I  loved  thee  once,  I'll  love  no  more  ; 

Thine  be  the  grief  as  is  the  blame  : 
Thou  art  not  what  thou  wast  before — 

What  reason  I  should  be  the  same  ? 

SIR  R.  AYTON. — /  do  Confess. 

It  were  good,  therefore,  that  men  in 
their  innovations  would  follow  the  example 
of  time  itself,  which  indeed  innovateth 
greatly,  but  quietly  and  by  degrees  scarce 
to  be  perceived. 

BACON. — Essays,  Innovation. 

In  government  change  is  suspected, 
though  to  the  better. 

BACON. — Valerius  Terminus. 

This  world  has  been  harsh  and  strange  ; 

Something    is    wrong  r    there    needeth    a 

•change.     BROWNING. — Holy  Cross  Day. 

Rejoice  that  man  is  hurled 

From  change  to  change  unceasingly, 
His  soul's  wings  never  furled. 

BROWNING. — James  Lee's  Wife,  6,  14. 

A  change  came  o'er  the  spirit  of  my 
dream.  BYRON. — The  Dream,  st.  5. 

Change  is  not  made  without  inconveni- 
ence, even  from  worse  to  better. 

Quoted  by  Johnson,  as  from  Hooker,  in 
Preface  to  "  English  Dictionary." 

It  is  best  not  to  swap  horses  while 
crossing  a  river. 

ABR.  LINCOLN. — Speech,  1864  (given  as 
the  remark  of  "  an  old  Dutch  farmer"). 

Change  the  strongest  son  of  Life. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Woods  of  Westermain. 


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CHANGE  OF  OPINION 


CHARACTER 


To-morrow   to  fresh  woods  and  pastures 
new.  MILTON. — Lycidas,  I.  103. 

All  things  change ;  nothing  perishes. 

OVID. — Metam. 

1 1  will  be  found  that  they  are  the  weakest- 
minded  and  the  hardest-hearted  men  that 
most  love  variety  and  change. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  z, 
sec.  2,  ch.  2,  7. 

Old    times    were    changed,    old    manners 
gone. 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel, 
Introduction. 

Bless  thee,  Bottom  !  bless  thee !  thou 
art  translated. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  3,   i. 

Nought  may  endure  but  Mutability. 

SHELLEY. — Mutability. 

Political  changes  should  never  be  made 
save  after  overcoming  great  resistance. 
HERBERT  SPENCER. — Ethics,  sec.  468. 

Right  now  is  wrong,  and  wrong  that  was 

is  right ; 
As  all   things  else  in   time   are  changed 

quight. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  5,  Introd. 

The  old  order   changeth,    yielding    place 

to  new. 
TENNYSON. — Coming  of  Arthur,  I.  284. 

O  earth,  what  changes  hast  thou  seen  ! 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,   123. 

The    old    order    changeth,    giving    place 

to  new, 

And  God  fulfils  Himself  in  many  ways, 
Lest  one  good  custom  should  corrupt  the 

world.     TENNYSON. — Morte  d' Arthur. 

Nothing  was  born, 
Nothing  will  die, 
All  things  will  change. 

TENNYSON. — Nothing  will  die. 

The  sundry  and  manifold  changes  of 
the  world.  Common  Prayer. — Collect. 

Weathercocks  turn  more  easily  when 
placed  very  high.  French  prov. 

CHANGE  OF   OPINION 

"Yes!"    I    answered   you   last   night; 

"  No  !  "  this  morning,  sir,  I  say  : 
Colours  seen  by  candle-light 

Will  not  look  the  same  by  day. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — The  Lady's  Yes. 

He  was  a  man  who  had  seen  many  changes, 

And  always  changed,  as  true  as  any  needle 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  3,  80. 


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Who  can  believe  what  varies  every  day. 
Nor  ever  was,  nor  will  be  at  a  stay  ? 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  PL  2,  36. 

It  is  natural  for  a  wise  man  to  change 
his  opinion  ;  a  fool  keeps  on  changing  like 
the  moon.  Latin  prov. 

CHAOS 

Lo  !  thy  dread  empire,  Chaos  !  is  restored  ; 
Light  dies  before  thy  uncreating  word  ; 
Thy  hand,  great  Anarch  !  lets  the  curtain 

fall; 
And  universal  darkness  buries  all. 

POPE. — Dunciad,  4,  649. 

CHARACTER 

There  was  never  a  bad  man  that  had 
ability  for  good  service. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 
(Feb.  17,  1788). 

That  there  is  falsehood  in  his  looks, 

I  must  and  will  deny  ; 
They  say  their  master  is  a  knave, 

And  sure  they  do  not  lie. 

BURNS. — The  Parson's  Looks 

Everyone  is  as  God  made  him,  and  often 
a  great  deal  worse. 

CERVANTES. — Don  Quixote. 

Colonel  Chartres  .  .  .  was  once  heard  to 
say  that  although  he  would  not  give  one 
farthing  for  virtue,  he  would  give  ten 
thousand  pounds  for  a  character ;  be- 
cause he  should  get  a  hundred  thousand 
pounds  by  it. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

Good  and  bad  men  are  each  less  so 
than  they  seem. 

COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk. 

Character  is  simply  a  habit  long  con- 
tinued. PLUTARCH. 

Not  swaying  to  this  faction  or  to  that. 
Not  making  his  high  place  the  lawless 

perch 
For    winged    ambitions,    nor    a    vantage 

ground 
For  pleasure  ;  but  through  all  this  tract 

of  years 
Wearing  the  white  flower  of  a  blameless 

life.     TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication. 

The  only  way  to  make  men  speak  good 
of  us  is  to  do  it. 

VOLTAIRE. — History  of  Charles  XII., 
Prel.  Discourse. 

Wha  ever  saw  either  a  book  or  a  man 
wortli  praisin,  that  wasna  as  weel  worth 
abusin  ? 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  21   (Ettrick 
Shepherd) . 


CHARACTERISTICS 


CHARM 


CHARACTERISTICS 

Fair  and  sluttish,  black  and  proud  ; 
Long  and  lazy,  little  and  loud  ; 
Fat  and  merry,  lean  and  sad  ; 
Pale  and  pettish,  red  and  bad. 

Old  saying. 

CHARITY 

In  charity  there  is  no  excess. 

BACO  N  . — Goodness . 

He  that  defers  his  charity  until  he  is 

dead,  is,  if  a  man  weighs  it  rightly,  rather 

liberal  of  another  man's  than  of  his  own. 

BACON. — Collection  of  Sentences. 

And  from  the  prayer  of  Want,  and  plaint 

of  Woe, 
O  never,  never  turn  away  thine  ear. 

BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  29. 

'Twas  a  thief  said  the  last  kind  word  to 

Christ  : 
Christ  took  the  kindness  and  forgave  the 

theft. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  6,  869. 

Want  passed  for  merit  at  her  open  door. 
DRYDEN. — Eleonora. 

In  Faith  and  Hope  the  world  will  disagree, 
But  all  mankind's  concern  is  Charity. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.   3,  307. 

Thou  art  gone  : 

And  he  that  would  assail  thee  in  thy  grave, 
Oh,  let  him  pause  !  For  who  among  us  all, 
Tried  as  thou  wert,  even  from  thine 

earliest    years, 
When  wandering,  yet  unspoilt,  a  highland 

boy — 
Tried  as  thou  wert,  and  with  thy  soul  of 

flarne  ; 
Pleasure,  while  yet  the  down  was  on  thy 

cheek, 

Uplifting,  pressing,  and  to  lips  like  thine, 
Her  charmed  cut) — ah,  who  among  us 

all 
Could  say  he  had  not  erred  as  much,  and 

more?      ROGERS. — Italy  (On  Byron). 

Harsh  towards  herself,  towards  others 
full  of  ruth. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Portrait. 

Our  charity  begins  at  home, 
And  mostly  ends  where  it  begins. 

HORACE  SMITH. — Moral  Alchemy. 

You  find  plenty  of  people  willing 
enough  to  do  the  good  Samaritan,  without 
the  oil  and  the  twopence. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

It  is  better  to  feed  five  drones  than 
starve  one  bee. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 


To  learn  how  to  love  better,  hate  your- 
self. VOLTAIRE. — File  de  Belltbat. 

Charity  creates  a  multitude  of  sins. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  under 
Socialism. 

He  only  judges  right, who  weighs.compares, 
And,  in  the  sternest  sentence  which  his 

voice 

Pronounces,  ne'er  abandons  charity. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  i. 

Whate'er  we  look  on,  at  our  side 
Be  Charity,  to  bid  us  think, 
And  feel,  if  we  would  knew. 
WORDSWORTH. — In  one  of  the  Catholic 
Cantons. 

Knowledge    puffeth    up,    but    charity 
edifieth.  i  Corinthians  viii,  i. 

Charity   shall   cover    the   multitude   of 
sins.  i  St.  Peter  iv,  8. 

CHARM 

Here   lies    David    Garrick,    describe    him 

who  can, 
An    abridgment  of   all  that  was  pleasant 

in  man.        GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation 

Give  me  a  look,  give  me  a  face, 
That  makes  simplicity  a  grace. 

BEN  JONSON. — Epicane,  Act   i. 

When   she   had    passed  it  seemed  like 
the  ceasing  of  exquisite  music. 

LONGFELLOW. — Evangeline,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

The  angel  ended,  and  in  Adam's  ear 
So  charming  left  his  voice,  that  he  awhile 
Thought  him  still  speaking,   still    stood 
fixed   to  hear. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  i. 

Grace  was  in  all  her  steps,  Heaven  in  her 

eye  ; 
In  every  gesture,  dignity  and  love. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  8,  488. 

Those    graceful    acts. 
Those  thousand  decencies,  that  daily  flow 
From  all  her  words  and  actions. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  8,  600. 

Thy  sweet  obligingness  could  supple  hate, 
And  out  of  it,  its  contrary  create. 

J.  OLDHAM. — On  C.  Morwent,  st.  17. 

Her  pleasure  in  her  power  to  charm. 
C.  PATMORE. — Angel  in  the  House,  c.  12. 

You  have  sae  saf  t  a  voice  and  slid  a  tongue, 

You  are   the  darling  of  baith   auld  and 

young.       ALLAN  RAMSAY. — Eclogue. 

Angels  listen  when  she  speaks ; 

She's  my  delight,  all  mankind's  wonder. 
EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — Song. 


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CHASE,  THE 


Blessed  with  that  charm,  the  certainty 
to  please.  ROGERS. — Human  Life. 

Her  voice,  whate'er  she  said,  enchanted  ; 
Like  music  to  the  heart  it  went. 
And  her  dark  eyes — how  eloquent  ! 
Ask  what  they  would,  'twas  granted. 

ROGERS. — -Jacqueline,  PL  i. 

See,  what  a  grace  was  seated  on  his  brow  ; 

Hyperion's  curls  ;  the  front  of  Jove  him- 
self ; 

An  eye  like  Mars,  to  threaten  and  com- 
mand. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

She  told  him  stories  to  delight  his  ear ; 
She  showed  him  favours  to  allure  his  eye. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Passionate  Pilgrim,  st.  i. 

Bid  me  discourse,  I  will  enchant  thine  ear, 
Or,  like  a  fairy,  trip  upon  the  green, 
Or,  like    a   nymph,  with  long  dishevelled 

hair, 
Dance  on  the  sands,  and  yet  no  footing 

seen. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  si.  25. 

Had  I  a  heart  for  falsehood  framed, 
I  ne'er  could  injure  you. 

SHERIDAN. — Duenna,  Act  i,  5. 

Pray  present  my  benediction  to  your 

charming  wife,  who  I  am  sure  would  bring 

any  plant  in  the  garden  into  full  flower  by 

looking  at  it  and  smiling  upon  it. 

SYDNEY  SMITH.— Letter  to  Lord  Mahon, 

July  4,  1843. 

Her  feet  beneath  her  petticoat, 
Like  little  mice,  stole  in  and  out, 

As  if  they  feared  the  light. 
But  oh  !  she  dances  such  a  way — 
No  sun  upon  an  Easter  day 
Is  half  so  fine  a  sight ! 
SIR  J.  SUCKLING. — Ballad  on  a  Wedding, 

st.  8. 

She  was  born  to  make  hash  of  men's 
buzzums. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — Piccolomini. 

All  charming  people,  I  fancy,  are  spoiled. 
It  is  the  secret  of  their  attraction. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  under 
Socialism. 

Whose  life  was  like  the  violet  sweet, 
Or  climbing  jasmine  pure. 
WORDSWORTH.— Elegiac  Stanzas  (1824). 

She  was  a  phantom  of  delight 

When  first  she  gleamed  upon  my  sight 
WORDSWORTH.— She  was  a  Phantom'. 

CHASE,  THE 

Back  limped,  with  slow  and  crippled  pace 
The  sulky  leaders  of  the  chase. 

SCOTT.— Lady  of  the  Lake,  10. 


(-.2 


CHASTITY 

Abstain  wholly,  or  wed. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

'Tis  Chastity,  my  brother,  Chastity  : 
She   that   has   that,  is  clad   in   complete 
steel.  MILTON. — Comus,  420. 

So  dear  to  Heaven  is  saintly  Chastity, 
That  when  a  soul  is  found  sincerely  so, 
A  thousand  liveried  angels  lackey  her. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  453. 

Let   this    great   maxim   be   my    virtue's 

guide  : 

In  part  she  is  to  blame  that  has  been  tried ; 

He  comes  too  near  that  comes  to  be  denied. 

LADY  M.  W.  MONTAGU. — Lady's 

Resolve  (quoted  from  Sir  T,  Overbury). 

In  part  to  blame  is  she 
Which  hath  without  consent  been  only 

tried  ; 
He  comes  too  near  that  comes  to  be  denied. 

SIR  T.  OVERBURY. — A   Wife,  st.  36. 

Chaste  as  the  icicle, 
That's  curded   by  the  frost  from  purest 

snow, 
And  hangs  on  Dian's  temple. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  5,  3. 

CHAUCER 

Dan  Chaucer,  well  of  English  undefyled, 
On  fame's  eternall  bead-roll  worthie  to 

be  fyled. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  4,  2,  32. 

CHEATING 

Doubtless  the  pleasure  is  as  great 
Of  being  cheated,  as  to  cheat. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  3. 

He   is  not  cheated  who  knows  that  he 
is  being  cheated.  COKE. 

Thus  do  I  ever  make  my  fool  my  purse 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3.' 

CHEERFULNESS 

Know  then  whate'er  of  cheerful  and  serene 
Supports  the  mind,  supports  the  body  too. 
J.  ARMSTRONG. — Art  of  Preserving  Health. 

One  can  be  a  soldier  without  dying,  and 
a  lover  without  sighing. 
SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Adzutna,  Act  2,  5. 

With  a  wink  of  his  eye  his  friend  made 

reply, 

In  his  jocular  manner,  sly,  caustic,  and  dry, 
'  Still  the  same  boy,  Bassanio — never  say 

'  die  '  !  " 

R.  H.  BARHAM  — Merchant  of  Venice. 

A  happy-tempered  bringer  of  the  best 
Out  of  the  worst. 

BROWNING.— Soul's  Tragedy,  Act  i. 


CHEERFULNESS 


CHEERFULNESS 


Sweet  bird  !  thy  bower  is  ever  green, 

Thy  sky  is  ever  clear ; 
Thou  hast  no  sorrow  in  thy  song, 

No  winter  in  thy  year. 

M.  BRUCE. — To  the  Cuckoo. 

And  warl'ly  cares  and  warl'ly  men 
May  a"  gae  tapsalteerie,  O  ! 

BURNS. — Green  grow  the  Rashes. 

He  had  no  wish  but — to  be  glad, 
Nor  want  but — when  he  thirsted. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

He  hated  naught  but — to  be  sad. 

BURNS. — Ib. 

When  the  days  are  sad  and  lonely, 
And  life  hardly  seems  worth  while, 

Keep  on  pegging — think  there's  only 
Just  one  other  stile. 
G.  BUSHNELL. — Emptyings  of  my  Ash 
Tray  (1918). 

I  am  of  Ben's  mind,  madam  ;  resolve 

to  be  merry  though  the  ship  were  sinking. 

MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — The  Artifice. 

That  man,  I  trow,  is  doubly  curst, 
Who  of  the  best  doth  make  the  worst  ; 
And  he,  I'm  sure,  is  doubly  blest, 
Who  of  the  worst  can  make  the  best. 

W.  COMBE. — Dr.  Syntax,  c.  26. 

In  came  Mrs.  Fezziwig,  one  vast  sub- 
stantial smile.  DICKENS. — Christmas  Carol. 

Some  credit  in  being  jolly  (Mark  Tapley). 
DICKENS. — Martin  Chuzzlewit,  ch.  5. 

Be  merry,  man.  and  tak  not  sair  in  mind 
The  wavering  of  this  wretchit  warld  of 

sorrow  : 
To  God  be  humble,  and  to  thy  friend  be 

kind, 
And  with  thy  neighbours  gladly  lend 

and  borrow  ; 

His  chance  to-nicht,  it  may  be  thine  to- 
morrow. 

W.  DUNBAR. — ATo  Treasure  without 
Gladness. 

Every  journey  has  an  end  ; 
When  at  the  worst,  affairs  will  mend  ; 
Dark  the  dawn  when  day  is  nigh  ; 
Hustle  your  horse  and  don't  say  die  ! 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— lolanthe. 

Little  by  little  the  time  goes  by — 
Short  if  you  sing  through  it,  long  if  you 

sigh. 
LEON  HERBERT. — Hymns  for  Heart 

and  Voice  (Sunday  School  Association). 

Let  the  world  slide,  let  the  world  go  ! 
A  fig  for  care  and  a  fig  for  woe  ! 
If  I  can't  pay,  why  I  can  owe, 
And  death  makes  equal  the  high  and  low. 
JOHN  HEYWOOD. — Be  Merry,  Friends. 


There  was   an  old   man  who   said,    How 
Shall  I  flee  from  this  horrible  Cow  ? 

I  will  sit  on  this  stile 

And  continue  to  smile, 
Which  may  soften  the  heart  of  that  Cow. 
EDWARD  LEAR. — Book  of  Nonsense. 

Laugh,  for  the  time  is  brief,  a  thread  the 

length  of  a  span. 
Laugh,  and  be  proud  to  belong  to  the  old 

proud  pageant  of  man. 
JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Laugh  and  be  Merry. 

So  buxom,  blithe  and  debonair. 

MILTON. — L'Allegro,  I.  24. 

Some  folks  seem  glad  even  to  draw  their 
breath. 
W.    MORRIS. — Bellcrophon  at  Argos,  472. 

Be  merry  !     Think  upon  the  lives  of  men, 
And  with  what  troubles  three  score  years 

and  ten 

Are  crowded  oft,  yea,  even  unto  him 
Who  sits  at  home,  nor  fears  for  life  and 

limb. 

W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  10,  101. 

Weep    not,  nor  pity  thine  own    life   too 
much.   W.MORRIS. — Ib.,  Bk.  13,  315. 

Jog  on,  jog  on,  the  footpath  way, 
And  merrily  hent  the  stile-a  : 

A  merry  heart  goes  all  the  day, 

Your  sad  tires  in  a  mile-a. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  2. 

As  long  liveth  the  merry  man,  they  say, 

As  doth  the  sorry  man — and  longer  by  a 

day.  N.  UDALL. — Ralph  Roister 

Doister,  Act  i,  i. 

Everything  succeeds  with  people  of 
sweet  and  cheerful  disposition. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire. 

Woe  to  the  philosophers  who  cannot 
laugh  away  their  learned  wrinkles !  I 
look  on  solemnity  as  a  disease.  It 
appears  to  me  that  morality,  study  and 
gaiety  are  three  sisters  who  should  never 
be  separated.  They  are  your  servants ; 
I  take  them  as  my  mistresses. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  Frederick  the  Great. 

Some  day  soon  something  nice  is  going  to 

happen  ; 

Be  a  good  little  girl  and  take  this  hint : 
Swallow  with  a  smile  your  cod-liver  ile 
And  the  first  thing  you  know  you  will 
have  a  peppermint. 

JEAN  WEBSTER. — Dear  Enemy. 

Laugh,  and  the  world  laughs  with  you, 

Weep,  and  you  weep  alone  ; 
For  sad  old  earth  must  borrow  its  mirth, 
But  has  trouble  enough  of  its  own. 
ELLA  W.  WILCOX.— Way  of  the  World 
(The  firsf  two  lines  are  also  claimed  by 
Col.  J.  A.  Joyce). 


CHEESE 

Care  to  our  coffin  adds  a  nail,  no  doubt, 

And  every  grin,  so  merry,  draws  one  out. 

J.  WOLCOT. — Ode  15. 

A  man  he  seems  of  cheerful  yesterdays 
And  confident  to-morrows. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  7. 

And  cheerful  songs,  and  suns  that  shine 
On  busy  days,  with  thankful  nights,  be 
mine  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — To  Enterprise. 

Go  not  half  way  to  meet  a  coming  sorrow, 

But  thankful  be  for  blessings  of  to-day, 

And   pray    that  thou  mayst  blessed   be 

to-morrow  ; 

So  shalt  thou  go  with  joy  upon  thy  way. 

•ANON. — (Enquired  for  without  result  in 

"  Notes  and  Queries,"  1901). 

Whichever  way  the  wind  doth  blow, 
Some  heart  is  glad  to  have  it  so  ; 
Then  blow  it  east  or  blow  it  west, 
The  wind  that  blows,  that  wind  is  best. 
Old  saying. 

The  saddest  dog  sometimes  wags  its  tail. 

Prov. 

Fortune  will  be  fortune  still, 
Let  the  weather  blow  as  it  will ; 
For  the  laddie  has  his  lease  and  the  lassie 

has  her  ring, 

And  there's  mony  a  merry  heart  beneath 
a  mourning  string. 

Scottish  saying. 

CHEESE 

Cheese  it  is  a  peevish  elf. 

It  digests  all  things  but  itself. 

Prov.  (from  Medieval  Latin). 

CHESS 

Life's  too  short  for  chess. 

H.  J.  BYRON. — Our  Boys,  Act  i. 

He  [Ned  Connolly]  hates  chess.  He 
says  it  is  a  foolish  expedient  for  making 
idle  people  believe  they  are  doing  some- 
thing very  clever,  when  they  are  only 
wasting  their  time. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  14. 

CHILBLAINS 

Another  weepeth  over  chilblains  fell, 
Always  upon  the  heel,  yet  never  to  be 
well.        HOOD. — Irish   Schoolmaster. 

CHILDHOOD 

A  child  may  say  Amen 
To  a  bishop's  prayer,  and  feel  the  way  it 

goes. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  2. 

Ah,    could   I   be    once    more    a  careless 
child! 

COLERIDGE. — To  the  River  Otter. 


CHILDISHNESS 


The  growth  of  flesh  is  but  a  blister  ; 
Childhood  is  health. 

HERBERT. — Holy  Baptism. 

I  remember,  I  remember, 

The  fir  trees  dark  and  high  ; 

I  used  to  think  their  slender  tops 

Were  close  against  the  sky ; 

It  was  a  childish  ignorance, 

But  now  'tis  little  joy 

To  know  I'm  further  off  from  heaven 

Than  when  I  was  a  boy. 

HOOD. — /  Remember. 

The  childhood  shows  the  man 
As  morning  shows  the  day. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  220. 

A  sudden  wakin',  a  sudden  weepin'  ; 

A  li'l  suckin',  a  li'l  sleepin' ; 

A   cheel's   full   joys   an'    a   cheel's   short 

sorrows, 

Wi'  a  power  o'  faith  in  gert  to-morrows. 
EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — Man's  Days. 

I  remember,  I  remember, 

How  my  childhood  fleeted  by, 

The  mirth  of  its  December, 
And  the  warmth  of  its  July. 

W.  M.  PRAED. — /  Remember. 

Respect  childhood  and  do  not  be  too 
hasty  in  judging  it,  whether  in  good  or 
in  evil.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

The  round  little  flower  of  a  face  that 

exults  in  the  sunshine  of  shadowless  days. 

SWINBURNE. — After  a  Reading,  st.  3. 

In  books,  or  work,  or  healthful  play, 
Let  my  first  years  be  passed, 

That  I  may  give  for  every  day 
Some  good  account  at  last. 

I.  WATTS. — Against  Idleness. 

Heaven  lies  about  us  in  our  infancy  ! 
Shades  of  the  prison-house  begin  to  close 
Upon  the  growing  Boy. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  5. 

The  child  is  father  of  the  man  ; 
And  I  could  wish  my  days  and  years  to  be 
Bound  each  to  each  by  natural  piety. 
WORDSWORTH. — My  heart  leaps  up. 

Sweet  childish  days,  that  were  as  long 
As  twenty  days  are  now. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  a  Butterfly. 

A  simple  child 

That  lightly  draws  its  breath, 
And  feels  its  life  in  every  limb, 
What  should  it  know  of  death  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — We  are  Seven. 

CHILDISHNESS 

Genius  has  somewhat  of  the  infantine, 
But  of  the  childish  not  a  touch  or  taint. 
BROWNING. — Prince  Hohenstiel. 


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CHILDREN 


CHILDREN 


CHILDREN 

Children    sweeten    labours ;    but    they 
make  misfortunes  more  bitter. 

BACON. — 7,  Of  Parents  and  Children. 

He  that  hath  a  wife  and  children  hath 
given  hostages  to  fortune. 

BACON. — 8,  Of  Marriage. 

Children  mothered  by  the  street, 
Blossoms  of  humanity, 
Poor  soiled  blossoms  in  the  dust, 
In  your  features  may  be  traced 
Childhood's  beauty  half  effaced. 
M ATHI LD E   B LI ND. — Street-children' s 
Dance. 

Do  you  hear  the  children  weeping,  O  my 

brothers, 
Ere  the  sorrow  comes  with  years  ? 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Cry  of  the  Children. 

But   the   young,   young   children,  O   my 

brothers, 

They  are  weeping  bitterly  ! 
They  are  weeping  in  the  playtime  of  the 

others, 
In  the  country  of  the  free. 

E.  B    BROWNING. — Ib. 

The  many-tattered, 

Little,   old-faced,   peaking,   sister-turned- 
mother. 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  2. 

A  mother  who  boasts  two  boys  was  ever 
accounted  rich. 

BROWNING. — Ivan  Ivanovitch,  154. 

Go  practise  if  you  please 
With  men  and  women ;  leave  a  child  alone, 
For  Christ's  particular  love's  sake. 

BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  3,  88. 

No  sound  of  tiny  footfalls  filled  the  house 
with  happy  cheer. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Scaith  o'  Bartle, 

Th'  expectant  wee  things,  toddlin'  stacher 

through 
To  meet  their  dad,   wi'  flichterin'  noise 

and  glee. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

The  lisping  infant  prattling  on  his  knee, 

Does  a'  his  weary  carking  cares  beguile, 

And  makes  him  quite  forget  his  labour  and 

his  toil.  BURNS. — Ib. 

To  whom  nor  relative  nor  blood  remains, 
No  ! — not   a  kindred   drop   that  runs  in 
human  veins. 

CAMPBELL. — Gertrude,   17. 

So  for  the  mother's  sake  the  child  was  dear, 

And  dearer  was  the  mother  for  the  child. 

COLERIDGE. — Sonnet. 


And   when,  with  envy  Time  transported, 
Shall  think  to  rob  us  of  our  joys  ; 

You'll  in  your  girls  again  be  courted, 
And  I'll  go  wooing  in  my  boys. 

J.  G.  COOPER. — To  his  Wife: 

Speak  roughly  to  your  little  boy, 
And  beat  him  when  he  sneezes ; 
He  only  does  it  to  annoy, 

Because  he  knows  it  teases. 
C.  L.  DODGSON. — Alice  in  Wonderland, 

ch.  6. 

How    many    troubles    are    with    children 

born  ! 
Yet  he  that  wants  them  counts  himself 

forlorn. 

WM.  DRUMMOND. — Translation. 

I  was  the  first 
To  call  thee  father  ;  me  thou  first  didst 

call 

Thy  child  ;  I  was  the  first  that  on  thy  knees 
Fondly  caressed  thee. 

EURIPIDES. — Iphigenia  in  Aul.,  1230 
(R.  Potter  tr.). 

Where  yet  was  ever  found  a  mother 
Who'd  give  her  booby  for  another  ? 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  i,  3. 

A  little  sorrowful  deserted  thing, 
Begot  of  love,  and  yet  no  love  begetting. 
HOOD. — Midsummer  Fairies. 

Ye  are  better  than  all  the  ballads 
That  ever  were  sung  or  said  ; 

For  ye  are  the  living  poems. 
And  all  the  rest  are  dead. 

LONGFELLOW. — Children. 

This  child  is  not  mine  as  the  first  one  was, 
I  cannot  sing  it  to  rest. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Changeling. 

Of   all   people   children   are   the   most 
imaginative.  MACAULAY. — Milton. 

A  little  child  with  laughing  look 

A  lovely  white,  unwritten  book. 

J.  MASEFIELD. — Everlasting  Mercy,  427. 

And  he  who  gives  a  child  a  treat 
Makes  joy-bells  ring  in  Heaven's  street  ; 
And  he  who  gives  a  child  a  home 
Builds  palaces  in  Kingdom  come. 

JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Ib. 

Children  blessings  seem,  but  torments  are  ; 

When  young  our  folly,  and  when  old  our 

fear.  OTWAY. — Don  Carlos. 

Children  know, 

Instinctive  taught,  the  friend  and  foe. 
SCOTT. — Ladyj>f  the  Lake,  c.  2,  14. 

How  sharper  than  a  serpent's  tooth  it  is 
To  have  a  thankless  child  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  I,  4. 


CHILDREN 


CHIVALRY 


Upon   my  head   they  placed   a  fruitless 

crown, 

And  put  a  barren  sceptre  in  my  gripe, 
Thence  to  be  wrenched  with  an  unlineal 

hand, 
No  son  of  mine  succeeding. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  i. 

A  little  bench  of  heedless  bishops  here, 
And  there  a  chancellor  in  embryo, 
Oi  bard  sublime,  if  bard  may  e'er  be  so. 
SHENSTONE. — Schoolmistress. 

I  am  glad  it  is  a  girl ;  all  little  boys  ought 
to  be  put  to  death. 

SYDNEY    SMITH. — Letter   to    Countess 

Grey,  Feb.  4.  1835  (on  the  birth  of  his 

granddaughter). 

O  may  our  house  be  still  a  garrison 
Of  smiling  children,  and  for  evermore 
The  tune  of  little  feet  be  heard  along  the 

floor. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Before  this  little 
gift  was  come. 

The  child  that  is  not  clean  and  neat, 
With  lots  of  toys  and  things  to  eat, 
He  is  a  naughty  child,  I'm  sure — 
Or  else  his  dear  papa  is  poor. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — System. 

Man,  a  dunce  uncouth, 
Errs  in  age  and  youth, 
Babies  know  the  truth. 

SWINBURNE. — Cradle  Songs,  4. 

The  world  has  no  such  flower  in  any  land, 
And  no  such  pearl  in  any  gulf  the  sea, 
As  any  babe  on  any  mother's  knee. 

SWINBURNE. — Pelagius,  2. 

The  painless   and   stainless  love  of   little 
children.    SWINBURNE. — Social  Verse. 

Where  children  are  not,  heaven  is  not. 
SWINBURNE. — Song  of  Welcome,  1.  37. 

The  bearing  and  the  training  of  a  child 
Is  woman's  wisdom. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  455. 

Good  chicks  from  a  good  hen 
And  good  sons  from  good  men. 
D.  W.  THOMPSON. — From  Euripides. 

It  were  better  for  him  that  a  millstone 
were  hanged  about  his  neck,  and  he  cast 
into  the  sea,  than  that  he  should  offend 
one  of  these  little  ones. 

St.  Luke  xvii,  2. 

Oh,  think  what  joy  my  heart  shall  know, 
How  bright  the  expiring  lamp  shall  glow 

When  quivering  o'er  the  tomb, 
If,  in  the  evening  of  my  days, 
live  to  hear  thy  well-earned  praise, 
And  see  thy  honours  bloom. 

ANON.     (?  Thomas  Hood). 


Better  bairns  greet  than  bearded  men. 
Scottish  prov. 

A  beltless  bairn  cannot  lie.  Ib. 

When  bairns  are  young  they  gar  their 
parents'  heads  ache ;  when  they  are  auld 
they  make  their  hearts  ache.  Scottish  prov. 

The  best  that  can  happen  a  poor  man  is 
that  ae  bairn  dee,  and  the  rest  follow. 
Scottish  prov. 

Twa  to  fight  and  one  to  redd  (settle 

the  dispute).         Scottish  prov.  (The  ideal 

number  for  a  family.) 

Speak  when  ye're  spoken  to,  do  what  ye're 

bidden  ; 
Come   when   ye're   ca'd,  an'  ye'll  no  be 

chidden.  Scottish  rhyme. 

Waly,  waly  !  bairns  are  bonny  ! 
Ane's  enough,  and  twa's  ower  mony. 

Scottish  rhyme. 

As  the  auld  cock  crows  the  young  cock 

learns ; 

Aye  tak'  care  what  ye  do  afore  the  bairns. 
Scottish  saying. 

He  is  happy  who  has  children  ;  he  is 
not  unhappy  who  has  none.  French  prov. 

Circles,  though  small,  are  yet  complete. 
On  a  monument  to  two  children,  North- 
leigh,  Oxfordshire  (c.  1800). 

Children  pick  up  words  as  pigeons  peas, 

And  utter  them  again  as  God  shall  please. 

Old  Saying  (Ray). 

CHINA 

Now  ain't  they  utterly  too-too, 
Them  flymy  little  bits  of  Blue  ? 
W.  E.  HENLEY. — Villanelle  (Culture  in 
the  Slums,  2). 

CHINAMAN 

A  disorderly  Chinaman  is  rare,  and  a 
lazy  one  does  not  exist. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  at  Home, 
ch.  9. 

CHIVALRY 

I  will  not  steal  a  victory. 
ALEXANDER  THE  GREAT  (Plutarch). 

Honour  has  come  back,  as  a  king  to  earth, 
And  paid  his  subjects  with  a  royal  wage  , 

And  Nobleness  walks  in  our  ways  again  ; 
And  we  have  come  into  our  heritage. 
RUPERT  BROOKE. — The  Dead  (1914). 

The  age  of  chivalry  is  gone.    That  of 
sophisters,    economists,    and    calculators, 
has  succeeded  ;  and  the  glory  of  Europe 
is  extinguished  for  ever. 
BURKE. — Reflections  on  French  Revolution. 


CHOICE 


CHRIST 


Cervantes  smiled  Spain's  chivalry  away. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  13,  n. 

Misfortune   ever   claimed   the   pity   of 
the   brave.  C.  DIBDIN. — Veterans. 

For   he   wants   worth    who   dares   not 
praise  a  foe. 

DRYDEN. — Conquest  of  Granada,  Pt.  2, 
Act  2. 

To  set  the  Cause  above  renown, 

To  love  the  game  beyond  the  prize, 

To  honour,  while  you  strike  him  down, 

The  foe  that  comes  with  fearless  eyes, 

SIR   H.   J.   NEWBOLT. — Island   Race. 

Clifton  Chapel. 

Not  hate,  but  glory,  made  these  chiefs 

contend, 

And  each  brave  foe  was  in  his  soul  a  friend. 
POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  7,  364. 

I  love  to  hear  of  worthy  foes. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  4,  8. 

Yet,  rest  thee  God  !  for  well  I  know 
I  ne'er  shall  find  a  nobler  foe. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  5,  29. 

And  I  will  say,  as  still  I've  said, 
Though  by  ambition  far  misled, 

Thou  art  a  noble  knight. 

SCOTT. — Lord  of  the  Isles,  c.  3,  5. 

Thus,  then,  my  noble  foe  I  greet : 
Health  and  high  fortune  till  we  meet, 
And  then — what  pleases  Heaven. 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  c.  3,  st.  6. 

O  goodly  usage  of  those  antique  times, 
In  which  the  sword  was  servaunt  unto 

right. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  3,  I,  13. 

'Tis  true  old  times  are  dead, 
When    every    morning    brought    a    noble 

chance, 
And  every  chance  brought  out  a  noble 

knight. 
TENNYSON. — Passing  of  Arthur,  I.  397. 

CHOICE 

She's  left  the  guid  fellow  and  ta'en  the 
churl.  BURNS. — Meg  o'  the  Mill. 

The  miller  he  hecht  her  a  heart  leal  and 
loving  ; 

The  laird  did  address  her  wi*  matter  mair 
moving, 

A  fine-pacing  horse,  wi'  a  clear-chained 
bridle, 

A  whip  by  her  side,  and  a  bonny  side- 
saddle. BURNS. — Ib. 

Oh,  how  hard  it  is  to  find 

The  one  just  suited  to  our  mind  ! 

CAMPBELL. — Song,  "  Oh,  how  Hard  !  " 


How  happy  could  I  be  with  either, 
Were  t'other  dear  charmer  away  ! 

GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 

Maidens,  why  should  you  worry  in  choosing 

whom  you  should  marry  ? 
Choose  whom  you  may,  you  will  find  you 

have  got  somebody  else. 

JOHN  HAY. — Distichs,  10. 

The  difficulty  in  life  is  the  choice. 
GEO.  MOORE. — Bending  of  the  Bough, 
Act  4. 

The  mountain  sheep  are  sweeter, 
But  the  valley  sheep  are  fatter; 
We  therefore  deemed  Jit  meeter 
To  carry  off  the  latter. 

T.  L.   PEACOCK. — Elphin,  ch.  2. 

It  is  like  washing  bushels  of  sand  for 
a  grain  of  gold.        SCOTT. — Diary,  1826. 

Under  which  king,   Bezonian  ?   speak 
or   die  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  5,  3. 

There's  small  choice  in  rotten  apples. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  i,  i. 

For  not  that,  which  men  covet  most,  is 

best ; 
Nor  that  thing  worst,  which  men  doe  most 

refuse. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  6,  c.  g. 

Choose  your  love  and  then  love  your 
choice.  Prov. 

There    are   more   maids   than   Maukin 
and  more  men  than  Michael.    Prov.  (Ray). 

God  made  me  choose,  and   I  like  my 
choice.  Ring  posy  (c.  1650). 

Speak  weel  o'  the  Hielands,  but  dwell  in 
the  Laigh  (low).  Scottish  saying. 

CHRIST 

The  Vision  of  Christ  that  thou  dost  see 
Is  my  vision's  greatest  enemy. 
Thine  is  the  Friend  of  all  Mankind, 
Mine  speaks  in  Parables  to  the  blind. 
WM.  BLAKE. — The  Everlasting  Gospel. 

Hold  fast  His  hand, 
Though  the  nails  pierce  thee  too. 
HARRIET  ELEANOR  HAMILTON-KING.— 
The  Disciples. 

0  Son  of  Man  !  if  Thou  and  not  another 
I  here  have  known, 

If  I  may  see  Thee  then,  our  First-born 
Brother, 

Upon  Thy  throne, 
How  stern  soe'er,  how  terrible  in  brightness 

That  dawn  shall  break, 

1  shall  be  satisfied  with  Thy  dear  likeness, 
When  I  awake. 

DR.  T.  HODGKIN. — Christianity. 


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CHRISTIANITY 


CHRISTMAS 


I  believe  that  all  who  are  acquainted 
with  the  range  of  sacred  art  will  admit 
not  only  that  no  representation  of  Christ 
ever  has  been  even  partially  successful, 
but  that  the  greatest  painters  fall  therein 
below  their  accustomed  level. 

KUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  2,  pt.  3, 
ch.  5,  7. 

Thou  hast  conquered,  O  pale  Galilean. 
SWINBURNE. — To  Proserpine. 

CHRISTIANITY 

I  dare   without  usurpation  assume  the 
honourable  style  of  a  Christian. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  i,  i. 

Dear  Christian  people,  one  and  all, 
When  will  you  cease  your  sinning  ? 

CARLYLE  (Ir.  of  Goethe). 

Philosophy  makes  us  wiser,  but  Christi- 
anity makes  us  better  men. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  8,  c.  13. 

The  New  Testament  was  less  a  Christiad 
than  a  Pauliad  to  his  intelligence. 
T.  HARDY. — Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles,  4,  i. 

Christianity  is  an  idea,  and  as  such 
is  immortal,  like  every  idea. 

HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy. 

It  is  well  known  how  much  this  story 
about  Christ  has  profited  us  and  ours. 

Attributed  to  LEO  X. 

He  that  shall  collect  all  the  moral  rules 
of  the  philosophers,  and  compare  them 
with  those  contained  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment, will  find  them  to  come  short  of  the 
morality  delivered  by  our  Saviour  and 
taught  by  His  apostles. 

LOCKE. — Reasonableness  of  Christianity. 

It  [the  teaching  of  Christ]  is  all  pure ; 
all  sincere ;  nothing  too  much,  nothing 
wanting ;  but  such  a  complete  rule  of  life 
as  the  wisest  men  must  acknowledge  tends 
entirely  to  the  good  of  mankind,  and 
that  all  would  be  happy  if  all  would 
practise  it.  LOCKE.— lb. 

O  father  Abraham !  what  these  Christians 

are  ! 
Whose  own  hard  dealings  teach  them  to 

suspect 
The  thoughts  of  others  ! 

SHAKESPEARE.— Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  3. 

Christianity,  in  its  abstract  purity, 
became  the  exoteric  expression  of  the 
esoteric  doctrines  of  the  poetry  and  wisdom 
of  antiquity. 

SHELLEY.— Defence  of  Poetry  (1821) 


As  to  the  Christian  creed,  if  true 
Or  false,  I  never  questioned  it  ; 
I  took  it  as  the  vulgar  do. 

SHELLEY. — Rosalind  and  Helen. 

Christ     bless     thee,     brother,     for     that 
Christian  speech. 

SOUTHEY. — Roderick,  sec.  5. 

See  how  these  Christians  love  one 
another  !  TERTULLIAN. — Apol.  adv.  Gent. 

Scratch  the  Christian  and  you  find 
the  pagan — spoiled. 

I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  6. 

CHRISTMAS 

I  have  often  thought,  said  Sir  Roger, 
it  happens  very  well  th  Christmas  should 
fall  out  in  the  middle  of  the  winter. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  269. 

Christians  awake,  salute  the  happy  morn 

Whereon  the   Saviour   of   the  world  was 

born.  J.  BYROM. — Hymn. 

Though  some  are  dead  and  some  are  fled 
To  lands  of  summer  over  sea, 

The  holly  berry  keeps  his  red, 

The  merry  children  keep  their  glee. 

A.  LANG. — Ballade  of  Yule. 

Glorious  time  of  great  Too- much ! 
Too  much  heat  and  too  much  noise, 
Too  much  babblement  of  boys. 
Too  much  eating,  too  much  drinking, 
Too  much  everything  but  thinking. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Christmas. 

Right  thy  most  unthrifty  glee, 
And  pious  thy  mince-piety. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Ib. 

New  every  year, 
New  born  and  newly  dear, 
He  comes  with  tidings  and  a  song, 
The  ages  long,  the  ages  long. 
ALICE  MEYNELL. — Unto  us  a  Son  is  given. 

Sudden  as  sweet 
Come  the  expected  feet. 
All  joy  is  young,  and  new  all  art, 
And  He,  too,  Whom  we  have  by  heart. 
ALICE  MEYNELL. — Ib. 

Heap  on  more  wood  !  the  wind  is  chill ; 
But  let  it  whistle  as  it  will, 
We'll  keep  our  Christmas  merry  still. 
SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  Introduction. 

England  was  merry  England,  when 
Old  Christmas  brought  his  sports  again. 
'Twas  Christmas  broached  the  mightiest 

ale, 

'Twas  Christmas  told  the  merriest  tale  ; 
A  Christmas  gambol  oft  could  cheer 
The  poor  man's  heart  through  half  the 

year.  SCOTT. — Ib. 


68 


CHRISTMAS 


CHURCHES 


So  hallowed  and  so  gracious  is  the  time. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  i. 

Long-winded   schismatics   shall   rule   the 

roast, 

And  father  Christmas  mourn  his  revels  lost. 
SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

As  fits  the  holy  Christmas  birth, 
Be  this,  good  friends,  our  carol  still : 
Be  peace  on  earth,  be  peace  on  earth, 
To  men  of  gentle  will ! 

THACKERAY. — End  of  the  Play. 

At  Christmas  play  and  make  good  cheer, 
For  Christmas  comes  but  once  a  year. 

T.  TUSSER. — Good  Husbandry. 

Life  still  hath  one  romance  that  naught  can 

vary — 
Not   Time   himself,   who  coffins   Life's 

romances — 
For  still  will  Christmas  gild  the  year's 

mischances, 
If  Christmas  comes,  as  here,  to  make  him 

merry. 
T.  WATTS-DUNTON. — Christmas  Tree. 

So  now  is  come  our  joy  fullest  feast ; 

Let  every  man  be  jolly  ; 
Each  room  with  ivy  leaves  be  dressed, 

And  every  post  with  holly. 

G.  WITHER. — Christmas. 

With  an  old  fashion,  when  Christmas  is 

come, 
To  call  in  his  neighbors  with  bagpipe  and 

drum, 
'  And  good  cheer  enough  to  furnish  every 

old   room, 
And  old  liquor  able  to  make  a  cat  speak, 

and  a  wise  man  dumb. 

ANON. — Old  Song,  "  Of  an  Old  Courtier 
and  a  New." 

With  a  new  fashion,  when  Christmas  is 

come  on, 
With  a  journey  up  to  London  we  must 

be  gone, 
And  leave  nobody  at  home  but  our  new 

porter  John, 
Who  relieves  the  poor  with  a  thump  on 

the  back  with  a  stone. 

ANON. — Ibid. 

Yule's  come  and  Yule's  gane, 
And  we  hae  feasted  weel ; 

Sae  Jock  maun  to  his  flail  again, 
And  Jenny  to  her  wheel. 
Fifeshire  rhyme  (Cheviot's  Collection) . 

Men  who  fished  in  Yule  week 
Fortune  never  mair  did  seek. 

Fishermen's  saying  (Scottish). 

For  Christmas  comes  but  wanst  a  year, 
And  when  it  comes  it  brings  good  cheer, 
And  when  it  goes  it  laves  us  here, 
And  what  shall  we  do  for  the  rest  of  the 


year 


Irish  version  of  Old  Carol. 


CHRONIC 

"  Don't  repine,  my  friends,"  said  Mr. 
Pecksniff,  tenderly.  "  Do  not  weep  for 
me.  It  is  chronic." 

DICKENS. — Martin  Chuztlewit,  ch.  9. 

CHRONICLERS 

In    endless     night    they    sleep,    unwept, 

unknown, 
No  bard  had  they  to  make  all  time  their 

own. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Tr.  of  Horace,  Odes,  Bk.  4,  9. 

CHURCH  AND   CHURCHYARD 

One  place   there  is — beneath   the   burhl 

sod — • 

Where  all  mankind  are  equalised  by  death  . 
Another  place  there  is — the  Fane  of  God, 
Where  all  are  equal  who  draw  living 

breath.      HOOD.— Ode  to  Rae  Wilson. 

CHURCH  AND   STATE 

Necessity,  thou  tyrant  conscience  of  the 

great, 
Say  why  the  Church  is  still  led  blindfold 

by  the  State ; 
Why  should  the  first  be  ruined  and  laid 

waste, 
To  mend  dilapidations  in  the  last  ? 

SWIFT. — Ode  to  Saner  oft. 

CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND 

"  The  Church  of  England,"  I  said,  seeing 
that  Mr.  Inglesant  paused,  "  is  no  doubt 
a  compromise." 

J.  H.  SHORTHOUSE. — John  Inglesant. 

Place  before  your  eyes  two  precepts, 
and  two  only.  One  is  "  Preach  the 
Gospel,"  and  the  other  is  "  Put  down  en- 
thusiasm." [Attributed  to  Archdeacon 
Manners  Sutton]  .  .  .  The  Church  of 
England  in  a  nutshell ! 

MRS.  HUMPHRY  WARD. — Robert  Elsmere, 
Bk.  2, 16. 
CHURCH  MUSIC 

Some  to  church  repair, 
Not  for  the  doctrine,  but  the  music  there. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  342. 

CHURCHES   (Buildings) 

An  I  have  not  forgotten  what  the  inside 
of  a  church  is  made  of,  I  am  a  peppercorn, 
a  brewer's  horse. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3. 

I  never  weary  of  great  churches.     It 

is  my  favourite  kind  of  mountain  scenery. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Inland  Voyage. 

Such  to  this  British  Isle  her  Christian  fanes, 
Each  linked  to  each  for  kindred  services  ; 
Her  spires,  her  steeple-towers  with  glitter- 
ing vanes 


CHURCHES 

Far-kenued,   her  chapels  lurking  among 

trees, 

Where  a  few  villagers,  on  bended  knees. 
Find  solace  which  a  busy  world  disdains. 
WORDSWORTH.— Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  3,  17- 

CHURCHES,  THE 

Surely  the  church  is  a  place  where  one 

day's  truce  ought  to  be  allowed  to  the 

dissensions  and  animosities  of  mankind. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolutions. 

To  be  of  no  church  is  dangerous. 

JOHNSON. — Life  of  Milton. 

So  clomb  this  first  grand  thief  into  God's 

fold ; 
So  since  into  his  church  lewd  hirelings 

climb. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  192. 

Her  force  and  fire  all  spent  and  gone, 
Like  the  dead  moon,  she  still  shines  on. 
SIR  WM.  WATSON. — The  Church  To-day. 

CIPHERS 

Then  sat  summe,  as  siphre  .doth  in  awgrym 

(arithmetic), 
That  noteth  (marks)  a  place  and  nothing 

availeth. 
LANGLAND  (?). — Richard  the  Redelcss,  4,  53. 

CIRCLES 

And  as  when 

A  stone  is  flung  into  some  sleeping  tarn, 
The  circle  widens  till  it  lip  the  marge, 
Spread   the  slow   smile   through   all   her 

company. 

TENNYSON. — Pelleas  and  Ettarre,  88. 

CIRCUMLOCUTION 

Whatever  was  required  to  be  done,  the 

Circumlocution    Office    was     beforehand 

with  all   the  public  departments  in  the 

art  of  perceiving — HOW  NOT  TO  DO  IT. 

DICKENS. — Little  Dorrit,  Pt.  i,  ch.  10. 

CIRCUMSPECTION 

High-reaching    Buckingham    grows    cir- 
cumspect. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  4,  2. 

CIRCUMSTANCES 

Men  are  the  sport  of  circumstances,  when 

The  circumstances  seem  the  sport  of  men. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan.  c.  5,  17. 

Man  is  not  the  creature  of  circumstances. 

Circumstances  are  the  creatures  of  man. 

DISRAELI. — Vivian  Grey,  Bk.  6,  ch.  7. 

I  endeavour  to  subdue  circumstances 
to  myself,  and  not  myself  to  circum- 
stances. HORACE. — Ep.t  Bk.  i,  i,  191. 


CITIES 

Circumstances  never  made  the  man  do 

right  who  didn't  do  right  in  spite  of  them 

C.  KERNAHAN.— Book  of  Strange  Sins. 

CITIES 

A  rose-red  city  half  as  old  as  Time. 
DEAN  BURGON. — Petra. 

In  great  cities  men  are  more  callous 
both  to  the  happiness  and  the  misery  of 
others,  than  in  the  country ;  for  they  are 
constantly  in  the  habit  of  seeing  both 
extremes.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

In  cities  vice  is  hidden  with  most  ease, 
Or  seen  with  least  reproach. 

COWPER. — Task,  689. 

Cities  give  us  collision.  'Tis  said 
London  and  New  York  take  the  nonsense 
out  of  a  man. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life,  Culture. 

The  ecclesiastics  have  their  cathedral 
churches,  which,  in  what  town  soever  they 
be  erected,  by  virtue  of  holy  water  and 
certain  charms  called  exorcisms,  have  the 
power  to  make  those  towns  cities,  that  is 
to  say,  seats  of  empire. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  47. 

Surely  in  toil  or  fray, 
Under  an  alien  sky, 

Comfort  it  is  to  say, 
Of  no  mean  city  am  I. 

RUDYARD  KIPLING. — Seven  Seas. 

Paris,  half  Angel,  half  Grisette, 
I  would  that  I  were  with  thee  yet ; 
But  London  waits  me,  like  a  wife, 
London,  the  love  of  my  whole  life. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — Paris  Day  by  Day. 

Towered  cities  please  us  then, 
And  the  busy  hum  of  men. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  I.  117. 

As  one  who,  long  in  populous  city  pent, 
Where  houses  thick  and  sewers  annoy  the 

air. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  445. 

A  house  is  much  more  to  my  taste  than  a 

tree  ; 
And    for    groves !     O,    a    good    grove   of 

chimneys  for  me  ! 
CAPT.  CHAS.  MORRIS. — The  Contrast. 

0  give  me  the  sweet  shady  side  of  Pall 
Mall !  CAPT.  C.  MORRIS. — Ib. 

1  [Socrates]   am   a   lover  of   learning. 
Now  the  fields  and  trees  will  not  teach 
me  anything,  but  men  in  the  city  do. 

PLATO. — Phadrus,  10  (Gary  tr.). 

An  age  builds  up  cities  ;  an  hour  de- 
stroys them.  SENECA. — Nat.  Quast. 


CITIZENSHIP 


CLEANLINESS 


Augustus  Caesar  found  a  city  of  brick  ; 
he  left  it  a  city  of  marble. 

SUETONIUS. — CCKS.  Aug. 

I  never  learned  to  tune  a  harp  or  play 
a  lute  ;  but  I  know  how  to  raise  a  small 
city  to  glory  and  greatness. 

THEMISTOCLES  (as  ascribed  by  Plutarch). 

I  am  more  convinced  every  day  that 
there  is  not  only  no  knowledge  of  the 
world  out  of  a  great  city,  but  no  decency, 
no  practicable  society — I  had  almost  said 
not  a  virtue.  HORACE  WALPOLE. — Letter. 

A  city  that  is  at  unity  in  itself. 

Church  Psalter  cxxii,  3. 

Without  these  [the  handicrafts]  cannot  a 
city  be  inhabited.  Ecclesiasticus  xxxviii,  32. 

A  great  city  is  a  great  solitude. 

Ancient  Greek  prov. 

CITIZENSHIP 

Man  is  by  nature  a  civic  animal. 

ARISTOTLE. 

Here  once  the  embattled  farmers  stood, 

And  fired  the  shot  heard  round  the  world. 

EMERSON. — Hymn   at    Completion   of 

Concord  Monument. 

If  we  would  persuade  them  that  never 
at  all  should  one  citizen  hate  another,  and 
that  it  is  not  holy,  such  teaching  as  this 
is  desirable  for  early  childhood. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  2,  17. 

We  are  all  soldiers  of  the  state.     We  are 
all  in  the   pay  of  society  ;     we  become 
deserters  if  we  leave  it. 
VOLTAIRE. — L'Homme  aux  Quarante  Ecus. 

CIVILISATION 

The  three  great  elements  of  modern 
civilisation,  gunpowder,  printing,  and  the 
Protestant  religion. 

CARLYLE. — State  of  German  Literature. 

The  resources  of  civilisation  are  not 
yet  exhausted. 

GLADSTONE. — Leeds,  Oct.  7,  1881. 

It  is  so  sweet  to  find  one's  self  free  from 
the  stale  civilisation  of  Europe. 

A.  W.  KINGLAKE. — Eoihen. 

I   am  not  aware  that  any  community 

has  a  right  to  force  another  to  be  civilised. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  4. 

Soap  and  education  are  not  as  sudden 

as  a  massacre,  but  they  are  more  deadly 

in  the  long  run.         MARK  TWAIN. — Facts 

concerning  the  Recent  Resignation. 

The  civilized  savage  is  the  worst  of  all 
savages.  C.  J.  WEBER. 


CLAMOUR 

Because  half  a  dozen  grasshoppers  under 
a  fern  make  the  field  ring  with  their  im- 
portunate chink,  whilst  thousands  of 
great  cattle,  reposed  beneath  the  shadow 
of  the  British  oak,  chew  the  cud  and  are 
silent,  pray  dp  not  imagine  that  those  who 
make  the  noise  are  the  only  inhabitants 
of  the  field  ;  that,  of  course,  they  are  many 
in  number  ;  or  that,  after  all,  they  are 
other  than  the  little,  shrivelled,  meagre, 
hopping,  though  loud  and  troublesome 
insects  of  the  hour. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolution. 

CLASSES 

Of  all  the  lunacies  earth  can  boast, 
The  one  that  must  please  the  devils  the 

most 

Is  pride  reduced  to  the  whimsical  terms 

Of  causing  the  slugs  to  despise  the  worms. 

R.  BROUGH. — Tent-Maker's  Story. 

Thus,  it  has  been  said,  does  society 
divide  itself  into  four  classes — noblemen, 
gentlemen,  gigmen,  and  men. 

CARLYLE. — On  Johnson. 

For   ever   must   the   rich   man    hate   the 

poor.    W.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise, 

Bellerophon  at  Argos,  I.  515. 

Ring  out  the  feud  of  rich  and  poor. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  106. 

The  rich  is  born  to  spend  much  ;  the 
poor  is  made  to  amass  much. 

VOLTAIRE. — Defense  du  Mondain. 

The  worst  enemy  of  his  country  and 
of  his  kind  is  he  who  seeks  to  set  one  order 
against  the  other  by  false  aspersions  on 
their  prevalent  character. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  29. 

CLASSICAL  LEARNING 

Small  skill  in  Latin,  and  still  less  in  Greek, 
Is  more  than  adequate  to  all  I  seek. 

COWPER. — Tirocinium,  385. 

Classical  quotation  is  the  parole  of 
literary  men  all  over  the  world. 

JOHNSON. — Remark,  1781. 

And    though    thou    hadst    small    Latin 
and  less  Greek. 

BEN  JONSON. — On  Shakespeare. 

To  the  glory  that  was  Greece, 
And  the  grandeur  that  was  Rome. 

E.  A.  POE. — To  Helen. 

CLEANLINESS 

I'm  sorry  for  you, 
You  very  imperfect  ablutioner  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 


CLEARNESS 


CLERGY  AND  CLERICS 


Cleanliness  is  indeed  next  to  godliness. 
JOHN  WESLEY. — Sermon  93  (given  as 
a  quotation). 

CLEARNESS 

Meaning,  however,  is  no  great  matter. 
C.  S.  CALVERLEY. — Lovers. 

Oh  !  rather  give  me  commentators  plain, 
Who  with   no   deep   researches   vex   the 

brain  ; 
Who  from  the  dark  and  doubtful  love  to 

run. 
And  hold  their  glimmering  tapers  to  the 

sun. 

CRABBE. — Parish  Register,  Pi.  i. 

When  Phoebus  touched  the  Poet's  trem- 
bling ear 

With   one  supreme  commandment,  "  Be 
thou  clear." 

AUSTIN  DOBSON. — Dialogue  to  the 
Memory  of  Alex.  Pope. 

And  if  the  mind  with  clear  conceptions 

glow, 

The  willing  words  hi  just  expressions  flow. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

Unless  one  is  a  genius,  it  is  best  to  aim 
at  being  intelligible. 
SIR  A.  HOPE  HAWKINS. — Dolly  Dialogues. 

Socrates :  Do  we  understand,  or  how  ? 
Protarchus  :  I  endeavour  to  understand, 
Socrates  ;  but  do  you  endeavour  likewise 
to  speak  still  more  clearly. 

PLATO. — Philebus,  117. 

To  be  intelligible  is  to  be  found  out. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Lady  Windermere's  Fan. 

CLERGY  AND   CLERICS 

Wyd  was  his  parisshe,   and  houses    fer 
a-sonder. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol.,  v.  493. 

But  Cristes  lore  and  his  apostles  twelve 

He  taughte,  but  first  he  folwed  it  him- 

selve.      CHAUCER. — Ib.,  Prol.,  v.  529. 

I  conceive  that  priests  are  extremely 
like  other  men,   and  neither  the  better 
nor  the  worse  for  wearing  a  gown  or  a 
surplice. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

There  is  not  in  the  universe  a  more 
ridiculous  nor  a  more  contemptible  animal 
than  a  proud  clergyman. 

FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  9,  ch.  10. 

A  Protestant  country  clergyman  is 
perhaps  the  most  beautiful  subject  for 
a  modern  idyl.  Like  Melchisedek  he  ap- 
pears as  priest  and  king  in  one  person. 

GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  10. 


A  man  he  was  to  all  the  country  dear, 
And  passing  rich  with  forty  pounds  a  year. 
Remote  from  towns  he  ran  his  godly  race, 
Nor  e'er  had  changed  nor  wished  to  change 

his  place ; 

Unskilful  he  to  fa\vn  or  seek  for  power, 
By   doctrines   fashioned   to   the    varying 

hour.    GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

And  as  a  bird  each  fond  endearment  tries, 
To  tempt  its  new-fledged  offspring  to  the 

skies, 

He  tried  each  art,  reproved  each  dull  delay, 
Allured  to  brighter  worlds,  and  led  the 

way.  GOLDSMITH. — Ib. 

Still,  for  all  you've  so  gentle  a  soul, 
Gad  !  you've  your  flock  in  the  grandest 

control, 

Checkin*  the  crazy  ones, 
Coaxin'  onaisy  ones, 

Liftin'  the  lazy  ones  on  wid  the  shtick.' 
A.  P.  GRAVES.— Father  O'Flynn. 

And  sometimes  comes  she  with  a  tithe- 
pig's  tail, 

Tickling  a  parson's  nose  as  'a  lies  asleep, 
Then  dreams  he  of  another  benefice. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  1, 4. 

What  bishops  like  best  in  their  clergy 

is  a  dropping-down-deadness  of  manner. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — First  Letter  to 

Archdeacon  Singleton. 

From  long  residence  upon  your  living 

[you]  are  become  a  kind  of  holy  vegetable. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Peter  Plymley's  Letters, 

No.  i. 

As  the  French  say,  there  are  three  sexes 
— men,  women,  and  clergymen. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Sayings. 

You  have  met,  I  hear,  with  an  agreeable 
clergyman.  The  existence  of  such  a 
being  has  been  hitherto  denied  by  the 
naturalists  ;  measure  him,  and  put  down 
on  paper  what  he  eats. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  R.  Sharpe,  1835. 

I  have  seen  nobody  since  I  saw  you, 
but  persons  in  orders.  My  only  varieties 
are  vicars,  rectors,  curates,  and  every 
now  and  then  (by  way  of  turbot)  an 
archdeacon.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to 
Miss  Berry,  Jan.  28,  i-"|3. 

A  genius  in  the  reverend  gown 
Must  ever  keep  its  owner  down ; 
'Tis  an  unnatural  conjunction, 
And  spoils  the  credit  of  the  function. 
SWIFT. — To  Dr.  Delany,  1729. 

I  never  saw,  heard,  nor  read  that  the 
clergy  were  beloved  in  any  nation  where 
Christianity  was  the  religion  of  the  country. 
Nothing  can  render  them  popular  but  some 
degree  of  persecution. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Religion. 


CLERKS 

The  snowy-banded  dilettante, 
Delicate-handed  priest  intone. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  8. 

To  convert  a  cleric  (docteur)  is  an  im- 
possible task.  VOLTAIRE. — Discours  6. 

The  English  clergy  have  a  pious  ambition 
for  being  masters.  What  village  vicar 
would  not  wish  to  be  pope  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

CLERKS 

A  votary  of  the  desk. 

LAMB. — Oxford  in  Vacation. 

CLEVERNESS 

Ye're  a  vera  clever  chiel,  man,  but  ye 
wad  be  nane  the  waur  of  a  hanging. 

LORD     BRAXFIELD     (ROBERT     MAC- 
QUEEN). —  Remark    to    "an    eloquent 
culprit  at  the  bar." 

An'  you've  gut  to  git  up  airly 
Ef  you  want  to  take  in  God. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,   ist 
Series,  i. 

But  John  P. 
Robinson,  he 
Ses  they  didn't  know  everythin'  down  in 

Judee. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Ib.,  ist  Series,  3. 

If  all  the  good  people  were  clever, 

And  all  clever  people  were  good, 
The  world  would  be  nicer  than  ever 

We  thought  that  it  possibly  could. 
But  somehow  'tis  seldom  or  never 

The  two  hit  it  off  as  they  should ; 
The  good  are  so  harsh  to  the  clever, 

The  clever  so  rude  to  the  good  ! 
ELIZ.  WORDSWORTH. — St.  Christopher  and 
Other  Poems. 

CLIFFS 

Half-way  down 
Hangs  one  that  gathers  samphire,  Qreadful 

trade  ! 
Methinks  he  seems  no  bigger   than   his 

head ; 

The  fishermen,  that  walk  upon  the  beach, 
Appear   like    mice.  .  .  .  The   murmuring 

surge, 
That    on    the    unnumbered    idle  pebbles 

chafes, 
Cannot  be  heard  so  high. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  4,  6. 

CLIMATE 

The  cold  in  clime  are  cold  in  blood  ; 
Their  love  can  scarce  deserve  the  name. 
BYRON. — The  Giaour,  I.  1098. 

The  English  winter — ending  in  July, 
To  recommence  in  August. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  13,  42. 


CLOUDS 

Though  thy  clime 

Be  fickle,  and  thy  year,  most  part  deformed 
With   dripping  rains,   or  withered  by  a 

frost, 

I  would  not  yet  exchange  thy  sullen  skies, 
And  fields  without  a  flower,  for  warmer 

France, 
With  all  her  vines. 

COWPER. — Time  Piece,  209. 

Wherever  snow  falls  there  is  usually 
civil  freedom. 

EMERSON. — Civilization. 

Heat,  ma'am  !  It  was  so  dreadful  here 
that  I  found  there  was  nothing  left  for  it 
but  to  take  off  my  flesh  and  sit  in  my 
bones.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

A  listless  climate  made,  where,  sooth  to 

say, 
No  living  wight  could  work,  ne  cared  even 

for  play. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,  st.  2. 

England  is  windy ;  when  it  is  not  windy 
it  is  pestilent.  Mediaeval  saying. 

CLOTHING 

His  very  serviceable  suit  of  black 
Was  courtly  once,  and  conscientious  still. 
BROWNING. — How  it  strikes  a 
Contemporary . 

She  just  wore 

Enough  for  modesty — no  more. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — White  Rose  and  Red. 

A  silk  suit  which  cost  me  much  money, 
and  I  pray  God  to  make  me  able  to  pay 
for  it.  PEPYS. — Diary,  1660. 

When  you  would  select  a  wife, 
Do  not  call  on  Sunday  ; 

If  you'd  know  her  as  she  is, 
Better  seek  on  Monday. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Clothed  in  white  samite,  mystic,  wonder- 
ful. TENNYSON. — Coming  of  Arthur. 

CLOUDS 

The  clouds  in  thousand  liveries  dight. 
MILTON. — L' Allegro,  I.  62. 

I  am  the  daughter  of  earth  and  water, 

And  the  nurseling  of  the  sky  ; 
I  pass  through  the  pores  of  the  ocean  and 

shores, 
I  change  but  I  cannot  die. 

SHELLEY. — The  Cloud,  6. 

When  clouds  appear  like  rocks  and  towers, 

The     earth's     refreshed     with     frequent 

showers.  Old  Saying, 

If  woolly  fleeces  strew  the  heavenly  way, 

Be  sure  no  rain  disturbs  the  summer's  day. 

Old  Saying. 


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CLUBS 

Hen  scarts  and  filly  tails 
Make  lofty  ships  %vear  low  sails. 
Scottish  prov.   (of  light  clouds  resem- 
bling  hen's   claw-marks   and   tails   of 
young  mares). 

CLUBS 

Oh,  to  the  club,  the  scene  of  savage  joys, 

The  school  of  coarse  good-fellowship  and 

noise.  COWPER. — Conversation,  I.  421. 

Boswell  (said  he)   is  a  very  clubbable 
man.  JOHNSON. — Remark,  1783- 

A  very  unclubbable  man. 
JOHNSON. — Of  Sir  J.  Hawkins. 

Indian  clubs  are  good  for  the  liver  ; 
London  clubs  are  not. 
SIR  A.  VV.  PINERO. — The  Magistrate,  Act  i 
(Mrs.  Pocket). 

COALITIONS 

England  does  not  love  coalitions. 

DISRAELI. — Speech,  1852. 

COARSENESS 

Whose  laughs  are  hearty,  though  his  jests 

are  coarse, 
And  loves  you  best  of  all  things — but  his 

horse.  POPE. — To  Mrs.  Blount. 

COCKNEYS 

I'm  one  of  those  whose  infant  ears  have 
heard  the  chimes  of  Bow. 
THOS.  HOOD. — The  Desert-Born,  1837. 

Oh,  mine  in  snows  and  summer-heats, 
These  good  old  Tory  brick-built  streets  ! 
My  eye  is  pleased  with  all  it  meets 
In  Bloomsbury. 

WILFRED  WRITTEN. — Bloomsbury. 

COCKSURENESS 

I  wish  I  were  as  cock-sure  of  anything 
as  Tom  Macaulay  is  of  everything. 

LORD  MELBOURNE. — Remark  concern- 
ing Lord  Macaulay. 

The  cock  is  at  his  best  on  his   own 
dunghill.  SENECA. — De  Morle  Claudii. 

There  is  no  doubt  in  this  book. 

Koran,  ch.  2. 

COERCION 

Themistocles  told  the  Adrians  that  he 

brought  two  gods  with  him,  Persuasion  and 

Force.    They  replied  :  "  We  also,  have  two 

gods  on  our  side,  Poverty  and  Despair." 

HERODOTUS. 

The  more  the  fire  is  covered  up  the  more 
it  burns.  OVID. — Metam.,  Bk.  4. 

The   current    that    with    gentle    murmur 
glides, 


COLLEGES 

Thou  know'st,  being  stopped,  impatiently 

doth  rage.  SHAKESPEARE. — Two 

Gentlemen  of  Verona,  Act  2,  7. 

COFFEE 

Coffee,  which  makes  the  politician  wise, 
And  see  through  all  things  with  his  half- 
shut  eyes. 
POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  3,  117. 

COGITATION 

His  cogitative  faculties  immersed 
In  cogibundity  of  cogitation. 
H.  CAREY. — Chrononhotonthologos,  i,  i. 

COINCIDENCE 

The  long  arm  of  coincidence. 

C.  H.  CHAMBERS. — Capt.  Swift. 

COLD  WEATHER 

It  is  a  nipping  and  an  eager  air. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

A*   the  months  with   an   R   hi   them 

[Months  for  household  fires  in  Scotland]. 

Scottish  saying. 

COLLEAGUES 

It  did  so  happen,  that  persons  had  a 
single  office  divided  between  them,  who 
had  never  spoke  to  each  other  in  their 
lives,  until  they  found  themselves,  they 
knew  not  how,  pigging  together,  heads 
and  points,  in  the  same  truckle-bed. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  American 
Taxation. 

COLLECTIONS 

If  a  good  story  will  not  answer  [to 
disorganize  an  unfriendly  audience],  still 
milder  remedies  sometimes  serve  to  dis- 
perse a  mob.  Try  sending  round  the 
contribution-box.  EMERSON. — Resources. 

It  cannot  be, — it  is — it  is — 

A  hat  is  going  round. 
£>.  W.  HOLMES. — Music  Grinders. 

COLLECTORS 

A  snapper-up  of  unconsidered  trifles. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  2. 

This  snug  little  chamber  is  crammed  in 

all  nooks 
With  worthless  old  knick-knacks  and  silly 

old  books, 

And  foolish  old  odds  and  foolish  old  ends, 
Cracked    bargains    from    brokers,    cheap 

keepsakes  from  friends. 
THACKERAY. — Cane-bottomed  Chair. 

COLLEGES 

I  do  not  recognize  as  a  public  institution 
those  laughable  establishments  called 
colleges.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 


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COLONIES 


COMBAT 


If  rudeness  be  the  effect  of  knowledge, 
My  son  shall  never  see  a  college. 

SWIFT. — Apology  to  Lady  Carteret. 

COLONIES 

We  view  the  establishment  of  the  English 
colonies  on  principles  of  liberty  as  that 
which  is  to  render  this  kingdom  venerable 
to  future  ages. 

BURKE. — Address  to  Colonies  (1777). 

Through  a  wise  and  salutary  neglect  [of 
the  British  colonies]  a  generous  nature 
has  been  suffered  to  take  her  own  way 
to  perfection. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

The  English  sway  of  their  colonies  has 
no  root  of  kindness.  They  govern  by 
their  arts  and  ability ;  they  are  more 
just  than  kind. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  9, 
Cockayne  (1833). 

The  reluctant  obedience  of  distant  pro- 
vinces generally  costs  more  than  it  is 
worth.  MACAULAY. — Mahon's 

War  of  the  Succession. 

Remote     compatriots,      wheresoe'er     ye 

dwell. 
By  your  prompt  voices,  ringing  clear  and 

true, 
We  know  that  with  our  England  all  is 

well : 
Young    is   she    yet,    her    world-task    but 

begun  ; 
By  you  we  know  her  safe,  and  know  by 

you 

Her  veins  are  million  but  her  heart  is  one. 
SIR  WM.  WATSON. — Ver  Tenebrosum. 

Hands    across    the    sea, 
Feet  on  English  ground, 
The   old   blood   is   bold    blood,  the   wide 

world  round. 
BYRON  WEBBER. — Hands  across  the  Sea. 

In  deep  and  awful  channel  runs 
This  sympathy  of  Sire  and  Sons  ; 
Untried    our    brothers    have    been   loved 
With    heart    by    simple    nature    moved ; 
And  now  their  faithfulness  is  proved. 
WORDSWORTH. — White  Doe  of  Rylstone, 

c.  2. 
COLOURS 

The  purest  and  most  thoughtful  minds 

are   those   which   love   colour   the   most. 

RUSKIN. — Stones  of  Venice,  2, 

ch.  5,  sec.  30. 

Blue  is  true, 
Yellow  is  jealous, 
Green's  forsaken, 
Red's  brazen, 
White  is  love, 
And  black  is  death. 
Colour  Superstitions  (E.  of  England). 


COMBAT 

Dim  is  the  rumour  of  a  common  fight, 
Where  host  meets  host,  and  many  names 

are  sunk  ; 

But  of  a  single  combat  fame  speaks  clear. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Sohrab  and  Rustum. 

Give  us  this  day  good  hearts,  good  enemies, 
Good  blows  o'  both  sides. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Bonduca, 
Act  3,  i. 

He  hath  sounded  forth  the  trumpet  that 

shall  never  call  retreat, 
He  is  sifting  out  the  hearts  of  men  before 

His  judgment  seat, 

Oh,  be  swift,  my  soul,  to  answer  Him  ! 
be  jubilant,  my  feet ! 
Our  God  is  marching  on  ! 
JULIA  WARD  HOWE. — Battle  Hymn 
of  the  Republic  (U.S.A.). 

One  of  us  two,  Herminius, 
Shall  never  more  go  home ; 

I  will  lay  on  for  Tusculum, 
And  lay  thou  on  for  Rome  ! 
MACAULAY. — Lake  Regillus,  si.  27. 

So  frowned  the  mighty  combatants,  that 

hell 
Grew  darker  at  their  frown. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  719. 

Full  many   a  bloody   day 
In  toilsome  fight  he  spent ; 

And  many  a  wakeful  night 
In  battle's  management. 

J.  PHILIPS. — Tr.  of  Plutarch. 

Now  truce,  farewell,  and  ruth,  begone  ! 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake. 

What   god  can   tell,   what  numbers   can 

display 

The  various  labours  of  that  fatal  day, 
What  chiefs  and  champions  fell  on  either 

side, 
In  combat  slain,  or  by  what  deaths  they 

died? 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  2  (Dryden  tr.). 

Whosoever  fighteth  for  the  religion  of 

God,  whether  he  be  slain  or  be  victorious, 

we  will  surely  give  him  a  great  reward. 

Koran,  ch.  4. 

There's  some  say  that  we  wan, 

Some  say  that  they  wan, 
Some  say  that  nane  wan  at  a',  man  ; 

But  one  thing  I'm  sure, 

That  at  the  Shirra  Muir 
A  battle  there  was,  which   I   saw,   man. 

And  we  ran  and  they  ran, 

And  they  ran  and  we  ran, 
And  we  ran,   and  they  ran   awa',   man. 
Old  Scottish  Song,  referring  to  the  battle 
of  Sheriff-Muir   (November  13,  1715). 


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COMBAT1VENESS 


COMMERCE 


COMBATIVENESS 

I  was  ever  a  fighter,  so — one  fight  more, 
The  best  and  the  last  ! 

BROWNING. — Prospice. 

He   that   wrestles  with  us   strengthens 
our  nerves  and  sharpens  our  skill.     Our 
antagonist  is  our  helper. 
BURKE. — Thoughts  on  French  Revolution. 

A  controversy  that  affords 
Actions  for  arguments,  not  words. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Away    he    scours    and    lays    about    him, 

Resolved  no  fray  should  be  without  him. 

GAY. — Fables,  34. 

I  welcome  the  fight  as  if  it  were  a 
holiday.  [Falk.] 

IBSEN. — Love's  Comedy,  Act  2  (1862). 

So,  ere's  to  you,  Fuzzy-Wu/zy,  at  your 

'ome  in  the  Soudan  ; 
You're  a  pore  benighted   'eathen  but  a 

first-class  fightin'  man. 
RUDYARD  KIPLING. — Fuzzy-Wuzzy. 

COMBINATION 

When  bad  men  combine,  the  good  must 
associate. 

BURKE. — Cause  of  Present  Discontents. 

COMEDY 

The  literature  of  joy  is  infinitely  more 
difficult,  more  rare,  and  more  triumphant 
than  the  black  and  white  literature  of 
pain. 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — The  Defendant : 
Defence  of  Farce. 

COMFORT 

It's  grand,   and  you  canna  expect  to 
be  baith  grand  and  comfortable. 
SIR  J.  M.  BARRIE. — Little  Minister  ch.  10. 

Them  as  ha'  never  had  a  cushion  don't 
miss  it.  GEO.  ELIOT. — Adam  Bede,  ch.  49. 

A  house  full  of  books,  and  a  garden  of 
flowers. 
A.  LANG. — Ballade  of  True  Wisdom. 

COMFORTERS 

By  his  sovereign  might 
That  works  no  ill,  was  she  from  evil  freed  ; 

And  by  his  breath  divine 
She  findeth  rest,  and  weeps  in  floods  of 

tears 

Her  sorrowing  shame  away. 
AESCHYLUS. — Suppliants,  571  (Plump- 
tre  tr.).  (Of  the  cure  of  lo  by  Jove.) 

Most  of  our  misfortunes  are  more  sup- 
portable than  the  comments  of  our  friends 
upon  them.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 


He  receives  comfort  like  cold  porridge. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  2,  i. 

Miserable  comforters  are  ye  all. 

Job  xvi,  2. 

COMMANDS 

All  her  commands  were  gracious,  sweet 

requests. 

How  could  it  be  then,  but  that  her  requests 
Must  need  have  sounded  to  me  as  com- 
mands ? 
COLERIDGE. — Zapolya,  Pt.  2,  Act  i. 

Yet  seemed  that  tone  and  gesture  bland 
Less  used  to  sue  than  to  command. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  i,  st.  21. 

COMMENTATORS 

Distinctions,     that    had    been     at    first 

designed 

To  regulate  the  errors  of  the  mind, 
By    being    too    nicely   overstrained    and 

vexed 
Have  made  the  comment  harder  than  the 

text. 

S.  BUTLER. — Upon  the  Abuse  of  Human 

Learning. 

Commentaries  are  commonly  more 
subject  to  cavil  than  the  text,  and  there- 
fore need  other  commentaries ;  and  so 
there  will  be  no  end  of  such  interpreta- 
tion. HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  2,  6. 

I  heard  a  whisper  from  a  ghost  who 
shall  be  nameless,  "  that  these  comment- 
ators always  kept  in  the  most  distant 
quarters  from  their  principals  in  the  lower 
world,  through  a  consciousness  of  shame 
and  guilt,  because  they  had  so  horribly 
misrepresented  the  meaning  of  these 
authors  to  posterity."  SWIFT. — Laputa. 

As  learned   commentators  view 

In  Homer  more  than  Homer  knew. 

SWIFT. — On  Poetry. 

How    commentators   each    dark    passage 

shun, 
And  hold   their  farthing  candles   to  the 

Sun. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  7. 

COMMERCE 

For  Commerce,  though  the  child  of  Agri- 
culture, 

Fosters  his  parent,  who  else  must  sweat 
and    toil 

And  gain  but  scanty  fare. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Edward  III. 

In  little  trades  more  cheats  and  lying 
Are  used  in  selling  than  in  buying ; 
But  in  the  great,  unjuster  dealing 
Is  used  in  buying  than  in  selling. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 


COMMITTEES 


COMMON  SENSE 


Business   men    boast   of    their   skill    and 

cunning, 
But   in    philosophy    they    are    like    little 

children. 
Bragging    to    each    other    of    successful 

depredations, 
They  neglect  to  consider  the  ultimate  fate 

of  the  body. 
CH'EN  TZU-AGIG  (Chinese  poet,  Jth 

century)  (Arthur  Waley's  translation). 

Down  the  river  did  glide,  with  wind  and 

tide, 

A  pig  with  vast  celerity  ; 
And  the  Devil  looked  wise  as  he  saw  how 

the  while 
It  cut  its  own  throat.     "  There,"  quoth 

he,  with  a  smile, 

"  Goes  England's  commercial  prosperity." 
COLERIDGE. — Devil's  Thoughts,  st.  8. 

Art  thrives  most 

Where  commerce  has  enriched  the  busy 
coast.  COWPER. — Charity,  114. 

East    and    west,    and    north    and   south, 
Under  the  crescent  or  under  the  cross, 

One  song  you  hear  in  every  mouth — 
Profit  and  loss,  profit  and  loss. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — Scaramouch  in  Naxos,  sec.$. 

A     true-bred    merchant    is     the    best 
gentleman  in  the  nation. 
DEFOE. — Robinson  Crusoe.    The  Further 
Adventures. 

No  nation  was  ever  ruined  by  trade. 
B.  FRANKLIN. 

Commerce  !  beneath  whose  poison-breath- 
ing shade 

No  solitary  virtue  dares  to  spring  ; 
But  poverty  and  wealth,  with  equal  hand, 
Scatter  their  withering  curses. 

SHELLEY  .—Queen  Mab,  c.  5. 

If  a  man  knew  what  would  be  dear, 
He  would  be  merchant  but  for  a  year. 
Old  Saying. 

COMMITTEES 

Committee    is    a    noun    of    multitude, 

signifying  many  ;  but  not  signifying  much. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON.— "  Salt-Cellars." 

The  committee  sat  and  sat  and  sat, 
till  every  sensible  plan  was  crushed  as 
flat  as  a  pancake.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. — Ib. 

Noah  buDt  the  ark,  for  he  was  one  man  ; 
but  all  the  men  in  the  world,  formed  into 
a  committee,  could  not  finish  a  tower. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — Ib. 

COMMONPLACE 

It  is  right  and  meet  that  there  should 
be  an  abundant  utterance  of  common- 
places. Part  of  an  agreeable  talker's 


charm  is  that  he  lets  them  fall  continually 

with  no  more  than  their  due  emphasis. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such. 

A   Too  Deferential  Man. 

A   common-place   book  contains  many 

Notions  in  Garrison,   whence  the  owner 

may  draw  out  an  army  into  the  field  on 

competent   warning.       T.  FULLER. — Holy 

State  and  Profane  State.     (Of  Tombs.) 

An  everyday  young  man  ; 

A  commonplace  type 

With  a  stick  and  a  pipe, 
And   a  half-bred  black-and-tan. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Patience. 

It  is  difficult  to  speak  commonplaces 
effectively.  HORACE. — DeArte  Poetica,  218. 

He  has  more  than  anyone  the  wit  which 
everyone  possesses.  MONTESQUIEU. 

He  learns  how  stocks  will  fall  or  rise  ; 
Holds  poverty  the  greatest  vice ; 
Thinks  wit  the  bane  of  conversation  ; 
And  says  that  learning  spoils   a  nation. 
PRIOR. — Chameleon. 

To  suckle  fools  and  chronicle  small 
beer.  SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2>  i. 

It's  deadly  commonplace,  but  after  all 
the  commonplaces  are  the  great  poetic 
truths. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Weir  of  Hermiston. 

It  is  always  the  unreadable  that  occurs. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions. 

The  common  growth  of  Mother  Earth 
Suffices  me — her  tears,   her  mirth, 
Her  humblest  mirth  and  tears. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Prologue. 

COMMON   SENSE 

Be  neither  saint  nor  sophist-led,  but 
be  a  man.  M.  ARNOLD. — Empedocles. 

He  knew  what's  what,  and  that's  as  high 
As  metaphysic  wit  can  fly. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Nothing  astonishes  men  so  much  as 
common  sense  and  plain  dealing. 

EMERSON. — Art. 

The  cure  for  false  theology  is  mother-wit. 

Forget    your    books    and    traditions    and 

obey  your  moral  perceptions  at  this  hour. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life,  Worship. 

On  fire  that  glows 
With  heat  intense 

I  turn  the  hose 
Of  common  sense, 

And  out  it  goes 
At  small  expense. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— lolanthe. 


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COMMON  THINGS 


COMPARISONS 


Sword  of  Common  Sense  1 
Our  surest  gift. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Ode. 

Good   sense,   which    only   is   the   gift    of 

Heaven, 
And,    though    no    science,    fairly    worth 

the  seven.  POPE. — Ep.  4. 

Fine  sense  and  exalted  sense  are  not 
half  so  useful  as  common  sense.  There 
are  forty  men  of  wit  to  one  man  of  sense, 
and  he  that  will  carry  nothing  about 
him  but  gold  will  be  every  day  at  a  loss 
for  want  of  readier  change. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Common  sense  is  a  bad  judge  when  it 
deals  with  great  matters.  RENAN, 

Common  sense  is  a  kind  of  sixth  sense, 
.ess  because  it  is  common  to  all  men  than 
because  it  results  from  the  well-ordered 
use  of  the  other  senses. 

ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

No  Englishman  has  any  common  sense, 
or  ever  had  or  ever  will  have. 
G.  B.  SHAW.— John  Bull's  Other  Island. 

Steer  your  ship  by  the  stars,  but  don't 
forget  the  sands. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — John  Ploughman. 

Foremost  captu  n  of  his  tune, 
Rich  in  saving  common-sense, 
And,  as  the  greatest  only  are, 
In  his  simplicity  sublime. 
TENNYSON. — On  the  Duke  of  Wellington. 

Common  sense  is  not  so  common. 

VOLTAIRE. 

Plain  sense  but  rarely  leads  us  far 
astray.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

COMMON   THINGS 

A  thing  is  not  vulgar  because  it  is  merely 
common.  HAZLITT. — On  Vulgarity. 

COMMUNICATIVENESS 

In  trying  to  achieve  success 
No  envy  racks  our  heart ; 

And  all  the  knowledge  we  possess 
We  mutually  impart. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

COMMUNISM 

The  right  of  all  to  all  things,  and  con- 
sequently the  war  of  all  against  all. 

HOBBES. 

COMPANIONSHIP    AND    COMPANY 

Above   all   things   endeavour   to   keep 
company  with  people  above  you. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 


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Society  we  must  have  ;  but  let  it  be 
society,  and  not  exchanging  news  or 
eating  from  the  same  dish. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

When  he  is  here, 

I  sigh  with  pleasure — 

When  he  is  gone, 
I  sigh  with  grief. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Sorcerer. 

If  you  would  be  loved  as  a  companion, 
avoid  unnecessary  criticism  upon  those 
with  whom  you  live. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  7. 

Crowd  not  your  table  :  let  your  number  be 
Not  more  than  seven,  and  never  less  than 
three. 

DR.  W.  KING. — Art  of  Cookery. 

It  costs  far  more  trouble  to  be  admitted 

or  continued  in  ill  company  than  in  good. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Banish  plump  Jack,  and  banish  all  the 
•  world. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pi.  i,  Act  2,4. 

Company,  villainous  company,  hath 
been  the  spoil  of  me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  3. 

Therefore  'tis  meet. 
That  noble  minds  keep  ever  with   their 

likes  ; 

For  who  so  firm  that  cannot  be  seduced  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  i,  2. 

Best  company  consists  of  five  persons. 
STEELE. — Tatltr. 

I   love  good   creditable  acquaintance ; 

I  love  to  be  the  worst  of  the  company. 

SWIFT. — Letter,  1711. 

He  showed  me  his  bill  of  fare  to  tempt 
me  to  dine  with  him  "  Foh  !  "  said  I, 
"  I  value  not  your  bill  of  fare ;  give  me 
your  bill  of  company."  SWIFT. — Ib. 

One  sickly  sheep  infects  the  flock, 
And  poisons  all  the  rest. 
I.  WATTS. — A  gainst  Evil  Company. 

Evil  company  doth  corrupt  good 
manners.  i  Corinthians  xv,  33  (R.V.) 

COMPARISONS 

Her  goodness  doth  disdain  comparison, 
And,  but  herself,  admits  no  parallel. 
MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  4,  3. 

To  compare 

Great  things  with  small. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost    Bk.  2,  921. 


COMPASSION 


COMPETITION 


Our  discontent  is  from  comparison. 

J.  NORRIS. — Consolation. 

Comparing  what  thou  art 

With  what  thou  mightst  have  been. 

SCOTT. — Waterloo,  i8< 

Hyperion  to  a  satyr. 
SHAKESPEARE,  Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

Comparisons  are  odorous. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  5. 

Let  us  like  merchants  show  our  foulest 

wares, 

And  think,  perchance,  they'll  sell ;  if  not, 
The  lustre  of  the  better  shall  exceed 
By  showing  the  worse  first. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  i,  3. 

Rome  only  might  to  Rome  compared  be. 
SPENSER. — Ruines  of  Rome. 

None  but  himself  can  be  his  parallel. 
L.  THEOBALD. — Double  Falsehood. 

COMPASSION 

Take  her  up  tenderly, 

Lift  her  with  care  ; 
Fashioned  so  slenderly, 

Young  and  so  fair  ! 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs. 

Teach  me  to  feel  another's  woe, 

To  hide  the  fault  I  see ; 
That  mercy  I  to  others  show, 

That  mercy  show  to  me. 

POPE. — Universal  Prayer. 

First  Murderer  :  Relent !  'tis  cowardly, 
and  womanish.  Clarence  :  Not  to  relent 
is  beastly,  savage,  devilish. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i 

COMPATIBILITY 

"  My  idea  of  an  agreeable  person," 
said  Hugo  Bohun,  "  is  a  person  who  agrees 
with  me."  DISRAELI. — Lothair,  ch.  41. 

COMPENSATION 

Thy  fame,  thy  worth,  thy  filial  love  at  last, 

Shall  soothe  his  aching  heart  for  all  the  past. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  i . 

One  moment  may  with  bliss  repay 
Unnumbered  hours  of  pain. 

CAMPBELL. — Ritter  Bann. 

Men  may  scoff  and  men  may  pray, 

But  they  pay 

Every  pleasure  with  a  pain. 
W.  E.  HENLEY. — Ballade  of  Truisms. 

There  is  some  soul  of  goodness  in  things 

evil 

Would  men  observingly  distil  it  out. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.t  Act  4,   i. 


Many  a  green  isle  needs  must  be 
In  the  deep  wide  sea  of  misery, 
Or  the  mariner,  worn  and  wan, 
Never  thus  could  voyage  on. 

SHELLEY. — Euganean  Hills. 

This  was  an  hour 

That  sweetened  life,  repaid  and  recom- 
pensed 

All  losses  ;  and  although  it  could  not  heal 
All  griefs,  yet  laid  them  for  awhile  to  rest. 
SOUTHEY. — Roderick,  sec.  18. 

A  little  evil  is  often  necessary  for  ob- 
taining a  great  good. 

VOLTAIRE. — Baron  d'Otrante. 

COMPETENCE 

Meanwhile,   allowing    things   below   your 

merit 

Yet,  doctor,  you've  a  philosophic  spirit ; 
Your  wants  are  few,  and,  like  your  income, 

small, 
And  you've  enough  to  gratify  them  all. 

P.  DELANY. — To  Lord  Carteret,  1729. 

How  much  richer  are  you  than  millions 
of  people  who  are  in  want  of  nothing  ! 
FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  3,  c.  n. 

O  grant  me,  heaven,  a  middle  state, 
Neither  too  humble  nor  too  great ; 
More  than  enough  for  nature's  ends, 
With  something  left  to  treat  my  friends. 

D.  MALLET. — Tr.  of  Horace. 

I've  often  wished  that  I  had  clear, 

For  life,  six  hundred  pounds  a  year. 

POPE. — Imit.  of  Horace,  Bk.  2,  Sat.  6,  I.  i. 

Him  for  a  happy  man  I  own 
Whose  fortune  is  not  overgrown, 
And  happy  he  who  wisely  knows 
To  use  the  gifts  that  heaven  bestows. 
SWIFT. — Horace,  Odes,  4,  9. 

An  elegant  sufficiency,  content, 
Retirement,  rural  quiet,  friendship,  books. 
THOMSON.— -Seasons* 

What  limits  shall  we  fix  to  the  vague  and 
shifting  notion  of  a  competency  ?  The 
truth  is  that  everything  is  a  competency 
which  a  man  is  inclined  to  live  on,  and 
therefore  it  varies  as  his  desires  are 
more  or  less  reasonable. 

J.  TRUSLER. — System  of  Etiquette  (1804). 

A  competence  is  vital  to  content ; 
Much  wealth  is  corpulence,  if  not  disease. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

A  competence  is  all  we  can  enjoy. 

YOUNG. — lb.,  6. 
COMPETITION 

So  nice  a  difference  in  your  singing  lies, 

That  both  have  won,  or  both  deserved,  the 

prize.    DRYDEN. — Virgil,  Pastoral,  3. 


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COMPLACENCY 


COMPROMISE 


Nothing  is  ever  done  beautifully  which 
is  done  in  rivalship,  nor  nobly  which  is 
done  in  pride.  RUSKIN. — Ethics  of  the  Dust. 

COMPLACENCY 

Had  that  calm  look  which  seemed  to  all 
assent, 

And  that  complacent  speech  which  noth- 
ing meant. 

CRABBE. — Parish  Register,  Pt.  i. 

One  truth  is  clear,  whatever  is  is  right. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man. 

To  observations,  which  ourselves  we  make, 

We  grow  more  partial,  for  the  observer's 

sake.      POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  i. 

Woe  unto  them  that  are  wise  in  their 
own  eyes!  Isaiah  v,  21. 

COMPLAINT 

Do  not  suppose  that  you  are  hurt  and 
your  complaint  will  cease.  Cease  com- 
plaint and  you  are  no  longer  hurt. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Meditations,  Bk. 

4,  7. 

Can  anybody  remember  when  the  times 
were  not  hard,  and  money  not  scarce  ? 
EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

There  is  no  fortune  so  good  that  you 
can  find  nothing  in  it  to  complain  of. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

The  worst  wheel  always  creaks  most. 
French  prov. 

COMPLETENESS  AND  COMPLETION 

But  now  my  task  is  smoothly  done, 
I  can  fly,  or  I  can  run. 

MILTON. — Comus,  I.  1012. 

Toy,  joy  for  ever  ! — my  task  is  done — 

The  Gates  are  past  and  Heaven  is  won. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

The  last  act  crowns  the  play. 

QUARLES. — Emblems. 

The  wheel  has  come  full  circle. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  5,  3. 

COMPLEXION 

There  is  a  garden  in  her  face 

Where  roses  and  white  lilies  grow. 
R.  ALISON. — Recreation  in  Music. 

Her  face  !  oh,  call  it  fair,  not  pale. 

COLERIDGE. — Christabel,  Pt.  2. 

Her  brow  was  fair,  but  very  pale,  and 

looked 
Like  stainless  marble  ;  a  touch  methought 

would  soil 
Its  whiteness. 

PARRY  CORNWALL. — Magdalen. 


What  though  the  sun,  with  ardent  frown, 

Had  slightly  tinged  her  cheek  with  brown  ? 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake. 

Mislike  me  not  for  my  complexion, 
The   shadowed   livery   of   the   burnished 

sun. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  i. 

With  a  red  man  rede  thy  rede  ; 
With  a  brown  man  break  thy  bread  ; 
At  a  pale  man  draw  thy  knife  ; 
From  a  black  man  keep  thy  wife. 

Old  Rhyme,  Wright's  "  Passions  of 
the  Mind"  1604. 

COMPLEXITY  OF   CHARACTER 

With  knowledge  so  vast,  and  with  judg- 
ment so  strong, 

No  man  with  the  half  of  'em  e'er  went 
far  wrong ; 

With  passions  so  potent,  and  fancies  so 
bright, 

No  man  with  the  half  of  'em  e'er  went 
quite  right. 

BURNS. — Sketch  :  inscribed  to  C.  J.  Fox. 

In  him,  inexplicably  mixed,  appeared 
Much  to  be  loved,  much  hated,  sought, 
and  feared.    BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  17. 

COMPLIANCE 

A  short  and  certain  way  to  obtain  the 
character  of  a  reasonable  and  wise  man 
is,  whenever  anyone  tells  you  his  opinion, 
to  comply  with  it. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

COMPLIMENT 

You're  exceedingly  polite, 
And  I  think  it  only  right 
To  return  the  compliment. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

To  compliments  inflated  I've  a  withering 

reply, 
And    vanity    I    always   do   my  best   to 

mortify. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

This  barren  verbiage,  current  among  men, 

Light  com,  the  tinsel  clink  of  compliment. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  2,  40. 

When  quality  meets,  compliments  pass. 

Prov. 
COMPRESSION 

Even  copious  Dryden  wanted,  or  forgot, 

The  last  and  greatest  art,  the  art  to  blot. 

POPE. — Satires  and  Epistles  Imitated, 

znd  Bk.  Ep.  of  Horace,  267. 

COMPROMISE 

All  government,  indeed  every  human 
benefit  and  enjoyment,  every  virtue 


COMPULSION 


COMRADES 


and   every   prudent   act,    is   founded   on 
compromise  and  barter. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

The  half  is  better  than  the  whole. 

HESIOD. — Works  and  Days. 

They  enslave  their  children's  children  who 
make  compromise  with  sin. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Present  Crisis. 

That  bastard  verdict,  "  Not  proven." 
I  hate  that  Caledonian  medium  quid.  One 
who  is  not  proved  guilty  is  innocent  in 
the  eyes  of  the  law. 

SCOTT. — Diary.  Feb.  20,  1827. 

All  great  alterations  in  human  affairs 
are  produced  by  compromise. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Catholic  Question. 

Is  not  compromise  of  old  a  god  among 
you  ? 

SWINBURNE. — Word  from  the  Psalmist. 

COMPULSION 

Nothing  is  pleasant 
Joined  with  a  must. 
R.  BRIDGES. — Nero,  Pt.  i,  Act  5,  i. 

He  that  complies  against  his  will 
Is  of  his  own  opinion  still. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  c.  3. 

All   that  makes  existence  valuable   to 

anyone   depends   on   the   enforcement  of 

restraints  upon  the  actions  of  other  people. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  Introduction. 

On  what  compulsion  must  I  ?    tell  me 

that.  SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of 

Venice,  Act  4,  i. 

If  you  cannot  make  a  man  think  as  you 
do,  make  him  do  as  you  think. 

American  Saying. 

One  thing  thinketh  the  bear,  but  all 
another  thinketh  his  leader. 

Saying  (Chaucer,  Troilus,  Bk.  4). 

COMRADES 

For  danger  levels  man  and  brute, 
And  all  are  fellows  in  their  need. 

BYRON. — Mazeppa,  st.  3. 

Though  I  don't  like  the  crew,  I  won't 
sink  the  ship.  I'll  do  my  best  to  save  the 
ship.  I'll  pump  and  heave  and  haul  and 
do  anything  I  can,  though  he  that  pulls 
with  me  were  my  enemy.  The  reason  is 
plain.  We  are  all  in  the  ship  and  must 
sink  or  swim  together. 

DEFOE. — The  Review,  1708. 

But  'tis  always  the  way  on  't ;  one  scarce 

finds  a  brother. 

Fond  as  pitch,  honest,  hearty,  and  true 
to  tne  core, 


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But  by  battle  or  storm  or  some  damned 

thing  or  other 

He's  popped  off  the  hooks  and  we  ne'er 
se«  him  more. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Grieving's  a  Folly. 

Matilda  :   A  sudden  thought  strikes  me. 
Let  us  swear  an  eternal  friendship ! 
Cecilia :  Let  us  agree  to  live  together ! 

J.  H.  FRERE. — The  Rovers,  Act  i,  i. 

Every  man, 
To  aid  his  clan, 
Should  plot  and  plan 
As  well  as  he  can. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

As  unto  the  bow  the  cord  is, 

So  unto  the  man  is  woman  ; 

Though  she  bends  him,  she  obeys  him, 

Though  she  draws  him,  yet  she  follows. 

Useless  each  without  the  other  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — Hiawatha,  Pt.  10. 

Be  no  one's  boon  companion.  You 
will  have  less  pleasure  and  less  pain. 

MARTIAL. — Bk.  12. 

For   we   were  nursed  upon  the  self-same 
hill.  MILTON. — Lycidas,  23. 

Draw  near  together ;  none  be  last  OP  first ; 

We  are  no  longer  names,  but  one  desire  ; 

With   the  same  burning  of  the  soul  we 

thirst, 

And  the  same  wine  to-night  shall  quench 
our  fire. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Sacramenlum 
Supremum  (1905). 

There  is  nothing  wanting  to  make  all 
rational  and  disinterested  people  in  the 
world  of  one  religion,  but  that  they  should 
walk  together  every  day. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

A  pleasant  possession  is  useless  without 
a  comrade.  SENECA,  Ep.  6. 

One  writ  with  me  in  sour  misfortune's 
book. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  5,  3. 

Where  are  the  boys  of  the  old  Brigade, 
Who  fought  with  us  side  by  side  ? 
F.  E.  WEATHERLEY. — Old  Brigade. 

Horses  he  loved  and  laughter  and  the  sun, 

A  song,  wide  spaces  and  the  open  air. 

The  trust  of  all  dumb  living  things  he  won, 

And  never  knew  the  luck  too  good  to 

share. 

Now,  though  he  will  not  ride  with  us  again, 

His  merry  spirit  seems  our  comrade  yet, 

Freed   from   the  power  of  weariness  and 

pain, 
Forbidding  us  to  mourn  or  to  forget. 

ANON.— Quoted  1916, 


CONCEALMENT 


CONCISENESS 


Thy  people  shall  be  my  people,  and  thy 
God  my  God.  Where  thou  diest,  will  I 
die,  and  there  will  I  be  buried  :  the  Lord 
do  so  to  me,  and  more  also,  if  aught 
but  death  part  thee  and  me. 

Ruth  i,  1 6  and  17. 

Saul  and  Jonathan  were  lovely  and 
pleasant  in  their  lives,  and  in  their  death 
they  were  not  divided.  2  Samuel  i,  23. 

CONCEALMENT 

I  canna  tell,  I  mauna  tell, 

I  darena  for  your  anger ; 
But  secret  love  will  break  my  heart, 

If  I  conceal  it  langer. 

BURNS. — Craigie-burn  Wood. 

It  is  in  truth  a  most  contagious  game  : 

HIDING  THE  SKELETON,  shall  be  its  name. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  17. 

Duke  :    And  what's  her  history  ? 

Viola :    A   blank,    my   lord.     She   never 

told  her  love, 
But  let  concealment,  like  a  worm  i'  the 

bud, 

Feed  on  her  damask  cheek. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

However  deep  you  might  embower  the 

nest, 
Some  boy  would  spy  it. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  Prol.,  148. 

To  hide  disease  is  fatal.       Latin  prov. 

CONCEIT 

The  arch-flatterer,  which  is  a  man's  self. 
BACON. — Essays,  Of  Ceremonies. 

It  was  prettily  devised  of  jEsop  :  The 
fly  sat  upon  the  axle-tree  of  the  chariot- 
wheel,  and  said,  "  What  a  dust  do  I  raise ! " 
BACON.— Of  Vain-Glory. 

He  was  like  a  cock  who  thought  the 
sun  had  risen  to  hear  him  crow. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — A  dam  Bede,  ch.  33. 

Conceit  is  the  finest  armour  a  man  can 
wear.  J.  K.  JEROME. — Idle  Thoughts. 

The  surest  way  to  be  taken  in  is  to 
think  yourself  cleverer  than  others. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

There  never  was  so  wise  a  man  before  ; 
He  seemed  the  incarnate  "  Well,  I  told  you 
so!  " 

LONGFELLOW. — Poet's  Tale,  st.  9. 

Of  all  speculations  the  market  holds  forth, 
The  best  that  I  know  for  a  lover  of  pelf, 

to  buy up,  at  the  price  he  is  worth, 

And  then  sell  him  at  that  which  he  sets 
on  himself. 

MOORE. — A  Speculation. 


Almost  everybody  is  capable  of  thinking 
he  has  done  more  than  another  deserves, 
while  the  other  thinks  he  has  received  less 
than  he  deserves. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Conceit  in  weakest  bodies  strongest  works. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

As  who  should  say,  I  am  Sir  Oracle, 
And  when  I  ope  my  lips  let  no  dog  bark  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  i. 
CONCENTRATION 

Who  keeps  one  end  in   view   makes   all 
things  serve. 

BROWNING. — In  a  Balcony. 

Concentration  is  the  secret  of  success 
in  politics,  in  war,  in  trade,  in  short  in 
all  the  management  of  human  affairs. 

EMERSON. — Power. 

Once  science  only  will  one  genius  fit, 
So  vast  is  art,  so  narrow  human  wit. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  60. 

Have  the  courage  to  be  ignorant  of  a 
great  number  of  things,  in  order  to  avoid 
the  calamity  of  being  ignorant  of  every- 
thing. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  9. 

CONCESSIONS 

The  concessions  of  the  weak  are  the 
concessions  of  fear. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

CONCILIATION 

With    reconciling    words    and    courteous 

mien 
Turning   into   sweet    milk    the   sophist's 

spleen.  KEATS. — Lamia,  Pt.  2. 

Still  in  thy  right  hand  carry  gentle  peace, 
To  silence  envious  tongues. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

Give  him  all  kindness  :  I  had  rather  have 
Such  men  my  friends,  than  enemies. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ceesar,  Act  5,  4. 

To  Cerberus  they  give  a  sop, 
His  triple  barking  mouth  to  stop. 

SWIFT. — On  Poetry. 
CONCISENESS 

In    few    but    sweetest    numbers,    Muse, 

rehearse  : 

My  few  shall  far  exceed  more  numerous 
verse. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  4, 
181  (Creech  tr.). 

He  had  a  wonderful  talent  for  packing 

thought  close,  and  rendering  it  portable. 

MACAULAY. — Bacon. 


CONCORD 


CONFIDENCE 


He  speaks  reserv'dly,  but  he  speaks  with 

force, 
Nor  can  one  word  be  changed  but  for  a 

worse.       POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  8,  191. 

Sum  up  thy  speech,  many  things  in 
few  words. 

Ecclesiasticus  32,  8  (R.V.). 

CONCORD 

Of  divers  voices  is  sweet  music  made  : 
So  in  our  life  the  different  degrees 
Render  sweet  harmony  among  these  wheels. 
H.  F.  GARY. — Dante's  Paradise,  c.  6,  127. 

CONDEMNATION 

We  ought  not  to  be  so  rash  and  rigorous 
in  our  censures  as  some  are  :  charity  will 
judge  and  hope  the  best.     God  be  merciful 
unto  us  all ! 
BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy,  PL  i. 

The  world  is  full  of  pots  calling  the 
kettles  black. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  586. 

He  hears 

On  all  sides,  from  innumerable  tongues, 
A  dismal  universal  hiss,  the  sound 
Of  public  scorn. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  10,  506. 

More  matter  with  less  art. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

CONDOLENCE 

Funeral  grief  loathes  words. 
T.  DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  i. 

CONDUCT 

When  we  are  asked  further,  What  is 
conduct  ?  let  us  answer,  Three-fourths  of 
life. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Literature  and  Dogma,  ch.  i. 

Conduct  is  three-fourths  of  our  life  and 
its  largest  concern.  M.  ARNOLD. — Ib. 

Our  ingress  into  the  world 
Was  naked  and  bare ; 
Our  progress  through  the  world 
Is  trouble  and  care  ; 
Our  egress  from  the  world 
Will  be  nobody  knows  where  : 
But  if  we  do  well  here 
We  shall  do  well  there. 
LONGFELLOW. — Tales  of  a  Wayside  Inn, 

Pt.    2. 

Love  all,  trust  a  few, 
Do  wrong  to  none. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  i,  i. 

The  system  in  everything  ought  to  be, 
— do  as  you  please — so  long  as  you  please 
to  do  what  is  right.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — 

Lectures  on  Moral  Philosophy,  No.  19. 


From  another's  evil  qualities  a  wise  man 
corrects  his  own.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Be  sparing  of  four  things,  lingua,  loculis, 
oculis,  et  poculis — your  tongue,  your  purse, 
your  eyes,  and  your  cups. 

J.  TRUSLER. — System  of  Etiquette. 

Fear  thy  God,  speak  ill  of  none, 
Stick  to  the  truth  and  don't  be  done. 
Old  Maxim. 

CONFEDERATES 

"  Arcades     ambo,"     id    est — blackguards 
both. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  4,  st.  93. 

CONFESSION 

All  shame  is  cowardice.  The  bravest 
spirit  is  the  best  qualified  for  a  penitent. 
He  then  that  will  be  honest  must  dare  to 
confess  that  he  has  been  a  knave. 

DEFOE. — Serious  Reflections. 

A  fault  confessed 
Is  a  new  virtue  added  to  a  man. 
J.  S.  KNOWLES. — Love-Chase,  Act  i,  2. 

He's  half  absolved  who  has  confessed. 
PRIOR. — Alma,  2,  22. 

It  is  a  greater  thing  to  know  how  to 
acknowledge  a  fault  than  to  know  how 
not  to  commit  one. 
CARDINAL  DE  RETZ. — Memoir.t,  vol.  2,  13. 

And  now  am  I,  if  a  man  should  speak 
truly,  little  better  than  one  of  the  wicked. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

CONFIDENCE 

I  felt  so  young,  so  strong,  so  sure  of  God. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  2. 

Self-trust  is  the  first  secret  of  success. 
EMERSON. — Success. 

Confidence  placed  in  another  often  compels 
confidence  in  return.    LIVY. — 22,  22. 

And,  confident  we  have  the  better  cause, 
Why  should  we  fear  the  trial  ? 

MASSINGER. — Bashful  Lover,  Act  i. 

Like  Cato,  give  his  little  senate  laws, 
And  sit  attentive  to  his  own  applause. 
POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires,  209. 

My  dreams  presage  some  joyful  news  at 

hand  ; 

My  bosom's  lord  sits  lightly  in  his  throne. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 

Act  5,  i. 


CONFIDENCE,  MISPLACED 


CONNOISSEURS 


Ferd :  Here's   my   hand, 
Miranda  :  And  mine,  with  my  heart  in't. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  2,  i. 

In  a  just  cause  it  is  right  to  be  confident. 
SOPHOCLES. 

Youth  is  confident,  manhood  wary,  and 
old  age  confident  again. 

M.  F.  TUPPER. — Proverbial 
Philosophy.     Of  Experience. 

For  they  can  conquer  who  believe  they 
can. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  5  (Dry den  tr.). 

If  he  has  been  capable  of  believing  me 
unworthy  of  his  trust,  then  it  is  he  who  is 
for  ever  unworthy  of  me. 

VOLTAIRE. — Tancrede  (Armenatde) , 

A  man  of  hope  and  forward-looking 
mind.  WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  7. 

The  past  unsighed  for,  and  the  future 
sure.  WORDSWORTH. — Laodamia. 

CONFIDENCE,  MISPLACED 

Now,  behold,  thou  trustest  upon  the 
staff  of  this  bruised  reed,  even  upon 
Egypt,  on  which  if  a  man  lean,  it  will  go 
into  his  hand  and  pierce  it. 

2  Kings  xviii,  21. 

CONFISCATION 

A  fine  method  ! 
This  is  neither  begging,   borrowing,   nor 

robbery  ; 

Yet  it  hath  a  fine  twang  of  all  of  them. 
MASSINGER. — Guardian,  Act  5,  4. 

CONFLICT 

The  meeting  of  these  champions  proud 

Seemed  like  the  bursting  thunder-cloud. 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  3,  st.  5. 

CONFLICT  OF  PASSIONS 

Who   can   be   wise,    amazed,    temperate, 

and  furious, 
Loyal  and  neutral,  in  a  moment  ?     No 

man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  3. 

CONFORMABILITY   AND    CON- 
FORMITY 

They  make  it  a  principle  of  their 
Irreligion  outwardly  to  conform  to  any 
religion. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Bill  for  Relief 
of  Dissenters  (1773). 

My  son  !  the  road  the  human  being  travels, 
That,  on  which  BLESSING  comes  and  goes, 

doth  follow 
The   river's   course,    the   valley's   playful 

windings, 


Curves  round  the  cornfield  and  the  hill 

of  vines, 

Honouring  the  holy  bounds  of  property  ; 
And  thus  secure,  though  late,  leads  to  its 

end. 
COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini,  Act  i,  4. 

It  is  often  the  shorter  way  and  the  more 

useful  to  conform  to  other  people,  rather 

than  to  make  other  people  conform  to  us. 

LA  BRUY&RE. — De  la  Socieli,  48. 

The  world's  wicked. 
We   are   men,    not   saints,    sweet   lady ; 

you  must  practise 

The  manners  of  the  time  if  you  intend 
To  have  favour  from  it. 
MASSINGER. — Unnatural  Combat,  Act  i,  i. 

It  is  the  rule  of  rules  and  the  general 
law  of  laws  that  everyone  should  observe 
that  of  the  place  where  he  is. 

MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  i,  zz. 

CONFUSION 

Feels  himself  spent  and  fumbles  for  his 
brains.  COWPER. — Table  Talk,  536. 

Chaos  umpire  sits, 

And  by  decision  more  embroils  the  fray 
By  which  he  reigns  :  next  him  high  arbiter 
Chance  governs  all. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  z,  907. 

Confusion  worse  confounded. 

MILTON. — lb.,  Bk.  z,  996. 

They  whose  affairs  are  in  a  dangerous 
or  confused  state,  proceed  to  make  them 
more  confused,  so  that  nothing  can  be 
settled.  PLAUTUS. — Mostellaria,  Act  5,  i. 

CONGE  D'ELIRE 

A  congt  d'tlire  is  just  such  a  recom- 
mendation as  if  I  should  throw  you  out 
of  a  three-pair-of-stairs  window  and  recom- 
mend you  to  fall  to  the  ground. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Sir  John  Hawkins. 

CONJECTURE 

Say  first,  of  God  above,  of  man  below. 
What  can  we  reason,  but  from  what  we 
know  ? 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  8. 

CONNOISSEURS 

If  they  could  forget  for  a  moment  the 
correggiosity  of  Correggio. 

CARLYLE. — Frederick  the  Great,  Bk.  4,  3. 

For  a  male  person  bric-a-brac  hunting  is 
about  as  robust  a  business  as  making 
doll-clothes. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Tramp  Abroad,  c.  20. 


CONQUEST 


CONSCIENCE 


CONQUEST 

Then  fly  betimes,  for  only  they 
Conquer  Love,  that  run  away. 

T.  CAREW. — Conquest  by  Flight. 

The  vanquished   have  no  friends. 
SOUTHEY. — Vision  of  Maid  of  Orleans 

The  gates  of  hell  are  open  night  and  day  ; 
Smooth  the  descent,  and  easy  is  the  way  ; 
But  to  return  and  view  the  cheerful  skies — 
In  this  the  task  and  mighty  labour  lies. 
To  few  great  Jupiter  imparts  this  grace, 
And  those  of  shining  worth  and  heavenly 

race. 

VIRGIL. — jEneid,  Bk.  6  (Dryden  tr.). 

Great  let  me  call  him,  for  he  conquered 
me.     YOUNG. — The  Revenge,  Act  i,  i. 

CONSCIENCE 

Ah,  what  an  embarrassment  is  a  con- 
science, and  how  happy  one  might  be  if 
one  were  without  it ! 

E.  AUGIER. — Homme  de  Bien. 

Good  conscience  you  owe  to  yourself  ; 
good  fame  to  your  neighbour. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. 

The  great  beacon-light  God  sets  in  all, 
The  conscience  of  each  bosom. 

BROWNING. — Strafford,  Act  4,  2. 

Conscience  wakened  in  a  fever, 
Just  a  day  too  late,  as  ever. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — White  and  Red. 

Nor  ear  can  hear,  nor  tongue  can  tell 
The  tortures  of  that  inward  hell. 

BYRON. — Giaour,  753. 

Whatever  creed  be  taught  or  land  be  trod, 
Man's  conscience  is  the  oracle  of  God. 
BYRON. — The  Island,  c.  i,  6. 

Hence,   babbling   dreams !    you   threaten 

here  in  vain. 
Conscience,    avaunt !      Richard's   himself 

again  ! 

C.  CIBBER. — Richard  III.  (adaptation), 
Act  5,  3. 

Conscience,  good  my  lord, 
Is  but  the  pulse  of  reason. 

COLERIDGE. — Zapolya,  PI.  i,  i. 

In  early  clays  the  Conscience  has  in  most 
A  quickness  which  in  later  life  is  lost. 

COWPER. — Tirocinium,  109. 

Men  vehemently  in  love  with  their  own 
new  opinions,  though  never  so  absurd, 
and  obstinately  bent  to  maintain  them, 
give  those  opinions  also  that  reverenced 
name  of  conscience  .  .  .  and  so  pretend 
to  know  they  are  true,  when  they  know 
at  most  but  that  they  think  so. 

HOBBES.  —Leviathan,  c.  7. 


A  man's  conscience  and  his   judgment 

is  the  same  thing,  and  as  the  judgment, 

so  also  the  conscience,  may  be  erroneous. 

HOBBES. — Ib.,  c.  29. 

To  all  mortals  conscience  is  a  God. 

MENANDER  (Greek). 

Now  Conscience  wakes  Despair 
That  slumbered  ;  wakes  the  bitter  memory 
Of  what  he  was,  what  is,  and  what  must 
be. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  23. 

All  fame  is  foreign,  but  of  true  desert ; 

Plays  round  the  head,  but  comes  not  to 
the  heart : 

One  self-approving  hour  whole  years  out- 
weighs 

Of  stupid  starers,   and  of  loud  huzzas ; 

And  more  true  joy  Marcellus  exiled  feels, 

Than  Cassar  with  a  senate  at  his  heels. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  253. 

What  conscience  dictates  to  be  done, 

Or  warns  me  not  to  do, 
This,  teach  me  more  than  hell  to  shun, 

That,    more   than   heaven   pursue. 

POPE. — Universal  Prayer. 

On  he  moves, 

Careless  of  blame,  while  his  own  heart 
approves.  ROGERS. — Human  Life. 

Conscience !  Conscience !  divine  in- 
stinct, immortal  and  heavenly  voice ; 
the  sure  guide  of  an  ignorant  and  limited 
but  intelligent  and  free  existence ;  in- 
fallible judge  of  good  and  evil,  who  render 
man  like  to  God  !  It  is  you  who  make  the 
excellence  of  his  nature  and  the  moral 
goodness  of  his  actions ;  without  you  I 
feel  nothing  in  me  which  raises  me  above 
the  brutes, — nothing  but  the  sad  privilege 
of  leading  myself  astray,  from  errors  to 
errors,  by  the  help  of  an  understanding 
without  rule,  and  a  reason  without 
principle.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

There  is  a  degree  of  debasement  which 
takes  the  life  out  of  the  soul.  The  internal 
voice  can  no  longer  make  itself  heard  to 
him  whose  only  thought  is  to  nourish 
himself.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

A  man  has  less  conscience  when  in  love 
than  in  any  other  condition. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Metaphysics  of  Love. 

A  sinful  heart  makes  feeble  hand. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  3,  st.  31. 

A  conscience  that  ne'er  did  him  any  harm. 
SCOTT. — Waverley  (referring 
to  an  easy-going  conscience). 

Thus  conscience   doth   make   cowards  of 
us  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 


CONSCIENTIOUSNESS 


CONSOLATION 


A  peace  above  all  earthly  dignities, 
A  still  and  quiet  conscience. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

Some  certain  dregs  of  conscience  are  yet 

within  me. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  4. 

Love  is  too  young  to  know  what  conscience 

is ; 
Yet,  who  knows  not  conscience  is  born 

of  love. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  151. 

And    conscience,   that    undying    serpent, 

calls 
Her  venomous  brood  to  their  nocturnal 

task. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mob,  c.  3. 

Nay  truly,  learned  men  have  learnedly 
thought  that  .  .  .  the  inward  light  each 
mind  hath  in  itself,  is  as  good  as  a  Philo- 
sopher's book. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for  Poetrie. 

What  better  bed  than  conscience  good, 

to  pass  the  night  with  sleep  ? 
What  better  work  than  daily  care  fro'  sin 

thyself  to  keep  ? 
What  better  thought  than  think  on  God, 

and  daily  him  to  serve  ? 
What  better  gift  than  to  the  poor  that 

ready  be  to  sterve  ? 
T.  TUSSER. — Posits  for  the  Bed  Chamber. 

Conscience,  a  terrifying  little  sprite, 
That  bat-like  winks  by  day  and  wakes  by 
night.         J.  WOLCOT. — Lousiad,  c.  3. 

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS 

Not  always  right  in  all  men's  eyes, 
But  faithful  to  the  light  within. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Birthday  Tribute. 

CONSENT 

Now  what  could  artless  Jeanie  do ; 

She  had  nae  will  to  say  him  na : 
At  length  she  blushed  a  sweet  consent, 

And  love  was  aye  between  them  twa. 
BURNS. — There  was  a  lass. 

A  little  while  she  strove,  and  much  re- 
pented, 

And  whispering  "  I  will  ne'er  consent," 
consented. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  st.  117. 

He  hath,  my  lord,  wrung  from  me  my 

slow  leave 

By   laboursome   petition ;    and,    at   last 

Upon  his  will  I  sealed  my  hard  consent' 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

I  must  marry  the  girl  first  and  ask  his 
consent  afterwards. 

SHERIDAN.— St.  Patrick's  Day. 


86 


CONSERVATISM 

It   seems   to  me   a  barren   thing   this 

Conservatism — an    unhappy    cross-breed, 

the  mule  of  politics  that  engenders  nothing. 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  3, 

c.  5  (Eustace  Lyle). 

The  staid,  conservative, 
Came-over-with-the-Conqueror     type     of 

mind. 

SIR  WM.  WATSON. — Study  in  Contrasts, 

i,  42. 

Toryism  is  an  innate  principle  o'  human 
nature — Whiggism  but  an  evil  habit. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  Ambrosiana. 

CONSIDERATION 

Let  us  cease  shrieking  and  b«gin  con- 
sidering ! 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  3, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  6. 
CONSISTENCY 

But  Consistency  still  wuz  a  part  of  his 

plan, — 
He's  been  true  to  one  party — an"  thet 

is  himself. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  No.  3. 

CONSOLATION 

There  is  a  day  of  sunny  rest 

For   every   dark   and   troubled   night : 

And  grief  may  hide  an  evening  guest, 

But  joy  shall  come  with  early  light. 

W.  C.  BRYANT. — Blessed  are  they 

that  Mourn. 

Words    that    will    solace   him  while  life 
endures.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

Never  a  tear  bedims  the  eye 
That   time   and   patience   will   not   dry ; 
Never  a  lip  is  curved  with  pain 
That  can't  be  kissed  into  smiles  again. 
BRET  HARTE. — Lost  Galleon. 

Watching,  not  as  a  fellow  sufferer, 
but  as  it  were  from  afar,  with  dispassionate 
vision,  he  [Simonides]  tried  to  lighten 
men's  cares  by  such  pathetic  melodies 
as  taught  men  by  then-  very  sweetness, 
that  the  gift  of  tears  is  (as  has  been  said) 
[by  Juvenal  15,  131]  the  best  gift  of  God 
to  suffering  man. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  16 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

The   philosophic    brain   soothes  not   the 

stricken  heart. 
SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Rhyme,  the  Consoler. 

There  is  no  consolation,  except  in 
truth  alone.  PASCAL. — On  Death. 

This  is  the  comfort  of  friends,  that 
though  they  may  be  said  to  die,  yet 


CONSPIRACIES 


CONTEMPLATIVE  FACULTIES 


their  friendship  and  society  are,  in  the 

best  sense,  ever  present,  because  immortal. 

PENN. — Fruits  of  Solitude. 

Everyone  can   master  a  grief  but  he 
that  has  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  2. 

Over  the  bridge  of  sighs  we  pass   to 
the  palace  of  peace. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

In  all  distresses  of  our  friends 
We  first  consult  our  private  ends ; 
While   Nature,   kindly   bent   to   ease  us, 
Points  out  some  circumstance  to  please  us. 
SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

What  shall  be  said  ?  for  words  are  thorns 
to   grief.  SWINBURNE. — Atalanla. 

They  are  worse  treated  than  we  are  ; 

but  that  is  the  consolation  of  the  damned. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter   to   D'Alembert, 

July  8,  1771. 

For  sunlight  gleams  upon  this  shadowed 

earth  ; 

Sunlight  and  shadow  waver  to  and  fro, 

And  sadness  echoes  in  the  voice  of  mirth, 

And  music  murmurs  through  the  wail 

of   woe. 

AUGUSTA  WEBSTER. — A  Woman  Sold,  3, 
To  and  Fro. 

There  is  a  comfort  in  the  strength  of  love  : 

'Twill  make  a  thing  endurable,  which  else 

Would    overset   the   brain   or  break   the 

heart.  WORDSWORTH. — Michael. 

Not    without    hope    we    suffer    and    we 

mourn. 

WORDSWORTH. — On  a  picture  of  Peele 
Castle  (1805). 

CONSPIRACIES 

When   two   or   three   were   gathered   to 

declaim 

Against   the  monarch  of  Jerusalem, 
Shimei  was  always  in  the  midst  of  them. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom,  601. 

O  the  curst  fate  of  all  conspiracies ! 
They  move  on  many  springs ;  if  one  but 

fail 
The  restive  machine  stops. 

DRYDEN. — Don  Sebastian,  Act  4. 

CONSTANCY 

Except  that  household  virtue,  most  un- 
common, 
Of  Constancy  to  a  bad,  ugly  woman. 

BYRON. — Vision  of  Judgment,  st.  12. 

Seasons  may  roll, 
But  the  true  soul 
Burns  the  same  where'er  it  goes. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 


When  change  itself  can  give  no  more, 
'Tis  easy  to  be  true. 

SIR  C.  SEDLEY. — Constancy. 

To  love  one  maiden  only,  cleave  to  her, 
And  worship  her  by  years  of  noble  deeds, 
Until  they  won  her. 

TENNYSON. — Guinevere,  471. 

Woman  is  like  a  weathercock  which, 
when  it  is  new,  glistens  in  the  sun  and 
turns  at  every  wind,  but  becomes  fixed  at 
last  when  time  has  rusted  it. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Diposifaire. 

There  is  no  other,  and  I  am  he, 
That  loves  no  other,  and  thou  art  she. 
Ring  Posy. 

Kepe  Fayth  till  deth.    Old  Ring  Posy. 

It  is  good  to  be  merry  and  wise, 
It  is  good  to  be  honest  and  true, 
It  is  best  to  be  off  with  the  old  love, 
Before  you  are  on  with  the  new. 
Published  in  "  Songs  of  England  and 
Scotland,"  London,  1835. 

CONSTITUENTS 

The  king,  and  his  faithful  subjects,  the 
Lords  and  Commons  of  this  realm — the 
triple  cord,  which  no  man  can  break. 
BURKE. — Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord  (1796). 

The  principles  of  a  free  constitution  are 
irrecoverably  lost  when  the  legislative 
power  is  nominated  by  the  executive. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  3. 

Like  the  British  Constitution,  she  owes 
her  success  in  practice  to  her  inconsistencies 
in  principle. 

T.  HARDY. — Hand  of  Ethelberla,  ch.  g. 

Constitoounts  air  hendy  to  help  a  man  in, 

But  afterwards  don't  weigh  the  heft  of  a  pin. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  No.  5. 

There  is  a  higher  law  than  the  Constitu- 
tion. W.  H.  SEWARD. — Speech,  1850. 

CONSUMMATION 

'Tis  a  consummation 
Devoutly  to  be  wished. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,   i. 

CONTEMPLATIVE  FACULTIES 

Perfect  happiness  is  some  sort  of  energy 
of  Contemplation,  for  all  the  life  of  the 
gods  is  therein  glad,  and  that  of  men  glad 
in  the  degree  in  which  some  likeness  to 
the  gods  in  this  energy  belongs  to  them. 
For  none  other  of  living  creatures  (but 
men  only)  can  be  happy,  since  in  no  way 
they  have  any  part  in  Contemplation. 

ARISTOTLE. — Ethics,  Bk.  10  (As 
translated  by  Ruskin). 


CONTEMPORARIES 


CONTENT 


CONTEMPORARIES 

Every  age 
Appears    to   souls    who   live    in    it    (ask 

Carlyle) 
Most  unheroic. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  5. 

I  do  distrust  the  poet  who  discerns 
No  character  or  glory  in  his  times. 

E.  13.  BROWNING. — Ib. 

Contemporaries     appreciate     the    ma 

rather  than  the  merit ;  but  posterity  wi 

regard  the  merit  rather  than  the  man. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon 

Speaking    generally    no    man    appear 
great  to  his  cotemporaries,  for  the  same 
reason  that  no  man  is  great  to  his  servant 
— they  know  too  much  of  him. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Ib 

The  way  of  this  world  is  to  praise  dea< 
saints  and  persecute  living  ones. 

DR.  N.  HOWE. — Sermon 

CONTEMPT 

Who  despises  all  displeases  all. 
ALBERTANO  OF  BRESCIA. — Lib.  Cons. 

The    Sacristan,    he   says    no    word    that 

indicates  a  doubt, 
But  he  puts  his  thumb  unto  his  nose,  and 

spreads  his  fingers  out. 

R.  H.  BARHAM.— Nell  Cook. 

I  will  not  descend  to  a  world  I  despise. 
BYRON. — Hours  of  Idleness,  To  Rev. 
J.  T.  Becher. 

I  pity  his  ignorance  and  despise  him 
[Fanny  Squeers}. 

DICKENS. — Nickleby,  ch.  15. 

Let    Sporus    tremble! — A.     What,    that 

thing  of  silk  ? 

Sporus,  that  mere  white  curd  of  ass's  milk  ? 
Satire  or  sense,  alas !  can  Sporus  feel  ? 
Who  breaks  a  butterfly  upon  a  wheel  ? 
POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires. 

I  had  rather  be  a  dog,  and  bay  the  moon, 
Than  such  a  Roman. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  C&sar,  Act  4,  3. 

Scorned !   to  be  scorned  by  one  that  I 

scorn, 
Is  that  a  matter  to  make  me  fret  ? 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  13,  j. 

Gorgonised  me  from  head  to  foot 
With  a  stony  British  stare. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  Pt.  i,  13,  2. 

No  one  can  boast  of  having  never  been 
despised. 

VAUVENARGUES.— Maxim  888. 


Disdainfully    she    looked ;    then    turning 

round, 
She  fixed   her  eyes   unmoved   upon   the 

ground, 
And  what  he  says  and  swears  regards  no 

more 
Than  the  deaf  rocks,  when  the  loud  billows 

roar. 
VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  6  (Dryden  tr.). 

CONTENT 

Blesses  his  stars  and  thinks  it  luxury. 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i. 

But  if  I'm  content  with  a  little, 
Enough  is  as  good  as  a  feast. 
I.  BICKERSTAFFE. — Love  in  a  Village, 
Act  3,  z. 

The  countless  gold  of  a  merry  heart, 
The  rubies  and  pearls  of  a  loving  eye, 

The  idle  man  never  can  bring  to  the  mart, 

Nor  the  cunning  hoard  up  in  his  treasury. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Two  Kinds  of  Riches. 

Enough  if  we  may  wait  in  calm  content 
The  hour  that  bears  us  to  the  silent  sod  ; 
Blameless  improve  the  time  that  heaven 

has  lent, 

And  leave  the  issue  to  Thy  will,  O  God ! 

W.  L.  BOWLES. — Sundial  in  a 

Churchyard. 

Then  let  us  cheerfu'  acquiesce 
Nor  make  our  scanty  pleasures  less, 
By  pining  at  our  state. 

BURNS — Epistle  to  Davie. 

Hope  not  sunshine  every  hour, 
Fear  not  clouds  will  always  lower. 
Happiness  is  but  a  name. 
Make  content  and  ease  thy  aim. 
BURNS. — Lines  on  Friars- Car se  Hermitage. 

Life  is  with  such  all  beer  and  skittles ; 

They  are  not  difficult  to  please 
About  their  victuals. 

C.  S.  CALVERLEY. — Contentment. 

The  all-in-all  of  life — Content. 

CAMPBELL. — To  a  Lady. 

God  hath  made  none  (that  all  might  be) 
contented. 

CHAPMAN. — Tears  of  Peace. 

'Tis  want  of  courage  not  to  be  content. 
C.  CHURCHILL. — The  Farnvell,  70. 

Let  not  what  I  cannot  have 
My  peace  of  mind  destroy. 
COLLEY  CIBBER. — The  Blind  Boy. 

Men  live  best  on  little.  Nature  gives 
all  men  happiness  if  they  only  knew  how 
to  use  it.  CLAUDIAN. — In  Rufinum. 

A  happy  soul,  that  all  the  way 
To  heaven  hath  a  summer  day. 

R.  CRASHAW. — Praise  of  Lessius. 


CONTENT 


CONTENTIOUSNESS 


Grief  never  mended  no  broken  bones 
and,  as  good  people's  very  scarce,  what  J 
says  is,  make  the  most  on  'em. 

DICKENS. — Sketches  by  Boz.    Gin-Shops 

On  earth's  wide  thoroughfares  below 
Two  only  men  contented  go ; 
Who  knows  what's  right  and  what's  forbid, 
And  he  from  whom  is  knowledge  hid. 
EMERSON. — Trans,  from  "  Omar  Chiam  " 
(Essay  on  Persian  Poetry). 

Him  whom  a  little  will  not  content, 
nothing  will  content. 

EPICURUS  (as  quoted  by  /Elian). 

Happy  the  man,  and  he  alone, 

Who,  master  of  himself,  can  say 
"  To-day  at  least  hath  been  my  own, 

For  I   have  clearly  lived  to-day." 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Odss,  Bk.  3,  29. 

Let  us  draw  upon  content  for  the 
deficiencies  of  fortune. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  c.  3. 

Sweet  are  the  thoughts  that  savour  of 

content ; 

The  quiet  mind  is  richer  than  a  crown. 
R.  GREENE. — Farewell  to  Folly. 

A  mind   content   both   crown   and   king- 
dom is.  R.  GREENE. — Ib. 

Few  things  are  necessary  to  make  a 
wise  man  happy,  but  nothing  can  render 
a  fool  contented.  That  is  why  nearly 
all  men  are  miserable. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  617. 

But  live  content,  which  is  the  calmest  life. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  6,  461. 

Taught  to  live 
The    easiest   way,    nor    with   perplexing 

thoughts 
To  interrupt  the  sweet  of  life. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  8,  182. 

Then,  when  the  world  is  born  again 
And  the  sweet  year  before  thee  lies, 

Shall  thy  heart  think  of  corning  pain, 
Or  vex  itself  with  memories  ? 

W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  14,  213. 

It's  good  for  a  man  to  be  contented,  but 
no  good  for  the  place  he  lives  in.  Con- 
tented people  never  stir  up  things,  or 
throw  light  into  dark  corners,  or  let  air 
into  stuffy  places.  EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

For  myself  I  think  that  the  surest  sign 
of  true  contentment  of  mind  is  the  retired 
and  domestic  life. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

Poor  and  content  is  rich,  and  rich  enough. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

89 


Let  me  arise  and  open  the  gate, 
To  breathe  the  wild  warm  air  of  the  heath, 
And  to  let  in  Love,  and  to  let  out  Hate, 
And  anger  at  living,  and  scorn  of  Fate ; 
To  let  in  Life,  and  let  out  Death. 

MRS.  M.  M.  SINGLETON  (VIOLET 
FANE). — Time. 

I  hold  that  to  need  nothing  is  divine, 
and  the  less  a  man  needs  the  nearer  does 
he  approach  divinity. 

SOCRATES  (as  quoted  by  Xenophon). 

The   noblest   mind  the  best  contentment 

has. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  c.  i,  35. 

But  fittest  is  that  all  contented  rest 
With  what  they  hold :  each  hath  his  for- 
tune in  his  brest. 

SPENSER. — Ib.,  Bk.  6,  c.  9,  st.  29. 

What  better  fare  than  well  content  ? 
T.  TUSSER. — Posies  for  thine  own 
Bedchamber. 

As  long  liveth  the  merry  man,  they  say, 
As  doth  the  sorry  man — and  longer  by 

a  day. 
N.  UDALL. — Ralph  Roister  Doister,  Act  i,  i. 

When  all  is  done  and  said, 
In  the  end  thus  you  shall  find, 
He  most  of  all  doth  bathe  in  bliss 
That  hath  a  quiet  mind. 
THOS.  LORD  VAUX. — A  Contented  Mind. 

I'll  not  willingly  offend, 

Nor  be  easily  offended  ; 
What's  amiss  I'll  strive  to  mend, 

And  endure  what  can't  be  mended. 
I.  WATTS. — Good  Resolution. 

I  know  indeed  that  wealth  is  good, 
But  lowly  roof  and  simple  food, 
With  love  that  hath  no  doubt, 
Are  more  than  gold  without 
WHITTIER. — Maids  of  Attitash,  st.  i. 

Content  is  the  true  philosopher's  stone. 

Prov. 

CONTENTION 

Rest  springs  from  strife,   and  dissonant 

chords  beget 
Divinest  harmonies. 

SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Love's  Suicide. 

Contention  with  an  equal  is  doubtful  ; 
with  a  superior, madness  ;  with  an  inferior, 
a  degradation.  SENECA. — De  Ira,  2,  31. 

CONTENTIOUSNESS 

Some  there  are  debate  that  seek, 
Making  trouble  their  content, 

Happy  if  they  wrong  the  meek, 
Vex  them  that  to  peace  are  bent ; 

Such  undo  the  common  tie 

Of  mankind,  society. 

T.  CAMPION.— Wise  Men. 


CONTEST 


CONTROVERSY 


In  every  heart 

Are  sown  the  sparks  that  kindle  fiery  war. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk,  205. 

CONTEST 

He  that  is  valiant  and  dares  fight, 
Though  drubbed,  can  lose  no  honour  by't 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

In  a  wrong  fight  fell  a  good  knight : 
So  a  good  night  to  Sir  Bevil ! 

Who  gained  his  laurel  in  an  ill  quarrel, 
And  whose  cause  went  to  the  devil. 
L.  HOUSMAN. — On  Lansdown  Hill. 

As  if  men  fought  upon  the  earth, 
And  fiends  in  upper  air. 

SCOTT. — Martnion,  c.   6,  25. 

CONTINUANCE 

For  men  may  come  and  men  may  go, 
But  I  go  on  for  ever. 

TENNYSON. — Brook. 

CONTRADICTION 

But  when  the  Crier  cried,  "  O  Yes  !  "  the 
people  cried   "  O  No  !  " 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Misadventures  at 
Margate. 

Asseveration  blustering  in  your  face 
Makes  contradiction  such  a  hopeless  case. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  I.  59. 

It  is  the  instinct  of  understanding  to 
contradict  reason. 

JACOBI  (as  quoted  by  Carlyle). 

Be  dumb, 
Thou  spirit  of  contradiction  ! 

MASSINGER. — Picture,  Act  i,  2. 

The   evangelists   may   contradict   each 
other,  provided  only  that  the  gospel  does 
not  contradict  itself. 
Quoted  as  a"  wholesome  word  "  by  GOETHE. 

CONTRAST 

Did  He  who  made  the  lamb  make  thee  ? 
WM.  BLAKE. — The  Tiger. 

Look   here,   upon   this   picture,    and   on 

this, 
The     counterfeit     presentment     of    two 

brothers. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

Could  you  on  this  fair  mountain  leave  to 

feed. 
And  batten  on  this  moor  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

O,  the  more  angel  she, 
And  you  the  blacker  devil ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  2. 


CONTRITION 

Mercy,   for   praise ; — to   be  forgiven,   for 

fame  ; 
He  asked  and  hoped,  through  Christ.    Do 

thou  the  same. 

COLERIDGE. — Epitaph  on  himself. 

Ah  !  happy  they  whose  hearts  can  break 

And  peace  of  pardon  win ! 
How  else  may  man  make  straight  his  plan 

And  cleanse  his  soul  from  Sin  ? 
How  else  but  through  a  broken  heart 

May  Lord  Christ  enter  in  ? 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol. 

CONTROVERSIALISTS 

Our  disputants  put  me  in  mind  of  the 
scuttle  fish,  that  when  he  is  unable  to 
extricate  himself,  blackens  the  water  about 
him  till  he  becomes  invisible. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  vol.  7,  476. 

Too  dull  for  laughter,  for  reply  too  mad. 
POPE. — Epigram. 

CONTROVERSY 

Some    thrilling    view    of     the    surplice 
question. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  14. 

Old  religious  factions  are  volcanoes 
burnt  out.  BURKE. — Speech  (1792). 

He'd  run  in  debt  by  disputation, 
And  pay  by  ratiocination. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

To  hear 

Such  wrangling  is  a  joy  for  vulgar  minds. 
H.  F.  GARY.— Dante's  "Hell,"  c.  30,  145. 

Pelting  each  other  for  the  public  good. 
COWPER. — Charity,  623. 

Religion  should  extinguish  strife, 
And  make  a  calm  of  human  life ; 

But  friends  that  chance  to  differ 
On  points  which  God  has  left  at  large, 
How  fiercely  will  they  meet  and  charge ! 

No  combatants  are  stiffer. 

COWPER. — Friendship,  st.  23. 

Great  contest  follows,  and  much  learned 
dust.  COWPER. — Garden,  161. 

But  most  she  fears  the  controversial  pen, 
The  holy  strife  of  disputatious  men. 

CRABBE. — Library. 

The  ecclesiastical  writers,  in  the  heat 
of  religious  faction,  are  apt  to  despise  the 
profane  virtues  of  sincerity  and  moder- 
ation. GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  26. 

I  never  think  I  have  hit  hard,  unless  it 
rebounds.  JOHNSON. — Remark,  1775. 


90 


CONVENTION 


CONVERSATION 


So  high  at  last  the  contest  rose, 
From   words  they  almost  came  to  blows. 
J.  MERRICK. — Chameleon. 

Truth  often  suffers  more  by  the  heat  of 
its  defenders  than  from  the  arguments 
of  its  opposers. 

PENN. — Some  Fruits  of  Solitude, 

Generally  true  disputants  are  like  true 
sportsmen — their  whole  delight  is  in  the 
pursuit ;  and  a  disputant  no  more  cares 
for  the  truth  than  the  sportsman  for 
the  hare. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

There  is  consolation  in  the  fact  that  in 

controversies  and  in  taking  mineral  waters, 

it  is  the    after   effects  that  are  the  real 

effects.         SCHOPENHAUER. — Dialogue  on 

Religion  (Philalethes) . 

He  would  not  waken  old  debate, 
For  he  was  void  of  rancorous  hate. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  5,  28. 

'Faith,  there  has  been  much  to  do  on 
both  sides ;  and  the  nation  holds  it  no 
sin,  to  tarre  them  to  controversy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

And  do  as  adversaries  do  in  law, 
Strive   mightily,    but   eat   and    drink    as 
friends.  SHAKESPEARE. — Taming 

of  the  Shrew,  Act  i,  2. 

In   this  quarrel  whole  rivulets  of  ink 
have  been  exhausted,  and  the  virulence 
of  both  parties  enormously  augmented. 
SWIFT. — Battle  of  the  Books. 

Anathemas  are  hurled 
From  both  sides ;  veteran  thunders  (the 

brute  test 

Of  truth)  are  met  by  fulminations  new. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pi.  2,  36. 

The   itch   of   disputing   will   prove  the 
scab  of  churches. 
SIR  H.  WOTTON. — Panegyric  to  Charles  I. 

God  save  the  king,  and  bless  the  land 

In  plenty,  joy,  and  peace, 
And  grant  henceforth  that  foul  debate 

'Twixt  noblemen  may  cease  ! 

Old  Ballad. — Chevy  Chase. 

CONVENTION 

Society  .  .  .  being  in  its  nature  a 
convention,  it  loves  what  is  conventional, 
or  what  belongs  to  coming  together. 

EMERSON. — Manners. 

We  pray  to  be  conventional.  But  the 
wary  Heaven  takes  care  you  shall  not  be, 
if  there  is  anything  good  in  you.  Dante 
was  very  bad  company  and  was  never 
invited  to  dinner. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 


No  man  fin  Paris]  dares  to  be  himself. 
"  We  must  do  as  others  do,"  that  is  the 
first  maxim  of  the  country's  wisdom 
"  So  and  so  is  done  ;  so  and  so  is  not  done  " 
— behold  this  is  the  supreme  law. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

Somehow  the  grace,  the  bloom  of  things 

has  flown, 
And  of  all  men  we  are  most  wretched, 

who 
Must  live  each  other's  lives  and  not  our 

own.    OSCAR  WILDE. — Humanitad. 


CONVERSATION 

Were  we  as  eloquent  as  angels,  yet 
we  should  please  some  men,  some  women, 
and  some  children,  much  more  by  listening 
than  by  talking.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Conversation  in  its  better  part, 
May  be  esteemed  a  gift,  and  not  an  art. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  3. 

Words   learned   by   rote   a    parrot    may 

rehearse, 
But  talking  is  not  always  to  converse. 

COWPER. — Ib.,  7. 

The  insignificant  click-clack  of  modish 
conversation  [Mr.  Gosport]. 

MME.  D'ARBLAY. — Cecilia,  Bk.  i,  3. 

"  There  are  amusing  people  who  do 
not  interest."  said  the  Monsignore,  "  and 
interesting  people  who  do  not  amuse." 

DISRAELI. — Lothair,  ch.  41. 

Conversation  is  an  art  in  which  a  man 
has  all  mankind  for  his  competitors, 
for  it  is  that  which  all  are  practising  every 
day  while  they  live. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life, 
Considerations  by  the  Way. 

With  thee  conversing  I  forget  the  way. 
GAY. — Trivia,  Bk.  2,  480. 

Like  precious  stones  his  sensible  remarks 
Derive  their  value  from  their  scarcity. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

He  [Coleridge]  talked  on  for  ever ;  and 
you  wished  him  to  talk  on  for  ever. 

W.  HAZLITT. — Living  Poets. 

Confidence  does  more  to  make  conversa- 
tion than  wit.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

With  thee  conversing,  I  forget  all  time. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4.  639. 

Silence  and  modesty  are  very  valuable 
qualities  in  conversation. 

MONTAIGNE,  Bk.  i,  25. 


CONVERSION 


CONVIVIALITY 


If  you  your  lips  would  keep  from  slips, 

Five  things  observe  with  care — 
To  whom  you  speak,  of  whom  you  speak, 
And  how  and  when  and  where. 
Version  of  old  rhyme  as  given  by  W.  E. 
NORRIS  in  "  Thirlby  Hall." 

Formed  by  thy  converse,  happily  to  steer 

From  grave  to  gay,  from  lively  to  severe. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  379- 

Discourse,    the   sweeter    banquet    of    the 
mind.     POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  15,  433- 

That  character  in  conversation  which 
commonly  passes  for  agreeable  is  made  up 
of  civility  and  falsehood. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

His  talk  was  like  a  stream  which  runs 
With  rapid  change  from  rocks  to  roses ; 

It  slipped  from  politics  to  puns: 
It  passed  from  Mahomet  to  Moses. 

W.  M.  PRAED. — Vicar,  st.  5. 

To  hear  him  speak,  and  sweetly  smile 
You  were  in  Paradise  the  while. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Friend's  Passion. 

Macaulay  is  like  a  book  in  breeches. 

He  has  occasional  flashes  of  silence  that 

make  his  conversation  perfectly  delightful. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

Don't  talk  all  the  talk,  nor  eat  all  the 
meat.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Would  you  both  please  and  be  instructed 

too, 

Watch  well  the  rage  of  shining  to  subdue  ; 

Hear  every  man  upon  his  favourite  theme, 

And  ever  be  more  knowing  than  you  seem. 

B.  STILLINGFLEET. — Conversation. 

I   am  not  one  who  oft  or  much  delight 

To  season  my  fireside  with  personal  talk. 

WORDSWORTH. — Personal  Talk. 

CONVERSION 

A  convert's  but  a  fly,  that  turns  about 

After  his  head's  cut  off,  to  find  it  out. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

To  become  properly  acquainted  with 
a  truth  we  must  first  have  disbelieved  it, 
and  disputed  against  it. 

NOVALIS  (tr.  by  Carlyle). 

CONVICTION 

But  dash  my  buttons,  though  you  put  it 

strong, 
It's  my  opinion  you're  more  right  than 

wrong. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Last  of  the  Hangmen. 

CONVIVIALITY 

If  all  be  true  that  I  do  think, 

There  are  five  reasons  we  should  drink  ; 


Good  wine,  a  friend,  or  being  dry, 
Or  lest  we  should  be  by  and  by, 
Or  any  other  reason  why. 

H.  ALDRICH  (from  the  Latin). 

Nose,  nose,  jolly  red  nose. 

And  who  gave  thee  that  jolly  red  nose  ? 

Nutmegs  and  ginger,  cinammon  and  cloves, 

And  they  gave  me  this  jolly  red  nose. 
BEAUMONT   AND    FLETCHER. — Knight 
of  the  Burning  Pestle,  Act  i,  3  (also 
in  RAVENCROFT'S  Deuterotnela,  1609). 

Their  hearts  and   sentiments  were  free, 
their  appetites  were  hearty. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — City  of  the  Saints. 

I  wasna*  fou,  but  just  had  plenty. 
BURNS. — Death  and  Dr.  Hornbook. 

We  are  na  fou,  we're  nae  that  fou, 
But  just  a  drappie  in  our  ee. 

BURNS. — Song. 

Tarn  lo'ed  him  like  a  vera  brither — 
They  had  been  fou  for  weeks  thegither. 
BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shantcr. 

Kings  may  be  blest,  but  Tarn  was  glorious, 
O'er  a'  the  ills  o'  life  victorious ! 

BURNS. — Ib. 

Inspiring  bold  John  Barleycorn  ! 
What  dangers  thou  canst  mak  us  scorn  ! 
Wi'  tippenny,  we  fear  nae  evil ; 
Wi'  usquebae,  we'll  face  the  devil. 

BURNS. — Ib. 

A  man  may  drink  and  no  be  drunk  ; 

A  man  may  fight  and  no  be  slain  ; 
A  man  may  kiss  a  bonny  lass 

And  aye  be  welcome  back  again. 

BURNS. — There  was  a  Lass. 

Should  every  creature  drink  but  I  ? 
Why,  man  of  morals,  tell  me  why. 

Co  WLEY. — Drink  ing. 

To  drink  healths  is  to  drink  sickness. 
T.  DEKKER. — Honest  Whore. 

Did  you  ever  hear  of  Captain  Wattle  ? 
He  was  all  for  love  and  a  little  for  the 
bottle.         C.  DIB  DIN. — Capt.  Wattle. 

"  It  wasn't  the  wine,"  murmured  Mr. 
Snodgrass,  in  a  broken  voice.  "  It  was 
the  salmon." 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  8. 

A  very  merry,  dancing,  drinking, 
Laughing,  quaffing  and  unthinking  time. 
DRYDEN. — Secular  Masque,  I.  40. 

Let  other  hours  be  set  apart  for  business  ! 
To-day  it  is  our  pleasure  to  be  drunk. 
FIELDING. — Tom  Thumb,  Act  i,  2. 

The  warm  champagny,  old-particular, 
brandy-punchy  feeling. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Nux  Postcaenalica. 


CONVULSION 


CORRESPONDENCE 


The  rapturous,  wild,  and  ineffable  pleasure 

Of  drinking  at  somebody  else's  expense. 

H.  S.  LEIGH. — To  an  Intoxicated  Fly. 

When  thirsty  grief  in  wine  we  steep, 
When  healths  and  draughts  go  free, — 

Fishes,  that  tipple  in  the  deep, 
Know  no  such  liberty. 

R.  LOVELACE. — To  Althea. 

Fill  the  bumper  fair  ! 

Every  drop  we  sprinkle 
O'er  the  brow  of  Care 

Smooths  away  a  wrinkle. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

It  being  reported  to  Pyrrhus  (B.C.  318  c.- 
B.C.   272),   that  certain  young  men  had 


should  have  said  a  good  deal  more,  if  we 
had  had  more  wine."  Whereupon  he 
laughed  and  dismissed  them. 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Pyrrhus. 

As  Doctor  Martin  Luther  sang  : 

"  Who  loves  not  wine,  woman,  and  song, 

He  is  a  fool  his  whole  life  long." 

THACKERAY. — A  Credo.    (The  saying 
is  wrongly  attributed  to  Luther.) 

I  love  such  mirth  as  does  not  make 
friends  ashamed  to  look  upon  one  another 
next  morning. 

I.  WALTON. — Complete  Angler,  ch.  5. 

They  drink  with  impunity,  or  anybody 
who  invites  them. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — Moses  the  Sassy. 

CONVULSION 

Unhurt  amidst  the  war  of  elements, 
The  wrecks  of  matter,  and  the  crash  of 
worlds.       ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  5,  i. 

COOKERY 

Until  the  nature  of  man  is  completely 
altered,  cooking  is  the  most  important 
thing  for  a  woman. 

ARNOLD  BENNETT. — The  Title  (1918), 

Act  i. 

Home-made  dishes  that  drive  one  from 
home.         HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

The  greatest  animal  in  creation,  the 
animal  who  cooks. 

DOUGLAS  JERROLD. — Attributed. 

Of  herbs,  and  other  country  messes 
Which  the  neat-handed  Phyllis  dresses. 
MILTON. — L' Allegro,  85. 

Ilka  man  as  he  like,  I'm  for  the  cook. 
Scottish  prov. 

CO-OPERATION 

Nature  works  on  a  method  of  all  for  each 
and  each  for  all.  EMERSON. — Farming. 


But  when  was  honey  ever  made 
With  one  bee  in  the  hive  ? 

HOOD. — Last  Man. 

The  Ox  said  to  his  fellow-servant  the 
Camel,  when  he  refused  help  in  carrying 
his  burden,  "  It  will  not  be  long  before 
you  carry  my  burden  and  me  too." 
Which  came  to  pass  when  the  ox  died. 
PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

Hold  the  fort !     I  am  coming  ! 
Signal  to  General  Corse  (Oct.  5, 1864) 
by  William  F.  Sherman. 

CORDIALITY 

The  music  that  can  deepest  reach, 
And  cure  all  ill,  is  cordial  speech. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  nf  Life, 
Considerations  by  the  Way. 

CORNWALL 

I  love  thee,  Cornwall,  and  will  ever, 
And  hope  to  see  thee  once  again ! 

For  why  ? — thine  equal  knew  I  never 
For  honest  minds  and  active  men. 
T.  FREEMAN. — Encomion  Corn  w&t#  (1614). 

And  have  they  fixed  the  where  and  when, 

And  shall  Trelawny  die  ? 
Then  twenty  thousand  Cornish  men 

Shall  know  the  reason  why. 

Song.   Trelawny  (1688). 

In  Cornwall  are  the  best  gentlemen. 
Cornish  prov.,  as  quoted  by  BORROW 
(Lavengro). 

CORPORAL  PUNISHMENT 

Too  much  Cain  is  apt  to  kill  Abel. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Never  known,  during  eight  years  at 
school,  to  be  subject  to  that  punishment 
which  it  is  generally  thought  none  but  a 
cherub  can  escape. 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  Bk.  i,  ch.  9. 

CORPORATIONS 

They  [corporations]  cannot  commit 
treason  nor  be  outlawed  nor  ex-com- 
municate, for  they  have  no  souls. 

COKE. — Case  of  Sutton's  Hospital. 

Corporations  have  neither  bodies  to 
be  punished,  nor  souls  to  be  damned. 

LORD  THURLOW  (according  to 
Poynder's  "Literary  Extracts"). 

CORPSE 

A  demd  damp,  moist,  unpleasant  body. 
DICKENS. — Nickleby,  ch.  34. 

CORRESPONDENCE 

Another  success  is  the  post-office,  with 
its  educating  energy  augmented  by  cheap- 


93 


CORRUPTION 


COUNCILS 


ness  and  guarded  by  a  certain  religious 
sentiment  in  mankind  ;  so  that  the  power 
of  a  wafer  or  a  drop  of  wax  or  gluten, 
to  guard  a  letter,  as  it  flies  over  sea,  over 
land,  as  if  a  battalion  of  artillery  brought 
it,  I  look  upon  as  a  fine  meter  of  civiliza- 
tion. EMERSON. — Civilization. 

CORRUPTION 

When    vice    prevails,    and    impious   men 

bear  sway, 

The  post  of  honour  is  a  private  station. 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  4,  4. 

For  this  is   the  true  strength  of  guilty 

kings, 
When  they  corrupt  the  souls  of  those  they 

rule.  M.  ARNOLD. — Merope. 

Among  a  people  generally  corrupt 
liberty  cannot  long  exist. 

BURKE. — Letter. 

Corrupt  influence,  which  is  in  itself  the 
perennial  spring  of  all  prodigality,  and  of 
all  disorder ;  which  loads  us,  more  than 
millions  of  debt ;  which  takes  away  vigour 
from  our  arms,  wisdom  from  our  councils, 
and  every  shadow  of  authority  and  credit 
from  the  most  venerable  parts  of  our 
constitution. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Economical 
Reform  (Feb.,  1780). 

Corrupted  freemen  are  the  worst  of 
slaves.  GARRICK.— Gamesters,  Prologue. 

Corruption,  the  most  infallible  symptom 
of  constitutional  liberty. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  21. 

Robbery  and  depeculation  of  the  public 
treasure  or  revenues  is  a  greater  crime 
than  the  robbing  or  defrauding  of  a  private 
man ;  because  to  rob  the  public  is  to  rob 
many  at  once. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  27. 

Justice  is  such  a  fine  thing  that  one 
cannot  buy  it  too  dearly. 

LE  SAGE. — Crispin. 

In  vain  doth  valour  bleed, 
While  avarice  and  rapine  share  the  land; 
MILTON. — To  Fairfax. 

Some  flowerets  of  Eden  ye  still  inherit, 
But  the  trail  of  the  Serpent  is  over  them 
all. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh,  Paradise 
and  the  Peri. 

You  yourself 
Are  much  condemned  to  have  an  itching 

palm. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  4,  3. 

Though  authority  be  a  stubborn  bear, 

yet  he  is  often  led  by  the  nose  with  gold. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 


And  loathsome  canker  lives  in  sweetest 
bud.  SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  35. 

All  men  have  their  price. 
Attributed,  to  SIR  R.  WALPOLE,  but  current 
before  his  time. 

He  that  toucheth  pitch  shall  be  defiled. 
Ecdesiasticus  xiii,  i. 

There  was  never  any  thing  by  the  wit 
of  man  so  well  devised,  or  so  sure  estab- 
lished, which  in  continuance  of  time  hath 
not  been  corrupted. 

Common  Prayer,  Preface. 

COSMOPOLITANISM 

Socrates,  when  asked  of  what  country 
he  called  himself,  said,  "  Of  the  world  "  ; 
for  ho  considered  himself  an  inhabitant 
and  a  citizen  of  the  whole  world. 

CICERO. — Tusc.  Quasi.,  Bk.  5,  37. 

He  made  all  countries  where  he  came  his 
own.         DRYDEN. — Astrcea  Redux,  76. 

Go  where  he  will,   the  wise  man  is  at 

home, 
His  hearth  the  earth,  his  hall  the  azure 

dome. 

EMERSON. — Wooa-Notes,  PI.  i,  3. 

The  whole  world  is  my  native  land. 

SENECA. — Ep.  28. 

All  places  that  the  eye  of  heaven  visits. 

Are  to  a  wise  man  ports  and  happy  havens. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  3. 

Whoever  seeks  for  truth  should  be  of 
no  country. 

VOLTAIRE.— Reply  to  an  Academician. 

COTTAGES 

Well  would  it  be  if  every  landowner 
carried  in  his  mind  a  resolve  in  conson- 
ance with  an  Act  passed,  I  believe,  in 
Elizabeth's  reign,  which  forbade  cottages 
to  be  erected  unless  a  certain  quantity 
of  land  were  laid  to  each  cottage,  and 
denominated  all  cottages  failing  in  this 
respect,  "  silly  cottages." 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  cA.  4. 

COUNCILS 

This  council  I  establish  pure  from  bribe, 
Reverend,   and  keen   to  act ;   for   those 

that  sleep 
An  ever  watchful  sentry  of  the  land. 

AESCHYLUS. — Eumenides,  232 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

But  yet  beware  of  councils  when  too  full ; 
Number  makes  longtdisputes. 

..  SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Of  Prudence,  59. 


04 


COUNSEL 


COURAGE 


COUNSEL 

Ask  counsel  of  both  times  :  of  the  ancient 
time  what  is  best ;  and  of  the  latter  time 
what  is  fittest.  BACON. — Of  Great  Place. 

They  are  too  old  to  learn,  and  I  too  young 
To  give  them  counsel. 

MASSINGER. — Fatal  Dowry,  Act  i,  i. 

In  the  multitude  of  counsellors  there  is 
safety.  Proverbs  xi,  14  ;  xxiv..  6. 

"  Twa  heads  are  better  than  ane,"  as 
the  wife  said  when  she  and  her  dog  gaed 
to  the  market.  Scottish  prov. 

COUNTERPLOT 

For  'tis  the  sport  to  have  the  engineer 
Hoist  with  his  own  petard  ;  and  it  shall 

go  hard 

But  I  will  delve  one  yard  below  their  mines. 
And  blow  them  to  the  moon. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

COUNTRY,  THE 

'Tis  sweet  to  him,  who  all  the  week 
Through  city  crowds  must  push  his  way, 

To  stroll  alone  through  fields  and  woods, 
And  hallow  thus  the  Sabbath-day. 

COLERIDGE. — Home-Sick. 

God   made  the  country  and   man  made 

the  town.  COWPER. — The  Sofa 

(borrowed  from  Varro). 

For  him  light  laboui   spread  her  whole- 
some  store, 

Just   gave  what  life  required,   and  gave 
no  more. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

All  country  people  hate  each  other. 
HAZLITT. — Wordsworth's  "  Excursion." 

There  is  nothing  good  to  be  had  in  the 
country,  or,  if  there  be,  they  wul  not  let 
you  have  it.  HAZLITT. — Ib. 

The   gift  of  country  life,  near  hills  and 

woods, 

Where   happy   waters   sing   in    solitudes. 
JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Biography. 

It  is  good  to  be  out  on  the  road,   and 

going  one  knows  not  where, 
Going  through  meadow  and  village,  one 
knows  not  whither  or  why. 
JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Tewkesbury  Road. 

Meadows  trim  with  daisies  pied. 

MILTON. — L'Allegro,  75. 

Abroad  in  the  meadows  to  see  the  young 

lambs 
Run  sporting  about  by  the  side  of  their 

dams, 
With  fleeces  so  clean  and  so  white. 

I.  WATTS. — Innocent  Play. 


COURAGE 

That  is  well  said,  John,  an  honest  man, 
that  is  not  quite  sober,  has  nothing  to 
fear.  ADDISON. — The  Drummer  Boy. 

The  man  so  bravely  played  the  man, 
He  made  the  fiend  to  fly. 
J.  BUN  VAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  2. 

And  let  us  mind,  "  Faint  heart  ne'er  wan 

A  lady  fair  ;  " 
Wha  does  the  utmost  that  he  can, 

Will  whiles  do  mair. 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  Dr.  Blacklock. 

I  see  before  me  the  Gladiator  lie ; 
He  leans  upon  his  hand — his  manly  brow 
Consents  to  death,  but  conquers  agony. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  st.  1401 

Blessed  are  the  valiant  that  have  lived 
in  the  Lord. 

CARLYLE. — Cromwell,  vol.  5,  Pt.  10. 

True  valour  lies  half  way  between 
cowardice  and  rashness. 

CERVANTES. — Don  Quixote. 

None  but  the  brave  deserves  the  fair. 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  i. 

Whistling  to  keep  myself  from  being  afraid. 
DRYDEN. — A  mphilryon. 

Courage  consists  in  equality  to  the 
problem  before  us. 

EMERSON. — Courage. 

Counsel  that  I  once  heard  given  to  a 
young  person,  "  Always  do  what  you  are 
afraid  to  do."  EMERSON. — Heroism. 

Conquest   pursues,    where  courage   leads 

the  way. 
SIR  S.  GARTH. — Dispensary,  c.  \t  198. 

Unto  it  boldly  let  us  stand  ; 

God  will  give  right  the  upper  hand. 

H.  GIFFORD. — For  Soldiers. 

Question  not,  but  live  and  labour 

Till  yon  goal  be  won, 
Helping  every  feeble  neighbour, 

Seeking  help  from  none  ; 
Life  is  mostly  froth  and  bubble, 

Two  things  stand  like  stone — 
Kindness  in  another's  trouble, 

Courage  in  your  own. 
A.  L.  GORDON.— Wearie  Wayfarer,  Pt.  8. 

Though  all  we  knew  depart, 
The  old  commandments  stand ; 
"  In  courage  keep  your  heart, 
In  strength  lift  up  your  hand." 
RUDYARD  KIPLING. — For  all  we  have 
and  are  (Sept.,  1914). 


95 


COURTESY 


COURTING 


Instead  of  rage 
Deliberate    valour    breathed,    firm    and 

unmoved 
With   dread  of   death,   to  flight  or  fou 

retreat. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  553 

I  do  not  call  a  wild  beast  or  anything 
else  brave,  which,  through  ignorance, 
has  no  fear  of  things  of  dread  ;  "  fearless  " 
is  not  the  same  thing  as  "  brave." 

PLATO. — Laches,  28. 

You  will  find  many  men  who  are  most 
unjust,  most  unholy,  most  intemperate, 
and  most  ignorant,  yet  eminently  courage- 
ous. PLATO. — Protagoras,  96. 

The  first  in  danger  as  the  first  in  fame. 
POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  6,  637 

I  dare  do  all  that  may  become  a  man ; 
Who  dares  do  more  is  none. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

Courage  respects  courage. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Travels  with  a  Donkey. 

A  brave  man,  were  he  seven  times  king, 

Is  but  a  brave  man's  peer. 
SWINBURNE. — Marino  Faliero,  Act  2,  2. 

Valour  grows  by  daring,  fear  by  holding 
back.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

The  courage  that  lifted  their  hearts  shall 

leaven 

All  who  in  England's  name  go  forth 
From  east  and  west,  from  south  and  north, 
Under  the  great  Godspeed  of  Heaven. 
SIR  WM.  WATSON. — Charge  of  the  gth 
Lancers,  Sept.  5,  1914. 

Only  be  thou  strong  and  very  courage- 
ous. Joshua  i,  7. 

Be  strong,  and  quit  yourselves  like  men. 
i  Samuel  iv,  9. 

COURTESY 

If  a  man  be  gracious  and  courteous 
to  strangers,  it  shows  he  is  a  citizen  of  the 
world.  BACON. — Of  Goodness. 

Of  Courtesy  it  is  much  less 
Than  Courage  of  Heart  or  Holiness, 
Yet  in  my  Walks  it  seems  to  me 
That  the  Grace  of  God  is  in  Courtesy. 
HILAIRE  BELLOC. — Courtesy. 

Life  is  not  so  short  but  that  there  is 
always  room  for  courtesy. 

EMERSON. — Social  Aims. 

His  ready  speech  flowed  fair  and  free 
In  phrase  of  gentlest  courtesy  ; 
Yet  seemed  that  tone  and  gesture  bland 
Less  used  to  sue  than  to  command. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  j,  st.  21. 


1  am  the  very  pink  of  courtesy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  2,  4. 

The  greater  man,  the  greater  courtesy. 
TENNYSON. — Last  Tournament,  630. 

For    courtesy    wins   woman   all   as   well 
As  valour.    "  TENNYSON. — Ib. 

It's  aye  good  to  be  ceevil, 
As  the  auld   wife  said  when  she  becked 
(curtseyed)  to  the  deevil. 

Scottish  prov. 

Put  your  hand  quickly  to  your  hat  and 
slowly  to  your  purse.  Danish  prov. 

Hech  how  [an  expression  of  grief,  a  sigh] 

is  heavysome, 

An  auld  wife  is  dowiesome  fdismal], 
And  courtesy  is  cumbersome 
To  them  that  canna  show  it. 

Scottish  saying. 

COURTING 

Thrice  nappy's  the  wooing  that's  not  long 

a  doing, 
So  much  time  is  saved  in  the  billing  and 

cooing. 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Sir  Rupert. 

Perhaps  if  you  address  the  lady 
Most  politely,  most  politely. 

Flatter  and  impress  the  lady 
Most  politely,  most  politely. 

Humbly  beg  and  humbly  sue, 

She  may  deign  to  look  on  you. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Whaur  hae  ye  been  a'  day, 

My  boy  Tammy  ? 

I've  been  by  burn  and  flowery  brae, 
Meadow  green  and  mountain  grey, 
Courting  of  this  young  thing 

Just  come  frae  her  mammy. 

HECTOR  MACNEILL. — Song. 

I  will  now  court  her  in  the  conqueror's 

style ; 

"  Come,  see,  and  overcome." 
MASSINGER. — Maid  of  Honour,  Act  2,  i. 

Friendship  is  constant  in  all  other  things 
Save  in  the  office  and  affairs  of  love  ; 
Therefore  all  hearts  in  love  use  their  own 

tongues ; 
Let  every  eye  negotiate  for  itself 
And  trust  no  agent. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  i. 

Was  ever  woman  in  this  humour  wooed  ? 

Was  ever  woman  in  this  humour  won  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  2. 

A  whispering  tale  in  a  fair  lady's  ear, 
Such  as  would  please. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  1,5, 


COVETOUSNESS 


CRAFTINESS 


That  man  that  hath  a  tongue,  I  say,  is 

no  man, 

If  with  his  tongue  he  cannot  win  a  woman. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 

Verona,  Act  3,  i. 

Since  first  I  saw  your  face,  I  resolved 

To  honour  and  renown  you ; 
If  now  I  be  disdained,  I  wish 

My  heart  had  never  known  you. 

Old  Song  (c.  1600). 

COVETOUSNESS 

As  thorough  an  Englishman  as  ever 
coveted  his  neighbour's  goods. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Water  Babies. 

Get   place   and   wealth,    if  possible   with 

grace ; 

If  not,  by  any  means  get  wealth  and  place. 
POPE. — Satires,  Ep.  i,  108. 

When  Naboth's  vineyard  looked  so  fine, 
The   King   cried  out,  "  Would  this  were 

mine  !  " 

And  yet  no  reason  could  prevail 
To  bring  the  owner  to  a  sale. 

SWIFT. — Garden  Plot,  1709. 

Old  age  brings  this  vice, — that  we  are 
all  more  eager  than  we  should  be  about 
acquiring  property.  TERENCE. — Adelphi. 

COWARDICE 

There  needs  no  other  charm  nor  conjurer 
To  raise  infernal  spirits  up,  but  fear. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

That  all  men  would  be  cowards,  if  they 

dare, 

Some  men  have  had  the  courage  to  declare. 
CRABBE. — Tales  of  the  Hall,  i,  i. 

For  anything  I  know,  I  am  an  arrant 
coward. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINC.ER. — Little 
French  Lawyer,  Act  2. 

Whilst  you  are  fighting  (said  Panurge) 
I  will  pray  God  for  your  victory,  after  the 
example  of  the  chivalrous  Captain  Moses, 
leader  of  the  people  of  Israel. 

RABELAIS. — Pantagruel,  Bk.  4,  c.  37. 

For  all  men  would  be  cowards  if  they 
durst.  EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — Satire. 

Instinct  is  a  great  matter ;  I  was  a 
coward  on  instinct. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Act  2,  4. 

Cowards    die    many    times    before    their 

deaths ; 

The  valiant  never  taste  of  death  but  once. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  2,  2 

H  97 


When  our  actions  do  not, 
Our  fears  do  make  us  traitors. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4    2. 

The  devil  damn  thee  black,  thou  cream- 
faced   loon  ! 
Where  gott'st  thou  that  goose  look  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  3. 

An  I  thought  he  had  been  valiant,  and 
so  cunning  in  fence,   I'd  have  seen  him 
damned  ere  I'd  have  challenged  him. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  4. 

I  know  them  to  be  as  true-bred  cowards 
as  ever  turned  back. 

SHAKESPEARE,  Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  i,  2. 

As  an  old  soldier  I  admit  the  cowardice  : 
it's  as  universal  as  sea  -  sickness,  and 
matters  just  as  little. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

My  valour  is  certainly  going !  It  is 
sneaking  off !  I  feel  it  oozing  out,  as  it 
were,  at  the  palms  of  my  hands. 

SHERIDAN. — Rivals,  Act  5,  3. 

There  grows 

No   herb    of    help     to    heal    a    coward 
heart. 
SWINBURNE. — Bothwell,  Act  2,  13. 

The  wicked  flee  when  no  man  pursueth  : 
but  the  righteous  are  bold  as  a  lion. 

Proverbs,  xxviii,  i. 

Many  would  be  cowards  if  they  had 
courage  enough.  Prov. 

COYNESS 

Yielded  with  coy  submission,  modest  pride, 
And  sweet  reluctant  amorous  delay. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  307. 

Flee,  and  she  follows ;  follow,  and  she'll 

flee; 
Than  she  there's  none  more  coy ;  there's 

none  more  fond  than  she. 

QUARLES. — Emblems,  Bk.  i,  4. 

Yet  she  was  coy,  and  would  not  believe 

That  he  did  love  her  so ; 
No,  nor  at  any  time  would  she 
Any  countenance  to  him  show. 

Bailiffs  Daughter  of  Islington  (Ancient 
Ballad). 
CRAFTINESS 

He's  tough,  ma'am,  tough  is  J.  B.  Tough 
and  de-vilish  sly.  DICKENS. — Dombey,  c.  7. 

That's  the  common  fate  of  your  Machi- 
avellians ;  they  draw  their  designs  so 
subtle  that  their  very  fineness  breaks 
them.  DRYDEN.— Sir  Martin  Mar-All. 

The  devil  knew  not  what  he  did  when 
he  made  man  politic  ;  he  crossed  himself 
by  't.  SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  3,  3. 


CRANKS 

CRANKS 

A  crank  is  a  little  thing  that  makes 
revolutions.  Anonymous  saying. 

CREATIVE   FACULTY 

Only  God  and  the  Poet  deserve  the  name 
of  Creator.  TASSO. 

Of  that  which  is  more  than  Creature, 
no  Creature  ever  conceived. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  2,  PI.  2, 
sec.  3,  ad  fin. 

Genius  invents,  wit  merely  discovers. 

WEBER. 

CREDULITY 

A  credulous  man  is  a  deceiver. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Pt.  i 

Between  craft  and  credulity,  the  voice 
of  reason  is  stifled. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Sheriffs  of  Bristol. 

As  a  rule  men  freely  believe  what  they 
wish.  CESAR. — De  Bella  Gallico. 

Confidence  is  a  plant  of  slow  growth  in 
an  aged  bosom  ;  youth  is  the  season  of 
credulity.  LORD  CHATHAM. — Speech,  1766. 

The  most  positive  men  are  the  most 
credulous,  since  they  most  believe  them- 
selves. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

We  have  believed  in  too  many  things, 
we  men  of  little  faith.  JULES  ROMAINE. 

Wearied  from  doubt  to  doubt  to  flee, 
We  welcome  fond  credulity, 
Guide  confident,  though  blind. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  3,  st.  30. 

There  is  nothing  that  cannot  be  imagined 
by  people  of  no  imagination. 

EDITH  SICHEL. 

That  only  disadvantage  of  honest 
hearts,  credulity. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Arcadia 

Let  any  man  speak  long  enough,  he  will 
get  believers. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Master  of  Ballantrae. 

Like  simple,  noble  natures,  credulous 
Of  what  they  long  for,  good  in  friend  or 

foe. 

TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  877. 

CREEDS 

Unduped  of  fancy,   henceforth   man 
Must  labour  ! — must  resign 

His  all  too  human  creeds,  and  scan 
Simply  the  way  divine  ! 
M.  ARNOLD. — Obermann  Once  More. 


CREEDS 

Light  half-believers  of  our  casual  creeds, 
Who  never  deeply  felt,  nor  clearly  willed. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Scholar  Gipsy. 

Creeds  are  as  thistle-down  wind-tossed  and 

blown, 

But  deeds  abide  throughout  eternity. 
G.  BARLOW. — Dawn  to  Sunset,  Bk.  2. 

Uncursed  by  doubt  our  earliest  creed  we 

take; 

We  love  the  precepts  for  the  teacher's  sake. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Rhymed  Lesson. 

All  creeds  I  view  with  toleration  thorough. 
And  have  a  horror  of  regarding  heaven 
As  anybody's  rotten  borough. 

HOOD. — Ode  to  Rae  Wilson. 

Shall  I  ask  the  brave  soldier  who  fights 

by  my  side 
In  the  cause  of  mankind,  if  our  creeds 

agree  ? 
MOORE. — Come  send  round  the  wine. 

We  have  a  Calvinisttc  creed,  a  Popish 
liturgy,  and  an  Arminian  clergy. 

W.  PITT. — Speech,  1790. 

For  modes  of  faith  let  graceless  zealots 

fight, 

He  can't  be  wrong  whose  life  is  in  the  right. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man. 

Ye  are  but  purblind  leaders,  who  preach 

that  our  utmost  need 
Can  be  met  by  a  faith  in  a  Semite  book  and 

the  Athanasian  Creed  ! 
Who  damn  with  a  text  in  this  world  and 

the    next,    if    we    stray    from    the 

Church's  path, 
And  believe  that  creeds  shall  be  more 

than   deeds,  when  God   gathers   His 

aftermath. 

LT.-COLONEL  DUDLEY  SAMPSON. — 
Songs  of  Love  and  Life. 

From  the  dust  of  creeds  out-worn. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  i. 

All  creeds  and  opinions  are  nothing 
but  the  mere  result  of  chance  and  tempera- 
ment. J.  H.  SHORTHOUSE. — Johnlnglesant. 

It   was   his    [Tom   Bowling's]    opinion 

that  no  honest  man  would  swerve  from 

the   principles   in    which    he    was   bred, 

whether  Turkish,  Protestant,  or  Roman. 

SMOLLETT. — Roderick  Random,  ch.  42. 

Give  each  his  creed,  let  each  proclaim 

His  catalogue  of  curses  ; 
I  trust  in  Thee  and  not  in  them, 

In  Thee  and  in  Thy  mercies. 

W.  M.  THACKERAY. — Jolly  Jack. 

Truth  has  never  been,  can   never  be, 

contained   in   any  one  creed   or  system. 

MRS.  HUMPHRY  WARD. — Robert  Elsmere, 

Bk.  4,  ch.  28, 


CRICKET 


CRITICISM 


When  whelmed  are  altar,  priest,  and  creed, 
When  all  the  faiths  have  passed, 

Perhaps,   from   darkening   incense   freed, 
God  may  emerge  at  last. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Revelation. 

From  the  death  of  the  old  the  new  proceeds, 

And  the  life  of  truth  from  the  rot  of  creeds. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Preacher. 

CRICKET 

Casting   a    ball   at    three  straight  sticks 

and  defending  the  same  with  a  fourth. 

R.  KIPLING. — Kitchener's  School. 

CRIME 

Nor  florid  prose,  nor  honied  lies  of  rhyme. 

Can  bla/on   evil   deeds,   or  consecrate   a 

crime.      BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  3. 

My  ear  is  pained, 

My  soul  is  sick  with  every  day's  report 

Of  wrong  and  outrage  with  which  earth 

is  filled.  COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

His  virtues  lie  so  mingled  with  his  crimes 
As  would  confound  their  choice  to  punish 

one 
And  not  reward  the  other. 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  3,  i. 

More  men  are  hanged  in  England  in 
one  year  than  in  France  in  seven,  because 
the  English  have  better  hearts ;  the 
Scotchmen  likewise  never  dare  rob,  but 
only  commit  larcenies. 

SIR  J    FORTESCUE  (Lord  Chief  Justice, 
1442),  De  laudibus  Legum  Anglite. 

It  is  worse  than  a  crime  ;  it  is  a  blunder. 
Atlrib.  to  FOUCHE. 

There  are  crimes  which  become  inno- 
cent, and  even  glorious,  by  their  fame, 
their  number,  and  their  excess. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  550. 

It  was  the  destiny  of  Medea  to  be  crimi- 
nal, but  her  heart  was  formed  to  love 
virtue.  QUINAULT. 

Foul  deeds  will  rise, 

Though  all  the  earth  o'erwhelm  them,  to 
men's  eyes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

Flat  burglary  as  ever  was  committed. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  2. 

Had   I    a   hundred   mouths,    a   hundred 

tongues, 
And  throats  of  brass  inspired  with  iron 

lungs, 

I  could  not  half  those  horrid  crimes  repeat 
Nor  half   the  punishments   those  crimes 

have  met. 

VIRGIL.— Mneid,  Bk.  6  (Dryden  tr.}. 


Divided  by  interests,  united  in  crime. 
VOLTAIRE. — Arttmire  (also  in  M trope). 

CRIMINALITY 

He  hath  no  drowning  mark  upon  him  ; 
his  complexion  is  perfect  gallows. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i.  i. 

CRISIS 

This  hour's  the  very  crisis  of  your  fate, 
Your  good  or  ill,  your  infamy  or  fame, 
And  the  whole  colour  of  your  life  depends 
On  this  important  now. 

DRYDEN. — Spanish  Friar. 

Ye  see  our  danger  on  the  utmost  edge 
Of  hazard,  which  admits  no  long  debate. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  94. 

This  push 

Will  cheer  me  ever,  or  disseat  me  now. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  3. 

This  is  the  night 

That  either  makes  me,  or  fordoes  me  quite. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  i. 

The  fack  can't  be  no  longer  disgised  that 
a  Krysis  is  onto  us. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — The  Crisis. 

CRITICISM 

You  have  no  leisure  to  read  books  ? 
What  then  ?  You  have  leisure  to  check 
your  own  insolence. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  8,  8. 

Good  critics  who  have  stamped  out  poet's 

hope; 

Now  may  the  good  God  pardon  all  good 

men  ! 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  4 

When    the   prophet    beats    the     ass, 
The  angel  intercedes. 

E.  B.  BROWNING-  —76.,  Bk.  8. 

The  mair  they  talk  I'm  kenned  the  better, 
E'en  let  them  clash  ! 

BURNS. — Welcome  to  his  Illegitimite 
Child. 

While   brave   and   noble   writers    vainly 

strive 

To  such  a  height  of  glory  to  arrive  ; 
But  still  with  all  they  do  unsatisfied, 
Ne'er  please  themselves,  though  all  the 

world  beside. 
BUTLER. — On  Rhyme  (tr.  from  Boileau). 

'Tis  strange   the  mind,   that   very  fiery 

particle, 
Should   let   itself  be   snuffed  out  by  an 

article. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  n,  st.  60. 


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CRITICISM 


There  is  only  one  writer  who  can  really 
injure  any  author,  and  that  writer  is 
himself.  SIR  HALL  CAINE. — My  Story. 

How   blind   is   Pride  !     What   eagles   we 

are  still 

In  matters  that  belong  to  other  men  ! 
What  beetles  in  our  own  ! 

CHAPMAN. — All  Fools,  Act  4,  i. 

Criticism  is  easy  and    art  is  difficult. 
DESTOUCHES. 

You  know  who  the  critics  are  ?     The 

men  who  have  failed  in  literature  and  art. 

DISRAELI. — Lothair,  ch,  35. 

It  is  much  easier  to  be  critical  than 
correct.  DISRAELI. — Speech,  1860. 

Errors,  like  straws,  upon  the  surface  flow  ; 

He   who  would   search   for   pearls   must 

dive  below.          DRYDEN. — Prologue. 

Blame  is  safer  than  praise. 

EMERSON. — Compensation. 

One  is  led  astray  alike  by  sympathy 
and  coldness,  by  praise  and  by  blame. 

GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  13. 

The  absence  of  humility  in  critics  is 
something  wonderful. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  2. 

'Tis  hard  to  say  if  greater  want  of  skill 
Appear  in  writing  or  in  judging  ill. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  i. 

Ten  censure  wrong  for  one  who  writes 
amiss.  POPE. — Ib.,  6. 

Let  such  teach  others  who  themselves  excel, 

And  censure  freely  who  have  written  well. 

POPE. — Ib.,  15. 

Those  oft   are    stratagems  which    errors 

seem, 

Nor  is  it  Homer  nods,  but  we  that  dream. 
POPE. — Ib.,  179. 

In  every  work  regard  the  writer's  end, 
Since  none  can  compass  more  than  they 

intend ; 

And  if  the  means  be  just,  the  conduct  true, 
Applause,  in  spite  of  trivial  faults,  is 

due.  POPE. — Ib.,  253. 

Eye  nature's  walks,  shoot  folly  as  it  flies, 
And  catch  the  manners  living  as  they  rise  ; 
Laugh  where  we  must,  be  candid  where 

we  can  ; 
But  vindicate  the  ways  of  God  to  man. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man. 

The  eye  of  a  critic  is  often,  like  a  micro- 
scope, made  so  very  fine  and  nice  that  it 
discovers  the  atoms,  grains,  and  minutest 
particles,  without  ever  comprehending  the 
whole,  comparing  the  parts,  or  seeing  all 
at  once  the  harmony. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


I  must  have  liberty 

Withal,  as  large  a  charter  as  the  winds, 
To  blow  on  whom  I  please. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

A  friendly  eye  would  never  see   such 

faults. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  4,3. 

Shall  quips,  and  sentences,  and  these 
paper  bullets,  awe  a  man  from  the  career 
of  his  humour  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3. 

Do  not  put  me  to  't, 
For  I  am  nothing  if  not  critical. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  i. 

Embrace  your  reproaches :  they  are 
often  glories  in  disguise. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Annajanska  (1918),  Pref. 

No  one  minds  what  Jeffrey  says.     It 

is  not  more  than  a  week  ago  that  I  heard 

him  speak  disrespectfully  of  the  equator. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

Thou  speakest  always  ill  of  me ; 
I  speak  always  well  of  thee  : 
But  spite  of  all  our  noise   and   pother, 
The  world  believes  nor  one  nor  t'other. 
STEELE. — Guardian,  No.  16  (March 
30,  1713)  (Tr.  of  French  epigram). 

Of  all  the  cants  which  are  canted  in 
this  canting  world,  though  the  cant  of 
hypocrisy  may  be  the  worst,  the  cant  of 
criticism  is  the  most  tormenting. 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy. 

When  things  are  as  pretty  as  that, 
criticism  is  out  of  season. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Some  portraits  by 
Raeburn. 

Yet  malice  never  was  his  aim  ; 

He  lashed  the  vice,  but  spared  the  name. 

No  individual  could  resent, 

Where  thousands  equally  were  meant. 

SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

The  aim  of  criticism  is  to  distinguish 

what  is  essential  in  the  work  of  a  writer. 

A.  SYMONS. — Intro,  to  Coleridge's 

Biographia  Literaria. 

What  we  ask  of  him  [the  critic]  is  that 
he  should  find  out  for  us  more  than  we 
can  find  out  for  ourselves. 

A.  SYMONS. — Ib. 

I  paints  and  paints, 
Hears  no  complaints, 
And  sells  before  I'm  dry, 
Till  savage  Ruskin 
Sticks  his  tusk  in, 
And  nobody  will  buy. 
TOM  TAYLOR  (?). — Punch,  c.  1850 
(Said  to  be  in  allusion  to  Ruskin' s  family 
crest — a  boar's  head). 


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CROWNS 


To  tame  criticism  it  is  said  that  one 
must  die.  But  this  is  fallacious.  Its 
insatiable  tooth  gnaws  our  memory 
even  in  the  tomb. 

VOLTAIRE. — Les  Trois  Empereurs. 

But  our  invectives  must  despair  success, 

For,  next  to  praise,  she  values  nothing  less. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame. 

Faithful   are   the  wounds  of  a  friend. 
Proverbs  xxvii,  6. 

CRITICS 

Critics, — appalled  I  venture  on  the  name, 
Those  cut-throat  bandits  on  the  paths  of 
fame. 
BURNS. — yrcL  Epistle  to  R.  Graham. 

Teasing    with    blame,    excruciating    with 
praise.  BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  74. 

A  man    must    serve   his    time   to  every 

trade 

Save  censure — critics  all  are  ready  made. 
BYRON. — English  Bards,  63. 

Believe  a  woman  or  an  epitaph, 
Or  any  other  thing  that's  false.,  before 
You  trust  in  critics,  who  themselves  are 
sore.  BYRON. — Ib.,  78. 

Dull,  superstitious  readers  they  deceive, 

Who  pin  their  easy  faith  on  critic's  sleeve, 

And  knowing  nothing,  everything  believe. 

CHURCHILL. — Apology. 

No  private  grudge  they  need,  no  personal 

spite  : 

The  viva  sectio  is  its  own  delight ! 
All  enmity,  all  envy  they  disclaim, 
Disinterested  thieves  of  our  good  name  : 
Cool,  sober,  murderers  of  their  neighbour's 

fame. 
COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Liter  aria,  c.  21. 

Too  nicely  Jonson  knew  the  critic's  part ; 

Nature  in  him  was  almost  lost  in  Art. 

COLLINS. — To  Sir  T.  Hanmer. 

Impartially  speaking,  the  French  are 
much  better  as  critics  than  the  English, 
as  they  are  worse  poets. 

DRYDEN. — Dedication  of  JEneid. 

Every  critic  in  the  town 
Runs  the  minor  poet  down  ; 
Every  critic — don't  you  know  it  ? — 
Is  himself  a  minor  poet. 

R.  F.  MURRAY. — Poems  (1893). 

It  is  interesting  to  note  how  most 
art-lovers  and  critics  are  town-bred  and 
town-minded. 

EDEN  PHIT.LI>OTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 


Get  your  enemies  to  read  your  works 
in  order  to  mend  them  ;  for  your  friend 
is  so  much  your  second  self  that  he  will 
judge  too  like  you. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Little  wits  triumph  over  the  errors  of 
great  geniuses,  just  as  owls  rejoice  in  an 
eclipse  of  the  sun.  A.  DE  RIVAROL. 

Never  is  anything  more  unjust  than  an 

ignorant  man,  who  thinks  nothing  done 

properly  unless  he  himself  has  done  it. 

•     TERENCE. — Adelphi,  i,  2. 

If  four  play  whist 

And  I  look  on, 
They  make  blunders 

And  I  make  none. 
D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Sales  Attici. 

There  is  more  profit  in  a  dozen  verses 
by  Homer  or  Virgil  than  in  all  the  criticisms 
which  have  been  written  on  those  two  great 
men.  VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

The  world  takes  a  poet  as  it  finds  him, 
and  seats  him  above  or  below  the  salt. 
The  world  is  as  obstinate  as  a  million 
mules,  and  will  not  turn  its  head  on  one 
side  or  another  for  all  the  shouting  of 
the  critical  population  that  ever  was 
shouted.  JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes. 

From  such  sad  readers  Heaven  the  muse 

protect ! 
Proud   to  find  fault  and  raptured  with 

defect. 

J.  WOLCOT. — Ep.  to  Sylvanus  Urban. 

CROSS 

He  that  had  no  cross  deserves  no  crown. 
QUARLES. — Esther. 

And  on  his  brest  a  bloodie  crosse  he  bore, 

The  dear  remembrance  of  his  dying  lord. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  x,  2. 

The  cross  if  rightly  borne  shall  be 
No  burden,  but  support  to  thee. 
J.  G.  WHITTIER. — The  Cross  (tr.  of 
Thomas  Kempis). 

CROWNS 

Every  noble  crown  is,  and  on  earth  will 
forever  be,  a  crown  of  thorns. 

CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present, 
Bk.  3,  c.  8. 

O    polished    perturbation !    golden    care ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  z, 

Act  4,  4. 

How  sweet  a  thing  it  is  to  wear  a  crown, 

Within  whose  circuit  is  Elysium, 

And  all  that  poets  feign  of  bliss  and  joy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  3, 

Act  i,  2. 


CRUELTY 


CUNNING 


CRUELTY 

Of  all  beasts  the  man-beast  is  the  worst  ; 

To  others  and  himself  the  cruellest  foe. 

R.  BAXTER. — Hypocrisy. 

A  horse  misused  upon  the  road 
Calls  to  heaven  for  human  blood. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

I  said,  "  You  must  have  been  most  miser- 
able 

To  be  so  cruel." 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  3. 

Whose    most    tender   mercy    is   neglect. 
CRAB  BE. — Village,  Bk.  i. 

Cowards  are  cruel,  but  the  brave 
Love  mercy,  and  delight  to  save. 

GAY.— Fables,  Pt.  i,  No.  i. 

Man  kills  to  obtain  his  food,  kills  to 
clothe  himself,  kills  to  adorn  himself,  kills 
to  defend  himself,  kills  to  attack,  kills  to 
instruct  himself,  kills  to  amuse  himself, 
kills  for  the  sake  of  killing. 
JOSEPH  DE  MAISTRE  (1753-1821). — Soirtes 
de  Saint  Pttersbourg. 

Cruel  as  death  and  hungry  as  the  grave. 
THOMSON. — Seasons,  Winter,  393. 

CUCKOO 

0  blithe  new  comer  !    I  have  heard, 

1  hear  thee  and  rejoice. 

O  Cuckoo  !     Shall  I  call  thee  bird. 
Or  but  a  wandering  voice  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — To  the  Cuckoo. 

The  cuckoo's  a  bonny  bird ;  he  sings  as 

he  flies  ; 
He  brings  us  good  things,  he  tells  us  nae 

lies; 
He  drinks  the  cold  water  to  keep  his  voice 

clear, 
And  he'll  come  again  in  the  spring  o*  the 

year.  Old  Scottish  rhyme 

CULTURE 

Culture   is   the   passion   for   sweetness 

and  light,  and  (what  is  more)  the  passion 

for  making  them  prevail.    M.  ARNOLD. — 

Literature  and  Dogma,  Pref. 

The  more  of  kindly  strength  is  in  the  soil, 
So  much  doth  evil  seed  and  lack  of  culture 
Mar  it  the  more,  and  make  it  run  to  wild- 
ness.  DANTE. — "  Purgatory  " 
(Gary's  tr),  c.  30,  119. 

The  great  law  of  culture  is  :  Let  each 
become  all  that  he  was  created  capable  of 
being.  CARLYLE. — Richter. 

Child  of  Nature,  learn  to  unlearn. 
DISRAELI. — Contarini  Fleming,  c.  i. 


If  there  be  one  whose  wisdom  crowned 
The  unerring  paths  of  Truth  has  found, 
'Tis  his,  with  heart  uplift  to  Heaven, 
To  improve  the  gift  its  grace  has  given. 
PINDAR.— Pythian  Odes,  3, 182  (Moore  tr.). 

The  play,  I  remember,  pleased  not  the 

million.     'Twas   caviare    to    the   general. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

The  two  noblest  of  things,  which  are 
sweetness  and  light. 

SWIFT. — Battle  of  the  Books. 

A  Society  that  sets  up  to  be  polite,  and 
ignores  Arts  and  Letters,  I  hold  to  be  a 
Snobbish  Society. 

THACKERAY. — Book  of  Snobs. 

CUNNING 

The  brave,  impetuous  heart  yields  every- 
where 
To  the  subtle,  contriving  head. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Empedocles. 

Nothing  doth  more  hurt  in  a  state  than 
that  cunning  men  pass  for  wise. 

BACON. — Of  Cunning. 

How  like  a  hateful  ape, 
Detected,    grinning,    'midst   his    pilfered 

hoard, 
A   cunning   man   appears,   whose   secret 

frauds 
Are  opened  to  the  day  ! 

JOANNA  BAILLIE. — Basil,  Act  5,  3. 

The  weak  in  courage  is  strong  in  cunning. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell 

And  still  the  less  they  understand, 
The  more  they  admire  his  sleight  of  hand. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2. 

Nick  Machiavel  had  ne'er  a  trick 
(Though  he  gave  his  name  to  our  old 
Nick).  BUTLER. — Ib.,  Pt.  3,  c.  i. 

A  sly  old  fish,  too  cunning  for  the  hook. 
CRABBE. — Parish  Register. 

Bless    yo'    soul,    honey,    Brer    Rabbit 

mought  er  bin  kinder  fibble  [feeble]  in 

de  legs,  but  he  wa'n't  no  ways  cripple 

und'  de  hat.  J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights 

with  Uncle  Remus,  ch.  35. 

Which  I  wish  to  remark, 
And  my  language  is  plain, 

That  for  ways  that  are  dark, 
And  for  tricks  that  are  vain, 

The  Heathen  Chinee  is  peculiar. 
BRET  HARTE. — Plain  Language. 

It  is  to  have  made  great  progress  in 
cunning  when  you  have  made  people 
think  that  you  are  only  moderately 
cunning.  LA  BRUYKRE. — De  la  Com,  85. 


102 


CURATES 


CUSTOM 


Cunning  is  only  a  poor  kind  of  skill. 
L.\  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  608. 

The  foxes  find  themselves  at  the  furrier's 
at  last.  French  prov. 

Air  day  or  late  day,  the  fox's  hide 
finds  aye  the  flaying  knife. 

Scottish  prov.  (Scott's  "Rob  Roy    ). 

CURATES 

A  curate — there  is  something  which  ex- 
cites compassion  in  the  very  name  of  a 
Curate  ! 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Persecuting  Bishops. 

The  curate  ;  he  was  fatter  than  his  cure. 
TENNYSON. — Edwin  Morris. 

CURIOSITY 

Much  curiousness  is  a  perpetual  wooing, 

Nothing  with  labour,  folly  long  a-doing. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Curiosity  is  only  vanity.  Most  often 
we  only  wish  to  know  in  order  to  talk 
about  it.  PASCAL. — Pensies. 

Born  in  an  age  more  curious  than  devout. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  9. 

Be  not  curious  in  unnecessary  matters. 
Ecclesiasticus  iii,  23. 

Lift  me  up  and  I'll  tell  you  more. 
Lay  me  down  as  I  was  before. 

Scottish  rhyme.  The  first  line  is 
inscribed  on  the  upper  part  of  a  big 
stone ;  the  second  on  its  underside. 

CURSES 

Those  which  have  not  sufficiently 
learned  out  of  Solomon  that "  the  cause- 
less curse  shall  not  come." 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

Never  was  heard  such  a  terrible  curse  ; 

But  what  gave  rise  to  no  little  surprise, 

Nobody  seemed  one   penny   the  worse  ! 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Jackdaw  of  Rheims. 

The  bad  man's  charity  (cursing). 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Spanish 
Curate. 

There's  a  great  text  in  Galatians, 
Once  you  trip  on  it,  entails 

Twenty-nine   distinct   damnations, 
One  sure,  if  another  fails. 

BROWNING. — Soliloquy. 

Curse    and    be   cursed !     It    is  the    fruit 
of   cursing. 

JOHN  FLETCHER. — Valentinian. 

Curses,  not  loud  but  deep. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  3. 


I  called  thee  to  curse  mine  enemies, 
and,  behold,  thou  hast  altogether  blessed 
them  these  three  times. 

Numbers  xxiv,  10. 

Curses  are  like  processions  ;  they  return 
whence  they  started.  Italian  prov. 

CUSTOM 

What  custom  hath  endeared 
We  part  with  sadly,  though  we  prize  it  not. 
JOANNA  BAILLIE. — Basil,  Act  i. 

Custom  reconciles  us  to  everything. 
BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

As  custom  arbitrates,  whose  shifting  sway 
Our  life  and  manners  must  alike  obey. 
BYRON. — Hints  from  Horace. 

Custom's  idiot  sway. 

COWPER. — Retirement,  49. 

Such  dupes  are  men  to  custom,  and  so 

prone 
To  reverence  what  is  ancient,  and  can 

plead 

A  course  of  long  observance  for  its  use. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Custom,  that  is  before  all  law;    Nature, 
that  is  above  all  art. 

S.  DANIEL. — Defence  of  Rhyme. 

Custom,  that  unwritten  law, 
By  which  the  people  keep  even  kings  in 
awe. 
SIR  W.  D'AVENANT. — Circe,  Act  2. 

Custom  then  is  the  great  guide  of  human 
life.  HUME. — Human  Understanding. 

Custom  ...  is  not  only,  as  the  proverb 
says,  a  second  nature,  but  is  continually 
mistaken  for  the  first. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  Introd. 

The  despotism  of  custom  is  everywhere 
the  standing  hindrance  to  human  ad- 
vancement. J.  S.  MILL. — Ib.,  ch.  3. 

Custom  is  not  a  small  thing. 

PLATO  (cited  by  Montaigne,  Essays, 
Bk.  i,  23). 

Custom,  the  world's  great  idol,  we  adore. 
J.  POMFRET. — Reason,  99. 

Take  the  course  opposite  to  custom  and 
you  will  almost  always  do  well. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

But,   to  my  mind,   though  I  am  native 

here, 

And  to  the  manner  born,  it  is  a  custom 
More    honoured    in    the    breach    than    in 

th'  observance. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 


103 


CYCLES 


DANCING 


That    monster,    custom,    who    all    sense 

doth  eat.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet, 

Act  3,  4. 

All  his  successors,  gone  before  him,  have 
clone't ;  and  all  his  ancestors  that  come 
after  him,  may. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Acti,  i. 

How  use  doth  breed  a  habit  in  a  man  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 

Verona,  Act  5,4. 

CYCLES 

In  all  things  there  is  a  kind  of  law  of 
cycles.  TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  2. 

CYCLISTS 

I  [Lady  Brandon]  think  the  most 
ridiculous  sight  in  the  world  is  a  man 
on  a  bicycle,  working  away  with  his  feet  as 
hard  as  he  possibly  can,  and  believing  that 
his  horse  is  carrying  him,  instead  of, 
as  any  one  can  see,  he  carrying  his  horse. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  c.  n. 

CYNICISM 

I  do  distrust  the  poet  who  discerns 
No  character  or  glory  in  his  times. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  5. 

And  I  must  say  I  ne'er  could  see  the  very 

Great  happiness  of  the  "  Nil  admirari." 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  5,  100. 

Life  is  too  short  to  waste 
In  critic  peep  or  cynic  bark, 
Quarrel  or  reprimand : 
'Twill  soon  be  dark. 

EMERSON. — To  J.  W. 

I've  an  irritating  chuckle,  I've  a  celebrated 
sneer, 

I've  an  entertaining  snigger,  I've  a  fas- 
cinating leer. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

I  was  born  sneering,  but  I  struggle  hard 
to  overcome  this  defect. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

Cynicism  is  intellectual  dandyism. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Egoist,  c.  7. 

Nothing's  new  and  nothing's  true  and 
nothing  matters. 

Attributed  to  SYDNEY  (LADY)  MORGAN, 
novelist.* 

The  reason  we  controvert  maxims 
which  discover  the  human  heart  is  that 
we  are  afraid  of  being  discovered  our- 
selves. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  603. 

*  "Ah,"  said  my  languid  gentleman  at  Ox- 
ford, "  there's  nothing  new  or  true — and  no 
matter." — EMERSON,  Representative  Men.  Mon- 
taigne (1849). 


I  love  to  cope  him  in  these  sullen  fits, 
For  then  he's  full  of  matter. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  i. 

Seldom  he  smiles,  and  smiles  in  such  a  sort 
As  if  he  mocked  himself,  and  scorned  his 

spirit, 

That  could  be  moved  to  smile  at  anything. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  i,  2. 

What  is  the  use  of  straining  after  an 
amiable  view  of  things,  Marian,  when  a 
cynical  view  is  most  likely  to  be  the  true 
one  ?  G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  c.  3. 

I  hate  cynicism  a  great  deal  worse  than 
I  do  the  devil ;  unless,  perhaps,  the  two 
were  the  same  thing. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — W.  Whitman. 

Cecil  Graham :  What  is  a  cynic  ? 

Lord  Darlington  :  A  man  who  knows  the 
price    of    everything    and    the    value    of 
nothing. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Lady  Windermere's  Fan. 


D 


DAISIES 

Myriads  of  daisies    have    shone  forth  in 

flower, 
Near  the  lark's  nest,  and  in  their  natural 

hour 

Have  passed  away;  less  happy  than  the  one 
That,     by     the     unwilling     ploughshare, 

died  to  prove 

The   tender  charm  of  poetry  and  love. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  during  a 

Summer  Tour,  1833,  No.  37. 

Thou  art  indeed  by  many  a  claim 
The  poet's  darling. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  the  Daisy. 

DALLIANCE 

To  sport  with   Amaryllis   in   the  shade, 
Or  with  the  tangles  of  Neaera's  hair. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  68. 

The  primrose  path  of  dalliance. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

DANCING 

On  with  the  dance ;  let  joy  be  unconfined  ; 
No    sleep    till    morn,    when    Youth    and 

Pleasure  meet 
To  chase  the  glowing  hours  with  flying 

feet. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  22. 

Muse  of  the  many  twinkling  feet,  whose 

charms 

Are  now  extended  up  from  legs  to  arms. 
BYRON. — The  Waltz 


104 


DANGER 


DARKNESS 


How  inimitably  graceful  children  are 
before  they  learn  to  dance  ! 

COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk. 

Dancing,  the  child  of  Music  and  of  Love. 
SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Orchestra. 

The  poetry  of  the  foot. 

DRYDEN. — Rival  Ladies. 

The  greater  the  fool  the  better  the 
dancer.  THEODORE  HOOK. — Maxim. 

Come,  and  trip  it  as  you  go, 
On  the  light  fantastic  toe. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  31. 

When  you  do  dance,  I  wish  you 
A  wave  i'  the  sea,  that  you  might  ever  do 
Nothing  but  that. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

DANGER 

There  may  be  danger  in  the  deed, 

But  there  is  honour  too. 
W.  E.  AYTOUN. — Island  of  the  Scots. 

If  the  danger  seems  slight,  then  it  is  not 
slight. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6,  43. 

Tiger,  tiger,  burning  bright 
In  the  forests  of  the  night. 

WM.  BLAKE. — The  Tiger. 

Dangers  by  being  despised  grow  great. 
BURKE. — Speech,  1792. 

Or   whispering,    with    white    lips — "  The 

foe! 
They  come  !     They  come  !  " 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  25. 

For  danger  levels  man  and  brute, 
And  all  are  fellows  in  their  need. 

BYRON. — Mazeppa,  3. 

Danger,  the  spur  of  all  great  minds. 

CHAPMAN. — Bussy  d'Ambois. 

The  absent  danger  greater  still  appears  ; 

Less  fears  he  who  is  near  the  thing  he  fears. 

S.  DANIEL. — Cleopatra,  Act  4,  i. 

This  danger  that  all  of  us  foresee  so 
clearly  will  not  happen.  Nothing  does 
that  we  foresee. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Slavery,  c.  5. 

In  worst  extremes,  and  on  the  perilous 

edge 
Of  battle. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  276. 

But  boundless  risk  must  pay  for  boundless 
gain. 

W.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise, 
Wanderers,  1581. 


Should  you  find  yourself  strike  upon  the 
rock  of  danger,  cast  obstinacy  overboard 
and  call  wisdom  to  the  helm. 

FRANCIS  OSBORNE. — Advice  to  a  Son 
(1656). 

Danger  is  never  overcome  without 
danger.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Thy  mirth  refrain, 
Thy  hand  is  on  a  lion's  mane. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  2,  12. 

Something    is    rotten    in    the    state    of 
Denmark. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

Sir,  though  I  am  not  splenetive  and  rash, 

Yet  have  I  in  me  something  dangerous. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  i. 

Out  of  this  nettle,  danger,  we  pluck 
this  flower,  safety. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  2,  3. 

By  a  divine  instinct  men's  minds  mistrust 
Ensuing   danger. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  2,  3. 

Danger  deviseth  shifts  ;  wit  waits  on 
fear.  SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis. 

Cannon  to  right  of  them, 
Cannon  to  left  of  them, 
Cannon  in  front  of  them, 

Volleyed  and  thundered. 
TENNYSON. — Charge  of  Light  Brigade. 

Into  the  jaws  of  Death, 
Into  the  mouth  of  Hell. 

TENNYSON. — Ib. 

Now  when  our  land   to   ruin's   brink   is 

verging, 
In  God's  name,  let  us  speak  while  there 

is  time  ! 
Now,  when  the  padlocks  for  our  lips  are 

forging, 
Silence  is  crime. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Lines  on  the 
adoption  of  Pinckney's  Resolutions. 

He  that  has  a  head  of  wax  must  not 
walk  in  the  sun.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

DARING 

And  dares  t  thou  then 
To  beard  the  lion  in  his  den, 
The  Douglas  in  his  hall  ? 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  st.  14. 

DARKNESS 

Yet  from  those  flames 
No  light  ;  but  rather  darkness  visible. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  62. 


I05 


DATES 

O  dark,  dark,  dark,   amid  the  blaze   of 

noon, 

*  Irrecoverably  dark,  total  eclipse, 
Without  all  hope  of  day  ! 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  80. 

And  all  around  was  darkness  like  a  wall. 
W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  7,  157. 

Darkness  there,  and  nothing  more. 

E.  A.  POE. — Raven,  st.  4. 

There's  husbandry  in  heaven  ; 
Their  candles  are  all  out. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  i. 

With    hue    like    that    when    some    great 

painter  dips 
His  pencil  in  the  gloom  of  earthquake 

and  eclipse. 

SHELLEY. — Islam,  c.  5,  23. 

DATES 

"  W'en  you  come  to  ax  me  'bout  de 
year  en  day  er  de  mont',"  said  the  old  man 
[Uncle  Remus]  ..."  den  I'm  done, 
kase  the  almanick  w'at  dey  got  in  dem 
times  won't  pass  muster  deze  days." 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  c.  13. 

DAUGHTERS 

Marry  thy  daughters  in  time  lest  they 
marry  themselves. 

WM.  CECIL  (LORD  BURGHLEY). — 
Precepts  to  his  Son. 

It  was  a  lording's  daughter,   the  fairest 
one  of  three. 

Attrib.  to  SHAKESPEARE. — Passionate 
Pilgrim,  No.  14. 

I    am   all  the  daughters  of  my  father's 

house, 

And  all  the  brothers  too. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

Mother,  a  maiden  is  a  tender  thing, 
And  best  by  her  that  bore  her  understood. 
TENNYSON. — Marriage  of  Geraint,  509. 

DAYS 

The  great,   th'   important  day,  big  with 

the  fate 
Of  Cato  and  of  Rome. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i. 

The  days  are  ever  divine — as  to  the 
first  Aryans.  .  .  .  They  come  and  go  like 
muffled  and  veiled  figures,  sent  from  a 
distant  friendly  party,  but  they  say 
nothing,  and  if  we  do  not  use  the  gifts 
they  bring  they  carry  them  as  silently 
away.  EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 


"Irrecoverably"  in  all  printed  editions. 
"  Irrevocably  "  may  possibly  have  been  the  word 
actually  dictated  by  MUton. 


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DEAD,   THE 

Write  it  on  your  heart  that  every  day 
is  the  best  day  in  the  year.  No  man 
has  learned  anything  rightly  until  he 
knows  that  every  day  is  Doomsday. 

EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

There's  a  feast  undated  yet : 

Both  our  true  lives  hold  it  fast — 
The  first  day  we  ever  met, 

What  a  great  day  came  and  passed  ! 
Unknown  then,  but  known  at  last. 

ALICE  MEYNELL. — An  Unmarked 
Festival. 

Every  day  is  the  pupil  of  the  day  before. 
PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

The  spirit  walks  of  every  day  deceased, 

And  smiles  an  angel,  or  a  fury  frowns. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  z. 

What  then  is  man  ?     The  smallest  part  of 

nothing. 
Day  buries  day,  month  month,  and  year 

the  year. 

YOUNG. — Revenge,  Act  4,  i. 

Monday  for  wealth, 
Tuesday  for  health, 
Wednesday  the  best  day  of  all ; 
Thursday  for  crosses, 
Friday  for  losses, 
Saturday,  no  luck  at  all. 

"  Days  Lucky  or  Unlucky  "  (for 
Marriage),  Brand's  Antiquities. 

DEAD,  THE 

And  through  thee  I  believe 

In  the  noble  and  great  who  are  gone  ; 

Pure  souls  honoured  and  blest. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Rugby  Chapel. 

They  shall  not  grow  old,  as  we  that  are 

left  grow  old  ; 
Age  shall  not  weary  them,  nor  the  years 

condemn. 
At  the  going  down  of  the  sun,  and  in  the 

morning, 
We  will  remember  them. 

LAURENCE  BINYON. — For  the  Fallen, 
Sept.,  1915. 

But  never  be  a  tear-drop  shed 

For  them,  the  pure  enfranchised  dead. 
MARY  E.  BROOKS. — Weep  not  for  the  Dead. 

All  that  tread 

The  globe,  are  but  a  handful  to  the  tribes 
That  slumber  in  its  bosom. 

W.  C.  BRYANT. — Thanatopsis,  48. 

The  shroud  is  forgiveness'  token, 
And  death  makes  saints  of  all. 
W.  CARLETON. — Festival  of  Memory,  3,  15. 

Is  he  then  dead  ? 
What,    dead   at   last  ?    quite,    quite,    for 

ever  dead  ! 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  5,  3. 


DEAD,   THE 

I  should  ill  requite  thee  to  constrain 

Thy  unbound  spirit  into  bonds  again. 

COWPER. — On  Receipt  of  his  Mother's 

Picture,  86. 

Hail  and  farewell ;  the  laurels  with  the 

dust 

Are  levelled,  but  thou  hast  thy  surer  crown, 
Peace,   and  immortal  calm,   the  victory 

won. 
Somewhere   serene    thy   watchful    power 

inspires  ; 

Thou  art  a  living  purpose,  being  dead, 
A  fruit  of  nobleness  in  lesser  lives, 
A  guardian  and  a  guide  ;   Hail  and  fare- 
well! 

J.  G.  FAIRFAX. — On  Sir  Stanley 
Maude,  1917. 

For  some  we  loved,  the  loveliest  and  the 

best 
That  from  his  Vintage  rolling  Time  hath 

prest, 
Have  drunk  their  Cup  a  Round  or  two 

before, 

And  one  by  one  crept  silently  to  rest. 
E.  FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  22. 

Strange,  is  it  not  ?  that  of  the  myriads  who 
Before  us  passed  the  door  of  Darkness 

through, 

Not  one  returns  to  tell  us  of  the  Road, 

Which  to  discover  we  must  travel  too. 

E.  FITZGERALD. — Ib.,  st.  64. 

Their  tears,  their  little  triumphs  o'er, 
Their  human  passions  now  no  more. 

GRAY. — Ode  for  Music,  48. 

Yet  saw  he  something  in  the  lives 

Of  those  who  ceased  to  live 
That  rounded  them  with  majesty, 
Which  living  failed  to  give. 
T.  HARDY. — Casterbridge  Captains. 

Go,  stranger !  track  the  deep, 
Free,  free  the  white  sail  spread  ! 
Wave  may  not  foam  nor  wild  wind  sweep 
Where  rest  not  England's  dead. 

MRS.  HEMANS. — England's  Dead. 

Gone  before 
To  that  unknown  and  silent  shore. 

LAMB. — Hester. 

1  think  of  the  friends  who  are  dead,  who 

were  dear  long  ago  in  the  past, 
Beautiful  friends  who  are  dead,   though 

I  know  that  death  cannot  last ; 
Friends  with  the  beautiful  eyes  that  the 

dust  has  denied, 
Beautiful  souls  who  were  gentle  when  I 

was  a  child. 

JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Twilight. 

There  is  something — something — 
Something  which  gives  me 
Loathing,  terror, 


DEAD,  THE 


To  leave  the  dead 
So  alone,  so  wretched. 
JOHN  MASEFIELD. — From  the  Spanish 
of  Don  Gustavo  A.  Becquer. 

They  whose  course  on  earth  is  o'er 
Think  they  on  their  brethren  more  ? 

J.  M.  NEALE. — All  Souls. 

When  the  dust  of  the  workshop  is  still, 
The  dust  of  the  workman  at  rest, 
May  some  generous  heart  find  a  will 
To  seek  and  to  treasure  his  best. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

That  law  of  Solon's  is  justly  to  be  com- 
mended, which  forbids  man  to  speak  ill 
of  the  dead.  PLUTARCH. — Solon. 

There  is  no  music  more  for  him, 

His  lights  are  out,  his  feast  is  done  : 
His  bowl  that  sparkled  at  the  brim 
Is  drained,  is  broken,  cannot  hold. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Peal  of  Bells. 

Our  respect  for  the  dead,  when  they  are 

just  dead,  is  something  wonderful,  and  the 

way  we  show  it  more  wonderful  still. 

RUSKIN. — Political  Economy  of  Art, 

Lecture  2. 

Imperial  Caesar,  dead,  and  turned  to  clay, 

Might  stop  a  hole  to  keep  the  wind  away. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

He  has  outsoared  the  shadow  of  our  night, 
Envy  and  calumny  and  hate  and  pain, 
And  that  unrest  which  men  miscall 

delight, 

Can  touch  him  not,  and  torture  not  again  ; 
From  the  contagion  of  the  world's  slow 

stain 

He  is  secure,  and  now  can  never  mourn 
A  heart  grown  cold,  a  head  grown  grey 

in  vain. 

SHELLEY. — Adonais,  st.  40. 

Not  a  kindlier  life  or  sweeter 

Time,   that  lights  and  quenches  men, 
Now  may  quench  or  light  again. 

SWINBURNE. — Epicede. 

For  if,  beyond  the  shadow  and  the  sleep 
A  place  there  be  for  souls  without  a 

stain, 
Where  peace  is  perfect,  and  delight  more 

deep 
Than  seas  or  skies   that  change   and 

shine  again, 

There  none  of  ah*  unsullied  souls  that  live 
May  hold  a  surer  station  :  none  may 

lend 
More  light  to  hope's  or  memory's  lamp, 

nor  give 
More   joy    than    thine    to    those   who 

called  thee  friend. 
SWINBURNE. — In  Memory  of  J.  W 
Inchbold. 


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DEATH 


Time  takes   them  home  that  we  loved, 

fair  names  and  famous, 
To    the   soft   long  sleep,  to  the  broad 

sweet  bosom  of  death  ; 
But  the  flower  of  their  souls  he  shall  not 

take  away  to  shame  us, 
Nor  the  lips  lack  song  for  ever  that  now 
lack  breath. 

SWINBURNE. — In  Memory  of  Barry 
Cornwall,  st.  6. 

But  O  for  the  touch  of  a  vanished  hand, 

And  the  sound  of  a  voice  that  is  still ! 

TENNYSON. — Break,  Break. 

We   have  lost   him ;   he   is  gone  : 

We  know  him  now  :  all  narrow  jealousies 

Are  silent ;  and  we  see  him  as  he  moved. 

TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication. 

But  trust  that  those  we  call  the  dead 
Are  breathers  of  an  ampler  day 
For  ever  nobler  ends. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  118. 

Speak  no  more  of  his  renown, 
Lay  your  earthly  fancies  down, 
And  in  the  vast  cathedral  leave  him, 
God  accept  him,  Christ  receive  him. 

TENNYSON. — On  Wellington. 

Ne'er  to  these  chambers,  where  the  mighty 
rest, 

Since   their   foundation,   came   a   nobler 
guest, 

Nor  e'er  was  to  the  bowers  of  bliss  con- 
veyed 

A  fairer  spirit,  or  more  welcome  shade. 

T.  TICKEI.L. — On  Addison. 

They  are  all  gone  into  the  world  of  light, 
And  I  alone  sit  lingering  here  ; 

Their  very  memory  is  fair  and  bright, 
And  my  sad  thoughts  doth  cheer. 

H.  VAUGHAN. — Departed  Friends. 

Lightly   they'll  talk  of  the  spirit  that's 

gone, 

And  o'er  his  cold  ashes  upbraid  him — 
But  little  he'll  reck  if  they  let  him  sleep  on 
In  the  grave  where  a  Briton  has  laid 
him. 

WOLFE.— Burial  of  Sir  J.  Moore. 

They  whom  death  has  hidden  from  our 

sight 
Are  worthiest  of  the  mind's  regard. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  5. 

How  fast  has  brother  followed  brother 
From  sunshine  to  the  sunless  land  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — On  the  death  of 
James  Hogg. 
Dead  men  open  the  eyes  of  the  living. 

Spanish  prov. 
DEAD,   ATTACKS  ON  THE 

Vile  is  the  vengeance  on  the  ashes  cold; 

And  envy  base  to  barke  at  sleeping  fame. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  2,  c.  8. 


DEAD,  THE  DISTINGUISHED 

All  these  were  honoured  in  their  genera- 
tions, and  were  the  glory  of  their  times. 
Ecclesiasticus  xliv,  7. 

DEAD,   TRIBUTES   TO   THE 

Be  kind  to  my  remains  :    and  O  defend, 

Against   your   judgment,    your    departed 

friend  !    DRYDEN. — To  Congreve,  73. 

Green  be  the  turf  above  thee, 

Friend  of  my  better  days  ; 
None  knew  thee  but  to  love  thee, 
Nor  named  thee  but  to  praise. 
F.  HALLECK. — On  the  death  of  J.  R. 
Drake. 

Yet  once  more,  O  ye  laurels,  and   once 

more, 

Ye  myrtles  brown,  with  ivy  never  sere, 
I  come  to  pluck  your  berries  harsh  and 

crude, 

And  with  forced  fingers  rude, 
Shatter  your  leaves  before  the  mellowing 

year.  MILTON, — Lycidas,  i. 

DEADNESS 

And  ships  were  drifting  with   the   dead 
To  shores  where  all  was  dumb  ! 

CAMPBELL. — The   Last   Man. 

DEANS 

A  canon  !     That's  a  place  too  mean  : 
No,  doctor,  you  shall  be  a  dean  ; 
Two  dozen  canons  round  your  stall, 
And  you  the  tyrant  of  them  all. 

SWIFT. — Horace,  Bk.  i,  Ep.  7. 

DEATH 

Stern  law  of  every  mortal  lot ! 

Which  man,   proud  man,   finds  hard  to 

bear, 

And  builds  himself  I  know  not  what 
Of  second  life,  I  know  not  where. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Geist's  Grave. 

And  truly  he  who  here 
Hath  run  his  bright  career, 
And  served  men  nobly   and  acceptance 

found, 
And  borne  to  light  and  right  his  witness 

high, 
What  could  he  better  wish  than  then 

to  die, 

And  wait  the  issue,  sleeping  underground  ? 
M.  ARNOLD. — Westminster  Abbey. 

I  have  often  thought  upon  death  and 
I  find  it  the  least  of  all  evils. 

BACON. — Essay  on  Death,  Sec.  i. 

Above  all,  believe  fit,  the  sweetest 
canticle  is  "  Nunc  Dimittis,"  when  a 
man  hath  attained  worthy  ends  and  ex- 
pectations. BACON. — Ib. 


1 08 


DEATH 


DEATH 


It  is  as  natural  to  die  as  to  be  born. 
BACON. — Essay  on  Death,  Sec.  i. 

Death  .  .  .  openeth  the  gate  to  good 
fame  and  extinguisheth  envy. 

BACON. — Ib. 

Men  fear  death  as  children  fear  to  go  in 
the  dark.  BACON. — Ib. 

Endless  parting 
With  all  we  can  call  ours,  with  all  our 

sweetness, 
With    youth,    strength,  pleasure,  people, 

time,  nay  reason  ! 

For  in  the  silent  grave,  no  conversation, 
No  joyful  tread  of  friends,  no  voice  of 

lovers, 
No    careful    father's    counsels,    nothing's 

heard, 
For  nothing  is,  but  all  oblivion. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Thierry 
and  Theodoret,  Act  4,  i. 

Why  be  heavy  of  heart,  my  brother  ; 

Why  be  weary  or  weep  ? 
For  death  ends  all  things,  one  with  another, 
And  death  is  a  dreamless  sleep. 

E.  F.  M.  BENEKE. — Cross  beneath 
the  Ring. 

The  Angel  of  Death  has  been  abroad 
throughout  the  land  ;  you  may  almost 
hear  the  beating  of  his  wings. 

JOHN  BRIGHT. — Speech,  Feb.,  1855. 

We  shall  start  up,  at  last  awake 
From  Life,  that  insane  dream  we  take 
For  waking  now,  because  it  seems. 

BROWNING. — Easter  Day  Eve,  c.  17. 

Strict  and  close  are  the  ties  that  bind 
In  death  the  children  of  human  kind, 
Yea,   stricter   and   closer   than   those   of 
life. 
W.  C.  BRYANT. — Two  Graves,  a. 

The  finest  sight  beneath  the  sky 
Is  to  see  how  bravely  a  MAN  can  die. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — O'Murtagh. 

He  hath  got  beyond  the  gunshot  of 
his  enemies. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  i. 

O  Death  !  the  poor  man's  dearest  friend, 
The  kindest  and  the  best. 

BURNS. — Man  was  made  to  mourn. 

The  silence  of  that  dreamless  sleep 
I  envy  now  too  much  to  weep. 

BYRON. — And  thou  art  Dead. 

Thus  lived — thus  died  she  ;  never  more  on 

her 
Shall  sorrow  light,  or  shame. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  4,  71. 


He  died  as  erring  man  should  die, 
Without  display,  without  parade  ; 
Meekly  had  he  bowed  and  prayed, 
As  not  disdaining  priestly  aid, 

Nor  desperate  of  all  hope  on  high. 

BYRON. — Parisina,  st.  17. 

Oh,  God  !  it  is  a  fearful  thing 
To  see  the  human  soul  take  wing 
In  any  shape,  in  any  mood. 

BYRON. — Prisoner  of  Chilian. 

O  Death  !  if  there  be  quiet  in  thy  arms, 
And  I  must  cease — gently,  O,  gently 

come 

To  me  !  and  let  my  soul  learn  no  alarms, 
But  strike  me,  ere  a  shriek  can  echo, 

dumb, 
Senseless,  and  breathless. 

CAMPBELL. — Lines  in  Sickness. 

Never  weather-beaten  sail  more  willing 

bent  to  shore  ; 
Never  tired  pilgrim's  limbs  affected 

slumber  more. 
CAMPION. — Never  Weather-beaten  Sail. 

Time  for  him  had  merged  itself  into 
eternity  ;  he  was,  as  we  say,  no  more. 
CARLYLE. — Characteristics. 

The  crash  of  the  whole  solar  and  stellar 
systems  could  only  kill  you  once. 

CARLYLE. — Letter,  1831. 

There  is  a  remedy  for  everything 
excepting  death.  CERVANTES  (Prov.). 

Then  is  it  best,  as  for  a  worthy  fame, 

To  dyen  when  a  man  is  best  of  name. 

CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  v.  3057. 

I  depart  from  life  as  from  an  inn,  and 
not  as  from  my  home. 

CICERO. — De  Senertute. 

We  ought  to  assemble  and  lament  at 
the  house  where  one  has  been  born,  having 
regard  to  the  varied  woes  of  human  life  ; 
but  when  one  has  by  death  finished  his 
weary  labours,  him  should  all  his  friends 
follow  to  the  grave  with  honour  and  rejoic- 
ing. 

CICERO  (tr.  of  Euripides).  Tusc.  Quasi., 
Bk.  i,  48. 

O  what  a  wonder  seems  the  fear  of  death, 

Seeing  how  gladly  we  all  sink  to  sleep  ! 

COLERIDGE. — Monody  on  the 

Death  of  Chatterton. 

The  debt  which  cancels  all  others. 

C.  C    COLTON. — Vol.  2,  No.  49. 

Two  hands  upon  the  breast, 

And  labour's  done  ; 
Two  pale  feet  crossed  in  rest, 

The  race  is  won. 

D.  M.  CRAIK. — On  the  Russian  prov. 

"  Two  hands  upon  the  breast  and  labour 

is  past." 


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DEATH 


And,  when  life's  sweet  fable  ends, 
Soul  and  body  part  like  friends  : — 
No  quarrels,  murmurs,  no  delay ; 
A  kiss,  a  sigh,  and  so  away. 

R.  CRASHAW. — Praise  of  Lessius. 

So  gentle  was  her  death,  so  blest, 

Under  the  covering  cross, 
That  even  those  who  loved  her  best 
Could  scarcely  mourn  their  loss. 
SIR  F.  H.  DOYLE. — Lady  Agnes,  st.  62. 

Welcome,  Death  ' 
Thou  best  of  thieves  !  who,  with  an  easy 

key, 

Dost  open  life,   and  unperceived  by  us 
Even  steal  us  from  ourselves ! 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  5,  i. 

He  was  exhaled ;  his  great  Creator  drew 

His  spirit,  as  the  sun  the  morning  dew. 

DRYDEN. — Elegy. 

So  soon  was  she  exhaled,  and  vanished 

hence  • 

As  a  sweet  odour  of  a  vast  expense, 
She  vanished,  we  can  scarcely  say  she 

died.  DRYDEN. — Eleonora. 

A  little  trust  that  when  we  die 
We  reap  our  sowing,  and  so — Good-bye. 
G.  Du  MAURIER. — Trilby. 

Now  the  labourer's  task  is  o'er  ; 

Now  the  battle  day  is  past ; 
Now  upon  the  farther  shore 

Stands  the  voyager  at  last. 

E.  ELLERTON. — Hymn. 

That  silent  organ  loudest  chants 
The  master's  requiem. 

EMERSON. — Dirge. 

To  die  is  landing  on  some  silent  shore, 
Where  billows  never  break  nor  tempests 

roar ; 
Ere  well  we  feel  the  friendly  stroke,  'tis 

o'er.    S.  GARTH. — Dispensary,  3,  225. 

Death  rides  on  every  passing  breeze, 
He  lurks  in  every  flower  ; 

Each  season  has  its  own  disease, 
Its  peril  every  hour. 

BISHOP  HEBER. — At  a  Funeral. 

Thou  art  gone  to  the  grave,  but  we  will 

not  deplore  thee, 

Though  sorrows  and  darkness  encom- 
pass  the   tomb. 

BISHOP  HEBER.— Ib. 

Leaves  have  their  time  to  fall, 
And  flowers  to  wither  at  the  north  wind's 
breath, 

And  stars  to  set — but  all, 
Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  O 

Death !  MRS.  HEMANS.— Hour  of  Death. 


Our  light  is  flown, 
Our  beautiful,  that  seemed  too  much  our 

own, 
Ever  to  die. 

MRS.  HEMANS. — Two  Voices. 

We  watched  her  breathing  through  the 

night, 

Her  breathing  soft  and  low, 
As  in  her  breast  the  wave  of  life 
Kept  heaving  to  and  fro. 

HOOD. — Death-Bed. 

Our  very  hopes  belied  our  fears, 
Our  fears  our  hopes  belied, 

We  thought  her  dying  when  she  slept, 
And  sleeping  when  she  died. 

HOOD. — Ib. 

Past  all  dishonour, 
Death  has  left  on  her 
Only  the  beautiful. 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs. 

'Tis  horrible  to  die 

And  come  down  with  our  little  all  of  dust, 
That  Dun  of  all  the  duns  to  satisfy. 

HOOD. — Bianca's  Dream. 

No  one  can  obtain  from  the  pope  a 
dispensation  for  never  dying. 

THOS.  KEMPIS. 

We  hurry  to  the  river  we  must  cross, 
And  swifter  downward  every  footstep 

wends  ; 
Happy  who  reach  it  ere  they  count  the 

loss 
Of  half  their  faculties  and  half   their 

friends. 
W.  S.  LANDOR.— Ode  to  Southey  (1833). 

And,  as  she  looked  around,  she  saw  how 

Death,  the  consoler, 
Laying  his  hand  upon  many  a  heart,  had 

healed  it  for  ever. 

LONGFELLOW. — Evangeline,  Pi.  2,  c.  5. 

There  is  a  reaper,  whose  name  is  Death. 
LONGFELLOW. — The  Reaper. 

There  is  no  death  !     What  seems  so  is 

transition. 

This  life  of  mortal  breath 
Is  but  a  suburb  of  the  life  Elysian, 
Whose  portal  we  call  Death. 

LONGFELLOW. — Resignation. 

The  gods  conceal  from  those  who  are 
to  live  how  happy  a  thing  it  is  to  die, 
so  that  they  may  continue  to  live. 

LUCANUS. — Pharsalia,  4,  519. 

And  Life  is  all  the  sweeter  that  he  lived, 
And  all  he  loved  more  sacred  for  his  sake  ; 
And  Death  is  all  the  brighter  that  he  died, 
And  Heaven  is  all  the  happier  that  he's 
there. 

G.  MASSEY. — On  Earl  Brownlow, 


DEATH 


DEATH 


There  are  so  many  ways  to  let  out  life. 
MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  i,  3. 

Death  hath  a  thousand  doors  to  let  out 

life; 
I  shall  find  one. 

MASSINGER.— Very  Woman,  Act  5,  4. 

Fortune  and  Hope  farewell !     I've  found 

the  port : 
You've  done  with  me  ;  go  now  with  others 

sport. 

J.  H.  MERIVALE. — Tr.  of  Greek. 

Conies  the  blind  Fury  with  the  abhorred 

shears, 
And  slits  the  thin-spun  life. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  I.  64. 

Death,  who  sets  all  free, 
Hath  paid  his  ransom  now,  and  full  dis- 
charge. 
MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  I.  1,572. 

Hell  trembled  at  the  hideous  name,  and 

sighed 
From  all  her  caves,  and  back  resounded 

Death. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  788. 

Death 
Grinned    horrible     a     ghastly    smile,    to 

hear 
His  famine  should  be  filled. 

MILTON. — -Ib.,  Bk.  2,  845. 

And  over  them  triumphant  Death  his  dart 
Shook,  but  delayed  to  strike,  though  oft 

invoked 
With  vows,  as  their  chief  good  and  final 

hope.          MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  n,  491. 

A  deathlike  sleep, 
A  gentle  wafting  to  immortal  life. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  12,  434. 

When  faith  and  love,  which  parted  from 

thee  never, 
Had  ripened   thy   just  soul   to   dwell 

with  God, 
Meekly  thou  didst  resign  this  earthly 

load 

Of  death,  called  life  ;  which  us  from  death 
doth  sever.  MILTON. — Sonnet. 

Boys,   are  ye  calling  a  toast  to-night  ? 

(Hear  what  the  sea-wind  saith) 
Fill  for  a  bumper  strong  and  bright, 

And  here's  to  Admiral  Death  ! 
He's  sailed  in  a  hundred  builds  o'  boat, 
He's  fought  in  a  thousand  kinds  o'  coat, 
He's  the  senior  flag  of  all  that  float, 

And   his  name's   Admiral   Death  ! 
SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Admiral  Death. 

Life's  race  well  run, 
Life's  work  well  done, 
Life's  victory  won, 

Now  cometh  rest. 
E.  H.  PARKER.— Pres,  Garfield. 


No  one  knows  but  that  death  is  the 
greatest  of  all  goods  to  man  ;  but  men 
fear  it,  as  if  they  well  knew  that  it  is  the 
greatest  of  evils. 

PLATO. — Apol.  of  Socrates,  17  (Gary  tr.). 

"  In  reality  then,"  he  [Socrates]  con- 
tinued, "  those  who  pursue  philosophy 
rightly,  study  to  die  ;  and  to  them  of 
all  men  death  is  least  formidable." 

PLATO. — Phccdo,  33  (Gary  tr.). 

Death  sets  us  free  even  from  the  greatest 
evils.  PLUTARCH. — Cows,  to  Apollonius. 

No  man  is  certain  whether  death  be  not 

the  greatest  good  that  can  befal  a  man. 

PLUTARCH. — Ib. 

Tell  me,  my  soul,  can  this  be  death  ? 

POPE. — Dying  Christian. 

A  heap  of  dust  alone  remains  of  thee  ; 
"Tis  all  thou  art  and  all  the  proud  shall  be. 
POPE. — Elegy. 

The  hour  concealed,  and  so  remote  the 

fear, 
Death  still  draws  nearer,  never  seeming 

near.       POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  3,  76. 

Death  aims  with  fouler  spite 
At  fairer  marks. 

QUARLES. — Divine  Poems. 

O  eloquent,  just,  and  mighty  Death  ! 
Whom  none  could  advise,  thou  hast  per- 
suaded ;  what  none  hath  dared  thou  hast 
done  .  .  .  Thou  hast  drawn  together  all 
the  far-stretched  greatness,  all  the  pride, 
cruelty,  and  ambition  of  man  ;  and  covered 
it  all  over  with  these  two  narrow  words  : 
Hie  jacet. 

SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Hist,  of  World. 

He  is  now  at  rest ; 

And  praise  and  blame  fall  on  his  ear  alike. 
ROGERS. — On  Byron. 

Sleep  that  no  pain  shall  wake, 
Night  that  no  morn  can  break, 
Till  joy  shall  overtake 

Her  perfect  peace. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Dream  Land. 

O  fading  honours  of  the  dead  ! 
O  high  ambition,  lowly  laid  ! 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  2, 10. 

And  come  he  slow  or  come  he  fast, 
It  is  but  Death  who  comes  at  last. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  2,  30. 

Death  had  he  seen  by  sudden  blow, 
By  wasting  plague,  by  tortures  slow, 
By  mine  or  breach,  by  steel  or  ball, 
Knew  all  his  shapes  and  scorned  them  all. 
SCOTT. — Rokeby.  c.  i,  8. 


Ill 


DEATH 


DEATH 


The  pomp  of  death  alarms  us  more  than 
death  itself. 

SENECA  (according  to  Francis  Bacon. 
The  actual  passage  in  Seneca  is,  "  It 
is  folly  to  die  of  the  fear  of  death," Ep.6g). 

Thou  hast  finished  joy  and  moan. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  4,  2. 

He    had   rather 

Groan  so  in  perpetuity,  than  be  cured 
By  the  sure  physician,  death. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  4. 

Thou  know'st  'tis  common,  all  that  live 

must  die, 
Passing  through  nature  to  eternity. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

To    sleep  !     perchance    to    dream ; — ay, 

there's  the  rub  ; 
For  in  that  sleep  of  death,  what  dreams 

may  come 
When  we  have  shuffled  off  this  mortal 

coil.       SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

This  fell  sergeant,  Death, 
Is  strict  in  his  arrest. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

He's  in  Arthur's  bosom,  if  ever  man 
went  to  Arthur's  bosom.  'A  made  a 
finer  end,  and  went  away,  an  it  had  been 
any  christom  child. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  2,  3. 

He  gave  his  honours  to  the  world  again, 
His  blessed  part  to  Heaven,  and  slept 

in  peace. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

O  mighty  Caesar  !  dost  thou  lie  so  low  ? 
Are  all  thy  conquests,  glories,  triumphs, 

spoils, 
Shrunk  to  this  little  measure  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Cczsar,  Act  3,  i. 

He  is  gone  indeed. 

The  wonder  is  he  hath  endured  so  long  : 
He  but  usurped  his  life. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  5,  3. 

Nothing  in  his  life 

Became  him  like  the  leaving  it ;  he  died 
As  one  that  had  been  studied  in  his  death, 
To  throw  away  the  dearest  thing  he  owed 
As  'twere  a  careless  trifle. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  4. 

The  fatal  bellman,  which  gives  the 
stern'st  good-night. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

After  life's  fitful  fever  he  sleeps  well. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

Treason  hath  done  his  worst ;  nor  steel, 

nor  poison, 

Malice  domestic,  foreign  levy,  nothing 
Can  touch  him  further. 

SHAKESPEARE,— 76.,  Act  3,  2. 


Blow  wind  !  come  wrack  ! 
At  least  we'll  die  with  harness  on  our 
back.     SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth, 
Act  5,  5. 

If  I  must  die, 

I  will  encounter  darkness  as  a  bride, 
And  hug  it  in  mine  arms. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  3,  i. 

The  sense  of  death  is  most  in  apprehension; 
And  the  poor  beetle,  that  we  tread  upon, 
In  corporal  sufferance  finds  a  pang  as 

great 
As  when  a  giant  dies. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Ay,  but  to  die,  and  go  we  know  not  where  ; 
To  lie  in  cold  obstruction,  and  to  rot  ; 
This   sensible   warm   motion   to   become 
A  kneaded  clod  ;  and  the  delighted  spirit 
To  bathe  in  fiery  floods,  or  to  reside 
In  thrilling  region  of  thick-ribbed  ice  ; 
To  be  imprisoned  in  the  viewless  winds, 
And  blown  with  restless  violence  round 

about 
The  pendent  world  !      SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Ay,  past  all  surgery. 

SHAKESPEARE. — -Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Gave 
His    body    to    that    pleasant    country's 

earth, 

And  his  pure  soul  unto  his  captain,  Christ, 
Under  whose  colours  he  had  fought  so 

long. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  4,  i. 

This  [Death]  is  what  I  am  hastening 
toward  at  the  express  speed  of  sixty 
minutes  an  hour. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  5 
(Sidney  Trefusis). 

Death  is  the  veil  which  those  who  live 

call  life  : 
They  sleep,  and  it  is  lifted. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  3,  3. 

How  wonderful  is  Death, 
Death — and  his  brother  Sleep  ! 
SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab,  c.  i. 

He  was  within  a  few  hours  of  giving 
his  enemies  the  slip  for  ever.    . 
STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  i,ch.  12. 

Death  is  the  port  where  all  may  refuge. 

find, 
The  end  of  labour,  entry  into  rest. 

EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Darius. 

His   time   was   come ;   he  ran   his  race 
We  hope  he's  in  a  better  place. 

SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift. 


DEATH 


DEATH,   PREMATURE 


Peace,  rest,  and  sleep  are  all  we  know  of 

death, 
And  all  we  dream  of  comfort. 

SWINBURNE. — In  Memory  of  J.  W. 
Inchbold. 

At  the  doors  of  life,  by  the  gate  of  breath, 
There  are  worse  things  waiting  for  men 
than   death. 

SWINBURNE. — Triumph  of  Time. 

The  Shadow,  cloaked  from  head  to  foot, 

Who  keeps   the  keys  of  all   the  creeds. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  23. 

Half-dead  to  know  that  I  shall  die. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  35. 

And  so  through  those  dark  gates  across 

the  wild 
That  no  man  knows. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  7,  341. 

Let  us  have  a  quiet  hour, 

Let  us  hob-and-nob  with  Death. 

TENNYSON — Vision  of  Sin,  Pt.  4,  3. 

May  be  our  life  is  death,  and  death  is 

life; 
One  thing  I  know, — Life  wakes  to  grief 

and  pain, 
And    Death,    the    healer,   lulls   to   sleep 

again. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Tr.  of  Euripides. 

A  quiet  passage  to  a  welcome  grave. 
I.  WALTON. — Complete  Angler. 

Who  die  of  having  lived  too  much 
In  their  large  hours. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Tomb  of  Burns. 

Death  hath  ten  thousand  several  doors 
For  men  to  take  their  exits. 

WEBSTER. — Duchess  of  Malfy. 

And  now  he  rests  ;  his  greatness  and  his 

sweetness 

No  more  shall  seem  at  strife  ; 
And  death  has  moulded  into  calm  com- 
pleteness 
The  statue  of  his  life. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Joseph  Siurge. 

A  Power  is  passing  from  the  earth 
To  breathless  Nature's  dark  abyss  ; 
But  when  the  great  and  good  depart, 
What  is  it  more  than  this — 
That  man,  who  is  from  God  sent  forth, 
Doth  yet  again  to  God  return  ? 
Such  ebb  and  flow  must  ever  be ; 
Then  wherefore  should   we  mourn  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — Lines  at  Grasmere 
(written  when  C.  J.  Fox  was  dying)  (1806). 

Death  is  the  crown  of  life. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

I  I 


Death,  of  all   pain    the    period,  not    of 
joy.  YOUNG. — Ib. 

Were    death    denied,    e'en    fools    would 
wish   to  die.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  4. 

Man  makes  a  death  which  Nature  never 

made  ; 

Then  on  the  point  of  his  own  fancy  falls  ; 
And  feels  a  thousand  deaths,  in  fearing 

one.  YOUNG. — Ib. 

Death    loves   a   shining    mark,    a    signal 
blow.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  5. 

Nothing  is  dead  but  that  which  wished 

to  die  ; 
Nothing   is   dead   but   wretchedness   and 

pain.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  6. 

And,  round  us,  Death's  inexorable  hand 

Draws  the  dark  curtain  close  ;  undrawn 

no  more.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  7. 

Life  is  the  desert,  life  the  solitude  ; 
Death  joins  us  to  the  great  majority. 

YOUNG. — The  Revenge,  Act  4,  i. 

Judge  none  blessed  before  his  death. 

Ecclesiasticus  xi,  28. 

Let  me  die  the  death  of  the  righteous, 
and  let  my  last  end  be  like  his  ! 

Numbers  xxiii,  10. 

Come,  gentle  death,  the  ebb  of  care, 
The  ebb  of  care,  the  flood  of  life. 

Totters  Miscellany  (1557). 

DEATH,  PREMATURE 

Brief,  brave,  and  glorious  was  his  young 
career. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  57. 

Heaven  gives  its  favourites — early  death. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  c    4,  st.  102. 

"  Whom  the  gods  love  die  young,"  was 
said  of  yore. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  4,  12. 

Grieve  not  that  I  die  young.     Is  it  not 

well 
To  pass  away  ere  life  hath  lost  its  bright 

ness  ? 
LADY  FLORA  E.  HASTINGS. — Swan  Song. 

How  happier  far  than  life,  the  end 
Of   souls   that   infant-like   beneath    their 
burden  bend. 

KEBLE. — Holy  Innocents. 

He  whom  the  gods  love  dies  young. 

MENANDER. — Dis  Exapaton. 

He  whom  the  gods  love  dies  young, 
whilst  he  is  full  of  health,  perception,  and 
judgment. 

PLAUTUS. — Bacchides,  Act  4,  7. 

A  dirge  for  her,  the  doubly-dead, 
In  that  she  died  so  young. 

E.  A.  POE. — Lenore 


DEATH,  SUDDEN 


DECADENCE 


His  bright  and  brief  career  is  o'er, 
And  mute  his  tuneful  strains. 

SCOTT. — Lord  of  the  Isles,  4,  n. 

Sweet  rose,  fair  flower,  untimely  plucked, 

soon   faded  ; 
Plucked  in  the  bud,  and  faded  in  the  spring. 

Attnb.  to  SHAKESPEARE. — Passionate 
Pilgrim,  No.  8. 

As  is  the  bud  bit  with  an  envious  worm, 
Ere  he  can  spread  his  sweet  leaves  to  the 

air, 
Or  dedicate  his  beauty  to  the  sun. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  i,  i. 

Death  lies  on  her,  like  an  untimely  frost 

Upon  the  sweetest  flower  of  all  the  field. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  5. 

She  died   in  beauty — like   a  rose,  blown 
from  its  parent  stem. 

C.  D.  SILLERY. — Song. 

The  good  die  first  .  .  . 

And  they  whose  hearts  are  dry  as  summer 

dust 
Burn  to  the  socket. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  i. 

Early,  bright,  transient,  chaste,  as  morn- 
ing dew 

She    sparkled,    was    exhaled,    and    went 
to  Heaven. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 

Therefore  a  heaven's  gift  she  was, 
Because  the  best  are  soonest  hence  bereft. 
Tottel's  Miscellany  (i557).     On  the  death 
of  Lord  Pembroke. 

DEATH,   SUDDEN 

Oh,  sunderings  short  of  body  and  breath  ! 
Oh,    "  battle    and    murder    and    sudden 

death  !  " 

Against  which  the  Liturgy  preaches ; 
By  the  will  of  a  just  yet  a  merciful  Power, 
Less  bitter  perchance,  in  the  mystic  hour, 
When  the  wings  of  the  shadowy  angel 

lower, 

Than  man  in  his  blindness  teaches. 
A.  L.  GORDON. — Wearie  Wayfarer,  5. 

Then  with  no  fiery  throbbing  pain, 
No  cold  gradations  of  decay, 

Death  broke  at  once  the  vital  chain, 
And  freed  his  soul  the  nearest  way. 
JOHNSON. — Death  of  R.  Levelt. 

Cut  off  even  in  the  blossoms  of  my  sin, 
Unhouseled,   disappointed,   unaneled  ; 
No  reckoning  made,  but  sent  to  my  account 
With  all  my  imperfections  on  my  head. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

DEATH,  UNITED   IN 

Saul  and  Jonathan  were  lovely  and 
pleasant  in  their  lives,  and  in  their  death 
they  were  not  divided.  2  Samuel  i,  23 


DEATH-BED 

A  death-bed's  a  detector  of  the  heart. 
Here  tired  dissimulation  drops  her  mask. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

DEBATERS 

Frank,    haughty,    rash — the    Rupert    of 
debate. 

(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — New  Timon, 
Pt.  i  (Lord  Stanley  was  previously 
described  by  B.  Disraeli  as  "  the 
Rupert  of  debate  "). 

DEBT 

He  (Vaugeron)  argues  that  the  floating 
debt  must  be  light  because  it  floats. 

D.  DAIGNE. — Les  Repus. 

A  person  who  can't  pay  gets  another 
person  who  can't  pay  to  guarantee  that  he 
can  pay.  Like  a  person  with  two  wooden 
legs  getting  another  person  with  two 
wooden  legs  to  guarantee  that  he  has  got 
two  natural  legs.  It  don't  make  either 
of  them  able  to  do  a  walking  match. 

DICKENS. — Little  Dorrit,  c.  23. 

Debt  is  the  prolific  mother  of  folly  and 
of  crime. 

DISRAELI. — Henrietta  Temple, 
Bk.  2,  c.  i. 

The  second  vice  is  lying  ;  the  first  is 
running  into  debt. 

B.  FRANKLIN. — Poor  Richard. 

Debts  and  lies  are  generally  mixed 
together.  RABELAIS. — Pantagruel,  Bk.  3. 

I  pay  debts  of  honour — not  honourable 
debts. 

F.  REYNOLDS. — The  Will,  Act  3,  2. 

He  that  dies  pays  all  debts 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  2,  2. 

When  once  a  people  have  tasted  the 
luxury  of  not  paying  their  debts,  it  is 
impossible  to  bring  them  back  to  the 
black  broth  of  honesty. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Mrs.  Grote, 
Aug.  31,  1843. 

He  [Sir  Pitt  Crawley]  had  an  almost 
invincible  repugnance  to  paying  anybody, 
and  could  only  be  brought  by  force  to 
discharge  his  debts. 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  Bk.  i,  c.  9. 

DECADENCE 

Shrine  of  the  mighty  !  can  it  be 
That  this  is  all  remains  of  thee  ? 

BYRON. — The  Giaour,  I.  103. 

His  heart  was  formed  for  softness — warped 

to  wrong  ; 

Betrayed  too  early,  and  beguiled  too  long. 
BYRON. — Corsair  3,  23. 


"4 


DECAY 


DECEPTION 


I  am  ashes  where  once  I  was  fire. 

BYRON. — To  Lady  Blessington. 

Fears  of  the  brave  and  follies  of  the  wise  ! 
From  Marlborough's  eyes  the  streams  of 

dotage  flow, 

And  Swift  expires  a  driveller  and  a  show. 
JOHNSON. — Vanity  of  Human  Wishes. 

But  O  how  fallen  !  how  changed 
From  him,  who,  in  the  happy  realms  of 

light, 
Clothed  in  transcendent  brightness,  didst 

outshine 
Myriads,   though  bright ! 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  84. 

And  bitter  memory  cursed  with  idle  rage 
The  greed  that  coveted  gold  above  renown, 
The  feeble  hearts  that  feared  their  heritage, 
The  hands  that  cast  the  sea-king's  sceptre 

down, 

And  left  to  alien  brows  their  famed  an- 
cestral crown. 

SIR  H.  J.  NEWBOLT. — VCE  victis. 

Thus    all    below,    whether    by    Nature's 

curse, 
Or  Fate's  decree,  degenerate  still  to  worse. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  i  (Dryden  tr.) . 

Milton  !  thou  shouldst  be  living  at  this 

hour : 

England  hath  need  of  thee  ;  she  is  a  fen 
Of  stagnant  waters. 

WORDSWORTH. — London. 

Shame  followed  shame,  and  woe  supplanted 

woe — 

Is  this  the  only  change  that  time  can  show? 
WORDSWORTH. — Ode. 

Perpetual  emptiness  !  unceasing  change  ! 
No  single  volume  paramount,  no  code, 
No  master  spirit,  no  determined  road : 
But  equally  a  want  of  books  and  men. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  i;  15. 

I  find  nothing  great : 
Nothing  is  left  which  I  can  venerate ; 
So  that  a  doubt  almost  within  me  springs 
Of  Providence,  such  emptiness  at  length 
Seems  at  the  heart  of  all  things. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  Pt.  i,  22. 

The  great  events  with  which  old  story 

rings 
Seem  vain  and  hollow. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

DECAY 

I  would  not  mind  being  dead,  but  I 
would  not  die  out. 

EPICHARMUS  (quoted  by  Cicero). 

There  will  be  a  day  when  even  sacred 
Troy  shall  be  no  more.     HOMER. — Iliad. 


While  man  is  growing,  life  is  in  decrease  ; 

And  cradles  rock  us  nearer  to  the  tomb. 

Our  birth  is  nothing  but  pur  death  begun. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 

DECEIT 

Fraud  that  in  every  conscience  leaves  a 
sting.   DANTE. — Hell,  c.  n  (Gary  tr.). 

Who  dares  think  one  thing,  and  another 

tell, 
My  heart  detests  him  as  the  gates  of  hell. 

HOMER. — Iliad,  Bk.  9,  412  (Pope  tr.). 

'Tis  in  vain  to  find  fault  with  those  arts 
of  deceiving,  wherein  men  find  pleasure 
to  be  deceived. 

LOCKE. — Human  Understanding,  Bk.  3. 

I  open  an  old  book,  and  there  I  find, 
That  "  Women  still  may  love  whom  they 

deceive." 

Such  love  I  prize  not. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  14. 

Oh,  what  a  tangled  web  we  weave 
When  first  we  practise  to  deceive  ! 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  st.  17. 

She  has  deceived  her  father,  and  may  thee. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

If  a  man  deceive  me  once,  shame  on 
him  ;  if  twice,  shame  on  me.  Prov. 

Since  you  wish  to  deceive  me,  deceive 
me  better  than  you  are  doing  it. 

French  Opera,  "  Phtnix  de  la  Potsie 
chantante." 

Speak  unto  us  smooth  things ;  prophesy 
deceits  Isaiah  xxx,  10. 

The  heart  is  deceitful  above  all  things, 
and  desperately  wicked. 

Jeremiah  xvii,  9. 

DECENCY 

Not  one  immoral,  one  corrupted  thought, 
One  line  which,  dying,  he  could  wish  to 
blot. 
GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Prologue. 

Immodest  words  admit  of  no  defence, 
For  want  of  decency  is  want  of  sense. 
EARL  OF  ROSCOMMON. — On  Translated 

Verse. 

DECEPTION 

If  such  as  came  for  wool,  sir,  went  home 

shorn, 
Where  is  the  wrong  I  did  them  ? 

BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

Between  craft  and  credulity  the  voice 
of  reason  is  stifled. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Sheriffs  of  Bristol. 


DECISION 


DEFIANCE 


What  a  world  of  gammon  and  spinnage 
it  is,  though,  ain't  it  ? 

DICKENS. — David  Copperfield,  ch.  22. 

Sure  men  were  born  to  lie,  and  women 
to  believe  them. 

GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 

Lest  men  suspect  pur  tale  untrue, 
Keep  probability  in  view. 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  i,  14. 

DECISION 

When   desperate   ills   demand   a   speedy 

cure, 

Distrust  is  cowardice  and  prudence  folly. 
JOHNSON. — Irene. 

I  tell  thee,  God  is  in  that  man's  right  hand, 
Whose  heart  knows  when  to  strike,  and 
when  to  stay. 

SWINBURNE. — Bothwell. 

Let  your  yea  be  yea  ;  and  your  nay,  nay. 
St.  James  v,  12. 

DECORUM 

Nor  will  virtue  herself  look  beautiful, 
unless  she  be  bedecked  with  the  outward 
ornaments  of  decency  and  decorum. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  3,  c.  7. 

DEEDS 

We  live  in  deeds,  not  years  ;  in  thoughts, 

not  breaths  ; 
In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 

P.  J.  BAILEY. — Festus. 

All  dies,  as  we  often  say  ;  except  the 
spirit  of  man,  of  what  man  does. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  2, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  5. 

The  only  things  in  life  in  which  we  can 
be  said  to  have  any  property,  are  our 
actions.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon,  No.  52. 

Without  doubt  it  is  a  delightful  har- 
mony when  doing  and  saying  go  together. 
MONTAIGNE. — Essays,  2,  31. 

Think  nothing  done  while  aught  remains 
to  do.  ROGERS. — Human  Life. 

Deeds  are  fruits,  words  are  but  leaves. 
Prov.  (Ray). 

Deeds  are  males  and  words  are  females. 
Prov.  (Ray). 

DEFEAT 

He  smiled  a  kind  of  sickly  smile,  and  curled 

up  on  the  floor, 
And  the  subsequent  proceedings  interested 

him  no  more. 

BRET  HARTE. — Stanislaus. 


I  would  rather  suffer  defeat  than  have 
cause  to  be  ashamed  of  victory. 

QUINTUS   CURTIUS. 

The  conquering  cause  was  pleasing  to 
the  gods,  but  the  conquered  to  Cato. 

Luc  A  N  us . — Pharsalia . 

They'll  wondering  ask  how  hands  so  vile 
Could  conquer  hearts  so  brave. 

MOORE. — Weep  On. 

In  the  lost  battle,    . 

Borne  down  by  the  flying, 
Where  mingles  war's  rattle, 

With  groans  of  the  dying. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  3,  n 

Great  is  the  facile  conqueror ; 
Yet  happy  he,  who,  wounded  sore, 
Breathless,  unhorsed,  all  covered  o'er 

With  blood  and  sweat, 
Sinks  foiled,  but  fighting  evermore, — 

Is  greater  yet.  SIR  W.  WATSON. — 

Laleham  Churchyard,  14. 

DEFENCE 

Self-defence  is  nature's  oldest  law. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel. 

Self-preservation  is  the  first  of  laws. 
DRYDEN. — The  Spanish  Friar, 

Act  4,  2  (1681). 

The  first  and  fundamental  law  of  Nature 
...  is  "  to  seek  peace,  and  follow  it." 
The  second,  the  sum  of  the  right  of  Nature  : 
which  is,  "  by  all  means  we  can  to  defend 
ourselves."  HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  14. 

Self-preservation,  nature's  first  great  law, 
All  the  creation,  except  man,  doth  awe. 
MARVELL. — Hodge's  Vision. 

What  boots  it  at  one  gate  to  make  defence. 
And  at  another  to  let  in  the  foe  ? 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  5,  60. 

This  animal  is  very  vicious.  When  you 
attack  it,  it  defends  itself.  French  (Anon). 

DEFERENCE 

Deference  to  others  obtains  friends ; 
truth  brings  hatred.  TERENCE. — Andria. 

DEFIANCE 

With  his  back  to  the  field,  and  his  feet  to 
the  foe.  CAMPBELL. — Lochiel's  Warning. 

Juletta.     Why,  slaves,  'tis  in  our  power 

to  hang  ye. 
Master.     Very  likely : 

"Tis  in  our  powers  then  to  be  hanged 
and  scorn  ye. 

FLETCHER. — Sea  Voyage,  Act  4. 


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DEFINITIONS 


DELIBERATENESS 


Though  changed  in  outward  lustre,  that 

fixed  mind 
And  high  disdain  from  sense  of  injured 

merit. 
MILTON.  —  Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  97. 

He  manned  himself  with  dauntless  air, 
Returned  the  Chief  his  haughty  stare. 
SCOTT.  —  Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  5,  st.  10. 

Come  one,  come  all  !     This  rock  shall  fly 
From  its  firm  base  as  soon  as  I  ! 

SCOTT.  —  Ib. 

Hang  out  our  banners  on  the  outward 

walls  ; 
The  ciy  is  still,  "  They  come." 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

Lay  on,  Macduff  ! 

And  damned  be  he  that  first  cries,  "  Hold, 
enough  !  " 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Ib.,  Act  5,  7. 

Nor  fate  I  fear,  but  all  the  gods  defy. 
Forbear  thy  threats  ;  my  business  is  to  die  ; 
But  first  receive  this  parting  legacy. 

VIRGIL.  —  &neid,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 

DEFINITIONS 

I  have  no  great  opinion  of  a  definition, 
the  celebrated  remedy  for  the  cure  of  this 
disorder  [uncertainty  and  confusion]. 

BURKE.  —  On  the  Sublime  and 
Beautiful,  Pt.  x,  Introduction. 

I  hate  definitions. 
DISRAELI.  —  Vivian  Grey,  Bk.  2,  ch.  6. 

Every  definition  is  dangerous. 

Latin 


DEGENERACY 

A  nati9n  swollen  with  ignorance  and  pride, 
Who  lick  yet  loathe  the  hand  that  waves 

the  sword. 

BYRON.  —  Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  16. 

The  age  of  our  fathers,  who  were  worse 
than  our  grandfathers,  produced  us  still 
more  vicious,  and  we  are  about  to  raise 
a  still  more  iniquitous  progeny. 

HORACE.  —  Odes,  Bk.  3,  6,  46. 

Degenerate  Douglas  !    Oh,  the  unworthy 
lord  ! 
WORDSWORTH.  —  Composed  at  Castle. 

DEGRADATION 

A  man  that  could    look    no  way  but 

downwards,  with  a  muck-rake  in  his  hand. 

BUN  VAN.  —  Pilgrim's  Progress. 

Let  Gryll  be  Gryll  and  have  his  hoggish 
minde. 
SPENSER.  —  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  3,  c.  i. 


DEJECTION 

One  discovers  a  consolation  in  unhappi- 
ness  by  a  certain  pleasure  one  finds  in 
appearing  unhappy. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD.— Maxim  515. 

Alas  !  how  changed  from  him, 
That  life  of  pleasure  and   that  soul  of 
whim  !  POPE. — Ep.  3. 

But  as  it  sometimes  chanceth,  from  the 

might 

Of  joy  in  minds  that  can  no  further  go, 
As  high  as  we  have  mounted  in  delight 
In  our  dejection  do  we  sink  as  low. 

WORDSWORTH. — Resolution  and 
Independence. 

DELAY 

Justice  deferred  enhances  the  price 
at  which  you  must  purchase  safety  and 
peace. 

LORD  BROUGHAM. — Speech  on  Par' 
liamentary  Reform,  Oct.  7,  1831. 

All  delays  are  dangerous  in  war. 
DRYDEN. — Tyrannic  Love,  Act  i,  i. 


Delay  of  justice  is  injustice. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Du  Paly. 

Woman  indeed  was  born  of  delay  itself. 
PLAUTUS. — Miles. 

With  sweet,  reluctant,  amorous  delay. 
POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  i,  23. 

Now  fitted  the  halter,  now  traversed  the 

cart, 
And  often  took  leave,  but  was  loth  to 

depart. 

PRIOR. — Thief  and  Cordelier. 

When  fair  occasion  calls,  'tis  fatal  to  delay. 
N.  ROWE. — Pharsalia,  Bk.  i,  513. 

Do  you  not  come  your  tardy  son  to  chide  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

And  Mecca  saddens  at  the  long  delay. 
THOMSON. — Summer,  979. 

Delay  is  cowardice  and  doubt  despair. 
W.  WHITEHEAD. — Atys  and  Adrastus. 

When  my  house  burns,  it  is  not  good 
playing  at  chess.      Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

DELIBERATENESS 

The  woman  that  deliberates  is  lost. 

ADDISON. — Cato. 

Take  time  enough  ;  all  other  graces 
Will  soon  fill  up  their  proper  places. 
JOHN  BYROM. — Advice  to  Preach  Slow. 

Take    a    little    time — count    five-and- 
twenty,  Tattycoram. 

DICKENS. — Dorrit,  c.  14 


DELIVERANCE 


DEMOCRACY 


Wise  emblem  of  our  politic  world, 
Sage  snail,  within  thine  own  self  curled, 
Instruct  me  softly  to  make  haste, 
Whilst  these  my  feet  go  slowly  fast. 

R.  LOVELACE. — The  Snail. 

The   road   to  resolution   lies  by   doubt  ; 

The  next  way  home's  the  farthest  way 

about.  QUARLES. — Emblems. 

Truth  thrives  with  examination  and 
delay  ;  things  which  are  false  thrive  on 
haste  and  uncertainty. 

TACITUS. — Annals,  2. 

DELIVERANCE 

When  the  tale  of  bricks  is  doubled, 
then  comes  Moses. 

Medieval  proverb  (Latin). 

DELUSION 

The  people  wish  to  be  deceived  ;  let 
them  be  deceived. 

Attrib.  to  CARDINAL  CARAFA  (d.  1591). 

A  delusion  that  distance  creates,  and 
that  contiguity  destroys. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon,  Reflections,  190. 

A  delusion,   a  mockery,   and  a  snare. 

THOS.  LORD  DENMAN. — O'Connell  v. 

The  Queen. 

I  was  never  much  displeased  with  those 
harmless  delusions  that  tend  to  make  us 
more  happy. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  c.  3. 

We  must  have  done  with  delusive  hopes. 
If  we  sow  a  crop  of  lies  we  shall  reap  a 
harvest  of  tares. 

IBSEN. — Love's  Comedy,  Act  3  (1862). 

Where  is  the  philosopher  who,  for  his 
own  glory,  will  not  willingly  deceive  the 
human  race  ?  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Lay  not   that  flattering  unction  to  your 
soul. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

He  that  is  robbed  not  wanting  what  is 

stolen, 
Let  him  not  know't,  and  he's  not  robbed 

at  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

Hence,  dear  delusion,  sweet  enchantment, 

hence ! 
H.  AND  J.  SMITH. — Rejected  Addresses. 

This  is  the  sublime  and  refined  point 
of  felicity,  called  the  possession  of  being 
well  deceived  ;  the  serene  peaceful  state 
of  being  a  fool  among  knaves. 

SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub. 


DEMAGOGUES 

Flattery  corrupts  both  the  receiver  and 
giver  ;  and  adulation  is  not  of  more  service 
to  the  people  than  to  kings. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolution. 

To  the  people  they're  oilers  ez  slick  ez 

molasses, 
An'  butter  their  bread  on  both  sides  with 

The  Masses. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  No.  5. 

In  every  age  the  vilest  specimens  of 
human  nature  are  to  be  found  among 
demagogues. 

MACAULAY. — Hist,  of  England. 

Faith,  there  have  been  many  great  men 
that  have  flattered  the  people,  who  ne'er 
loved  them. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  2,  2. 

Spite  of  this  modern  fret  for  Liberty, 
Better  the  rule  of  One,  whom  all  obey, 
Than    to    let    clamorous    demagogues 

betray 

Our  freedom  with   the  kiss  of  anarchy. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Libertatis  Sacra  Fames. 

DEMOCRACY 

I  think  I  hear  a  little  bird,  that  sings 
The    people    by-and-by    will    be    the 
stronger. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  8,  st.  50. 

Popular  governments  have  hitherto 
uniformly  glided  into  democracies,  and 
democracies  as  uniformly  perish  of  their 
own  excess. 

J.  A.  FROUDE. — Short  Studies,  Party 
Politics. 

Corruption,  the  most  infallible  sign  of 
constitutional  liberty. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  21. 

Of  course  everything  has  its  wrong  side  ; 
and  from  this  number  of  people  let  in 
comes  declamation  and  clap-trap  and  mob- 
service,  which  is  much  the  same  thing  as 
courtiership  was  in  other  times. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  6. 

The  common  crowd  is  wiser  because  it 
is  just  as  wise  as  it  need  be. 

LACTANTIUS. — Div.  InsUlut. 

Government  of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
for  the  people.  A.  LINCOLN. — Speech,  1863. 

Democracy  gives  every  man 
The  right  to  be  his  own  oppressor. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  Series  z,  7. 

The  many-headed  monster,  multitude. 
MASSINGER. — Emperor  of  East,  Act  a,  i. 


118 


DEMONS 


DEPRAVITY 


The   only   remedy   against    democrats   is 
soldiers. 
W.  VON  MERCKELS. — Poem  (1848). 

Let  the  People  think  they  govern  and 
they  will  be  governed. 

PENN. — Some  Fruits  of  Solitude. 

That  worst  of  tyrants,  an  usurping  crowd. 
POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  2,  242. 

The  populace  is  a  sovereign  which  only 
asks  something  to  eat ;  His  Majesty  is 
tranquil  while  digesting. 

DE  RIVAROL. — Traits  et  Bons  Mots. 

Supremacy  of  the  people  tends  to  liberty. 
TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  6. 

Democracy  means  simply  the  bludgeon- 
ing of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for  the 
people. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  under 
Socialism. 

The  voice  of  the  people  is  the  voice  of 
a  God. 

Quoted  by  Alcuin,   c.  A.D.   800,  as 
a  saying. 

DEMONS 

Cob    was   the    strongest,    Mob    was    the 

wrongest ; 

Chittabob's  tail  was  the  finest  and  longest. 
R.  H.  BARHAM. — Truants. 

DEMONSTRATION 

Almost    everyone   knows    this,    but    it 
has  not  occurred  to  everyone's  mind.  . 
ERASMUS. — Epicureus. 

DENSENESS 

Fortunately  we  have  strong  heads,  we 
Highcastles.     Nothing  has  ever  penetrated 
to  our  brains. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Augustus  does  his  Bit  (1917). 

DEPARTURE 

Good-bye,  proud  world  !  I'm  going  home  ; 

Thou  art  not  my  friend,  and  I'm  not  thine. 

EMERSON. — Good-bye,  Proud  World. 

For  who,  to  dumb  Forgetfulness  a  prey, 

This  pleasing  anxious  being  e'er  resigned, 

Left  the  warm  precincts  of  the  cheerful 

day, 

Nor   cast   one   longing,   lingering   look 
behind  ?  GRAY. — Elegy. 

Why  dost  thou  not  then,  like  a  thankful 

guest, 
Rise    cheerfully    from    Life's    abundant 

feast, 

And  with  a  quiet  mind  go  take  thy  rest  ? 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura, 

3>  953  (Creech  tr.). 


But,  O  the  heavy  change,  now  [thou  art 

gone, 

Now  thou  art  gone,  and  never  must  return ! 
MILTON. — Lycidas,  37. 

Must  I  thus  leave  thee,  Paradise  !  thus 

leave 
Thee,  native  soil,  these  happy  walks  and 

shades, 
Fit  haunt  of  Gods  ! 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  n,  269; 

They,  hand  in  hand,  with  wandering  steps 

and  slow 

Through  Eden  took  their  solitary  way. 
MILTON. — lb.,  Bk.  12,  647 

In  vain  you  tell  your  parting  lover 
You  wish  fair  winds  may  waft  him  over  : 
Alas  !  what  winds  can  happy  prove 
That  bear  me  far  from  what  I  love  ? 

PRIOR. — Song. 

Stand  not  upon  the  order  of  your  going, 
But  go  at  once. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

The  hopeless  word  of — never  to  return. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  3. 

I  hear  a  voice  you  cannot  hear 
Which  says  I  must  not  stay ; 

I  see  a  hand  you  cannot  see 
Which  beckons  me  away. 

T.  TICKELL. — Lucy  and  Colin. 

A    power   is   passing   from    the   earth. 

WORDSWORTH. — Lines  on  the  expected 

Dissolution  of  Mr.  Fox. 

DEPORTMENT 

No  dancing  bear  was  so  genteel 

Or  half  so  digagt.  COWPER. — Of  Himself. 

DEPRAVITY 

He  left  a  Corsair's  name  to  other  times, 
Linked  with  one  virtue  and  a  thousand 
crimes.  BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  3,  st.  24. 

Thy   mind,    reverting   still   to   things   of 

earth, 
Strikes  darkness  from  true  light. 

H.  F.  GARY. — Dante's  "  Purgatory," 
c.  15,  62. 

A  Being,  erect  upon  two  legs,  and  bearing 
all  the  outward  semblance  of  a  man,  and 
not  of  a  monster. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  34. 

No  one  ever  became  thoroughly  bad  all 
at  once.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  8. 

My  imaginations  are  as  foul 
As  Vulcan's  stithy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Zounds,  sir,  you  are  one  of  those  that 
will  not  serve  God  if  the  devil  bid  you. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  I. 


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DEPRESSION 


DESPAIR 


DEPRESSION 

You  never  yet  saw 
Such    an   awfully   marked   elongation   of 

jaw. 
R.  H.  BARHAM. — Merchant  of  Venice. 

I  would  that  I  were  low  laid  in  my  grave  ; 
I  am  not  worth  this  coil  that's  made  for 

me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  2,  i. 

DEPTH 

A  gulf  profound  as  that  Serbonian  bog. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  592. 

DEPUTATIONS 

A  deputation  is  a  noun  of  magnitude 
which  signifies  many  but  not  much. 

W.  E.  GLADSTONE. — (Attrib. 
See  "  Committees.") 

DESCRIPTION 

I  won't  describe  ;  description  is  my  forte, 
But  every  fool  describes  in  these  bright 
days. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  5,  st.  52. 

I  feel,  but  want  the  power  to  paint. 
JUVENAL. — Sat  7,  56  (Gifford  tr.). 

DESERT 

The  less  they  deserve,  the  more  merit 
in   your  bounty. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Use  every  man  after  his  desert,  and  who 
should   "scape   whipping  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib, 

For  others  say  thou  dost  deserve,  and  I 
Believe  it  better  than  reportingly. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  i. 

DESERTION 

Deserted  at  his  utmost  need 
By  those  his  former  bounty  fed. 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  4. 

He  felt  towards   those  whom  he  had 

deserted  that  peculiar  malignity  which  has, 

in  all  ages,  been  characteristic  of  apostates. 

MACAULAY. — History  of  England,  ch.  i. 

That,  sir,  which  serves  and  seeks  for  gain, 

And  follows  but  for  form, 
Will  pack  when  it  begins  to  rain, 

And  leave  thee  in  the  storm. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  2,  4. 

The  very  rats 
Instinctively  had   quit   it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2. 

DESIRE 

Sighed  and  looked,  and  sighed  again. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  5. 


The   sea   hath   bounds,    but  deep  desire 

hath  none. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  st.  65. 

The  delight  that  consumes  the  desire, 
The  desire  that  outruns  the  delight. 

SWINBURNE. — Dolores. 

Most  women  have  small  waists  the  world 

throughout, 
But    their    desires    are    thousand    miles 

about. 
C.  TOURNEUR. — Revenger's  Tragedy,  Act  5. 

DESPAIR 

Howeyer  sad  man's  lot, 
Despair  should  enter  not 
Into  the  heart  of  man. 
God,  by  one  single  stroke, 
Can  heal  the  heart  He  broke, 
So  carrying  out  His  plan. 
G.  BARLOW. — Pageant  of  Life,  Bk.  5. 

Let  me  not  know  that  all  is  lost, 
Though  lost  it  be — leave  me  not  tied 
To  this  despair,  this  corpse-like  bride. 

BROWNING. — Easter  Day,  c.  31. 

Our  last  and  best  defence,  despair. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  2. 

Despair,  by  which  the  gallantest  feats, 
Have  been  achieved  in  greatest  straits. 
BUTLER. — Ib. 

Hope  withering  fled — and  Mercy  sighed 
farewell.    BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  st.  9 

All  hope  abandon  ye  who  enter  here. 
H.  F.  GARY. — Tr.  Dante 

Certes   above    all   sinnes    then    is    this 
sinne    ["  Wanhope "    or    Despair]    most 
displesant  to  Crist  and  most  adversarie. 
CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  56 

What    do   the   damned   endure,   but    to 

despair  ? 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  3,  i. 

Darkness  our  guide,  Despair  our  leader 
was. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — On  Virgil's  JEneis. 

Night   was   our   friend,    our   leader   was 
Despair. 

DRYDEN. — Mneid,  Bk.  2,  487. 

Despair  in  vain  sits  brooding  over  the 
putrid  eggs  of  hope. 

J.  H.  FRERE. — Rovers,  Act  i. 

Mad  from  life's  history, 
Glad  to  death's  mystery 
Swift  to  be  hurled — 
Anywhero,  anywhere 
Out  of  the  world ! 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs. 


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DESPAIR 


DESPERATION 


There  is  no  vulture  like  despair. 

LORD  LANSDOWNE. — Peleus. 

Vaunting  aloud,  but  racked  with  deep 
despair. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  126. 

What  re-inforcement  we  may  gain  from 

hope  ; 
If  not,  what  resolution  from  despair. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  i,  190. 

The  strongest  and  the  fiercest  Spirit 
That  fought  in   Heaven,  now  fiercer  by 
despair.        MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  44. 

Me  miserable !   which  way  shall  I  fly 
Infinite  wrath,  and  infinite  despair  ? 
Which  way  I  fly  is  Hell ;  myself  am  Hell ; 
And  in  the  lowest  deep  a  lower  deep, 
Still  threatening  to  devour  me  opens  wide, 
To  which  the  Hell  I  'suffer  seems  a  Heaven. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  73. 

So  farewell  hope,  and  with  hope  farewell 

fear, 

Farewell  remorse  ;  all  good  to  me  is  lost ; 
Evil,  be  thou  my  good  ! 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  108. 

The  thunders  roar,  the  lightnings  glare  ; 
Vain  is  it  now  to  strive  or  dare  ; 
A  cry  goes  up  of  great  despair, — 

Miserere,  Domine  ! 
ADELAIDE  A.  PROCTER. — The  Storm. 

Hard  toil  can  roughen  form  and  face, 
And  want  can  quench  the  eye's  bright 

grace  ; 

Nor  does  old  age  a  wrinkle  trace 
More  deeply  than  despair. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  i,  st.  28. 

O  now,  for  ever 

Farewell     the     tranquil    mind,     farewell 
content. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

Then  black  despair, 

The  shadow  of  a  starless  night,  was  thrown 

Over  the  world  in  which  I  moved  alone. 

SHELLEY. — Revolt  of  Islam,  Dedication. 

"  And  must  I  die  ?  "  she  said, 
"  And  unrevenged  ?     'Tis  doubly   to  be 

dead  ! 
Yet    even    this    death    with    pleasure    I 

receive  : 
On  any  terms  'tis  better  than  to  live. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  4  (Dryden  tr.). 

Nor  flight  was  left,   nor  hopes  to  force 

his  way. 

Emboldened  by  despair,  he  stood  at  bay. 
VIRGIL. — Ib.,  Bk.  9  (Dryden  tr.). 

Despair  has  often  gained  battles. 

VOLTAIRE. — Henriade. 


DESPATCH 

There  is  nothing  more  requisite  in 
business  than  despatch. 

ADDISON. — The  Drummer,  Act  5,   i. 

There  is  no  secrecy  comparable  to  celerity. 
BACON. — Of  Delays. 

Despatch  is  the  soul  of  business  and 
nothing    contributes    more    to    despatch 
than  method. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

"  Dash   and   through  with   it !  " — That's 
the  better  watchword. 
COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini,  Act  i,  2. 

Tout  de  suite — and  the  touter  the 
sweeter. 

STEPHEN  GRAHAM. — A  Private  in  the 

Guards  (1919)  (an  example  of  soldiers1 

slang). 

If  it  were  done,  when  'tis  done,  then  'twere 

well 
It  were  done  quickly. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

Cecil's  despatch  of  business  was  extra- 
ordinary, his  maxim  being,  "  The  shortest 
way  to  do  many  things  is  to  do  only  one 
thing  at  a  time."  S.  SMILES. — Self-Help. 

Blessed  is  the  wooing 
That  is  not  long  a-doing. 
Prov.  (quoted  in  Burton's  "Anatomy  of 
Melancholy,"  1621). 

"  Now  "  is  the  watchword  of  the  wise. 
Saying  (Spurgeon's  "Salt-Cellars"). 

DESPERATION 

Beware  of  desperate  steps.     The  darkest 

day, 

Live  till  to-morrow,  will  have  passed  away. 
COWPER. — The  Needless  Alarm. 

Though  rashness  can  hope  for  but  one 

result, 
We  are  heedless  when  fate  draws  nigh 

us, 
And    the    maxim    holds    good,    "  Quern 

perdere  vult 
Deus,  dementat  prius." 

A.  L.  GORDON. — Wearie  Wayfarer,  2. 

I  am  driven 

Into  a  desperate  strait,  and  cannot  steer 
A  middle  course. 

MASSINGER. — Great  Duke  of  Florence, 
Act  3,   i. 

And  he  that  stands  upon  a  slippery  place 

Makes  nice  of  no  vile  hold  to  stay  him  up. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  3,  4. 

I  am  one,  my  liege, 
Whom  the  vile  blows  and  buffets  of  the 

world 

Have  so  incensed,  that  I  am  reckless  what 
I  do  to  spite  the  world. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  i. 


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DESPONDENCY 


DESTINY 


Slave  !  I  have  set  my  life  upon  a  cast, 
And  I  will  stand  the  hazard  of  the  die. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,4. 

Tempt  not  a  desperate  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  5,  3. 

The  determined  foe 
Fought  for  revenge,  not  hoping  victory. 

SOUTHEY. — Joan  of  Arc,  Bk.  z. 

DESPONDENCY 

0  chide  not  my  heart  for  its  sighing ; 
I  cannot  be  always  gay : 

There's  a  blight  in  the  rosebud  lying, 
A  cloud  in  the  sunniest  day. 

MRS.  AYLMER. — Song. 

It  is  the  Slough  of  Despond  still,  and 
so  will  be  when  they  have  done  what 
they  can. 

BUN  VAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  i. 

No  night  is  so  utterly  cheerless 
That  we  may  not  look  for  the  dawn. 
PHOZBE  CAREY. — Light  in  Darkness. 

"  I  feel  it  more  than  other  people," 
said  Mrs.  Gummidge. 

DICKENS. — Copper  field,  c.  3. 

The  day  is  cold  and  dark  and  dreary  ; 
It  rains,  and  the  wind  is  never  weary. 

LONGFELLOW. — Rainy  Day. 

1  have  not  that  alacrity  of  spirit, 

Nor  cheer  of  mind,  that  I  was  wont  to 

have. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3. 

Great  God  !   I'd  rather  be 
A  pagan  suckled  in  a  creed  outworn, 
So  might  I,  standing  on  this  pleasant  lea, 
Have  glimpses  that  would  make  me  less 
forlorn  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — The  World  is  too  much 
with  us. 

DESPOTISM 

Step  by  step  and  word  by  word  :  who  is 

ruled  may  read, 
Suffer  not  the  old  Kings — for  we  know  the 

breed.  KIPLING. — The  Old  Issue. 

DESTINY 

Long  tarries  destiny, 
But  comes  to  those  who  pray. 

AESCHYLUS. — Choephorce,  462 
(Plumptretr.). 

A  man  can  have  but  one  life,  and  one  death, 
One  heaven,  one  hell. 

BROWNING. — In  a  Balcony. 

How  little  do  we  know  that  which  we  are  ! 
How    less    what    we    may    be !     The 

eternal  surge 

Of  time  and  tide  rolls  on  and  bears  afar 
Our  bubbles. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  15,  99. 


"  If  thou,"  he  answered,  "  follow  but  thy 

star, 
Thou  canst  not  miss  at  last  a  glorious 

haven." 
H.  F.  GARY. — Dante's  "Hell,"  c.  15,  55. 

Whoe'er  she  be, 
That  not  impossible  she, 
That  shall  command  my  heart  and  me  ; 
Where'er  she  lie, 
Locked  up  from  mortal  eye, 
In  shady  leaves  of  destiny. 
R.  CRASHAW. — To  his  Supposed  Mistress. 

O  Sairey,  Sairey,  little  do  we  know  what 
lays  before  us  [Mrs.  Harris]. 

DICKENS. — M .  Chuzzlewit,  c.  40. 

The  Moving  Finger  writes ;  and,  having 

writ, 
Moves  on :  nor  all  your  Piety  nor  Wit 

Shall  lure  it  back  to  cancel  half  a  Line, 

Nor  all  your  Tears  wash  out  a  Word  of  it. 

E.  FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  71. 

Weave  the  warp,  and  weave  the  woof, 
The  winding  sheet  of  Edward's  race. 
GRAY. — The  Bard,  c.  i. 

What  different  lots  our  stars  accord  ! 
This  babe  to  be  hailed  and  wooed  as  a 

Lord! 

And  that  to  be  shunned  like  a  leper  ! 
One,  to  the  world's  wine,  honey,  and  corn, 
Another,  like  Colchester  native,  born 
To  its  vinegar  only,  and  pepper. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Oh  no  !  'tis  only  Destiny  or  Fate 
Fashions  our  wills  to  either  love  or  hate. 
R.  LOVELACE. — On  a  Lost  Heart. 

Be  not  amazed  at  life ;  'tis  still 
The  mode  of  God  with  His  elect, 

Their  hopes  exactly  to  fulfil 

In  times  and  ways  they  least  expect. 
C.  PATMORE. 

Who  sees  with  equal  eye,  as  God  of  all, 
A  hero  perish,  or  a  sparrow  fall, 
Atoms  or  systems  into  ruin  hurled, 
And  now  a  bubble  burst,  and  now  a  world. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  87. 

What  shall  be  the  maiden's  fate  ? 
Who  shall  be  the  maiden's  mate  ? 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  i,  16. 

If  we  could  push  ajar  the  gates  of  life, 
And  stand  within,  and  all  God's  work- 
ings see, 
We  could  interpret   all  this  doubt   and 

strife, 

And  for  each  mystery  could  find  a  key. 
But  not  to-day.     Then  be  content,  poor 

heart ! 

God's  plans,  like  lilies  pure  and  white, 
unfold  ; 


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DESTITUTION 


DEVIL 


We  must  not  tear  the  close-shut  leaves 

apart — 

Time  will  reveal  the  calyxes  of  gold. 
MAY  RILEY  SMITH. — Sometime. 

Come  wealth  or  want,  or  good  or  ill, 
Let  young  and  old  accept  their  part, 
And  bow  before  the  Awful  Will, 
And  bear  it  with  an  honest  heart. 

THACKERAY. — End  of  the  Play. 

Thou  cam'st  not  to  thy  place  by  accident ; 

It  is  the  very  place  God  meant  for  thee. 

ARCHBISHOP  TRENCH. — Sonnet. 

The  gods  sell  things  at  a  fair  price. 

Prov.  (from  the  Greek). 

DESTITUTION 

My  lodging  is  on  the  cold  ground, 
And  very  hard  is  my  fare. 

SIR  W.  D'AvENANT. — Rivals. 

Alas,  for  the  rarity 
Of  Christian  charity 
Under  the  sun ! 
Oh,  it  was  pitiful ! 
Near  a  whole  city  full, 
Home  had  she  none. 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs. 

And  hopeless  near  a  thousand  homes  I 

stood, 
And  near  a  thousand  tables  pined  and 

wanted  food. 

WORDSWORTH. — Guilt  and  Sorrow. 

DESTRUCTION 

A  thousand  years  scarce  serve  to  form  a 

state  ; 
An  hour  may  lay  it  in  the  dust. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  st.  84. 

One  minute  gives  invention  to  destroy 
What  to  rebuild  will  a  whole  age  employ. 
CONGREVE. — Double  Dealer,  Act  i. 

As  dreadful  as  the  Manichean  god,* 
Adored    through    fear,    strong    only    to 
destroy. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk,  499. 

Havoc,  and  spoil,  and  ruin  are  my  gain. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  1,009. 

The  children  in  Holland  take  pleasure  in 

making 
What  the  children  in  England  take  pleasure 

in  breaking.  Nursery  proverb. 

DETACHMENT 

I  stood 

Among  them,  but  not  of  them. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  113. 


*  The  god  of  Evil. 


He  heard  it,  but  he  heeded  not — his  eyes 
Were  with  his  heart,  and  that  was  far 
away. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  st.  140. 

We 

Are   that   which   we  would    contemplate 
from  far. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  5. 

DETERMINATION 

To-morrow  let  us  do  or  die  ! 
CAMPBELL. — Gertrude,  Pt.  3,  st.  37. 

His  way  once  chose,  he  forward  thrust 

outright, 

Nor  stepped  aside  for  dangers  or  delight. 
COWLEY. — Davideis,  Bk.  4,  361. 

If  you'd  pooh-pooh  this  monarch's  plan, 

Pooh-pooh  it ; 
But  when  he  says  he'll  hang  a  man, 

He'll  do  it. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Think  not 

Our  counsel's  based  upon  so  weak  a  base, 
As  to  be  overturned,  or  shaken  with 
Tempestuous  winds  of  words. 

MASSINGER. — Maid  of  Honour,  Act  I. 

What  though  the  field  be  lost  ? 
All  is  not  lost ;  th'  unconquerable  will, 
And  study  of  revenge,  immortal  hate, 
And  courage  never  to  submit  or  yield ; 
And  what  is  else  not  to  be  overcome  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  105. 

DETRACTION 

Black  detraction 
Will  find  faults  where  they  are  not. 

MASSINGER. — Guardian,  Act  i. 

Let  there  be  gall  enough  in  thy  ink  ; 
though  thou  write  with  a  goose  pen,  no 
matter. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  3. 

DEVASTATION 

Mark  where  his  carnage  and  his  conquests 

cease  ; 
He  makes  a  solitude,  and  calls  it — peace  ! 

BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  i,  st.  20. 

The  Assyrian  came  down  like  a  wolf  on 

the  fold, 
And  his  cohorts  were  gleaming  in  purple 

and  gold. 

BYRON. — Destruction  of  Sennacherib. 

They  make  a  desert  and  call  it  peace. 
TACITUS. — Agricola. 

DEVIL 

And  backward  and  forward  he  switched 

his  long  tail, 
As  a  gentleman  switches  his  cane. 

COLERIDGE. — Devil's  Thoughts,  st.  i 


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DEVONSHIRE 


DIFFIDENCE 


His  jacket  was  red  and  his  breeches  were 

blue, 
And  there  was  a  hole  where  the  tail  came 

through. 

COLERIDGE. — Devil's  Thoughts,  st.  3. 

The  prince  of  darkness  is  a  gentleman. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  4- 

Gie  the  deil  his  due,  and  ye'll  gang  to 
him.  Scottish  prov. 

The  deil's  nae  waur  than  he's  ca'd. 

Scottish  prov. 

DEVONSHIRE 

For  me,  there's  nought  I  would  not  leave 
For  the  good  Devon  land. 

SIR  H.  J.  NEWBOLT. — Laudabunt  alii. 

DEVOTION 

'Tis  sweeter  for  thee  despairing 
Than  aught  in  the  world  besides. 

BURNS. — Jessy. 

Madam,  I  do,  as  is  my  duty, 
Honour  the  shadow  of  your  shoe-tie. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  PL  3,  c.  i. 

Devotion,  mother  of  obedience. 

S.  DANIEL. — Civil  War,  Bk.  6,  st.  33. 

She  kissed  his  brow,  he  kissed  her  feet — 

He  kissed  the  ground  her  feet  did  kiss. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — New  Ballad  ofTannhduser. 

I  do  honour  the  very  flea  of  his  dog. 
BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man  in  his  Humour, 

Act  4. 

No,  the  heart  that  has  truly  loved  never 

forgets, 

But  as  truly  loves  on  to  the  close ! 
As  the  sunflower  turns  on  her  god,  when 

he  sets, 

The  same  look  which  she  turned  when 
he  rose. 

MOORE. — Believe  me,  if  all. 

Pleased  to  the  last  he  crops  the  flowery 

food, 
And  licks  the  hand  just  raised  to  shed  his 

blood. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  83. 

And  all  my  fortunes  at  thy  foot  I'll  lay. 
And  follow  thee,  my  lord,  throughout  the 
world. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  andjulict, 
Act  2,  2. 

I   say  no   man  has  ever   yet  been   half 

devout  enough, 
None  has  ever  yet  adored  or  worshipped 

half  enough, 
None  has  begun  to  think  how  divine  he 

himself  is,  and  how  certain  the  future 

is.  WALT  WHITMAN. 


DIALECT 

Dialect-words — those  terrible  marks  of 
the  beast  to  the  truly  genteel. 
THOS.  HARDY. — Mayor  of  Casterbridge. 

DIARIES 

If  you  make  too  much  of  diaries  you 
blur  every  beautiful  sight  by  thinking 
what  you  should  write  about  it. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  c.  3. 

DIET 

If   you   wish   to  grow   thinner,   diminish 

your  dinner, 
And    take    to    light   claret    instead    of 

pale  ale  ; 
Look  down  with  an  utter  contempt  upon 

butter, 

And  never  touch  bread  till  it's  wasted — 
or  stale.          H.  S.  LEIGH. — Wishing. 

Whatsoever  was  the  father  of  the 
disease,  an  ill-diet  was  the  mother. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

DIFFERENCE 

Some  say  that  Signer  Bononchini, 
Compared  to  Handel's  a  mere  ninny  ; 
Others  aver,  to  him  that  Handel 
Is  scarcely  fit  to  hold  a  candle. 
Strange  that  such  high  disputes  should  be 
'Twixt  Tweedledum  and  Tweedledee. 
The  Contest  (London  Journal,  June,  1725). 

DIFFICULTY 

There's  difficulty,  there's  danger,  there's 
the  dear  spirit  of  contradiction  in  it. 

I.  BICKERSTAFFE. — Hypocrite. 

Difficulty  is  a  severe  instructor. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  French 
Revolution 

Quoth  he,  In  all  my  past  adventures 
I  ne'er  was  set  so  on  the  tenters. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  3. 

So  he  with  difficulty  and  labour  hard 
Moved  on,  with  difficulty  and  labour  he. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  1,021. 

Sith  never  ought  was  excellent  assayde, 
Which  was  not  hard  t'atchieve  and  bring 
to  end.  SPENSER. — Amoretti,  51 

For  a  stone  of  stumbling  and  for  a  rock 
of  offence.  Isaiah  viii,  14. 

DIFFIDENCE 

Ever  with  the  best  desert  goes  diffi- 
dence. 

BROWNING. — Blot  in  the  'Scutcheon. 

Now  Giant  Despair  had  a  wife  and  her 
name  was  Diffidence. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  i. 


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DIGESTION 


DINNER 


Whatever  I  try,  sir, 
I  fail  in — and  why,  sir  ? 
I'm  modesty  personified. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

Archly  the  maiden  smiled,  and  with  eyes 

over-running  with  laughter, 
Said,  in  a  tremulous  voice,  "  Why  don't 
you  speak  for  yourself,  John  ?  " 

LONGFELLOW. — Miles  Standish, 
Pt.  3  (ad  fin.). 

He  either  fears  his  fate  too  much 

Or  his  deserts  are  small, 
That  dares  not  put  it  to  the  touch, 

To  gain  or  lose  it  all. 
MARQUIS  OF  MONTROSE. — My  dear  and 
only  Love. 

His  trembling  hand  had  lost  the  ease 
Which  marks  security  to  please. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Intro 

The  cat  is  fain  the  fish  to  eat, 
But  hath  no  will  to  wet  her  feet. 

Old  Saying. 

More  I  could  tell,  but  more  I  dare  not  say  ; 
The  text  is  old,  the  orator  too  green. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  st.  135. 

DIGESTION 

I  am  in  the  great  catalogue  of  the  satis- 
fied, under  the  section  of  the  people  who 
can  digest.  E.  GOUDINET. — The  Club. 

DIGNITY 

A  life  both  dull  and  dignified. 
SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  st.  i. 

Who,  taking  counsel  of  unbending  truth, 
By  one  example  hath  set  forth  to  all 
How  they  with  dignity  may  stand  ;  or  fall, 
If  fall  they  must. 

WORDSWORTH. — King  of  Sweden. 

DIGRESSIONS 

Full  thoughts  cause  long  parentheses. 

Letter  from  Buckingham  to  James  I. 
(c.  1622)  (apparently  a  proverbial 
saying). 

I  am  of  Beroaldus's  opinion,  "  Such 
digressions  do  mightily  delight  and  refresh 
a  weary  reader." 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy, 
Pt.  i,  sec.  2,  mem.  3,  i. 

I  think  there  is  a  fatality  in  it :  I  seldom 
go  to  the  place  I  set  out  for. 

STERNE. — Sent.  Journey,  The  address, 
Versailles. 

Digressions,  incontestably,  are  the  sun- 
shine,— they  are'.the  life,  the  soul  of  reading. 
STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  i,  ch.  22. 


One  of  the  principal  features  of  my 
Entertainment  is  that  it  contains  so  many 
things  that  don't  have  anything  to  do 
with  it.  ARTEMUS  WARD 

DILETTANTI 

Seeks  painted  trifles  and  fantastic  toys, 
And  eagerly  pursues  imaginary  joys. 

M.  AKENSIDE. — Virtuoso. 

We  all  draw  a  little  and  compose  a  little, 
and  none  of  us  have  any  idea  of  time  or 
money.  (Mr.  Skimpole.) 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  c.  43. 

Did  nothing  in  particular, 
And  did  it  very  well. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

DILIGENCE 

That  which  ordinary  men  are  fit  for, 
I  am  qualified  in ;  and  the  best  of  me  is 
diligence. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  Lear,  Act  i,  4. 

Seest  thou  a  man  diligent  in  his  busi- 
ness ?  he  shall  stand  before  kings. 

Proverbs,  xxii,  29. 

DINNER 

That  all-softening,  overpowering  knell, 
The  tocsin  of  the  soul — the  dinner-bell. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  5,  49. 

Let's  warm  our  brains  with  half-a-dozen 

healths, 

And  then  hang  cold  discourse,  for  we'll 
speak  fireworks. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Elder 
Brother,  Act  i. 

If  an  earthquake  were  to  engulf  England 
to-morrow,  the  English  would  manage 
to  meet  and  dine  somewhere  among  the 
rubbish,  just  to  celebrate  the  event. 

D.  JERROLD. 

A  man  seldom  thinks  with  more  earnest- 
ness of  anything  than  he  does  of  his  dinner. 
JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

Even  the  great  Napoleon  could  not  dine 
twice. 
ALPHONSE  KARR. — Chemin  le  plus  court. 

Thou  wouldst  do  well 

To  wait  at  my  trencher,  and  tell  me  lies 

at   dinner-time ; 
And  as  I  like  your  discoursing,  I'll  have 

you.  MARLOWE. — Edward  II.,  Act  i. 

A  dinner  lubricates  business. 

LORD  STOWELL. — Saying. 

Where  I  dines  I  sleeps. 

R.  S.  SURTEES. — Handley  Cross 


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DIRECTION 


DISAPPOINTMENT 


We  were  to  do  more  business  after 
dinner  ;  but  after  dinner  is  after  dinner — 
an  old  saying  and  a  true,  Much  drinking, 
little  thinking.  SWIFT. — Letter,  1712. 

Across  the  walnuts  and  the  wine. 

TENNYSON. — Miller's  Daughter,  st.  4- 

Dinner  was  made  for  eatin',  not  for 
talkin'.  THACKERAY. — Fashionable  Fax. 

Sir,  respect  your  dinner !  Idolise  it ; 
enjoy  it  properly.  You  will  be  by  many 
hours  in  the  week,  many  weeks  in  the 
year,  and  many  years  in  your  life,  the 
happier  if  you  do. 

THACKERAY. — Memorials  of 
Gormandising. 

After  a   good   dinner  one  can    forgive 
anybody,  even  one's  own  relations. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  No  Importance. 

It's  a  mighty  deaf  nigger  that  doesn't 
hear  the  dinner-horn.  Negro  prov. 

DIRECTION 

Not  there,  not  there,  my  child. 

HEMANS. — The  Better  Land. 

Who  point,  like  finger-posts,  the  way 
They  never  go.  MOORE. — Song. 

DIRECTNESS 

Mark  now,  how  a  plain  tale  shall  put 
you  down. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,Act  2,  4. 

In  russet  yeas  and  honest  kersey  noes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  5,  2. 

DIRT 

The  sailors  have  an  uncouth  proverb 
that  every  man  must  eat  a  peck  of  dirt 
in  his  life. 

SIR  W.  SCOTT. — Letter,  Oct.  31,  1830. 

DISAFFECTION 

The  right  hon.  gentleman  .  .  .  has 
retired  into  what  may  be  called  his  political 
cave  of  Adullam,  and  he  has  called  about 
him  everyone  that  was  in  distress  and 
everyone  that  wa§  discontented. 

JOHN  BRIGHT. — Speech,  1866. 

To  complain  of  the  age  we  live  in,  to 
murmur  at  the  present  possessors  of  power, 
to  lament  the  past,  to  conceive  extrava- 
gant hopes  of  the  future,  are  the  common 
dispositions  of  the  greatest  part  of  man- 
kind. BURKE. — Thoughts  on  Present 
Discontents. 

Man  has  been  set  against  man,  Washed 
against  Unwashed. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution. 


In  every  deed  of  mischief  he  had  a  heart 
to  resolve,  a  head  to  contrive,  and  a  hand 
to  execute. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  48. 

Thou  art  the  Mars  of  malcontents. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  i,  3. 

Fortune  can  give  no  greater  advantage 
than  disaffection  amongst  the  enemy. 

TACITUS. — Germania,  33. 

The  glance 

That  only  seems  half-loyal  to  command, 

A  manner  somewhat  fallen  from  reverence. 

TENNYSON. — Last  Tournament. 

She  that  gangs  to  the  well  wi'  an  ill  will, 

Either  the  pig  [jug]  breaks  or  the  water  will 

spill.  Scottish  prov. 

DISAGREEMENT 

Thy  heaven-doors  are  my  hell-gates. 
WM.  "BLAKE. — The  Everlasting  Gospel. 

In  every  age  and  clime,  we  see 
Two  of  a  trade  can  ne'er  agree. 

GAY. — Fables. 

Who  shall  decide,  when  doctors  disagree, 

And  soundest  casuists,  like  you  and  me  ? 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  3. 

DISAPPEARANCE 

Though  like  a  demon  of  the  night 
He  passed,  and  vanished  from  my  sight. 
BYRON. — Giaour,  I.  202. 

Slowly  she  faded.     Day  by  day 
Her  step  grew  weaker  in  our  hall, 
And  fainter,  at  each  even-fall, 
Her  sad  voice  died  away. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. —  Mogg  Megone. 

DISAPPOINTMENT 

The  worldly  hope  men  set  their  hearts  upon 

Turns  ashes — or  it  prospers  ;   and  anon, 

Like  snow  upon  the  desert's  dusty  face, 

Lighting  a  little  hour  or  two — is  gone. 

E.  FITZGERALD. — Omar,  st.  16. 

As   for   disappointing   them,    I    should 
not  so  much  mind ;  but  I  can't  abide  to 
disappoint    myself. 
GOLDSMITH. — She  Stoops  to  Conquer,  Act  i. 

Oh  !  'ever  thus  from  Childhood's  hour, 

I've  seen  my  fondest  hopes  decay ; 
I  never  loved  a  tree  or  flower 

But  'twas  the  first  to  fade  away. 
I  never  nursed  a  dear  gazelle, 

To  glad  me  with  its  soft,  black  eye, 
But  when  it  came  to  know  me  well, 

And  love  me,  it  was  sure  to  die. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

Against  experience  willing  to  believe, 
Desirous  to  rejoice,  condemned  to  grieve. 
PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  3,  223. 


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DISASTER 


DISCONTENT 


The  hour  when  you  too  learn  that  all  is 

vain, 
And  that  Hope  sows  what  Love  shall  never 

reap.  D.  G.  ROSSETTI. — Sonnet. 

And  some  sad  thoughts  lie  heavy  in  the 

breast 
Such    as    by  hope    deceived    are    left 

behind  ; 

But  like  a  shadow  these  will  pass  away 
From  the  pure  sunshine  of  the  peaceful 
mind. 

SOUTHEY. — Oliver  Newman,  4. 

For  of  all  sad  words  of  tongue    or  pen, 
The  saddest  are  these :  "  It  might  have 
been." 

WHITTIER. — Maud  Muller. 

I  never  had  a  piece  of  toast, 
Particularly  long  and  wide, 

But  fell  upon  the  sanded  floor, 
And  always  on  the  buttered  side. 

Anon,  parody. 

DISASTER 

He  went  like  one  that  hath  been  stunned, 
And  is  of  sense  forlorn. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner. 

Me,  howling  blasts  drive  devious,  tempest- 
tossed, 

Sails   ripped,   seams   opening    wide,    and 
compass  lost. 

COWPER. — His  Mother's  Picture. 

Earth  felt  the  wound  ;  and  Nature  from 

her  seat 
Sighing,  through  all  her  works  gave  signs 

of  woe. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  g,  782. 

The  medicine  for  disaster  is  equanimity. 
PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

To  be  abused  in  disaster  is  worse  than 
the  disaster.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Night   was   our    friend ;    our  leader  was 
despair. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  2  (Dryden). 

DISCIPLINE 

But  discipline,  that  rock  that  bears  the 

world, 

Breaking  disorder  back  like  unknit  waves. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Bruce,  Act  4,  2. 

It's  my  old  girl  that  advises.  She  has 
the  head.  But  I  never  own  to  it  before 
her.  Discipline  must  be  maintained.  [Mr. 
Bagnet.]  DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  c.  27. 

We  must  do  the  thing  we  must 

Before  the  thing  we  may  ; 
We  are  unfit  for  any  trust 

Till  we  can  and  do  obey. 
G,  MACDONALD. — Willie's  Question,  Pt.  4. 


In   time  the  savage   bull   doth   bear  the 
yoke. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  i,  i. 

Their's  not  to  make  reply 
Their's  not  to  reason  why, 
Their's  but  to  do  and  die. 
TENNYSON. — Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade. 

DISCLAIMER 

There  was  no  such  stuff  in  my  thoughts. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

DISCONTENT 

Complaint  of  present  days 
Is  not  the  certain  path  to  future  praise. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  Dedic.,  8. 

O  we  are  querulous  creatures  !     Little  less 
Than  all  things  can  suffice  to  make  us 

happy : 

And  little  more  than  nothing  is  enough 
To  make  us  wretched. 

COLERIDGE. — Zapolya,  Pt.  2,  Act  i,  i. 

Thus  always  teasing  others,  always  teased, 
His  only  pleasure  is — to  be  displeased. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  I.  345. 

"I'm  a  lone  lorn  creetur  "  were  Mrs. 
Gummidge's  words,  "  and  everythink  goes 
contrairy  with  me." 

DICKENS. — David  Copperfield,  ch.  3. 

Some  folks  rail  against  other  folks  be- 
cause other  folks  have  what  some  folks 
would  be  glad  of. 

FIELDING. — Joseph  Andrews,  Bk.  4,ch.6. 

When   thou   hast    thanked   thy   God   for 

every  blessing  sent, 
What  time  will  then  remain  for  murmurs 

or  lament  ?  W.  FRENCH. 

Oh,  don't  the  days  seem  lank  and  long, 
When  all  goes  right,  and  nothing  goes 

wrong  ? 

And  isn't  your  life  extremely  flat 
With  nothing  whatever  to  grumble  at  ? 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Men  are  suspicious  ;  prone  to  discontent : 
Subjects  still  loathe  the  present  Govern- 
ment. 
HERRICK. — Present  Government  Grievous. 

Borrow  trouble  for  yourself  if  that's 
your  nature,  but  don't  lend  it  to  your 
neighbours. 

KIPLING. — Rewards  and  Fairies. 

A  man  whom  no  one  pleases  is  much 
more  unhappy  than  a  man  who  pleases  no 
one.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  640. 

Like  a  melancholy  malcontent. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  st.  53. 


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DISCOURSE 


Regent   of   love   rhymes,   lord   of   folded 

arms, 

Th'  anointed  sovereign  of  sighs  and  groans, 
Liege    of    all   loiterers    and    malcontents. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  3,  i. 

I  feel  at  my  heart  that  it  is  not  right — 
"  Nothing  is  right  and  nothing  is  just ; 
We  sow  in  ashes  and  reap  the  dust." 
MRS.  M.  M.  SINGLETON  (VIOLET  FANE). 
— Time. 

When    nothing    is    enjoyed,   can     there 
be  greater  waste  ? 

THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence, 
c.  i,  st.  49. 

The  splendid  discontent  of  God 
With  Chaos,  made  the  world. 

ELLA  W.  WILCOX. — Discontent. 

Discontent  is  the  first  step  in  the  pro- 
gress of  a  man  or  a  nation. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  No  Importance. 

And  he  that  knoweth  what  is  what 

Saith  he  is  wretched  that  weens  him  so. 
SIR  T.  WYATT. — Despair  Counselleth. 

Pills  are  to  be  swallowed,  not  chewed. 

French  prov. 

DISCORD 

What  dire  effects  from  civil  discord  flow  ! 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  5,  4. 

Now  cometh  the  sinne  of  them  that 
sowen  and  maken  discord  amonges  folk, 
which  is  a  sinne  that  Crist  hateth  outrely 
[utterly],  and  no  wonder  is.  For  he 
deyde  [died]  to  make  concord. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  45. 

Therfore  a  philosophre  seyde,  when  men 
axed  him  how  that  men  should  plese  the 
peple.  And  he  answerde,  "  Do  many 
good  workes  and  speak  few  Tangles  [idle 
talk]."  CHAUCER. — Ib.,  sec.  47. 

If  that  worm  Discord  gnaw  the  root 
Of  England's  old  and  stately  tree, 

Graces  and  gifts,  like  blighted  fruit 
From  wasting  boughs,  will  fall  and  lie 
On  the  rank  earth,  foredoomed  to  die. 
SIR  F.  H.  C.  DOYLE. — Robin  Hood's 
Bay,  c.  i. 

Our  offspring,  like  the  seed  of  dragons' 

teeth, 
Shall  issue  armed,  and  fight  themselves 

to  death. 
DRYDEN. — Don  Sebastian,  Act  2,  i. 

You  think  they  are  crusaders  sent 

From  some  infernal  clime, 
To  pluck  the  eyes  of  Sentiment, 

And  dock  the  tail  of  Rhyme, 
To  crack  the  voice  of  Melody, 

And  break  the  legs  of  Time. 

O.  W.  HOLMES, — Music  Grinders. 


And  filled  the  air  with  barbarous  dis- 
sonance. MILTON. — Comus,  550. 

O  shame  to  men  !  devil  with  devil  damned 
Firm  concord  holds ;  men  only  disagree 
Of  creatures  rational. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  496. 

And  Discord,  with  a  thousand  various 
mouths.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  967. 

Like  sweet  bells  jangled,  out  of  tune  and 
harsh. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

By  this  time  the  Demon  of  Discord, 
with  her  sooty  wings,  had  breathed  her 
influence  upon  our  counsels. 

SMOLLETT. — Roderick  Random,  c.  33. 

Dischord    ofte    in     musick     makes    the 

sweeter  lay. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  3,  c.  2,  st.  15. 

This  Fury,  fit  for  her  intent,  she  chose  ; 

One  who  delights  in  wars  and  human  woes. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  7  (Dryden  tr.) 

Now  shake,  from  out  thy  fruitful  breast, 
the  seeds 

Of  envy,  discord,  and  of  cruel  deeds  ; 

Confound  the  peace  established,  and  pre- 
pare 

Their  souls  to  hatred  and  their  hands  to 
war.  VIRGIL. — Ib. 

Dissenting  clamours  in  the  town  arise ; 

Each  will  be  heard  and  all  at  once  advise. 

One  part  for  peace  and  one  for  war  con- 
tends ; 

Some  would  exclude  their  foes,  and  some 
admit  their  friends. 

The  helpless  king  is  hurried  in  the  throng, 

And  (whate'er  tide  prevails)  is  borne 
along. 

VIRGIL. — Ib.,  Bk.  12  (Dryden  tr.). 

DISCOURAGEMENT 

Ah  !  who  can  tell  how  hard  it  is  to  climb 
The  steep  where  Fame's  proud  temple 

shines  afar ; 

Ah  !  who  can  tell  how  many  a  soul  sublime 
Has  felt  the  influence  of  malignant  star, 
And  waged  with  Fortune  an  eternal  war  ; 
Checked  by  the  scoff  of  Pride,  by  Envy's 

frown, 

And  Poverty's  unconquerable  bar, 
In  life's  low  vale  remote  has  pined  alone, 
Then  dropped   into   the  grave,    unpitied 

and  unknown  ? 

BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  i. 

DISCOURSE 

Perhaps  it  may  turn  out  a  song, 
Perhaps  turn  out  a  sermon. 
BURNS. — Epistle  to  a  Young  Friend. 

Nor  wanted  sweet  discourse,  the  banquet 
of  the  mind. 
DRYDEN. — Flower  and  the  Leaf ,  I.  432. 


DISCOURTESY 


DISHONESTY 


DISCOURTESY 

111  manners  were  best  courtesy  to  him. 

DANTE. — Inferno  (tr.  H.  F.  Gary), 

c.  33,  148  (To  the  Friar  Alberigo). 

DISCOVERERS 

They  are  ill  discoverers  that  think  there 
is  no  land  when  they  can  see  nothing  but 
sea.  BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  z. 

I  journeyed  far,  I  journeyed  fast ;  I 
glad  I  found  de  place  at  last. 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Uncle  Remus,  35. 

Then  felt  I  like  some  watcher  of  the  skies, 

When  a  new  planet  swims  into  his  ken  ; 

Or  like  stout  Cortez,   when,  with  eagle 

eyes, 
He  stared  at  the  Pacific — and  all  his 

men 

Looked  at  each  other  with  a  wild  surmise — 
Silent,  upon  a  peak  in  Darien. 

KEATS. — Chapman's  Homer. 

Whether  my  discoveries  will  be  read  by 
posterity,  or  by  my  contemporaries,  is 
a  matter  that  concerns  them  more  than 
me.  I  may  well  be  contented  to  wait 
one  century  for  a  reader,  when  God  himself, 
during  so  many  thousand  years,  has 
waited  for  an  observer. 

JOHN  KEPLER  (d.  1631). 

I  seem  to  have  been  only  like  a  boy 
playing  on  the  sea-shore  and  diverting 
myself  in  now  and  then  finding  a  smoother 
pebble,  or  a  prettier  shell,  than  ordinary, 
whilst  the  great  ocean  of  truth  lay  all 
undiscovered  before  me. 

SIR  I.  NEWTON. — Memoirs. 

'Twas  his  to  make,  but  not  share,  the 
morrow.  T.  WATTS-DUNTON. — Columbus. 

God  hath  made  man  upright ;  but  they 
have  sought  out  many  inventions. 

Ecclesiastes  vii,  29. 

DISCRETION 

Distrust  yourself,   and  sleep  before  you 

fight. 

'Tis  not  too  late  to-morrow  to  be  brave. 

ARMSTRONG. — Art  of  Preserving 

Health,  Bk.  4. 

The  man  that  cries 
"Consider,"  is  our  foe. 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Scornful 
Lady,  Act  2. 

You  put   too  much  wind  to  your  sail ; 

discretion 

And  hardy  valour  are  the  twins  of  honour. 
FLETCHER. — Bonduca,  Act  i,  i. 

Be  wary,  then ;  best  safety  lies  in  fear. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 


DISCRIMINATION 

Though  it  make  the  unskilful  laugh, 
cannot  but  make  the  judicious  grieve ; 
the  censure  of  which  one  must,  in  your 
allowance,  o'erweigh  a  whole  theatre  of 
others.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

DISCURSIVENESS 

"  The  time  has  come,"  the  Walrus  said, 

"  To  talk  of  many  things  j 
Of  ships  and  Shoes  and  sealing-wax, 

Of  cabbages  and  kings." 

"L.  CARROLL"  (REV.  C.  L.  DODGSON). 
— Alice  through  the  Looking-glass. 

From  whatever  place  I  write  you  will 
expect  that  part  of  my  "  Travels  "  will 
consist  of  excursions  in  my  own  mind. 

COLERIDGE. — Satyrane's  Letters, 
No.  2. 
DISDAIN 

When  love  does  meet  with  injury  and 

pain, 

Disdain's  the  only  medicine  for  disdain. 
BUTLER. — Cat  and  Puss. 

I  have  learned  thy  arts,  and  now 
Can  disdain  as  much  as  thou. 

T.  CAREW. — Disdain  returned. 

What,  my  dear  lady  Disdain  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  i,  i. 

DISEASES 

Dangers  stand  thick  through  all  the  ground, 

To  push  us  to  the  tomb  ; 
And  fierce  diseases  wait  around 

To  hurry  mortals  home. 

I.  WATTS. — Hymn,  Thee  we  adore. 

If  the  head  is  sick  all  the  limbs  are 
affected.  Latin  prov. 

DISGRACE 

Alas,  to  make  me 

A  fixed  figure,  for  the  time  of  scorn 
To  point  his  slow  unmoving  finger  at ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  2. 

I  cannot  tell,  good  sir,  for  which  of 
his  virtues  it  was,  but  he  was  certainly 
whipped  out  of  the  court. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  2. 

DISGUST 

O  vile, 
Intolerable,  not  to  be  endured  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  5,  2. 
DISHONESTY 

But  for  your  petty,   picking,   downright 

thievery 
We  scorn  it  as  we  do  board  wages. 

BYRON. — Werner,  Act  2,  i. 


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DISHONOUR 


DISINTERESTEDNESS 


What  ain't  missed  ain't  mourned. 
SIR  A.  \V.  PINEKO. — The  Magistrate 
(Wyke,  the  Butler). 

It  is  a  pretty  thing  to  endure  so  much 

misfortune    to    be    a    brigand ;    it    would 

not  cost  more  to  be  an  honest  man,  and 

there  are  moments  when  I  am  tempted  to 

become  one,  even  if  only  as  a  speculation. 

E.  SCRIBE. — Cascaro  in  "  Les  Freres 

invincibles." 

What,  man  !  more  water  glideth  by  the 

mill 

Than  wots  the  miller  of ;  and  easy  it  is 
Of  a  cut  loaf  to  steal  a  shive,  we  know. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Titus   Andronicus, 
Act  2. 

A  little  stealing  is  a  dangerous  part, 
But  stealing  largely  is  a  noble  art ; 
'Tis  mean  to  rob  a  hen-roost  or  a  hen, 
But  stealing  thousands  makes  us  gentle- 
men. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars" 
(a  quotation  ?) . 

Why  should  I  deprive  my  neighbour 
Of  his  goods  against  his  will  ? 

Hands  were  made  for  honest  labour, 
Not  to  plunder  or  to  steal 

I.  WATTS. — The  Thief. 

Stolen  waters  are  sweet.    Proverbs  ix,  17. 

DISHONOUR 

An  idiot  race,  to  honour  lost ; 
Who  know  them  best  despise  them  most. 
BURNS. — Lines  on  viewing  Stirling 
Palace. 

Unfaith  in  aught  is  want  of  faith  in  all. 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien. 

The  shame  is    in   the  crime  not  in   the 
punishment. 

VOLTAIRE. — Artemire,  Act  3. 

I  have  known  all  misfortunes ;  valour 
can  surmount  them,  but  what  generous 
heart  can  endure  dishonour  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — Zulime. 

When  faith   is  lost,   when   honour   dies, 
The  man  is  dead. 

WHITTIER. — Ichabod  ! 

DISILLUSIONMENT 

The  glory  dropped  from  their  youth  and 

love, 

And  both  perceived  they  had  dreamed 
a  dream. 

BROWNING. — Statue  and  the  Bust. 
The  only  difference  is  this, — 

The  gilt  is  off  the  chain ; 
And  what  was  once  a  golden  bliss 
Is  now  an  iron  pain. 
E.  R.  BULWER-LYTTON  (EARL  OF 
,LYTTON). — Mar  ah. 


My  days  are  in  the  yellow  leaf ; 

The  flowers  and  fruits  of  love  are  gone ; 
The  worm,  the  canker,  and  the  grief 

Are  mine  alone  ! 

BYROX. — On  his  $6th  Birthday. 

Long  toils,  long  perils,  in  their  cause  I  bore, 
But  now  the  unfruitful  glories  charm  no 

more.  .  .  . 

Of  all  my  dangers,  all  my  glories,  pains, 
A  life  of  labours,  lo,  what  fruit  remains  ? 

HOMER. — Iliad,  Bk.  17,  670  (Pope  tr.) 
(said  by  Achilles). 

There  is  between   that   smile   we   would 

aspire  to, 
That  sweet  aspect  of  princes,  and  their 

ruin, 
More  pangs  and  fears  than  wars  and  women 

have. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

The  world   is  not   sweet   in   the   end  ; 
For  the  old  faiths  loosen  and  fall,  the  new 
years  ruin   and   rend. 

SWINBURNE. — To  Proserpine. 

There  was  a  time  when  meadow,  grove 

and   stream, 

The  earth,  and  every  common  sight, 
To  me  did  seem 
Apparelled  in  celestial  light, 
The  glory  and  the  freshness  of  a  dream. 
It  is  not  now  as  it  hath  been  of  yore ; — 
Turn  wheresoe'er  I  may, 
By  night  or  day, 

The  things  which  I  have  seen  I  now  can 
see  no  more. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  z. 

The  sunshine  is  a  glorious  birth ; 
But  yet  I  know,  where'er  I  go, 
That  there  hath  passed  away  a  glory  from 
the  earth.       WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  c.  2. 

Whither    is    fled    the    visionary    gleam  ? 

Where  is  it  now,  the  glory  and  the  dream  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  c.  4. 

At  length  the  Man  perceives  it  die  away, 

And  fade  into  the  fight  of  common  day. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  c.  5 

A  power  is  gone  which  nothing  can  restore ; 
A  deep  distress  hath  humanised  my  soul. 
Not  for  a  moment  could  I  now  behold 
A  smiling  sea,  and  be  what  I  have  been ; 
The  feeling  of  my  loss  will  ne'er  be  old  ; 
This  which  I  know  I  speak  with  mind 
serene. 

WORDSWORTH. — On  a  picture  o 
Peele  Castle  (1805). 

DISINTERESTEDNESS 

The  only  reward  of  virtue  is  virtue ; 
the  only  way  to  have  a  friend  is  to  be 
one.  EMERSON. — Friendship. 


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DISLIKE 


DISPROPORTION 


Not  that  I  loved  Caesar  less,  but  that 
I  loved  Rome  more. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  3,  2. 

DISLIKE 

I  dote  on  his  very  absence. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  2. 

I  see,  lady,  the  gentleman  is  not  in  your 
good  books. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  i,  i. 

DISMISSAL 

Out  of  my  sight,  and  trouble  me  no  more  ! 
MARLOWE. — Edward,  II.,  Act  2. 

I  do  desire  we  may  be  better  strangers. 

SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It, 
Act  3,  2. 

And  so  without  more  circumstance  at  all, 

I  hold  it  fit  that  we  shake  hands  and  part. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

Cassio,  I  love  thee, 
But  never  more  be  officer  of  mine. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

DISORGANISATION 

This  party  of  two  reminds  me  of  the 
Scotch  terrier,  which  was  so  covered  with 
hair  that  you  could  not  tell  which  was  the 
head,  and  which  was  the  tail  of  it. 

JOHN  BRIGHT. — Speech,  1866. 

DISPARAGEMENT 

The  words  she  spoke  of  Mrs.  Harris, 
lambs  could  not  forgive  nor  worms  forget. 
[Mrs.  Gamp.] 

DICKENS. — M.  Chuzzlewit,  c.  49. 

The  idiot  who  praises,  with  enthusiastic 

tone, 
All  centuries  but  this  and  every  country 

but  his  own. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

For  whoso  will  another  blame, 
He  seketh  ofte  his  own6  shame. 
GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  2. 

I  never  told  a  lie  yet ;  and  I  hold  it 
In  some  degree  blasphemous  to  dispraise 
What's  worthy  admiration  :  yet,  for  once, 
I  will  dispraise  a  little. 
MASSINGER. — Gt.  Duke  of  Florence,  Act  3. 

Of  whom  to  be  dispraised  were  no  small 

praise. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  3,  56. 

Damn  with  faint  praise,  assent  with  civil 

leer, 
And,  without  sneering,  teach  the  rest  to 

sneer.  POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires. 


Just  hint  a  fault  and  hesitate  dislike. 
POPE. — Ib. 

Who  but  must  laugh,  if  such  a  man  there 

be? 

Who  would  not  weep  if  Atticus  were  he  ? 

POPE. — Ib. 

With  silent  smiles  of  slow  disparagement. 
TENNYSON.— Guinevere,  14. 

I  don't  see  no  p'ints  about  that  frog 
that's  any  better'n  any  other  frog. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Jumping  Frog. 

There  is  a  luxury  in  self-dispraise. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4. 

DISPLAY 

The    boast    of    heraldry,    the    pomp   of 
power.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

She  that  a  clinquant  outside  doth  adore, 
Dotes  on  a  gilded  statue  and  no  more. 
R.  LOVELACE. — Song,  "  Strive  not." 

And   tape-tied  curtains  never  meant    to 
draw.  POPE. — Ep.  3. 

The  wealthiest  man  amongst  us  is  the  best : 

No  grandeur  now  in  Nature  or  in  book 

Delights  us.     Rapine,  avarice,  expense, — 

This  is  idolatry,  and  these  we  adore  ; 

Plain  living  and  high  thinking  are  no  more. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 

Indep.,  Pi.  i,  13. 

DISPOSITION 

There  was  a  little  girl,   and  she  had  a 

little  curl 

Right  in  the  middle  of  her  forehead  ; 
When  she  was  good,  she  was  very  very 

good, 

But  when  she  was  bad  she  was  horrid. 

LONGFELLOW  (According  to  his 

biographer,  Blanche  Roosevelt,  1882). 

Lofty  and  sour  to  them  that  loved  him  not; 
But,  to  those  men  that  sought  him,  sweet 

as  summer. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

It  is  the  mynd  that  maketh  good  or  ill, 
That  maketh  wretch  or  happie,  rich  or 
poore. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  6 
c.  9,  st.  30 

DISPROPORTION 

As  if  an  eagle  flew  aloft,  and  then — 
Stooped  from  its  highest  pitch  to  pounce  a 
wren.         COWPER. — Table  Talk,  551. 

O  monstrous  !  but  one  half-pennyworth 
of  bread  to  this  intolerable  deal  of  sack  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  2,  4. 


DISPUTES 


DISSIMULATION 


DISPUTES 

He  could  distinguish,  and  divide 
A  hair  'twixt  south  and  south-west  side  ; 
On  either  which  he  would  dispute, 
Confute,  change  hands,  and  still  confute. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  PI.  i,  c.  i. 

He'd  run  in  debt  by  disputation, 
And  pay  by  ratiocination. 

BUTLER. — Ib 

Quoth  he,  That  man  is  sure  to  lose 
That  fouls  his  hands  with  dirty  foes ; 
For  where  no  honour's  to  be  gained 
'Tis  thrown  away  in  being  maintained. 
BUTLER. — Ib.,  Pi.  2,  c.  2. 

This  is  no  time  nor  fitting  place  to  mai 

The  mirthful  meeting  with  a  wordy  war. 

BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  23 

An  Irishman  fights  before  he  reasons 
a  Scotchman  reasons  before  he  fights, 
an  Englishman  is  not  particular  as  to  the 
order  of  precedence,  but  will  do  either 
to  accommodate  his  customers. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

To  hear 

Such  wrangling  is  a  joy  for  vulgar  minds. 
DANTE. — Inferno,  c.  30  (Gary's  tr.). 

He  who  discusses  is  in  the  right,  he 
who  disputes  is  in  the  wrong. 

DE  RULHIERES. — Disputes. 

And  of  their  vain  contest  appeared  no  end. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  g,  I.  1189. 

Like  doctors  thus,  when  much  dispute  has 

past, 

We  find  our  tenets  just  the  same  as  last. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  3,  15. 

What  Tully  says  of  war  may  be  applied 
to  disputing :  it  should  always  be  so 
managed  as  to  remember  that  the  only 
end  of  it  is  peace. 

POPE. — Thoughts   on    Various   Subjects. 

Respect  was  mingled  with  surprise, 
And  the  stern  joy  which  warriors  feel 
In  foemen  worthy  of  their  steel. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  5,  st.  10. 

But  in  the  way  of  bargain,  mark  you  me, 
I'll  cavil  on  the  ninth  part  of  a  hair. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

And  'tis  not  hard,  I  think, 
For  men  so  old  as  we  to  keep  the  peace. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  i,  2. 

The  itch  of  disputation  will  break  out 
Into  a  scab  of  error. 

R.  WATKYNS. — Flamma  sine  Fume*. 


Very  foolish  children  of  God,  have 
brotherly  love  to  each  other,  and  do  not 
devour  one  another  any  more  for  vain 
:himeras. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Author  of  The  Three 
Impostors. 

Yes  and  No  are  the  cause  of  all  disputes. 

Prov. 
DISQUIET 

Alas  !  my  everlasting  peace 
Is  broken  into  pieces. 

HOOD. — Sea  Spell. 
DISSENSION 

What  foreign  arms  could  never  quell 
By  civil  rage  and  rancour  fell. 

SMOLLETT. — Tears    of   Scotland. 

'Tis  thine  to  ruin  realms,  o'erturn  a  state, 

Betwixt  the  dearest  friends  to  raise  debate, 

And  kindle  kindred  blood  to  mutual  hate. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  7  (Dryden  tr.). 

Let  now  your  immature  dissension  cease  ; 

Sit  quiet,  and  compose  your  souls  in  peace. 

VIRGIL.— Ib.,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 

DISSIMULATION 

Clothe  thy  feigned  zeal  in  rage,  in  fire,  in 
fury.  ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i,   3. 

The  continual  habit  of  dissimulation  is 
but  a  weak  and  sluggish  cunning,  and  not 
greatly  politic. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Dissimulation  invites  dissimulation. 
BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6. 

The  carl    spak    oo   [one]    thing    but    he 
thoghte  another. 

CHAUCER. — Wife  of  Bath's  Tale. 

Hang  art,  madam,  and  trust  to  nature 
for  dissimulation  ! 

CONGREVE. — Old  Bachelor,  Act  3. 

"  Frank  and  explicit  "  — that  is  the 
right  line  to  take  when  you  wish  to  conceal 
your  own  mind  and  to  confuse  the  minds 
of  others.  [The  Gentleman  in  Downing 
Street.]  DISRAELI,  Sybil,  Bk.  6,  c.  i. 

"  I  weep  for  you,"  the  Walrus  said, 

"  I  deeply  sympathize  ;  " 
With  sobs  and  tears  he  sorted  out 

Those  of  the  largest  size, 
Holding  his  pocket-handkerchief 
Before  his  streaming  eyes. 

C.  L.  DODGSON. — Through  the 
Looking-glass. 

.  .  .  Love  no  man.  Trust  no  man. 
Speak  ill  of  no  man  to  his  face ;  nor  well 
of  any  man  behind  his  back.  .  .  .  Spread 
yourself  on  his  bosom  publicly,  whose 
heart  you  would  eat  in  private. 

BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man  in  His 
Humour,  Act  3,  4. 


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DISSIPATION 


DISTINCTION 


All  seemed  well  pleased ;  all  seemed, 
but  were  not  all. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  5,  617. 

But  good  God  !  What  an  age  is  this 
and  what  a  world  is  this,  that  a  man 
cannot  live  without  playing  the  knave 
and  dissimulation ! 

PEPYS. — Diary,  1661. 

Euphelia  serves  to  grace  my  measure, 
But  Chloe  is  my  real  flame. 

PRIOR.  — Ode. 

Look  like  the  innocent  flower, 
But  be  the  serpent  under  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  5. 

She  that  could  think,  and  ne'er  disclose 

her  mind  ; 

See  suitors  following,  and  not  look  behind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,   i. 

This  art  (dissimulation)  is  the  virtue 
of  the  coward.  VOLTAIRE. — Don  Pedre. 

The  words  of  his  mouth  were  smoother 
than  butter,  but  war  was  in  his  heart ; 
his  words  were  softer  than  oil,  yet  were 
they  drawn  swords.  Psalms  Iv,  21. 

Nothing  is  more  like  an  honest  man  than 
a  rascal.  French  prov. 

Who  does  not  know  how  to  dissemble 
does  not  know  how  to  reign. 

Maxim  ascribed  to  Louis  XI.  A  Iso  to 
the  Emperor  Frederick  (Sigismund). 
(Quoted  by  R.  Burton  as  "  He  who  does 
not  know  how  to  dissemble  does  not 
know  how  to  live.") 

DISSIPATION 

The  excesses  of  our  youth  are  drafts 
upon  our  old  age,  payable  with  interest 
about  thirty  years  after  date. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

The  wildest  colts  make  the  best  horses. 
PLUTARCH. — Themislocles. 

DISTANCE 

'Tis  distance  lends   enchantment   to   the 

view, 

And  robes  the  mountain  in  its  azure  hue. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  i. 

To  the  vulgar  eye  few  things  are  wonder- 
ful that  are  not  distant. 

CARLYLE. — Burns. 

Distance  sometimes  endears  friendship, 
and  absence  sweeteneth  it. 

J.  HOWELL. — Familiar  Letters,  Bk.  i. 

Far  awa'  fowls  hae  fair  feathers. 
Scottish  prov.  (Fergusson  collection,  c.  1580). 


DISTINCTION 

Robust,  but  not  Herculean — to  the  sight. 
No  giant  frame  sets  forth  his  common 

height ; 
Ye',  in  the  whole,  who  paused  to  look 

again 
Saw  more  than  marks  the  crowd  of  vulgar 

men.  BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  9. 

That  constellation  set,  the  world  in  vain 

Must  hope  to  look  upon  their  like  again. 

COWPER. — Table  Talk,  659. 

You  could  not  stand  five  minutes  with 
that  man  (Edmund  Burke)  beneath  a 
shed,  while  it  rained,  but  you  must  be 
convinced  that  you  had  been  standing  with 
the  greatest  man  you  had  ever  yet  seen. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by  Mrs. 

Piozzi. 

He  nothing  common  did,  or  mean, 
Upon  that  memorable  scene. 

MARVELL. — Horatian  Ode. 

First  of  the  first  he  shone 

'Mongst  all  the  Hellenian  host  in  Pythos 

groves ;  \ 

Isthmian  and  Nemean  crowns  his  prowess 

won  ; 
Fortune  still  follows  as  he  moves. 

PINDAR. — Nem.,  10,  46  (Moore  tr.). 

A  bright  particular  star. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  i,  i. 

There  be  many  Cassars 
Ere  such  another  Julius. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  i. 

He  was  a  man,  take  him  for  all  in  all, 
I  shall  not  look  upon  his  like  again. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

The  expectancy  and  rose  of  the  fair  state, 
The  glass  of  fashion,  and  the  mould  of 

form, 
The  observed  of  all  observers. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  I. 

A    hooded    eagle    among    blinking    owls 
[Coleridge].  SHELLEY. — To  Maria  Gisborne. 

In  fields  of  air  he  writes  his  name, 
And  treads  the  chambers  of  the  sky  ; 

He  reads  the  stars,  and  grasps  the  flame 

That  quivers  round  the  throne  on  high. 

C.  SPRAGUE. — Art. 

For  thou,  if  ever  godlike  foot  there  trod 

These  fields  of  ours,  went  surely  like  a 

god.  SWINBURNE. — In  the  Bay. 

He  is  master  and  lord  of  his  brothers 
Who  is  worthier  and  wiser  than  they. 
SWINBURNE. — Word  for  the  Country,  18. 

Scarce  of  earth,  nor  all  divine. 

TE  N  N  Y  so  N  . — A  deline. 


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DISTRESS  

Men    endowed    with    highest    gifts, 
The  vision  and  the  faculty  divine, 
Yet  wanting  the  accomplishment  of  verse. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  i. 

Thy  soul  was  like  a  Star,  and  dwelt  apart. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems    to    National 

Indcp.,  Pt.  i,  14  (Of  Milton)  (Also  in 

"  London  "). 

A  noticeable  man  with  large  grey  eyes. 

WORDSWORTH. — Written  in  Thomson's 

"  Castle  of  Indolence." 

He  was  a  burning  and  a  shining  light. 
St.  John  v,  35. 

Of  whom  the  world  was  not  worthy. 
Hebrews  xi,  38. 

DISTRESS 

Beauty  in  distress  is  much  the  most 
affecting  beauty. 
BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

Affliction's  sons  are  brothers  in  distress, 

A  brother  to  relieve,  how  exquisite  the 

bliss  !          BURNS. — A  Winter  Night. 

Nor  be,  what  man  should  ever  be, 
The  friend  of  Beauty  in  distress. 

BYRON. — To  Florence. 

DISTRUST 

Here  must  thou  all  distrust  behind  thee 

leave. 
DANTE. — Inferno  (tr.  H.  F.  Cary),  c.  3,  14. 

It  is  a  rule  in  friendship,  when  Distrust 
enters  in  at  the  foregate,  Love  goes  out 
at  the  postern. 

J.  HOWELL. — Familiar  Letters,  Bk.  i. 

Distrust    that    man   who    tells    you    to 
distrust.  ELLA  W.  WILCOX. — Distrust. 

Do  weel  and  doubt  nae  man ;  do  ill 
and  doubt  a'  men.  Scottish  prov. 

DIVINE  PRESENCE 

It  rests  upon  the  verdict  of  all  true- 
hearted  and  good  men  that  there  is  not  a 
nook  or  corner  of  the  world,  in  which 
something  cannot  be  found  which  will 
touch  or  comfort  men's  minds  with  a 
sense  of  the  divine  presence. 

J.  KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  38 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

DIVINITY  IN  MAN 

There  is  a  God  within  us  and  inter- 
course with  heaven. 

OVID. — Art  of  Love,  3,  549. 

DIVISION 

This  arithmetic  is  perfect  in  its  kind, 
and  is  beyond  question — equal  portions ! 
VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire. 


DOGS 


DOCTRINE 

Accuse  a  man  of  being  a  Socinian  and 
it  is  all  over  with  him,  for  the  country 
gentlemen  all  think  it  has  something  to 
do  with  poaching. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

As  thou  these  ashes,  little  brook,  wilt  bear 
Into  the  Avon,  Avon  to  the  tide 
Of  Severn,  Severn  to  the  narrow  seas, 
Into  main  ocean  they,  this  deed  accurst 
An  emblem  yields  to  friends  and  enemies, 
How  the  bold  teacher's  doctrine,  sanctified 
By    truth,    shall   spread    throughout    the 
world  dispersed. 

WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets, 
Pt.  2,  17  (From  Fuller). 

Carried  away  with  every  blast  of  vain 
doctrine.  Common  Prayer,  Collect. 

DOGGEDNESS 

It's  dogged  as  does  it.  It  ain't  thinking 
about  it. 

ANTHONY  TROLLOPE. — Last  Chronicles 
of  Barset,  Vol.  i,  p.  201. 

DOGMA 

It  is  certain  because  it  is  impossible. 
TERTULLIAN. — De  Came  Curisti. 

The  interpretation  of  two  or  three 
words  have  flooded  the  earth  with  blood. 
Dogma  is  often  devilish,  as  you  know  ; 
Morality  is  divine ! 

VOLTAIRE. — Remonstrances. 

Reason  arrives  late  ;  she  finds  the  place 
occupied  by  folly.  She  does  not  chase 
away  the  ancient  mistress  of  the  house, 
but  lives  with  her  on  good  terms.  .  .  . 
That  is  how  the  most  absurd  dogmas 
contrive  to  exist  among  the  most  instructed 
peoples.  VOLTAIRE. — Chinese  Letters. 

DOGMATISM 

You  are  the  men  and  wisdom  shall  die 

with  you, 
And  none  of  the  old  Seven  Churches  vie 

with  you. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  2. 

Dogmatism  is  Puppyism  come  to  its 
full  growth. 

D.  JERROLD. — Man  Made  of  Money. 

Rome  has  spoken ;  the  case  is  ended. 
Founded  on  St.  Augustine,  Sermon,  131. 

DOGS 

'Tis  sweet  to  hear  the  honest  watch-dog's 

bark 
Bay  deep-mouthed  welcome,  as  we  draw 

near  home. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  st.  123. 


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DOLES 


DOUBT 


But  the  poor  dog,  in  life  the  firmest  friend, 

The  first  to  welcome,  foremost  to  defend  ! 

BYRON. — Inscription  on  a 

Newfoundland  Dog. 

And  in  that  town  a  dog  was  found, 

As  many  dogs  there  be, 
Both  mongrel,  puppy,  whelp  and  hound, 

And  curs  of  low  degree. 

GOLDSMITH. — Mad  Dog. 

Two  dogs  of  black  St.  Hubert's  breed, 
Unmatched     for    courage,     breath,     and 

speed. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  i,  st.  7. 

The  little  dogs  and  all, 
Tray,  .Blanch,  and  Sweet-heart,  see,  they 

bark  at  me.  .  .  . 

Mastiff,  greyhound,  mongrel  grim, 
Hound  or  spaniel,  brach  or  lym, 
Or  bobtail  tyke,  or  trundle-tail. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  6. 

The  more  I  see  of  men,  the  more  I 
admire  dogs. 

French  saying,  Attrib.  to  Mme.  Roland. 

DOLES 

The  man  who  first  ruined  the  Roman 
people  was  he  who  first  gave  them  treats 
and  gratuities. 

Quoted  by  Plutarch  (Life  of  Coriolanus) 
as"  a  shrewd  remark,  whoever  said  it." 

DOMESTICITY 

From  quiet  homes  and  first  beginning, 
Out  to  the  undiscovered  ends, 

There's  nothing  worth  the  wear  of  winning, 

But  laughter  and  the  love  of  friends. 

H.  BELLOC. 

In  her  very  style  of  looking 
There  was  cognisance  of  cooking! 
From  her  very  dress  were  peeping 
Indications  of  housekeeping. 
R.  BUCHANAK. — White  Rose  and  Red 
Pt-  3,  3*. 

In  all  the  necessaries  of  life  there  is  not 
a  greater  plague  than  servants. 

C.  GIBBER. — She  would  and  she  would 
not,  Act  i. 

Domestic  happiness,  thou  only  bliss 
Of  Paradise  that  has  survived  the  Fall  ! 
COWPER. — Garden,  41. 

Parlour  twilight ;  such  a  gloom 
Suits  well  the  thoughtful  or  unthinking 
mind. 

COWPER. — Winter  Evening,  278. 

Domesticity  is  the  tap-root  which 
enables  the  [British]  nation  to  branch  wide 
and  high.  The  motive  and  end  of  their 


trade  and  empire  is  to  guard  the  indepen- 
dence and  privacy  of  their  homes. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  6, 
Manners. 

Sweet  is  the  smile  of  home  ;  the  mutual 

look 

When  hearts  are  of  each  other  sure. 
J.  KEBLE. — ist.  Sun.  in  Lent. 

Where  glowing  embers  through  the  room 
Teach  light  to  counterfeit  a  gloom. 

MILTON. — II  Penseroso,  79. 

Some  dish  more  sharply  spiced  than  this 
Milk-soup  men  call  domestic  bliss.    • 

COVENTRY  PATMORE.— Olympus. 

To  love  the  peaceable  and  domestic  life 
it  is  necessary  to  have  known  it ;  one 
must  have  felt  its  sweetnesses  in  child- 
hood. ROUSSEAU. — Emile- 

When  the  black-lettered  list  to  the  Gods 

was  presented 
(The  list  of  what  Fate  for  each  mortal 

intends), 
At  the  long  string  of  ills  a  kind  goddess 

relented 
And   slipped   in    three   blessings — wife, 

children,  and  friends. 
HON.  W.  R.  SPENCER. — Wife,  Children, 

Friends. 
DOOM 

Hell  from  beneath  is  moved  for  thee  to 
meet  thee  at  thy  coming.  Isaiah  xiv,  9. 

DOOMSDAY 

That  day  of  wrath,  that  dreadful  day. 
When  heaven  and  earth  shall  pass  away. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  6, 
st.  31. 

Till  the  sun  grows  cold, 
And  the  stars  are  old, 
And  the  leaves  of   the  Judgment   Book 
unfold. 

B.  TAYLOR. — Bedouin  Song. 

DOTAGE 

Thus  in  glory  was  he  seen, 
While  his  years  as  yet  were  green ; 
But  now  that  his  dotage  is  on  him, 
God  help  him  !  for  no  eye 
Of  all  those  who  pass  him  by 
Throws  a  look  of  compassion  upon  him. 
ARISTOPHANES. — The  Knights,  529 
(Mitchell's  tr.). 

Second  childishness  and  mere  oblivion, 
Sans  teeth,  sans  eyes,  sans  taste,  sans 

everything. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

DOUBT 

To  doubt  is  to  decide. 

H.  ADDINGTON  (LORD  SIDMOUTH). — 
(c.  1802). 


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DOUBT 

If  a  man  will  begin  with  certainties, 
he  shall  end  in  doubts ;  but  if  he  will  be 
content  to  begin  with  doubts,  he  shall  end 
in  certainties. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

Who  never  doubted,  never  half  believed  ; 

Where    doubt,    there    truth    is — 'tis    her 

shadow.  P.  J-  BAILEY.— Festus. 

If  the  sun  and  moon  should  doubt, 
They'd  immediately  go  out. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

God  help  all  poor  souls  lost  in  the  dark  ! 
BROWNING. — Heretic's  Tragedy,  st.  10. 

Who  knows  most,  doubts  not. 

BROWNING. — Two  Poets,  158. 

A  castle  called  Doubting  Castle,  the 
owner  whereof  was  Giant  Despair. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pi.  i. 

I've  stood  upon  Achilles'  tomb 
And  heard  Troy  doubted ;  time  will  doubt 
of  Rome. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  4,  st.  101. 

Melt  and  dispel,  ye  spectre-doubts  that 

roll 

Cimmerian  darkness  on  the  parting  soul ! 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasure*  of  Hope,  2. 

By  doubting  we  come  at  the  truth. 

CICERO. 

The  more  generous  construction  is  to 
be  preferred  in  words  which  are  general 
or  doubtful.  COKE. 

My  mind  is  in  a  state  of  philosophic 
doubt.  COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk. 

Dubius  is  such  a  scrupulous  good  man. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  I.  119. 

Uncertain  ways  unsafest  are, 
And  doubt  a  greater  mischief  than  despair. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — The  Sophy. 

Unbelief  is  a  belief,  a  very  exacting 
religion.  ALPHONSE  KARR. 

The  man  that  feareth,  Lord,  to  doubt, 
In  that  fear  doubteth  Thee. 

GEO.  MACDONALD. — Disciple. 

To  doubt  is  safer  than  to  be  secure. 
MASSINGER. — A   Very  Woman,  Act  i,  i. 

Though  thus,  my  friend,  so  long  employed, 
And  so  much  midnight  oil  destroyed, 
I  must  confess,  my  searches  past, 
I  only  learned  to  doubt  at  last. 

T.  MOORE. — Morality. 

We  doubt  our  doubts, 
We  hug  our  faiths,  and  fancy  we  are  free. 
SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Given,  Act  6,  i. 


DRAMA 

I  [Meno]  heard  of  you,  Socrates,  before 
I  met  you,  that  you  are  always  doubting 
yourself,  and  causing  others  to  doubt. 

PLATO. — Meno,  13. 

Doubt  on  matters  important  for  us 
to  know  is  a  state  too  violent  for  the 
human  mind.  It  cannot  resist  long  ; 
in  spite  of  itself  it  decides  for  itself  in  some 
way  or  other  and  loves  rather  to  deceive 
i'tself  than  not  to  believe. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Our  doubts  are  traitors 
And  make  us  lose  the  good  we  oft  might 

win, 
By  fearing  to  attempt. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  i,  5 

To  be  once  in  doubt 
Is  once  to  be  resolved. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

Modest  doubt  is  called 
The  beacon  of  the  wise. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  2,  2. 

Nor  can  belief  touch,  kindle,  smite,  reprieve 

His  heart  who  had  not  heart  to  disbelieve. 

SWINBURNE. — In  the  Bay,  st.  31. 

You  tell  me  Doubt  is  devil-born. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  96. 

There  lives  more  faith  in  honest  doubt, 
Believe  me,  than  in  half  the  creeds. 

TENNYSON. — Ib. 

The     slow-consenting     Academic     doubt. 
J.  THOMSON. — Liberty,  Pt.  2,  240. 

In  philosophy  you  must  doubt  things 
which  you  understand  too  easily,  as  much 
as  things  which  you  do  not  understand  at 
all.  VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English,  15. 

I  have  lived  in  doubt ;  I  die  in  anxiety  -, 
I  know  not  whither  I  go. 

Attrib.  to  a  Pope  of  Rome. 

DOWRY 

Oh,   gie  me   the  lass   that   has  acres  o' 

charms, 
Oh,  pie  me  the  lass  wi'  the  well-stockit 

farms. 

BURNS. — Hey  for  a  Lass  wi'  a  Tocher. 

DRAMA 

Plays 'make  mankind  no  better,  and  no 
worse. 

BYRON. — English  Bards. 

If   you   would   have   your   play   deserve 

success, 
Give  it  five  acts  complete,  nor  more  nor 

less. 

P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 


DRAMA 

There  are  three  sorts  of  spectators 
who  compose  "  the  public  "  so-called  : 
firstly  women,  secondly  thinkers,  thirdly 
what  is  described  as  the  crowd.  The 
crowd  demands  almost  exclusively  action  ; 
the  women  desire  above  all  other  things 
passion  ;  the  thinkers  specially  look  for 
"  character." 

VICTOR  HUGO. — Pref.  to  Ruy  Bias 
(1838). 

All  spectators  desire  pleasure — the 
crowd  the  pleasure  of  the  eyes ;  the 
women  the  pleasure  of  the  heart ;  the 
thinkers  the  pleasure  of  the  intellect. 

VICTOR  HUGO. — Ib. 

Melodrama  for  the  crowd  ;  tragedy  for 
women  ;  comedy,  which  depicts  humanity, 
for  thinkers.  VICTOR  HUGO. — Ib. 

The  stage  but  echoes  back  the  public  voice ; 

The  drama's  laws,   the   drama's  patrons 

give.  JOHNSON. — London. 

The  actors  are,  it  seems,  the  usual  three, 
Husband,  and  wife,  and  lover. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  35. 

Have  you  not  perceived  the  tendency 
of  your  soul  during  a  comedy,  how  a 
mixture  of  pain  and  pleasure  is  found 
therein.  PLATO. — Philebus,  106. 

There  still  remains,  to  mortify  a  wit, 
The  many-headed  monster  of  the  pit. 

POPE. — Satires. 

The  play's  the  thing 
Wherein  I'll  catch  the  conscience  of  the 
king. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

The  purpose  of  playing  ...  to  hold, 
as  'twere,  the  mirror  up  to  nature. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

The  awful  legitimacy  of  the  highbrow 
theatre. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Annajanska  (1918),  Pref. 

If  the  best  actors  are  only  Horatios, 
the  authors  will  have  to  leave  Hamlet 
out,  and  be  content  with  Horatios  for 
heroes. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Great  Catherine,  Pref. 

In  London  we  have  no  theatres  for  the 
welfare  of  the  people :  they  are  all  for  the 
sole  purpose  of  producing  the  utmost 
obtainable  rent  for  the  proprietor. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Pref., 
Commerce  in  the  Theatre. 

Through  all  the  drama — whether  damned 

or  not — 
Love  gilds  the  scene,  and  women  guide  the 

plot. 

SHERIDAN. — Rivals.  Epilogue,  5. 


DREAMS 


Lo,  where  the  stage,  the  poor,  degraded 

stage, 

Holds  its  warped  mirror  to  a  gaping  age. 
C.  SPRAGUE. — Curiosity,  127. 

The  drama  which  has  no  religious 
element  as  its  foundation  is  not  merely 
not  an  important  and  not  a  good  thing, 
but  the  most  trivial  and  despicable  of 
things. 

TOLSTOY. — Shakespeare  and  the  Drama. 

What  the  devil  does  the  plot  signify, 
except  to  bring  in  fine  things  ? 

GEO.    VlLLIERS    (DUKE    OF    BUCKING- 
HAM) . — Rehearsal. 

Raillery  apart,  I  am  persuaded  that 
religion  has  more  effect  on  people  in  the 
theatre,  when  set  forth  in  splendid  verse, 
than  in  the  church,  where  it  is  never  dis- 
played without  kitchen-Latin. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  Comte  D'Argental, 
Jan.  4,  1756. 
DREAMS 

I  dreamt  that  I  dwelt  in  marble  halls. 
A.  BUNN. — Bohemian  Girl. 

I    had    a    dream  which    was    not  all  a 
dream.  BYRON. — Darkness. 

A    straw    for    alle    swevenes     [dreams'] 

significaunce  ! 

God  helpe  me  so,  I  counte  hem  not  a  bene ; 
Ther  woot  no  man  aright  what  dremes 

mene. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus,  Bk.  5,  362. 

Some  dreams  we  have  are  nothing  else 

but  dreams, 
Unnatural  and  full  of  contradictions. 

HOOD. — Haunted  House. 

After  midnight  visions  are  true. 

HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  i,  10. 

Drames    always    go   by  conthrairies,  my 
dear.  S.  LOVER. — Rory  O'More. 

Dreams    that    bring    us    little    comfort, 

heavenly  promises  that  lapse 
Into  some  remote   It-may-be,  into  some 

forlorn  Perhaps. 

S.  R.  LYSAGHT. — A  Ritual,  Confession  of 
Unfaith,  st.  32. 

But  O,  as  to  embrace  me  she  inclined 
I  waked,  she  fled,  and  day  brought  back 
my  night. 

MILTON. — On  his  deceased  wife. 

Those  dreams  are  true  which  we  chance 
to  have  in  the  morning. 

OVID. — Epist.  19. 

Dreams  grow  holy  put  in  action  ;  work 
grows  fair  through  starry  dreaming  ; 

But  where  each  flows  on  unmingling,  both 

are  fruitless  and  in  vain. 
A.  A.  PROCTER. — Philip  and  Mildred. 


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DRESS 


DRINKING 


This  morn,  as  sleeping  in  my  bed  I  lay, 
I  dreamt  (and  morning  dreams  come  true, 

they  say). 

W.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastes  Furioso. 

Oh  I  have  passed  a  miserable  night, 
So  full  of  fearful  dreams,  of  ugly  sights, 
That,  as  I  am  a  Christian  faithful  man, 
I  would  not  spend  another  such  a  night, 
Though  'twere  to  buy  a  world  of  happy 

days  ; 

So  full  of  dismal  terror  was  the  time  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  4. 

I  talk  of  dreams, 

Which  are  the  children  of  an  idle  brain, 
Begot  of  nothing  but  vain  fantasy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  i,  4. 

All  this  is  but  a  dream, 
Too  flattering-sweet  to  be  substantial. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

Did  I  hear  it  half  in  a  doze 
Long  since,  I  know  not  where  ? 

Did  I  dream  it  an  hour  ago, 
When  asleep  in  this  armchair  ? 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  7. 

All  the  wild  trash  of  sleep,  without  the 
rest.          YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

DRESS 

Love's  special  lesson  is  to  please  the  eye. 
CHAPMAN. — Hero  and  Leander  (con- 
tinuation of  Marlowe's  poem),  st.  5. 

Th*  adorning  thee  with  so  much  art 

Is  but  a  barbarous  skill ; 
'Tis  like  the  poisoning  of  a  dart 

Too  apt  before  to  kill. 

COWLEY. — The  Waiting-maid. 

We  know,  Mr.  Weller,  we,  who  are  men 
of  the  world,  that  a  good  uniform  must 
work  its  way  with  the  women,  sooner  or 
later. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  c.  37. 

Those  who  make  their  dress  a  principal 
part  of  themselves,  will,  in  general,  become 
of  no  more  value  than  their  dress. 

HAZLITT. — On  the  Clerical  Character. 

A  sweet  disorder  in  the  dress. 

HERRICK. — Delight  in  Disorder. 

As  if  to  show  that  love  had  made  him 

smart 

All  over,  and  not  merely  round  his  heart. 
HOOD. — Bianca's  Dream. 

For  gowns,   and  gloves,   and  caps,   and 

tippets, 

Are  beauty's  sauces,  spice,  and  sippets. 
HOOD. — Recipe. 

The  world  must  be  getting  old,  I  think  ; 
it  dresses  so  very  soberly  now. 
J.  K.  JEROME. — Idle  Thoughts  (On  Dress). 


Still  to  be  neat,  still  to  be  drest, 

As  you  were  going  to  a  feast ; 

Still  to  be  powdered,  still  perfumed, 

Lady,  it  is  to  be  presumed, 

Though  art's  hid  causes  are  not  found, 

All  is  not  sweet,  all  is  not  sound. 

BEN  JONSON. — Epiccene. 

To  show  the  form  it  seemed  to  hide. 
SCOTT. — Lord  of  the  Isles,  c.  i,  st.  5. 

Costly  thy  habit  as  thy  purse  can  buy, 
But  not  expressed  in  fancy  ;   rich,   not 

gaudy ; 

For  the  apparel  oft  proclaims  the  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

As  martyrs  burn  for  Christ,  so  ladies 
freeze  for  fashion. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

'Tis  a  credit  to  any  good  girl  to  be  neat, 
But  quite  a  disgrace  to  be  fine. 

ANN  AND  JANE  TAYLOR. — Folly  of 
Finery. 

I  love  that  beauty  should  go  beautifully. 
TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  I.  682. 

O  fair  undress,  best  dress  !  it  checks  no 

vein, 

But  every  flowing  limb  in  pleasure  drowns, 
And  heightens  ease  with  grace. 

THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  i,  26. 

Dress  being  a  compliment  we  owe  to 

society,  you  should  not  show  a  remissness 

therein,  unless  you  would  be  thought  a 

sloven.         REV.  J.  TRUSLER. — System  of 

Etiquette  (1804). 

Let  me  be  dressed  fine  as  I  will, 

Flies,   worms,   and  flowers  exceed  me 
still.  I.  WATTS. — Against  Pride. 

Women    were    made    to    give   our    eyes 

delight ; 
A  female  sloven  is  an  odious  sight. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame. 

It's  the  life  o'  an  auld  hat  to  be  weel 
cockit.  Scottish  prov. 

DRINKING 

Thirst  comes  with  drinking  when  the 
wine  is  good.        E.  AUGIER. — La  Cigue. 

There's  naught,  no  doubt,  so  much  the 

spirit  calms, 
As  rum  and  true  religion. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  34. 

Man  being  reasonable,  must  get  drunk; 
The  best  of  life  is  but  intoxication. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  2,  179. 

For  dronkenesse  is  verray  sepulture 
Of  mannes  wit  and  his  discrecioun. 

CHAUCER. — Pardoner's  Tale. 


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DRINKING 


DROWNING 


As  for  a  Drunkard,  who  is  voluntarius 
deemnn,  he  hath  (as  hath  been  said)  no 
privilege  thereby,  but  what  hurt  or  ill 
so  ever  he  doeth,  his  drunkenness  doth 
aggravate  it.  SIR  E.  COKE. — Institutes. 

To  drink  is  a  Christian  diversion, 
Unknown   to  the  Turk  or  the   Persian. 
CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World, 
Act  4,  2. 

The  thirsty  earth  soaks  up  the  rain, 
And  drinks  and  gapes  for  drink  again ; 
The  plants  suck  in  the  earth,  and  are 
With  constant  drinking  fresh  and  fair. 
COWLEY. — Drinking. 

Therefore  I  do  require  it,  which  I  makes 
confession,  to  be  brought  reg'lar  and 
drawed  mild  [Mrs.  Gamp]. 

DICKENS. — M.  Chuzzlewit,  c.  25. 

"  Wery  good  power  o'  suction,  Sammy," 
said  Mr.  Weller  the  elder.  ..."  You'd 
ha'  made  an  uncommon  fine  oyster, 
Sammy,  if  you'd  been  born  in  that  station 
o"  life."  DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  23. 

From     wine     what     sudden     friendship 
springs  !  GAY. — Fables,  50. 

Man  wants  but  little  drink  below, 

But  wants  that  little  strong. 
O.  VV.  HOLMES. — Song  of  Other  Days. 

Hundreds  of  men  were  turned  into  beasts, 

Like  the  guests  at  Circe's  horrible  feasts, 

By  the  magic  of  ale  and  cider. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Long  quaffing  maketh  a  short  lyfe. 

JOHN  LYLY. — Euphues. 

Oh  some  are  fond  of  Spanish  wine,  and 

some  are  fond  of  French, 
And   some  '11  swallow  tay  and   stuff  fit 

only  for  a  wench. 
J.  MASEFIELD. — Capt.  Slratton's  Fancy. 

Oh  some  that's  good  and  godly  ones  they 

holds  that  it's  a  sin 
To  troll  the  jolly  bowl  around,   and  let 

the  dollars  spin ; 
But  I'm  for  toleration  and  for  drinking 

at  an  inn, 

Says  the  old  bold  mate  of  Harry  Morgan. 
JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Ib. 

Busy,  curious,  thirsty  fly, 
Drink  with  me,  and  drink  as  I. 

W.  OLDYS. — Song. 

Potations  pottle  deep. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

O  thou  invisible  spirit  of  wine,  if  thou 
hast  no  name  to  be  known  by,  let  us  call 
thee  devil.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 


O   that  men  should  put  an  enemy  in 

their  mouths,  to  steal  away  their  brains  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Every  inordinate  cup  is  unblessed,  and 
the  ingredient  is  a  devil. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

"  A  little  drop  "  may  end  in  a  great  fall. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — John  Ploughman. 

I  cannot  eat  but  little  meat, 
My  stomach  is  not  good  : 
But  sure  I  think  that  I  can  drink 

With  him  that  wears  a  hood. 
WM.  STEVENSON  (?). — Gammer  Gurton 
(c.  1550). 

The  dew  was  falling  fast,  the  stars  began 

to  blink  ; 
I  heard  a  voice  ;  it  said,  "  Drink,  pretty 

creature,  drink." 

WORDSWORTH. — Pet  Lamb. 

We're  gaily  yet,  we're  gaily  yet, 

And  we're  not  very  fow,  but  we're  gaily 

yet ; 

Then  set  ye  awhile,  and  tipple  a  bit, 
For  we's  not  very  fow,  but  we're  gaily  yet. 
"  Colonel    Butty,"  in    "  The    Provoked 

Wife,"  Covent  Garden  version,  c.  1800. 

(The  song  is  not  in  Vanbrugh's  original 

version.) 

There  are  five  reasons  for  drinking  : 
the  visit  of  a  friend,  present  thirst,  future 
thirst,  the  goodness  of  the  wine,  or  any 
other  reason. 

Attrib.  to  Pere  Sirmond  (i6th  cent.). 

Drink  or  begone. 

Ancient  Greek  maxim  of  Topers. 

If  you  get  the  best  of  whiskey  it  will 
get  the  best  of  you.  American  saying. 

He  that  goes  to  bed  thirsty  rises 
healthy. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert),  from  the  French. 

Whiskey  is  a  bad  thing — especially  bad 
whiskey. 

Highland  saying  (quoted  by  C.  H. 
Spurgeon). 

Nae  luck  till  the  second  tumbler,  and 
nae  peace  after  the  fourth.  Scottish  prov 

Fair  fa'  gude  drink, 

For  it  gars  folk  speak  as  they  think. 

Scottish  saying. 

Wine  wears  no  breeches. 

Spanish  prov.   equiv.  to  the  English, 

"  What  soberness  conceals  drunkenness 

reveals." 

DROWNING 

A  solitary  shriek,  the  bubbling  cry 
Of  some  strong  swimmer  in  his  agony. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  st.  53. 


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DRUDGERY 


DULLNESS 


And  Christians  love  in  the  turf  to  lie, 
Not  in  watery  graves  to  be  ; 

Nay,  the  very  fishes  will  sooner  die 
On  the  land  than  in  the  sea. 

HOOD. — Mermaid  of  Margate. 

O  Lord  !   methought  what  pain  it  was  to 
drown. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  4. 

It's  best  to  let  saut  water  tak  its  ain 
gate  ;  luck  never  came  o'  crossin'  it. 

Shetland    prov.,    in    excuse    for    not 
attempting  to  rescue  a  drowning  person. 

Luck  never  came  of  a  half  drowned  man 
or  a  half  hanged  one  either. 

Scottish  prov.  (a   superstitious  excuse 

for  not  rescuing  a  drowning  man  or  a 

hanging  man). 

DRUDGERY 

A  captive  fettered  to  the  oar  of  gain. 
W.  FALCONER. — Shipwreck. 

Curse  on  the  man  who  business  first  de- 
signed, 

And  by  't  enthralled  a  freeborn  lover's 
mind. 
OLDHAM. — Complaining  of  Absence. 

DRUGS 

The  insane  root 
That  takes  the  reason  prisoner. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

DRYNESS 

Dry  as  the  remainder  biscuit 
After  a  voyage. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

DUALISM 

God    be    thanked,    the    meanest    of    his 

creatures 
Boasts   two  soul-sides — one   to   face   the 

world  with, 

One  to  show  a  woman  when  he  loves  her. 
BROWNING. — One  Word  More. 

Like  two  single  gentlemen  rolled  into 
one. 

G.  COLMAN,  JR.— Lodgings  for  Single 
Gentlemen. 

United,  yet  divided,  twain  at  once  ; 
So  sit   two   Kings  of   Brentford  on   one 
throne.  COWPER.— The  Sofa. 

The  chest,  contrived  a  double  debt  to  pay, 

A  bed  by  night,  a  chest  of  drawers  by  day. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Where  the  Rug's  twofold  use  we  might 

display, 

By  night  a  blanket  and  a  plaid  by  day. 
E.  B.  GREENE.— Juvenal  Imitated. 


There's    a    double    beauty    whenever    a 

Swan 

Swims  on  a  lake  with  her  double  thereon. 
HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

In  form  and  feature,  face  and  limb, 
I  grew  so  like  my  brother, 

That  folks  got  taking  me  for  him, 
And  each  for  one  another. 

H.  S.  LEIGH. — Twins. 

Man  is  not  truly  one,  but  truly  two. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Jekyll  and  Hyde. 

As  if  within  his  frame 
Two  several  souls  alternately  had  lodged, 
Two  sets  of  manners  could  the  youth  put 
on.  WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  6. 

"Are  they  no  a  bonny  pair?  "  as  the 
deil  said  to  his  hoofs.  Scottish  prov. 

DUBLIN 

It's  as  true  as  the  deil's  in  Dublin  city. 
Scottish  prov. 
DUELS 

So  up  into  the  harmless  air 
Their  bullets  they  did  send  ; 

And  may  all  other  duels  have 
That  upshot  in  the  end. 

HOOD. — The  Duel,  1831. 

The  Christless  code 
That  must  have  Life  for  a  blow. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  2,  i,  i. 

DUES 

Crito,  we  owe  a  cock  to  ^Esculapius. 

Pay  it,  therefore,  and  do  not  neglect  it. 

SOCRATES. — His  last  words,  according 

to  Plato  (Phado,  c.  155)   (Gary  tr.). 

DULLNESS 

O  Dullness  !   portion  of  the  truly  blest ! 
Calm  shattered  haven  of  eternal  rest ! 
BURNS. — ^rd  Ep  to  Mr.  Graham. 

The  petrifactions  of  a  plodding  brain. 

BYRON. — English  Bards  and  Scotch 

Reviewers,  416. 

I  find  that  we  are  growing  serious,  and 

then  we  are  in  great  danger  of  being  dull. 

CONGREVE. — Old  Bachelor. 

And  gentle  dullness  ever  loves  a  joke. 
POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  2,  34. 

Dullness   is  sacred   in   a  sound  divine. 
POPE. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  352. 

For  thee  we  dim  the  eyes,  and  stuff  the 

head 

With  all  such  reading  as  was  never  read  ; 
For  thee  explain  a  thing  till  all  men  doubt 

it, 

And  write  about  it,  goddess,  and  about  it. 
POPE. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  248. 


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DUTY 


You  beat  your  pate,  and  fancy  wit  will 

come  ; 
Knock  as  you  please,  there's  nobody  at 

home.  POPE. — Epigram. 

A  dull  and  muddy-mettled  rascal. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Cudgel  thy  brains  no  more  about  it ; 
for  your  dull  ass  will  not  mend  his  pace  with 
beating.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  i. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  when  any  part  of 
this  paper  appears  dull,  there  is  a  design 
in  it.  STEELE. — Taller,  No.  38. 

Accept  a  miracle  instead  of  wit, — 

See  two  dull  lines  with  Stanhope's  pencil 

writ. 

YOUNG. — Written  with  Lord  Chesterfield's 
diamond  pencil. 

DUNCES 

Such  as  take  lodgings  in  a  head 
That's  to  be  let  unfurnished. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  i. 

DUPES 

You  fancy  he  is  your  dupe,  but  if  he 
is  only  pretending  to  be,  which  is  the 
greater  dupe  ? 

LA  BRUYERE. — De  la  Socitlc. 

What  web  too  weak  to  catch  a  modern 
brain  ?  COWPER. — Expostulation,  629. 

Men  seem  to  be  born  to  make  dupes,  one 
of  another.  VAUVENARGUES. — Maxim  522. 

DUPLICITY 

Beware  alway  of  doubleness. 

LYDGATE. — Balade. 

"  It's  gude  to  be  merry  and  wise,"  as  the 
miller  said  when  he  moutered  (took  toll) 
twice.  Scottish  prov. 

DUTCH 

In  matters  of  commerce  the  fault  of  the 

Dutch 

Is  offering  too  little  and  asking  too  much. 
GEO.  CANNING. — Despatch,  1826. 

DUTY 

Like  as  a  Star 
That  maketh  not  haste, 
That  taketh  not  rest, 
Be  each  one  fulfilling 
His  God-given  Hest. 

CARLYLE  (tr.  of  Goethe). 

Do  the  duty  which  lies  nearest  thee, 

which  thou  knowest  to  be  a  duty !     The 

second  duty  will  already  become  clearer. 

CARLYLE. — Sartor. 


So  nigh  is  grandeur  to  our  dust, 

So  near  is  God  to  man, 
When  duty  whispers  low,  "  Thou  must," 

The  youth  replies,  "  I  can." 

EMERSON. — Voluntaries. 

For  duty,  duty  must  be  done ; 
The  rule  applies  to  everyone  ; 
And  painful  though  that  duty  be, 
To  shirk  the  task  were  fiddle-de-dee. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

I  slept,  and  dreamed  that  life  was  Beauty ; 
I  woke,  and  found  that  life  was  Duty. 

ELLEN  HOOPER. — The  Dial. 

If  on  our  daily  course  our  mind 

Be  set  to  hallow  all  we  find, 

New  treasures  still,  of  countless  price, 

God  will  provide  for  sacrifice. 

KEBLE. — Morning  Hymn. 

The  trivial  round,  the  common  task 
Would  furnish  all  we  ought  to  ask  ; 
Room  to  deny  ourselves,  a  road 
To  bring  us  daily  nearer  God. 

KEBLE.— Ib. 

Then  draw  we  nearer,  day  by  day, 
Each  to  his  brethren,  all  to  God  ; 

Let  the  world  take  us  as  she  may, 
We  must  not  change  our  road. 

KEBLE. — znd  Sun.  after  Trin. 

Do  the  work  that's  nearest, 
Though  it's  dull  at  whiles, 

Helping,  when  we  meet  them, 
Lame  dogs  over  stiles. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Invitation. 

The  only  way  to  regenerate  the  world  is 
to  do  the  duty  which  lies  nearest  us,  and 
not  hunt  after  grand,  far-fetched  ones  for 
ourselves. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Letters  and  Memories. 

Straight  is  the  line  of  duty  ; 

Curved  is  the  line  of  beauty  ; 

Follow  the  straight  line,  thou  shalt  see 

The  curved  line  ever  follow  thee. 

WM.  MACCALL  (c.  1830).  But  attrib.  by 
Douglas  Jerrold  to  "  N.W."  with  the 
first  two  lines  transposed  and  the  others 
given  :  "  Walk  by  the  last,  and  thou 
wilt  see  The  other  ever  follow  thee." 

But  here  I  am  not  left  to  choose, 

My  duty  is  my  lot ; 
And  weighty  things  will  glory  lose, 

If  small  ones  are  forgot. 

G.  MACDONALD. 

You  would  not  think  any  duty  small 
If  you  yourself  were  great. 

G    MACDONALD. — Willie's  Question. 

This  world   is  full  of   beauty,  as  other 

worlds   above, 
And  if  we  did  our  duty,  it  might  be  as 

full  of  love. 

G.  MASSEY.— This  World. 


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EAGERNESS 


As    ever    in    my    great    Taskmaster's 
eye.         MILTON. — On  being  arrived  to 
the  age  of  twenty-three. 
To  know 

That  which  before  us  lies  in  daily  life, 
Is  the  prime  wisdom  ;  what  is  more   is 

fume, 
Or  emptiness,  or  fond  impertinence. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  192. 

Knowledge   is   a   steep   which   few   may 

climb, 

While  Duty  is  a  path  which  all  may  tread. 
SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Epic  of  Hades. 

In  matters  of  duty  first  thoughts  are 
commonly  best.  They  have  more  in 
them  of  the  voice  of  God. 

CARDINAL  NEWMAN. — See  "  N.  and  Q," 
May  21,  1898. 

This  then,  my  friend,  said  I  [Socrates], 
somehow  seems  to  be  justice, — to  attend 
to  one's  own  business,  .  .  .  when  child 
and  woman,  bond  and  free,  artificer, 
magistrate,  and  subject,  everyone  in 
short,  attends  to  his  own  business  and  does 
not  meddle. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  4,  n  (Davis  tr.). 

God  never  imposes  a  duty  without  giving 
time  to  do  it. 

RUSKIN. — Lectures  on  Architecture. 

For  never  anything  can  be  amiss 
When  simpleness  and  duty  tender  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  5,  i. 

In  the  modesty  of  fearful  duty 

I    read    as    much    as    from    the   rattling 

tongue 
Of  saucy  and  audacious  eloquence. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

I  do  perceive  here  a  divided  duty. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

Thy  path  is  plain  and  straight, — that  light 

is  given ; 
Onward  in  faith, — and  leave  the  rest  to 

Heaven.  SOUTHEY. — Retrospect. 

"  England  expects  every  man  to  do 
his  duty."  England  will  not  get  all  it 
expects.  Every  man  will  do  his  duty — if 
he  likes.  C.  H.  SPURGEOX. — "Salt-Cellars." 

Duty,  that  strong  spur  of  earnest  souls. 

BISHOP  C.  W.  STUBBS. — Conscience. 

Una  and  her  Paupers. 

There's  life  alone  in  duty  done, 
And  rest  alone  in  striving. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Drovers. 

A  light  of  duty  shines  on  every  day 
For  all ;  and  yet  how  few  are  warmed  or 
cheered  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  5. 


The  primal  duties  shine  aloft  like  stars. 
WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  Bk.  9. 

Stern  Daughter  of  the  Voice  of  God  ! 
O  Duty  !      WORDSWORTH. — Ode  to  Duty. 

Be  thankful,  even  though  tired  and  faint, 
For  the  rich  bounties  of  constraint ; 
Whence  oft  invigorating  transports  flow, 
That  choice  lacked  courage  to  bestow. 
WORDSWORTH. — Pass  of  Kirkstone. 

To  do  my  duty  in  that   state   of  life 

unto  which  it  shall  please  God  to  call  me. 

Church  Catechism. 

O  mortal  race, 
Our  lesson  learn ; 
Each  has  his  turn 
And  time  and  place. 
Inscription  on  Tenor  Bell,  Colchester 
Town  Hall. 

England  expects  every  officer  and  man 
to  do  his  duty. 

Actual  words  of  Nelson's  signal, 
Oct.  26,  1805. 

DYING,  THE 

Truth  sits  upon  the  lips  of  dying  men. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Sohrab. 

But  she  was  journeying  to  the  land   of 
souls.  CAMPBELL. — Gertrude. 

The  slender  debt  to  Nature's  quickly  paid, 
Discharged,  perchance,  with  greater  ease 
than  made. 
F.  QUARLES. — Emblems,  Bk.  2,  13. 

Oh,  but  they  say  the  tongues  of  dying  men 
Enforce  attention,  like  deep  harmony. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  i. 

Sweet  peace  conduct  his  sweet  soul   to 

the  bosom 
Of  good  old  Abraham  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  i. 

And  may  there  be  no  moaning  of  the  bar, 
When  I  put  out  to  sea  ! 

TENNYSON. — Crossing  the  Bar. 

The  passing  of  the  sweetest  soul 
That  ever  looked  with  human  eyes. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  57. 


EAGERNESS 

My  soul's  in  arms  and  eager  for  the  fray. 

COLLEY  GIBBER. — Richard  III. 

(adaptation),  Act  5,  3. 

I  see  you  stand  like  greyhounds  in  the  slips, 
Straining  upon  the  start. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  3,  i. 


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EARLS 


EATING 


EARLS 

Earls  that  dated  from  early  years. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

EARLY  RISING 

Plough  deep,   while  sluggards  sleep, 
And  you  shall  have  corn  to  sell  or  keep. 
B.  FRANKLIN. — Poor  Richard. 

Cheerful   at   morn  he  wakes  from  short 

repose, 
Breathes  the  keen  air  and  carols  as  he 

goes.  GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

Oh !  timely  happy,  timely  wise, 
Hearts  that  with  rising  morn  arise ! 

KEBLE. — Morning. 

He  that  would  thrive 
Must  rise  by  five ; 
He  that  hath  thriven 
May  lie  till  seven. 
Prov.  quoted  in  this  form  by  Sir  W. 
Scott,  1807. 

They  that  rise  wi'  the  sun  hae  their 
work  weel  begun.  Scottish  prov. 

Wash  thy  face  in  morning  dew, 
Thus  thou  wilt  thy  health  renew. 

Old  saying. 

EARLY  TO  BED 

Would  you  have  a  settled  head, 
You  must  early  go  to  bed  ; 
I  tell  you,  and  I  tell  't  again, 
You  must  be  in  bed  at  ten. 
N.  CULPEPPER. — As  quoted  by  Swift  in 
Letter,  Jan.  19,  1710. 
EARTH 

Earth  fills  her  lap  with  pleasures  of  her 

own ;  .  .  . 

The  homely  Nurse  doth  all  she  can 
To  make  her  foster-child,  her  Inmate  Man, 

Forget  the  glories  he  hath  known 
And  that  imperial  palace  whence  he  came. 
WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality. 

Back  to  earth,  the  dear  green  earth. 
WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Prologue. 

Lean  not  on  Earth ;  'twill  pierce  thee  to 

the  heart ; 

A  broken  reed  at  best ;  but  oft  a  spear ; 
On  its  sharp  point  peace  bleeds  and  hope 

expires. 

YOUNG. — Night  ThougJits,  3. 

EARTHQUAKES 

The  exquisitely  polite  expression  of  a 
correspondent  of  the  English  Royal 
Society,  who  talks  of  "  the  earthquake 
that  had  the  honour  to  be  noticed  by  the 
Royal  Society." 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Essay  on  Irish 
Bulls,  ch.  2. 


EASE 

An  easy-minded  soul,  and  always  was. 

ARISTOPHANES. — Frogs,  82  (Frere  tr.). 

(Of  Sophocles.) 

Studious  of  laborious  ease. 

COWPER. — The  Garden. 

Like  a  coy  maiden,  Ease,  when  courted 

most, 
Farthest  retires.          COWPER. — The  Sofa. 

For  not  to  live  at  ease  is  not  to  live. 
DRYDEN. — Persius. 

Studious  of  ease,  and  fond  of  humble 
things.  A,  PHILIPS. — From  Holland. 

'Tis  as  easy  as  lying. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

To  the  latter  end  of  a  fray,  and  the  begin- 
ning of  a  feast, 

Fits  a  dull  fighter,  and  a  keen  guest. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  4. 

EAST,  THE 

Oh,  East  is  East,  and  West  is  West,  and 
never  the  twain  shall  meet, 

Till   earth   and   sky  stand   presently   at 
God's  great  judgment  seat. 
KIPLING. — Ballad  of  East  and  West. 

Ship  me  somewhere  east  of  Suez,  where 
the  best  is  like  the  worst, 

Where  there  aren't  no  Ten  Command- 
ments, an*  a  man  can  raise  a  thirst. 
KIPLING. — Mandalay. 

The  departure  of  the  wise  men  from  the 
East  seems  to  have  been  on  a  more  ex- 
tensive scale  than  is  generally  supposed, 
for  no  one  of  that  description  seems  to 
have  been  left  behind. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Sir.  W. 
Horton,  Jan.  15,  1835. 

EASTER 

When  Yule  comes,  dule  comes — 

Cauld  feet  and  legs  ; 
When  Pasch  comes,  grace  comes — 

Butter,  milk  and  eggs. 

Scottish  rhyme 

EATING 

Tell  me  what  you  eat,  and  I  will  tell 
you  what  you  are.  BRILLAT-SAVARIN  . 

You  ought  to  eat  to  live,  and  not  live 
to  eat.  CICERO. — Ad  Herrenium 

Man  is  what  he  eats.      L.  FEUERBACH. 

I  maun  confess  that  I  like  the  Englishers, 
if  they  wadna  be  sae  pernicketty  about 
what  they  eat. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes  (Ettrick  Shepherd). 


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ECCENTRICITY 


ECCLESIASTICS 


The  cattle  are  grazing, 
Their  heads  never  raising, 
There  are  forty  feeding  like  one. 

WORDSWORTH. — In  March. 


You 
chips. 


may   know   a   carpenter   by   his 
Suffolk  prov.  (Of  great  eaters}. 


ECCENTRICITY 

Some   deemed    him  wondrous   wise,    and 
some  believed  him  mad. 
BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  16. 

In  truth  he  was  a  strange  and  wayward 
wight.  BEATTIE. — Ib.,  i,  22. 

"  Eccentricities  of  genius,   Sam,"   said 
Mr.  Pickwick. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  30. 

Free  from  all  meaning,  whether  good  or 

bad, 
And,  in  one  word,  heroically  mad. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom,  413. 

Our  attitude's  queer  and  quaint ; 
You're  wrong  if  you  think  it  ain't. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

That  so  few  now  dare  to  be  eccentric 
marks  the  chief  danger  of  the  time. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  c.  3. 

Having  neither  the  accent  of  Christians, 

nor  the  gait  of  Christian,  pagan,  nor  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

ECCLESIASTICISM 

And  of  all  plagues  with  which  mankind 

are  curst, 
Ecclesiastic  tyranny's  the  worst. 

DEFOE. — True-Born  Englishman. 

I  like  a  church ;  I  like  a  cowl ; 

I  like  a  prophet  of  the  soul ; 

And  on  my  heart  monastic  aisles 

Fall  like  sweet  strains,  or  pensive  smiles  : 

Yet  not  for  all  his  faith  can  see, 

Would  I  that  cowled  churchman  be. 

EMERSON. — The  Problem. 

Help  us  to  save  free  conscience  from  the 

paw 
Of  hireling  wolves,  whose  gospel  is  their 

maw.  MILTON. — To  Cromwell. 

But  the  churchmen  fain  would  kill  their 

church, 

As  the  churches  have  killed  their  Christ. 
TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  2,  5,  2. 

ECCLESIASTICS 

The  eagle  never  lost  so  much  time  as 

when  he  submitted  to  learn  of  the  crow. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 


Mothers,  wives,  and  maids, 
These    be    the    tools    wherewith    priests 

manage  men. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  4,  503. 

Cleric  before  and  Lay  behind  ; 
A  lawless  linsey-woolsey  brother, 
Half  of  one  order,  half  another. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

That  pride  to  pampered  priesthood  dear. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  44. 

Ful  swetely  herde  he  confession, 
And  plesant  was  his  absolution. 
CHAUCER. — Canterbury  Tales,  Prol.  221. 

Oh  laugh  or  mourn  with  me  the   rueful 

jest, 
A   cassocked   huntsman,    and   a   fiddling 

priest ! 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  no. 

"  A  clergyman,  lad,"  he  used  to  say 
to  me,  "  should  feel  in  himself  a  bit  of 
every  class." 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such, 
Looking  Backward. 

The  black  earthly  spirit  of  the  priest 
wounded  my  life. 

GEO.  Fox. — His  Mission. 

I  may  attribute  all  changes  of  religion 
in  the  world  to  one  and  the  same  cause, 
and  that  is,  unpleasing  priests  ;  and  those 
not  only  among  the  Catholics  but  even  in 
that  Church  that  hath  presumed  most  of 
reformation.  HOBBES. — Leviathan,  i,  c.  12. 

New  Presbyter  is  but  Old  Priest  writ  large. 
MILTON. — New  Forcers  of  Conscience. 

Such  as  for  their  bellies'  sake 
Creep,  and  intrude,  and  climb  into   the 

fold. 

Of  other  care  they  little  reckoning  make, 
Than  how  to  scramble  at  the  shearers' 

feast.  MILTON. — Lycidas,  114. 

Blind    mouths !    that    scarce    themselves 

know  how  to  hold 
A  sheep-hook,  or  have  learned  aught  else 

the  least 

That  to  the  faithful  herdman's  art  belongs  ! 
MILTON. — Ib.,  119. 

The  hungry  sheep  look  up  and  are  not 

fed, 
But  swollen  with  wind,  and  the  rank  mist 

they  draw, 

Rot  inwardly,  and  foul  contagion  spread. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  125. 

But   first    among   the  priests  dissension 

springs — 

Men  who  attend  the  altar  and  should  most 
Endeavour  peace. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  12,  353. 


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ECONOMY 


EDUCATION 


Clericalism  !     That  is  our  enemy  ! 
ALPHONSE  PEYRAT. — Speech,   1859. 

A  wealthy  priest,  but  rich  without  a 
fault.  POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  5,  16. 

So  the  priests  hated  him,  and  he 
Repaid  their  hate  with  cheerful  glee. 
SHELLEY. — Rosalind . 

A  little,  round,  fat,  oily  man  of  God. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence. 

Woe  to  the  Crown  that  doth  the  Cowl 

obey ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  i,  29. 

If  I  were  a  Cassowary 

On  the  plains  of  Timbuctoo, 
I  would  eat  a  missionary, 
Coat  and  bands  and  hymn-book  too. 
Attrib.  to  Bishop  Wilberforce  (1805-1873). 

ECONOMY 

Frugality    is    the    science    of    avoiding 

unnecessary  expenditure,   or    the    art    of 

managing  our  property  with  moderation. 

SENECA. — De  Beneficiis,  Bk.  2,  34. 

ECSTASY 

His  voice  grew  faint  and  fixed  was  his  eye, 
As  if  gazing  on  visions  of  ecstasy  : 
The  hue  of  his  cheeks  and  lips  decayed ; 
Around  his  mouth  a  sweet  smile  played. 
EDMESTON. — Which  is  the  happiest  death 

to  die  ? 

The  young  men  well  nigh  wept,  and  e'en 

the  wise 
Thought  they  had  reached  the  gate  of 

Paradise. 

WM.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  13,  51. 

EDIFICATION 

Whoe'er  was  edified,  themselves  were  not. 
COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

EDITORS 

The  dull  duty  of  an  editor. 

POPE. — Pref.  to  Shakespeare. 

Ah  me  !  we  wound  where  we  never  in- 
tended to  strike ;  we  create  anger  where 
we  never  meant  harm  ;  and  these  thoughts 
are  the  thorns  in  our  Cushion. 

THACKERAY. — Thorn  in  the  Cushion. 

EDUCATION 

Lord,  they'd   have    taught   me    Latin   in 
pure  waste  !      BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo. 

There's  a  new  tribunal  now, 
Higher  than  God's — the  educated  man's. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book, 
10,  1976 


The  languages,  especially  the  dead, 
The  sciences,  and  most  of  all  the  ab- 
struse, 

The  arts,  at  least  all  such  as  could  be  said 
To  be  the  most  remote  from  common 

use, 

In   all   these  she  was  much   and  deeply 
read.     BYRON. — Don  Juan,  i,  40. 

A  Burns  is  infinitely  better  educated 
than  a  Byron.  CARLYLE. — Note  Book. 

What  greater  or  better  gift  to  the  state 
than  to  train  up  youth  ? 

CICERO. — De  Divinatione. 

Better  build  schoolrooms  for  "  the  boy," 
Than  cells  and  gibbets  for  "  the  man." 
ELIZA  COOK. — Ragged  Schools. 

A  teacher  should  be  sparing  of  his  smile. 
COWPER. — Charity. 

With  culture  spoil  what  else  would  flourish 

wild, 
And  rock  the  cradle  till  they  bruise  the 

child. 
GEO.  Cox. — Black  Gowns  and  Red  Coats. 

Women,  in  my  observation,  have  little 
or  no  difference  in  them,  but  as  they  are 
or  are  not  distinguished  by  education. 

DEFOE.— -Of  Academies. 

A  smattering  of  everything  and  a 
knowledge  of  nothing. 

DICKENS. — Sketches  by  Boz. 

The  foundation  of  every  state  is  the 
education  of  its  youth. 

DIOGENES  (According  to  Stobcsus). 

By   education    most   have    been   misled ; 
So    they   believe   because    they   so   were 

bred. 

The  priest  continues  what  the  nurse  began, 

And  thus  the  child  imposes  on  the  man. 

DRYDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther, 

Pt.  3,  389. 

When  want  of  learning  kept  the  laymen 

low, 
And  none  but  priests  were  authorised  to 

know; 
When  what  small  knowledge  was,  in  them 

did  dwell ; 
And  he  a  god,  who  could  but  read  and 

spell.  DRYDEN. — Religio  Laici. 

That's  a  bad  sort  of  eddication  as 
makes  folks  unreasonable. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Amos  Barton. 

It  is   this   wise  mixture  of  good  drill 

in    Latin    grammar    with    good    drill    in 

cricket,    boating,    and   wrestling,    that   is 

the  boast  of  English  education,   and  of 

high  importance  to  the  matter  in  hand. 

EMERSON. — Eloquence  (Letters 

and  Social  Aims). 


EDUCATION 


EFFORT 


Regular   education    is   unfavourable   to 
vigour  or  originality  of  understanding. 
LORD  JEFFREY. — Edin.  Review,  1806. 

Well  may  the  bairn  blesse  that  hym  to 
book  sette. 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman. 

A  general  State  education  is  a  mere 
contrivance  for  moulding  people  to  be 
exactly  like  one  another. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  5. 

What  then  is  education  ?  .  .  .  Surely 
gymnastics  for  the  body  and  music  [i.e., 
1  iterature  and  the  arts]  for  the  mind. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  2,  16. 

The  richest  soil,  if  uncultivated,  pro- 
duces the  rankest  weeds. 

PLUTARCH. — Coriolanus. 

Tis  education  forms  the  common  mind  ; 
Just  as  the  twig  is  bent,  the  tree's  inclined. 
POPE.— Ep.  i. 

What  is  the  most  useful  rule  of  all 
education  ?  Not  to  gain  time,  but  to  lose 
it.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

The  education  of  children  is  a  business 
where  one  must  know  how  to  lose  time 
in  order  to  gainjt.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

The    great    secret    of    education    is    to 

secure  that  bodily  and  mental  exercises 

shall  always  serve  to  relax  one  another. 

ROUSSEAU  — Ib. 

The  book  which,  to  my  thinking,  is 
the  happiest  treatise  on  natural  education 
is  "  Robinson  Crusoe."  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

Children  should  be  kept  from  all  kinds 
of  instruction  that  may  make  errors 
possible,  until  their  sixteenth  year — that 
is  to  say  from  philosophy,  religion,  and 
general  views  of  all  sorts. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Education. 

Thou  hast  most  traitorously  corrupted 
the    youth    of    the   realm    in    erecting    a 
grammar  school. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  z,  Act  4,  7. 

To  be  a  well-favoured  man  is  the  gift 
of  fortune ;  but  to  write  and  read  comes 
by  nature. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  3. 

Education  has  for  its  object  the  forma- 
tion of  character. 

H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  PI.  2, 
ch.  17,  sec.  4. 

An  educated   villain  has  all  the  more 

tools  at  command  with  which  to  do  evil. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON.— "  Salt-Cellars." 


The  clothing  of  our  minds  certainly 
ought  to  be  regarded  before  that  of  our 
bodies.  SIR  R.  STEELE. — Spectator,  75. 

Delightful  task !  to  rear  the  tender  thought, 
To  teach  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot ; 
To  pour  the  fresh  instruction  o'er  the  mind  ! 
THOMSON. — Seasons,  Spring. 

The  vices  of  the  mind  may  be  corrected, 
but  when  the  heart  is  bad,  nothing  can 
change  it.  VOLTAIRE. — Chariot. 

Educate  men  without  religion  and  you 
make  them  but  clever  devils. 

DUKE  OF  WELLINGTON. — Saying 
(attributed). 

Satan  keeps  school  for  neglected 
children. 

Quoted  as  a  saying  in  C.  H.  Spurgeon's 
"  Salt-Cellars." 

Education  is  a  possession  which  cannot 
be  taken  away  from  men.  Greek  saying. 

High  learnt  niggers  ain't  much  use  at 
rolling  logs.  Negro  prov. 

EFFEMINACY 

None  but  those  whose  courage  is  un- 
questionable, can  afford  to  be  effeminate, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Pelham,  ch.  44. 

To  waste  undangered,  on  his  mother's  arm 

Youth  without  glory. 

PINDAR. — Pythian  Odes,  4,  327  (Moore  tr.) 

Elegance  is  not  a  manly  ornament. 

SENECA. — Ep.  115. 

EFFICIENCY 

And  skill's  a  joy  to  any  man. 
J.  MASEFIELD. — Everlasting  Mercy,  600. 

There  are  only  two  qualities  in  this 
world :  efficiency  and  inefficiency ;  and 
only  two  sorts  of  people  :  the  efficient  and 
the.  inefficient. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — John  Bull's  Other 
Island,  Act  4. 

EFFORT 

For  not  on  downy  plumes,  nor  under  shade 
Of  canopy  reposing,  fame  is  won. 
DANTE. — Inferno  (tr.  H.  F.  Gary),  c.  24, 46. 

The  sum  of  wisdom  is  that   the  time 

is   never   lost    that   is   devoted   to   work. 

EMERSON. — Success. 

Think  not  of  rest ;    though  dreams  be 

sweet, 

Start  up,  and  ply  your  heavenward  feet. 

KEBLE. — Christian  Year,  Second 

Sunday  in  Advent. 


1 46 


EGOTISM 


ELOQUENCE 


Draw    nigh,    my   friends     and    let    your 

thoughts  be  high  ; 
Great  hearts  are  glad  when  it  is  time  to 

give; 

Life  is  not  life  to  him  that  dares  not  die, 
And  death  not  death  to  him  that  dares 
to  live.  SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. 

After  a  bad  crop  you  should  sow. 

SENECA. 

If  you  can't  be  a  lighthouse  you  can  be 
a  night-light. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — John  Ploughman. 

There  is  nothing  which  has  not  been 
bitter  before  being  ripe.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

We  must  so  strive  that  each  man  may 
regard  himself  as  the  chief  cause  of  the 
victory.  XENOPHON. 

Wherever  nature  does  least,  man  does 
most.  American  saying. 

It  is  easy  to  open  a  shop  but  hard  to 
keep  it  open.  Chinese  prov. 

Put  a  stout  heart  to  a  stey  brae  [a  steep 
hill].  Scottish  prov. 

You  cannot  do  anything  by  doing 
nothing.  Prov. 

What  you  will  have,  quoth  God,  pay  for 
it  and  take  it. 

Quoted  as  a  prov.  by  Emerson. 

EGOTISM 

It  is  absurd  for  a  man  either  to  commend 
or  to  disparage  himself. 

CATO  (According  to  Plutarch) . 

The  surest  way  to  be  cheated  is  to  think 
oneself  cleverer  than  other  people. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  127. 

You  never  say  a  word  of  yourself,  dear 
Lady  Grey.  You  have  that  dreadful  sin 
of  anti-egotism. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Countess  Grey, 
Nov.  29,  1840. 

Yet  ego: ism  is  good  talk.  Even  dull 
biographies  are  pleasant  to  read  ;  and  if 
to  read,  why  not  to  hear  ? 

THACKERAY. — Adventures  of  Philip. 

A  reasoning,  self-sufficing  thing, 
An  intellectual  All-in-all. 

WORDSWORTH. — A  Poet's  Epitaph. 

ELECTIONS,  PARLIAMENTARY 

The  'sacrifice  septennial,  when  the  sons 
Of  England  meet,  with  watchful  care  to 

choose 

Their  delegates,  wise,  independent  men, 
Unbribing  and  unbribed. 

SOUTHEY. — Maid  of  Orleans,  Bk.  2. 


ELECTRICITY 

Knowledge  hath  clipped  the  lightning's 
wings,  and  mewed  it  up  for  a  purpose. 

M.  F.  TUPPER. — Of  Hidden  Uses. 

ELEVATION  (OF  CHARACTER) 

As  some  tall  cliff,  that  lifts  its  awful  form, 
Swells  from  the  vale,  and  midway  leaves 

the  storm, 
Though  round  its  breast  the  rolling  clouds 

are  spread, 
Eternal  sunshine  settles  on  its  head. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

There  are  in  this  loud  stunning  tide 
Of  human  care  and  crime, 

With  whom  the  melodies  abide 
Of  the  everlasting  chime  : 
Who  carry  music  in  their  heart 
Through  dusky  lane  and  wrangling  mart, 
Plying  their  daily  task  with  busier  feet, 
Because  their  secret  souls  a  holy  strain 
repeat.       KEBLE. — Christian  Year. 

ELIZABETHAN  AGE 

The  spacious  times  of  great  Elizabeth. 
TENNYSON. — Dream  of  Fair  Women  . 

ELOCUTION 

He  mouths  a  sentence  as  curs  mouth  a 
bone.  CHURCHILL. — Rosciad,  V.  322. 

He  would  drown  the  stage  with  tears, 

And  cleave  the  general  ear  with  horrid 
speech  ; 

Make  mad  the  guilty,  and  appal  the  free  ; 

Confound  the  ignorant ;    and  amaze,  in- 
deed, 

The  very  faculties  of  eyes  and  ears. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Speak  the  speech,  I  pray  you,  as  I  pro- 
nounced it  to  you,  trippingly  on  the 
tongue  :  but  if  you  mouth  it,  as  many  of 
your  players  do,  I  had  as  lief  the  town 
crier  spoke  my  lines. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

Nor  do  not  saw  the  air  too  much  with 
your  hand,  thus  ;  but  use  all  gently. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib, 

ELOQUENCE 

Such  is  sweet  eloquence,  that  does  dispe 
Envy  and  Hate,  that  thirst  for  human  gore ; 
And  cause  in  sweet  society  to  dwell 
Vile  savage  minds   that  lurk  in  lonely 
cell. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Imitation  of  Spenser. 

See  how  your  words  come  from  you  in  a 
crowd  ! 
BROWNING. — Soul's  Tragedy,   Act  i. 

Eloquence  may  exist  without  a  propor- 
tionable degree  of  wisdom. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolution. 


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ELOQUENCE 


ELOQUENCE 


None  knew,  nor  how,  nor  why,  but  he  en- 
twined 

Himself  perforce  around  the  hearer's  mind. 
BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  st.  19. 

And   of   thy   tonge    the   infinit    gracious- 
nesse.  CHAUCER. — Hypsipyle. 

I  myself  have  heard  a  common  black- 
smith eloquent,  when  welding  of  iron  has 
been  the  theme.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

In  addressing  the  multitude  we  must  re- 
member to  follow  the  advice  that  Cromwell 
gave  his  soldiers,  "  Fire  low."  This  is  the 
great  art  of  the  Methodists.  If  our  elo- 
quence is  directed  above  the  heads  of  our 
hearers  we  shall  do  no  execution. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — 76. 

Though  deep,  yet  clear ;    though  gentle, 

yet  not  dull ; 
Strong  without  rage,  without  o'erflowing 

full.     SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Cooper's  Hill. 

Such  was  his  force  of  eloquence,  to  make 
The  hearers  more  concerned  than  he  that 

spake  ; 
Each  seemed  to  act  the  part  he  came  to 

see, 

And  none  was  more  a  looker-on  than  he. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Lord  Stafford's  Trial. 

I  grew  intoxicated  with  my  own  elo- 
quence. 

DISRAELI. — Contarini  Fleming,  c.  7. 

The  subtlest  tempter  has  the  smoothest 

style  ; 
Sirens    sing   sweetest    when    they    would 

betray. 
DRAYTON. — England's  Heroical  Epistles. 

Eloquence  is  the  power  to  translate 
a  truth  into  language  perfectly  intelligible 
to  the  person  to  whom  you  speak. 

EMERSON. — Eloquence  (Letters 
and  Social  Aims). 

One  of  our  statesmen  said,  "  The  curse 

of  this  country  [America]  is  eloquent  men." 

EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

On  his  lips  persuasion  hung, 
And  powerful  reason  ruled  his  tongue : 
Thus  he  alone  could  boast  the  art 
To  charm  at  once  and  sting  the  heart. 
EUPOLIS. — In   praise    of   Pericles 
(quoted  by  Cicero). 

The    applause    of   listening    senates    to 
command.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

Thoughts   that  breathe   and  words   that 
burn. 

GRAY. — Progress  of  Poesy,  3,  no. 


His  hearers  could  not  cough  or  look 
aside  from  him  without  loss.  .  .  .  The 
fear  of  every  man  that  heard  him  was 
lest  he  should  make  an  end. 

BEN  JONSON. — On  Bacon 

What  pity  'tis,  one  that  can  speak  so  well. 
Should,  in  his  actions,  be  so  ill. 
MASSINGER. — Parliament  of  Love,  Act  3,  3. 

For  eloquence  the  soul,  song  charms  the 
sense. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  556. 

The  remark  is  just — but  then  you  have 

not  been  under  the  wand  of  the  magician. 

WM.  PITT. — On  Fox's  Eloquence. 

Luxuriancy  and  pomp  of  style  cheat 
the  ear,  and  disguise  the  weakness  and 
invalidity  of  an  argument. 

PLUTARCH. — Of  Hearing. 

He  ceased  ;  but  left  so  charming  on  their 

ear 
His  voice,  that  listening  still  they  seemed 

to  hear. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  n,  414. 

It  is  the  heart  which  makes  men 
eloquent.  QUINTILIAN,  10,  7. 

It  is  the  province  of  a  good  man  firstly 
to  think  well,  so  that  he  may  live  rightly 
for  himself ;  and  next  to  speak  well,  so 
that  he  may  live  for  his  country. 

J.  C.  SCALIGER. — De  Plantis,  Bk.  i. 

When    things    have     taken    thorough 

possession  of  the  mind,  words  are  plentiful. 

SENECA. — Controvers.,  3,  Prem. 

But  for  your  words,  they  rob  the  Hybla 

bees, 

And  leave  them  honeyless. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccssar,  Act  5,  i. 

To  make  the  weeper  laugh,  the  laugher 

weep, 

He  had  the  dialect  and  different  skill. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lover's  Complaint,  si.  18. 

Runs  not  this  speech  like  iron  through 
your  blood  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  i. 

All  that  is  spoke  is  marred. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Qthello,  Act  5,   2. 

Was  never  eye  did  see  that  face, 

Was  never  ear  did  hear  that  tongue, 

Was  never  mind  did  mind  his  grace 
That    ever    thought    the    travail    long. 
SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Friend's  Passion. 

Balaam's  ass  spoke  well  once,  but 
it  never  tried  it  again.  Altogether  it 
differed  greatly  from  its  brethren. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON.— "  Salt-Cellars.', 


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EMPLOYERS 


Eloquence  is  the  mistress  of  all  the 
arts.  TACITUS. — De  Orator  ibus. 

A  full-celled  honeycomb  of  eloquence, 
Stored    from    all    flowers.     Poet-like    he 
spoke.     TENNYSON. — Edwin    Morris. 

Choice  word,  and  measured  phrase,  above 

the  reach 
Of  ordinary  men.     A  stately  speech. 

WORDSWORTH. — Resolution  and  Inde- 
pendence. 

ELYSIUM 

And  oh  !  if  there  be  an  elysium  on  earth, 
It  is  this,  it  is  this. 
T.  MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh,  Fire  Wor- 
shippers, Prol.  2. 

EMBRACE 

Imparadised  in  one  another's  arms 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  50(1 

EMINENCE 

He  above  the  rest 

In  shape  and  gesture  proudly  eminent, 
Stood   like   a   tower ;   his   form   had  not 

yet  lost 

All  her  original  brightness,  nor  appeared 
Less  than  archangel  ruined,  and  the  excess 
Of  glory  obscured. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  580 . 

Satan  exalted  sat,  by  merit  raised 
To  that  bad  eminence. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  5. 

The  choice  and  master  spirits  of  this  age. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  i. 

I  have  somewhere  heard  it  is  a  maxim 
that  those  to  whom  everybody  allows 
the  second  place,  have  an  undoubted  title 
to  the  first. 

SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub,  Booksellers' 
Dedication. 

Censure  is  the  tax  a  man  pays  to  the 
public  for  being  eminent. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects 

EMOTION 

And  when  the  little  heart  is  big,  a  little 
"  sets  it  off." 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Misadventures   al 
Margate. 

Nature  has  cast  me  in  so  soft  a  mould, 
That  but  to  hear  a  story  feigned  for 

pleasure, 
Of  some  sad  lover's  death,  moistens  my 

eyes, 
And  robs  me  of  my  manhood. 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  4,   i. 


Thrice  he  assayed,  and  thrice,  in  spite  of 

scorn, 
Tears,  such  as  angels  weep,  burst  forth. 

At  last 
Words   interwove   with   sighs   found   out 

their  way. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  613. 

And  let  me  wring  your  heart :  for  so  I 

shall, 
If  it  be  made  of  penetrable  stuff. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

I  had  to  swallow  suddenly,  or  my  heart 
would  have  got  out. 
MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  at  Home,  ch.  33. 

Dull  would  he  be  of  soul  who  could  pass  by 
A  sight  so  touching  in  its  majesty. 

WORDSWORTH. — On  Westminster  Bridge. 

EMPIRE 

Far  as  the  breeze  can  bear,  the  billows 

foam, 

Survey  our  empire,  and  behold  our  home  ! 
BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  st.  i. 

Learn  to  think  imperially. 
JOSEPH  CHAMBERLAIN. — Speech,  1904. 

AU    empire   is    no  more   than    power   in 
trust. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pt.  i,  411. 

An  empire  is  an  immense  egotism. 

EMERSON. — The  Young  American 
(1844). 

Learn  to  think  continentally. 

ALEX.  HAMILTON. 

To  them  no  bounds  of  Empire  I  assign, 

Nor  term  of  years  to  their  immortal  line. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  i  (Dryderi). 

O  weakness  of  the  Great !  O  folly  of  the 

Wise! 
Where  now  the  haughty  Empire  that  was 

spread 
With  such  fond  hope  ?     Her  very  speech 

is  dead. 

WORDSWORTH. — Pillar  of  Trajan  (of  the 
Roman  Empire). 

The    sun    never    sets    on    the    Spanish 
dominions. 

Spanish  saying  quoted  by  Capt.  John 
Smith  (1579-1631)  and  others. 

EMPLOYERS  AND  SERVANTS 

If  they  have  a  bad  master,  they  keep 

quarrelling  with  him  ;  if  they  have  a  good 

master,   they  keep   quarrelling  with  one 

another. 

GOLDSMITH. — Good-Natured  Man,  Act  i. 


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ENDEAVOUR 


Nothing  is  so  certain  as  that  the  vices 
of  leisure  are  dispersed  by  occupation. 

SENECA. — Epist.,  56. 

The  hand  of  little  employment  hath  the 
daintier  sense. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,    Act  5,  i. 

EMPTINESS 

A  beggarly  account  of  empty  boxes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  5,  i. 

EMPTY-MINDEDNESS 

Minds  that  have  nothing  to  confer 
Find  little  to  perceive. 

WORDSWORTH. — Yes,  thou  art  fair. 

EMULATION 

Envy,  to  which  the  ignoble  mind's  a  slave, 
Is  emulation  in  the  learn'd  or  brave. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  igi. 

Emulation  is  the  whetstone  of  wits. 

Latin  prov. 

ENCHANTMENT 

'Tis  wandering  on  enchanted  ground 
With  dizzy  brow  and  tottering  feet. 

KEBLE. — 4th  Sun.  in  Advent. 

Enter  these  enchanted  woods, 
You  who  dare. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — The  Woods  of 
Wester  main,  i. 

EN  COURAGEMENT 

Not  only  hear,  but  patronise,  befriend 
them, 

And  where  ye  justly  can  commend,  com- 
mend them ; 

And  aiblins  when  they  winna  stand  the 
test, 

Wink  hard  and  say  the  folks  hae  done 
their  best !  BURNS. — Prologue. 

Ye  fearful  saints,  fresh  courage  take, 
The  clouds  ye  so  much  dread 

Are  big  with  mercy,  and  shall  break 
In  blessings  on  your  head. 

COWPER. — Hymn. 

In  this  country  [England]  it  is  considered 
a  good  thing  to'  kill  an  admiral  now  and 
then,  to  encourage  the  others. 

VOLTAIRE. — Candide  (referring  to  the 
execution  of  Admiral  Byng). 

Fight  on,  my  men,  Sir  Andrew  said, 
A  little  I'm  hurt,  but  yet  not  slain  ; 

I'll  but  lie  down  and  bleed  awhile, 
And  then  I'll  rise  and  fight  again. 

Sir  Andrew  Barton  (i6th  Century). 


ENCROACHMENTS 

The  law  doth  punish  man  or  woman, 
That  steals  the  goose  from  off  the  common, 
But  lets  the  greater  felon  loose 
Who  steals  the  common  from  the  goose. 

Anon. 

ENDEAVOUR 

For  the  cause  that  lacks  assistance, 
The  wrong  that  needs  resistance, 
For  the  future  in  the  distance 

And  the  good  that  I  can  do. 
G.  LINN.IEUS  BANKS. — What  7  live  for. 

I  will  not  cease  from  mental  fight, 
Nor  shall  my  sword  sleep  in  my  hand 
Till  we  have  built  Jerusalem 
In  England's  green  and  pleasant  land. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Milton. 

Our  best  is  bad,  nor  bears  Thy  test ; 
Still,  it  should  be  our  very  best. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve. 

Life  is  probation,  and  the  earth  no  goal, 
But  starting-point  of  man. 

BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book, 
10,  1436. 

When     human     power    and    failure    are 

equalised  for  ever, 
And  the  great  Light  that  haloes  all  is  the 

passionate  bright  endeavour. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — David  in  Heaven. 

Wha  does  the  utmost  that  he  can, 
Will  whiles  do  mair. 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  Dr.  Blacklock. 

Fail  not  for  sorrow,  falter  not  for  sin, 
But  onward,  upward,  till  the  goal  ye  win  ! 
FRANCES  A.  BUTLER. 

The  lyf  so  short,  the  craft  so  long  to  lerne, 

Th'  assay  so  hard,  so  sharp  the  conquering. 

CHAUCER. — Parliament  of  Fowls,  v.  i. 

My  creed  is,  he  is  safe  that  does  his  best, 

And  death's  a  doom  sufficient  for  the  rest. 

COWPER. — Hope,  397. 

He  shoots   higher,   that   threatens   the 
moon,  than  he  that  aims  at  a  tree. 
GEO.  HERBERT. — Priest  to  the  Temple. 

And  sure  th'  Eternal  Master  found 
The  single  talent  well  employed. 

JOHNSON. — On  R.  Levett. 

Be  good,  sweet  maid,  and  let  who  can  be 

clever ; 
Do  lovely  things,  not  dream  them,  all 

day  long  ; 
And  so  make  Life,  and  Death,  and  that 

For  Ever, 
One  grand  sweet  song. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Farewell. 


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ENDEAVOUR 


ENDINGS 


Attempt   the   end,    and   never   stand    to 

doubt ; 
Nothing's  so  hard  but  search  will  find  it 

out.      R.  LOVELACE. — Seek  and  Find. 

In  the  lexicon  of  youth,  which  fate  reserves 
For  a  bright  manhood,  there  is  no  such 

word 
As  —fail. 

EDWARD  ist  LORD  LYTTON. — Richelieu. 

Hard  things  are  compassed  oft  by  easy 
means. 

MASSINGER. — New  Way  to  Pay  Old 
Debts,  Act  5,  i. 

There   are   giants   to   slay  and    they  call 
for  their  Jack. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Empty  Purse, 

The  virtue  lies 

In  the  struggle,  not  the  prize. 
R.  M.  MILNES  (LORD  HOUGHTON). 
—World  to  the  Soul. 

To  do  your  best  is  to  be  one  man  picked 
out  of  a  thousand.       EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

Let  fowk  bide  weel  and  strive  to  do  their 

best ; 
Nae  mair's  required — let  Heaven  make  out 

the  rest. 
A.  RAMSAY. — Gentle  Shepherd,  Act  i,  2. 

We  always  succeed  when  we  only  wish 
to  do  well.  ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

We  fail! 
But  screw  your  courage  to  the  sticking- 

place, 
And  we'll  not  fail. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

This  thing  is  God  ; 
To  be  man  with  thy  might, 
To  go  straight  in  the  strength  of  thy  spirit 
and  live  out  thy  life  in  the  light. 

SWINBURNE. 

So  many  worlds,  so  much  to  do, 
So  little  done,  such  things  to  be. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  73. 

Who  is  the  happy  Warrior  ?  Who  is  he 
That  every  man  in  arms  should  wish  to  be  ? 
It  is  the  generous  Spirit,  who,  when 

brought 

Among  the  tasks  of  real  life,  hath  wrought 
Upon  the  plan  that  pleased  his  boyish 

thought ; 
Whose   high   endeavours   are   an   inward 

light 
That  makes  the  path  before  him  always 

bright ; 

Who,  with  a  natural  instinct  to  discern 
What  knowledge  can  perform,  is  diligent 

to  learn. 

WORDSWORTH. — Character  of  the 
Happy  Warrior. 


Yet  a  rich  guerdon  waits  on  minds  that 

dare, 
If  aught  be  in  them  of  immortal  seed. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets,  PL  2,  No.  4. 

On  him  and  on  his  high  endeavour 
The  light  of  praise  shall  shine  for  ever. 
WORDSWORTH. — White  Doe  of 
Rylstone,  c.  5. 

Who  does  the  best  his  circumstance  allows, 

Does  well,   acts  nobly ;   angels  could  no 

more.        YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

Do  the  likeliest  and  God  will  do  the 
best.  Prov.  (Scottish). 

ENDINGS 

There  is  an  endless  merit  in  a  man's 
knowing  when  to  have  done. 

CARLYLE. — Francia  (1843). 

Som  tyme  an  ende  ther  is  of  every  dede. 
CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale. 

Off  with  his  head !  so  much  for  Bucking- 
ham. 

C.  GIBBER. — Richard  III.  (Adapted), 
Act  4,  3. 

The  bud  may  have  a  bitter  taste, 
But  sweet  will  be  the  flower. 
COWPER. — Olney  Hymns,  Bk.  3,  15. 

"  That's  ray  ther  a  sudden  pull  up,  ain't 
it,  Sammy  ?  "  enquired  Mr.  Weller. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  33. 

For  though  the  day  be  never  so  longe, 
At  last  the  belles  ringeth  to  evensonge. 
STEPHEN  HAWES. — Pastime  cf  Pleasure. 

The  first  act's  doubtful,  but  we  say 
It  is  the  last  commends  the  play. 

R.  HERRICK. — Hesperides,  225. 

But  Scripture  saith,  an  ending  of  all  fine 
things  must  be. 
C.  KINGSLEY. — Last  Buccaneer,  st.  6. 

The  end  of  a  good  thing  is  an  evil ; 

the  end  of  an  evil  thing  is  a  good  thing 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  598. 

Time  is  pur  tedious  song  should  here  have 
ending.      MILTON. — Christmas  Hymn. 

May  the  gods  grant  that  this  may  be 
the  highest  point  of  your  glory ! 

OVID. — Heroides. 

It  is  much  easier  to  begin  than  to  finish. 
PLAUTUS. — Paenulus. 

The  last  of  all  the  Romans,  fare  thee  well. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  5,  3. 

He  makes  a  swan-like  end, 
Fading  in  music. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 


ENDURANCE 


ENDURANCE 


Jack  shall  have  Jill, 
Nought  shall  go  ill, 
The  man  shall  have  his  mare  again,  and 

all  shall  be  well. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  3,  2. 

O  most  lame  and  impotent  conclusion ! 
SHAKESPEARE.— -Othello,  Act  2,  i. 

The  end  crowns  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  4,  5. 

Journeys  end  in  lovers'  meeting. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  3. 

Then  lullaby,  the  learned  man  hath  got 

the  lady  gay ; 
For  now  my  song  is  ended. 

Attrib.  to  SHAKESPEARE. — Passionate 
Pilgrim,  st.  14. 

And,  oh,  how  short  are  human  schemes  ! 
Here  ended  all  our  golden  dreams. 

SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

There  seems  to  be  no  part  of  knowledge 
in  fewer  hands  than  that  of  discerning 
when  to  be  done.  SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub. 

From  too  much  love  of  living, 

From  hope  and  fear  set  free, 
We  thank  with  brief  thanksgiving 

Whatever  gods  may  be, 
That  no  life  lives  for  ever ; 
That  dead  men  rise  up  never ; 
That  even  the  weariest  river 

Winds  somewhere  safe  to  sea. 

SWINBURNE. — Garden  of  Proserpine. 

The  end  is  come  of  pleasant  places, 

The  end  of  tender  words  and  faces, 

The  end  of  all,  the  poppied  sleep. 

SWINBURNE. — Ilicet. 

Yet  a  few  chapters  more,  and  then  the 

last :    after    which,    behold    Finis    itself 

comes  to  an  end,  and  the  Infinite  begun. 

THACKERAY. — De  Finibus. 

At  sunset  the  shadows  are  twice  as  long. 
VIRGIL. — Eclogue,  3. 

Whatsoever  thou  takest  in  hand,  remem- 
ber the  end,  and  thou  shalt  never  do  amiss. 
Ecclesiasticus  vii,  36. 

We  bring  our  years  to  an  end,  as  it  were 
a  tale  that  is  told.  Church  Psalter  xc,  9. 

Be  the  day  weary,  be  the  day  long, 
At  length  it  ringeth  to  evensong. 

Old  Saying. 

It's  ill  halting  when  the  race  is  doun  the 
brae.  Scottish  prov. 

ENDURANCE 

Whatever  happens,  either  you  have 
strength  to  bear  it  or  you  have  not.  If 


you  have,  exert  your  strength  and  do  not 
murmur.  If  otherwise  do  not  complain. 
The  weight  will  crush  you  and  then  destroy 
itself.  MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  10,  3. 

To  bear  is  to  conquer  our  fate. 

CAMPBELL. — -On  visiting  Argyleshire. 

Wait,  nor  against  the  half-learned  lesson 

fret, 

Nor  chide  at  old  belief  as  if  it  erred, 
Because  thou  canst  not  reconcile  as  yet 
The  Worker  and  the  Word. 

JEAN  INGELOW. — Honours,  z,  st.  56. 

But   bear   to-day   whate'er  To-day   may 

bring ; 

'Tis  the  one  way  to  make  To-morrow  sing. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — In  her  Diary. 

Sorrow  and  silence  are  strong,  and  patient 

endurance  is  godlike. 
LONGFELLOW. — Evangeline,  Pt.  2,  c.  i,  60. 

Know  how  sublime  a  thing  it  is 
To  suffer  and  be  strong. 

LONGFELLOW. — Light  of  Stars. 

Who  best 

Can  suffer,  best  can  do. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  3,  194. 

So  sung  he  joyously,  nor  knew  that  they 
Must  wander  yet  for  many  an  evil  day 
Or  ever  the  dread  gods  should  let  them 

come 
Back  to  the  white  walls  of  their  long-left 

home.  W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  g,  330. 

One  should  try  not  to  be  distressed  about 
anything,  and  to  take  all  that  happens  as 
for  the  best.  I  believe  this  to  be  a  duty, 
and  that  not  to  fulfil  it.  is  a  sin. 

PASCAL. — Pensees. 

He  smarteth  most  who  hides  his  smart, 
And  sues  for  no  compassion. 

SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Silent  Lover. 

Makes  us  rather  bear  those  ills  we  have 
Than  fly  to  others,  that  we  know  not  of. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

For  sufferance  is  the  badge  of  all  our  tribe. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Mcrcliant  of  Venice, 

Act  i,  3. 

He's  truly  valiant  that  can  wisely  suffer 
The  worst  that  man  can  breathe. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  3,  5. 

To  love,   and  bear ;    to  hope   till  Hope 

creates 

From  its  own  wreck  the  thing  it  contem- 
plates ; 

Neither  to  change,  nor  falter,  nor  repent ; 
This,  like  thy  glory,  Titan,  is  to  be 
Good,  great  and  joyous,  beautiful  and  free ; 
This  is  alone  Life,  Joy,  Empire,  and  Vic- 
tory. SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  4. 


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By  suffering  well,  our  fortune  we  subdue  ; 
Fly  when  she  frowns,  and  when  she  calls, 
pursue. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  5  (Dry den  tr.). 

Strange  !  that  a  harp  of  thousand  strings 
Should  keep  in  tune  so  long. 

I.  WATTS. — Hymns. 

Jouk  (stoop)  and  let  the  jaw  (wave)  go 
by.  Scottish  prou. 

He's  worth  nae  weel  that  can  bide  nae  wae, 
As  auld  Eppie  Orkney  used  to  say. 

Scottish  saying. 

ENEMIES 

The  smyler  with  the  knyf  under  the  cloke. 
CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  1141. 

The  lovinge  of  oure  enemy  hath  con- 
founded the  venim  of  the  devel.  For 
right  as  the  devel  is  discomfited  by 
humilitee,  right  so  is  he  wounded  to  the 
deeth  by  love  of  oure  enemy. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale   sec.  31. 

It  is  impossible  for  any  man  not  to 
have   some   enemies. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

He  who  has  a  thousand  friends  has  not 

a  friend  to  spare ; 
And   he  who  has  one   enemy  will  meet 

him  everywhere. 

EMERSON. — Translations. 

You  may  padlock  the  gate  of  a  town, 
But  never  the  mouth  of  a  foe. 

EMERSON. — Tr.  from  Persian 
(Essay  on  Persian  Poetry). 

When  fails  our  dearest  friend, 
There  may  be  refuge  with  our  direst  toe. 
J.  S.  KNOWLES.— The  Wife,  Act  5. 

Reflect  that  a  friend  may  be  made  out 
of  an  enemy.  SENECA. 

The  gifts  of  enemies  are  not  gifts,  and 
have  no  value.  SOPHOCLES. — Ajax. 

Never  yet 

Was  noble  man  but  made  ignoble  talk. 
He  makes  no  friend  who  never  made  a  foe. 
TENNYSON. — Lancelot. 

All  cause  of  hate  was  ended  in  their  death ; 
Nor  could   he  war  with   bodies  void   of 
breath. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  n  (Dryden  tr.). 

His  great  heart  rejoiced  in  having  found, 
on  the  field  of  honour,  enemies  worthy  of 
his  valour.  VOLTAIRE. — Henrmde. 

A  man  can't  be  too  careful  in  the  choice 
of  his  enemies. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Dorian  Gray. 


Abate  their  pride,  assuage  their  malice, 
and  confound  their  devices. 

Common  Prayer  (In  Time  of  War). 

There   is   no   worse    pestilence    than   a 
familiar  foe. 

Prov.  (Chaucer's  Merchant's  Tale,  549). 

ENERGY 

Genius  is  mainly  an  affair  of  energy. 
M.  ARNOLD. 

Languor  is  not  in  your  heart, 
Weakness  is  not  in  your  word, 
Weariness  not  on  your  brow. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Rugby  Chapel. 

Energy  is  eternal  delight. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Voice  of  the  Devil. 

Time  could  not  chill  him,  fortune  sway, 
Nor  toil  with  all  its  burdens  tire. 

O.  VV.  HOLMES.— F.  W.  C. 

Larikie,  Larikie  lee ! 
Wha'll  gang  up  to  the_  heaven  wi'  me  ? 
No  the  lout  that  lies  in  his  bed, 
No  the  doolfu'   that  dreeps  (droops)   his 
head. 
"  The  Lark's  Song,"  Scottish  rhyme. 

ENGLAND 

The  weary  Titan  [England]. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Heine's  Grave. 

England,  England,  England, 
Girdled  by  ocean  and  skies, 
And  the  power  of  a  world  and  the  heart 

of  a  race, 
And  a  hope  that  never  dies. 

WILFRID  CAMPBELL. 

Be  England  what  she  will, 
With  all  her  faults,  she  is  my  country  still. 
CHURCHILL. — The  Farewell,  27. 

England,  a  happy  land  we  know, 
Where  follies  naturally  grow. 

CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost,  Bk.  i,  112. 

Bind  her,  grind  her,  burn  her  with  fire, 
Cast  her  ashes  into  the  sea, — 
She  shall  escape,  she  shall  aspire, 
She  shall  arise  in  a  sacred  scorn, 
Lighting  the  lives  that  are  yet  unborn, 
Spirit  supernal,  splendour  eternal, 

England  ! 

HELEN  GRAY  CONE  (New  York).— 
Chant  of  Love  for  England  (c.  1915). 

England  be  tearless  ; 
Rise,  and  with  front  serene 
Answer,  thou  Spartan  queen, 

"  Still  God  is  good  to  me : 

My  sons  are  fearless." 
SIR  A.  QUILLER  COUCH. — Victoria. 


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ENGLAND 


England,  with  all  thy  faults,  I  love  thee 

still, 
My  country  !  COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

England  is  unrivalled  for  two  things — 
sporting  and  politics. 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  2,  i. 

The  Continent  will  not  suffer  England 
to  be  the  workshop  of  the  world, 

DISRAELI. — House  of  Commons, 
March  15,  1838. 

If  England's  head  and  heart  were  one, 
Where  is  that  good  beneath  the  sun 
Her  noble  hands  should  leave  undone  ? 

S.  DOBELL. — Shower  in  War-Time. 

A  sea-shell  should  be  the  crest  of  Eng- 
land, not  only  because  it  represents  a 
power  built  on  the  waves,  but  also  the 
hard  finish  of  the  men. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits. 
6,  Manners. 

Let  who  will  fail,  England  will  not. 
These  people  have  sat  here  a  thousand 
years,  and  here  will  continue  to  sit.  They 
will  not  break  up  or  arrive  at  any  desperate 
revolution,  like  their  neighbours  ;  for  they 
have  as  much  energy,  as  much  continence 
of  character,  as  they  ever  had. 

EMERSON. — Ib. 

There  [in  America]  and  not  here  [in 
England]  is  the  seat  and  centre  of  the 
British  race.  .  .  .  England,  an  old  and 
exhausted  island,  must  one  day  be  con- 
tented, like  other  parents,  to  be  strong  only 
in  her  children. 

EMERSON. — Ib.,  16,  Stonehenge. 

England  is  the  best  of  actual  nations. 
EMERSON. — Ib.,  18,  Result  (1833). 

0  England !  full  of  sin,  but  most  of  sloth, 
Spit  out  thy  phlegm,  and  fill  thy  breast 

with  glory. 

GEO.  HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Attend,  all  ye  who  list  to  hear  our  noble 
England's   praise ; 

1  tell   of    the    thrice    famous    deeds   she 

wrought  in  ancient  days. 

MACAULAY. — Armada. 

Let  the  storm  burst !  It  will  find  the  Old 

Land 

Ready — ripe  for  a  rough,  red  fray. 
She  will  fight  as  she  fought  when  she  took 

her  stand 
For  the  Right  in  the  olden  day. 

G.  MASSEY. — Babe   Christabel,   Old 
England,  4. 

Now  victory  to  our  England  ! 

And  where'er  she  lifts  her  hand 
In  freedom's  fight,  to  rescue  Right, 

God  bless  the  dear  old  Land. 

G.  MASSEY. — England  goes  to  Battle. 


Let  not  England  forget  her  precedence 
of  teaching  nations  how  to  live. 

MILTON. — Doctrine  and  Discipline  of 
Divorce. 

Land  of  the  lordliest  deeds  and  songs 
Since  Greece  was  great  and  wise. 

C.  L.  MOORE. — To  England. 

The  English  people  fancy  that  they  are 
free.  They  greatly  deceive  themselves. 
It  is  only  during  the  election  of  Members 
of  Parliament  that  they  are  so. 

ROUSSEAU. — Central  Social. 

Come  the  three  corners  of  the  world  in 

arms, 
And    we    shall    shock    them !     Nought 

shall  make  us  rue 

If  England  to  itself  do  rest  but  true. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  5,  7. 

This  England  never  did,  nor  never  shall, 
Lie  at  the  proud  foot  of  a  conqueror, 
But  when  it  first  did  help  to  wound  itself. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

This  royal  throne  of  kings,  this  sceptred 

isle, 

This  earth  of  majesty,  this  seat  of  Mars, 
This  other  Eden,  demi-Paradise ; 
This  fortress  built  by  Nature  for  herself, 
Against  infection  and  the  hand  of  war  ; 
This  happy  breed  of  men,  this  little  world  ; 
This  precious  stone,  set  in  the  silver  sea, 
Which  serves  it  in  the  office  of  a  wall, 
Or  as  a  moat  defensive  to  a  house, 
Against  the  envy  of  less  happier  lands  ; 
This  blessed  plot,  this  earth,  this  realm 

this  England. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  i 

England,  bound  in  with  the  triumphant 
sea  !  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Hector :  And  this  ship  we  are  all  in  ? 
This  soul's  prison  we  call  England  ? 

Capt.  Shotpver :  The  captain  is  in  his 
bunk,  drinking  bottled  ditchwater ;  and 
the  crew  is  gambling  in  the  forecastle. 
She  will  strike  and  sink  and  split.  Do 
you  think  the  laws  of  God  will  be  suspended 
in  favour  of  England,  because  you  were 
born  in  it  ? 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Act  3. 

There  are  only  two  classes  in  good  society 
in  England  :  the  equestrian  classes  and  the 
neurotic  classes.  G.  B.  SHAW. — Ib. 

All  our  past  proclaims  our  future  :  Shake- 
speare's voice  and  Nelson's  hand, 

Milton's  faith  and  Wordsworth's  trust  in 
this  our  chosen  and  chainless  land, 

Bear  us  witness  :  come  the  world  against 
her,  England  yet  shall  stand. 

SWINBURNE. — England,  2,  st.  5. 


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ENGLISHMEN 


No  man  ever  spake  as  he  that  bade  our 

England  be  but  true, 
Keep   but  faith  with   England  fast   and 

firm,  and  none  should  bid  her  rue  ; 
None  may  speak  as  he  :  but  all  may  know 

the  sign  that  Shakespeare  knew. 

SWINBURNE. — England,  2,  st.  7. 

Hope  knows  not  if  fear  speaks  truth,  nor 
fear  whether  hope  be  not  blind  as  she, 

But  the  sun  is  in  heaven  that  beholds 
her  immortal,  and  girdled  with  life 
by  the  sea. 

SWINBURNE. — /&.,  3,  st.  7. 

Bind  fast  her  homeborn  foes  with  links 

of  shame 
More   strong   than  iron   and  more  keen 

than  flame : 
Seal  up  their  lips  for  shame's  sake. 

SWINBURNE. — New  Year's  Day. 

O,  how  good  should  we  be  found 
Who  live  on  England's  happy  ground  ! 

JANE  TAYLOR. — The  English  Girl. 

0  Statesmen,   guard  us,   guard  the  eye, 

the  soul 

Of  Europe,  keep  our  noble  England  whole. 
TENNYSON. — On    Wellington. 

We  are  not  cotton-spinners  all, 
But  some  love  England  and  her  honour 
yet. 

TENNYSON. — Third   of  February. 

It  has  cost  much  to  establish  liberty  in 
England.  It  has  needed  seas  of  blood 
to  drown  the  idol  of  despotic  power,  but 
the  English  do  not  think  that  they  have 
bought  their  laws  too  dearly.  Other 
nations  have  not  had  less  troubles,  have 
not  shed  less  blood,  but  in  their  case  the 
blood  they  have  sacrificed  has  only 
cemented  their  servitude. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

Britons   and   Romans,   Saxons   and   then 

Danes, 
So  many  conquerors  have  taken  it, 

1  somdel  marvel  any  land  is  left. 

Yet  oak-trees  grow,  and  daisies  star  the 

grass, 

And  blissful  birds  sing  blithely  as  of  yore  ; 
Sheep  bleateth,  and  the  mild-eyed  cattle 

chaw 
Their  peaceful  cud.     Men  waggon  up  the 

hay 

And  ear  the  soil  and  breed  the  olden  way, 
As  if  the  conquerors  had  never  passed. 
JAMES  F.  WAIGHT. — Harold. 

Time,  and  the  ocean,  and  some  fostering 

star, 

In  high  cabal  have  made  us  what  we  are ! 
SIR  W.WATSON. — Ode,  Coronation  of 
Edward  VII. 


There's  never  a  wave  of  ocean 
The  wind  can  set  in  motion 
That  shall  not   own  our    England — own 

our  England  queen. 
T.  WATTS-DUNTON. — Christmas  at  the 
Mermaid,  i. 

Freedom's    impregnable    redoubt, 
The  wide  earth's  store-house,  fenced  about 
With  breakers  roaring  to  the  gales 
That  stretch  a  thousand  thousand  sails. 
WORDSWORTH. — To  Enterprise. 

In  our  halls  is  hung 
Armoury  of  the  invincible  knights  of  old. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  Nat.  Indep., 
Pt.  i,  16. 

England  is  a  prison  for  men,  a  paradise 
for  women,  a  purgatory  for  servants,  a 
hell  for  horses. 

Proverb   (Italian  ?)   quoted  in  Fuller's 
"  Holy  State  "  (1642). 

ENGLISH  LANGUAGE 

Praise  enough 

To  fill  the  ambition  of  a  private  man, 
That  Chatham's  language  was  his  mother- 
tongue.      COWPER. — Time  Piece,  235. 

I  like  the  Anglo-Saxon  speech, 
With  its  direct  revealings ; 
It  takes  a  hold,  and  seems  to  reach 
Way  down  into  your  feelings. 

EUGENE  FIELD. — Good-Bye  I  God 
Bless  You/ 

I  like  our  language,  as  our  men  and  coast ; 

Who  cannot  dress  it  well,  want  wit,  not 

words.       GEO.  HERBERT. — The  Sun. 

ENGLISHMEN 

In  spite  of  their  hats  being  very  ugly, 
Goddam  !  I  love  the  English. 

BERANGER. — Les  Boxeurs  (1814). 

There  is  a  peculiarity  in  the  counten- 
ance, as  everybody  knows,  which,  though 
it  cannot  be  described,  is  sure  to  betray 
the  Englishman. 

BORROW. — Bible  in  Spain. 

Cool  and  quite  English,  imperturbable. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  13,  st.  14. 

I  hope  we  English  will  long  maintain 
our  "  grand  talent  pour  le  silence." 

CARLYLE. — Heroes,  6. 

Of  all  the  nations  in  the  world,  at 
present,  the  English  are  the  stupidest  in 
speech,  the  wisest  in  action. 

CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present. 

The  English  are  a  dumb  people. 

CARLYLE. — Sartor . 

Liberty  is  the  idol  of  the  English,  under 
whose  banner  all  the  nation  lists. 
MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — The  Wonder,  Act  i,  i. 


ENGLISHMEN 


ENGLISHMEN 


An     Englishman, 

Being  nattered,  is  a  lamb ;    threatened,  a 
lion.        CHAPMAN. — Alphonsus,  Act  i. 

A  glorious  charter,  deny  it  who  can, 
Is    breathed     in     the    words,    "  I'm    an 
Englishman." 

ELIZA  COOK. — The  Englishman. 

That  vain,  ill-natured  thing,  an  English- 
man. 
DEFOE. — True-born  Englishman,  Pt.  i,  133. 

No  panegyric  needs  their  praise  record  ; 
An  Englishman  ne'er  wants  his  own  good 
word. 

DEFOE. — Ib.,  Pt.  2, 152. 

For  Englishmen  are  ne'er  contented  long. 
DEFOE. — Ib.,  Pt.  2,  244. 

But  English  gratitude  is  always  such, 
To  hate  the  hand  which  doth  oblige  too 
much.  DEFOE. — Ib.,  Pt.  2,  409. 

.Of  all  the  nations  in  the  world  there  is 
none  that  I  know  of  so  entirely  governed 
by  their  humour  as  the  English. 

DEFOE  (c.  1690). 

I  find  the  Englishman  to  be  him  of  all 
men  who  stands  firmest  in  his  shoes. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits. 

The  English  composite  character  be- 
trays a  mixed  origin.  Everything  Eng- 
lish is  a  fusion  of  distant  and  antagon- 
istic elements.  .  .  .  Nothing  can  be  praised 
in  it  without  damning  exceptions  ;  and 
nothing  denounced  without  salvoes  of 
cordial  praise. 

EMERSON. — Ib.,  4,  Race. 

The  one  thing  the  English  value  is 
pluck.  EMERSON. — Ib.,  6,  Manners. 

England  produces  under  favourable 
conditions  of  ease  and  culture  the  finest 
women  in  the  world.  EMERSON. — Ib. 

In   short,    I    am   afraid   that    English 

nature  is  so  rank  and  aggressive  as  to  be 

a  little   incompatible   with   every  other. 

The  world  is  not  wide  enough  for  two. 

EMERSON. — Ib.,  9,  Cockayne. 

The  habit  of  brag  runs  through  all 
classes  [in  England].  EMERSON. — Ib. 

Add  to  this  .  .  .  the  peculiarity  which 

is   alleged   of   the   Englishman,    that   his 

virtues  do  not  come  out  until  he  quarrels. 

EMERSON. — Walter  Savage  Landor 

(Oct.,  1841). 

For  he  might  have  been  a  Roosian, 
A  French,  or  Turk,  or  Proosian, 
Or  perhaps  I-ta-li-an  ! 


i  6 


But  in  spite  of  all  temptations 
To  belong  to  other  nations, 
He  remains  an  Englishman. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Pinafore. 

Then  who  is  he  who  would  deface 
The  scutcheon  of  his  country's  fame  ? 

One  wretch  alone  on  earth  you'll  meet 
Though  all  the  universe  you  scan, 

So  steeped  in  treason  and  deceit — 
The  anti-English  Englishman. 

C.  L.  GRAVES. — Anti-English  Englishman. 

The  English  in  a  foreign  land  are  the 
gods  of  boredom  .  .  .  and  leave  every- 
where a  grey  dark  cloud  of  mournfulness 
behind  them.  Their  curiosity  without 
interest,  their  dressed-up  awkwardness, 
their  insolent  timidity,  their  angular 
egotism,  and  their  empty  joy  at  all 
melancholy  objects,  aid  in  this  impression. 
HEINE. — Florentine  Nights. 

Heavy  eaters,  hard  thinkers,  often 
given  up  to  a  peculiar  melancholy  of  our 
own,  with  a  climate  that  for  months  to- 
gether would  frown  away  mirth  if  it  could 
— many  of  us  with  very  gloomy  thoughts 
about  our  hereafter — if  ever  there  were  a 
people  who  should  avoid  increasing  their 
dulness  by  all  work  and  no  play,  we  are 
that  people. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  4. 

They  [Englishmen]  are  resolute,  en- 
during, grave,  modest,  humorous.  I  lay 
great  stress  upon  the  last  of  these  quali- 
fications. Nothing  corrects  theories  better 
than  this  sense  of  humour,  which  we  have 
in  a  greater  degree  than  is  to  be  met  with, 
I  believe,  in  any  other  people. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  ch.  5. 

John  [Bull]  likes  a  bit  of  petty  larceny 
as  well  as  anybody  in  the  world.  He 
likes  it,  however,  with  this  difference — the 
iniquity  must  be  made  legal. 

D.  JERROLD. — Heads  of  the  People. 

Of  all  the  sarse  that  I  can  call  to  mind, 
England  doos  make  the  most  onpleasant 

kind  : 

It's  you're  the  sinner  pliers,  she's  the  saint ; 
Wut's  good's  all  English,  all  thet  isn't  ain't. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2nd 
Series,  2. 

No   people   have    true   common    sense 
but  those  who  are  born  in  England. 
MONTESQUIEU. — As  cited  by  Emerson, 
English  Traits,  5. 

The  people  of  England  are  never  so 
happy  as  when  you  tell  them  they  are 
ruined.  A.  MURPHY. — Upholsterer. 


ENGLISHMEN 


ENJOYMENT 


But  Lord !  to  see  the  absurd  nature  of 
Englishmen,  that  cannot  forbear  laughing 
and  jeering  at  everything  that  looks 
strange  !  PEPYS. — Diary,  Nov.  28  1662. 

It  may  be  said  of  the  English  that  neither 
in  war  are  they  brave  nor  in  peace  are  they 
faithful.  As  the  Spaniard  says,  "  England 
is  a  good  land  with  bad  people." 

STEPHEN  PERLIN  (French  writer). — 

Description  of  England  and  Scotland 

(Paris,  1558). 

These  villains  [the  English]  hate  all 
sorts  of  foreigners.  Though  they  have  a 
good  land  and  a  good  soil,  they  are  all 
constantly  wicked  and  moved  by  every 
gust  of  wind.  STEPHEN  PERLIN. — 76. 

We  Englishmen,  trim,  correct, 

All  minted  in  the  self-same  mould, 
Warm  hearted  but  of  semblance  cold, 

All-courteous  out  of  self-respect. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Enrica. 

Their  hearts  were  made  of   English  oak, 
their  swords  of  Sheffield  steel. 

SCOTT. — Bold  Dragoon. 

John  Bull  was  in  his  very  worst  of  moods, 

Raving  of  sterile  farms  and  unsold  goods. 

SCOTT. — Search  after  Happiness. 

It  was  alway  yet  the  trick  of  our  English 
nation,  if  they  have  a  good  thing  to  make 
it  too  common. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  i,  2. 

We  have  in  England  a  curious  belief 
in  first-rate  people,  meaning  all  the  people 
we  do  not  know ;  and  this  consoles  us  for 
the  undeniable  second-rateness  of  the 
people  we  do  know. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  Pref.  (1905). 

No  Englishman  has  any  common  sense, 
or  ever  had,  or  ever  will. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — John  Bull's  Other 
Island,  Act  i. 

There  is  nothing  so  bad  or  so  good  that 
you  will  not  find  Englishmen  doing  it ; 
but  you  will  never  find  an  Englishman  in 
the  wrong.  He  does  everything  on  princi- 
ple. He  fights  you  on  patriotic  principles  ; 
he  robs  you  on  business  principles  ;  he 
enslaves  you  on  imperial  principles. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  of  Destiny. 

The  English  take  their  pleasures  sadly. 

Due  DE  SULLY. — Memoirs.    (Wrongly 

attrib.  to  Froissart.) 

For  the  English  nation,  the  best  of  them 
are  in  the  centre  of  all  Christians,  because 
they  have  interior  intellectual  light.  .  .  . 
This  light  they  derive  from  the  liberty 
of  speaking  and  writing,  and  thereby 
of  thinking. 

SWEDENBORG. — As  cited  by  Emer- 
son, English  Traits,  No.  3. 


I  thank  the  goodness  and  the  grace, 
Which  on  my  birth  have  smiled, 
And  made  me,  in  these  Christian  days, 
A  happy  English  child. 

ANN  AND  JANE  TAYLOR. — Child's 
Hymn  of  Praise. 

The  last  great  Englishman  is  low. 
TENNYSON. — On  the  Duke  of  Wellington. 

No  little  lily-handed  Baronet  he, 
A  great  broad-shouldered,  genial  English- 
man. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  Conclusion. 

How  hard  it  is  to  make  an  Englishman 
acknowledge  that  he  is  happy  ! 

THACKERAY. — Pendennis,  Bk.  2,  ch.  31 

The  English  people  are  people  who 
defend  themselves. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Pucelle. 

When  a  Frenchman  and  an  Englishman 
think  the  same,  you  may  be  pretty  sure 
that  they  are  right. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

We  are  old  in  war,  and  if  in  guile  we  are 

young, 

Young  also  is  the  spirit  that  evermore 
Burns  in  our  bosom  even  as  heretofore. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — To  the  Troubler  of  the 
World,  Aug.  5,  1914. 

After  a',  I  maun  confess  that  I  like  the 
Englishers,  if  they  wadna  be  sae  per- 
nicketty  about  what  they  eat. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes. 

Minds  like  ours,  my  dear  James,  must 
always  be  above  national  prejudices, 
and  in  all  companies  it  gives  me  pleasure 
to  declare  that,  as  a  people,  the  English 
are  very  little  indeed  inferior  to  the 
Scotch.  JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes. 

A  right  Englishman  knows  not  when  a 
thing  is  well.  Prov.  (Ray's  collection). 

ENGRAVERS 

Wherein  the  graver  had  a  strife 
With  Nature,  to  out-do  the  life. 
BEN  JONSON. — Shakespeare's  Portrait. 

Or  where  the  pictures  for  the  page  atone, 

And  Quarles  is  saved  by  beauties  not  his 

own.       POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  i,  139. 

ENJOYMENT 

An  hour  is  long  if  lost  in  care  ; 
They  only  live  who  life  enjoy. 
JOHN  DALTON,  D.D. — Adaptation  of 
Milton's  "  Comus  "  (1738). 

Never   ending,   still   beginning, 
Fighting  still,  and  still  destroying, 

If  the  world  be  worth  thy  winning, 
Think,  O  think  it  worth  enjoying ! 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.   5. 


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ENLIGHTENMENT 


ENTHUSIASM 


A  day  in  such  serene  enjoyment  spent 
Is  worth  an  age  of  splendid  discontent. 
JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Greenland,  2. 

Contented  if  he  might  enjoy 
The  things  that  others  understand. 
WORDSWORTH. — A  Poet's  Epitaph,  st.  14. 

Let  us  start  a  new  religion  with  one  com- 
mandment, "  Enjoy  thyself." 

I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto, 
Bk.  z,  ch.  6. 

ENLIGHTENMENT 

Enable  with  perpetual  light 
The  dulness  of  our  blinded  sight. 
JOHN  COSIN  (BISHOP  OF  DURHAM). — 
Tr .  of  "  Veni,  Creator." 

Ought  one  to  rest  idle  amongst  the 
shadows  [of  doubt]  ?  Or  ought  one  to  light 
a  beacon  at  which  calumny  and  envy 
may  re-light  their  torches  ?  For  myself,  I 
believe  that  truth  should  no  more  hide 
before  these  monsters  than  that  one 
should  abstain  from  food  for  fear  of  being 
poisoned. 

VOLTAIRE. — The  Ignorant  Philosopher. 

The  shining  light,  that  shineth  more  and 
more  unto  the  perfect  day.  Proverbs  iv,  18. 

ENMITY 

What  mark  is  so  fair  as  the  breast  of  a 
foe? 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  st.  72. 

Enmities  always  keep  pace  and  are 
interwoven  with  friendships. 

PLUTARCH. — On  Friendships. 

ENTERPRISE 

Are  there  not,  dear  Michal, 
Two  points  in  the  adventure  of  the  diver, 
One, — when,    a   beggar,    he   prepares    to 

plunge ; 
One, — when,  a  prince,  he  rises  with  the 

pearl  ? 
Festus,  I  plunge. 

BROWNING. — Paracelsus,  Pt.  2. 

Some  enterprise 
That  hath  a  stomach  in  't. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  i. 

The  blood  more  stirs 
To  rouse  a  lion,  than  to  start  a  hare. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

But  thou,  O  Goddess !  in  thy  favourite  Isle, 
Quicken  the  slothful  and  exalt  the  vile  ! 
Thy  impulse  is  the  life  of  Fame ; 
Glad  Hope  would  almost  cease  to  be 
If  torn  from  thy  society. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  Enterprise. 


ENTERTAINMENT 

A  friendly  swarry,  consisting  of  a  boiled 

leg  of  mutton  with  the  usual  trimmings. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  37. 

For  one  of  the  pleasures  of  having  a  rout 
Is  the  pleasure  of  having  it  over. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Our  true  intent  is — all  for  your  delight. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 

Dream,  Act  5,  i. 

ENTHUSIASM 

It  is  unfortunate,  considering  that 
enthusiasm  moves  the  world,  that  so 
few  enthusiasts  can  be  trusted  to  speak 
the  truth. 

A.  J.  BALFOUR. — Letter  to  Mrs.  Drew. 

A  cause  is  like  champagne  and  hiph 
heels — one  must  be  prepared  to  suffer 
for  it.  ARNOLD  BENNETT. — The  Title. 

The  sallow,  virgin-minded,  studious 
Martyr  to  mild  enthusiasm. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  n. 

I  do  not  blame  such  women,  though   for 

love 
They  pick  much  oakum  ;  earth's  fanatics 

make 

Too  frequently  heaven's  saints. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  2. 

Never  have  a  mission,  my  dear  child. 
[Mr.  Jellyby.] 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  c.  50. 

Nothing  great  was  ever  achieved  without 
enthusiasm.  EMERSON. — Circles. 

Every  man — even  the  most  cynical — 
has  one  enthusiasm.  He  is  in  earnest 
about  some  one  thing.  The  all-round 
trifler  does  not  exist. 

JOHN  OLIVER  HOBBES. — The 
Ambassador,  Act  2. 

I  am  not  going  to  let  you  talk  like  this. 

You  are  doing  me  an  ill  turn ;    you  are 

robbing  me  of  my  enthusiasm.      [Stens- 

gaard.]  IBSEN. — League  of  Youth, 

Act  i  (1869). 

Enthusiasm  is  the  genius  of  sincerity, 
and  truth  accomplishes  no  victories  with- 
out it.  LORD  LYTTON. — Last  Days  of 
Pompeii,  Bk.   i,  c.  8. 

The  prudent  man  may  direct  a  state  ; 
but  it  is  the  enthusiast  who  regenerates 
it,  or  ruins. 

LORD  LYTTON. — Rienzi,  Bk.  i,  c.  8. 

National  enthusiasm  is  the  great  nursery 
of  genius. 

H.  T.  TUCKERMAN. — Defence  of 
Enthusiasm. 


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ENTREATY 


ENVY 


Those  things  which  the  English  public 
never  forgives — youth,  power,  and  enthu- 
siasm. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — English  Renaissance. 

ENTREATY 

He  did  entreat  me  past  all  saying  nay. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 
ENUNCIATION 

Speak  clearly,  if  you  speak  at  all ; 
Carve  every  word  before  you  let  it  fall. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Rhymed  Lesson. 

ENVY 

Envy  is  hatred  of  other  people's  happi- 
ness. ST.  AUGUSTINE. — On  Psalm,  104,  25. 

Envy  has  no  holidays. 
BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6  (Prov.  ?). 

[His  creed  resulted]  less  from  love  to 

the  many  than  from  hatred  of  the  few. 

J.  BENTHAM. — Of  James  Mill. 

For  wel  unnethe  [scarcely]  is  there 
any  sinne  that  it  hath  not  some  delight 
in  itself  save  only  Envye,  that  ever  hath 
in  itself  anguish  and  sorrow. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  30. 

He  sickened  at  all  triumphs  but  his  own. 
CHURCHILL. — Rosciad,  v.  64. 

For  one  man  who  sincerely  pities  our 
misfortunes,  there  are  a  thousand  who 
sincerely  hate  our  success. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

The  hate  which  we  all  bear  with  the 
most  Christian  patience  is  the  hate  of 
those  who  envy  us.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Ib. 

There  is  this  frequent  vice  in  great  and 
free  states,  that  envy  is  companion  of 
glory.  CORNELIUS  NEPOS. — Chabrias. 

He    most    is    hated   when    he    most    is 
praised.         DRYDEN. — Rival  Ladies. 

Envy  is  a  kind  of  praise. 

GAY. — Fables,  44. 

Lo !  ill-rejoicing  Envy,  winged  with  lies, 
Scattering  calumnious  rumours  as  she  flies. 
•  HESIOD. — Works  and  Days  (Elton  tr.). 

The  Sicilian  tyrants  have  not  invented 
a  worse  torment  than  envy. 

HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i. 

This  is  the  discharge  of  the  black 
cuttlefish  ;  this  is  very  envy. 

HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  i. 

Envy  the  living,  not  the  dead,  doth  bite  ; 

For    after    death    all   men1    receive    their 

right.      R.  LOVELACE. — On  Sanazar. 

That  most  anti-social  and  odious  of  all 
passions,  envy.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  4. 


Can't  I  another's  face  commend, 
And  to  her  virtues  be  a  friend, 
But  instantly  your  forehead  lowers, 
As  if  her  merit  lessened  yours  ? 

EDWARD  MOORE. — Fables. 

The  crop  is  more  abundant  in  other 
people's  fields  ;  our  neighbour's  herd  has 
more  milk  than  our  own. 

OVID. — Ars  Amat.,  Bk.  i. 

He,  the  Artificer  of  this  universe,  was 

good ;    and   in    the   good   envy   is   never 

engendered  concerning  anything  whatever. 

PLATO. — Timtzus,  10. 

I  would  rather  that  my  enemies  envy 

me  than  that  I  should  envy  my  enemies  ; 

for  it  is  misery  to  be  envious  because  it 

is  well  with  another  and  ill  with  yourself. 

PLAUTUS. — Truculenius,  Act  4,  2. 

Spleen    to    mankind    his    envious    heart 

possessed, 

And  much  he  hated  all,  but  most  the  best. 
POPE.— Iliad,  Bk.  2,  267. 

Whoso  reaps  above  the  rest, 
With  heaps  of  hate  shall  surely  be  op- 
pressed. 

SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Commendation  of  the 
Steele  Glas. 

Such  men  as  he  be  never  at  heart's  ease, 
Whiles  they  behold  a  greater  than  them- 
selves. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  C<esar,  Act  i,  2. 

"Tis  eminence  makes  envy  rise, 
As  fairest  fruits  attract  the  flies. 

SWIFT. — To  Dr.  Delany,  1729. 

If  with  such  talents  Heaven  has  blessed 

them, 
Have  I  not  reason  to  detest  them  ? 

SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

It  is  natural  to  mortals  to  look  with 
sick  eyes  on  the  recent  good  fortune  of 
others.  TACITUS. — Hist.,  Bk.  2. 

Base  Envy  withers  at  another's  joy, 
And  hates  the  excellence  it  cannot  reach. 
THOMSON. — Seasons,  Spring. 

Envy  is  a  necessary  evil ;  it  is  a  little 
goad  which  forces  us  to  do  yet  better. 

VOLTAIRE. 

I  laugh  not  at  another's  losse, 
I  grudge  not  at  another's  gaine. 
Anon. — "  My  Mind  to  me  a  Kingdom  is." 

Envy  is  better  worth  having  than  pity. 
Greek  prov. 

The  potter  is  envious  of  the  potter,  the  • 
smith  of  the  smith.  Latin  prov. 


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EPICURES 


EPITAPHS 


Envy,  eldest  born  of  hell ! 
Cease  in  human  heart  to  dwell ! 
Handel's  "  Saul  "  (1738),  attr.  to  Chas. 
Jennings. 

EPICURES 

For  he  was  Epicurus  owne  sone. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

Although  they  say,  "  Come,  let  us  eat  and 

drink ; 
Our  life  is  but  a  spark,  which  quickly 

dies  "  : 
Though   thus   they  say,   they  know  not 

what  to  think  ; 

But  in  their  minds  ten  thousand  doubts 
arise. 

SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum, 
sec.  30,  st.  14. 

He  hath  a  fair  sepulchre  in  the  grate- 
ful stomach  of  the  judicious  epicure — and 
for  such  a  tomb  might  be  content  to  die. 
LAMB. — Roast  Pig. 

The  fattest  hog  in  Epicurus'  sty. 

W.  MASON. — Heroic  Epistle. 

Serenely  full,  the  epicure  would  say, 

"  Fate  cannot  harm  me,   I   have   dined 

to-day." 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Recipe  for  Salad. 

EPILOGUES 

If  it  be  true  that,  "  good  wine  needs  no 

bush,"  'tis  true  that  a  good  play  needs  no 

epilogue.          SHAKESPEARE. — Epilogue  to 

As  you  Like  It. 

EPITAPHS 

Stranger,  to  Lacedajmon  go,  and  tell 
That  here,  obedient  to  her  words,  we  fell. 
GEO.  BURGES. — Tr.  of  the  famous  Greek 

epitaph  by  Simonides,  on  the  Greeks 

who  fell  at  Thermopyla. 

Believe  a  woman  or  an  epitaph, 
Or  any  other  thing  that's  false. 

BYRON. — English  Bards,  78. 

And  here  the  precious  dust  is  laid, 
Whose  purely-tempered  clay  was  made 
So  fine  that  it  the  guest  betrayed. 
Else  the  soul  grew  so  fast  within, 
It  broke  the  outward  shell  of  sin, 
And  so  was  hatched  a  Cherubin. 

T.  CAREW. — On  Maria  Wentworth. 

Ere  sin  could  blight  or  sorrow  fade, 
Death  came  with  friendly  care ; 

The  opening  bud   to  Heaven  conveyed, 
And  bade  it  blossom  there. 

COLERIDGE. — Epitaph  on  an  Infant. 

Yet  the  work  itself  shall  not  be  lost,  for 
it  will  (as  he  believed)  appear  once  more 
in  a  new  and  more  beautiful  edition,  cor- 
rected and  amended  by  THE  AUTHOR. 
B.  FRANKLIN. — Epitaph  on  Himself. 


If  genius  fire  thee.  reader,  stay ; 
If  nature  move  thee,  drop  a  tear  ; 

If  neither  touch  thee,  pass  away, 
For  Hogarth's  honoured  dust  lies  here. 
GARRICK. — On  Hogarth. 

The  scene  is  changed,  I  am  no  more  ; 
Death's  the  last  act, — now  all  is  o'er. 
GARRICK. — Epitaph  on  Quin,  the  Actor. 

And  many  a  holy  text  around  she  strews, 

That  teach  the  rustic  moralist  to  die. 

GRAY. — Elegy  in  a  Country  Churchyard. 

Here  rests  his  head  upon  the  lap  of  earth, 
A   youth   to   fortune  and  to  fame  un- 
known. GRAY. — Ib. 

Calm  on  the  bosom  of  thy  God, 

Fair  spirit,  rest  thee  now  : 
Even  while  with  us  thy  footstep  trod, 

His  seal  was  on  thy  brow. 
Dust,  to  its  narrow  house  beneath  ! 

Soul,  to  its  place  on  high  ! 
They  that  have  seen  thy  look  in  death 

No  more  may  fear  to  die. 

MRS.  HEMANS. — A  Dirge  (Inscribed 
on  her  tomb  at  Dublin). 

"  As  I  am  now,  so  you  must  be ; 
Therefore  prepare  to  follow  me." 
To  follow  you  I'm  not  intent, 
Till  I  can  learn  which  way  you  went. 
REV.  WM.  S.  S.  HUNTINGTON. — On  an 
epitaph  in  St.  Pancras  Churchyard. 

The  hand  of  Art  here  torpid  lies, 
That  traced  the  essential  form  of  Grace  ; 
Here  death  has  closed  the  attentive  eyes 
That  saw  the  manners  in  the  face. 

JOHNSON. — Epitaph  for  Mr.  Hogarth. 

In  lapidary  inscriptions  a   man  is  not 
upon  oath. 
JOHNSON. — Remark  to  Dr.  Burney,  1775. 

Underneath  this  stone  doth  lie 
As  much  beauty  as  could  die ; 
Which  in  life  did  harbour  give 
To  more  virtue  than  doth  live. 

BEN  JONSON. — Epitaph. 

Few  tears,  nor  these  too  warm,  are  shed 
By  poet  over  poet  dead. 
Without  premeditated  lay 
To  catch  the  crowd,  I  only  say, 
As  over  Southey's  tomb  I  bend, 
The  best  of  mortals  was  my  friend. 
W.  S.  LANDOR. — For  Southey's  Tomb. 

Barring  drink  and  the  girls,  I  ne'er  heard 

of  a  sin  ; 
Many  worse,  better  few,  than  poor  broken 

Maginn. 

J.  G.  LOCKHART. — Epitaph  on  Dr.  Wm. 
Maginn  (original  of  Thackeray' s  "  Cap- 
tain Shandon"). 

Just  to  her  lips  the  cup  of  life  she  pressed, 
Found  the  taste  bitter,  and  refused  the  rest; 


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EPITAPHS 


EPITAPHS 


She  felt  averse  to  life's  returning  day 
And  softly  sighed  her  little  soul  away. 
ROBT.  LOWTH,  D.D. — Epitaph  on  an 
Infant. 

For  that  dear  Name, 
Through  every  form  of  danger,  death,  and 

shame, 

Onward  he  journeyed  to  a  happier  shore, 
Where  danger,  death,  and  shame  assault 

no  more. 

MACAULAY. — On  Henry  Martin,  ob.  (in 
Persia),   1812. 

Gently,  where  lies  our  Sophocles  in  sleep, 

Gently,    green    ivy,    with    light    tendrils 
creep  : 

There  may  the  roseleaf  too  and  clustered 
vine 

Climb  round  his  honoured  tomb  in  grace- 
ful twine  : 

Sweet  were  his  lays,  with  sense  and  feeling 
fraught, 

Alike  by  Muses  and  by  Graces  taught. 
MACGREGOR. — Anthol.,  tr.  of  Greek 
epigram. 

Gentle  Lady,  may  thy  grave 
Peace  and  quiet  ever  have. 

MILTON. — Lady  Winchester. 

So  may  some  gentle  Muse 
With  lucky  words  favour  my  destined  urn, 
And  as  he  passes,  turn 
And  bid  fair  Peace  be  to  my  sable  shroud. 
MILTON. — Lycidas,  19. 

Teach  me  like  thee  to  think,   and  give, 

oh  give 
That   harder   happier   task,  like  thee   to 

live. 

POPE. — Epitaph  on  his  Mother. 

Here     rests     a    woman,     good    without 

pretence, 
Blest  with  plain  reason  and  with  sober 

sense  ; 

No  conquests  she,  but  o'er  herself,  desired ; 

No  arts  essayed,  but  not  to  be  admired. 

POPE. — On  Mrs.  Corbet. 

Fear  no  more  the  heat  o"  the  sun, 
Nor  the  furious  winter's  rages ; 

Thou  thy  worldly  task  hast  done, 
Home  art  gone  and  ta'en  thy  wages  : 

Golden  lads  and  girls  all  must, 

As  chimney  sweepers,  come  to  dust. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  4,  2. 

Quiet  consummation  have; 
And  renowned  be  thy  grave ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — lb. 

Cruel  is   Death  ?     Nay,   kind.     He   that 

is  ta'en 
Was   old   in   wisdom,    though   his    years 

were  few  ; 


Life's    pleasure    hath    he    lost — escaped 

life's  pain. 
Nor   wedded    joys,    nor  wedded    sorrows 

knew. 

GOLDWIN  SMITH. — Tr.  of  Greek  epitaph 
by  Julianus,  "  On  a  Youth  " 

Under  the  wide  and  starry  sky 
Dig  my  grave  and  let  me  lie, 

And  I  lay  me  down  with  a  will ; 
This   be   the   verse   you   grave   for  me— 
"  Here  he  lies  where  he  longed  to  be, 
Home  is  the  sailor,  home  from  the  sea, 

And  the  hunter  home  from  the  hill." 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Epitaph. 

Of  this  blest  man  let  this  just  praise  be 

given  : 

Heaven  was  in  him  before  he  was  in  heaven. 

I.  WALTON. — Written  in  R.  Sibbes' 

"  Returning  Backslider." 

Earth  is  less  fragrant  now,  and  heaven 
more  sweet. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Maiden's  Epitaph. 

If  innocents  are  favourites  of  Heaven, 
And   God   but   little   asks   where   little's 

given, 

Thy  just   Creator  has  for   thee  in  store 
Eternal    joys ; — can    wisest    men    have 

more  ? 
A.  A.  WATTS. — On  an  Idiot  Child. 

He  first  deceased ;  she  for  a  little  tried 

To  live  without  him ;  liked  it  not,  and  died. 

SIR  H.  WOTTON. — Death  of  Sir  A. 

Morton's  Wife. 

Under  this  stone  there  lieth  at  rest 
A  friendly  man,  a  worthy  knight ; 

Whose  heart  and  mind  was  ever  prest 
To  favour  truth,  to  further  right. 
SIR  T.  WYATT. — On  Sir  T.  Gravener. 

"  Who  gathered  this  flower  ?  "  The 
gardener  answered,  "The_  Master."  And 
his  fellow-servant  held  his  peace. 

Budock  Churchyard  and  elsewhere. 

Rest,  gentle  Shade,  await  thy  Maker's 
will; 

Then  rise  unchanged  and  be  an  angel  still. 

Epitaph,  at  Chirk  Church  (N.  Wales),  in 

memory    of  Richard   Jebb,    who   died 

Sept.    10,    1845,  aged  8.    (Erected   by 

Viscount  and  Viscountess  Dungannon.) 

Past  is  the  fear  of  future  doubt ; 
The  sun  is  from  the  dial  gone  : 
The  sands  are  sunk,  the  glass  is  out, 

The  folly  of  the  farce  is  done. 
Dirge. — Wit  and  Mirth  (Reprinted  1719). 

Lie  heavy  on  him,  earth  !  for  he 
Laid  many  heavy  loads  on  thee, 
>n  Sir  J.  Vanbrugh,  architect  (by  Dr. 

Evans). 


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EPITAPHS 

And  if  there  be  no  meeting  past  the  grave, 
If  all  is  darkness,  silence,  yet  'tis  rest. 
Be  not  afraid,  ye  waiting  hearts  that  weep, 
For  still  He  giveth  His  beloved  sleep, 
And  if  an  endless  sleep  He  wills,  'tis  best. 
Huxley's  epitaph  (1895),  said  to  be  by 

Mrs.    Huxley.      Only    the  first    three 

lines  are  over  his  grave. 

Here  lies  Tom  Hyde  ; 
It's  a  pity  that  he  died  ; 
We  had  rather 
It  had  been  his  father ; 
If  it  had  been  his  sister, 
We  had  not  missed  her ; 
If  the  whole  generation, 
It  had  been  better  for  the  nation. 
Quoted  in  letter  July  9, 1667,  as  an  epitaph 

composed  on  the  death  of  a  son  of  Lord 

Chancellor  Hyde. 

Here  lies  Fred, 
Who  was  alive  and  is  dead. 
Had  it  been  his  father 
I  had  much  rather ; 
Had  it  been  his  brother, 
Still  better  than  the  other ; 
Had  it  been  his  sister, 
No  one  would  have  missed  her; 
Had  it  been  the  whole  generation, 
All  the  better  for  the  nation ; 
But  since  'tis  only  Fred, 
That  was  alive  and  is  dead, 
Why,  there's  no  more  to  be  said. 
Jacobite  Epitaph  on  Frederick,  Prince  of 
Wales  (died  1751). 

Here  lies  one  whose  name  was  writ  in 
water.  K eats' s  Epitaph,  1820. 

When  life  is  past  and  death  is  come, 
Then  well  are  they  who  well  have  done. 
Epitaph  in  Kilpeck  Church. 

Beneath  this  stone  old  Abra'm  lies ; 
Nobody  laughs  and  nobody  cries ; 
Where  he's  gone  or  how  he  fares, 
Nobody  knows  and  no  one  cares. 
On  A  braham  Newland,  Chief  Cashier  of 
Bank  of  England  (d.  1 807) . 

In  heart  a  Lydia,  and  in  tongue  a  Hanna, 
In  zeale  a  Ruth,  in  wedlock  a  Susanna, 
Prudently  simple,  providently  wary, 
To  the  world  a  Martha,  and  to  Heaven  a 
Mary.    On  Dame  Dorothy  Selby  (1641). 

Good  frend,  for  Jesus  sake  forbear 
To  digg  the  Dust  encloased  here. 
Bleste  be  the  Man  that  spares  thes  stones, 
And  curst  be  he  that  moves  my  bones. 
Shakespeare's  Epitaph,  Stratford-on-Avon. 

Here  am  I  laid,  my  life  of  misery  done  ; 

Ask  not  my  name  ;  I  curse  you  every  one. 

Epitaph  of  Timon  of  Athens,  as  recorded 

by  Plutarch  (Life  of  Antony). 


EQUITY 

Here  lies  a  poor  woman  who  always  was 

tired 
She  lived  in  a  house  where  help  was  not 

hired. 
Her  last  words  on   earth   were :    "  Dear 

friends,  I  am  going 
Where  washing  ain't  done,  nor  sweeping, 

nor  sewing ; 

But  everything  there  is  exact  to  my  wishes, 
For  where  they  don't  eat  there's  no  washing 

of  dishes ; 
I'll  be  where  loud  anthems  will  always  be 

ringing, 
But  having  no  voice,  I'll  be  clear  of  the 

singing. 
Don't  mourn  for  me  now,  don't  mourn 

for  me  never, 

I'm  going  to  do  nothing  for  ever  and  ever." 
Tired  Woman's  Epitaph,  c.  1850?  Anon. 

His  throat  they  cut  from  ear  to  ear, 

His  brains  they  battered  in : 
His  name  was  Mr.  William  Weare, 
He  lived  in  Lyon's  Inn. 
Lines  (by  "  Hoppy  V/ebb  "  ?)  on  the 
murder  of  William  Weare,   1823. 

Here  rests  a  man  who  never  rested  here. 

Latin  Epitaph  on  a  bishop  in  Ravenna 

Cathedral. 

Between  the  stirrup  and  the  ground 
Mercy  I  asked,  mercy  I  found. 
Quoted  in  Camden's  "  Remaines,"  1636. 

EPITHETS 

Adjectives  are  the  greatest  enemies  of 
substantives,  though  they  agree  in  number, 
gender  and  case.  VOLTAIRE. 

EPITOMES 

Epitomes  have  been  called  the  moths  of 
just  history  ;  they  eat  out  the  poetry  of 
it.  SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

EQUALITY 

The  time  will  come  when  men 

Will  be  as  free  and  equal  as  the  waves, 

That  seem  to  jostle,  but  that  never  jar. 

ALFRED  AUSTIN. — Tower  of  Babel, 

Act  2. 

Cousin  Hastings,  we  cannot  all  be  top 
branches  of  the  tree,  though  we  all  spring 
from  the  same  root. 

FULLER. — Worthies,  Art  of  Shire  Reeves 
(Remark  of  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon). 

And  one  man  is  as  good  as  another — 
and  a  great  dale  betther,  as  the  Irish 
philosopher  said. 

THACKERAY. — Roundabout  Papers, 
On  Ribbons. 
EQUITY 

There  is  but  one  law  for  all,  namely 
that  law  which  governs  all  law,  the  law 


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ERROR 


of  our  Creator,  the  law  of  humanity, 
justice,  equity — the  law  of  nature  and  of 
nations. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings. 

A  good  judge  judges  according  to  what 
is  right  and  good,  and  prefers  equity  to 
strict  law.  COKE. 

EQUIVOCATION 

The  great  sophism  of  all  sophisms 
being  equivocation  or  ambiguity  of  words 
or  phrase. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

God  bless  the  king,  I  mean   the  faith's 

defender  ; 
God    bless — no    harm    in    blessing — the 

pretender  ; 

Who  that  pretender  is — and  who  is  king — 
God  bless  us  all, — that's  quite  another 

thing.         JOHN  BYROM  (1691-1753). 

He  sowed  doubtful  speeches,  and  reaped 
plain,  unequivocal  hatred. 

LAMB. — Last  Essays. 

To  doubt  the  equivocation  of  the  fiend, 
That  lies  like  truth. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

And   be   these   juggling   fiends   no   more 

believed, 

That  palter  with  us  in  a  double  sense  ; 
That  keep  the  word  of  promise  to  our  ear, 
And  break  it  to  our  hope. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  7. 

I  moralise  two  meanings  in  one  word. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  3,  i. 

The  cruellest  lies  are  often  told  in 
silence. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Virginibus,  Pt.  4. 

ERROR 

The  best  may  err. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  5,  4. 

To  err  is  human,  to  persist  in  error  is 
devilish.  ST.  AUGUSTINE. — Sermon  164. 

A  double  error  sometimes  sets  us  right. 
P.  J.  BAILEY. — Festus. 

Truth  lies  within  a  little  and  certain 
compass,  but  error  is  immense. 

BOLINGBROKE. — Reflections  upon  Exile. 

They  defend  their  errors  as  if  they  were 
defending  their  inheritance. 

BURKE. — Speech   on  Economical 
Reform  (Feb.  1780). 

The  poor  inhabitant  below 
Was  quick  to  learn,  and  wise  to  know. 
And  keenly  felt  the  friendlv  slow, 
And  softer  flame  ; 


But  thoughtless  follies  laid  him  low, 
And  stained  his  name  ! 

BURNS. — A  Bard's  Epitaph. 

O  think  not  of  his  errors  now  ;  remember 
His  greatness,  his  munificence,  think  on  all 
The  lovely  features  of  his  character, 
On  all  the  noble  exploits  of  his  life, 
And  let  them,  like  an  angel's  arm,  unseen, 
Arrest  the  lifted  sword. 

COLERIDGE. — Wallenstein. 

The  cottage  is  sure  to  suffer  for  every 

error  of  the  court,  the  cabinet,  or  the  camp. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Reflections,   No.   5. 

Reasoning  at  every  step  he  treads, 

Man  yet  mistakes  his  way, 
Whilst    meaner    things,    whom    instinct 

leads, 
Are  rarely  known  to  stray. 

COWPER. — The  Doves. 

Faults   in    the   life   breed   errors   in  the 
brain. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  563. 

The  individual  is  always  mistaken. 

EMERSON. — Experience. 

No  vehement  error  can  exist  in  this 
world  with  impunity. 

J.  A.  FROUDE. — Spinoza. 

Brother,  brother,  we  are  both  in  the  wrong. 
GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 

The  mixture  of  those  things  by  speech, 
which  by  nature  are  divided,  is  the  mother 
of  all  error.  HOOKER. 

Error  cannot  be  defended  but  by  error. 

Untruth  cannot  be  shielded  but  by  untruth. 

BISHOP    JEWELL. — Defence    of  the 

Apology  for  the  Church  of  England. 

There  is  no  anguish  like  an  error  of 
which  we  feel  ashamed, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Ernest  Maltravers, 
Bk.  2,  c.  3. 

Delusion  may  triumph,  but  the  triumphs 
of  delusion  are  but  for  a  day. 

MACAULAY. — Speech,  1839 

Alas  !  how  easily  things  go  wrong  ! 
A  sigh  too  deep,  or  a  kiss  too  long ; 
And  then  comes  a  mist  and  a  weeping  rain, 
And  life  is  never  the  same  again. 

G.  MACDONALD. — Phantasies. 

The  fatal  tendency  of  mankind  to  leave 
off  thinking  about  a  thing,  when  it  is  no 
longer  doubtful,  is  the  cause  of  half  their 
errors.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  c.  2. 

Error  by  his  own  arms  is  best  evinced. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  235. 

For  his  was   the  error  of  head,   not  of 
heart.  MOORE. — The  Slave. 


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ESQUIRE 

I  see  and  I  approve  the  better  course  ; 
I  follow  the  worse.     OVID. — Metam,  7,  20. 

O  hateful  error,  melancholy's  child ! 
Why  dost  thou  show  to  the  apt  thoughts 

of  men, 
The  things  that  are  not  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  5,  3. 

A  man  finds  he  has  been  wrong  at  every 
preceding  stage  of  his  career,  only  to 
deduce  the  astonishing  conclusion  that 
he  is  at  last  entirely  right. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Crabbed  Age. 

A  man  should  never  be  ashamed  to 
own  that  he  has  been  in  the  wrong,  which 
is  but  saying,  in  other  words,  that  he  is 
wiser  to-day  than  he  was  yesterday. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects 
(also  altrib.  to  Pope). 

Someone  had  blundered. 
TENNYSON. — Charge  of  Light  Brigade. 

O  purblind  race  of  miserable  men ! 

How  many  among  us  at  this  very  hour 

Do  forge  a  lifelong  trouble  for  ourselves 

By  taking  true  for  false,  or  false  for  true  ! 

TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  i. 

O  my  princess !   true  she  errs, 
But  in  her  own  grand  way. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  3,  91. 

Error  is  a  hardy  plant ;  it  flourisheth  in 
every  soil. 
M.  F.  TUPPER. — Proverbial  Philosophy. 

For  they  are  blest  that  have  not  much 

to  rue — 
That  have  not  oft  misheard  the  prompter's 

cue, 
Stammered  and  stumbled,  and  the  wrong 

parts  played, 
And  life  a  Tragedy  of  Errors  made. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — To  a  Friend. 

When  the  learned  man  errs,  he  errs  in 
a  learned  way.  Arabic  prov. 

It  is  the  nature  of  men  to  err,  of  fools 
to  persist  in  error.  Latin  prov. 

ESQUIRE 

Now  'Squire 's  a  title  of  much  reputation — 

Belongs  to  people  of  no — occupation. 
J.  WOLCOT. — Rights  of  Kings,  To  the  Public. 

ESSEX 

England  has  greater  counties — 
Their  peace  to  hers  is  small ; 

Low  hills,  rich  fields,  calm  rivers,- 
In  Essex  seek  them  all 

A.  S.  CRIPPS. — E-sex. 


ETHICS 

ESTIMATES 

There  is  usually  less  money,  less  wisdom 
and  less  good  faith  than  men  do  account 
upon.  Bacon's  tr.  of  Italian  prov. 

Maidens'  tochers  and  ministers'  stipends 
are  aye  less  than  ca'd.  Scottish  prov. 

ESTRANGEMENT 

I  knew  you  once  :  but  in  Paradise, 
If  we  meet,  I  will  pass  nor  turn  my  face. 
BROWNING. — The  Worst  of  it. 

Shake  hands  for  ever,  cancel  all  our  vows, 
And  when  we  meet  at  any  time  again, 

Be  it  not  seen  in  either  of  our  brows 
That  we  one  jot  of  former  love  retain. 
DRAYTON. — Ideas,  Sonnet  61. 

There  must  be  now  no  passages  of  love 

Betwixt  us  twain  henceforward  evermore. 

TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien. 

ETERNITY 

Eternity,  thou  pleasing,  dreadful  thought ! 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  5,  I. 

Who  can  speak  of  Eternity  without  a 
solecism  ? 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  i,  n. 

He   said,    "  What's   time  ?     Leave   Now 

for  dogs  and  apes  ! 
"  Man  has  Forever." 
BROWNING. — Grammarian's  Funeral,  83. 

Nothing  is  there  to  come,  and  nothing  past, 
But  an  eternal  now  does  always  last. 

COWLEY. — Davideis,  Bk.  i,  361. 

Eternity  for  bubbles  proves  at  last 
A  senseless  bargain. 

COWPER. — Garden,  175. 

And  what  a  trifle  is  a  moment's  breath, 
Laid  in  the  scale  with  everlasting  death  ! 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Prudence,  139. 

Eternity  be  thou  my  refuge. 

Epitaph  on  the  tomb  of  Etienne 
Pivert  de  Sennacour. 

ETHICS 

Begin  where  we  will,  we  are  pretty  sure 
in  a  short  space  to  be  mumbling  our  ten 
commandments. 

EMERSON. — Prudence. 

Such  a  body  of  ethics,  proved  to  be  the 
law  of  nature,  from  principles  of  reason, 
and  reaching  all  the  duties  of  life,  I  think 
nobody  will  say  the  world  had  before  our 
Saviour's  time. 

LOCKE. — Reasonableness  of 
Christianity 


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ETIQUETTE 

I  believe  that  other  ethics  than  any 
which  can  be  evolved  from  exclusively 
Christian  sources,  must  exist,  side  by  side 
with  Christian  ethics,  to  produce  the  moral 
regeneration  of  mankind. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  2. 

ETIQUETTE 

But   they   couldn't    chat    together — they 
had  not  been  introduced. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Etiquette. 

Where  etiquette  prevents  me  from  doing 
things  disagreeable  to  myself,  I  am  a  per- 
fect martinet. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lady  Holland, 
Nov.  6,  1842. 

EUPHEMISM 

It    [Chinese    Labour   in    South  Africa] 

could  not,  in  the  opinion  of  His  Majesty's 

Government,  be  classified  as  slavery  in  the 

extreme  acceptance  of  the  word  without 

some  risk  of  terminological  inexactitude. 

WINSTON  CHURCHILL. — Speech    in 

House  of  Commons,  Feb.  22,  1906. 

He  had  used  the  word  in  its  Pickwickian 

sense.  .  .  .  He  had  merely  considered  him 

a  humbug  in  a  Pickwickian  point  of  view, 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  i. 

EVENING 

At  the  close  of  the  day,  when  the  hamlet  is 

still, 
And  mortals  the  sweets  of  forgetfulness 

prove.  BEATTIE. — The  Hermit. 

When  the  gloaming  is,  I  never  made  the 

ghost  of  an  endeavour 
To    discover — but   whatever   were    the 
hour  it  would  be  sweet. 
C.  S.  CALVERLEY. — In  the  Gloaming. 

The  dews  of  the  evening  most  carefully 

shun, 

Those  tears  of  the  sky  for  the  loss  of  the 
sun. 

EARL  OF  CHESTERFIELD. — To  a  Lady 
in  Autumn. 

The  curfew  tolls  the  knell  of  parting  day, 
The  lowing  herd  winds  slowly  o'er  the 

lea, 
The  ploughman  homeward  plods  his  weary 

way, 

And  leaves  the  world  to  darkness  and  to 
me.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

Now  fades  the  glimmering  landscape  on 

the  sight, 
And  all  the  air  a  solemn  stillness  holds. 

GRAY.  -1b. 

The  day  is  done,  and  the  darkness 
Falls  from  the  wings  of  Night. 

LONGFELLOW. — Day  is  <:one. 


EVIDENCE 


Now  came  still  evening  on,  and  twilight 

grey 
Had  in  her  sober  livery  all  things  clad. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  598. 

How  dear  to  me  the  hour  when  daylight 

dies, 

And  sunbeams  melt  along  the  silent  sea, 

For  then  sweet  dreams  of  other  days  arise, 

And  memory  breathes  her   vesper  sigh 

to  me.  MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

The  hills  grow  dark, 
On  purple  peaks  a  deeper  shade  descend- 
ing. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  Conclusion. 

As  pensive  evening  deepens  into  night. 
WORDSWORTH. — To . 

EVENTS 

There  are  moments  in  life  worth  pur- 
chasing with  worlds. 

FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  3,  c.  2. 

Oh  !  what  a  crowded  world  one  moment 

may  contain  ! 
MRS.  HEMANS. — The  Last  Constantine,  59. 

I  claim  not  to  have  controlled  events, 
but  confess  plainly  that  events  have  con- 
trolled me. 

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. — Speech,  1864. 

These  most  brisk  and  giddy-paced  times. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

It  is  not  an  event ;  it  is  a  piece  of  news. 
TALLEYRAND  (on  the  death  of  Napoleon}. 

All  the  great  events  of  this  globe  are  like 
the  globe  itself,  of  which  one  half  is  in  the 
full  daylight  and  the  other  half  is  plunged 
in  obscurity. 

VOLTAIRE. — Pyrrhonism  of  History. 

EVIDENCE 

"  You  must  not  tell  us  what  the  soldier, 
or  any  other  man  said,  sir,"  interposed 
the  judge  ;  "  it's  not  evidence." 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  34. 

The  ear  is  a  less  trustworthy  witness 
than  the  eye.  HERODOTUS. 

One  eye-witness  is  better  than  ten  hear- 
say witnesses. 

PLAUTUS. — Truculentus,  Act  2. 

Give  me  six  lines  written  by  the  hand 
of  a  most  honourable  man,  and  I  will  find 
in  them  something  to  cause  him  to  be 
hanged.  RICHELIEU. 

Some  •  circumstantial  evidence  is  very 
strong, — as  when  you  find  a  trout  in  the 
milk. 

H.  D.  THOREAU.— Unpublished  MSS. 


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EVIL 


EXAMINATIONS 


The  eyes  believe  themselves,  the  ears 
believe  other  people. 

Prov.  (from  the  Greek). 

One  man's  word  is  no  man's  word  ; 
Justice  needs  that  both  be  heard. 
Translation  of  Inscription  in  Frankfort 
Council  Chamber. 

EVIL 

Evil,  once  manfully  fronted,  ceases  to 
be  evil.  CARLYLE. — Chartism,  ch.  10. 

The  doing  evil  to  avoid  an  evil  cannot 
be  good.  COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini. 

To  do  evil  to  men  differs  in  no  respect 
from  committing  injustice. 

PLATO. — Crito,   10  (Gary  tr.). 

Man,  do  not  waste  further  time  in 
searching  for  the  author  of  evil ;  that 
author  is  yourself.  ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

He  was  always  for  ill,  and  never  for  good. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  3,  12. 

A  thing 

Too  bad  for  bad  report. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  i,   i. 

Evil  perpetually  tends  to  disappear. 
HERBERT  SPENCER. — Social  Statics, 
Pt.  i,  ch.  2. 

The  origin  of  evil  has  always  been  an 
abyss  which  no  one  can  fathom. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dictionnaire 
Pkilosophique  (Bien). 

Good  and  evil  shall  not  be  held  equal. 

Koran,  ch.  41. 

EVIL  DEEDS 

Some  act 

That  has  no  relish  of  salvation  in  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  3. 

EVILS 

Of  two  evils  the  lesser  is  always  to  be 
chosen.  THOMAS  A  KEMPIS. — be  Imit., 

3.  12,  2. 

Of  two  evils  choose  neither. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — John  Ploughman. 

On  the  right  hand  Scylla,  on  the  left 
implacable  Charybdis. 

VIRGIL. — jEneid,  3,  420. 

The  twelve  evils  of  the  age  :  (i)  A  wise 
man  without  works  ;  (2)  an  old  man  with- 
out religion ;  (3)  a  young  man  without 
obedience  ;  (4)  a  rich  man  without  charity  ; 
(5)  a  woman  without  modesty ;  (6)  a 
lord  without  valour ;  (7)  a  quarrelsome 
Christian  ;  (8)  a  proud  pauper ;  (9)  an 


unjust  king};  (10)  a  negligent  bishop  ; 
(n)  a  lower  class  without  discipline ; 
(12)  a  people  without  law. 

Homily,  c.  1200  (E.  E.  T.  S.  No.  34, 
P-  107). 

EVOLUTION 

There  was  an  Ape  in  the  days  that  were 

earlier ; 
Centuries   passed   and   his    liair    became 

curlier ; 
Centuries    more    gave    a    thumb    to    his 

wrist, — 
Then  he  was  Man, — and  a  Positivist. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. 

Evolution  is  not  a  force  but  a  process, 
not  a  cause  but  a  law. 

LORD  MORLEY. — Compromise. 

Yet  I  doubt  not  through  the  ages  one  in- 
creasing purpose  runs, 

And  the  thoughts  of  men  are  widened  with 
the  process  of  the  suns. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

EXACTION 

The  pound  of  flesh,  which  I  demand  of  him, 
Is  dearly  bought,  'tis  mine,  and  I  will  have 
it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venire, 
Act  4,  i. 

EXAGGERATION 

The  speaking  in  perpetual  hyperbole  is 
comely  in  nothing  but  in  love. 

BACON. — Essays,  Love. 

A  good  speaker  must  be  somewhat  of  a 
poet  and  therefore  cannot  adhere  mathe- 
matically to  the  truth.  BISMARCK. 

What  you  exaggerate  you  weaken. 

LA  HARPE. 

O   brother,   speak   with   possibilities, 
And  do  not  break  into  these  deep  extremes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  Andronicus, 
3,  i. 

I  am  convinced  that  I  cannot  exaggerate 
enough  even  to  lay  the  foundation  of  a 
true  expression. 

H.  D.  THOREAU. — Walden,  Conclusion. 

His  statements  was  interesting  but 
tough.  MARK  TWAIN. — Huckleberry  Finn. 

There  was  things  which  he  stretched, 
but  mainly  he  told  the  truth. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Ib. 

EXAMINATIONS 

Examinations  are  formidable  even  to 
the  best  prepared  ;  for  the  greatest  fool 
may  ask  more  than  the  wisest  man  can 
answer.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 


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EXAMPLE 


EXCLUSIVENESS 


EXAMPLE 

Example    is    the    school    of    mankind, 
and  they  will  learn  at  no  other. 

BURKE. — Letters  on  a  Regicide  Peace. 

This  noble  ensample  to  his  sheep  he  yaf, 
That   first    he    wroghte,     and     afterward 
he  taughte. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

Example    does    the   whole.     Whoever   is 

foremost 
Still  leads  the  herd. 

COLERIDGE. — Wallenstein. 

Himself  a  wanderer  from  the  narrow  way, 
His  silly  sheep,  what  wonder  if  they  stray  ? 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  118. 

Example  is  the  greatest  of  all  the  seducers. 
COLLIN  D'HARLEVILLE. — Les  Maurs 
du  Jour. 

Lives  of  great  men  all  remind  us 
We  can  make  our  lives  sublime, 

And    departing,    leave    behind    us 
Footprints  in  the  sands  of  time. 
LONGFELLOW. — Psalm    of   Life. 

There  taught  us  how  to  live,  and  (oh,  too 

high 
The  price  for  knowledge  !)  taught  us  how 

to  die. 

TICKELL. — Epitaph  on  Addison. 

Example  is  a  lesson  that  all  men  can 
read.  GILBERT  WEST. — Education. 

O    could    we   copy    their   mild    virtues ! 

Then 

What  joy  to  live,  what  blessedness  to  die  ! 
Methinks  their  very  names  shine  still  and 

bright ; 
Apart — like   glow-worms   on  a   summer's 

night. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  3,  5. 

Thou  hast  left  behind 
Powers  that  will  work  for  thee,  air,  earth, 

and  skies ; 
There's  not  a  breathing  of  the  common 

wind 
That  will  forget  thee.    Thou  hast  great 

allies ; 

Thy  friends  are  exultations,  agonies, 

And  love,  and  man's  unconquerable  mind. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 

Indep.,  Pt.  i,  No.  8    (To  Toussaint 

VOuverture). 

He   mourns   the  dead  who  lives  as  they 
desire.      YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  z. 

If  the  abbot  sings  well,  the  novice  soon 
gets  in  harmony  with  him.     French  prov. 

A  handful  of  good  life  is  better  than  a 
bushel  of  learning. 

Prov.  quoted  by  Geo.  Herlert. 


EXCELLENCE 

Give  me  leave  to  make  the  excuse  of 
Boccace,  who  when  he  was  upbraided  that 
some  of  his  novels  had  not  the  spirit  of 
the  rest,  returned  this  answer,  that  Charle- 
magne, who  made  the  paladins,  was  never 
able  to  raise  an  army  of  them. 

DRYDEN. — Dedic.  of  &neid. 

All  these  I  better  in  one  general  best. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  91. 

EXCESS 

The  best  things  carried  to  excess  are 
wrong.  CHURCHILL. — Rosciad,  1039. 

The  excesses  of  our  youth  are  drafts 
upon  our  old  age,  payable  with  interest 
about  thirty  years  after  date. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Solid  men  of  Boston,  banish  long  potations; 
Solid    men    of    Boston,    make    no    long 
orations. 
C.  MORRIS. — Founded  on  older  lines. 

Something  too  much  of  this. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Ah !  No  more  of  that,  Hal,  an  thou  lovest 
me. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  2,3. 

These  violent  delights  have  violent  ends, 
And  in  their  triumph  die. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  2.  6. 

All  owres  [overs]  are  repute  to  be  vyce, 
Owre  hich.owre  low,  owre  rasch,  owre  nyce, 
Owre  het,  or  zit  owre  cauld. 

Anon. — Cherry  and  the  Sloe. 

He  is  like  the  devil's  valet,  he  does  more 
than  he  is  told.  French  prov. 

All  excess  turns  into  vice.  Latin  prov. 
EXCISE 


Excise :    A 
commodities. 


hateful    tax    levied    upon 
JOHNSON. — Dictionary. 


EXCITABILITY 

Heart  of  gunpowder,  shun  the  candle 
of  temptation. 

Given  as  a  prov.  by   C.  H.   Spurgeon. 

EXCITEMENT 

There  was  silence  deep  as  death ; 
And  the  boldest  held  his  breath — 
For  a  tune. 

CAMPBELL. — Battle  of  the  Baltic,  2. 

EXCLUSIVENESS 

Their  law  of  keeping  out  strangers  is  a 
law  of  pusillanimity  and  fear. 

BACON. — New  Atlantis. 


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EXCUSES 


EXISTENCE 


The  rose  that  all  are  praising 
Is  not  the  rose  for  me. 

T.  H.  BAYLY.— Song. 

Farewell,    farewell    the    heart    that   lives 

alone, 
Housed  in  a  dream,  at  distance  from  the 

Kind! 

Such   happiness,   wherever  it  be  known, 
Is  to  be  pitied  ;  for  'tis  surely  blind. 

WORDSWORTH. — Elegiac  Stanzas,  1805. 

EXCUSES 

"  Oh,  surely  !  surely  !  "  said  Mr.  Spen- 
low.  ..."  I  should  be  happy  myself  to 
propose  two  months,  .  .  .  but  I  have  a 
partner,  Mr.  Jorkins." 

DICKENS. — Copperfield,  c.  23. 

When  you  believe  that  you  excuse  your- 
self, you  are  accusing  yourself. 

ST.  JEROME. — Ep.  4,  c.  3,  Ad  virginem 
in  exilium  missam. 

Hence  with  denial  vain  and  coy  excuse  ! 
MILTON. — Lycidas,  18. 

In  her  face  excuse 

Came  prologue,  and  apology  too  prompt. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  853. 

An  excuse  is  worse  and  more  terrible 

than  a  lie  ;   for  an  excuse  is  a  lie  guarded. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

And,  oftentimes,  excusing  of  a  fault 
Doth  make  the  fault  the  worse  by  the 
excuse. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  4,  2. 

A  god's  command  he  pleads, 
And  makes  heaven  accessory  to  his  deeds. 
VIRGIL — jEneid,  Bk.  \  (Dryden  Ir). 

An  excuse  uncalled  for  becomes  an  ob- 
vious accusation. 

Law  Maxim.  Compare  St.  Jerome  (supia) 
and  the  French  "  Qui  s'excuse  s'accuse." 

EXECUTORS 

Women  be  forgetful,  children  be  unkind, 
Executors  be  covetous,  and  take  what  they 

find; 
If  anybody  ask  where  the  dead's  goods 

became, 

They  answer,  So  God  me  help  and  holy 
dome,  he  died  a  poor  man. 
Quoted  as  "  the  old  proverb  "  in  S/owe's 
"  Survey  of  London,"   1603. 

EXERCISE 

Better  to  hunt  in  fields  for  health  un 

bought, 
Than    fee    the    doctor    for    a    nauseous 

draught. 

The  wise,  for  cure,  on  exercise  depend  ; 
God  never  made  His  work  for  man  to  mend. 
DRYDEN. — To  J.  Driden. 


Diana  is  represented  as  the  foe  of  love, 
and  the  allegory  is  very  correct ;  the 
languors  of  love  are  only  born  of  a  sweet 
idleness.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

EXHAUSTION 

These  are  among  the  effects  of  un- 
remitted  labour,  when  men  exhaust  their 
attention,  burn  out  then:  candles,  and  are 
left  in  the  dark. 

BURKE. —  Letter  to  a  member  of 
National  Assembly  (1791). 

The  combat  ceased  for  want  of  com- 
batants. CORNEILLE. — Cid,  Act  4,  3. 

Yet  all  the  little  that  I  got  I  spent, 
And  still  returned  as  empty  as  I  went. 
DRYDEN. — Virgil,  Pastoral  i. 

EXILE 

The  deep  unutterable  woe 
Which  none  save  exiles  feel. 

W.  E.  AYTOUN. — Island  of  the  Scots. 

fruo  patriots  we  ;   for  be  it  understood, 
We  left  our  country  for  our  country's  good. 
G.  BARRINGTON. — Prologue. 

'Twas  for  the  good  of  my  country  that  I 
should  be  abroad. 

G.  FARQUHAR. — Beaux'  Stratagem, 
Act  3,  2. 

Oh  thou,  whom  chance  leads  to  this  name- 
less stone, 
From  that  proud  country  which  was  once 

my  own, 

By  those  white  cliffs  I  never  more  must  see, 
By  that  dear  language  which  I  spake  like 

thee, 

Forget  all  feuds  and  shed  one  English  tear 

O'er  English  dust ; — a  broken  heart  lies 

here.         MACAULAY. — On  a  Jacobite. 

By  foreign  hands  thy  dying  eyes  were 
closed, 

By  foreign  hands  thy  decent  limbs  com- 
posed, 

By  foreign  hands  thy  humble  grave 
adorned, 

By  strangers  honoured,  and  by  strangers 
mourned  !  POPE. — Elegy,  51. 

For  exile  hath  more  terror  in  his  look, 
Much  more  than  death. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  3,  3. 

Weep  ye  not  for  the  dead,  neither  be- 
moan him  :  but  weep  sore  for  him  that 
gocth  away  :  for  he  shall  return  no  more, 
nor  see  his  native  country. 

Jeremiah  xxii,  10. 

EXISTENCE 

I  came  like  Water,  and  like  Wind  1  j  o. 
FITZGERALD. — Rubiiyat,  st>  2  '. 


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EXPECTANCY 


EXPERIENCE 


For  who  would  lose, 
Though  full  of  pain,  this  intellectual  being, 
Those    thoughts    that    wander    through 

eternity, 

To  perish  rather,  swallowed  up  and  lost 
In  the  wide  womb  of  uncreated  night, 
Devoid  of  sense  and  motion  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk  2,  146. 

'Tis  not  the  whole  of  life  to  live, 
Nor  all  of  death  to  die. 
J.  MONTGOMERY. — Issues  of  Life. 

How    good    it    is    to    live,   even  at  the 

worst ! 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Christ  in  Hades. 

To  be  or  not  to  be,  that  is  the  question. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

We  look  before  and  after ; 

And  pine  for  what  is  not ; 
Our  sincerest  laughter 

With  some  pain  is  fraught. 

SHELLEY. — To  a  Skylark. 

I  'spect  I  growed.  Don't  think  nobody 
never  made  me. 

MRS.  H.  B.  STOWE. — Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin  (Topsy). 

EXPECTANCY  AND  EXPECTATION 

"  In  case  anything  turned  up,"  which 
was  his  [Mr.  Micawber's]  favourite  ex- 
pression. DICKENS. — David  Copperfield. 

Nothing  is  so  good  as  it  seems  before- 
hand. GEO.  ELIOT. — Silas  Marner,  ch.  18. 

"  Blessed    is    the    man    who    expects 
nothing    for    he    shall    never    be    disap- 
pointed," was  the  ninth  beatitude  which 
a  man  of  wit  .  .  .  added  to  the  eighth. 
POPE. — Letter  to  W.  Fortescue,  Sept., 

1725. 

For  now  sits  Expectation  in  the  air. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V .,  Act  2, 
chorus. 

He  hath  indeed  better  bettered  expecta- 
tion than  you  must  expect  me  to  tell  you 
how.  SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  i,  i. 

'Tis  expectation  makes  a  blessing  dear  ; 
Heaven  were  not  heaven,  if  we  knew  what 

it  were. 
SIR  J.  SUCKLING. — Against  Fruition,  st.  4. 

Unhappy  is  he  who  trusts  only  to  time 
for  his  happiness.  VOLTAIRE. — Arfemire. 

"  'Tis  expectation  makes  a  blessing  dear  ; 
Heaven  were  not  heaven,  if  we  knew  what 

it  were." 
If  'twere  not  heaven,  if  we  knew  what  it 

were, 
'Twould  not  be  heaven  to  those  who  now 

are  there. 
WALLER. — Answer  to  Sir  J.  Suckling. 


It  is  folly  to  expect  men  to  do  all  that 
they  may  reasonably  be  expected  to  do. 
ARCHBP.  WHATELY. — Apophthegms. 

"  We'll  wait  a  bit  and  see,"  as  the  puppy 
said  when  he  was  a  week  old.  Prov . 

EXPEDIENCY 

If  they,  directed  by  Paul's  holy  pen, 
Become  discreetly  all  things  to  all  men, 
That  all  men  may  become  all  things  to 

them, 

Envy  may  hate,  but  Justice  can't  con- 
demn. 
CHURCHILL. — Prophecy  of  Famine,  211. 

I  [Thrasymachus]  maintain  that  Justice 
is  merely  that  which  is  expedient  for  the 
strongest.  PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  i,  12. 

Wrest  once  the  law  to  your  authority  ; 
To  do  a  great  right,  do  a  little  wrong. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  4,  i. 

As  some  affirm  that  we  say,  Let  us  do 
evil,  that  good  may  come.  Romans  iii,  8. 

EXPENDITURE 

I  see  it  is  impossible  for  the  King  to  have 
things  done  as  cheap  as  other  men. 

PEPYS. — Diary,  1662. 

Public  money  is  like  holy  water— every- 
one helps  himself.  Italian  prov. 

EXPERIENCE 

By  experience  we  find  out  a  short  way 
by  a  long  wandering.  Learning  teacheth 
more  in  one  year  than  experience  in 
twenty.  R.  ASCHAM. — Scholemaster. 

Difficulty  is  a  severe  instructor. 
BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolution. 

Experience,  slow  preceptress,  teaching  oft 
The  way  to  glory  by  miscarriage  foul. 

COWPER. — Garden,  566. 

None  know  but  they  who  feel  the  smart. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Friendship. 

Experience  is  the  child  of  Thought,  and 
Thought  is  the  child  of  Action.  We  can- 
not learn  men  from  books. 

DISRAELI. — Vivian  Grey,Bk.  5,  ch.  i. 

The  years  teach  much  which  the  days 
never  know.  EMERSON. — Experience. 

The  Indian  Red  Jacket,  when  the  young 
braves  were  boasting  their  deeds,  said  : 
But  the  sixties  have  all  the  twenties  and 
forties  in  them.  EMERSON. — Old  Age. 

The  knowledge  which  is  most  delightful 
to  others  is  not  that  which  a  man  takes 
out  of  his  mind,  as  he  would  money  out  of 


EXPERIMENT 


EXTENUATION 


his  pocket  (both  having  the  impress  of 
another  head),  but  what  he  gives  you 
stamped  with  his  own  nature — his  own 
knowledge. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Slavery,  ch.  i. 

Trustfulness  is  silver  ;  experience  of  the 
world  is  golden.  [Hejro's  "  proverb  of  his 
own  invention."] 

IBSEN. — League  of  Youth,  Act  i  (1860). 

We  spend  our  lives  in  learning  pilotage, 
And  grow  good  steersmen  when  the  vessel's 
crank. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Wisdom  of  Eld. 

It  is  well  to  be  taught,  even  by  an  enemy. 
OVID. — Metam.,  Bk.  4. 

Them  as  won't  be  ruled  by  the  rudder, 
must  be  ruled  by  the  rock. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

Experience,  that  excellent  master,  has 
taught  me  many  things. 

PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. — (Adapted). 

He  best  can  paint  'em  who  shall  feel 
'em  most.  POPE. — Eloisa,  366. 

Then  Old  Age  and  Experience,  hand  in 
hand, 

Lead  him  to  Death,  and  make  him  under- 
stand, 

After  a  search   so  painful  and  so  long, 

That  all  his  life  he  has  been  in  the  wrong. 
EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — Satire. 

There  are  not  words  enough  in  all  Shake- 
speare to  express  the  merest  fraction  of  a 
man's  experience  in  an  hour. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — W.  Whitman. 

The  dirty  nurse,  Experience,  in  her  kind 
Hath  fouled  me. 

TENNYSON. — Last  Tournament. 

Experience  is  a  name  everyone  gives  to 
their  mistakes. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Lady  Windermere's  Fan. 

Unless  a  serpent  eats  a  serpent  it  will 
not  become  a  dragon. 

Latin  (Medi&val)  prov.  [The  meaning 
appears  to  be  that  unless  a  wise  (or  cun- 
ning) man  avails  himself  of  the  wisdom 
(or  cunning)  of  another,  he  will  not  be 
predominant.] 

He  wrongfully  accuses  Neptune  who 
makes  shipwreck  a  second  time. 

Latin  Prov.  quoted  by  Gellius,  Macrobius, 
Fublilius  Syrus,  etc. 

EXPERIMENT 

In  politics  experiments  mean  revolutions. 
DISRAELI. — Popanilla,   c.   4. 


EXPLANATION 

I  wish  he  would  explain  his  explanation. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  Dedication,  2. 

Glosyng    [i.e.,    glossing,  explaining]  is  a 

glorious   thing,    certeyn, 
For  lettre  sleeth  [slayeth],  so  as  we  clerkes 

seyn. 

CHAUCER. — Summoner's    Tale,  85. 

The  bearings  of  this  observation  lays  in 
the  application  on  it. 

DICKENS. — Dombey,  Bk.  i,  23. 

We  only  call  it  pretty  Fanny's  way. 
T.  PARNELL.— Elegy. 

Your  defence,  Socrates  [said  Protagoras], 
is  more  erroneous  than  the  passage  [in 
Simonides]  which  you  defend. 

PLATO. — Protagoras,  76  (Gary  ir.). 

If  reasons  were  as  plenty  as  blackberries, 
I  would  give  no  man  a  reason  upon  com- 
pulsion, I.       SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV., 
Pt.  i,  Act  2,  4. 

Egad,  I  think  the  interpreter  is  the 
hardest  to  be  understood  of  the  two. 

SHERIDAN. — Critic,  Act  i,  2. 

EXPLORATION 

Take  up  the  White  Man's  burden — 

Send  forth  the  best  ye  breed — 
Go,  bind  your  sons  to  exile 

To  serve  your  captives'  need  ; 
To  wait  in  heavy  harness 

On  fluttered  folk  and  wild — 
Your  new-caught  sullen  peoples, 

Half  devil  and  half  child. 

KIPLING. — White  Man's  Burden. 

Together  let  us  beat  this  ample  field, 
Try  what  the  open,  what  the  covert  yield. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man. 

EXPLOSIVES 

He  [Captain  Shotover]  is  trying  to  dis- 
cover a  psychic  ray  that  will  explode  all 
the  explosives  at  the  will  of  a  Mahatma. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Act  i. 

EXPRESSION 

The  silent  rhetoric  of  a  look. 

S.  DANIEL.— Queen's  Arcadia. 

And  leered  like  a  love-sick  pigeon. 

SOUTHEY. — Devil's  Walk. 

Barring  that  natural  expression  of 
villainy  which  we  all  have,  the  man  looked 
honest  enough. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Mysterious  Visit. 

EXTENUATION 

We  must  make  allowances  for  a  mind 
which  has  received  a  grievous  wound. 

OVID.— Ep.  ex.  Pont. 


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EXTINCTION 


EYES 


EXTINCTION 

Fate  cropped  him  short — for  be  it  under- 
stood, 

He  would  have  lived  much  longer,  if  he 
could.  W.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastes. 


EXTORTION 

God  be  wi'  the  gude  laird  o'  Balmaghie, 
for  he  ne'er  took  mair  frae  a  poor  man 
than  he  had.  Scottish  saying. 

EXTRAVAGANCE 

What  you  do  not  want  is  dear  at  a 
farthing.  CATO  (Quoted  by  Seneca). 

Extravagance  and  good  luck,  by  long 
custom,  go  hand  in  hand. 
MADAME    D'ARBLAY. — Camilla,    Dk.    10, 

c.  13. 

I  never  could  teach  the  fools  of  this 

age    that    the    indigent    world    could    be 

clothed  out  of  the  trimmings  of  the  vain. 

GOLDSMITH. — She  Stoops  to  Conquer, 

Act  i. 

Whose    welth   was    want,    whose    plenty 
made  him  poor. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  4,  29. 

Far-fetched  and  dear  bought  is  good  for 
ladies. 

STUBBES. — Anatomy  of  Abuses,  1583 
(Prov.). 

As  if  a  woman  of  education  bought 
things  because  she  wanted  them  !  Quality 
always  distinguishes  itself,  and  therefore 
as  the  mechanic  people  buy  things  because 
they  have  occasion  for  'em,  you  see  women 
of  rank  always  buy  things  because  they 
have  not  occasion  for  'em. 

SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — Confederacy, 
Act  2,  i. 

EXTREMES 

Excess  of  sorrow  laughs,  excess  of  joy 
weeps.  WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

So   men,   who   one   extravagance   would 

shun, 
Into  the  contrary'extreme  have  run. 

BUTLER. — Satire  on  Age  of  Charles  II. 

For  blindness  is  the  first-born  of  excess. 
BYRON. — Heaven  and  Earth,  i,  i. 

Avoid  extremes. 
CLEOBULUS  OF  LINDOS. — (c.  B.C.  550). 

I  have  seen  eross  intolerance  shown  in 
support  of  toleration  ;  sectarian  antipathy 
most  obtrusively  displayed  in  the  pro- 
motion of  an  undistinguishing  comprehen- 
sion of  sects  ;  and  acts  of  cruelty,  I  had 
almost  said  of  treachery,  committed  in 
furtherance  of  an  object  vitally  important 


to  the  cause  of  humanity  ;   and  all  this 

by  men  too  of  naturally  kind  dispositions 

and   exemplary   conduct.     COLERIDGE. — 

Biographia  Literaria,  ch.  10. 

An  Englishman  sees  easily  the  absurdity 

which  lurks  in  any  extreme  proposition. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  on  Council, 

Bk.  2,  ch.  5. 

And  feel  by  turns  the  bitter  change 
Of   fierce   extremes,   extremes  by  change 

more  fierce. 

From  beds  of  raging  fire  to  starve  in  ice 
Their  soft  ethereal  warmth. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  598. 

Who    love    too    much,  hate    in    the  like 
extreme.     POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  15,  79. 

Too  far  East  is  West.  Your  nice  man 
is  nasty,  your  severely  righteous  man  is 
unfair,  your  ultra-democrat  is  a  tyrant, 
and  your  liberal  thinker  is  a  bigot. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

The  falsehood  of  extremes. 

TENNYSON. — Of  Old  sat  Freedom. 

He  that  roars  for  liberty 

Faster  binds  a  tyrant's  power ; 

And  the  tyrant's  cruel  glee 
Forces  on  the  freer  hour. 
TENNYSON. — Vision  of  Sin.,  st.  17. 

EXULTATION 

Unholy  is  the  voice 

Of    loud    thanksgiving    over    slaughtered 
men.          COWPER. — Odyssey,  22,  412. 

Soothed  with  the  sound  the  King  grew 

vain  ; 

Fought  all  his  battles  o'er  again  ; 
And  thrice  he  routed  all  his  foes  and  thrice 

he  slew  the  slain. 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  4. 

True  courage  scorns 

To  vent  her  prowess  in  a  storm  of  words  ; 
And,  to  the  valiant,  actions  speak  alone. 
SMOLLETT. — Regicide,  Act  i,  7. 

Why   these   insulting   words,   this   waste 

of  breath, 

To  souls  undaunted  and  secure  of  death  ? 
"Tis  no  dishonour  for  the  brave  to  die, 
Nor  came  I  here  with  hope  of  victory. 
VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 

EYES 

Those  eyes  of  deep,  soft,  lucent  hue — 
Eyes  too  expressive  to  be  blue, 
Too  lovely  to  be  grey. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Faded  Leaves  (On  the 
Rhine),  4. 

Those  eyes,  affectionate  and  glad, 
That  seemed  to  love  whate'er  they  looked 
upon.    CAMPBELL; — Gertrude,  Pt.  2,  4. 


17J 


EYES 


FABLES 


Sweet,  silent  rhetoric  of  persuading  eyes, 
Dumb  eloquence,  whose  power  doth  move 
the  blood. 

S.  DANIEL. — Rosamond,  st.  19. 

He  [Mr.  Squeers]  had  but  one  eye,  and 
the  popular  prejudice  runs  in  favour  of 
two.  DICKENS. — Nickleby,  c.  4. 

His  smiling  eyes  with  simple  truth  were 

stored.         PHINEAS  FLETCHER  (?). — 

Britain's  Ida,  c.  i. 

His  eyes  had  a  godlike  stedfastness, 
for  it  is,  generally  speaking,  the  distinctive 
mark  of  a  god  that  his  look  is  unmoved. 
.  .  .  Napoleon's  eyes  possessed  this  pecu- 
liarity, and  hence  I  am  convinced  that  he 
also  was  a  god. 

HEINE. — The  Romantic  School. 

The  lovers,  interchanging  words  and  sighs, 

Lost  in  the  heaven  of  one  another's  eyes. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Rimini. 

Eyes  of  most  unholy  blue. 
MOORE. — Irish  Melodies,  By  That  Lake. 

Silence    that    spoke,    and    eloquence    of 
eyes.          POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  14,  252. 

The  dew  that  on  the  violet  lies 
Mocks  the  dark  lustre  of  thine  eyes. 

SCOTT. — Lord  of  the  Isles,  i,  3. 

Those  doves'  eyes, 
Which  can  make  gods  forsworn. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  5,  3. 

From  women's  eyes  this  doctrine  I  derive  : 
They    are    the   ground,    the    books,    the 

academes, 

From  whence  doth  spring  the  true  Prome- 
thean fire. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  4,  3- 

For  where  is  any  author  in  the  world 
Teaches  such  beauty  as  a  woman's  eye  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

The  heavenly  rhetoric  of  thine  eye. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

In  silent  wonder  of  still-gazing  eyes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  12. 

Thy  bones  are  marrowless,  thy  blood  is 

cold  ; 

Thou  hast  no  speculation  in  those  eyes 
Which  thou  dost  glare  with. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3.  4. 

Those  eyes  which  burn  through  smiles  that 

fade  in  tears, 
Like  stars  half  quenched  in  mists  of  sil  ver 

dew. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  2    i. 

His  soul  seemed  hovering  in  his  eyes. 
SHELLEY. — Ro  <ilind. 


An  eye  full  of  gentle  salutations  and  soft 
responses  .  .  .  whispering  soft,  like  the 
last  low  accents  of  an  expiring  saint.  .  -  . 
It  did  my  Uncle  Toby's  business. 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  7,  25. 

Those  eyes,  the  greenest  of  things  blue, 
The  bluest  of  things  grey. 

SWINBURNE. — Filise. 

Her  eyes  are  homes  of  silent  prayer. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  32. 

For  it  is  said  by  man  expert 
That  the  eye  is  traitor  to  the  heart. 
SIR  T.  WYATT. — The  Eye  Bewray eth. 

Blue  eyes  go  to  the  skies, 
Grey  eyes  to  Paradise, 
Green  eyes  to  hell  are  bound, 
In  Purgatory  black  are  found. 

Tr.  of  old  French  rhyme. 

Grey-eyed,  greedy ; 
Brown-eyed,  needy  ; 
Black-eyed,  never  blin' 
Till  it  shames  a'  its  kin'. 

Scottish  saying. 

Jest  not  with  the  eye  or  with  religion. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

You  should  never  touch  your  eye  but 
with  your  elbow.  Prov 


FABLES 

Young  persons  are  not  able  to  judge 
what  is  allegory  and  what  is  not,  but 
whatever  opinions  they  receive  at  such  an 
age  are  wont  to  be  obliterated  with  diffi- 
culty or  immovable. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  2,  17  (Davis  tr.). 

This  fable,  Glaucon,  has  been  preserved 
and  is  not  lost ;  and  it  will  preserve  us 
too  if  we  accept  its  teaching,  for  thus  we 
shall  happily  pass  over  the  river  Lethe, 
and  shall  not  pollute  our  souls. 

PLATO. — Ib.,  Bk.  10,  16  (of  the  fable 
of  Lethe). 

The  applycation  most  divinely  true, 
but  the  discourse  itselfe  fayned. 

SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for 
Poetrie. 

Admiration,  child  of  Ignorance,  sang 
of  vain  exploits  (in  reference  to  Greek 
mythology). 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Academy  of  Sciences. 

Beware  of  mixing  up  the  doubtful  and 
the  certain,  the  chimerical  and  the  true. 


FACE 


FACTS 


We    have    enough    proofs    of    the     great 

revolutions  of  the  world  without  searching 

for  new.  VOLTAIRE. — Essay  on  the 

Manners  of  Nations  (Introd.). 

The  public  loves  fables  best,  and  so 
fables  are  given  it. 

VOLTAIRE. — Pyrrhonism  of  History. 

Fables  and  endless  genealogies. 

i  Timothy  i,  4. 

FACE 

Thou  hast  a  serious  face, 
A  betting,   bargaining,   and  saving  face, 
A  rich  face  ;  pawn  it  to  the  usurer. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Scornful 
Lady,  Act  3. 

His  face, 
The  tablet  of  unutterable  thoughts. 

BYRON. — The  Dream,  st.  6. 

And    o'er    that    fair,    broad    brow    were 

wrought 
The  intersected  lines  of  thought. 

BYRON. — Parisina,  si.  17. 

That  had  a  fyr-reed  cherubinnes  face. 
CHAUCER. — Canterbury  Tales,  Prol. 

Of  his  visage  children  were  aferd. 

CHAUCER. — Ib. 

And  leered  like   a  love-sick   pigeon. 

COLERIDGE. — Devil's  Thoughts, 
st.  13. 

Human  face  divine. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  44. 

The  sweet  expression  of  that  face, 
For  ever  changing,  yet  the  same. 

ROGERS. — Farewell. 

The  outward  indications  of  the  human 
feelings,  however  similar  amongst  all  men, 
have  national  differences  whereby  one 
may  easily  be  deceived.  Nationalities 
have  different  languages  in  facial  expres- 
sion as  well  as  in  lingual  expression. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile,  Bk.  5. 

It  is  pleasant  to  know  that  Pallas  had 
blue  eyes  ;  but  I  think  Homer  might  have 
also  told  us  something  about  her  lips  and 
chin. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Vol.  2,  Pt.  3, 
ch.  3,  6  (Note,  1882,  to  Revised  Ed.). 

His  face  was  of  the  doubtful  kind 
That  wins   the  eye,   but  not   the  mind. 
SCOTT. — Rokeby,  c.  5,  st.  16. 

The  tartness  of  his  face  sours  ripe  grapes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  5,  4. 

There's  no  art 

To  find  the  mind's  construction  in  the  face. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i   4. 


I  saw  Othello's  visage  in  his  mind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

A  picturesque  countenance  rather  than 

one  that  is  esteemed  of  regular  features. 

SHENSTONE. — Humourist. 

If  nature  has  made  such  a  language 
of  looks,  it  is  only  vernacular  in  each 
particular  country.  It  is  not  the  language 
of  the  whole  world.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — 

Lectures  on  Moral  Philosophy,  No.  22. 

Her  face  is  like  the  milky  way  i'  the  sky, 

A  meeting  of  gentle  lights  without  a  name. 

SIR  J.  SUCKLING. — Brenneralt. 

FACTION 

What  dire  effects  from  civil  discord  flow  ! 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  5,  4. 

Faction,  Disappointment's  restless  child. 

SOAME  JENYNS. — On  an  attempt  on  H is 

Majesty's  Life. 

As  we  wax  hot  in  faction, 

In  battle  we  wax  cold  ; 
Wherefore  men  fight  not  as  they  fought 

In  the  brave  days  of  old. 

MACAULAY. — Horatius,   st.  33. 

Party  is  the  madness  of  many  for  the 
gain  of  a  few.  POPE. — Miscellanies. 

No  men  are  so  disposed  to  anger  as 
those  who  are  ambitious  of  honour  and 
affect  to  carry  on  a  faction  in  a  city,  which 
(according  to  Pindar)  is  but  a  splendid 
vexation.  PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

For  he  will  never  follow  anything 

That  other  men  begin. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ctzsar,  Act  2,  i. 

What   though   our   danger   is   not   really 

great  ? 
'Tis  brave  to  oppose   a   government  we 

hate. 

Poison  the  nation  with  your  jealous  fears, 
And  set  the  fools  together  by  the  ears. 

SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

The  grateful  work  is  done, 
The  seeds  of  discord  sowed,  the  war  begun  ; 
Frauds,  fears,  and  fury  have  possessed  the 

state, 
And  fixed  the  causes  of  a  lasting  hate. 

VIRGIL. — jEneid,  Bk.  7  (Dryden  lr.). 

Nor  can  we  expect  that  men  of  factious, 

peevish,   and   perverse  spirits  should   be 

satisfied  with  anything  that  can  be  done 

in  this  kind  by  any  other  than  themselves. 

Book  of  Common  Prayer.     Pref. 

FACTS 

But  facts  are  facts  and  flinch  not. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book, 
2,  1049. 


'73 


FAILINGS 


FAIRIES 


But  facts  are  chiels  that  vvinna  ding, 
And  downa  be  disputed. 

BURNS. — A  Dream. 

Now  what  I  want  is,  Facts.  Facts  alone 
are  wanted  in  life. 

DICKENS. — Hard  Times,  c.  i. 

Get  your  facts  first,  and  then  you  can 
distort  them  as  you  please. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Interview. 

FAILINGS 

True  it  is  she  had  one  failing — 

Had  a  woman  ever  less  ? 
BURNS. — Lines  under  picture  of  Miss 
Burns. 

And  even  his   failings  leaned  to  virtue's 
side.      GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

When  you  know  the  failing  of  a  man 
whom  you  wish  to  please,  you  must  indeed 
be  very  clumsy  if  you  do  not  succeed. 

LE  SAGE. — Gil  Bias,  Bk.  8,  ch.  2. 

Confess  the  failings  as  we  must, 
The  lion's  mark  is  always  there. 

F.  T.  PALGRAVE. — Wordsworth. 

FAILURE 

If  this  be  then  success 
'Tis  dismaller  than  any  failure. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh. 

On  the  earth   the   broken    arcs ;    in   the 
heaven,  a  perfect  round. 

BROWNING. — Abt.  Vogler,  st.  9. 

The  best-laid  schemes  o'  mice  and  men 

Gang  aft  a-gley, 
And  leave  us  naught  but  grief  and  pain 

For  promised  joy.  BURNS. — To  a  Mouse. 

Where  he  falls  short,  'tis  Nature's  fault 

alone  ; 

Where  he  succeeds,  the  merit's  all  his  own. 
CHURCHILL. — Rosciad,  1025. 

Invention  flags,  his  brain  grows  muddy, 
And  black  despair  succeeds  brown  study. 
CONGREVE. — An  Impossible  Thing. 

Our   enemies   will    tell    the    rest    with 

pleasure.      BISHOP  FLEETWOOD. — Preface 

to  Sermons,  1712. 

Like  ships  that  sailed  for  sunny  isles 
But  never  came  to  shore  ! 

T.  K.  HERVEY. — Devil's  Progress. 

There  is  not  a  fiercer  hell  than  the  failure 
in  a  great  object. 

KEATS. — Pref.  to  Endymion. 

Boanerges  Blitzen,  servant  of  the  queen, 
Is  a  dismal  failure— is  a  Might-have-been. 
KIPLING. — Departmental  Ditties, 
Man  who  could  write. 


We    might    have    been — these    are    but 

common  words, 

And  yet  they  make  the  sum  of  life's 
bewailing. 

L.  E.  LANDON. — Diary  of  a  Week. 

Each  man  makes  his  own  shipwreck. 

LUCANUS. — Pharsalia. 

The    man    who    loses    his    opportunity 

loses  himself.       GEO.  MOORE. — Bending  of 

the  Bough,  Act  5. 

Born  to  fail, 

A  name  without  an  echo. 
SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — N on-Combatant. 

In  beauty's  cause  illustriously  he  fails. 
POPE. — Odyssey,  n,  358. 

The  painful  warrior,  famoused  for  fight, 
After  a  thousand  victories,  once  foiled, 
Is  from  the  book  of  honour  razed  quite, 
And  all  the  rest  forgot  for  which  he  toiled. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  25. 

We  learn  wisdom  from  failure  much 
more  than  from  success.  We  often  dis- 
cover what  will  do,  by  finding  out  what 
will  not  do.  SMILES. — Self -Help,  c.  n. 

What  though  success  will  not  attend  on  all  ? 

Who  bravely  dares  must  sometimes  risk  a 

fall.  SMOLLETT. — Advice. 

This  proverb  flashes  through  his  head, 
The  many  fail :  the  one  succeeds. 

TENNYSON. — Day-dream,  Arrival,  2. 

The  King  of  France  went  up  the  hill 

With  twenty  thousand  men  ; 
The  King  of  France  came  down  the  hill 

And  ne'er  went  up  again. 

Old  Tarlton's  Song  (i6th  Cent.  ?). 

The  fish  which  we  did  not  catch  is  a 
very  large  one.  Prov. 

FAINT-HEARTEDNESS 

Faint  heart  fair  lady  ne'er  could  win. 
PHINEAS  FLETCHER  (?). — Britain's 
Ida,  c.  5,  i. 

Fain  would  I  climb  but  that  I  fear  to  fall. 
SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Written  on  a  Glass 
Window.  (Queen  Elizabeth  is  said  to  have 
added :  "If  thy  heart  fail  thce,  do  not 
climb  at  all.") 

FAIR-DEALING 

Fair  and  honest  John  o'  the  Bank, 
Has  aye  the  right  gully  [pocket-knife]  by 
the  shank.  Scottish  prov. 

FAIRIES 

And  now  they  throng  the  moonlight  glade, 

Above,  below,  on  every  side, 
Their  little  minim  forms  arrayed, 

In  all  the  tricksy  pomp  of  fairy  pride. 
J.  R.  DRAKE. — Culprit  Fay. 


FAITH 


FAITH 


Oh,  then,  I  see,  Queen  Mab  hath  been  with 

you. 

She  is  the  fairies'  midwife  ;  and  she  comes 
In  shape  no  bigger  than  an  agate-stone 
On  the  forefinger  of  an  alderman, 
Drawn  with  a  team  of  little  atomies 
Athwart  men's  noses  as  they  lie  asleep. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  i,  4. 

FAITH 

Who  once  has  doubted  never  quite  be- 
lieves. 


Who  once  believed  will  never  wholly  doubt. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Prince  Lucifer, 

Act  6,  3. 

The  faith  that  Wordsworth  had ; 
The  faith  of  Hugo,  Dante,  and  of  all 
Great  deep-souled  poets — a  great  faith  in 

God, 
Apart  from  creeds  and  churches. 

G.  BARLOW. — Dawn  to  Sunset,  Bk.  2, 
Poet's  Letter,  I.  237. 

You  must  believe  in  good  in  order  to 
do  it.  DE  BONALD  (1753-1840). 

Methinks  there  be  not  impossibilities 
enough  in  Religion  for  an  active  faith. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  PI.  i,  9. 

To  believe  only  possibilities  is  not  Faith, 
but  mere  Philosophy 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Ib.,  Pt.  i,  48. 

'Tis  well  averred, 
A  scientific  faith's  absurd. 

BROWNING. — Easter  Day,  c.  6. 

Believing  hath  a  core  of  unbelieving. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Book  of  Orm. 

For  as  implicit  faith  is  far  more  stiff 
Than    that    which    understands    its    own 

belief, 
So  those  that   think,  and    do  but    think 

they  know, 
Are  far  more  obstinate  than  those  who  do. 

S.  BUTLER. — On  the  Licentiousness  of 
the  Age. 

He  that  will  believe  only  what  he  can 
fully  comprehend  must  have  a  very  long 
head,  or  a  very  short  creed. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Each  man's  belief  is  right  in  his  own  eyes 
COWPER. — Hope,  285. 

The  faith  that  stands  on  authority  is 
not  faith.  EMERSON. — The  Over-Soul. 

I  hear  the  message  but  I  want  the  faith. 
GOETHE. 

In  Faith  everything  depends  on  the  fact 
of  believing  ;  what  is  believed  is  a  matter 
of  indifference.  GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  14. 


Much  knowledge  of  things  divine  es- 
capes us  through  want  of  faith. 

HERACLITUS  (according  to  Plutarch). 

A  peasant  may  believe  as  much 
As  a  great  clerk,  and  reach  the  highest 
stature.  HERBERT. — Faith. 

An  opinion  hath  spread  itself  very  far 
in  the  world,  as  if  the  way  to  be  ripe  in 
faith  were  to  be  raw  in  wit  and  judgment. 
HOOKER. — Eccles.  Pol.,  3,  8,  4. 

The  ear  of  wheat  laid  low  by  a  hailstorm 
can  never  rear  its  head  again  ;  nor  can  our 
faith. 

IBSEN. — Love's  Comedy,  Act  3  (1862). 

And    Wisdom    cries,   "  I   know  not  any- 
thing ;  " 

And  only  Faith  beholds  that  all  is  well. 
S.  R.  LYSAGHT. — A   Lesson,  I.  102. 

Courage,    brother !    do   not   stumble, 
Though  thy  path  be  dark  as  night : 

There's  a  star  to  guide  the  humble; 
Trust  in  God,  and  do  the  right. 

NORMAN  MACLEOD. — Trust  in  God. 

Unfaith   clamouring   to   be   coined 
To  faith  by  proof. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Earth  and  Man,  st.  41. 

O  welcome,  pure-eyed  Faith  ! 

MILTON. — Comus,  I.  213. 

Who   brought   me    hither 
Will  bring  me  hence  :  no  other  guide  I 

seek. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  335. 

Call  no  faith  false  which  e'er  hath  brought 

Relief  to  any  laden  life, 
Cessation  from  the  pain  of  thought, 

Refreshment  'mid  the  dust  of  strife. 

SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Tolerance. 

Beautiful  Faith,  surrendering  unto  Time. 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Marpessa,  62. 

Faith  in  something  is  an  absolute  and 

vital  essential  to  the  life  of  every  woman. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

The  talk  is  of  perishing  faith,  and  reason 
answers  that  sooner  will  the  principles  of 
gravitation  and  evolution  perish  than 
faith.  Faith  is  a  permanent  and  vital 
endowment  of  the  human  mind — a  part  of 
reason  itself.  The  insane  alone  are  with- 
out it.  E.  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

It  is  all  very  well  to  adjure  me,  "  Put 
your  reason  in  subjection."  Any  man 
who  wishes  to  deceive  me  might  say  that, 
but  I  require  reasons  why  I  should  put 
my  reason  in  subjection. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile,  Bk.  4. 


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FAITHFULNESS 


FALLEN  IN  BATTLE 


Faith  ...  in  the  sense  of  adherence  to 
resolution,  obedience  to  law,  regardful- 
ness  of  promise,  in  which  from  all  time  it 
has  been  the  test,  as  the  shield,  of  the  true 
being  and  life  of  man.  RUSKIN. — Modern 
Painters,  vol.  2,  sec.  2,  ch.  3,  4. 

He  wears  his  faith  but  as  the  fashion 
of  his  hat. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  i,  i. 

And  bloody  Faith,  the  foulest  birth  of  time. 
SHELLEY. — Feelings  of  a  Republican. 

What  we  do  not  believe  is  of  no  import- 
ance. The  secret  of  life  is  to  discover 
what  we  believe.  EDITH  SICHEL. — Thoughts. 

Want  of  belief  is  a  defect  that  ought  to 

be  concealed  when  it  cannot  be  overcome. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Religion. 

Faith,  haggard  as  fear  that  has  borne  her. 
SWINBURNE. — Autumn  Vision,  7,  9. 

Believing  where  we  cannot  prove. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  Introd. 

Whose  faith  has  centre  everywhere, 
Nor  cares  to  fix  itself  to  form. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  33. 

One  in  whom  persuasion  and  belief 
Had  ripened  into  faith,  and  faith  become 
A  passionate  intuition. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4. 

Faith  is  the  assurance  of  things  hoped 
for,  the  proving  of  things  not  seen. 

Hebrews  xi,  i  (Rev.  Ver.). 

Faith  apart  from  works  is  barren. 

James  ii,  20  (Rev.  Ver.). 

FAITHFULNESS 

The  deepest  hunger  of  a  faithful  heart 
Is  faithfulness. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Spanish  Gypsy,  5. 

This  is  the  famous  stone 
That  turneth  all  to  gold. 

HERBERT. — The  Elixir. 

FAITHLESSNESS 

Who  should  be  trusted,  when  one's  own 

right  hand 
Is  perjured  to  the  bosom  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gent,  of  Verona, 
Act  5,  4. 
There's  no  trust, 

No  faith,  no  honesty  in  men  ;  all  perjured, 
All  forsworn,  all  naught,  all  dissemblers. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  3,  2. 

FALL 

Fallen  from  his  high  estate, 

And  weltering  in  his  blood. 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  4. 


Of  Man's  first  disobedience  and  the  fruit 
Of  that  forbidden  tree,  whose  mortal  taste 
Brought  death  into  the  world,  and  all 

our  woe, 
With  loss  of  Eden. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  i. 

Dropped  from  the  zenith  like  a  fallen  star. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  i,  745. 

Among  the  prime  in  splendour,  now  de- 
posed, 

Ejected,  emptied,  gazed.unpitied,  shunned, 
A  spectacle  of  ruin  or  of  scorn. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  413. 

Though  they  fell,  they  fell  like  stars, 
Streaming  splendour  through  the  sky. 
J.  MONTGOMERY. — Battle  of  Alexandria. 

The  vulgar  falls,  and  none  laments  his  fate. 

Sorrow  has  hardly  leisure  for  the  great. 

N.  ROWE. — Pharsalia,  Bk.  4. 

O  Hamlet,  what  a  falling  off  was  there  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

And  when  he  falls,  he  falls  like  Lucifer, 
Never  to  hope  again. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

O,  what  a  fall  was  there,  my  countrymen  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

He  that  climbs  highest  has    the   greatest 

fall. 
C.  TOURNEUR. — Revenger's  Tragedy,  Act  5. 

There  to  thy  fellow-ghosts  with  glory  tell, 

'Twas  by  the  great  Eneas'  hand  I  fell. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 

How  are  the  mighty  fallen  !  Tell  it 
not  in  Gath,  publish  it  not  in  the  streets  of 
Askelon.  2  Samuel  i,  19,  20. 

How  art  thou  fallen  from  heaven,  O 
day  star,  son  of  the  morning  ! 

Isaiah  xiv,  12  (Rev.  Ver.). 

Let  the  drunkard  alone  and  he  will  fall 
of  himself.  Hebrew  prov. 

FALLACIES 

There  is  always  less  money,  less  wisdom, 
and  less  honesty  than  people  imagine. 

Italian  prov.,  as  quoted  by  Bacon. 

FALLEN  IN  BATTLE 

With  proud  thanksgiving,   a  mother  for 

her  children, 
England  mourns  for  her  dead  across  the 

sea. 
Flesh  of  her  flesh  they  were,  spirit  of  her 

spirit, 
F;illen  in  the  cause  of  the  free. 

LAURENCE  BINYON. — For  the  Fallen. 


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FALLIBILITY 


FAME 


These  laid  the  world  away  ;  poured  out  the 

red 
Sweet  wine  of  youth  ;    gave  up  the  years 

to  be 
Of    work   and  joy,    and  that    unhoped 

serene, 
That   men   call   age ;     and   those   who 

would  have  been, 

Their  sons,  they  gave,  their  immortality. 
RUPERT  BROOKE. — The  Dead. 

How  sleep  the  brave,  who  sink  to  rest 
By  all  their  country's  wishes  blest  ! 

WM.  COLLINS. — Ode. 

Shout  not,  be  still !  Unholy  is  the  voice 
Of    loud    thanksgiving    over    slaughtered 
men.     HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  22,  411 
(Cowper  tr.). 

FALLIBILITY 

I  beseech  you,  in  the  bowels  of  Christ, 
think  it  possible  you  may  be  mistaken. 

CROMWELL. — Letter  to  General 
Assembly,  1650. 

We  are  none  of  us  infallible,  not  even 
the  youngest.  W.  H.  THOMPSON. 

FALSE  REPORTS 

The  world  is  naturally  averse 
To  all  the  truth  it  sees  or  hears, 
But  swallows  nonsense  and  a  lie 
With  greediness  and  gluttony. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  2. 

The  feeblest  vermin  can  destroy, 
As  sure  as  stoutest  beasts  of  prey  ; 
And  only  with  their  eyes  and  breath 
Infect,  and  poison  men  to  death. 

BUTLER. — Ode  on  Critics. 

Nothing  gives  such  a  blow  to  friendship 
as  the  detecting  another  in  an  untruth. 
It  strikes  at  the  root  of  our  confidence  ever 
after.  HAZLITT. — Characteristics. 

FALSEHOOD 

Falsehood  and  fraud  shoot    up  on  every 

soil, 
The  product  of  all  climes. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  4,  4. 

There's  a  real  love  of  a  lie, 
Liars  find  ready  made  for  lies  they  make. 
BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

There  is  truth  in  falsehood,  falsehood  in 
untruth. 
BROWNING. — Soul's  Tragedy,  Act  2. 

Falsehood  has  a  perennial  spring. 
BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 

'Twas  a  most  notorious  flam. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  3. 

For  things  said  false  and  never  meant, 
Do  oft  prove  right  by  accident. 

BUTLER. — Weakness  of  Man. 


Agree  to  a  short  armistice  with  truth. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  83. 

The  beginning  of  all  is  to  have  done  with 
Falsity.  CARLYLE. — Journal. 

Ever  to  that  truth, 
Which  but  the  semblance  of  a  falsehood 

wears, 

A  man,  if  possible,  should  bar  his  lip. 
H.  F.  GARY. — Dante's  "  Hell,"  c.  16,  147. 

I  know  a  maiden  fair  to  see  ; 

Take  care  ! 
She  can  both  false  and  friendly  be  ; 

Beware  !  Beware  ! 

Trust  her  not, 
She  is  fooling  thee  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — Beware. 

Some  falsehood  mingles  with  all  truth. 
LONGFELLOW. — Golden  Legend. 

Him  thus  intent  Ithuriel  with  his  spear 
Touched   lightly ;     for   no   falsehood   can 

endure 

Touch  of  celestial  temper,  but  returns 
Of  force  to  its  own  likeness. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  810. 

A  goodly  apple,  rotten  at  the  heart. 
O   what  a  goodly  outside  falsehood  hath  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  3. 

For  know,  my  heart  stands  arme'd  in  mine 

ear, 

And  will  not  ?et  a  false  sound  enter  there. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis 

st.  130. 

Falsehood  flies  and  truth  comes  limping 
after  it,  so  that  when  men  come  to  be  un- 
deceived it  is  too  late. 

SWIFT. — Examiner,  No.  15. 

Man  is  ice  to  truth,  fire  to  falsehood. 

VOLTAIRE  (?). 

FAME 

And  o'er  the  plain,  where  the  dead  age 
Did  its  now  silent  warfare  wage, 

The  one  or  two  immortal  lights 
Rise  slowly  up  into  the  sky 
To  shine  there  everlastingly. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Bacchanalia. 

Fame  and  her  less  fair  followers,  envy, 

strife, 

Stupid  detraction,  jealousy,  cabal, 
Insincere  praises. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Early  Death  and  Fame. 

Here's  an  acre  sown  indeed 
With  the  richest,  royalest  seed. 
F.  BEAUMONT. — Westminster  Abbey. 

Strong  towers  decay, 
But  a  great  name  shall  never  pass  away. 
PARK  BENJAMIN. — A  Great  Name. 


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FAME 


FAME 


High  and  adventurous  actions,  which 
.  .  .  leaveth  their  names  canonised  in 
Fame's  Eternal  Calendar. 

JOHN  BOURCHIER  (BARON  BERNERS) 

Huon  of  Bordeaux,  Pref.  (Printed  c. 

1534). 

The   eagle   am   I,   with  my  fame  in  the 

world  ; 
The  wren  is  he,  with  his  maiden  face. 

BROWNING. — A  Light  Woman, 

Sure  of  the  Fortieth  spare  Arm-chair, 
When  gout  and  glory  seat  me  there. 

BROWNING. — Dis  aliter  visum. 

The  glory  dies  not,  and  the  grief  is  past. 
SIR  S.  E.  BRYDGES. — Death  of  Sir  Walter 

Scott. 

Passion  for  fame  ;  a  passion  which  is 
the  instinct  of  all  great  souls. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 

But  these  are  deeds  which  should  not  pass 

away, 
And  names  that  must  not  wither. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  67. 

Mortals,  who  sought  and  found,  by  danger- 
ous roads, 
A  path  to  perpetuity  of  fame. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  105. 

Fame  is  the  thirst  of  youth, — but  I  am 
not  so  young  as  to  regard  men's  frown  or 
smile.  BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  112. 

I  awoke  one  morning  and  found  myself 
famous. 

BYRON. — Memorandum  on  the  instanta- 
neous success  of  "  Childe  Harold  "  (1812). 

And  Folly  loves  the  martyrdom  of  Fame. 
BYRON. — Death  of  Sheridan. 

What  is  the  end  of  Fame  ?  'tis  but  to  fill 
A  certain  portion  of  uncertain  paper. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  218. 

Renown's  all  hit  or  miss  ; 
There's  fortune  even  in  fame,  we  must 
allow.  BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  7,  33. 

Yet  what  is  all  that  fires  a  hero's  scorn 
Of  death  ? — the  hope  to  live  in  hearts  un- 
born. 
CAMPBELL. — Lines  in  "  La  Perouse." 

Victorious  names,  who  made  the  world 

obey ; 
Who,  while  they  lived,  in  deeds  of  arms 

excelled, 
And,  after  death  for  deities  were  held. 

DRYDEN. — Flower  and  Leaf,  518. 

As  such  a  one  that  ever  strives  to  give 
A  blessed  memory  to  after-time. 

J.    FLETCHER. — Faithful   Shepherdess, 

Act  5. 


For  whoso  reaps  renown  above  the  rest, 
With  heaps  of  hate  shall  surely  be  op- 
pressed. 

GASCOIGNE. — Steel  Glass  (1576). 

The  deed  is  everything  ;    the  fame  is 
nothing.  GOETHE. 

Beyond  the  limits  of  a  vulgar  fate, 
Beneath  the  good  how  far — but  far  above 
the  great. 

GRAY. — Progress  of  Poesy,  3,  122. 

For  thou  art  Freedom's  now,  and  Fame's, 
One  of  the  few,  the  immortal  names, 

That  were  not  born  to  die. 
FITZ-GREENE  HALLECK. — Marco  Bozzaris. 

Amongst     whom     Jove's     ambassadress, 
Fame,  in  her  virtue  shined, 

Exciting  greediness  to  hear 

HOMER. — Iliad,  Bk.  2  (Chapman  tr.). 

Here  if  I  stay,  before  the  Trojan  town, 
Short  is  my  date  but  deathless  my  re- 
nown ; 

If  I  return,  I  quit  immortal  praise, 
For  years  on  years  and  long  extended  days. 
HOMER. — Ib.,  Bk.  9,  410  (Pope  tr.). 

He  left  the  name,  at  which  the  world  grew 

pale, 
To  point  a  moral  or  adorn  a  tale. 

JOHNSON — Vanity  of  Human  Wishes. 

According  to  -eternal  laws 
(Tis  useless  to  inquire  the  cause), 
The  gates  of  fame  and  of  the  grave 
Stand  under  the  same  architrave. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Miscell.,  No.  39. 

So,  when  a  great  man  dies, 

For  years  beyond  our  ken, 
The  light  he  leaves  behind  him  lies 
Upon  the  paths  of  men. 

LONGFELLOW. — Birds  of  Passage, 
Flight  3. 

Deep,  wondrous  deep  below, 
How  poor  mistaken  mortals  wandering  go, 
Seeking  the  path  to  Happiness.     Some  aim 
At  Learning,  Wit,  Nobility,  or  Fame  ; 
Others  with  cares  and  dangers  vex  each 

hour 

To  reach  the  top  of  Wealth  and  sovereign 
Power.   LUCRETIUS,  2,  10  (Creech  tr.). 

Happy   is   the   man   who   hath   never 

known  what  it  is  to  taste  of  fame — to  have 

it  is  a  purgatory,  to  want  it  is  a  Hell ! 

EDWD.  (IST)  LORD  LYTTON. — Last  of 

the  Barons,  Bk.  5,  ch.   i. 

Not  till  the  fire  is  dying  in  the  grate 

Look  we  for  any  kinship  with  the  stars. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  4. 

By    labour    and    intent    study  ...  I 

might  perhaps  leave  something  so  written 

to  after-times,  as  they  should  not  willingly 

let  it  die.     MILTON. — Church  Government. 


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FAME 


Fame  is  the  spur  that  the  clear  spirit  doth 

raise 

(That  last  infirmity  of  noble  mind) 
To  scorn  delights,  and  live  laborious  days, 
But  the  fair  guerdon  when  we  hope  to  find, 
And  seek  to  burst  out  into  sudden  blaze, 
Comes  the  blind  Fury  with  the  abhorred 

shears, 
And  slits  the  thin-spun  life. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  70. 

Fame  is  no  plant   that  grows  on  mortal 
soil.  MILTON. — Ib.,  78. 

As  he  pronounces  lastly  on  each  deed, 
Of  so  much  fame  in  Heaven  expect  thy 
meed.  MILTON. — Ib.,  83. 

Not   to   know  me    argues  yourselves  un- 
known. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  830. 

Life  is   too  short  for  any  distant   aim  ; 

And  cold  the  dull  reward  of  future  fame. 

LADY  M.  WORTLEY  MONTAGU. — To 

Lord  Burlington. 

And  like  to  one  he  seemed  whose  better 

day 

Is  over  to  himself,  though  foolish  fame 
Shouts  louder  year  by  year  his  empty  name. 
W.  MORRIS. — Wanderers,  466. 

Unless  what  we  do  is  useful,  fame  is 
folly.  PH^DRUS. — Fables. 

Immortal  heirs  of  universal  praise  ! 
Whose  honours  with  increase  of  ages  grow, 
As  streams  roll  down,  enlarging  as  they 
flow.  POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  190. 

Nations  unborn  your  mighty  names  shall 
sound.  POPE. — Ib.,  193. 

Above  all  Greek,  above  all  Roman  fame. 
POPE. — Satires,  Bk.  2,  26. 

Their  pleas  were  different,  their  request  the 

same, 

For  good  and  bad  alike  are  fond  of  fame. 
POPE. — Temple  of  Fame,  292. 

Fame's  but  a  hollow  echo  ;    Gold,  pure 

clay ; 

Honour,  the  darling  but  of  one  short  day. 
SIR  W.  RALEGH. — A  Farewell. 

Why  do  you  ask  how  long  he  has  lived  ? 
He  has  lived  to  posterity. 

SENECA. — Ep.  93. 

Our  names, 

Familiar  in  his  mouth  as  household  words. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V '.,  Act  4,  3. 

The  evil  that  men  do  lives  after  them  ; 
The  good  is  often  interred  with  their  bones. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

He  lives  in  fame,  that  died  in  virtue's  cause. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  Andronicus, 

Act  i,  2. 


Fame's  loudest  trump  upon  the  ear  of  Time 
Leaves  but  a  dying  echo  ;  they  alone 
Are  held  in  everlasting  memory, 
Whose  deeds  partake  of  heaven. 

SOUTHEY. — Verses  at  Oxford. 

They  have   their   passing  paragraphs  of 

praise 
And  are  forgotten.     SOUTHEY. — Victory. 

Death  opens  the  gate  of    Fame,   and 
shuts  the  gate  of  Envy  after  it. 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  Vol.  5,  3. 

Many  valiant  chiefs  of  old 

Greatly  lived  and  died  before 
Agamemnon,  Grecian  bold, 

Waged  the  ten  years'  famous  war. 
But  their  names,  unsung,  unwept, 

Unrecorded,  lost  and  gone, 
Long  in  endless  night  have  slept, 

And  shall  now  no  more  be  known. 

SWIFT. — Horace,  Odes  4,   19. 

Thy  works  and  mine  are  ripples  on  the  sea. 

Take  heart,  I  say :   we  know  not  yet  their 

end.  SWINBURNE. — Locrine. 

Their  noonday  never  knows 
What  names  immortal  are  ; 

'Tis  night  alone  that  shows 
How  star  surpasseth  star. 

J.  B.  TABB. — Fame. 

The  desire  for  fame  is  the  last  desire  that 
is  laid  aside  even  by  the  wise. 

TACITUS. — Hist.,  Bk.  4,  6. 

To  such  a  name  for  ages  long, 
To  such  a  name, 

Preserve  a  broad  approach  of  fame. 
TENNYSON. — Duke  of  Wellington,  st.  5. 

Man  dreams  of  fame,  while  woman  wakes 
to  love. 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  458. 

And  what  is  fame  in  life  but  half-disfame. 
And  counterchanged  with  darkness  ? 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  463. 

Sweet   were  the  days  when   I  was  all  un- 
known. TENNYSON. — Ib.,  499. 

Fame,   like   water,   bears  up   the   lighter 

things, 

And  lets  the  weighty  sink. 
SIR  S  TUKE. — Adventures  of  Five  Hours, 

Act  2. 
Advance,    illustrious    youth !    increase   in 

fame, 

And  wide  from  east  to  west  extend  thy 
name. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  9,  (Apollo  to 
Ascanius)  (Dry den  tr.). 
It  is  hard,  I   must  confess,  not  to   ob- 
tain, from  one's  contemporaries  and  com- 
patriots, that  which  one  may  hope  for  from 
strangers  and  from  posterity. 

VOLTAIRE. — Alzire,  Prelim.  Discourse. 


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FAMILIARITY 


FANATICISM 


A  name  famous  too  soon  is  a  very  heavy 
burden.  VOLTAIRE. — Henriade. 

One  desires  to  be  unknown,  but  only 
when  it  is  too  late.  As  soon  as  the 
trumpets  of  fame  have  sounded  the  name 
of  an  unfortunate  man,  farewell  for  ever  to 
his  repose.  VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to 

M.  Caperonnier,  June  i,   1768. 

What  sharks  we  mortals  are  for  fame  ! 
How  poacher-like  we  hunt  the  game  ! 

J.  WOI.COT. — Odes  for  1783,  ATo.  7. 

What  rage  for  fame  attends  both  great  and 

small ! 
Better  be  damned  than  mentioned  not  at 

all.  J.  WOLCOT. — Ib.,  No.  g. 

Great    is    the    world's    inconstancy,    God 

knows  ; 
Fame,  like   the   ocean,   ebbs   as   well   as 

flows. 
J.  WOLCOT. — Odes  for  1785,  No.  13. 

I  am  no  cormorant  of  fame,  d'ye  see  ? 
I  ask  not  all  the  laurel,  but  a  sprig. 
J.  WOLCOT. — Ep.  to  Reviewers. 

Others  are  fond  of  Fame,  but    Fame   of 
you.       YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  sat.  i . 

And  what  so  foolish  as  the  chase  of  fame  ? 
YOUNG. — Ib.,  sat.  2. 

The  melancholy  ghosts  of  dead  renown, 
Whispering   faint   echoes   of    the   world's 
applause. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  9. 

Let  us  now  praise  famous  men. 

Ecclesiasticus  xliv,   i. 

All  these  were  honoured  in  their  genera- 
tions, and  were  the  glory  of  their  times. 
Ecclesiasticus  xliv,  7 

We  fools  accounted  his  life  madness, 
and  his  end  without  honour  ;  How  was 
he  numbered  among  the  sons  of  God  ? 
And  how  is  his  lot  among  saints  ? 

Wisdom  of  Solomon  v,  4,  5  (R.V.). 

FAMILIARITY 

The  man  that  hails  you  Tom  or  Jack, 
And  proves  by  thumps  upon    your  back 

How  he  esteems  your  merit, 
Is  such  a  friend,  that  one  had  need 
Be  very  much  his  friend  indeed 

To  pardon  or  to  bear  it. 

COWPER. — Friendship,  st.  2<j. 

I  hold  he  loves  me  best  that  calls  me 

Tom.     TOM  HEYWOOD. — Hierarchies 

of  the  Blessed  A  ngels; 

To  those  who  walk  beside  them,  great  men 

seem 
Mere  common  earth  ;  but  distance  makes 

them  stars.     G.  MASSEY. — Hood,  n. 


The  terrible  gift  of  familiarity. 

MIRABEAU. 

FAMILY 

For  still  in  every  house, 
That  loves  the  right,  their  fate  for  evermore 
Rejoiceth  in  an  issue  fair  and  good. 

AESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  750 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

But   he,    poor   fellow,    had    a   wife    and 
children 

Two   things  for  dying    people   quite  be- 
wildering. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  43. 

A  lady  with  her  daughter  or  her  nieces, 
Shine    like    a    guinea    and    seven-shilling 
pieces. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  60. 

Kill  a  man's  family,  and  he  may  brook  it, 

But  keep  your  hand  out  of  his  breeches' 

pocket.  BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  10,  79. 

Wronged  me  !  in  the  nicest  point — 
The  honour  of  our  house  ! 
T.  OTWAY. — Venice  Preserved,  Act  i,  i. 

A  family  is  but  too  often  a  common- 
wealth of  malignants. 

POPE. — Thoughts   on    Various   Subjects. 

He  that  loves  not  his  wife  and  children 
.  .  .  blessing  itself  cannot  make  him 
happy. 

JEREMY  TAYLOR. — Married  Love. 

FAMINE 

For  great   towns,  like  to  crocodiles,   are 

found 

In  the  belly  aptest  to  receive  a  mortal 
wound. 

S.  BUTLER. — To  the  Memory  ofDu  Val, 

st.  7. 
Famine  ends  famine. 

BEN  JONSON. — Discoveries. 

And  the  niggardness  of  Nature  makes  the 
misery  of  man. 

SIR  W.  WATSON.- — Ireland. 

FANATICISM 

Earth's  fanatics  make 
Too  frequently  heaven's  saints. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  2. 

The  aspiring  youth  that  fired  the  Ephesian 

dome 
Outlives  in  fame  the  pious  fool  that  raised 

it.  C.  GIBBER. — Richard  III. 

(adapted),  Act  2,  i. 

But    Faith,    fanatic  Faith,  once   wedded 

fast 

To  some  dear  falsehood,  hugs  it  to  the  last. 
MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 


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FANCY 


FAREWELL 


FANCY 

And  visions,  as  poetic  eyes  avow, 
Cling  to  each  leaf  and  hang  on  every  bough. 
GRAY. — Letter  to  H.   Walpole  (Tr.  of 
Virgil,  JEneid,  6,  282). 

In  a  good  poem,  whether  it  be  epic  or 
dramatic,  as  also  in  sonnets,  epigrams, 
and  other  pieces,  both  judgment  and 
fancy  are  required  ;  but  the  fancy  must  be 
more  eminent.  HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  8. 

The  truant  Fancy  was  a  wanderer  ever. 
CHAS.  LAMB. — Fancy  Employed  on  Divine 

Subjects. 

If  but  a  beam  of  sober  Reason  play, 
Lo,  Fancy's  fairy  frost-work  melts  away. 
ROGERS. — Pleasures  of  Memory,  Pt.  2. 

Old  Homer's  theme 
Was  but  a  dream, 
Himself  a  fiction  too. 
SCOTT. — Monastery.     Answer  to  Introd. 

Epistle. 

Chewing     the     food    ["  cud "     in     some 

editions]  of  sweet  and  bitter  fancy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  4,  3. 

Tell  me  where  is  fancy  bred, 
Or  in  the  heart,  or  in  the  head  ? 
SHAKESPEARE — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 

FARCE 

What  dear  delight  to  Britons  farce  affords  ! 

Ever  the  taste  of  mobs,  but  now  of  lords. 

POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  310. 

FAREWELL 

Once   more    farewell ! 
If  e'er  we  meet  hereafter,  we  shall  meet 
In  happier  climes  and  on  a  safer  shore. 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  4. 

Life  !  we've  been  long  together, 
Through    pleasant    and    through    cloudy 

weather  ; 

'Tis  hard  to  part  when  friends  are  dear  ; 
Perhaps  'twill  cost  a  sigh,  a  tear  ; 
Then  steal  away,  give  little  warning  ; 

Choose   thine  own   time ; 
Say    not    "  Good-night  "  ;    but    in    some 

brighter  clime 
Bid  me  "  Good  morning." 

ANNA  L.  BARBAULD. — Life. 

Ae  fond  kiss  and  then  we  sever. 

BURNS. — Farewell  to  Nancy. 

Had  we  never  loved  sae  kindly, 
Had  we  never  loved  sae  blindly, 
Never  met — and  never  parted, 
We  had  ne'er  been  broken-hearted. 

BURNS. — Ib. 

Farewell ! 

For  in  that  word — that  fatal  word — how- 
e'er 


We       promise  —  hope  —  believe  —  there 
breathes  despair. 

BYRON. — Corsair,  2,  15. 

Farewell !  a  word  that  must  be,  and  hath 

been, 
A  sound  which  makes  us  linger ; — yet — 

farewell ! 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  5,  st.  186. 

Fare  thee  well !  and  if  for  ever, 
Still   for  ever,   fare  thee  well. 

BYRON. — Fare  thee  well. 

I  only  know  we  loved  in  vain — 
I  only  feel — Farewell ! — Farewell ! 
BYRON. — Farewell,  if  ever  Fondest  Prayer. 

Drew 
A  long,  long  sigh,  and  wept  a  last 

adieu. 
COWPER. — His  Mother's  Picture. 

One  fond  kiss  before  we  part, 
Drop  a  tear  and  bid  adieu. 

R.  DODSLEY. — Parting  Kiss. 

Only  a  little  more 

I  have  to  write, 

Then   I'll  give  o'er 
And  bid  the  world  Good-night. 
HERRICK. — Hesperides,  211. 

Good-bye  ;  no  tears  nor  cries 

Are   fitting    here,    and   long    lament 

were  vain. 

Only  the  last  low  words  be  softly  said, 
And  the  last  greeting  given  above  the 

dead  ; 

For  soul  more  pure  and  beautiful  our  eyes 
Never  shall  see  again. 
J.  W.  MACKAIL. — Death  of  Arnold 
Toynbee. 

For  ever  and  for  ever  farewell,  Cassius  ! 
If  we  do  meet  again,  why,  we  shall  smile; 
If  not,  why  then  this  parting  was  well 

made. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  5,  i. 

Good  night,  good  night !    Parting  is  such 

sweet  sorrow 
That   I   shall  say  Good-night,  till  it   be 

morrow.  SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo 

and  Juliet,  Act  2,  2 

So  sweetly  she  bade  me  adieu, 

I    thought   that   she   bade  me   return. 
SHEN  STONE. — Absence. 

Come,  then,  I  leave  this  isle, 
And  speak  my  parting  words : 
Farewell,  O  roof,  long  time 
My  one  true  guard  and  friend. 

SOPHOCLES. — Phiioctetes,  1146 
(Plumptre  tr.),  (Farewell  to  Lemnos). 

Good  night,  good  sleep,  good  rest  from 

sorrow, 

To  these  that  shall  not  have  good  morrow  ; 
The  gods  be  gentle  to  all  these  ! 

SWINBURNE. — To  Proserpine. 


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FARMERS 


FASHION 


I  now  bid  you  a  welcome  adoo. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — His  Book,  The 
Shakers. 

We  don't  want  to  lose  you, 
But  we  think  you  ought  to  go. 

Recruiting  Song  (1915). 

FARMERS 

The  glory  of  the  farmer  is  that  in  the 
division  of  labours  it  is  his  part  to  create. 
EMERSON. — Farming. 

The  farmer  times  himself  to  Nature, 
and  acquires  that  livelong  patience  which 
belongs  to  her.  EMERSON. — Ib. 

And   farmers    fatten    most  when    famine 
reigns.      SIR  S.  GARTH. — Dispensary. 

Yet    thou    dost    know 
That  the  best  compost  for  the  lands 
Is  the  wise  master's  feet  and  hands. 

HERRICK. — Country  Life. 

I  believe  the  first  receipt  to  farm  well  is 

to  be  rich.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to 

J.  Whishaw,  April  13,  1818. 

He  was  a  very  inferior  farmer  when  he 
first  begun,  .  .  .  and  he  is  now  fast  rising 
from  affluence  to  poverty. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Rev.  H.  W.  Beecher's 
Farm. 

His   fields   seemed    to   know   what    their 

master    was    doing ; 
And  turnips  and  corn-land  and  meadow 

and  lea 

All  caught  the  infection — as  generous  as  he. 
WORDSWORTH. — Farmer  of  Tilsbury  Vale. 

FASCINATION 

With  fascination  in  his  very  bow. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  12,    84. 

How  like  a  moth,  the  simple  maid 
Still  plays  about  the  flame  ! 

GAY. — Beggar's    Opera,    Act  i. 

I    shook    my  head    perhaps, — but    quite 
Forgot  to  quite  forget  her. 
F.  LOCKER  LAMPSON. — St.  James's 
Street. 

He  speaks  the  kindest  words,  and  looks 

such  things, 
Vows  with  such  passion,   swears  with  so 

much   grace. 
That  it  is  heaven  to  be  deluded  by  him. 

N.  LEE. — Rival  Queens,  Act  i,  i. 

We  cannot  choose ;  our  faces  madden 
men. 

STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Paolo  and  Fran- 
cesca,   Act   2,    i. 

If  the  rascal  have  not  given  me  medi- 
cines to  make  me  love  him,  I'll  be  hanged  ; 
it  could  not  be  else. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  PL  i,  Act  2,  2; 


He  hath  a  person  and  a  smooth  dispose 
To  be  suspected  ;  framed  to  make  women 
false. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act   i,  3. 

Yes,  I  am  a  fatal  man,  Madame  Fribsbi. 
To  inspire  hopeless  passion  is  my  destiny 
[Mirobolant],  THACKERAY. — Pendennis. 

FASHION 

There  is  not  so  variable  a  thing  in 
Nature  as  a  lady's  head-dress. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  vol.  2,  98. 

Two  things,  completely  opposite  to 
each  other,  captivate  us  equally — habit 
and  novelty. 

LA  BRUYERE. — Des  Jugements,  No.  4. 

For  nothing  can  be  bad  or  good 
But  as  'tis  in  or  out  of  mode. 

S.  BUTLER. — On  our  Ridiculous 
Imitation  of  the  French. 

A  man  of  fashion  never  has  recourse  to 
proverbs  and  vulgar  aphorisms. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

Fashion,  leader  of  a    chattering    train, 

Whom  man,  for  his  own  hurt,  permits  to 

reign.  COWPER. — Conversation,  457. 

While  the  world  lasts,  fashion  will 
continue  to  lead  it  by  the  nose. 

COWPER. 

With  other  fashionable  topics,  such  as 
pictures,  taste,  Shakespeare,  and  the 
musical  glasses. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  ch.  9. 

We  praise  and  blame  most  things 
simply  because  it  is  the  fashion  to  praise 
or  blame  them. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  612. 

Be  not  the  first  by  whom  the  new  are 

tried, 
Nor  yet  the  last  to  lay  the  old  aside. 

POPE. — Criticism,  333. 

In  almost  every  age,  whether  in  litera- 
ture or  art,  if  a  thoroughly  wrong  idea  or 
fashion  or  manner  becomes  in  vogue,  it  is 
admired.  SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

This  is  our  chief  bane,  that  we  live 
not  according  to  the  light  of  reason,  but 
after  the  fashion  of  others. 

SENECA. — Octavia,  Act  2,  454. 

What  used  to  be  vices  are  become 
fashions.  SENECA. 

He  was  the  mark  and  glass,  copy  and  book, 
That     fashioned     others.     And     him — O 

w»ndious   him  ! 

O  miiMcle  of  men  !  SHAKESPEARE. — 

Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  2,  3. 


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FASTIDIOUSNESS 

The  fashion  wears  out  more  apparel 
than  the  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  3. 

Britons  ever  will  be  slaves  when  fashion 
is  in  the  case. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

In  tea-cup  times  of  hood  and  hoop, 
Or  while  the  patch  was  worn. 

TENNYSON. — Talking  Oak. 

And  Custom,  which  is  God  to  gentlemen, 
Says,   "  So  it  has  been,   therefore  let  it 

be  "  ; 

And  we  obey.  J.  L.  WARREN  (LORD 

DE  TABLEY) — Soldier  of  Fortune,  Act  i. 

FASTIDIOUSNESS 

False  taste  may  be  known  by  its  fas- 
tidiousness, by  its  demands  of  pomp, 
splendour,  and  unusual  combination,  by 
its  enjoyment  only  of  particular  styles 
and  modes  of  things,  and  by  its  pride 
also.  RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Vol.  2, 
sec.  i,  ch.  3,  ii. 

He  is  a  poor  smith  who  cannot  bear 
smoke.  Prov.  as  quoted  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

FASTING 

Is  this  a  fast,  to  keep 
The  larder  lean 

And  clean  ? 
No,  'tis  a  fast  to  dole 
Thy  sheaf  of  wheat 
And  meat 

Unto  the  hungry  soul. 
It  is  to  fast  from  strife, 
From  old  debate 

And  hate ; 

To    circumcise    thy    life. 
To  show  a  heart  grief-rent ; 
To  starve   thy   sin, 
Not  bin ; 
And  that's  to  keep  thy  Lent. 

HERRICK. — Noble  Numbers,  228. 

Fasting  is  all  very  well  for  those 
Who  have  to  contend  with  invisible  foes  ; 
But  I   am  quite  sure  it  does  not  agree 
With  a  quiet,  peaceable  man  like  me. 

LONGFELLOW. — Golden  Legend,  4. 

FATALISM 

What  argufies  pride  and  ambition  ? 

Soon  or  late  death  will  take  us  in  tow  : 
Each  bullet  has  got  its  commission, 

And  when  our  time's  come  we  must 
go.  C.  DIBDIN. — Each  Bullet. 

We  moralise  when  it  is  too  late  ;  nor 
is  there  anything  more  silly  than  to  regret. 
One  event  makes  another ;  what  we 
anticipate  seldom  occurs  ;  what  we  least 
expected  generally  happens. 

DISRAELI. — Henrietta    Temple, 
Bk.  2,  c.  4. 


FATE 

Yet  some  must  swim  when  others  sink, 
And  some  must  sink  when  others  swim  ; 

Make  merry,  comrades,  eat  and  drink — • 
The  lights  are  growing  dim. 
A.  L.  GORDON. — Sunlight  on  the  Sea 

FATALITY 

All  human  things  are  subject  to  decay, 
And  when  fate  summons,  monarchs  must 
obey.     DRYDEN. — Mac  Flecknoe,  1.  i. 

As  killing  as  the  canker  to  the  rose. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  45. 

There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough-hew  them  how  we  will. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

From  this  ill-omened  hour,  in  time,  arose 
Debate    and    death    and    all    succeeding 

woes. 

VIRGIL. — /Eneid,  Bk.  4  (Dryden   tr.). 

FATE 

Can  Fancy's  fairy  hands  no  veil  create 
To  hide  the  sad  realities  of  fate  ? 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  PI.  2. 

The  best  of  men  cannot  suspend  their  fate  ; 

The  good  die  early,  and  the  bad  die  late. 

DEFOE. — Character  of  Dr.  Annesley. 

'Tis  Fate  that  flings  the  dice,  and  as  she 

flings, 
Of  kings  makes  peasants  and  of  peasants 

kings.  DRYDEN. 

With  equal  pace  impartial  fate 
Knocks  at  the  palace  as  the  cottage  gate. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Ode  4. 

Yet,  ah  !  why  should  they  know  their  fate 
Since  sorrow  never  comes  too  late, 
And  happiness  too  swiftly  flies  ? 
GRAY. — Distant  Prospect  of  Eton  College. 

'Tis  writ  on  Paradise's  gate, 
"  Woe  to  the  dupe  that  yields  to  Fate." 
HAFIZ. — As  given  by  Emerson,  Essay 
on  Persian  Poetry. 

So  let  it  be  ! 

Portents  and  prodigies  are  lost  on  me. 
I  know  my  fate, — to  die  and  see  no  more 
My  much-loved  parents  and  my  native 

shore. 
Enough — when    heaven    ordains    I    sink 

in  night ; 
Now  perish  Troy  ! — He  said  and  rushed  to 

fight. 
HOMER. — Iliad,  Bk.  19,  404  (Pope  tr.}. 

Alas,  how  prone  are  humankind  to  blame 
The  Powers  of  Heaven  !     From  us,  they 

say,    proceed 
The  ills  which    they   endure ;    yet   more 

than   Fate 

Herself  inflicts,  by  their  own  crimes  incur. 
HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  i,  32  (Cowpertr.). 


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FATE 


FAULT-FINDING 


It  lies  not  in  our  power  to  love  or  hate, 
For  will  in  us  is  over-ruled  by  fate. 

MARLOWE. — Hero  and  Leander. 

But  wisest  Fate  says  No, 
This   must    not    yet   be    so. 

MILTON. — Christmas  Hymn. 

The    fatal    key, 
Sad  instrument  of  all  our  woe. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  871. 

Big  with  the  fate  of  Rome. 
T.  OTWAY. — Venice  Preserved,  Act  3,  i. 

Not  you,  but  Fate,  has  vanquished  me. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  5,  26. 

Let  Hercules  himself  do  what  he  may, 
The  cat  will  mew,  and  dog  will  have  iils 
day.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet, 

Act  5,  i. 

Come  what  come  may, 
Time    and    the    hour    run    through    the 
roughest   day. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

Who  can  control  his  fate  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  2. 

As  the  old  hermit  of  Prague  [Jerome, 
hermit  of  Camaldoli]  said,  "  That  that  is, 
is." 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  4,  2. 

The  glories  of  our  blood  and  state 

Are  shadows,  not  substantial  things  ; 
There  is  no  armour  against  fate, 
Death  lays  his  icy  hand  on  kings. 
Sceptre    and    crown 
Must    tumble    down, 
And  in  the  dust  be  equal  made 
With  the  poor  crooked  scythe  and  spade. 
JAS.  SHIRLEY. — Ajax  and  Ulysses. 

The  blackest  ink  of  Fate  was  sure  my  lot, 
And,  when  she  writ  my  name,  she  made  a 
blot    [Prince  Pretty-man]. 

CEO.    VlLLIERS    (DUKE    OF    BUCKING- 
HAM) . — Rehearsal. 

With  patience  bear,  with  prudence  push, 
your  fate. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  5  (Dry den  tr.). 

For  now  the  Fates  prepared  the  sharpened 

shears, 

And  lifted  high  the  flaming  sword  appears. 
VIRGIL. — Ib.,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 

The  stars  in  their  courses  fought  against 
Sisera.  Judges  v,  20. 

There,  but  for  the  grace  of  God,  goes 
John  Bradford. 

Ascribed  to  John  Bradford  (burnt  at 
Smithfield,  1555)  on  seeing  some 
criminals  going  to  execution.  (See 
"  Nat.  Diet.  Biog.".) 


FATHERS 

I'll  meet  the  raging  of  the  skies, 
But  not  an  angry  father. 
CAMPBELL. — Lord  Ullin's  Daughter. 

We  think  our  fathers  fools,  so  wise  we  grow ; 

Our  wiser  sons,  no  doubt,  will  think  us  so. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  2,  238. 

0  heavens,    this    is    my    true-begotten 

father  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  2. 

It  is  a  wise  father  that  knows  his  own 
child.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Father  ! — to  God  Himself  we  cannot  give 
A  holier  name. 

WORDSWORTH. — Borderers,  Act  i. 

A  father  is  a  banker  given  by  nature. 
French  prov. 

FATNESS 

Who  drives  fat  oxen  should  himself  be 
fat.  JOHNSON. — Boswell's  Life,  1784. 

A  bard   here    dwelt,  more  fat  than  bard 
beseems. 

JAS.  THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence, 
c.  i,  68. 

FAULT-FINDERS 

In  other  men  we  faults  can  spy, 
And  blame  the  mote  that  dims  their  eye 
Each  little  speck  and  blemish  find, 
To  our  own  stronger  errors  blind. 

GAY. — Fables. 

I  believe  that  more  breaches  of  friend- 
ship and  love  have  been  created,  and 
more  hatred  cemented,  by  needless 
criticism,  than  by  any  other  thing. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  2. 

Mankind  praise  against  their  will, 
And  mix  as  much  detraction  as  they  can. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts. 

FAULT-FINDING 

The  reason  why  it  is  so  easy  to  believe 
that  other  people  have  faults  is.  that  it  is 
so  easy  to  believe  what  one  wishes. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  592. 

If  I  can  catch  him  once  upon  the  hip, 

1  will  feed  fat  the  ancient  grudge  I  bear 

him.         SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of 
Venice,  Act  i,  3. 

A  man  sooner  finds  out  his  own  foibles 
in  a  stranger  than  any  other  foibles. 

SHENSTONE. — Men  and  Manners. 

However  mean  your  life  is,  meet  it  and 
live  it ;  do  not  shun  it  and  call  it  hard 
names.  It  is  not  so  bad  as  you  are.  It 


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FAULTS 


looks  poorest  when  you  are  richest.     The 

fault-finder  will  find  faults  even  in  paradise. 

H.  D.  THOREAU. — Walden,  Conclusion. 

There  is  so  much  good  In  the  worst  of  us, 
And  so  much  bad  in  the  best  of  us, 
That  ill  behoves  any  one  of  us 
To  find  any  fault  with  the  rest  of  us. 

ANON. 

Enquire  not  too  curiously  into  other 
men's  failings,  neither  let  the  one  of  you 
speak  ill  of  another  in  his  absence.  Would 
any  of  you  desire  to  eat  the  flesh  of  his 
dead  brother  ?  Koran,  ch.  49. 

FAULTLESSNESS 

Faultless  to  a  fault. 

BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book, 
9.   U77. 

Whoever  thinks  a  faultless  piece  to  see, 

Thinks  what  ne'er  was,  nor  is,  not  e'er 

shall  be.  POPE. — Criticism,  253. 

There's  no  such  thing  in  nature,  and  you'll 

draw 
A    faultless    monster,    which    the    world 

ne'er  saw. 

J.  SHEFFIELD. — On  Poetry,  231. 

Faultily  faultless,  icily  regular,  splendidly 

null, 
Dead  perfection,  no  more. 

TENNYSON. — Maud.  i.  2. 

FAULTS 

It  is  great  folly  not  to  part  with  your 
own  faults,  which  is  always  possible,  but 
instead  to  try  to  escape  from  other 
people's  faults,  which  is  impossible. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Meditations, 
Bk.   7,  7i. 

It  is  the  nature  of  folly  to  see  the  faults 
of  others  and  forget  its  own. 

CICERO. — Tune.  Qu&st. 

He  is  over-good  who  has  nothing  of 
evil.  ENNIUS  (quoted  by  Cicero). 

We  should  never  speak,  publicly  at 
least,  of  our  own  faults,  nor  of  the  faults 
of  others,  unless  we  hope  to  effect  some 
useful  purpose  by  it. 

GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  10. 

There  are  a  hundred  faults  in  this 
thing,  and  a  hundred  things  might  be 
said  to  prove  them  beauties. 

GOLDSMITH. — Pref.  to  Vicar  of 
Wakefield. 

Such  stains  there  are — as  when  a  Grace 
Sprinkles  another's  laughing  face 
With  nectar,  and  runs  on. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Catullus. 

Quarrels  would  not  last  long  if  the  fault 
was  only  on  one  side.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


If  we  had  no  faults,  we  should  not  take 
so  much  pleasure  in  noticing  them  in 
others.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD,  31. 

We  never  admit  our  faults,  excepting 
through  vanity. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  551. 

We  are  very  apt  in  blaming  the  faults 
of  others,  but  very  slow  in  making  use  of 
them  to  correct  our  own. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  605. 

When  some  great  misfortune  comes  to 
you,  says  one  of  the  Popes,  examine  your- 
self well  and  you  will  see  that  it  has  always 
been  your  own  fault. 

LE  SAGE. — Gil  Bias,  Bk.  7,  ch.  16. 

It  is  no  doubt  an  evil  to  be  full  of 
faults,  but  it  is  a  still  greater  evil  to  be 
full  of  them  and  not  to  wish  to  know 
them.  PASCAL. — Penstes. 

Trust  not  yourself  ;  but,  your  defects  to 

know, 

Make  use  of  every  friend — and  every  foe. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  213. 

The  chief  fault  of  man  is  that  he  has 
so  many  small  ones.  RICHTER. 

I  do  not  write  to  excuse  my  faults,  but 
to  prevent  my  readers  from  imitating 
them.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile 

You,  gods,  will  give  us 
Some  faults  to  make  us  men. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  5,  i. 

Condemn  the  fault  and  not  the  actor  of  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 

Act  2,  2, 

They  say  best  men  are  moulded  out  of 

faults  ; 
And,  for  the  most,  become  much  more  than 

better 
For  being  a  little  bad. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  i. 

When  you  have  done  a  fault,  be  always 
pert  and  insolent  and  behave  yourself  as 
if  you  were  the  injured  person. 

SWIFT. — Rules  that  concern  all  Servants. 

He  is  all  fault  who  hath  no  fault  at  all, 
For  who  loves  me  must  have  a  touch  of 
earth.  TENNYSON. — Lancelot. 

He  (Marlborough)  was  so  great  a  man, 
said  Bolingbroke,  that  I  have  forgotten 
his  vices. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

Whoever  does  not  know  how  to  recog- 
nise the  faults  of  great  men  is  incapable 
of  estimating  their  perfections. 

VOLTAIRE. — Prefatory  Letter  to  CEdipus. 


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FAVOURITES 


FEASTS 


His  greatness,  not  his  littleness,  concerns 
mankind.  SIR  WM.  WATSON. — On  Burns. 

Men  have  many  faults  ; 

Poor  women  have  but  two  : 

There's  nothing  right  they  say, 

And  nothing  right  they  do. 

Anon. 
Faults  are  thick  when  love  is  thin. 

Prov.  (Ray). 

FAVOURITES 

We  may  concede  any  man  a  right,  with- 
out doing  any  man  a  wrong  ;   but  we  can 
favour  no  one  without  injuring  someone. 
C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

A  favourite  has  no  friend. 

GRAY. — On  the  death  of  a  Cat. 

Favouritism  governed  kissage 
Even  as  it  does  in  this  age. 

KIPLING. — Departmental  Ditties. 

'Tis  the  curse  of  service  ; 
Preferment  goes  by  letter  and  affection, 
Not   by   the   old   gradation,   where   each 

second 
Stood  heir  to  the  first. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  i. 

FAVOURS 

Thy  favours  are  but  like  the  wind, 
That  kisseth  everything  it  meets. 
SIR  R.  AYTON. — I  do  confess. 

Extreme  eagerness  to  return  an  obliga- 
tion is  a  kind  of  ingratitude. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Lesbia  hath  a  beaming  eye, 
But  no  one  knows  for  whom  it  beameth. 
MOORE. — Lesbia  hath. 

If  you  do  a  favour  to  a  bad  man,  the 
favour  is  lost ;  if  you  do  ill  to  a  good  man, 
it  lasts  for  a  length  of  time. 

PLAUTUS. — Poenulus,  Act  3,  3. 

Pelt  a  dog  with  a  bone  and  you  will  not 
offend  him.  Italian  prov. 

FEAR 

Better  die  once  for  all  than  live  in  con- 
tinual terror.  JEsop. 

Nothing  is  terrible  except  fear  itself. 

BACON. — Fortitude. 

Fear  is  an  ague,  that  forsakes 
And  haunts,  by  fits,  those  whom  it  takes. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

Fear  has  many  eyes. 

CERVANTES. — Don  Quixote  (Prov) . 

Fear  that  makes  faith  may  break  faith 
SWINBURNE. — Bothwell,  Act  i,   3 


Despair  and  confidence  both  banish  fear. 
EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Doomsday. 

How  wretched  a  thing  it  is  to  become 
old  through  fear  !  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Nothing  is  so  much  to  be  feared  as  fear. 
Atheism  may  be  comparatively  popular 
with  God  himself. 

H.  D.  THOREAU. — Unpublished  MSS. 

Fear  follows  crime  and  is  its  chastise- 
ment. VOLTAIRE. — Simiramis. 

Fear  hath  a  hundred  eyes,  that  all  agree 
To  plague  her  beating  heart. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2, 42. 

Full  twenty  times  was  Peter  feared, 
For  once  that  Peter  was  respected. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Pt.   i. 

Fear  shakes  the  pencil ;    Fancy  loves  ex- 
cess ; 

Dark  Ignorance  is  lavish  of  her  shades  ; 
And  these  the  formidable  picture  drew. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

Perfect  love  caste th  out  fear. 

i  St.  John  iv,  18. 

FEASTS 

Now  to  the  banquet  we  press  ; 

Now  for  the  eggs  and  the  ham  1 
Now  for  the  mustard  and  cress  ! 

Now  for  the  strawberry  jam  ! 
Now  for  the  tea  of  our  host ! 

Now  for  the  rollicking  bun  ! 
Now  for  the  muffin  and  toast ! 

And  now  for  the  gay  Sally  Lunn  ! 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Sorcerer. 

The  true  essentials  of  a  feast  are  only  fun 
and  feed. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Nux  Postccenatica. 

I  will  eat  exceedingly,  and  prophesy. 

BEN  JONSON. — Earth.  Fair. 

What  neat  repast  shall  feast  us,  light  and 

choice, 
Of  Attic  taste  ? 

MILTON. — To  Mr.  Lawrence. 

A  good  dinner,  and  company  that 
pleased  me  mightily,  being  all  eminent 
men  in  their  way.  PEPYS. — Diary,  1668. 

Here  let  us  feast,  and  to  the  feast  be  joined 

Discourse,  the  sweeter  banquet  of  the  mind. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  15,  432. 

Now  good  digestion  wait  on  appetite, 
And  health  on  both  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

We  have  a  trifling  foolish  banquet  towards. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 

Act  i,  5. 


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FELLOWSHIP 


FESTIVITIES 


The  farmer  to  full  bowls  invites  his  friends, 
And  what  he  got  with  pains  with  pleasure 

spends. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk,  i   (Dryden  tr.). 

Spots  in  your  feasts  of  charity. 

Jude,  12. 

Spread  the  table  and  contention  will 
cease.  Hebrew  prov.  (Ben  Syr  a). 

FELLOWSHIP 

And,  certeinly,  he  was  a  good  felawe. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

I  laugh  not  at  another's  loss ; 
I  grudge  not  at  another's  pain. 
SIR  E.  DYER. — My  mind  to  me. 

Write  me  as  one  that  loves  his  fellow  men. 
LEIGH  HUNT. — Abou  Ben  Adhem. 

Fellowship  is  heaven,  and  lack  of  fellow- 
ship is  hell ;  fellowship  is  life,  and  lack  of 
fellowship  is  death  ;  and  the  deeds  that 
ye  do  upon  the  earth,  it  is  for  fellowship's 
sake  that  ye  do  them. 

W.  MORRIS. — John  Ball. 

By  mutual  confidence  and  mutual  aid 
Great  deeds  are  done  and  great  discoveries 
made.        POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  10,  265. 

If  he  be  not  fellow  with  the  best  king, 
thou  shalt  find  the  best  king  of  good 
fellows. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  5,  2. 

I  like  to  think  that  there  is  no  man  but 
has  had  kindly  feelings  for  some  other, 
and  he  for  his  neighbour,  until  we  bind 
together  the  whole  family  of  Adam. 

THACKERAY. — From  Cornhill  to  Grand 

Cairo. 
FEBRUARY 

Snow  in  February  is  a  pledge  of  a  fine 
summer.  French  prov. 

All  the  months  in  the  year 
Curse  a  fair  Februeer. 

Old  Saying. 
February  fill  dyke, 
Be  it  black  or  be  it  white  ; 
But  if  it  be  white  it's  the  better  to  like. 

Prov.  (Ray's  Collection). 

February  the  short  is  the  worst  of  the 
lot.  Gascon  prov. 

FEELINGS 

There  are  some  feelings  time  cannot  be- 
numb. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  19. 

Not  good  it  is    to    harp    on    the  frayed 
string.    W.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise. 

He  who  has  felt  nothing  does  not  know 
how  to  learn  anything.  ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 


Some  feelings  are  to  mortals  given, 
With  less  of  earth  in  them  than  heaven. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  2,  22. 

FEES 

My  learned  profession  I'll  never  disgrace, 
By  taking  a  fee  with  a  grin  on  my  face, 
When  I  haven't  been  there  to  attend  to 
the  case. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

If  money  go  before,  all  ways  do  lie  open. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives  of  Windsor, 

Act  2,  2, 

FEET 

The  many  twinkling  feet  so  small  and 

sylph-like, 

Suggesting  the  more  perfect  symmetry 
Of  the  fair  forms  which  terminate  so  well. 
BYRON. — Marino  Faliero,  4,  i. 

O,  so  light  a  foot 
Will  ne'er  wear  out  the  everlasting  flint. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  2,  6. 

A  foot  more  light,  a  step  more  true, 
Ne'er  from  the  heath-flower  dashed  the 
dew. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  i,  18. 

FEMININITY 

And  femininely  meaneth  furiously, 
Because  all  passions  in  excess  are  female. 
BYRON. — Sardanapalus,  Act  3,  i. 

What  female  heart  can  gold  despise  ? 
GRAY. — Ode  on  Death  of  a  Favourite  Cat. 

The  female  of  the  species  is  more  deadly 
than  the  male.  KIPLING. — The 

Female. 
FERVOUR 

I  preached  as  never  sure  to  preach  again, 
And  as  a  dying  man  to  dying  men. 

R.  BAXTER. — Love  breathing  Thanks. 

No  wild  enthusiast  ever  yet  could  rest 
Till  half  mankind  were  like  himself  pos- 
sessed. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  470. 

FESTIVITIES 

Uprouse  ye  then,  my  merry  men, 
It  is  our  opening  day. 

JOANNA  BAILLIE.— Orra,  Act  3. 

Then  top  and  maintop  crowd  the  sail, 

Heave  Care  owre  side  ! 
And  large,  before  Enjoyment's  gale, 

Let's  tak'  the  tide. 
BURNS. — Epistle  to  James  Smith. 

The  lamps  shone  o'er  fair  women  and 

brave  men  ; 
A    thousand   hearts   beat   happily ;     and 


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FEUDS 


FIDELITY 


Music  arose  with  its  voluptuous  swell, 
Soft  eyes  looked  love  to  eyes  which  spake 

again, 

And  all  went  merry  as  a  marriage  bell. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  21. 

If  ever  a  people  required  to  be  amused 
it  is  we  sad-hearted  Anglo-Saxons. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  4. 

And   the    flags  were   all  a-flutter  and  the 
bells  were  all  a-chime. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — San  Stefano. 

Power  laid  his  rod  and  rule  aside, 
And  Ceremony  doffed  her  pride. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  Intro. 

In  frolics  dispose 

Your  pounds,  shillings  and  pence  ; 
For  we  shall  be  nothing 
A  hundred  years  hence. 
ANON. — Given  by  Ritson,  and  marked 
by  him  as  "  Old  "  in  English  Songs, 
Vol.  2,  No.  16. 

FEUDS 

Their  ineffectual  feuds  and  feeble  hates — 

Shadows  of  hates,  but  they  distress  them 

still.  M.  ARNOLD. — Balder  Dead. 

The  feud  between  us  was  but  of  the  house, 
Not  of  the  heart. 

SOUTHEY. — Roderick,  sec.  12. 

FICKLENESS 

"  Yes,"  I  ans%vered  you  last  night ; 

"  No,"  this  morning,  sir,  I  say  ; 
Colours  seen  by  candlelight 

Will  not  look  the  same  by  day. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — The  Lady's  Yes. 

The  fault  was  Nature's  fault,  not  thine, 
Which  made  thee  fickle  as  thou  art. 

BYRON. — To  a  Youthful  Friend. 

You  cannot  eat  breakfast  all  day, 
Nor  is  it  the  act  of  a  sinner, 
When  breakfast  is  taken  away, 
To  turn  your  attention  to  dinner. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Trial  by  Jury. 

Wert  thou  more  fickle  than  the  restless  sea, 

Still  should  I  love  thee,  knowing  thee  for 

such.    W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  9,  22. 

For,  boy,  however  we  do  praise  ourselves, 
Our  fancies  are  more  giddy  and  unfirm, 
More  longing,  wavering,  sooner  lost   and 

worn* 
Than  women's  are. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

FICTION 

A  mixture  of  a  lie  doth  ever  add  pleasure. 
BACON.— Of  Truth. 

•  "Won"  in  most  modern  editions;  "worn"  in 
the  folio. 


Your  poet  who  sings  how  Greeks 
That  never  were,  in  Troy  that  never  was, 
Did   this  or   the  other    impossible  great 

thing.  BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

Scrofulous  novels  of  the  age. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — St.  Abe. 

Literature  is  a  luxury ;  fiction  is  a 
necessity. 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — The  Defendant. 

Why  should  a  poet  doubt  in  story  to 
mend  the  intrigues  of  fortune  by  more  de- 
lightful conveyances  of  probable  fictions, 
because  austere  historians  have  entered 
into  a  bond  to  truth  ? 
SIR  W.  DAVENANT. — Pref.  Letter  to  Hobbes. 

Whate'er  the  story  be,  the  moral's  true. 
DRYDEN. — Univ.  of  Oxford  Prol. 

The  tragic  poet  who  deceived  was  juster 
than  he  who  failed  to  deceive  ;  and  he  that 
was  deceived  was  wiser  than  he  who  was 
not  deceived. 

GORGIAS. — As  cited  by  Plutarch. 

And  Truth  severe,  by  fairy  Fiction  drest. 
GRAY. — Bard,  c.  3. 

We  must  remember,  however,  that 
fiction  is  not  falsehood. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.   i,  ch.  6. 

Let  fictions  meant  to  please  be  very 
near  the  truth.  HORACE. — De  Arte  Poet. 

I  am  always  at  a  loss  to  know  how  much 
to  believe  of  my  own  stories. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. — Tales  of  a 
Traveller,  Pref. 

Men  who  have  had  no  time  or  oppor- 
tunity to  read  novels  in  their  youth,  such 
as  those  men  who  work  with  their  hands, 
have  a  decided  advantage. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Education. 

0  wondrous   power  of  genius  !     Field- 
ing's men   and  women   are  alive,  though 
History's  are  not. 

THACKERAY. — Lithography  in  Paris. 

Novels  are  sweets.  All  people  with 
healthy  literary  appetities  love  them — 
almost  all  women  ;  a  vast  number  of  clever, 
hard-headed  men. 

THACKERAY. — Roundabout  Papers,  On 
a  Lazy,  Idle  Boy. 

1  grant  it's  a  gey  lee-like  [very  lie-like] 
story,  but  it's  as  sure  as  death. 

J.  WILSON. — Nodes,  3+.  (Ettrick  Shepherd.) 

FIDELITY 

For  True  and  Faithful's  sure  to  lose 
Which  way  soever  the  game  goes. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.   2. 


188 


FIGHTING 


FIRMNESS 


So  spake  the  Seraph  Abdiel,  faithful  found 
Among    the   faithless,    faithful   only   he ; 
Among  innumerable  false,  unmoved, 
Unshaken,    unseduced,   unterrified, 
His  loyalty  he  kept,  his  love,  his  zeal. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  5,  896. 

I  will  follow  thee 

To  the  last  gasp  with  truth  and  loyalty. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  3. 

FIGHTING 

What  can  alone  ennoble  fight  ? 
A   noble   cause  ! 

CAMPBELL. — Hallowed  Ground. 

For  of  thy  slaying  nowise  are  we  fain, 
If  we  may  pass  unfoughten. 

W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  9,  368. 

For  bragging  time  was  over  and  fighting 
time   was  come. 

H.  NEWBOLT. — Hawke. 

Which  spills  the  foremost  foeman's  life. 
That  party  conquers  in  the  strife. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  6,   i. 

He  never  counted  him  a  man 
Would  strike  below  the  knee. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel. 

There  is  such  a  thing  as  a  man  being  too 
proud  to  fight. 

PRESIDENT  WILSON,  U.S.A. — (Speech, 

1915.) 

FIGURES  OF  SPEECH 

For  rhetoric  he  could  not  ope 

His  mouth  but  out  there  flew  a  trope. 

BUTLER — Hudibras,  Pt.   i,  c.   i. 

A  foolish  figure, 
But  farewell  it,  for  I  will  use  no  art. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,   Act   2,   2. 

Which  things  are  an  allegory. 

Galatians  iv,  24. 

FINALITY 

Their  fatal  hands 
No  second  stroke  intend. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  712. 

What's  done  is  done. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  2. 

The  end  crowns  all ; 
And  that  old  common  arbitrator,  Time, 
Will  one  day  end  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus  and  Cressida, 

Act  4,  5. 

FINANCE 

The  plain  high-road  of  finance. 
BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 


Where    are    those    martyred    saints,    the 

Five  per  Cents.  ? 
And  where — oh,  where  the  devil  are  the 

Rents  ? 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  u,  77. 

Public    credit    means    the    contracting 
of  debts  which  a  nation  never  can  pay. 
W.  COBBETT. — Advice  to  Young  Men. 

Blest  paper-credit !  last  and  best  supply  ! 

That  lends  corruption  lighter  wings  to  fly. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  3. 

The  tempter  saw  his  time  ;  the  work  he 

plied  ; 
Stocks  and  subscriptions  poured  on  every 

side, 

Till  all  the  demon  makes  his  full  descent 
In  one  abundant  shower  of  cent,  per  cent. 
Sinks  deep  within  him,  and  possesses  whole, 
Then  dubs  director,  and  secures  his  soul. 

POPE. — Ib. 

Borrowers  are  nearly  always  ill-spenders, 
and  it  is  with  lent  money  that  all  evil 
is  mainly  done  and  all  unjust  war  pro- 
tracted. RUSKIN. — Crown  of  Wild  Olive 

(1865-6). 

The  elegant  simplicity  of  the  three  per 
cents.  LORD  STOWELL. — Saying. 

He  touched  the  dead  corpse  of  Public 
Credit  and  it  sprung  upon  its  feet. 

DANIEL  WEBSTER. — Speech,  1831. 

Of   Augustus    and    Rome    the   poets    yet 

warble, 
That  he  found  it  of  brick  and  he  left  it  of 

marble  ; 
So  of  Pitt  and  of  England  they  say  without 

vapour, 
That  he  found  it  of  gold  and  he  left  it  of 

paper. 

ANON. — Epigram,  c.  1806,  in  reference 
to  British  paper  currency. 

FIRMNESS 

Tender-hearted  stroke  a  nettle, 
And  it  stings  you  for  your  pains  ; 

Grasp  it  like  a  man  of  mettle, 
And  it  soft  as  silk  remains. 

AARON  HILL. — Written  on  a  Window. 

It  is  only  those  who  possess  firmness  who 
can  possess  true  gentleness. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxims,  479. 

He   hath    a    tear   for   pity,    and   a   hand 

Open  as  day  for  melting  charity  : 

Yet,     notwithstanding,     being     incensed, 

he's  flint.          SHAKESPEARE. — Henry 

IV.,  Pt.  z,  Act  4,  4. 

A  little  fire  is  quickly  trodden  out, 
Which,     being     suffered,    rivers     cannot 
quench.     SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI., 
Pt.   3,  Act  4,  8. 


FISH  AND  FISHING 


FLATTERY 


Do  not,  for  one  repulse,  forgo  the  purpose 
That  you  resolv'd  to  effect. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  3,  3. 

FISH  AND  FISHING 

That   great   fishpond,    the   sea. 

T.  DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Act  i. 

Three  fishers  went  sailing  away  to  the  West, 
Away  to  the  West  as  the  sun  went  down  ; 
Each  thought  on  the  woman  who  loved 
him   the  best. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Three  Fishers. 

It  is  not  fish,  it  is  man  :  you  are  devour- 
ing man,  Calliodorus. 
MARTIAL  (in  allusion  to  the  high  price  of 
fish  paid  by  Roman  Epicures). 

No   fisher, 

But  a  well-wisher 

To  the  game. 

SIR  WALTER  SCOTT. 

The  herrings  are  na  gude 
Till  they  smell  the  new  hay. 

Northumberland  saying. 

Of  a'  fish  i'  the  sea  herring  is  king. 

Scottish  prov. 

The  herring  loves  the  merry  moonlight, 
The  mackerel  loves  the  wind, 

But  the  oyster  loves  the  dredging  song, 
For  they  come  o'  a  gentle  kind. 

Scottish  rhyme. 

He  is  an  honest  man  and  eats  no  fish. 

Prov.,  i6th  cent.,  meaning  that   a  man 

was  no  Papist. 

When  the  wind  is  in  the  east, 
Then   the  fishes  do  bite   the  least ; 
When  the  wind  is  in  the  west, 
Then   the  fishes  bite   the   best ; 
When  the  wind   is   in    the   north, 
Then  the  fishes  do  come  forth  ; 
When    the    wind    is    in  the   south, 
It  blows  the  bait  in  the  fish's  mouth. 
/.  O.  Halliwell's  "  Popular  Rhymes  "  Found 
in    a   variety   of  versions   throughout 
Great  Britain. 

FISHMONGERS 

Hamlet :     You  are  a  fishmonger. — 
Polonius  :     Not  I,  my  lord. — 
Hamlet :   Then    I    would    you  were    so 
honest  a  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

FLAGS 

There's  a  flag  that  waves  o'er  every  sea, 
No  matter  when  or  where. 

ELIZA  COOK. — The  Englishman. 

Flag  of  the  free  heart's  hope  and  home  ! 

By  angel  hands  to  valour  given  ; 
Thy  stars  have  lit  the  welkin  dome, 

And  all  thy  hues  were  born  in  heaven. 
J.  R.  DRAKE. — American  Flag,  st.  5. 


For  ever  float  that  standard  sheet ! 
Where  breathes  the  foe  but  falls  before 

us  ? — 

With  Freedom's  soil  beneath  our  feet, 
And  Freedom's  banner  streaming  o'er 
us.  J.  R.  DRAKE. — Ib.  st.  5. 

A  moth-eaten  rag  on  a  worm-eaten  pole, 
It  doesn't  look  likely  to  stir  a  man's  soul ; 
'Tis  the  deeds  that  were  done  'neath  the 

moth-eaten   rag, 
When  the  pole  was  a  staff  and  the  rag  was 

a  flag. 
SIR  E.  B.  HAMLEY. — Monmouth  Church. 

Ay,   tear  her  tattered  ensign  down  ! 

Long  has  it  waved  on  high, 
And  many  an  eye  has  danced  to  see 

That  banner  in  the  sky. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Old  Ironsides. 

'Tis  the  star-spangled  banner,  O  !  long  may 

it  wave 
O'er  the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of 

the  brave  ! 
F.  S.  KEY  .—Star-Spangled  Banner. 

Then  conquer  we  must,  when  our  cause  it 

is  just, 
And  this  be  our  motto — "  In  God  is  our 

trust "  : 
And  the  star-spangled  banner  in  triumph 

shall  wave 
O'er  the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of 

the  brave.  F.  S.  KEY. — Ib. 

Never  was  isle  so  little,  never  was  sea  so 

lone, 
But  over  the  scud  and  the  palm-trees  an 

English  flag  was  flown. 

KIPLING. — English  Flag. 

Take  thy  banner  !     May  it  wave 

Proudly  o'er  the  good  and  brave. 

LONGFELLOW. — Hymn  of  Moravian  Nuns. 

The  imperial  ensign,    which,  full    high 

advanced, 
Shone  like  a  meteor,  streaming  to  the 

wind. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  536. 

FLAT  COUNTRIES 

Some  signal  exceptions  there  are  un- 
doubtedly— though  I  forget  them  just 
the  noo, — but  folk  in  general  are  a'  flat- 
souled  as  weel's  flat-soled,  in  a  flat  kintra. 
J.  WILSON. — Nodes,  24.  (Ettrick  Shepherd.) 

FLATTERY 

People  generally  despise  where  they 
flatter  and  cringe  to  those  whom  they 
desire  to  supersede. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS,   Bk.    u,    14. 

O    Adulation,    canker-worme    of    Truth ; 
The  flattring    glasse    of    Pride  and  Self- 
conceit. 


190 


FLATTERY 


FLATTERY 


Pittie  it  is  that  thou  art  so  rewarded, 
Whilst  Truth  and  Honestie  goe  unregarded. 
R.  BARNFIELD. — Complaint  of  Poetrie 
(1598). 

It  is  always  self-interest  which  makes 
flatterers.  That  is  why  Judas,  whom  the 
demon  of  self-interest  had  seduced,  be- 
took him  to  flattery. 

BOSSUET. — Sermon,  Good  Friday. 

Flattery  corrupts  both  the  receiver  and 
the  giver. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolution. 

You've  supped  full  of  flattery  ; 
They  say  you  like  it  too — 'tis  no  great 

wonder. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  g,  5  (alluding  to 
Wellington). 

Flatterers  look  like  friends,  as  wolves  like 
dogs.  CHAPMAN. — Byron's  Conspiracy, 

Act  3,   i. 

Flatterers     been     [are]      the     develes 

chapelleyns,  that  singen  ever,  "  Placebo."* 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  40. 

A  man  shal  winne  us  best  with  flaterye. 
CHAUCER. — Wife   of  Bath's    Tale. 

Every  woman  is  infallibly  to  be  gained 
by  every  sort  of  flattery,  and  every  man 
by  one  sort  or  another. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Letter  (1752). 

What  cannot  praise  effect  in  mighty  minds, 

When  flattery  soothes,  and  when  ambition 

blinds?        DRYDEN. — Absalom,  301. 

When  flattery  does  not  succeed,  it  is 

not  the  fault  of  flattery,  but  of  the  flatterer. 

PIERRE  GASTON  (Due  DE  L6vis)  (1764- 

1 830) . — Maxims. 

Learn  to  contemn  all  praise   betimes  ; 
For  flattery's  the  nurse  of  crimes. 

GAY. — Fables,  Pi.  i,  i. 

A  flattering  painter,  who  made  it  his  care 

To  draw  men  as  they  ought  to  be,  not  as 

they  are.      GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Of  all  wild  beasts  preserve  me  from  a 

tyrant ; 
And  of  all  tame,  a  flatterer. 

BEN  JONSON. — Sejanus,  Act  i. 

Three  sorts  of  personages  cannot  be 
praised  too  highly — the  gods,  one's  mis- 
tress, and  one's  king.  LA  FONTAINE. 

If   we   did   not   flatter   ourselves,    the 

flattery  of  other  people  would  not  harm  us. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

•Alluding  to  the  anthem  "Placebo  Domino" 
(Ps.  cxvi,  9)  used  in  the  Burial  Office.  To  "  sing 
Placebo"  meant  to  be  complaisant 


A    flatterer   can   risk   everything    with 
great  personages. 

LE  SAGE. — Gil  Bias,  Bk.  4,  ch.  7. 

The  firmest  purpose  of  a  woman's  heart 

To  well-timed,  artful  flattery  may  yield. 

G.  LILLO. — Elmer ick. 

It  is  possible  to  be  below  flattery,  as 
well  as  above  it. 

MACAULAY. — Hist,  of  England,  c.  2. 

And  what,  in  a  mean  man,  1  should  call 

folly, 

Is  in  your  majesty  remarkable  wisdom. 
MASSINGER.— Great  Duke. 

Minds, 
By  nature  great,  are  conscious  of  their 

greatness, 
And  hold  it  mean  to  borrow  aught  from 

flattery.     N.  ROWE. — Royal  Convert. 

"Tis  the  most  pleasing  flattery  to  like  what 
other  men  like.  J.  SELDEN. — Pleasure. 

How    similar   flattery   is    to   friendship ! 
SENECA. — Ep.  45. 

Nay,    do    not    think    I    flatter : 
For  what  advancement  may  I  hope  from 

thee, 

That    no   revenue   hast,    but    thy   good 
spirits  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

But  when  I  tell  him  he  hates  flatterers, 

He  says  he  does,  being  then  most  flattered. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Caesar,  Act  2,  i. 

Flatter  and  praise,  commend,  extol  their 

graces  ; 

Though  ne'er    so    black,  say  they  have 
angels'  faces. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 
Verona,  Act  2,  7. 

Cram  us  with  praise  and  make  us 
As  fat  as  tame  things. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  i,  2. 

What  really  flatters  a  man  is  that  you 
think   him  worth   flattering. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— Bull's  Other  Island. 

'Tis  an  old  maxim  in  the  schools 
That  flattery's  the  food  of  fools  ; 
Yet  now  and  then  your  men  of  wit 
Will  condescend  to  take  a  bit. 

Swi  FT. — Cadenus. 

Face- flatterer    and    back-biter   are    the 
same. 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  822. 

I  am  not  formed,  by  flattery  and  praise, 
By  sighs  and  tears,  and  all  the  whining 

trade 

Of  love.to  feed  a  fond  one's  vanity, 
To  charm  at  once  and  spoil  her. 

THOMSON. — Tancred  and  Sigismunda 


IQI 


FLESH 


FLOWERS 


If  men  did  not  flatter  one  another  there 
would  be  scarcely  any  society. 

VAUVENARGUES. — Maxim  921. 

Coquettes,  kings,  and  poets  are  accus- 
tomed  to  be  flattered. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter. 

Flattery    is    like    bad    money,    it    im- 
poverishes those  who  receive  it. 

MME.  WOILLEZ  (1785-1859). 

Flattery's  the  turnpike  road  to  fortune's 

door  : 

Truth  is  a  narrow  lane  and  full  of  quags, 
Leading  to  broken  heads,  abuse,  and  rags. 
J.  WOLCOT. — Odes  for  1785,  No.  9. 

A   man    that   flattereth   his   neighbour 
spreadeth  a  net  for  his  feet. 

Proverbs  xxix,  5. 

FLESH 

The  frei!6  flesh,  whose  nature  is 
Ay  ready  for  to  spurn  and  fall, 
The  firste  foman  is  of  all. 

Forthy  [therefore]  is  thilke  [that]  knight 

the  best, 
Through    might    and    grace    of    Goddes 

sonde  [gifts], 
Which  that  batai!6  may  withstonde. 

GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  5. 

O  !  that  this  too  too  solid  flesh  would  melt, 
Thaw,  and  resolve  itself  into  a  dew  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

FLIGHT 

For  those  that  fly  may  fight  again, 
Which  he  can  never  do  that's  slain. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  3. 

It  is  an  olde  saw,  he  fighteth  wele  (well) 
that  fleith  faste. 

Gesta  Romanorum  ("  Wolf  and  the  Hare  "), 
i5th  cent.  MS. 
FLIRTATION 

And  so  she  flirted,  like  a  true 
Good  woman,  till  we  bade  adieu. 
CAMPBELL. — My  Child  Sweetheart. 

He  decreed  in  words  succinct 

That  all  who  flirted,  leered,  or  winked, 

Unless  connubially  linked, 

Should  forthwith  be  beheaded. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

What  we  find  the  least  of  in  flirtation 
Is  love. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  402. 

FLOOD 

The  rising  world  of  waters,  dark  and 


deep. 


MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  n. 


FLOWERS 

Flowers  of  remarkable  size  and  hue, 
Flowers  such  as  Eden  never  knew. 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Ingoldsby  Legends. 
Nurse's  Story. 

Wee,  modest,  crimson-tipped  flower. 

BURNS. — To  a  Mountain  Daisy. 

When  daisies  and    buttercups    gladdened 

my  sight, 
Like  treasures  of  silver  and  gold. 

CAMPBELL. — Field  Flowers. 

Of    al    the    floures    in    the    mede, 
Than  love  I  most  these  floures  whyte  and 

rede, 

Swiche  as  men  callen  daysies  in  our  town. 
CHAUCER. — Legend  of  Good  Women. 

Shine  by  the  side  of  every  path  we  tread 

With  such  a  lustre  he  that  runs  may  read. 

COWPER. — Tirocinium,  79. 

The  Frenchman's  darling  [mignonette]. 
COWPER. — Winter  Evening. 

Daisies   smell-less,    yet   most    quaint, 

And  sweet  thyme  true, 
Primrose,  first-born  child  of  Ver, 
Merry  spring-time's  harbinger. 

J.  FLETCHER. — Two  Noble  Kinsmen, 
Act  i,   i. 

The   flowers   that   bloom   in   the   spring, 

tra    la, 
Have  nothing  to  do  with  the  case. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

The   cowslip  is   a  country  wench, 

The  violet  is  a  nun  ; 
But  I  will  woo  the  dainty  rose, 

The  queen  of  every  one. 

HOOD. — Flowers 

Those  veiled  nuns,  meek  violets. 

HOOD. — Midsummer  Fairies. 

The  tulip  is  a  flower  without  a  soul,  but 
the  rose  and  the  lily  seem  to  possess  one. 
JOSEPH  JOUBERT  (1754-1824). 

Spake  full  well,  in  language  quaint  and 

olden, 

One  who  dwell?th  by  the  castled  Rhine, 
When  he  called  the  flowers,  so  blue  and 

golden, 

Stars,    that    in    earth's    firmament    do 
shine.          LONGFELLOW. — Flowers. 

Flowers,  that  their  gay  wardrobe  wear. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  47. 

Throw  hither  all  your  quaint  enamelled 

eyes, 
That  on  the  green  turf  suck  the    honied 

showers.  MILTON. — Ib.,  139. 

The    rathe  primrose   that  forsaken  dies. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  142. 


JQ2 


FLOWERS 


FOG 


The  pansy  freaked  with  jet. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,   145. 

Cowslips  wan,  that  hang  the  pensive  head, 

And   every   flower    that   sad   embroidery 

wears.  MILTON. — Ib.,  146. 

Flowers  of  all  hue,  and  without  thorn  the 
rose. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  256. 

In  Eastern  lands  they  talk  in  flowers, 
And  they  tell  in  a  garland   their   loves 

and  cares  ; 
Each  blossom  that  blooms  in  their  garden 

bowers 

On  its  leaves  a  mystic  language  wears. 
J.  G.  PERCIVAL. 

You  pretty  daughters  of   the  Earth  and 
Sun. 

SIR   W.    RALEGH. — Shepherd    to    the 
Flowers. 

There's  rosemary,  that's  for  remem- 
brance ;  pray,  love,  remember  ;  and  there  id 
pansies,  that's  for  thoughts. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,   Act  4,  5. 

When  daisies  pied  and  violets  blue 
And  lady-smocks,  all  silver  white, 
And   cuckoo-buds  of  yellow  hue 

Do   paint    the   meadows   with   delight. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost. 

Act  5,  2. 

I  know  a  bank,  whereon  the  wild  thyme 

blows, 
Where    ox-lips    and    the   nodding    violet 

grows  ; 

Quite  over-canopied  with  luscious  wood- 
bine, 

With  sweet  musk  roses  and  with  eglantine. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 

Dream,  Act  2,  2. 

Where  the  bee  sucks,  there  suck  I  ; 
In  a  cowslip's  bell  I  lie. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  5,  i. 

Violets  dim, 

But  sweeter  than  the  lids  of  Juno's  eyes, 
Or  Cytherea's  breath. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

And  the  jessamine  faint,  and  the  sweet 

tuberose, 

The  sweetest  flower  for  scent  that  blows. 
SHELLEY. — Sensitive  Plant,  10. 

The  tufted  basil,  pun-provoking  thyme, 
Fresh   baum,    and   marigold   of   cheerful 
hue.         SHENSTONE. — Schoolmistress. 

Were  I,  O  God,  in  churchless  lands  re- 
maining, 

Far  from  all  voice  of  teachers  or  divines, 
My  soul  would  find,  in  flowers  of  thy 

ordaining, 

Priests,  sermons,  shrines  ! 
HORACE  SMITH. — Hymn  to  the  Flowers. 

N  193 


Flowers  of  all  heavens,  and  lovelier  than 
their  names. 
TENNYSON. — Princess.  Prologue,  12. 

A  flower  when  offered  in  the  bud 
Is  no  vain  sacrifice. 

1.  WATTS. — Early  Religion. 

And  'tis  my  faith  that  every  flower 
Enjoys  the  air  it  breathes. 

WORDSWORTH. — In  Early  Spring. 

Thanks  to  the  human  heart  by  which  we 

live, 
Thanks  to  its  tenderness,  its  joys,   and 

fears, 
To  me  the  meanest  flower  that  blows  can 

give 
Thoughts  that  do  often  lie  too  deep  for 

tears. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of  Im- 
mortality (1803-6). 

So  fair,  so  sweet,  withal,  so  sensitive, 
Would  that  the  little  Flowers  were  born 

to  live, 
Conscious  of  half  the  pleasure  which  they 

give  ; 
That  to  this  mountain-daisy's   self  were 

known 
The   beauty   of   its   star-shaped   shadow, 

thrown 

On  the  smooth  surface  of  this  naked  stone  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  of  Sentiment,  40. 

There's  a  flower  that  shall  be  mine  ; 
'Tis  the  little  celandine. 
WORDSWORTH. — To  the  Small  Celandine. 

Pleasures  newly  found  are  sweet, 
When   they  lie   about  our  feet. 
WORDSWORTH. — To  the  same  Flower 
(The  Small  Celandine). 

Thou  art  indeed,  by  many  a  claim, 
The  poet's  darling. 
WORDSWORTH. — To  the  Daisy  (1802). 

Thou    unassuming    Common-place 
Of  Nature,  with  that  homely  face, 
And    yet  with   something  of   a   grace 
Which  Love  makes  for  thee  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — To  the  same  Flower 
(The  Daisy). 

Through  storm  and  wind,  sunshine  and 

shower, 
Still  will  ye  find  groundsel  in  flower. 

Scottish  rhyme  (Dr.  Robert  Chambers' s 
collection,  1826). 

The  rose  is  red,  the  violet's  blue, 
Pinks  are  sweet,  and  so  are  you. 
For  St.  Valentine's  Day  (Halliwell), 

FOG 

This  is  a  London  particular,  ...  a  fog, 
miss.          DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  3. 


FOLLY  AND  FOOLS 


FOLLY  AND  FOOLS 


O  heavenly  colour  !  London  town 
Has  blurred  it  from  her  skies, 

And  hooded  in  an  earthly  brown 
Unheavened  the  city  lies. 
ALICE  MEYNELL. — November  Blue. 

A  grey  fog  in  the  early  prime, 
A  blue  fog  by  the  breakfast  hour, 

A  saffron  fog  at  luncheon  time, 
At  dinner  a  persistent  shower 
Of  smut,  and  then  a  dismal  power 
Of  choking  darkness  and  despair, 
Thickening  and  soddening  all  the  air. 
WALTER  C.  SMITH. — Olrig  Grange,  Bk.  3. 

FOLLY  AND  FOOLS 

Lulled  by  the  same  old  baby-prattle, 
With  intermixture  of  the  rattle. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  n. 

Which  made  some  take  him  for  a  tool 
That  knaves  do  work  with,  called  a  Fool. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

There  is  a  greatest  Fool,  as  a  superlative 
in  every  kind  ;  and  the  most  Foolish  man 
in  the  Earth  is  now  indubitably  living  and 
breathing,  and  did  this  morning,  or  lately 
eat  breakfast.  CARLYLE. — On  Biography'^ 

Wise  men  learn  more  from  fools  than 
fools  from  wise  men. 

CATO  (according  to  Plutarch). 

The  picture  placed  the  busts  between, 

Gives  satire  all  its  strength  ; 
Wisdom  and  wit  are  little  seen, 
But  folly's  at  full  length. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD     (attrib.). — On 
Richard  Nosh's   picture,  between  the 
busts  of  Newton  and  Pope,  at  Bath. 

Could  it  be  worth  thy  wondrous  waste  of 

pains 

To  publish  to  the  world  thy  lack  of  brains  ? 
CHURCHILL. — Rosciad. 

Examinations  are  formidable  even  to 
the  best  prepared,  for  the  greatest  fool 
may  ask  more  than  the  wisest  man  can 
answer.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

A  knave  when  tried  on  honesty's  plain 

rule, 

And  when  by  that  of  reason  a  mere  fool. 
COWPER. — Hope,  568. 

Designed  by  Nature  wise,  but  self-made 
fools.        COWPER. — Tirocinium,  837. 

His  ambition  is  to  sink, 
To  reach  a  depth  profounder  still,  and  still 
Profounder,  in  the  fathomless  abyss 
Of  folly. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Folly  in  youth  is  sin,  in  age  'tis  madness. 
S.  DANIEL. — Cleopatra. 


An  ass  may  do  more  adventitious  ill 
Than  twenty  tigers. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — Godfrida,  Act  2. 

True  fops  help  nature's  work,  and  go  to 

school 
To  file  and  finish  God  Almighty's  fool. 

DRYDEN. — Man  oj  Mode,  Ep. 

The  folly  of  others  is  ever  most  ridicu- 
lous to  those  who  are  themselves  most 
foolish. 

GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World,  43. 

None  but  a  fool  is  always  right. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth,  vol.  2. 

It  is  the  foiiy  of  the  world  constantly 
which  confounds  its  wisdom. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Professor  at  Break- 
fast Table. 

All  the  world's  a  mass  of  folly, 
Youth  is  gay,  age  melancholy  : 
Youth  is  spending,  age  is  thrifty, 
Mad  at  twenty,  cold  at  fifty ; 
Man  is  nought  but  folly's  slave, 
From  the  cradle  to  the  grave. 
W.    H.    IRELAND. — Modern  Ship  of 
Fools.     (Of  the  Folly  of  all  the  World.) 

You  look  wise.  Pray  correct  that  error. 
.  .  .  He  who  hath  not  a  dram  of  folly  in 
his  mixture,  hath  pounds  of  much  worse 
matter  in  his  composition. 

LAMB. — All  Fools'  Day. 

Who  lives  without  folly  is  not  so  wise 
as  he  thinks.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

A  man  of  wit  would  often  be  very  much 
at  a  loss  without  the  company  of  fools. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The  event  is  the  schoolmaster  of  fools. 
LIVY. — 20,  39. 

The  right  to  be  a  cussed  fool 

Is  safe  from  all  devices  human  ; 

It's  common  (ez  a  gin'l  rule) 

To  every  critter  born  o'  woman. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2,  7. 

A  wise  fool  is  a  worse  fool  than  an  ig- 
norant fool. 

MOLIERE. — Femmes  savantes,  Act  4. 

But  a'  the  fules'  foolish  sangs 

That  e'er  cam'  frae  the  moon, 
Were  naething  to  a  sang  I  heard, 
To  a  very  foolish  tune, 
That  a  fule  sang  to  me. 
G.  OUTRAM. — The  Fule's  Song. 

Where  lives  the  man  that  has  not  tried 
How  mirth  can  into  folly  glide, 
And  folly  into  sin  ? 

SCOTT. — Bridal  of  Triermain. 

Motley's  the  only  wear. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 


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FOLLY  AND  FOOLS 


FOOD 


Let  the  doors  be  shut  upon  him,  that  he 
may  play  the  fool  nowhere  but  in  's  own 
house.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

They  fool  me  to  the  top  of  my  bent. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Thus  hath  the  candle  singed  the  moth. 
O,  these  deliberate  fools  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  9. 

Lord,  what  fools  these  mortals  be  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  3,  2. 

That  scorn  of  fools,  by  fools  mistook  for 

pride.     SWIFT. — On  Sir  W.  Temple's 

Illness,  1693. 

'Tis   fools  we    want,  and    of   the   largest 
size.  SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

Hated  by  fools,  and  fools  to  hate, 
Be  that  my  motto  and  my  fate. 

SWIFT. — To  Dr.  Delany,  1729. 

If  thou  hast  never  been  a  fool,  be  sure 
thou  wilt  never  be  a  wise  man. 

THACKERAY. — Lovel  the  Widower. 

Hain't  we  got  all  the  fools  in  town  on 
our  side  ?  And  ain't  that  a  big  enough 
majority  in  any  town  ? 

MARK  TWAIN. — Huckleberry  Finn,  c.  26. 

O  fruitful  Britain  !  doubtless  thou  wast 

meant 

A  nurse  of  fools,  to  stock  the  continent. 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame. 

Men  may  live  fools,  but  fools  they  can- 
not die.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 

Suffering  more  from  folly  than  from  fate. 
YOUNG. — /&.,  8. 

For  as  the  crackling  of  thorns  under  a 
pot,  so  is  the  laughter  of  the  fool. 

Ecclesiastes  vii,  6. 

Answer  not  a  fool  according  to  his  folly, 
lest  thou  also  be  like  unto  him.  Answer  a 
fool  according  to  his  folly,  lest  he  be  wise 
in  his  own  conceit.  Proverbs  xxvi,  4,  5. 

Though  thou  shouldest  bray  a  fool  in  a 
mortar  among  wheat  with  a  pestle,  yet 
will  not  his  foolishness  depart  from  him. 
Proverbs  xxvii,  22. 

O   Love,   Love,  on   thy  sowle  God  have 

mercye  ! 

For  as  Peter  is  princeps  apostolorum, 
So  to  the[e]  may  be  said  clerlye, 

Of  all  foolys  that  ever  was,  stultus  stul- 

torum. 

The  Epitaphe  of  Love,  the  Kinge's  Foole. 
Bodl.  MSS.,  c.  temp.  Henry  Vlli. 

A  barber  learns  to  shave  by  shaving 
fools.  Old  prov. 


The  chief  disease  that  reigns  this  year 
is  folly.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

Fools  will  not  part  with  their  bauble  for 
all  Lombard  Street.  Prov. 

FOOD 

A  plate  of  turtle,  green  and  glutinous. 

BROWNING. — Pied  Piper,  c.  4. 

The  halesome   parritch,   chief  of  Scotia's 
food. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

Pasthry  thot  aggravates  a  mpn  'stead 
of  pacifying  him.     [John  ftrowdie.] 

DICKENS. — Nickleby,  c.  42. 

Give  me  barley  meal  and  water  and  I 
will  rival  Jove  in  happiness. 

EPICURUS. — (Quoted  by  Seneca.) 

Ef  dey's  [there's]  sump'n  what  I  'spizes 
hit's  col'  vittles. 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  ch.  15. 

Lazy  fokes*  stummicks  don't  git  tired. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Plantation  Proverbs. 

Cornwall  squab-pie,  and  Devon  whitepot 

brings ; 
And  Leicester  beans  and  bacon,  food  of 

kings. 

DR.  W.  KING. — Art  of  Cookery. 

There  is  a  physiognomical  character  in 

the  tastes  for  food.     C holds  that  a 

man  cannot  have  a  pure  mind  who  refuses 
apple  dumplings.  I  am  not  certain  but 
he  is  right.  CHARLES  LAMB 

Fame  is  at  best  an  unperforming  cheat, 
But  'tis  substantial  happiness  to  eat. 

POPE. — Prol.,  Durfey's  Last  Play. 

Salad,  and  eggs,  and  lighter  fare, 
Tune  the  Italian  spark's  guitar  ; 
And,  if  I  take  Dan  Congreve  right, 
Pudding  and  beef  make  Britons  fight. 
PRIOR. — Alma,  3,  246. 

But  mice  and  rats  and  such  small  deer 
Have  been  Tom's  food  for  seven  long  year. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  4. 

There  is  no  love  sincerer  than  the  love 
of  food. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

I  found  that  between  ten  and  seventy 
years  of  age,  I  had  eaten  and  drunk  44 
waggon-loads  of  meat  and  drink  more  than 
would  have  preserved  me  in  life  and  health. 
The  value  of  this  mass  of  nourishment  I 
considered  to  be  worth  £7,000  sterling. 
It  occurred  to  me  that  I  must,  by  my 
voracity,  have  starved  to  death  fully  a 
hundred  persons.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — 

Letter  to  Lord  Murray,  Sept.  29,  1843. 


FOOL'S  PARADISE 


FOREBODING 


I  am  convinced  digestion  is  the  great 
secret  of  life  ;  and  that  character,  talents, 
virtues,  and  qualities  are  powerfully 
affected  by  beef,  mutton,  pie-crust,  and 
rich  soups. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter,  Sept.  30,  1837. 

Let  onion  atoms  lurk  within  the  bowl, 
And  half-suspected  animate  the  whole. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Recipe  for  a  Salad. 

A  son  of  pudding  and  eternal  beef. 

SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

Surfeit  has  killed  more  than  famine. 
THEOGNIS. — (Greek.) 

It  is  a  pleasant  fact  that  thought  de- 
pends entirely  on  the  stomach,  and  that  in 
spite  of  that  the  best  stomachs  are  not 
the  best  thinkers. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  D'Alembert, 
Aug.  20,  1770. 

After  a',  I  maun  confess  that  I  like  the 
Englishers,  if  they  wadna  be  sae  pernicket- 
ty  about  what  they  eat. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  9  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

More  pleased  when  knives  and  forks  in 

concert  join, 
Than  all  the  tinkling  cymbals  of  the  Nine 

[muses]. 

J.  WOLCOT. — Loitsiad,  c.  3,  9. 

All  goeth  down  Gutter  Lane. 

Old  London  Saying  (Ray). 

It's  by  the  mouth  o'  the  cow  that  the 
milk  comes.  Scottish  prov. 

FOOL'S  PARADISE 

A  fool's  paradise  is  better  than  a  wise- 
acre's purgatory. 

G.    COLMAN,  SEN. — Deuce   is  in  him. 

In  this  fool's  paradise  he  drank  delight. 
CRABBE. — The  Borough,  Letter  12. 

Into  a  Limbo  large  and  broad,  since  called 

The  Paradise  of  Fools,  to  few  unknown. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  495. 

FOOTBALL 

Ye  contented  your  souls 
With  the  flannelled  fools  at  the  wickets,  or 
the  muddied  oafs  at  the  goals. 

KIPLING. — The  Islanders. 

Yet,  in  a  hundred  scenes,  all  much  the 

same, 

I  know  that  weekly  half  a  million  men 
Who  never  actually  played  the  game, 
Hustling  like  cattle  herded  in  a  pen, 

Look  on  and  shout, 

While  two-and-twenty  hirelings  hack  a  ball 
about. 
SIR  OWEN  SEAMAN. — People's  Sport. 


FOPPERY 

There's  Bardus,  a  six-foot  column  of  fop, 
A  lighthouse  without  any  light  atop. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

A  pretty  man  is  a  paltry  man. 

MARTIAL. — i,    10. 

Sir  Plume,  of  amber  snuff-box  justly  vain, 
And  the  nice  conduct  of  a  clouded  cane. 
POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  4,  123. 

The  wealthy  curled  darlings  of  our  nation. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  2. 

FORBEARANCE 

There  is,  however,  a  limit  at  which  for- 
bearance ceases  to  be  a  virtue. 

BURKE. — Observations  on  "  Present 
State  of  the  Nation." 

Woe  to  the  purblind  crew  who  fill 
The  heart  with  each  day's  care  ; 

Nor  gain,  from  past  or  future,  skill 

To  bear  and  to  forbear. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  of  Sentiment,  34. 

Fifty  years  and  three 
Together  in  love  lived  we  : 
Angry  both  at  once  none  ever  did  us  see. 
This  was  the  fashion 

God  taught  us,  and  not  fear  : 
When  one  was  in  a  passion 

The  other  could  forbear. 

Ascribed  to  Mr.  Shelly,    a    Cambridge 

parson  (i6th  century),  on  being  asked 
how  long  he  had  been  married. 

FORBIDDEN  FRUIT 

Forbede  us  thing,  and  that  desyren  we. 
CHAUCER. — Wife  of  Bath's  Prologue. 

FORCE 

Force  is  not  a  remedy. 

JOHN  BRIGHT. — Speech,  Nov.  16, 1880. 

Force  is  a  rugged  way  of  making  love. 
S.  BUTLER. — Cat  and  Puss. 

Might, 

That  makes  a  title  where  there  is  no  right. 
S.  DANIEL. — Civil  Wars,  st.  36. 

Who  overcomes 

By  force,  hath  overcome  but  half  his  foe. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  648. 

This  [constitutional  pressure]  may  be 

force  ;   but  it  is  force  without  injury,  and 

therefore  without  blame.   SYDNEY  SMITH. 

— Peter  Plymley's  Letters,  No.  4. 

The  blind  wild  beast  of  force. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  5,  256. 

FOREBODING 

Knowing  how  Nature   threatens  ere  she 
springs.  R.  BUCHANAN. — Meg  Blane. 


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FORECAST 


FORGIVENESS 


He  [Grenville]  was  the  raven  of  the 
House  of  Commons,  always  croaking  de- 
feat in  the  midst  of  triumphs. 

MACAULAY. — Earl  of  Chatham. 

Beware  the  Ides  of  March  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  2. 

By  the  pricking  of  my  thumbs 
Something  wicked  this  way  comes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4,  i. 

The  weather  is  beautiful,  but,  as  Noodle 

says, — with  his  eyes  beaming  with  delight — 

"  We  shall  suffer  for  this,  Sir,  by-and-by." 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Sir  G. 

Phillips,  Dec.  22,  1836. 

FORECAST 

'Tis  the  sunset  of  life  gives  me  mystical  lore, 

And   coming   events   cast   their   shadows 

before.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

So  often  do  the  spirits 
Of  great  events  stride  on  before  the  events, 
And  in  to-day  already  walks  to-morrow. 
COLERIDGE. — Wallenstein,  Act  5. 

0  that  a  man  might  know 

The  end  of  this  day's  business  ere  it  come  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  5,  i. 

The  baby  figure  of  the  giant  mass 
Of  things  to  come  at  large. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  i,  3. 

FOREIGN  LANDS 

Admire  whate'er  they  find  abroad, 
But  nothing  here,  though  e'er  so  good  ; 
Be  natives  wheresoe'er  they  come, 
And  only  foreigners  at  home. 

S.  BUTLER. — On  our  Ridiculous  Imita- 
tion of  the  French. 

From  Greenland's  icy  mountains, 
From  India's  coral  strand. 

Where  Afric's  sunny  fountains 
Roll  down  their  golden  sand. 

BISHOP  HEBER. — Hymn. 

1  am  a  barbarian  here,  because  I  am 
not   understood   by   anyone. 

OVID. — Tristia,  Bk.  5,   10. 

FORESIGHT 

Never  mind  to-morrow,  Hetty.  Be  like 
the  sun  and  the  meadow,  which  are  not 
in  the  least  concerned  about  the  coming 
winter. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  5. 

Rainy  days  will  surely  come  ; 

Take  your  friend's  umbrella  home.    ANON. 

FORGETFULNESS 

But  each  day  brings  its  petty  dust 
Our  soon-choked  souls  to  fill, 


And  we  forget  because  we  must, 
And  not  because  we  will. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Absence. 

I  feel  assured  there  is  no  such  thing  as 
ultimate  forgetting  ;  traces  once  impressed 
upon  the  memory  are  indestructible. 

DE  QUINCEY. — Opium  Eater,  Pt.  3. 

With  life's  best  balm — forgetfulness. 
MRS.  HEMANS. — The  Caravan  in  the  Desert. 

Of  all  affliction  taught  a  lover  yet, 
'Tis  sure  the  hardest  science  to  forget. 

POPE. — Eloisa  to  Abelard,   189. 

But  men  are  men ;    the  best  sometimes 
forget.  j 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

FORGIVENESS 

But  Thou  art  good  ;  and  goodness  still 
Delighteth  to  forgive. 
BURNS. — Prayer  in  Prospect  of  Death. 

Forgiveness  to  the  injured  does  belong  ; 
But  they  ne'er  pardon  who  have  done  the 

wrong. 

DRYDEN. — Conquest  of  Granada,  Pt.  2, 
Act  i,  2. 

To  love  is  human  ;  it  is  also  human  to 
forgive.  PLAUTUS. — Mercator. 

To  err  is  human  ;  to  forgive,  divine. 

POPE. — Criticism,  525. 

A  brave  man  thinks  no  one  his  superior 
who  does  him  an  injury,  for  he  has  it 
then  in  his  power  to  make  himself  superior 
to  the  other  by  forgiving  it. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Pardon's  the  word  to  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  5,  5. 

To  understand  is  to  forgive. 

MADAME  DE  STAEL. 

The  brave  only  know  how  to  forgive. 
...  A  coward  never  forgave  ;  it  is  not  in 
his  nature.  STERNE. — Sermon. 

Sleep ;    and   if   life   was   bitter   to   thee, 

pardon  ; 
If  sweet,  give  thanks  ;  thou  hast  no  more 

to  live  ; 

And  to  give  thanks  is  good,  and  to  for- 
give. 

SWINBURNE. — Ave  atque  Vale. 

'Tis   easier   for    the   generous   to   forgive 
Than  for  offence  to  ask  it. 

THOMSON. — Edward  and  Eleonora. 

Love  scarce  is  love  that  never  knows 
The   sweetness   of   forgiving. 

WHITTIER. — Among  the  Hills. 

And  unforgiving,  unforgiven  dies. 

Anon.  (On  the  Death  of  Queen  Caroline). 


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FORMALITY 


FORTUNE 


FORMALITY 

In  general,  the  more  completely  cased 
with  formulas  a  man  may  be,  the  safer, 
happier  is  it  for  him. 
CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present,  Bk.  2,  c.  17. 

You  are  too  senseless-obstinate,  my  lord, 
Too  ceremonious  and  traditional. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  3,  i. 

FORTUNE 

Nothing  more  certaine  than  incertainties  ; 

Fortune  is  full  of  fresh  varietie : 

Constant  in  nothing  but  inconstancie. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Shepherd's  Content 

(1594). 

here    is    a    nick    in    Fortune's    restless 

wheel 
For  each  man's  good. 

CHAPMAN. — Revenge  of  Bussy  d'Ambois. 

The   amiable   fortune    deceyveth    folk ; 
the   contrarie   Fortune   techeth. 

CHAUCER. — Boethius. 

Gifts  of  fortune, 
That  passen  as  a  shadow  on  the  wall. 

CHAUCER. — Merchant's  Talc. 

Let  not  one  look  of  fortune  cast  you  down  ; 

She  were  not  fortune  if  she  did  not  frown. 

EARL  OF  CORK. — Imit.  of  Horace. 

Extremes   of  fortune   are   true  wisdom's 

test. 
And   he's  of  men  most  wise  who  bears 

them  best. 

R.  CUMBERLAND. — Philemon. 

How  easy  'tis,  when  destiny  proves  kind, 

With  full-spread  sails  to  run  before  the 

wind.     DRYDEN. — Astraa  Redux,  63. 

Dame  Nature  gave  him  comeliness  and 

health, 
And  Fortune  (for  a  passport)   gave  him 

wealth.     W.  HARTE. — Eulogius,  411. 

England's  high  Chancellor,   the  destined 

heir, 

In  his  soft  cradle,  to  his  father's  chair, 
Whose  even  thread  the  Fates  spin  round 

and  full, 
Out  of  their  choicest  and  their  whitest 

wool. 

BEN  JONSON. — On   Francis   Bacon. 

"  After  sharpest  shoures,"  quath    Peers, 

"  most   sheene  is   the   sonne ; 
Ys  no  weder  warmer  than  after  watery 
cloudes."  LANGLAND. — Piers 

Plowman,  Passus  21. 
Happiness  or  misery  generally  go   to 
those  who  have  most  of  either  the  one  or 
the  other. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxims, 
Suppl.,  3,  18. 


Fortune  gives  too  much  to  many, 
enough  to  none.  MARTIAL. — Bk.  12. 

If  you  count  up  the  sunny  and  cloudy 

days  in  a  complete  year,   you  will  find 

that  the  fine  day  has  come  more  often. 

OVID. — Trist.,  5,  8,  31. 

Fortune  is  more  treacherous  and  dan- 
gerous when  she  caresses  than  when  she 
dismays.  Experience  has  taught  me  this, 
not  books  or  arguments. 

PETRARCH. — On  the  Remedies  of  Good 
and  Bad   Fortune. 

To  a  good  man  nothing  is  evil,  neither 
while  living  nor  when  dead ;  nor  are 
his  concerns  neglected  by  the  ?ods. 

PLATO. — Apol.  of  Socrates,  33 
(Gary  tr.). 

O  Fortune,  unkind  to  men  of  talent, 
how  unequally  do  you  distribute  your 
rewards !  SENECA. — Hercules  Furens. 

On  Fortune's  cap  we  are  not  the  very 
button. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

For  who  would  bear  the  whips  and  scorns 

of  time, 
The  oppressor's  wrong,  the  proud  man's 

contumely, 
The   pangs   of   despised  love,    the   law's 

delay, 

The   insolence  of  office,  and   the  spurns 
Which    patient   merit   of    the    unworthy 

takes, 

When  he  himself  might  his  quietus  make 
With  a  bare  bodkin  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.t  Act  3,  i. 

Why  let  the  strucken  deer  go  weep, 

The  hart  ungalled  play  ; 
For    some  must  watch,  while  some  must 

sleep  : 
So  runs   the  world  away. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

When  Fortune  means  to  men  most  good, 
She  looks  upon  them  with  a  threatening 

eye. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  3,  4. 

For  herein   Fortune   shows   herself  more 

kind 
Than  is  her  custom. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.   of  Venice, 
Act  4,   i. 

And  turn  the  giddy  round   of   Fortune's 

wheel.  SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece, 

st.  136. 

Fortune  makes  a  fool  of  the  man  whom 
she  favours  over  much. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

O  mortals  !  blind  in  fate,  who  never  know 

To  bear  high  fortune  or  endure  the  low. 

VIRGIL. — jEneid,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 


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FORTUNE  TELLING 


FRANCE 


Either  let  us  fall  or  reign  !  The  lucky 
man  is  honoured.  The  conqueror  be- 
comes dear  to  posterity,  which  condemns 
the  unfortunate. 

VOLTAIRE. — Don  Pedre. 

When  the  lady  is  not  cruel  you  treat  her 
as  a  nymph  and  a  divinity  ;  if  you  are 
repulsed  by  her  you  make  songs  against 
her.  VOLTAIRE. — Les  Deux  Tonneaux. 

When  we  do  not  act,  the  gods  abandon 
us.  VOLTAIRE. — Les  Ptlopides. 

One  man,  says  the  auld  proverb,  is 
born  wi'  a  silver  spoon  in  his  mouth,  and 
another  wi'  a  wudden  ladle. 

J.  WILSON. — Nodes    Ambrosiance, 
Nov.,  1831. 

It  seems  to  me  harder  to  find  a  man  who 
bears  good  fortune  well,  than  one  who  bears 
evil.  XENOPHON. 

The  lines  are  fallen  unto  me  in  pleasant 
places.  Psalm  xvi,  6. 

Fortune  is  glass  ;  just  when  it  is  bright 
it  is  broken. 

Latin  prov.  (altrib.  to   Seneca). 

What  said   Pluck? 

"  The  greater  knave  the    greater    luck." 
Scottish  rhyme. 

FORTUNE  TELLING 

She  knew  the  future,  for  the  past  she  knew. 
J.  LANGHORNE. — Country  Justice,  214. 

With  the  fond  maids  in  palmistry  he  deals  ; 

They  tell  the  secret  first  which  he  reveals. 

PRIOR. — Henry  and  Emma. 

There  is  a  history  in  all  men's  lives, 
Figuring  the  nature  of  the  times  deceased  ; 
The  which  observed,  a  man  may  prophesy, 
With  a  near  aim,  of  the  main  chance  of 

things 
As  yet  not  come  to  life  ;    which  in  their 

seeds, 
And  weak  beginnings,  lie  intreasured. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2, 
Act  3,  i. 

FOX-HUNTING 

He  thought  at  heart  like  courtly  Chester- 
field, 

Who,  after  a  long  chase  o'er  hills,  dales, 
bushes, 

And  what  not,  though  he  rode  beyond  all 
price, 

Ask'd   next   day,    "  if  men   ever  hunted 
twice  ?  " 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  14,  35. 

And  though  the  fox  he  follows  may  be 

tamed, 

A  mere  fox-follower  never  is  reclaimed. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  409. 


FRANCE 

France,  famed  in  all  great  arts,  in  none 

supreme. 
M.  ARNOLD.  —  Sonnet  (Continued),  1848. 

They  [the  French]  better  understand  the 
management  of  a  war  than  our  islanders  ; 
but  we  know  we  are  superior  to  them  in 
the  day  of  battle.  They  value  themselves 
on  their  generals  ;  we  on  our  soldiers. 

DRYDEN.  —  Dedication  of  JEneid. 

So  it  is  with  nearly  all  French  things. 
There  is  a  clever  showy  surface,  but  no 
Holy  of  Holies,  far  withdrawn  ;  conceived 
in  the  depth  of  a  mind,  and  only  to  be 
received  into  the  depth  of  ours  after  much 
attention. 

E.  FITZGERALD.  —  Letter  to  F.  Tennyson 

Gay  sprightly  land  of  mirth  and  social 

ease, 
Pleased  with  thyself,  whom  all  the  world 

can  please.      GOLDSMITH.  —  Traveller. 

France  beloved  of  every  soul  that  love* 
or  serves  its  kind. 

KIPLING.  —  France  (June, 


Yet  who  can  help  loving  the  land  that  ha? 

taught  us 

Six  hundred  and  eighty-five  ways  to  dress 

eggs.  MOORE.  —  Fudge  Family. 

All  that  is  noble  in  Europe  in  sentiment, 

taste,  and  manners  has  been  invented  in 

France. 

NIETZSCHE.  —  As  quoted  by  M.  Poincari, 
Speech,  1917. 

The  vine-covered  hills  and  gay  regions 
of  France. 

W.  ROSCOE.  —  Lines  written  in  1788. 

A  Parisian  thinks  he  knows  men,  and 
he  knows  only  Frenchmen. 

ROUSSEAU.  —  Emile. 

For  the  apparel  oft  proclaims  the  man  ; 
And  they  in  France,  of  the  best  rank  and 

station, 

Are  most  select  and  generous  chief  in  that. 
SHAKESPEARE.  —  Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

That  sweet  enemy,  France. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY.  —  Astrophel. 

I  find  the  [French]  people  now,  as  I 
did  before,  most  delightful.  Compared 
to  them  we  are  perfect  barbarians. 

SYDNEY  SMITH.  —  Letter  from  Rouen, 
Oct.  6,  1835. 

"  They  order,"  said  I,  "  this  matter 
better  in  France." 

STERNE.  —  Sent.  Journey,  ch.  i. 

If  they  [the  French]  have  a  fault,  they 
are  too  serious. 

STERNE.  —  Sent.  Journey  :  The  A  ddress, 
Versailles. 


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FRANKNESS 


FREEDOM 


Give  us  a  name  to  nil  the  mind 
With  the  shining  thoughts  that  lead  man- 
kind, 

The  glory  of  learning,  the  joy  of  art, — 
A  name  that  tells  of  a  splendid  part 
In  the  long,  long  toil  and  the  strenuous 

nght 

Of  the  human  race  to  win  its  way 
From  the  ancient  darkness  into  the  day 
Of  Freedom,  Brotherhood,  Equal  Right, — 
A  name  like  a  star,  a  name  of  light, — 
I  give  you  France  \ 

DR.  VAN  DYKE  (U.S.A.). — Lines  on 
France  (1917). 

Every  Frenchwoman,  as  I  imagine, 
knows  more  or  less  something  about  the 
art  of  cooking. 

VOLTAIRE. — Origine  des  Metiers. 

FRANKNESS 

'Tis  not  my  talent  to  conceal  my  thoughts, 

Or  carry  smiles  and  sunshine  in  my  face, 

When  discontent  sits  heavy  at  my  heart, 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i,  4. 

There    is  no  wisdom    like    frankness. 
DISRAELI. — Sybil,  Bk.  4,  ch.  g. 

To  be  frank  and  sincere  is  my  greatest 

talent  of  all.     I  do  not  know  how  to  trick 

men  in  talking  to  them ;  and  the  man  who 

has  not  the  gift  of  hiding  what  he  thinks 

should  cut  short  his  stay  in  this  country. 

MOLIERE. — Le  Misanthrope,  Act  3,  7. 

(Alceste,  the  "  misanthrope.") 

I  think  there's  never  man  in  Christendom 

Can  lesser  hide  his  hate  or  love  than  he. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  3,  4. 

FRATERNITY 

Good  God  !  What  a  blissful  age  when 
man  says  to  man  :  "  Let ^us  be  brothers  or 
I  will  cut  your  throat !  " 

E.  LEBRUN  (1729-1807). — Fraternity  or 

Death. 

FRAUDS,  PIOUS 

Well  stored  with  pious  frauds,  and,  like 
most  discourses  of  the  sort,  much  better 
calculated  for  the  private  advantage  of 
the  preacher  than  the  edification  of  the 
hearers.  BURKE. — Observations  on  "  The 
Present  State  of  the  Nation." 

The  outworn  rite,  the  old  abuse, 

The  pious  fraud  transparent  grown. 

WHITTIER. — The  Reformer. 

FREEDOM 

Within  yourselves  deliverance    must    be 

sought  ; 

Each  man  his  prison  makes. 
SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Light  of  Asia,  Bk.  8. 

Ah  !  freedom  is  a  noble  thing  ! 
Freedom   makes   man   to   have   likeing  ! 


Freedom  all  solace  to  man  gives  ! 
He  lives  at  ease  who  freely  lives  ! 

JOHN  BARBOUR. — The  Bruce. 

The  cause  of  Freedom  is  the  cause  of  God. 
W.  L.  BOWLES. — To  E.  Burke. 

Whilst  freedom  is  true  to  itself,  every- 
thing becomes  subject  to  it. 

BURKE. — Speech  at  Bristol.  1780. 

Slaves    cannot    breathe    in    England ;    if 

their  lungs 
Receive  our  air,   that  moment  they  are 

free.  COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

He  is  the  freeman  whom  the  truth  makes 
free.  COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

"  I  think  I  know  the  delights  of  free- 
dom," I  [Pip]  answered. — "  Ah,"  said  he 
[Provis],  shaking  hi*  head  gravely,  "  But 
you  don't  know  it  equal  to  me.  You 
must  have  been  under  lock  and  key,  dear 
boy,  to  know  it  equal  to  me  !  " 

DICKENS. — Great  Expectations,  c.  54. 

More  liberty  begets  desire  of  more  ; 
The  hunger  still  increases  with  the  store. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther, 
Pt.  i,  519- 

Freedom !  which  in  no    other    land  will 

thrive — 
Freedom !     an     English     subject's     sole 

prerogative. 
DRYDEN. — Threnodia  A ugustalis,  st.  10. 

I  found  that  riches  in  general  were,  in 
every  country,  another  name  for  freedom, 
and  that  no  man  is  so  fond  of  liberty 
himself  as  not  to  be  desirous  of  subjecting 
the  will  of  some  individuals  in  society  to 
his  own.  GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield. 

The  greatest  glory  of  a  freeborn  people 

Is    to    transmit    that    freedom    to    their 

children.       WM.  HAVARD, — Regitlus. 

Freedom  is  a  new  religion,  the  religion 

of  pur  age.    If  Christ  is  not  the  God  of  this 

religion,  he  is  still  one  of  its  high-priests. 

HEINE. — The  Liberation. 

Ay,  call  it  holy  ground, 

The  soil  where  first  they  trod  ! 
They  have  left  unstained  what  there  they 

found — 
Freedom  to  worship  God  ! 

MRS.  HEMANS. — Pilgrim  Fathers. 

All  we  have  of  freedom — all  we  use  or 

know — 

This  our  fathers  bought  for  us,  long  and 
long  ago.         KIPLING. — The  Old  Issue. 

If  I  have  freedom  in  my  love, 
And  in  my  soul  am  free, — • 

Angels  alone,  that  soar  above, 
Enjoy  such  liberty. 

LOVELACE. — To  Althea. 


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FREEDOM 


FREE  WILL 


Neither  one  person,  nor  any  number  of 
persons,  is  warranted  in  saying  to  another 
human  creature  of  ripe  years,  that  he  shall 
not  do  with  his  life,  for  his  own  benefit, 
what  he  chooses  to  do  with  it. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  4. 

None  can  love  freedom  heartily  but 
good  men  ;  the  rest  love  not  freedom,  but 
licence.  MILTON. — Tenure  of  Kings  (1649). 

Oh  !  remember  life  can  be 

No  charm  for  him  who  lives  not  free  ! 

MOORE. — Before  the  Battle. 

O  Freedom  !  once  thy  name  hath  fled, 
It  never  lights  again. 

MOORE. — Weep  on. 

Service  and  freedom,  when  excessive, 
are  each  an  evil  ;  but  when  moderate  are 
altogether  a  good.  PLATO. — Epistle  8. 

No  human  being,  however  great,  or 
powerful,  was  ever  so  free  as  a  fish. 

RUSKIN. — Two  Faiths. 

And,  best  beloved  of  best  men,  liberty, 

Free  lives  and  lips,   free  hands  of  men 

freeborn.          SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 

Whatever  harmonies  of  law 

The  growing  world  assume, 
Thy  work  is  thine — The  single  note 
From  that  deep  chord  which  Hampden 

smote 
Will  vibrate  to  the  doom. 

TENNYSON. — England    and  America 
in  1782. 

The  thrall  in  person  may  be  free  in  soul. 
TENNYSON. — Gareth. 

It  is  the  land  that  freemen  till, 
That   sober-suited    Freedom    chose  ; 
The  land,  where  girt  with  friends  or  foes 

A  man  may  speak  the  thing  he  will ; 

A   land    of    settled    government, 
A  land  of  just  and  old  renown, 
Where  Freedom  slowly  broadens  down 

From  precedent  to  precedent. 

TENNYSON. — You  ask  me  why. 

Ne'er  yet  by  Force  was  Freedom  over- 
come. THOMSON. — Liberty. 

Man  is  free  the  moment  he  wishes  to  be. 
VOLTAIRE. — Brutus. 

You  reasoners  and  fine  wits,  and  you 

who    think   yourselves   such,    would   you 

live  happy,  live  always  without  a  master. 

VOLTAIRE. — Discours  4. 

It  is  the  freedom  to  think  which  has 
made  such  excellent  books  blossom  forth 
amongst  the  English.  It  is  because  their 
minds  are  enlightened  that  they  are  hardy. 
...  It  is  this  freedom  which  has  made  all 
the  arts  nourish  in  England  and  has 
covered  the  ocean  with  her  vessels. 

VOLTAIRE. — Reflections  for  Fools. 


Good,  which  they  dared  not  hope  for,  we 

have  seen  ; 
A  State  whose  generous  will  through  earth 

is  dealt  ; 

A  State,  which,  balancing  herself  between 
Licence  and  slavish  order,  dares  be  free. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  3,  37. 

The  good  man  only  is  free  ;  all  bad  men 
are  slaves. 

Stoic  Maxim  quoted  by  Plutarch. 

FREEMASONRY 

For  in  heaven  there's  a  lodge,   and  St. 

Peter  keeps  the  door, 
And  none  can  enter  in  but  those  that  are 

pure.  The  Masonic  Hymn. 

FREE  SPEECH 

No  more  need  men  keep  in  silence 
Tongues  fast  bound  ;  for  now  the  people 
May  with  freedom  speak  at  pleasure  ; 
For  the  yoke  of  power  is  broken. 

AESCHYLUS. — Persce,  395 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

In  the  present  age — which  has  been 
described  as  "  destitute  of  faith  but 
terrified  at  scepticism  " —  .  .  .  the  claims 
of  an  opinion  to  be  protected  from  public 
attack  are  rested  not  so  much  on  its  truth 
as  on  its  importance  to  society. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  2 
(1859). 

This  is  true  liberty,  when  freeborn  men, 

Having  to  advise  the  public,  may  speak 

free.  MILTON. — Translation, 

Euripides. 

To  speak  his  thought  is  every  freeman's 

right, 

In  peace  and  war,  in  council  and  in  fight. 
POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  12,  249. 

FREE  TRADE 

Free  Trade  is  not  a  principle  ;  it  is  an 
expedient. 

DISRAELI. — Speech,  April  25,  1843. 

Free  trade,  one  of  the  greatest  blessings 
which  a  government  can  confer  on  a  people, 
is  in  almost  every  country  unpopular. 

MACAULAY. — Mitford's  Greece. 

FREE  WILL 

Everywhere  the  human  soul  stands 
between  a  hemisphere  of  light  and  another 
of  darkness  ;  on  the  confines  of  two  ever- 
lasting hostile  empires,  Necessity  and  Free 
Will.  CARLYLE. — Essays  ;  Goethe's  Works. 

Sufficient  to    have  stood,  though  free  to 
fall. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  99. 

Heaven  wills  our   happiness,    allows  our 
doom.        YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  7. 


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FRIENDSHIP 


FRENCH  LEAVE 

If  you  wish  to  depart  before  the  rest 
of  the  company  .  .  .  take  what  they  call 
a  French  leave,  and  which  our  polite 
neighbours,  the  French,  have  instructed 
us  in,  that  is,  to  steal  off  as  unnoticed  as 
possible.  REV.  J.  TRUSLER. — System  of 
Etiquette  (1804). 

FRETFULNESS 

You  are  so  fretful,  you  cannot  live  long. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  3,  3. 
FRIDAY 

Selde  is  the  Friday  al  the  wyke  alike, 
["  Fridays  in  the  week  are  seldom  alike," 
— i.e.  Fridays  are  unlike  each  other.  Com- 
pare the  French  prov.  below.] 

CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  68 1. 

And    on  a  Friday  fil    [fell]  al   this  mes- 
chaunce.          CHAUCER. — Nun's  Priest's 

Tale. 

Friday  is  perhaps  the  best  day  of  the 
week.  .  .  .  Friday's  greatest  merit  is 
perhaps  that  it  paves  the  way  to  Saturday 
and  the  cessation  of  work.  That  it  ever 
was  really  unlucky  I  greatly  doubt. 
E.  V.  LUCAS. — Fireside  and  Sunshine. 

Friday  is  always  the  best  or  the  worst 
day  in  the  week. 

Old  French  prov.  (Recueil  des  Contes,  by 
A.  Jubinal). 
Friday's  moon, 
Come  when  it  will. 
It  comes  too  soon. 

Prov.  (Halliwell's  "  Popular  Rhymes," — in 
reference  to  the  new  moon). 

FRIENDSHIP 

Thy  bounteous  hand  with  worldly  bliss 

Has  made  my  cup  run  o'er, 
And  in  a  kind  and  faithful  friend 

Has  doubled  all  my  store. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  453. 

Friendship  is  a  poor  adviser;  politicians 

deep  and  wise 
Many  times  are  forced  to  learn  a  lesson 

from  their  enemies. 
ARISTOPHANES. — The  Birds  (Frereir.). 

There  is  little  friendship  in  the  world 
and  least  of  all  between  equals. 

BACON.— Of  Followers. 

A  crowd  is  not  company  and  faces  are 
but  a  gallery  of  pictures. 

BACON. — Of  Friendship. 

It  [friendship]  redoubleth  joys  and  cut- 
teth  griefs  in  half.  BACON. — Ib. 

The  worst  solitude  is  to  have  no  true 
friendships. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6,  37. 


But  if  Fortune  once  doe  frowne, 
Then  farewell  his  great  renowne  : 
They  that  fawnd  on  him  before 
Use  his  company  no  more. 
R.  BARNFIELD.— Ode,  As  it  fell  upon  a  day. 

Every  man  will  be  thy  friend, 

Whilst  thou  hast  wherewith  to  spend. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Ode. 

He  that  is  thy  friend  indeed, 
He  will  help  thee  in  thy  need. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Ib. 

Friendship  !    mysterious    cement    of    the 

soul ! 
Sweet'ner  of  life  and  solder  of  society  ! 

R.  BLAIR. — The  Grave,  88. 

You're  my  friend — 

What  a  thing  friendship  is,  world  without 

end  !  BROWNING. — Flight  of 

the  Duchess,  c.  17. 

Luitolfo  was  the  proper 
Friend-making,  everywhere  friend-finding 

soul, 
Fit  for  the  sunshine,  so,  it  followed  him. 

BROWNING. — Soul's  Tragedy,  Act  i. 

His  honest,  sonsie,  baws'nt  face 
Aye  gat  him  friends  in  ilka  place. 

BURNS. — Twa  Dogs. 

Friendship  can  smooth  the  front  of  rude 
despair. 
R.  CAMBRIDGE. — Scribleriad,  i,  196. 

'Twas  sung  how  they  were  lovely  in  their 

lives, 

And  in  their  deaths  had  not  divided  been. 
CAMPBELL. — Gertrude,  33. 

Friendship's  a  noble  name,  'tis  love 
refined. 

MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — Stolen  Heiress,  Act  2. 

My  sone,    keep   wel   thy  tonge  and  keep 
thy  friend. 

CHAUCER. — Manciple's  Tale,  215. 

Friendship  excels  kinship.  CICERO. 

True  friendships  are  very  rarely  found 
in  such  as  are  occupied  in  the  pursuit  of 
honours  or  public  affairs. 

CICERO. — De  Amicitia. 

Friends  are  as  dangerous  as  enemies. 
DE  QUINCEY. — Schlosser's  Literary 
History. 
Codlin's  the  friend,  not  Short. 

DICKENS. — Old  Curiosity  Shop,  ch.  19. 

A  day  for  toil,  an  hour  for  sport,' 
But  for  a  friend  life  is  too  short. 
EMERSON. — Considerations  by  the  Way . 

The  only  way  to  have  a  friend  is  to  be 
one.  EMERSON. — Friendship. 


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FRIENDSHIP 


He  who  has  a  thousand  friends,  has  not 

a  friend  to  spare, 
And  he  who  has  one  enemy,  will  meet  him 

everywhere. 

EMERSON. — From  Omar. 

These  are  called  the  pious  frauds  of 
friendship. 

FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  6,  c.  6. 

A  woman-friend  !     He  that  believes  that 

weakness 

Steers  in  a  stormy  night  without  a  compass. 
J.  FLETCHER. — Women  Pleased,  Act  2,  i. 

An  open  foe  may  prove  a  curse, 
But  a  pretended  friend  is  worse. 

GAY. — Fables,  PL  i,  17. 

Friendship,  like  love,  is  but  a  name. 
GAY.— Ib.,  Pt.  i,  50. 

And  what  is  friendship  but  a  name  ? 

GOLDSMITH. — Hermit. 

He  cast  off  his  friends  as  a  huntsman  his 

pack, 
For  he  knew,  when  he  pleased,  he  could 

whistle  them  back. 

GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Women  do  not  have  friends, — they  only 
have  rivals.  E.  GONDINET. — Jonathan. 

Of  all  the  heavenly  gifts  that  mortal  men 

commend, 
What  trusty  treasure  in  the  world  can 

countervail  a  friend  ? 

N.  GRIMOALD. — Friendship. 

Friends  are  not  so  easily  made  as  kept. 
LORD  HALIFAX  (1630-95). — Maxims 
of  State. 

The  wicked  may  have  accomplices,  but 
heaven  has  ordained  that  here  below  only 
honest  folk  can  be  friends. 

COLLIN  D'HARLEVILLE. — Vieux  Cili- 
bataire,  Act  5. 

But  love  is  lost ;  the  way  of  friendship's 

gone  ; 
Though  David  had  his  Jonathan,  Christ  his 

John.  HERBERT. — Church  Potch. 

Like  summer  friends, 
Flies  of  estate  and  sunshine. 
HERBERT. — The  Temple :  The  A  nswer. 

While  in  my  senses  I  shall  find  nothing 
preferable  to  a  pleasant  friend. 

HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  i. 

A  man,  sir,  should  keep  his  friendship  in 

constant  repair.          JOHNSON. — Remark  to 

Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 

True   happiness 

Consists  not  in  the  multitude  of  friends, 
But  in  the  worth  and  choice. 
BEN  JONSON. — Cynthia's  Revels,  Act  3,  4. 


It  is  more  common  to  find  excess  in 
love  than  thoroughness  in  friendship. 

LA  BRUYERE. — Du  Cceur,  6. 

Nothing  so  dangerous   as   an  ignorant 
friend  ;  it  is  better  to  have  a  wise  enemy. 
LA  FONTAINE. 

I  have  had  playmates,  I  have  had  com- 
panions, 

In  my  days  of  childhood,  in  my  joyful 
schooldays, 

All,  all  are  gone,  the  old  familiar  faces. 

LAMB. — Old  Familiar  Faces. 

Women,  like  princes,  find  few  real  friends  ; 
All  who  approach  them  their  own  ends 

pursue  ; 
Lovers  and  ministers  are  seldom  true. 

GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Advice  to 
a  Lady. 

Farewell,  uncivil  man  !  let's  meet  no  more  ; 

Here  our  long  web  of  friendship  I  untwist. 

MASSINGER. — Fatal  Dowry,  Act  3,  i. 

O  summer-friendship, 
Whose  nattering  leaves,  that  shadowed  us 

in  pur 

Prosperity,  with  the  least  gust  drop  off 
In  the  autumn  of  adversity. 
MASSINGER. — Maid  of  Honour,  Act  3,  2. 

Friend  after  friend  departs  : 
Who  hath  not  lost  a  friend  ? 

There  is  no  union  here  of  hearts 
That  finds  not  here  an  end. 
JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Friends. 

If  I  speak  to  thee  in  Friendship's  name, 
Thou  think'st  I  speak  too  coldly ; 

If  I  mention  Love's  devoted  name, 
Thou  say'st  I  speak  too  boldly. 

MOORE. — How  shall  I  woo  ? 

The    thread   of   our  life  would  be  dark, 

Heaven  knows, 
If  it  were  not  with  friendship  and  love 

intertwined.       MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

But  oh,  if  grief  thy  steps  attend, 
If  want,  if  sickness,  be  thy  lot, 

And  thou  require  a  soothing  friend, 
Forget  me  not,  forget  me  not ! 

MRS.  OPIE. — Forget  me  not. 

Few  friendships  would  continue  to 
exist  if  each  man  knew  what  his  friend 
says  of  him  in  his  absence,  even  though 
it  is  said  in  all  sincerity  and  without 
vindictiveness.  PASCAL. — Pensies. 

» 

The  name  of  friend  is  common,  but  truth 
in  friendship  is  rare. 

PH^EDRUS. — Fables,  3,  9. 

Menander  counted  every  man  wonder- 
fully honest  and  happy  who  has  found 
even  the  very  shadow  of  a  friend. 

PLUTARCH. — Of  the  Folly  of  too  many 
Friends. 


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FRIENDSHIP 


Many  men,  prejudiced  early  in  disfavour 
of  mankind  by  bad  maxims,  never  aim  at 
making  friendships  ;  and  while  they  only 
think  of  avoiding  the  evil,  miss  of  the  good 
that  would  meet  them. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Of  all  the  gifts  the  gods  afford, 
(If  we  may  take  old  Tully's  word), 
The  greatest  is  a  friend,  whose  love 
Knows  how  to  praise  and  when  reprove. 

PRIOR. — Conversation,  71. 

Most  friendship  is  feigning,  most  love  mere 

folly.    SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It, 

Act  2,  7. 

The  friends  thou  hast,  and  their  adoption 
tried, 

Grapple  them  to  thy  soul  with  hoops  of 
steel ; 

But  do  not  dull  thy  palm  with  entertain- 
ment 

Of  each  new-hatched,  unfledged  comrade. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

He  was  my  friend,  faithful  and  just  to  me. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

A  friend  should  bear  his  friend's  infirmi- 
ties. SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  3. 

Alas,  I  then  have  chid  away  my  friend : 

He  hath  a  stern  look,  but  a  gentle  heart. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  4,  i. 

I  count  myself  in  nothing  else  so  happy 

As  in  a  soul  remembering  my  good  friends. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  3. 

I    do   not   know  that   Englishman   alive, 

With  whom  my  soul  is  any  jot  at  odds. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  2,  i. 

Let  me  not  to  the  marriage  of  true  minds 
Admit  impediments. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnets,  116. 

There  is  a  profound  difference  between 
the  friendships  of  men  and  those  of  women. 
Men's  friendships  are  linked  by  their 
pleasures,  women's  by  their  griefs. 

EDITH  SICHEL. — Thoughts. 

Having    some    friends,    whom    he    loves 

dearly, 
And  no  lack  of  foes,  whom  he  laughs  at 

sincerely. 

SOUTHEY. — Robert  the  Rhymer. 

I  am  weary  of  friends,  and  friendships  are 
all  monsters.  SWIFT. — Letter,  1710. 

Some  great  misfortune  to  portend, 
No  enemy  can  match  a  friend. 
SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift 


So  vanish  friendships  only  made  in  wine* 
TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  481- 


Were  I  to  choose  a  friend,  I'd  rather  have 

An  honest  blockhead  than  a  clever  knave. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Sales  Attici. 

Friendship's   an   empty  name,   made   to 

deceive 
Those  whose  good  nature  tempts  them  to 

believe  : 
There's  no  such  thing  on  earth  ;  the  best 

that  we 
Can  hope  for  here  is  faint  neutrality. 

SIR  S.  TUKE. — Five  Hours. 

His  only  crime  (if  friendship  can  offend) 

Is  too  much  love  to  his  unhappy  friend. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  9  (Dry den  tr.). 

O  divine  friendship,  perfect  felicity ! 
the  only  motion  of  the  soul  in  which  excess 
is  allowable.  VOLTAIRE. — Discours  4. 

Friendship,  gift  of  heaven,  pleasure  of 
great  souls !  Friendship,  which  kings, 
those  illustrious  practisers  of  ingratitude, 
are  so  unhappy  as  not  to  know. 

VOLTAIRE. — Henriade. 

Change  your  pleasures,  but  do  not 
change  your  friends. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire  (Ninon's 
advice) . 

Flattery  ...  is   the   natural   language 

o'   freenship.     JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  16 

(Ettrick  Shepherd). 

All  like  the  purchase  ;  few  the  price  will 

pay; 

And    this    makes    friends    such    miracles 
below.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

But  since  friends  grow  not  thick  on  every 

bough, 

Nor  every  friend  unrotten  at  the  core, 
First  on  thy  friend  deliberate  with  thyself. 
YOUNG. — Ib. 

\  friend  is  worth  all  hazards  we  can  run. 
YOUNG. — Ib. 

Friendship's  the  wine  of  life. 

YOUNG. — Ib. 

Even  thou,  my  companion,  my  guide, 
and  mine  own  familiar  friend. 

Church  Psalter  Iv,  14. 

A  man  that  hath  friends  must  show 
himself  friendly.  Proverbs  xviii,  24. 

A  faithful  friend  is  the  medicine  of  life. 
Ecclesiasticus  vi,  16. 

ForsaKe  not  an  old  friend  ;  for  the  new 
is  not  comparable  to  him  :  a  new  friend 
is  as  new  wine  ;  when  it  is  old,  thou  shall 
drink  it  with  pleasure. 

Ecclesiasticus  ix,  10. 

Wounded  in  the  house  of  my  friends. 
Zechariah  xiii,  6. 


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FURNITURE 


O  my  friends,  there  is  no  friend. 
Saying  of  Cato,  as  quoted  by  Diogenes 

Laertus. 

Friendship,  love  and  brotherhood, 
Of  themselves  are  understood. 

Quoted  by  Goethe,  Autob.,  Bk.   n. 

His  friendships  are  so  warm  that  he  no 

sooner  takes  them  up  than  he  puts  them 

down  again.         Attrib.  to  Douglas  J  err  old 

by  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

A  good  friend  is  worth  a  hundred  rela- 
tions.    French  prov.,  quoted  by  Montaigne. 

Friendship   is  love   without  its   wings. 
French  prov. 

Friends  are  like  fiddlestrings,  they  must 
not  be  screwed  too  tight.  Prov. 

They  ranted,   drank,   and  merrye  made, 
Till  all  his  golde  it  waxed  thinne, 

And  then  his  friends  they  slunk  away, 
They  left  the  unthrifty  Heir  of  Linne. 
Old  ballad,  Heir  of  Linne. 

FROWNS 

Her  very  frowns  are  fairer  far 
Than  smiles  of  other  maidens  are. 
HARTLEY  COLERIDGE. — She  is  not  fair  to 
outward  view. 

Full  well  the  busy  whisper,  circling  round, 
Conveyed    the    dismal    tidings    when    he 
frowned. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

If  she  do  frown,  'tis  not  in  hate  of  you, 
But  rather  to  beget  more  love  in  you. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gent,  of  Verona, 
Act  3,  i. 

Convey  a  libel  in  a  frown, 
And  wink  a  reputation  down. 
SWIFT. — Journal  of  a  Modern  Lady. 

FRUGALITY 

O'erjoyed  was  he   to  find 
That  though  she  was  on  pleasure  bent, 
She  had  a  frugal  mind. 

COWPER. — John  Gilpin,  st.  8. 

When  the  goodman's  from  home  the 
goodwife's  table  is  soon  spread. 

Prov.  (Ray). 

Ken  when  to  spend  and  when  to  spare, 
And  ye  needna  be  busy  and  ye  ne'er  '11  be 
bare.  Scottish  saying. 

FRUIT 

Brer  Fox  he  lif  up  he  han's,  he  did, 
en  holler  :  "  Oh,  hush,  Brer  Tarrypin  ! 
You  makes  me  dribble  !  Wharbouts  dat 
pimmerly  Plum  ?  " 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  ch.  38. 


Give  cherries  at  time  of  year,  or  apricots; 
and  say  they  were  sent  you  out  of  the 
country,  though  you  bought  them  in 
Cheapside. 

BEN  JONSON. — Silent  Woman,  Act  4,  i. 

Hunger  and  thirst  at  once 
Powerful    persuaders,    quicken'd    at    the 

scent 
Of  that  alluring  fruit. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  586. 

Though  other  things  grow  fair  against  the 

sun, 
Yet  fruits  that  blossom  first  will  first  be 

ripe. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello.  Act  2,  3. 

Peel  a  fig  for  your  friend,  a  peach  for 
your  enemy.  Prov.  (Ray). 

After  melon  wine  is  a  felon. 

Prov.  (Spanish). 

FRUITION 

The  thorns  which  I  have  reap'd  are  of  the 

tree 
I  planted, — they  have  torn  me,  and 

bleed : 
I  should  have  known  what  fruit  would 

spring  from  such  a  seed. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  10. 

The  bud  may  have  a  bitter  taste, 
But  sweet  will  be  the  flower. 

COWPER. — Hymn. 

FUNERALS 

And  fancy  paints  the  muffled  drum 

And  plaintive  fife, 
And  the  loud  volley  o'er  the  grave 
That  sounds  sad  requiems  to  the  brave. 
C.  DIBDIN. — Farewell. 

I've  a  notion  [said  Sir  Condy  Rackrent] 
I  shall  not  be  long  for  this  world  any  how, 
and  I've  a  great  fancy  to  see  my  own 
funeral  afore  I  die. 
Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Castle  Rackrent,  ch.  2. 

"  Ay,  Sir  Condy  has  been  a  fool  all  his 
days,"  said  he  [Sir  Condy  Rackrent]  ;  and 
there  was  the  last  word  he  spoke.  He  had 
but  a  very  poor  funeral  after  all.  . 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Ib. 

Funeral  pomp  has  more  regard  for  the 
vanity  of  the  living  than  for  the  honour  of 
the  dead. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  554. 

FURNITURE 

A  Persian  carpet,  or  piece  of  Sheraton 
makes  a  distinguished  end  and  bears 
itself  with  dignity  to  the  last — as  aristo- 
crats before  the  guillotine. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 


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FUSSINESS 

Benevolent  people  are  very  apt  to  be 
one-sided  and  fussy,  and  not  of  the  sweet- 
est temper  if  others  will  not  be  good  and 
happy  in  their  way. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  5. 

FUTILITY 

Still  we  persist ;  plough  the  light  sand  and 

sow 

Seed  after  seed,  where  none  can  ever  grow. 
W.  GIFFORD. — Juvenal,  Sat.  7. 

Wheresoe'er  I  turn  my  view, 
All  is  strange,  yet  nothing  new  ; 
Endless  labour  all  along, 
Endless  labour  to  be  wrong  ; 
Phrase  that  Time  has  flung  away, 
Uncouth  words  in  disarray, 
Tricked  in  antique  ruff  and  bonnet, 
Ode  and  elegy  and  sonnet. 

JOHNSON. — In  ridicule  of  "  a  well- 
known  author  "  (1777). 

'Tis  no  good  planting  boiled  potatoes. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — John  Ploughman. 

The  King  of  France,  with  twenty  thousand 

men, 
Went  up  the  hill,  and  then  came  down 

again.     Old  Tarlton's  Song(i6th  cent.). 

FUTURE 

But  for  our  future  fate 
Since  help  for  it  is  none, 
Good-bye  to  it  before  it  comes. 
AESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  250 
(Plumplre  /r.)^ 

Years  hence,  perhaps,  may  dawn  an  age, 
More  fortunate,  alas  !  than  we, 
Which  without  hardness  will  be  sage, 
And  gay  without  frivolity. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Grande  Chartreuse. 

Ignorance  of  future  ills  is  a  more  useful 
thing  than  knowledge. 

CICERO. — De  Div.,  2,  9. 

"  The  present  interests  me  more  than  the 

past,"  said  the  lady  [Theodora  Campian], 

"  and  the  future  more  than  the  present." 

DISRAELI. — Lothair. 

England,  like  Greece,  shall  fall  despoiled, 

defaced, 

And  weep,  the  Tadmor  of  the  lonely  waste  ; 
The  wave  shall  mock  her  lone  and  manless 

shore ; 
The  deep  shall  know  her  freighted  wealth 

no  more  ; 

And  unborn  wanderers,  in  the  future  wood, 
Where   London   stands,   shall   ask   where 

London  stood. 

EBENEZER  ELLIOTT. — Love,  Bk.  2. 

But  truly  these  things  rest  on  the  knees 
ofthegods.     HOMER. — Iliad,  17,514;  etc. 


Oh,  earlier  shall  the  rosebuds  blow 

In  after  years,  those  happier '  years  ; 
And  children  weep,  when  we  lie  low, 
Far  fewer  tears,  far  softer  tears. 
ARMINE  THOS.  KENT. — Otiis  Addenda 
(1905),  A  song. 

Life,  life  we  wish,  still  greedy  to  live  on  ; 
And  yet  what  Fortune  with  the  following 

sun 
Will  rise,  what  chance  will  bring,  is  all 

unknown. 
LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  3,  1099. 

She  [the  Roman  Catholic  Church]  may 
still  exist  in  undiminished  vigour,  when 
some  traveller  from  New  Zealand  shall,  in 
the  midst  of  a  vast  solitude,  take  his  stand 
on  a  broken  arch  of  London  Bridge  to 
sketch  the  ruins  of  St.  Paul's. 

MACAULAY. — Ranke's  History. 

Full  lasting  is  the  song,  though  he, 
The  singer,  passes  :  lasting  too, 
For  souls  not  lent  in  usury, 
The  rapture  of  the  forward  view. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Reading  of  Earth. 

Besides  what  hope  the  never-ending  flight 
Of  future  days  may  bring. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  221. 

Heaven    from    all    creatures    hides   the 
book  of  fate. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  77. 

We  know  what  we  are,  but  know  not 
what  we  may  be. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  5. 

Happy  those 

Who  in  the  after-days  shall  live,  when  Time 
Hath  spoken,  and  the  multitude  of  years 
Taught  wisdom  to  mankind ! 

SOUTHEY. — Joan  of  Arc,  Bk.  i. 

For  I  dipped  into  the  Future,  far  as  human 

eye  could  see, 
Saw  the  .Vision  of  the  world,  and  all  the 

wonder  that  would  be. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

In  the  Parliament  of  man,  the  Federation 
of  the  world.  TENNYSON. — Ib. 

We  see  by  the  glad  light 
And  breathe  the  sweet  air  of  futurity ; 
And  so  we  live,  or  else  we  have  no  life. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  9,  24. 

FUTURE  EXISTENCE 

There  was  the  Door  to  which  I  found  no 

Key; 

There  was   the  Veil   through   which   I 
might  not  see. 

E.  FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt. 

Nor  dies  the  Spirit,  but  new  Life  repeats 

In  other  forms,  and  only  changes  seats. 

OVID. — Metam  15,  158  (Dryden  tr.). 


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GAIN 


GAMBLING 


Is  there  no  bright  reversion  in  the  sky 

For  those  who  greatly  think,  or  bravely 

die  ?      POPE. — Elegy  to  the  memory  of 

an  Unfortunate  Lady,  9. 

I  go  to  seek  for  a  great  perhaps.  Draw 
the  curtain  ;  the  farce  is  played. 

RABELAIS. — A  ttributed. 

What  becomes  of  man  so  wise 

When  he  dies  ? 

None  can  tell 
Whether  he  goes  to  heaven  or  hell. 

SIR  C.  SEDLEY. — Lycophron. 

Do  you  wish  to  know  where  you  will 
go  when  you  are  dead  ?  To  the  same  place 
where  the  unborn  are. 

SENECA. — Troades,  Act  2. 

The    undiscovered    country,  from    whose 

bourn 
No  traveller  returns. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

Ah  Christ,  that  it  were  possible 

For  one  short  hour  to  see 

The  souls  we  loved,  that  they  might  tell 

us 
What  and  where  they  be. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  2,  4,  3. 

A  truth  it  is  few  doubt,  but  fewer  trust  : 
"  He  sins  against  this  life  who  slights  the 
next." 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  Night  3. 


GAIN 

Whatsoever  is  somewhere  gotten  is 
somewhere  lost.  BACON. — Of  Seditions. 

Gain  cannot  be  made  without  some  other 
person's  loss.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

God  keep  ill  gear  oot  o*  my  hands,  for 
if  my  hands  ance  get  it,  my  heart  winna 
part  wi  't. 

Prayer  of  the  "  good  Earl  of  Eglinton.'' 

Gude  Sir  James  Douglas 
Who  wise, wight  (brave),  and  worthy  was, 
Was  ne'er  owre  glad  for  no  winning, 
Nor  yet  owre  sad  for  no  tining  (loss)  ; 
Good  fortune  and  evil  chance, 
He  weighed  them  both   in  one  balance. 
Contemporary  Scottish  Lines  on  the  "  good 
Sir  James  Douglas  "  (i^th  cent.). 

A'  I  got  by  him  I  may  put  in  my  eye, 
and  see  nothing  the  worse  for  it. 

Scottish   prov.  (Jas.  Kelly,  1721). 

Fair  winds  may  drive  a  ship  too  fast, 
And  gains  may  turn  out  loss  at  last. 

Tr .  of  Greek  saying. 


GALLANTRY 

The  ladies'  hearts  he  did  trepan. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

Is     this     that      haughty,     gallant,    gay 
Lothario  ? 

ROWE. — Fair  Penitent,  Act,  5,  i. 

And  oh  !  he  had  that  merry  glance 
That  seldom  lady's  heart  resists. 
Lightly  from  fair  to  fair  he  flew, 
And  loved  to  plead,  lament  and  sue. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  5,  9. 

So  faithful  in  love  and  so  dauntless  in  war, 

There  never  was  knight  like  the  young 

Lochinvar.         SCOTT. — Ib.,  c.  5,   12. 

I  do  not  think  a  braver  gentleman, 
More    active-valiant,    nor    more    valiant- 
young, 

More  daring,  or  more  bold,  is  now  alive. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  5,  i. 

GAMBLING 

The  winner's  shout,  the  loser's  curse, 
Shall  dance  before  dead  England's  hearse. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

Gaming  is  a  principle  inherent  in  human 
nature.     It  belongs  to  us  all. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Economical  Reform. 

And  men  spend  freelier  what  they  win, 
Than  what  they've  freely  coming  in. 

S.  BUTLER. — Upon  Plagiarism. 

For  most  men  (till  by  losing  rendered  sager) 

Will  back  their  own  opinions  with  a  wager. 

BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  27. 

Good  at  all  things,  but  better  at  a  bet. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  13,  st.  87. 

In   play  there  are  two  pleasures  for  your 

choosing — 

The  one  is  winning,  and  the  other  losing. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  14,  st.  12. 

One  hopeless  dark  idolater  of  Chance. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  2. 

Gaming  is  the  child  of  avarice  but  the 
parent  of  prodigality. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Who  games  is  felon  of  his  wealth, 
His  time,  his  liberty,  his  health. 

N.  COTTON. — Visions  in  Verse. 

Death  and   dice  level   all   distinctions. 
S.  FOOTE. — The  Minor,  Act  i,  i. 

Play  not  for  gain  but  sport.  Who  plays  for 

more 
Than  he  can  lose  with  pleasure,  stakes  his 

heart — 
Perhaps  his  wife's  too,  and  whom  she  hath 

bore.  HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 


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GAMES 


GENEROSITY 


Who  strive  to  sit  out  losing  hands  are  lost. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Man  is  a  gaming  animal. 

LAMB. — Mrs.  Battle. 

Swearing  and  supperless  the  hero  sate, 
Blasphemed  his  gods,  the  dice,  and  damned 
his  fate. 

POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  i,  115. 

Gaming  is  the  mother  of  lies  and 
perjuries. 

JOHN  OF  SALISBURY  (Bishop  of  Chartres 
— d.  1180). — Polycraticus,  Bk.  i. 

Their  sinfulness  is  greater   than   their 

use.      [Referring  to  wine  and  gambling]. 

Koran,  ch.  2. 

GAMES 

There  are  two  classes  of  men  :   those 

who  are  content  to  yield  to  circumstances, 

and  who  play  whist ;  those  who  aim  to 

control  circumstances,  and  who  play  chess. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. — Frances,  3, 14. 

It  is  not  shameful  to  have  played  games, 
but  it  is  shameful  not  to  have  left  off 
playing  them.  HORACE. — Ep.  Bk.  i. 

The  only  athletic  sport  I  ever  mastered 
was  backgammon. 

DOUGLAS  JERROLD. — (Attributed). 

Even  our  sports  are  dangers  ! 

BEN  JONSON. — Underwoods. 

What  ?  You  do  not  play  at  whist,  sir  ! 
Alas,  what  a  sad  old  age  you  are  preparing 
for  yourself !  TALLEYRAND. 

GARDENS 

God  Almighty  first  planted  a  garden  : 
and  indeed  it  is  the  purest  of  human 
pleasures.  BACON. — Of  Gardens. 

My  garden  is  a  lovesome  thing,  God  wot  ! 
Rose  plot, 
Fringed   pool, 
Fern    grot, 
The  veriest  school 
Of  peace. 

T.  E.  BROWN. — My  Garden. 

God  the  first  garden  made,  and  the  first 
city  Cain.       COWLEY. — The  Garden. 

Who  loves  a  garden  loves  a  greenhouse  too. 
COWPER. — The  Garden,  566. 

A  touch  of  the  sun  for  pardon, 
The  song  of  a  bird  for  mirth  ; 

We  are  nearer  God's  heart  in  the  garden 
Than  anywhere  else  on  the  earth. 

D.    F.    GURNEY. 

And  add  to  these  retired  Leisure, 
That  in  trim  gardens  takes  his  pleasure. 
MILTON. — II  Penseroso,  49. 


You  strove  to  cultivate  a  barren  court  in 

vain, 
Your  garden's  better  worth  your  nobler 

pain, 
Here  mankind  fell,  and  hence  must  rise 

again.         SWIFT. — To  Sir  W.  Temple. 

Cultivate  your  garden. 

VOLTAIRE. — His  favourite  advice — in 
favour  of  a  private  or  retired  life. 

GENERALITIES 

It  being  the  nature  of  the  mind  of  man, 
to  the  extreme  prejudice  of  knowledge,  to 
delight  in  the  spacious  liberty  of  generali- 
ties. BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

The  glittering  and  sounding  generalities 
of  natural  right  which  make  up  the 
Declaration  of  Independence. 

R.  CHOATE. — Letter,  1856. 

Glittering  generalities  !  They  are  blazing 
ubiquities. 

EMERSON. — On  someone  characteris- 
ing the  Declaration  of  Independence  as 
"  glittering  generalities.'1 

Generalities  always  admit  of  exceptions. 
VICTOR  HUGO. — Pref.  to  Ruy  Bias. 

Nothing  is  so  useless  as  a  general  maxim. 
MACAULAY. — Macchiavelli. 

General  notions  are  generally  wrong. 
LADY  M.  WORTLEY  MONTAGU. — Letter. 

General  and  abstract  ideas  are  the  source 
of  the  greatest  of  men's  errors. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

GENEROSITY 

If  riches  increase  let  thy  mind  hold  pace 
with  them,  and  think  it  not  enough  to  be 
Liberal,  but  Munificent. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Christian  Morals, 
Pt.  i,  5. 

There  was  a  man,  though  some  did  think 

him   mad, 
The  more  he  cast  away  the  more  he  had. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  2. 

He  who  bestows  his  goods  upon  the  poor 

Shall  have  as  much  again  and  ten  times 

more.  BUNYAN. — Ib. 

So  that  the  more  she  [Largesse]  gave  away, 
The  more,  y-wis,  she  hadde  alwey. 

CHAUCER. — Romaunt   of  the   Rose. 

Friend  to  the  friendless,  to  the  sick  man 

health, 
With  generous  joy  he  viewed  his  modest 

wealth.  COLERIDGE. — Lines  written  at 
King's  Arms,  Ross. 

A  hand  as  liberal  as  the  light  of  day. 

COWPER. — Hope,  410. 


GENIUS 


GENIUS 


One  must  be  poor  to  know  the  luxury  of 
giving. 
GEO.  ELIOT. — Middlemarch,  Bk.  2,  ch.  17. 

We  have  heads  to  get  money,  and  hearts 
to  spend  it. 

FARQUHAR. — Beaux'  Stratagem,  Acti. 

Who  shuts  his  hand,  hath  lost  his  gold  ; 
Who  opens  it,  hath  it  twice  told. 

HERBERT. — Charms  and  Knots. 

The  truly  generous  is  the  truly  wise. 

J.  HOME. — Douglas,  Act  3,  i. 

Sure  the  duke  is 
In  the  giving  vein. 

MASSINGER — Great  Duke,  Act  5,  3. 

And  chiefly  for  the  weaker  by  the  wall, 
You  bore  that  lamp  of  sane  benevolence. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — To  a  Friend  Lost. 

Many  men  have  been  capable  of  doing 
a  wise  thing,  more  a  cunning  thing,  but 
very  few  a  generous  thing. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

For  his  bounty, 

There  was  no  winter  in  't  ;   an  autumn 

'twas.  SHAKESPEARE. — Antony 

and  Cleopatra,  Act  5,  2. 

My  bounty  is  as  boundless  as  the  sea, 
My  love  as  deep. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  2. 

Give  all  thou  canst ;  high  Heaven  rejects 

the  lore 

Of  nicely-calculated  less  or  more. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pi.  3,  43. 

But  the  liberal  deviseth  liberal  things  ; 
and  by  liberal  things  shall  he  stand. 

Isaiah  xxxii,  8. 

Fill  a  pot,  fiJl  a  pan, 
Fill  a  blind  man's  hand  ; 
He  that  has  and  winna  gie, 
An  ill  death  may  he  dee, 
And  be  buried  in  the  sea. 

Scottish  saying. 
GENIUS 

No  great  genius  is  without  an  admix- 
ture of  madness. 

ARISTOTLE  (According  to  Seneca,  "  De 
Tranquillitate  "). 

All  men  of  genius  are  naturally  melan- 
cholic. ARISTOTLE. — Probl.,  30. 

Do  not  quarrel  with  genius.  We  have 
none  ourselves,  and  yet  are  so  constituted 
that  we  cannot  live  without  it. 

A.  BIRRELL. — Obiter  Dicta,  Carlyle. 

Improvement  makes  straight  roads,  but 
the  crooked  roads  without  improvement 
are  roads  of  genius. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 


Since  when  was  genius  found  respectable  ? 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh, 

Bk.  5. 

Genius  has  somewhat  of  the   Infantine  : 

But  of  the  childish  not   a  touch  or  taint. 

BROWNING. — Prince  Hohenstiel- 

Schwangau. 

Genius  is  nothing  but  a  great  aptitude 
for  patience.  BUFFON. 

Misled  by  Fancy's  meteor-ray, 

By  passion  driven ; 
But  yet  the  light  that  led  astray 

Was  light  from  Heaven. 

BURNS. — The  Vision. 

When  all  of  Genius  which  can  perish  dies. 
BYRON. — Death  of  Sheridan. 

Sighing  that  Nature  formed  but  one  such 

man, 

And  broke  the  die — in  moulding  Sheridan. 
BYRON. — Ib. 

But  on  the  whole,  "  genius  is  ever  a 
secret  to  itself." 

CARLYLE. — Characteristics. 

Genius,  which  means  transcendent 
capacity  of  taking  trouble,  first  of  all. 

CARLYLE. — Frederick 

Genius  is  of  no  country. 

CHURCHILL. — Rosciad,  v.  207. 

Great  wits  are  sure  to  madness  near  allied, 

And  thin  partitions  do  their  bounds  divide. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 

Pt.  i,  163. 

Hands  that  the  rod  of  empire  might  have 

swayed, 
Or  waked  to  ecstasy  the  living  lyre. 

GRAY. — Elegy. 

The  few,  whom  genius  gave  to  shine 
Through   every   unborn    age   and    undis- 
covered clime. 

GRAY. — Ode  for  Music,  15. 

He  passed  the  flaming  bounds  of  space  and 

time  ; 

The  living  throne,  the  sapphire-blaze, 
Where  angels  tremble  as  they  gaze, 
He  saw  ;  but,  blasted  with  excess  of  light, 
Closed  his  eyes  in  endless  night. 

GRAY. — On  Milton. 

Only  a  narrow  shopkeeper  mind  will 
attempt  to  weigh  genius  in  its  miserable 
cheese-scales.  HEINE. — Don  Quixote. 

Adverse  fortune  reveals  genius  ;  pros- 
perity hides  it.  HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  2. 

Each   change   of   many-coloured   life   he 

drew  ; 

Exhausted  worlds,  and  then  imagined  new  ; 
Existence   saw   him   spurn   her   bounded 

reign, 

And  panting  Time  toiled  after  him  in  vain. 
JOHNSON. — Prologue. 


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GENTILITY 


GENTLEMEN 


Genius  does  what  it  must,  and  talent 
does  what  it  can. 

(and)  LORD  LYTTON. — Last  Words. 

Genius  can  only  breathe  freely  in  an 
atmosphere  of  freedom. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  3. 

We  are  not  called  upon  to  place  great 
men  of  his  stamp  as  if  they  were  collegians 
in  a  class-list. 

LORD  MORLEY. — Introd.  to  Wordsworth. 

Ill-fortune  is  often  an  incentive  to  genius. 
OVID. — Ars.  Amat. 

If  you  have  genius,  industry  will  im- 
prove it  ;  if  you  have  none,  industry  will 
supply  its  place. 

SIR  JOSHUA  REYNOLDS. — Saying. 

Gone  like  a  star  that  through  the  firmament 
Shot  and  was  lost,  in  its  eccentric  course 
Dazzling,  perplexing. 

ROGERS. — Italy  (on  Byron). 

Trefusis  warmly  replied  that  genius 
costs  its  possessor  nothing  ;  that  it  was 
the  inheritance  of  the  whole  race  incident- 
ally vested  in  a  single  individual,  and  that 
if  that  individual  employed  his  monopoly 
of  it  to  extort  money  from  others,  he 
deserved  nothing  better  than  hanging. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  10. 

A  pard-like  spirit,  beautiful  and  swift. 
SHELLEY. — Adonais,  st.  32. 

Them  as  has  genius  has  no  common- 
sense.  SAM  SLICK. 

Genius   is   the  introduction  of  a  new 
element  into  the  intellectual  universe. 
WORDSWORTH. — Essay,  supplementary 
to  Pref.  to  Poems. 

A  genius  bright,  and  base, 
Of  towering  talents,  and  terrestrial  aims. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

A  Mercury  is  not  made  out  of  any  block 
of  wood. 
Latinprov.,  quotedas  a  saying  of  Pythagoras. 

GENTILITY 

He  saw  a  cottage  with  a  double  coach- 
house, 

A  cottage  of  gentility ; 
And  the  Devil  did  grin,  for  his  darling  sin 
Is  pride  that  apes  humility. 

COLERIDGE  AND  SOUTHEY. — Devil's 
Thoughts. 

He  passed  a  cottage  with  a  double  coach- 
house, 

A  cottage  of  gentility ; 
And  he  owned  with  a  grin 
That  his  favourite  sin 

Is  pride  that  apes  humility. 

SOUTHEY'S  version  of  the  above. 


When  Adam  dolve  and  Eve  span, 
Where  was  then  the  gentleman  ? 

Saying  quoted  by  John  Ball, 
insurrectionist,  c.  1381. 

GENTLEMEN 

He  is  the  best  bred  man  and  the  truest 
gentleman  who  takes  leave  of  the  world 
without  a  stain  upon  his  scutcheon,  and 
with  nothing  of  falsehood  and  dissimula- 
tion, of  luxury  or  pride,  to  tarnish  his 
reputation.  MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  9,  2 

He  is  a  Gentleman,  because  his  nature 
Is  kinde  and  affable  to  everie  creature. 
R.  BARNFIELD. — Shepherd's  Content  (1594). 

I  am  a  gentleman,  though  spoiled  i*  the 
breeding.  The  Buzzards  are  all  gentlemen. 
We  came  in  with  the  Conqueror. 

R.  BROME. — English  Moor. 

Somebody  has  said  that  a  king  may  make 
a  nobleman,  but  he  cannot  make  a  gentle- 
man. BURKE. — Letter  to  Wm.  Smith  (1795) 

Though*  modest,    on   his   unembarrassed 

brow 
Nature  had  written  "  gentleman." 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  9,  st.  83. 

A  finished  gentleman  from  top  to  toe. 

BYRON. — Jb.,  c.  12,  st.  84. 

He  was  a  verray  parfit  gentil  knight. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

For    gentil   herte    kytheth     [displayeth] 
gentillesse. 

CHAUCER. — Squire's  Tale,  475. 

Loke  who  that  is  most  vertuous  alway, 
Privee  and  apert,  and  most  entendeth  ay 
To  do  the  gentil  dedes  that  he  can, 
And  tak  him  for  the  grettest  gentil  man. 
CHAUCER. — Wife  of  Bath's  Tale,  v.  6695. 

I  shall  be  a  gen'l'm'n  myself  one  of  these 
days,  perhaps,  with  a  pipe  in  my  mouth, 
and  a  summer-house  in  the  back  garden. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  16. 

His  tribe  were  God  Almighty's  gentlemen. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 

Pt.  i,  645- 

He  [Lord  Spencer]  satisfied  that  great 
description  of  what  constitutes  a  gentle- 
man. "  He  never  hurt  any  man's  feelings." 
LORD  FISHER. — Memories. 

Gentlemanliness,  being  another  word 
for  intense  humanity. 

RUSKIN.— Modern  Painters,  5, 
Pt.  9,  7,  23. 

A  kinder  gentleman  treads  not  the  earth. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  8 


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GENTLENESS 


GIFTS 


A  gentleman  ain't  a  man — leastways 
not  a  common  man — the  common  man 
bein'  but  the  slave  wot  feeds  and  clothes 
the  gentleman  beyond  the  common 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist, 
ch.  4  (Jeff  Smilash). 

And  thus  he  bore  without  abuse 
The  grand  old  name  of  gentleman, 
Defamed  by  every  charlatan, 

And  soiled  with  all  ignoble  use. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  in. 

O  selfless  man  and  stainless  gentleman  ! 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  790. 

There  is  no  character  which  a  low- 
minded  man  so  much  mistrusts  as  that 
of  a  gentleman. 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair. 

You  will  always  be  fools  !  We  shall  never 
be  gentlemen. 

Quoted  by  Lord  Fisher  (Times,  June  16, 
1919)  as  "  a  classic  "  and  as  "  the 
apposite  words  spoken  by  a  German 
naval  officer  to  his  English  confrere." 
"  On  the  whole  I  think  I  prefer  to  be 
the  fool — even  as  a  matter  of  business  I  " 
(Lord  Fisher's  comment.) 

GENTLENESS 

Inwardness,  mildness  and  self-renounce" 
ment  do  make  for  man's  happiness. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Literature  and  Dogma,  c.  3. 

He  is  gentil  that  doth  gentil  dedis. 
CHAUCER. — Wife  of  Bath's  Tale,  v.  6752. 

Your  gentleness  shall  force 
More  than  your  force  move  us  to  gentle- 
ness.      SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like 
It,  Act  2,  7. 

Who  can  wrestle   against  Sleep  ? — yet  is 
that  giant  very  gentleness. 
M.  F.  TUPPER. — Proverbial  Philosophy. 

GEOMETRY 

Geometry  ...  is  the  only  science  that 

it  hath  pleased  God  to  bestow  on  mankind. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  4. 


Geometry    .    . 
natural  science. 


is   the  mother  of   all 
HOBBES. — Ib.,  ch.  46. 


God  is  a  geometrician.    PLATO  (A  ttributed). 

Let  no  one  enter  who  is  not  a  geometer. 
Inscription  said  to  have  been  on  Plato's  door. 

GHOSTS 

It  is  easy  to  raise  ghosts,  but  it  is  diffi- 
cult to  send  them  back  again  to  their 
dark  night ;  they  look  at  us  then  so  be- 
seechingly, our  own  hearts  lend  them 
such  power  in  pleading. 

HEINE. — Florentine  Nights. 

O'er  all  there  nun?  a  shadow  and  a  fear  ; 
A.  sense  of  mystery  the  spirit  daunted. 


And  said  as  plain  as  whisper  in  the  ear, 
The  place  is  Haunted. 

HOOD. — Haunted  House. 

All  argument  is  against  it  but  all  belief 
is  for  it. 

JOHNSON. — On  the  appearance  of 
men's  spirits  after  death. 

What  beckoning  ghost,  along  the  moon- 
light shade, 

Invites  my  steps  and  points   to   yonder 
glade  ? 

POPE. — Elegy  to  the  Memory  of  an. 
Unfortunate  Lady. 

It  is  an  honest  ghost,  that  let  me  tell  you. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  I,  5 

Hence,  horrible  shadow  ! 
Unreal  mockery,  hence  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

GIFTS 

That  gift  of  his  from  God  descended, 
Ah,  friend,  what  gift  of  man's  does  not  ? 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  16- 

For  gifts  are    scorned  where  givers  are 

despised. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  Pt.  3,  64. 

We  do  not  quite  forgive  a  giver. 

EMERSON. — Gifts. 

It  is  the  one  base  thing,  to  receive  and 
not  to  give.  EMERSON. — Saying. 

It  is  said  that  gifts  persuade  even  the 
gods.  EURIPIDES. — Medea. 

The  only  present  love  demands  is  love. 
GRAY. — The  Espousal. 

Presents,  I  often  say,  endear  Absents. 

LAMB. — Roast  Pig. 

He  gives  nothing  but  worthless  gold, 
Who  gives  from  a  sense  of  duty. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Sir  Launfal,  Pt.  i,  6. 

A  small  present  may  be  the  testimony 
of  a  great  love. 

PETRARCH. — On  the  Remedies  of  Good 
and  Bad  Fortune. 

I  think  you  must  have  heard  at  banquets 
men  singing  that  song  in  which  the  singers 
enumerate  that  the  best  thing  is  Health, 
the  second  Beauty,  and  the  third  Riches 
gained  without  fraud. 

PLATO. — Gorgias,    14    (Gary   tr.) 

For  to  the  noble  mind 
Rich  gifts  wax  poor,  when  givers  prove 
unkind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

Let  him  learn  to  know  when  maidens  sue, 
Men  give  like  gods. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  (or  Measure, 
Act  i,   5. 


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GIPSIES 


GLORY 


I  am  not  in  the  giving  vein  to-day 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  4,  2. 

Give  strength,  give  thought,  give  deeds, 

give  pelf, 

Give  love,  give  tears,   and  give  thyself  ; 
Give,  give,  be  always  giving  ; 
Who  gives  not,  is  not  living. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Whatever  it  be,  I  fear  the  Greeks,  even 
when  they  bring  gifts. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  2. 

Behold,  I  do  not  give  lectures,  or  charity  ; 
When  I  give,  I  give  myself. 

WALT  WHITMAN. — Song  of  Myself,  40. 

Give  a  thing  and  take  again, 

And  you  shall  ride  in  hell's  wain. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
GIPSIES 

Gipsies,  who  every  ill  can  cure, 
Except  the  ill  of  being  poor, 
Who  charms  'gainst  love  and  agues  sell, 
Who  can  in  hen-roost  set  a  spell, 
Prepared  by  arts,  to  them  best  known, 
To  catch  all  feet  except  their  own, 
Who,  as  to  fortune,  can  unlock  it, 
As  easily  as  pick  a  pocket. 

CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost,  Bk.  i. 

A   people   still,    whose   common  ties  are 

gone  ; 
Who,  mixed  with  every  race,  are  lost  in 

none.  CRABBE. — The  Borough, 

Letter  4. 
GIRLHOOD 

The  de'il  he  couldna  skaith  thee, 
Nor  aught  that  wad  belang  thee  ; 

He'd  look  into  thy  bonny  face 
And  say,  "  I  canna  wrang  thee." 

BURNS. — Bonny  Lesley. 

Can  any  wind  blow  rough  upon  a  blossom 
So  fair  and  tender  ? 
FLETCHER. — The  Pilgrim  (1621),  Act  1,1. 

Be  good,  sweet  maid,  and  let  who  will  be 

clever  ; 
Do  noble  things,  not  dream  them  all 

day  long  ; 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  that  vast  for 

ever 
One  grand  sweet  song. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Farewell  (1882  ed.). 

A  human  maid's  more  precious  far, 
In  her  sublime  mortality, 
Than  faun,  or  nymph,  or  evening  star, 
Or  moon  upon  the  midnight  sea. 
Earth  thrills  to  nothing  half  so  sweet 
As  the  caress  of  her  young  feet. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

An  unlessoned  girl,  unschooled,  unprac- 
tised. SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  3,  2. 


GLORY 

But  the  pure  soul 
Shall  .  .  .  cut  a  path  into  the  heaven  of 

glory, 
Leaving  a  track  of  light  for  men  to  wonder 

at.  WM.  BLAKE. — Edward  III. 

And  leaving  in  battle  no  blot  on  his  name, 
Look  proudly  to  Heaven  from  the  death- 
bed of  fame. 

CAMPBELL. — LochieVs  Warning. 

Glory   to   them    that   die   in   this    great 
cause.      CAMPBELL. — Spanish  Patriots. 

Glory  follows  virtue  like  its  shadow. 

CICERO. — Tusc.  Quasi. 

You  told  me,  I  remember,  glory  built 
On  selfish  principles,  is  shame  and  guilt. 

COWPER.— Table  Talk,  i. 

War,  he  sung,  is  toil  and  trouble  ; 
Honour,  but  an  empty  bubble. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  5. 

No  path  of  flowers  leads  to  glory. 

LA  FONTAINE. — Fables. 

'Tis  Beauty  calls  and  Glory  shows  the 
way.    N.  LEE. — RivalQueens,A.ct4,2. 

He  will  have  true  glory  who  despises 
glory.  LIVY. — Bk.  22. 

Our  aim  is  glory  and  to  leave  our  names 
To  after  time. 

MASSINGER. — Roman  Actor,  Act  i,  i. 

And  so  sepulchred  in  such  pomp  dost  lie, 

That  kings  for  such  a  tomb  would  wish 

to  die.  MILTON. — On  Shakspere. 

I'll  make  thee  glorious  by  my  pen, 
And  famous  by  my  sword. 

MARQUIS  OF  MONTROSE. — My  dear 
and  only  Love. 

Go  where  glory  waits  thee, 

But  while  fame  elates  thee, 

Oh  !  still  remember  me  ! 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Not   till   earth  be  sunless,  not  till  death 

strike  blind  the  skies, 
May    the    deathless   love    that   waits   on 

deathless  deeds  be  dead. 

SWINBURNE. — Grace  Darling. 

Even  from  wise  men  the  passion  for 
glory  is  the  last  surviving  desire  to  be 
eradicated.  TACITUS. — Hist.  4,  6. 

When  can  their  glory  fade  ? 
TENNYSON. — Charge  of  Light  Brigade. 

Yet  shall  thy  name,  conspicuous  and  sub- 
lime, 

Stand  in  the  spacious  firmament  of  time, 

Fixed  as  a  star  :  such  glory  is  thy  right. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 

Independence,  Pt.  2,  No.  19 


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GLORY,  VANITY  OF 


GOD 


That  man  greatly  lives, 
Whate'er  his  fate  or  fame,  who  greatly 
dies.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

Their  bodies  are  buried  in  peace  ;  but 
their  name  liveth  for  evermore. 

Ecclesiasticus  xliv,  14. 

For  they  loved  the  glory  of  men  more 
than  the  glory  of  God. 

St.  John  xii,  43  (R.V.). 

GLORY,  VANITY  OF 

A  little  rule,  a  little  sway, 
A  sunbeam  in  a  winter's  day, 
Is  all  the  proud  and- mighty  have, 
Between  the  cradle  and  the  grave. 

JOHN  DYER. — Grongar  Hill. 

Ah,  take  the  Cash,  and  let  the  Credit  go, 

Nor  heed  the  rumble  of  a  distant  Drum  ! 

E.  FITZGERALD. — Rubaiyat,  st.  13. 

The  paths  of  glory  lead  but  to  the  grave. 
GRAY. — Elegy. 

O    the    fierce    wretchedness    that    glory 
brings  us  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  4,  2. 

Avoid  sh'ame,  but  do  not  seek  glory — 
nothing  so  expensive  as  glory. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Sayings. 

Glories,   like   glow-worms,   afar  off  shine 

bright, 
But  looked  too  near,  have  neither  heat  nor 

light.  WEBSTER. — Duchess  of 

Malfi. 
GLOVES 

Thou  knowest  the  maiden  who  ventures 
to  kiss  a  sleeping  man,  wins  of  him  a 
pair  of  gloves. 

SCOTT. — Fair  Maid  of  Perth,  ch.  5. 

Gie  the  Lord's  leather  to  the  Lord's 
weather. 

Scottish  prov.  (against  the  use  of  slaves). 

GLUTTONY 

Swinish  gluttony 
Ne'er  looks  to  Heaven  amidst  his  gorgeous 

feast, 

But  with  besotted,  base  ingratitude 
Crams,  and  blasphemes  his  Feeder. 

MILTON. — Comus,  776. 

Gluttony  kills  more  than  the  sword,  and 
is  the  fomenter  of  all  evils. 

FR.  PATRICIUS,  Bishop  of  Gaeta. 

Gluttons  dig  their  graves  with  their 
teeth.  French  prov. 

GOD 

O  Zeus  ! — whate'er  He  be, 
If  that  name  please  him  well, 
By  that  on  Him  I  call. 


Weighing  all  other  names,  I  fail  to  guess 
Aught  else  but  Zeus,  if  I  would  cast  aside 

Clearly,  in  very  deed, 
From  off  my  soul  this  idle  weight  of 
care. 


.  —  Agamemnon,  155 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

God  is  more  truly  imagined  than  ex- 
pressed, and  he  exists  more  truly  than  he 
is  imagined. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE.  —  De  Trinitate. 

It  is  not  profane  to  deny  the  gods  of  the 
common  people,  but  to  apply  the  notions 
of  the  common  people  to  the  gods  is  pro- 
fane. EPICURUS. 

He  was  a  wise  man  who  originated  the 
idea  of  God.  EURIPIDES.  —  Sisyphus. 

General,  natural  religion  requires  no 
faith.  The  persuasion  that  a  great 
creating,  regulating,  and  guiding  Being 
conceals  himself,  as  it  were,  behind  Nature, 
to  make  himself  comprehensible  to  us  — 
such  a  conviction  forces  itself  on  us  all. 

GOETHE.  —  Autob.,  Bk.  4. 

Dangerous  as  it  were  for  the  feeble 
brain  of  man  to  wade  far  into  the  doings  of 
the  Most  High,  whom  although  to  know 
be  life,  and  joy  to  make  mention  of  his 
name  ;  yet  our  soundest  knowledge  is  to 
know  that  we  know  him  not  as  indeed  he 
is,  neither  can  know  him  ;  and  our  safest 
eloquence  concerning  him  is  our  silence, 
when  we  confess  without  confession  that 
his  glory  is  inexplicable,  his  greatness 
above  our  capacity  and  reach. 
HOOKER.  —  Ecclesiastical  Polity,  Bk.  i,  c.  2. 

If  all  the  light  of  the  world  were  to  be 
extinguished,  still  we  should  know  what 
light  is  —  for  it  is  God. 

IBSEN.  —  Love's  Comedy,  Act  3  (1862). 

From  thee,  great  God,  we  spring,  to  thee 
we  tend, 

Path,  motive,  guide,  original,  and  end. 

JOHNSON.  —  Rambler,  No.  7 
(Translated  from  Boelhius). 

No  man  can  in  sorrow  charge  God  with 
being  unjust  or  hostile  to  him,  so  long  as 
he  has  at  hand  but  one  blade  of  grass 
or  one  bud  upon  the  trees. 

JOHN  KEBLE.  —  Lectures  on  Poetry, 
No.  26  (E.  K.  Francis  tr.}. 

Man  proposes  but  God  disposes. 
THOMAS  i  KEMPIS.  —  De  Imit.,  Bk.  i,  19. 

Just  are  the  ways  of  God, 
And  justifiable  to  men  ; 
Unless  there  be  who  think  not  God  at  all. 
MILTON.  —  Samson  Agonistes,  293. 

God  is  the  brave  man's  hope,  and  not 
the  coward's  excuse. 

PLUTARCH.  —  Morals,  Bk.   i. 


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GOOD  DEEDS 


Father  of  all  !  in  every  age, 

In  every  clime  adored, 
By  saint,  by  savage,  and  by  sage, 

Jehovah,  Jove,  or  Lord  ! 
Thou  First  Great  Cause,  least  understood, 

Who  all  my  sense  confined 
To  know  but  this,  that  thpu  art  good 

And  that  myself  am  blind. 

POPE. — Universal  Prayer. 

Would  God  I  knew  there  were  a  God  to 

thank, 
When  thanks  rise  in  me. 

ROSSETTI. — Versicles  and  Fragments. 

Faith  is  made  sure  and  firm  by  under- 
standing. The  best  of  all  religions  is 
infallibly  the  clearest.  That  which  loads 
with  mysteries,  with  contradictions,  the 
worship  which  it  preaches,  prompts  me 
by  that  very  fact  to  distrust  it.  The  God 
whom  I  adore  is  not  a  God  of  shadows. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

What  is  an  offence  against  the  Divinity 
is  not  to  have  no  opinion  about  it,  but  to 
have  an  evil  opinion.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

But  O  !  th"  exceeding  grace 
Of  highest  God,  that  loves  his  creatures 

so, 
And    all    his    workes    with    mercy    doth 

embrace. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  2,  c.  8,  i. 

He  who  truly  loves  God  must  not  desire 
God  to  love  him  in  return. 

SPINOZA  (Quoted  by  Goethe  as  "  that 
wonderful  sentiment"). 

Small  praise  man   gets  dispraising  the 
high  gods.       SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 

When  all  is  done,  learn  this,  my  son, 
Not  friend,  nor  skill,  nor  wit  at  will, 
Nor  ship  nor  clod,  but  only  God 
Doth  all  in  all. 

T.  TUSSER. — The  Author's  Life. 

What  better  thought  than  think  on  God 

and  daily  him  to  serve  ? 
What   better  gift  than  to  the  poor  that 
ready  be  to  sterve  ? 

T.  TUSSER. — Posies  for  thine  own 
Bedchamber. 

If  God  did  not  exist  it  would  be  necessary 
to  invent  Him. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Author  of 
"  Les  trois  imposteurs,"  1771. 

If  God  is  not  in  us,  He  never  existed. 

VOLTAIRE. — Loi  naturelle. 

Man  in  his  prejudices,  amorous  of  his 
own  foolish  slavery,  makes  God  in  his 
own  image.  We  have  made  Him  unjust, 
wrongheaded,  vain,  jealous,  a  seducer, 
inconstant,  barbarous  like  ourselves. 

VOLTAIRE. — Ib. 


And  the  infinite  pathos  of  human  trust 

In  a  god  whom  no  man  knows. 
SIR  WM.  WATSON. — Churchyard  in  the 

Wold. 
The  God  I  know  of,  I  shall  ne'er 

Know,  though  he  dwells  exceeding  nigh. 
"  Raise  thou  the  stone  and  find  me  there, 

Cleave  thou  the  wood  and  there  am  I." 
Yea,  in  my  flesh  his  spirit  doth  flow, 
Too  near,  too  far,  for  me  to  know. 

SIR  WM.  WATSON. — The  Unknown  God. 

Who  worship  God  shall  find  him.     Humble 

love, 
And  not  proud  reason,  keeps  the  door  of 

Heaven  ; 
Love  finds  admission  where  proud  science 

fails.        YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  g. 

God  is  with  those  who  persevere. 

Koran,  ch.  8. 
GOLD 

How  widely  its  agencies  vary — 
To  save-y-to  ruin — to  curse — to  bless — 
As  even  its  minted  coins  express, 
Now  stamped   with   the   image   of   good 

Queen  Bess, 
And  now  of  a  Bloody  Mary.. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Thou  gaudy  gold, 
Hard  food  for  Midas. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 
GOOD  DEEDS 

Once  in  a  century  springs  forth  a  deed, 
From    the   dark    bonds   of   forge  tfulness 

freed, 
Destined  to  shine  and  to  help  and  to  lead. 

H.  ALFORD. — Filiolce  Dulcissimcs,  n. 

Not  all  the  noblest  songs  are  worth 
One  noble  deed. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Off  Mesolongi,  18. 

Should  heaven  turn  hell 
For  deeds  well  done,  I  would  do  ever  well. 
CHAPMAN. — Tears  of  Peace,  Inductio. 

A  short  life  is  given  us  by  nature,  but 

the  memory  of  a  well-spent  life  is  eternal. 

CICERO. — Phil.  14,  12. 

The  reward  of  a  thing  well  done  is  to 
have  done  it. 

EMERSON. — New  England  Reformers. 

I  defy  the  wisest  man  in  the  world  to 
turn  a  truly  good  action  into  ridicule. 

FIELDING. — Joseph  Andrews, 
Bk.  3,  ch.  6. 
And  learn  the  luxury  of  doing  good. 

GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

In  working  well,  if  travail  you  sustain, 
Into  the  wind  shall  lightly  pass  the  pain  ; 
But  of  the  deed  the  glory  shall  remain, 


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GOODNESS 


And  cause  your  name  with  worthy  wights 

to  reign. 

In  working  wrong,  if  pleasure  you  attain, 
The  pleasure  soon  shall  fade,   and  void 

as  vain  ; 
But  of  the  deed  throughout  the  life  the 

shame 

Endures,  defacing  you  with  foul  defame. 
N.  GRIMOALD. — Musonius. 

If  thou  do  ill,  the  joy  fades,  not  the  pains  ; 

If  well,  the  pain  doth  fade,  the  joy  remains. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Thy  works,  and  alms,  and  all  thy  good 

endeavour. 
Stayed  not  behind,  nor  in  the  grave  were 

trod; 
But,  as  Faith  pointed  with  her  golden 

rod, 

Followed  thee  up  to  joy  and  bliss  for  ever. 
MILTON. — To  the  Memory  of  Mrs.  Thomson. 

Let    humble    Allen,    with    an    awkward 

shame, 
Do  good  by  stealth,  and  blush  to  find  it 

fame. 
POPE. — Satires,  Epilogue,  Dialogue  i,  135. 

Do  you  believe  that  there  is  upon  the 
whole  earth  one  man  so  depraved  as 
never  to  have  allowed  his  heart  to  yield 
to  the  temptation  of  doing  well  ? 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

I  never  did  repent  for  doing  good, 
Nor  shall  not  now. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  4. 

How   far   that   little   candle   throws   his 

beams  ! 

So  shines  a  good  deed  in  a  naughty  world. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  i. 

'Tis  a  lucky  day,  boy,  and  we'll  do  good 
deeds  on  't. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  3,  3. 

Tis  well  said  again  ; 

And  'tis  a  kind  of  good  deed  to  say  well : 
And  yet  words  are  no  deeds. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

As  for  doing  good  that  is  one  of  the  pro- 
fessions that  are  full. 

H.  D.  THOREAU. — Economy. 

While  we  have  time,  let  us  do  good  unto 
all  men. 

Galatians  vi,  10  (Prayer  Book  Version) . 

Whatsoever  ye  would  that  men  should 
do  unto  you,  even  so  do  unto  them. 
St.  Matthew  vii,  12  (Prayer  Book  Version). 

For  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ's  sake, 
Do  all  the  good  you  can, 
To  all  the  people  you  can, 


In  all  the  ways  you  can, 
As  long  as  ever  you  can. 
Said  to  be  from  a  tombstone  at  Shrews- 
bury.    (Quoted    by    D.    L.    Moody, 
A  merican  Evangelist. ) 

Do  good  whilst  you  live,  if  you  wish  to 
live  after  death. 

Medi&val  Inscription  (Tamworth  Church). 

Also  found  in  Lambeth  MS.,  No.   853, 

circa  1450. 

Good  words  make  us  laugh  ;  good  deeds 
make  us  silent.  French  prov. 

GOODNESS 

The  friend  of  man,  to  vice  alone  a  foe. 
BURNS. — Epitaph  on  his  Father. 

So  young,  so  fair, 

Good  without  effort,  great  without  a  foe. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  172. 

That  mighty  truth — how  happy  are  the 
good  !  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

He  was  a  good  man,  in  the  worst  sense 
of  the  word. 

A  scribed  to  DISRAELI  (in  reference  to 
W.  E.  Gladstone). 

Oft  have  I  heard,  and  deem  the  witness 
true, 

Whom  man  delights  in,  God  delights  in 

too.  EMERSON. — Tr.  of  "  the  old 

trouveur,  Pans  Capdeuil."  Essay    on 

"  Success." 

The  art  of  arts,  the  art  of  being  good, 
Not  saintly  sad. 

NORMAN  GALE. — To  a  Nest  of  Young 
Thrushes. 

Oh  !  might  we  all  our  lineage  prove, 
Give  and  forgive,  do  good  and  love  ! 

KEBLE. — Christian  Year,  2nd 
Sunday  after  Trinity. 

There  are  in  this  loud  stunning  tide 

Of  human  care  and  crime. 
With  whom  the  melodies  abide 

Of  the  everlasting  chime  ; 
Who  carry  music  in  their  heart 
Through  dusky  lane  and  wrangling  mart, 
Plying  their  daily  task  with  busier  feet, 
Because  their  secret  souls  a  holy  strain 
repeat.  KEBLE. — St.  Matthew's  Day. 

A  good  heart  is  better  than  all  the  heads 
in  the  world. 

(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Disowned,  c.  33 

For  princes  never  more  make  known  their 

wisdom, 

Than  when  they  cherish  goodness  where 
they  find  it. 

MASSINGER. — Great  Duke  of  Florence, 
Act  i,  i. 

Abashed  the  devil  stood, 
And  felt  how  awful  goodness  is. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  846. 


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GOOD   NIGHT 


GOVERNMENT 


Good  and  evil  we  know  in  the  field  of 
this  world  grow  up  together  almost 
inseparably.  MILTON. — Areopagitica. 

Oh  !  she  was  good  as  she  was  fair  ; 
None — none  on  earth  above  her  ! 
As  pure  in  thought  as  angels  are ; 
To  know  her  was  to  love  her. 

ROGERS. — Jacqueline,  PL  i. 

People  "be    dood.      If    you    are    dood 
Dod  will  love  you  ;    if  you  are  not  dood 
Dod  will  not  love  you.     People  be  dood. 
RUSKIN. — Sermon   preached,   accord- 
ing to  his  own  statement,  before  he  was 
four  years  old. 

Hold  thou  the  good  :  define  it  well  : 

For  fear  Divine  Philosophy 

Should  push  beyond  her  mark  and  be 
Procuress  to  the  Lords  of  Hell. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  53. 

Pray  God  make  all  bad  people  good, 
and  all  good  people  nice. 

A   Child's  Prayer  (Attributed). 

GOOD  NIGHT 

Here's  a  body — there's  a  bed  ; 
There's  a  pillow — here's  a  head  ; 
There's  a  curtain — here's  a  light ; 
There's  a  puff — and  so  Goodnight ! 
THOS.  HOOD. — Sketches  on  the  Road,  1837. 

To  all,  to  each,  a  fair  good-night 
And  pleasing  dreams,  and  slumbers  light ! 
SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  L'Envoi. 

Sleep  dwell  upon  thine  eyes,  peace  in  thy 

breast ! 

Would  I  were  sleep  and  peace,  so  sweet  to 
rest  !         SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and 
Juliet,  Act  2,  2. 
GOSSIP 

What  the  king  has  whispered  into  the 
queen's  ear,  they  know ;  what  Juno 
chattered  to  Jove  they  know  ;  and  things 
which  never  will  happen  and  never  have 
happened,  they  know  them  none  the  less. 
PLAUTUS. — Trinummus. 

Pitchers  have  ears,  and  I  have  many 
servants. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  4,  4. 

How  hard  soe'er  it  be  to  bridle  wit, 
Yet  memory  oft  no  less  requires  the  bit. 
How  many,  hurried  by  its  force  away, 
For  ever  in  the  land  of  gossips  stray. 

B.  STILLINGFLEET. — Conversation. 

It  is  the  folly  of  too  many  to  mistake  the 
echo  of  a  London  Coffee-house  for  the 
voice  of  the  Kingdom. 

SWIFT. — Conduct  of  the  Allies. 

Believe  not  every  tale. 

Ecclesiasticus  xix,  15. 


216 


GOUT 

Some  haue  left  incomiums  of  the  Gout 
and  think  they  extenuat  the  anguish  of 
it  when  they  tell  what  famous  men,  what 
Emperours  and  Learned  Persons  haue 
been  severe  examples  of  that  disease,  and 
that  it  is  not  a  disease  of  fooles,  but  of 
men  of  Parts  and  sences. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Of  Consumptions 
(Fragment) . 

Pangs  arthritic  that  infest  the  toe 
Of  libertine  excess. 

COWPER. — Task,  105. 

The  French  have  taste  in  all  they  do, 

Which  we  are  quite  without ; 
For  nature,  which  to  them  gave  go'&t, 
To  us  gave  only  gout. 

THOS.  ERSKINE  (LORD  ERSKINE). — • 
Epigram. 

What  a  very  singular  disease  gout  is. 
It  seems  as  if  the  stomach  fell  down  into 
the  feet. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lady  Carlisle, 
Sept.  5,  1840. 

When  I  have  the  gout  I  feel  as  if  I  were 
walking  on  my  eyeballs. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

GOVERNMENT 

The  greatest  happiness  of  the  greatest 
number  is  the  foundation  of  morals  and 
legislation. 

JEREMY  BENTHAM. — Works,  vol.  10. 

Universal  suffrage  is  the  government 
of  a  house  by  its  nursery. — BISMARCK. 

Brute    force    shall    not    rule    Florence  ! 

Intellect 
May   rule   her,    bad   or   good    as   chance 

supplies, — 
But  intellect  it  shall  be. 

BROWNING. — Luna . 

If  they  ask  me  what  a  free  government 
is,  I  answer  that  for  any  practical  purpose 
it  is  what  the  people  think  so. 

BURKE. — Letter. 

Government  is  a  contrivance  of  human 
wisdom  to  provide  for  human  wants. 
Men  have  a  right  that  these  wants  should 
be  provided  for  by  this  wisdom. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the 
Revolution. 

All  Governments  are  pretty  much  alike, 
with  a  tendency  on  the  part  of  the  last 
to  be  the  worst. 

AUSTEN  CHAMBERLAIN,  M.P. — House  of 
Commons,  1919. 

Arms  are  of  little  avail  abroad  unless 
there  is  good  counsel  at  home. 

CICERO. — De  Officiis. 


GOVERNMENT 


GOVERNMENT 


Of  governments  that  of  the  mob  is  the 
most  sanguinary,  that  of  soldiers  the  most 
expensive,  and  that  of  civilians  the  most 
vexatious.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

No  government  is  safe  unless  buttressed 
by  goodwill.  CORNELIUS  NEPOS. — Dion. 

You  can  only  govern  men  by  serving 
them.  The  rule  is  without  exception. 

V.  COUSIN. 

For  justice  is  the  end  of  government. 

DEFOE. — True-born  Englishman. 

Pt.    2,    368. 

A  Government  of  statesmen  or  of  clerks  ? 
Of  Humbug  or  of  Humdrum  ? 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  2,  c.  4. 

The  divine  right  of  kings  may  have  been 
a  plea  for  feeble  tyrants,  but  the  divine 
right  of  government  is  the  keystone  of 
human  progress,  and  without  it  govern- 
ments sink  into  police,  and  a  nation  is 
degraded  into  a  mob. 

DISRAELI. — Lothair,  Preface  (1870) 

That  fatal  drollery  called  a  representa- 
tive government. 

DISRAELI. — Tancred,  Bk.  2,  ch.  13. 

Applaud    the    justice    of    well-governed 

states, 
And  Peace  triumphant,  with  her  open 

gates. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

For  just  experience  tells,  in  every  soil, 
That  those  who  think  must  govern  those 

that  toil, 
And  all  that  freedom's  highest  aims  can 

reach, 

Is  but  to  lay  proportioned  loads  on  each. 
GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

I  found  that  monarchy  was  the  best 
government  for  the  poor  to  live  in,  and 
commonwealths  for  the  rich. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield. 

The  great  danger,  as  it  appears  to  me, 
of  representative  government,  is  lest  it 
should  slide  down  from  representative 
government  to  delegate  government. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  6. 

That  action  is  best  which  procures  the 
greatest  Happiness  for  the  greatest 
Numbers. 

FR.  HUTCHESON,  SEN. — Beauty  and 
Virtue  (1725). 

There  is  no  state  in  Europe  where  the 

least  wise  have  not  governed  the  most  wise. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Rousseau. 

Alike  were  they  free  from 
Fear,  that  reigns  with  the  tyrant,  and  envy, 

the  vice  of  republics. 
LONGFELLOW. — Evangeline,  Pt.  i,  34, 


Nothing  is  so  galling  to  a  people,  not 
broken  in  from  the  birth,  as  a  paternal,  or, 
in  other  words,  a  meddling  government,  a 
government  which  tells  them  what  to 
read,  and  say,  and  eat,  and  drink,  and  wear. 
MACAULAY. — Southey's  Colloquies. 

Every  nation  has  the  government  it 
deserves.  DE  MAISTRE,  Letter,  1811. 

For  Britain,  to  speak  a  truth  not  often 
spoken,  as  it  is  a  land  fruitful  enough  of 
men  stout  and  courageous  in  war,  so  it  is 
naturally  not  over-fertile  of  men  able 
to  govern  justly  and  prudently  in  peace. 
MILTON. — History  of  England.,  Bk.  3. 

Local  self-government  is  the  life-blood 
of  liberty. 

J.  L.  MOTLEY. — Rise  of  Dutch  Republic, 
Pt.  6,  ch.  i. 

To  a  wise  man  it  is  indifferent  what  card 
is  trumps.  The  game  may  be  played  as 
fair  under  clubs  as  diamonds.  If  we  are 
to  be  fettered,  it  is  folly  to  be  troubled 
whether  our  fetters  consist  of  many  links 
or  but  one. 

FRANCIS  OSBORNE. — Advice  to  a  Son 
(1656). 

Spare  the  spurs,  boy,  and  hold  the  reins 
more  firmly.  OVID. — Metam.,  28. 

You  do  not  know,  my  son,  with  how  little 
wisdom  men  are  governed. 

COUNT  AXEL  OXENSTIERNA  OF  SWEDEN. 
—To  his  Son  (1583-1654). 

in  a  change  of  rule  among  the  citizens, 
the  poor  change  nothing  beyond  the  name 
of  their  master. 

PH^DRUS. — Fables,  Bk.  i,  15. 

There  the  golden  Sisters  reign, 
From  Themis  sprung, — Eunomia  pure, 
Safe  Justice,  and  congenial  Peace, 
Basis  of  states,  whose  counsels  sure 
With  wealth  and  wisdom  bless  the  world's 
increase. 

PINDAR. — Olympian  Odes,  13,  6 
(Moore  tr.). 

The  axiom  of  power  united  to  philo- 
sophy is  in  every  way  true  :  That  neither 
a  state  nor  a  man  can  ever  be  happy  unless 
by  leading  a  life  of  prudence  in  subjection 
always  to  justice. 

PLATO. — Epistle  ^  (Referring  to  the  Errors 

of  Dionysius  the  Younger  of  Syracuse). 

O  Syracusans,  above  all  things  turn  your 
regard  to  laws  not  designed  merely  for 
money-making  and  wealth.  There  are 
three  things,  soul,  body,  and  worldiy 
prosperity.  Put  the  worth  of  the  soul 
first  ;  that  of  the  body  second  ;  but  third 
and  last  that  of  wealth,  as  being  the  servant 
of  both  body  and  soul. 

PLATO. — Epistle,  8. 


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GRACE 


GRANDEUR 


One  person  calls  it  [the  Greek  govern- 
ment] a  democracy,  another  by  another 
name,  as  he  pleases.  But  it  is  in  truth 
a  government  by  the  best,  combined  with 
a  good  opinion  of  the  people. 

PLATO. — Menexenus,  8. 

When  it  was  said  that  Sparta  was 
preserved  because  the  kings  knew  how  to 
govern,  Theopornpus  replied  :  "  No,  but 
because  the  citizens  knew  how  to  be 
governed." 

PLUTARCH. — Laconic  Apophthegms. 

For  forms  of  government  let  fools  contest ; 
Whatc'er  is  best  administered  is  best. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  3,  303. 

The  Pope  says  .  .  .  Thou  little  think- 
est  what  a  little  Foolery  governs  the  whole 
world.  J.  SELDEN. — Pope. 

Governments  which  are  hated  never 
hold  out  long.  SENECA. — Ph&nissa. 

No  one  has  long  maintained  violent 
government ;  temperate  rule  endures. 

SENECA. — Troades,  Act  2. 

Where  there  is  not  modesty,  nor  regard 
for  law,  nor  religion,  reverence,  good  faith, 
the  kingdom  is  insecure. 

SENECA. — Thyestes,  Act  2,  215. 

Down  with  Governments  by  the  Grey- 
haired.  G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Fear  not  the  tyrants  shall  rule  for  ever, 
Or  the  priests  of  the  bloody  faith  ; 
They  stand  on  the  brink  of  that  mighty 

river, 
Whose   waves    they   have    tainted    with 

death.  SHELLEY. — Rosalind. 

—  and  — ,  who  have  every  other  qualifi- 
cation for  governing,  want  that  legion  of 
devils  in  the  interior,  without  whose  aid 
mankind  cannot  be  ruled. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Countess 
Grey,  Feb.  4,  1835. 

He  seemed  greater  than  a  private 
citizen  while  he  was  one,  and  by  the  con- 
sent of  all  would  have  been  considered 
capable  of  government,  if  he  had  not 
governed.  TACITUS. — History,  i. 

Where  Fate  and  smiling  Fortune  show  the 

way, 

Pursue  the  ready  path  to  sovereign  sway. 
VIRGIL.— Mneid,  Bk.  8  (Dry den  tr.). 

The  world  is  governed  too  much. 

Motto  of  "  Globe"  newspaper  (U.S.A.). 

GRACE 

Such  easy  greatness,  such  a  graceful  port, 

So  turned  and  finished  for  the  camp  or 

court  I  ADDISON. — Campaign. 


Who    hath     not     own'd,    with     rapture- 
smitten  frame, 
The  power  of  grace  ? 

CAMPBELL.— Pleasures  of  Hope,  2,  5. 

Whate'er  he  did  was  done  with  so  much 

ease, 
In  him  alone  'twas  natural  to  please. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pt.  i,  27. 

He  touched  nothing  which  he  did  not 
adorn.        JOHNSON. — Epitaph  (Latin)  on 

Goldsmith. 

Good  Xenocrates,  sacrifice  to  the  Graces. 
PLATO  (according  to  Plutarch). 

A  foot  more  light,  a  step  more  true, 
Ne'er  from  the  heath-flower  dashed  the 
dew. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  i,  st.  18. 

These  graces  challenge  grace. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pi.  3,  Act  4,  8. 

GRACE  BEFORE  MEAT 

Some  hae  meat  and  canna  eat, 

And  some  wad  eat  that  want  it ; 
But  we  hae  meat  and  we  can  eat, 
And  sae  the  Lord  be  thankit. 
BURNS. — Selkirk  Grace  (founded  on. 
traditional  lines). 
Some  have  meat  and  cannot  eat ; 
Some  can  eat  and  have  no  meat ; 
We  have  appetite  and  food  : 
Bless  the  Giver  of  all  good. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON'S  version  of  the  "  Selkirk 

Grace." 

We  thank  thee,  Lord,  for  this  our  food, 
A  happy  home,  and  all  things  good  ; 
May  thy  rich  blessings  wide  be  spread, 
And  all  thy  little  ones  be  fed.      Amen. 

ANON. 
GRACE  (SPIRITUAL) 

Prevenient  grace  descending  bad  removed 
The  stony  from   tneir  hearts. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  n,  3. 

GRAMMAR 

Priscian  a  little  scratched  ;  'twill  serve. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost. 

Act  5,  i. 

Here  will  be  an  old  abusing  of  God's 
patience,  and  the  King's  English. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  i,  4. 

I   am   the   King  of   Rome,   and  above 
grammar. 
SIGISMUND  (at  the  Council  of  Constance). 

Why  care  for  grammar  as  long  as  we  are 
good?    ARTEMUS  WARD. — Pyrotechny,  5. 

GRANDEUR 

All  flesh  is  grass,  and  all  its  glory  fades 
Like  the  fair  flower,  dishevell'd  in  the  wind; 
Riches   have   wings,    and    grandeur   is   a 
dream.  COWPER. — Task.  3,  259. 


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GRATITUDE 


GREATNESS 


Let's  do  it  after  the  high  Roman  fashion. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 

Act  4,  13. 

She  looked  as  grand  as  doomsday  and  as 
grave.  TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  i,  186. 

GRATITUDE 

When  our  perils  are  past,  shall  our  grati- 
tude sleep  ? 

No — here's   to   the   pilot   that  weathered 
the  storm. 

GEO.  CANNING. — The  Pilot  (Pitt). 

No  metaphysician  ever  felt  the  defici- 
ency of  language  so  much  as  the  grateful. 
C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Let  others  hail  the  rising  sun  ; 
I  bow  to  that  whose  course  is  run. 

GARRICK. — On  Mr.  H.  Pelham. 

Only  fools  are  unable  to  support  that 
crushing  load  which  we  call  gratitude. 

LABICHE. — Perrichon. 

Wherever  I  find  a  great  deal  of  gratitude 
in  a  poor  man,  I  take  it  for  granted  there 
would  be  as  much  generosity  if  he  were  a 
rich  man. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Evermore  thanks,   the  exchequer  of  the 
poor. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  3. 

I've  heard  of  hearts  unkind,  kind  deeds 
With  coldness  still  returning  ; 
Alas  !  the  gratitude  of  man 
Hath  oftener  left  me  mourning. 

WORDSWORTH. — Simon  Lee. 

Gratitude  is  the  least  of  virtues  ;  ingrati- 
tude is  the  worst  of  vices.  Prov. 

GRAVE,  THE 

Each  in  his  narrow  cell  for  ever  laid, 
The  rude  forefathers  of  the  hamlet  sleep. 
GRAY. — Elegy. 

Yet  even  these  bones  from  insult  to  pro- 
tect, 

Some  frail  memorial  still  erected  nigh, 

With     uncouth    rhymes     and    shapeless 
sculpture  decked, 

Implores  the  passing  tribute  of  a  sigh. 

GRAY. — 76. 

I  like  that  ancient  Saxon  phrase  which  calls 
The  burial-ground  God's-Acre  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — God's- A  ere. 

And  my  large  kingdom  for  a  little  grave, 
A  little  little  grave,  an  obscure  grave. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  3. 

Rest  from  all  bitter  thoughts  and  things  ! 
How  many  a  poor  one's  blessing  went 
With  thee  beneath  the  low  green  tent 

Whose  curtain  never  outward  swings. 

WHITTIER. — Snowbound 


The  knell,  the  shroud,  the  mattock,  and 

the  grave  ; 
The  deep  damp  vault,  the  darkness,  and 

the  worm  : 

These  are  the  bugbears  of  a  winter's  eve, 

The  terrors  of  the  living,  not  the  dead. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 

GREATNESS 

He  was  a  great  man,  and  I  have  for- 
gotten all  his  faults. 

LORD  BOLINGBROKE  (HENRY  ST.  JOHN). 
— Of  Maryborough. 

None  are  completely  wretched  but  the 
great. 

W.  BROOME. — Ep.  to  Mr.  Fenton. 

That  pompous  misery  of  being  great. 
W.  BROOME. — On  the  Seat  of  the  War. 

All  women  love  great  men, 
If  young  or  old  ;  it  is  in  all  the  tales. 

BROWNING. — In  a  Balcony. 

More  compassionate  than  woman, 
Lordly  more  than  man. 

CAMPBELL. — A  Dream. 

From  great  folks  great  favours  are  ex- 
pected. CERVANTES. — Don  Quixote. 

Greatness  and  goodness  are  not  means,  but 
ends  !  COLERIDGE. — Job's  Luck. 

For  he  was  great  ere  fortune  made  him 
so.  DRYDEN. — Death  of  Cromwell,  st.  6. 

The  great  man  makes  the  great  thing. 
Wherever  Macdonald  sits,  there  is  the  head 
of  the  table. 

EMERSON. — The  American  Scholar. 

To  be  great  is  to  be  misunderstood. 

EMERSON. — Self-Reliance. 

Every  great  man  is  a  unique. 

EMERSON. — Ib. 

Indeed  while  greatness  consists  in 
power,  pride,  insolence,  and  doing  mis- 
chief to  mankind ; — to  speak  out,  while 
a  great  man  and  a  great  rogue  are  synony- 
mous terms,  so  long  shall  Wild  stand  un- 
rivalled on  the  pinnacle  of  greatness. 

FIELDING. — Jonathan  Wild. 

What  is  grandeur,  what  is  power  ? 
Heavier  toil,  superior  pain. 

GRAY. — Ode  for  Music. 

In  honour  dies  he  to  whom  the  great 
seems  ever  wonderful. 

HAFIZ. — As  given  by  Emerson,  Essay  on 
Persian  Poetry  j 

Oh,  my  friend ! 
(For  with  delight  thy  vigorous  growth  I 

view, 

And  just  proportion),  be  thou  also  bold, 
And  merit  praise  from  ages  yet  to  come ! 
HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  i,  300  (Cowper  tr.). 


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GREATNESS 


GREECE 


Great  honours  are  great  burdens. 

B.  JONSON. — Catiline. 

Greatness,  which  private  men 
Esteemed  a  blessing,  is  to  me  a  curse  ; 
And  we  who,   for  our  high  births,   they 

conclude 

The  only  freemen,   are  the  only  slaves. 
Happy  the  golden  mean. 

MASSINGER. — Great  Duke,  Act  i,  i. 

It  is  always  interesting,  in  the  case  of 
a  great  man,  to  know  how  he  affected  the 
women  of  his  acquaintance. 

LORD  MORLEY. — Burke. 

'Tis  but  the  pastime,  not  the  pain 
Of  Genius  his  unfailing  word  to  give, 

That  bravery  shall  not  strive  in  vain, 
That   virtue,   raised   by  him,    in   Fame's 

bright  heaven  shall  live. 
PINDAR. — Isthmian  Odes,  i,  62  (Moore  tr.). 

If   parts   allure    thee,    think   how    Bacon 

shined, 

The  wisest,  brightest,  meanest  of  mankind  ; 
Or,    ravished    with    the    whistling   of    a 

name, 

See  Cromwell,  damned  to  everlasting  fame. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  4,  281. 

These    are    imperial    works,  and    worthy 
kings. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  4,  204. 

It  is  the  nature  of  a  great  mind  to  be 
calm  and  undisturbed,  and  ever  to  despise 
injuries  and  misfortunes. 

SENECA. — De  dementia,  i,  5. 

Farewell,  a  long  farewell  to  all  my  great- 
ness ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

The  world  hath  noted,  and  your  name  is 

great 
In  mouths  of  wisest  censure. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Be  not  afraid  of  greatness.  Some  men  are 
born  great,  some  achieve  greatness,  and 
some  have  greatness  thrust  upon  them. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  5. 

Nothing  she  does,  or  seems, 
But  smacks  of  something   greater   than 

herself  ; 
Too  noble  for  this  place. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

The  world  knows  nothing  of  its   greatest 

men. 
SIR  H.  TAYLOR. — Philip  von  Artevelde. 

Great  deeds  cannot  die  ; 
They,  with  the  sun  and  moon,  renew  their 

light 

For  ever,  blessing  those  that  look  on  them. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  3,  237. 


In  the  eyes  of  the  immortals,  and  before 
their  splendour,  there  is  no  lowness,  there 
is  no  highness.  The  vilest  of  human  beings, 
the  most  august  king,  all  are  equal  for 
them  ;  nothing  is  great  but  the  just. 

VOLTAIRE. — Eryphile,  Act  i,  i. 

Man  and  his  littleness  perish,  erased  like 

an  error  and  cancelled  ; 
Man   and   his   greatness   survive,  lost   in 

the  greatness  of  God. 
SIR  WM.  WATSON. — Hymn  to  the  Sea. 

Were  I  so  tall  to  reach  the  pole, 
Or  grasp  the  ocean  in  my  span, 

I  must  be  measured  by  my  soul : 
The  mind's  the  standard  of  the  man. 
I.  WATTS. — False  Greatness. 

And  now  he  rests  ;  his  greatness"  and  his 

sweetness 

No  more  shall  seem  at  strife  ; 
And  death  has  moulded  into  calm  complete- 
ness 
The  statue  of  his  life. 

WHITTIER. — On  Joseph  Sturge. 

Through   love,  through  hope,  and  faith's 

transcendent   dower, 

We  feel  that  we  are  greater  than  we  know. 
WORDSWORTH. — River  Duddon. 

O  weakness  of  the  Great !  O  folly  of  the 
Wise! 

WORDSWORTH. — Tour  in  Italy,  28. 

Thou  hast  left  behind 
Powers  that  will  work  for  thee,  air,  earth, 

and  skies  : 
There's  not  a  breathing  of  the  common 

wind 
That  will  forget  thee  ;   thou  hast  great 

allies  ; 

Thy  friends  are  exultations,  agonies, 
And  love,  and  man's  unconquerable  mind. 
WORDSWORTH. — Toussaint  L'Ouverture. 

None  think  the  great  unhappy,  but  the 
great.    YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  i. 

GREECE 

Know  ye  the  land  where  the  cypress  and 

myrtle 
Are  emblems  of  deeds  that   are  done  in 

their  clime, 
Where  the  rage  of  the  vulture,  the  love 

of  the  turtle, 
Now   melt    into   sorrow,  now  madden  to 

crime  ? 

BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  i,  st.  i. 

Fair  Greece  !     Sad  relic  of  departed  worth  ! 
Immortal,  though  no  more  ;  though  fallen, 

great ! 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  st.  73. 

The  isles  of  Greece,  the  isles  of  Greece 

Where  burning  Sappho  loved  and  sung, 
Where  grew  the  arts  of  war  and  peace — 


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GREED 


GRIEF 


Where  Delos  rose,  and  Phoebus  sprung  ! 
Eternal  summer  gilds  them  yet, 
But  all  except  their  sun  is  set. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  86. 

Clime  of  the  unforgotten  brave. 

BYRON. — The  Giaour,  103. 

Make   the   Greek   authors   your  supreme 

delight ; 
Read  them  by  day  and  study  them  by 

night. 

P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

The  olive  grove  of  Academe, 
Plato's  retirement,  where  the  Attic  bird 
Trills  her  thick-warbled  notes  the  summer 

long. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  244. 

Thence  to  the  famous  orators  repair, 
Those  ancient,  whose  resistless  eloquence 
Wielded  at  will  that  fierce  democratic, 
Shook     th'    arsenal,    and    fulmined    over 
Greece.         MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  267. 

All  the  world  is  sweeter,  if  the  Athenian 

violet  quicken  : 
All  the  world  is  brighter,  if  the  Athenian 

sun  return  : 
All  things  foul  on  earth  wax  fainter,  by 

that  sun's  light  stricken  : 
All  ill  growths  are  withered,  where  those 

fragrant  flower-lights  burn.  . . . 
Ours  the  lightning  was  that  cleared  the 

north  and  lit  the  nations, 
But  the  light  that  gave  the  whole  world 

light  of  old  was  she  : 
Ours  an  age  or  twain,  but  hers  are  endless 

generations  : 
All  the  world  is  hers  at  heart,  and  most  of 

all  are  we. 

SWINBURNE. — Ode  to  Athens. 

The  Greeks  only  tell  the  truth  once  a 
year.  Russian  prov. 

GREED 

Supine  amidst  our  flowing  store, 
We  slept  securely,  and  we  dreamt  of  more. 
DRYDEN. — Threnodia  Augustalis,  st.  i. 

But  somehow,   when   the   dogs   bed   gut 

asleep, 
Their  love  o'  mutton  beat  their  love  o' 

sheep. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2nd 
Series,  No.  n. 

I  eat  well,  drink  well,  and  sleep  well, 
but  that's  all,  Tom,  that's  all. 

T.  MORTON. — Roland  for  an  Oliver. 

Lazy  folks'  stomachs  don't  get  tired. 
Uncle  Remus  (Negro  Saying  ?). 

Greed  is  envy's  eldest  brither  ; 
Scraggy  wark   they  mak'   thegither. 

Scottish  prov. 


GREETING 

Good  morrow,   gentle  child,   and  then 
Again  good  morrow,  and  again 
Good  morrow  following  still  good  morrow, 
Without  one  cloud  of  strife  or  sorrow. 

MACAULAY. —  Valentine. 

Welcome  ever  smiles, 
And  farewell  goes  out  sighing. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  3,  3. 

GRIEF 

And     thus    the    heart    will    break,    yet 
brokenly  live  on. 

BYRON.— C&t'Wtf  Harold,  c.  3,  32. 

What  deep  wounds  ever  closed  without 
a  scar  ?  BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  84. 

But  grief  should  be  the  instructor  of  the 

wise  ; 
Sorrow  is  knowledge. 

BYRON. — Manfred,  i,  i. 

And  long  she   pined — for  broken   hearts 
die  slow.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

The  ocean  has  her  ebbings — so  has  grief. 
CAMPBELL. — Ib. 

The  waters  wild  went  o'er  his  child, 
And  he  was  left  lamenting. 

CAMPBELL. — Lord  Ullin's  Daughter. 

It  is  foolish  to  tear  one's  hair,  as  though 
sorrow  would  be  made  less  by  baldness. 

CICERO. 

I  shall  grieve  down  this  blow,  of  that  I'm 

conscious  : 
What  does  not  man  grieve  down  ? 

COLERIDGE. — Wallenstein,  Act  5,  i. 

Grief  is  itself  a  medicine. 

COWPER. — Charity,  159. 

The  path  of  sorrow,  and  that  path  alone, 

Leads  to  the  land  where  sorrow  is  unknown, 

COWPER. — To  a  Protestant  Lady. 

Nothing  speaks  our  grief  so  well 
As  to  speak  nothing. 
RICHARD  CRASHAW. — Upon  the  Death 
of  a  Gentleman. 

A  great  sorrow  is  a  great  repose,  and  you 
will  come  out  from  your  grief  stronger 
than  when  you  entered  it. 

A.  DUMAS. — Mme.  de  Chamblay. 

In  all  the  silent  manliness  of  grief. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

A  wanton  widow  may  wear  darkest  weeds. 
C.  G.  LELAND. — Story  of  a  Lie. 

Indeed  the  tears  live  in  an  onion  that 
should  water  this  sorrow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  i,  2. 


GRUMBLERS 


GUILE 


O,  woe  is  me  ! 

To  see  what  I  have  seen,  see  what  I  see  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

You  must  wear  your  rue  with  a  difference. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  5. 

What   private   griefs  they  have,   alas !    I 

know  not. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

Grief  best  is  pleased  with  grief's  society. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  159. 

What,  man  !  ne'er  pull  your  hat  upon  your 

brows  ; 
Give  sorrow  words. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4,   3. 

No  sighs  but  o'  my  breathing  ;  no  tears 
but  o'  my  shedding. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,   i. 

For  my  particular  grief 
Is  of  so  floodgate  and  o'erbearing  nature, 
That  it  engluts  and  swallows  other  sorrows. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

People  will  pretend  to  grieve  more  than 

they  really  do,  and  that  takes  off  from  their 

true  grief.         SWIFT. — To  Mrs.  Dingley, 

Jan.  14,  1712-3. 

Let     Love     clasp     Grief    lest    both     be 
drowned. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  i. 

Never  morning  wore 

To  evening,  but  some   heart   did  break. 
TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  6. 

'Tis  held  that  sorrow  makes  us  wise. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  108. 

He  gave  a  groan,  and  then  another, 
Of  that  which  went  before  the  brother, 
And  then  he  gave  a  third. 
WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Pt.  i,  st.  51. 

GRUMBLERS 

It  is  a  general  popular  error  to  suppose 

the   loudest   complainers    for   the    public 

to  be  the  most  anxious  for  its  welfare. 

BURKE. — Observation  on  Present 

State  of  the  Nation. 

But  human  bodies  are  sic  fools, 
For  a*  their  colleges  and  schools, 
That  when  nae  real  ills  perplex  them, 
They  mak  enow  themsels  to  vex  them. 

BURNS. — Twa  Dogs. 

Grousing,  grousing,  grousing, 
Always  blooming  well  grousing, 
Roll  on  till  my  time  is  up, 
And  I  shall  grouse  no  more. 

Popular  Soldier  Song. 

Better  be  a  grumph  than  a  sumph  (i.e. 
a  croaker  than  a  fool).  Scottish  prov. 


Growling  will  not  make  the  kettle  boil. 

Prov. 

GUESSING 

Depend  upon  it  a  lucky  guess  is  never 
merely  luck — there  is  always  some  talent 
in  it.  JANE  AUSTEN. — Emma,  ch.  i. 

Once  I  guessed  right, 
And  I  got  credit  by't ; 
Thrice  I  guessed  wrong, 
And  I  kept  my  credit  on. 
Saying  quoted  by  Dean  Swift,   1710. 

GUESTS 

A  pretty  woman  is  a  welcome  guest. 

BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  23. 

Light  is  the  dance  and  doubly  sweet  the 

lays, 

When,  for  the  dear  delight,  another  pays. 
POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  i,  205. 

True   friendship's  laws  are  by    this    rule 

expressed, 
Welcome   the  coming,  speed   the  parting 

guest.  POPE. — Ib.,  Bk.  15,  83. 

For  I  who  hold  sage  Homer's  rule  the  best, 

Welcome   the  coming,  speed  the   parting 

guest.     POPE. — Satires,  Bk.  2,  i,  158. 

Must  you  stay  ?     Can't  you  go  ? 

Punch,  under  cartoon,  Jan.  18,  1905. 


Let  the 
at  most 


guests  at  table  be  three  or  four  — 
ve.  Old  Greek  prov. 


GUIDANCE 

A  fool  may  eke  a  wise  man  often  guide. 
CHAU  CER  .  —  Troilus. 

The  greatest  cleverness  of  the  least 
clever  people  is  to  know  how  to  submit  to 
the  good  guidance  of  other  people. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD.  —  Maxim  580. 

What    pilot   so    expert    but   needs    must 

wreck 
Imbarked  with  such  a  steersmate  at  the 

helm? 

MILTON.  —  Samson  Agonistes,  1044. 

Thou    wert    my    guide,    philosopher    and 
friend.    POPE.  —  Essay  on  Man,  4,  390. 

But  chancing  to  espy  a  path 

That  promised  to  cut  short  the  way, 

As  many  a  wiser  man  hath  done, 

He  left  a  trusty  guide  for  one 

That  might  his  steps  betray. 

WORDSWORTH.  —  Peter  Bell,  Pt.  i,  st.  30. 

GUILE 

It  afforded  no  small  amusement  to  the 

Rhegians    that    Phoenicians   should   com- 

plain of  anything  accomplished  by  guile. 

PLUTARCH.  —  Timoleon. 


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GUILT 


HABIT 


His  heart  doth  think  on  many  a  wile, 
How  to  deceive  the  poore. 

Old  Ballad,  Jew  of  Venice. 

Behold  an  Israelite  indeed,  in  whom  is 
no  guile.  St.  John  i,  47. 

GUILT 

God  hath  yoked  to  guilt 
Her  pale  tormentor,  misery. 
W.  C.  BRYANT. — Inscription  for  entrance 
to  a  wood. 

Men  that  are  greatly  guilty  are  never 
wise. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings, 
May,  1794. 

Thank  God,  guilt  was  never  a  rational 
thing.  BURKE. — Ib. 

To  what  gulfs 

A  single  deviation  from  the  track 
Of  human  duties  leads  ! 

BYRON. — Sardanapalus,  Act  4,  i. 

Crime  makes  the  shame  and  not  the 
scaffold.          CORNEILLE. — Comte  d'Essex. 

Every    man    carries    the    bundle    of    his 

sins 
Upon  his  own  back. 

JOHN  FLETCHER. — Rule  a  Wife. 

But  Guilt  was  my  grim  chamberlain 
That  lighted  me  to  bed. 

HOOD. — Eugene  Aram. 

How  guilt,  once  harboured  in  the  conscious 

breast, 

Intimidates  the  brave,  degrades  the  great  ! 
JOHNSON. — Irene. 

Terror  haunts  the  guilty  mind. 

N.  LEE. — Rival  Queens,  Act  5,  i. 

We  mourn  the  guilty  while  the  guilt  we 
blame.  D.  MALLET. — Prologue. 

Some  undone  widow  sits  upon  my  arm 
And  takes  away  the  use  of  't ;  and  my 

sword, 
Glued    to    my    scabbard    with    wronged 

orphans'  tears, 
Will  not  be  drawn. 

MASSINGER. — New  Way  to  Pay  Old  Debts, 

Act  5,  i 
I  am  in, 

And  must  go  on  ;  and  since  I  have  put  off 
From  the  shore  of  innocence,  guilt  be 

thou  my  pilot. 
MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  2,  i. 

Guilt  is  the  source  of  sorrow,  'tis  the  fiend, 
Th*  avenging  fiend,  that  follows  us  behind 
With  whips  and  stings. 

N.    ROWE. — Fair  Penitent,  Act  3,  i. 

And  then  it  started,  like  a  guilty  thing, 
Upon  a  fearful  summons. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  i. 


Suspicion  always  haunts  the  guilty  mind  ; 
The  thief  doth  fear  each  bush  an  officer. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  PI.  3,  Act  5,  6. 

All  the  perfumes  of  Arabia 
Will  not  sweeten  this  little  hand. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  2. 

Will  all  great  Neptune's  ocean  wash  this 

blood 
Clean  from  my  hand  ?     No  ;  this  my  hand 

will  rather 

The  multitudinous  seas  incarnadine, 
Making  the  green — one  red. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Tis  now  my  bitter  banishment  I  feel : 
This  is  a  wound  too  deep  for  time  to  heal. 
My  guilt  thy  growing  virtues  did  defame  ; 
My  blackness  blotted  thy  unblemished 
name.  VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  10  (Dry- 
den  tr.)  (Mezentiusto  his  slain  son,  Lausus). 

The  guilty  conscience  fears,  when  there's 

no  fear 
And  thinks  that  every  bush  contains  a 

bear. 

R.  WATKYNS. — Flamma  sine  Fumo. 

What  heavy  guilt  upon  him  lies  ! 

How  cursed  is  his  name  ! 
The  ravens  shall  pick  out  his  eyes, 

And  eagles  eat  the  same. 

I.  WATTS. — Obedience. 

Let  no  man  trust  the  first  false  step 
Of  guilt ;  it  hangs  upon  a  precipice, 
Whose  steep  descent  in  lost  perdition  ends. 
YOUNG. — Busiris. 


H 


HABEAS  CORPUS 

The  Habeas  Corpus  Act  .  .  .  the  most 
stringent  curb  that  ever  legislation  im- 
posed on  tyranny. 

MACAULAY. — Hist.of  England,  c.  6. 

HABIT 

My  very  chains  and  I  grew  friends, 
So  much  a  long  communion  tends 
To  make  us  what  we  are. 

BYRON. — Prisoner  of  Chilian. 

Great  is  the  force  of  habit ;  it  teaches 
us  to  bear  labour  and  to  scorn  injury  and 
pain. 
CICERO  (Adapted from  Twsc.  2, 15  and  17). 

Ill  habits  gather  by  unseen  degrees, 
As  brooks  make  rivers,  rivers  run  to  seas. 
DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Metam.,  Bk.  15. 

Ill  customs  by  degrees  to  habits  rise, 
111  habits  soon  become  exalted  vice. 

DRYDEN. — Ib. 


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HAILSTORM 


HAPPINESS 


Long  customs  are  not  easily  broken  ;  he 
that  attempts  to  change  the  course  of  his 
own  life  very  often  labours  in  vain. 

JOHNSON. — Rasselas,  ch.  29. 

For  use  almost  can  change  the  stamp  of 
nature. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

Habits  are  at  first  cobwebs,  at  last 
cables.  Prov. 

HAILSTORM 

Rain,  rain,  rattle  stanes, 
Dinna  rain  on  me. 
But  rain  on  Johnnie  Groat's  house, 
Far  owre  the  sea. 

Old  Scottish  rhyme. 

HAIR 

My  hair  is  grey,  but  not  with  years, 

Nor  grew  it  white 

In  a  single  night, 
As  men's  have  grown  by  sudden  fears. 

BYRON. — Prisoner  of  Chilian. 

HANDS 

There  is  no  better  sign  of  a  brave  mind 
than  a  hard  hand. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2,  4,  2. 

She  has  certainly  the  finest  Hand  of  any 
woman  in  the  world.  STEELE. — Spectator. 

HANDWRITING 

O  wretched  the  debtor  who's  signing  a 

deed  ! 
And  wretched  the  letter  that  no  one  can 

read  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

There's  something  unco  affectionate  in 
manuscripp. 

J.  WILSON. — Nodes  (Ettrick  Shepherd). 

HAPPENINGS 

Yet  somtyme  it  shal  fallen  on  a  day 
That  falleth  not  oft  within  a  thousand 

yere. 
CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  810  (aprov.). 

It  chanceth  in  an  hour  that  comes  not 
in  seven  years.  Prov.  (Ray  Collection) 

HAPPINESS 

Time,  so  complained  of, 
Who  to  no  one  man 
Shows  partiality, 
Brings  round  to  all  men 
Some  undimmed  hours. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Consolation. 

To  be  happy,  give  no  cause  for  envy. 
The  secret  of  happiness  is  to  hide  one's 
life.  DE  LA  BOUISSE. 


O  make  us  happy  and  you  make  us  good. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  4,  302. 

What  is  the  worth  of  anything 
But  for  the  happiness  'twill  bring  ? 

R.  CAMBRIDGE. — Learning,  23. 

We  ne'er  can  be 
Made  happy  by  compulsion. 

COLERIDGE. — Three  Graves. 

There  is  this  difference  between  happi- 
ness and  wisdom  :  he  that  thinks  himself 
the  happiest  man  really  is  so  ;  but  he  that 
thinks  himself  the  wisest  is  generally  the 
greatest  fool.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

All  indistinctly  apprehend  a  bliss, 

On  which  the  soul  may  rest ;  the  hearts 

of  all 

Yearn  after  it. 

DANTE. — Purgatorio  (tr.  H.  F.  Gary),  c.  17, 

124. 

I've  touched  the  height  of  human  happi- 
ness, 

And  here  I  fix  nil  ultra. 
FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Prophetess 
(1622  ),  Act  4,  6. 

How  wide  the  limits  stand 
Between  a  splendid  and  a  happy  land  ! 
GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

And  there  is  even  a  happiness 
That  makes  the  heart  afraid. 

HOOD. — To  Melancholy. 

Our  own  felicity  we  make  or  find. 
JOHNSON. — Lines  added  to  Goldsmith's 
Traveller. 

One  is  never  so  happy  or  so  unhappy  as 
one  imagines. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  49. 

One  is  never  so  unhappy  as  one  believes, 
nor  so  happy  as  one  had  hoped  to  be. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  514. 

Best   trust   the   happy  moments.     What 

they  gave 

Makes  man  less  fearful  of  the  certain  grave, 
And  gives  his  work  compassion  and  new 

eyes  ; 
The  days  that  make  us  happy  make  us 

wise.    JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Biography. 

In   them   is  plainest   taught,  and  easiest 

learnt, 
What  makes  a  nation  happy,  and  keeps  it 

so. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,Bk.  4,  361. 

Oh,  think  not  my  spirits  are  always  as 

light 
And   as   free   from   a   pang  as  they  seem 

to  you  now. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Lights  by  mere  chance  upon  some  happy 
thought.       J.  OLDHAM. — St.  Cecilia. 


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HAPPINESS 


HARDNESS 


There  is  this  in  common  between  the 

lives  of  ordinary  men  and  of  saints,  that 

they  all  aspire  to  happiness  ;  they  differ 

only  in  the  object  where  they  place  it. 

PASCAL. — Pensees. 

Two  things  alone,  with  wealth  combined, 
Feed  life's  fair  flower,  and  thus  bestow 

Joy's  purest  blessings  on  mankind. 
These  are  fair  fortune  and  recording  fame. 

Aspire  not  to  be  Jove  !     All  things  are 

thine 
If  these  great  gifts  thy  destiny  may  claim  : 

To  mortal  hopes  thy  mortal  means  con- 
fine. 
PINDAR. — Isthmian  Odes,  5,  14  (Moore  tr.). 

Oh  happiness  !  our  being's  end  and  aim  ! 
Good,    pleasure,    ease,    content,    whate'er 

thy  name  : 
That  something  still  which  prompts  the 

eternal  sigh, 

For  which  we  bear  to  live,  or  dare  to  die. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  i. 

Fixed  to  no  spot  is  happiness  sincere, 
"Tis  nowhere  to  be  found,  or  everywhere  : 
'Tis  never  to  be  bought,  but  always  free. 
POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  4,  15. 

Reason's  whole  pleasure,  all  the  joys  of 
sense, 

Lie  in  three  words,  health,  peace,  and  com- 
petence. POPE. — Ib.,  79. 

I  call  any  creature  "  happy  "  that  can 

love,  or  that  can  exult  in  its  sense  of  life. 

RUSKIN. — Pref.  (1882)   Revised  Edition 

of  "  Modern  Painters." 

No  man  is  happy.  Man  strives  all  his 
life  through  for  imaginary  -happiness, 
which  he  seldom  attains,  and  if  he  does,  it 
is  only  to  be  disillusioned. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Emptiness  of 
Existence. 

What  a  pity  that  a  man  of  such  exquisite 
genius  will  not  be  contented  to  be  happy 
on  the  ordinary  terms  ! 

SCOTT. — Letter  to  J.  Murray, 
Dec.  1816  (referring  to  Byron). 

Mankind  are  always  happier  for  having 
been  happy,  so  that  if  you  make  them 
happy  now,  you  make  them  happy  twenty 
years  hence  by  the  memory  of  it. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
>•-  Philosophy,  22. 

Call  no  man  happy  before  his  death.  ^ 
SOLON  (according  to  Aristotle). 

Happiness  is  added  Life  and  the  giver 
of  Life. 

HERBERT    SPENCER. — Representative 
Government. 

There  is  no  duty  we  so  much  underrate, 
as  the  duty  of  being  happy. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Idlers. 


What  thing  so  good  which  not  some  harm 

may  bring  ? 

Even  to  be  happy  is  a  dangerous  thing. 
EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Darius,  Chorus  i. 

Never  yet 

Had  heaven  appeared  so  blue,  nor  earth 
so  green. 

TENNYSON. — Holy  Grail,  364. 

Every  mortal  has  for  his  share  his  own 
happiness  near  at  hand  to  him. 

VOLTAIRE. — Sur  V  Usage  de  la  Vie. 

The  little-known  art  of  being  happy. 

VOLTAIRE. — Ib. 

Macare  (Happiness),  it  is  thou  whom  I 
desire  ;  we  love  thee  and  we  lose  thee ;  I 
believe  that  I  have  found  you  in  my  home, 
but  I  beware  of  saying  so.  When  we 
boast  of  having  thee  we  are  deprived  of 
thee  by  envy.  To  keep  thee  one  must 
know  how  to  hide  thee — and  to  hide  one's 
life.  VOLTAIRE. — Theleme  et  Macare. 

Happiness  is  no  laughing  matter. 
ARCHBISHOP  WHATELY. — Apophthegms. 

Compassed  round  by  pleasure,  sighed 
For  independent  happiness. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  3. 

The  happy  only  are  the  truly  great. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  6. 

How  sad  a  sight  is  human  happiness 
To  those  whose  thought  can  pierce  be- 
yond an  hour. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i. 

Beware  what  earth  calls  happiness;  beware 

All  joys  but  joys  that  never  can  expire. 

YOUNG. — Ib. 

HARD-HEARTEDNESS 

A  stony  adversary,  an  inhuman  wretch, 
Uncapable  of  pity,  void  and  empty 
From  any  dram  of  mercy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  4,  i. 

Worse   than   a   bloody   hand    is    a    hard 
heart.      SHELLEY. — Cenci,  Act  5,  2. 

And  though  she  saw  all  heaven  in  flower 

above, 
She  would  not  love. 

SWINBURNE. — Leave-Taking. 

HARDNESS 

Plenty  and  peace  breeds  cowards  ;  hard- 
ness ever 

Of  hardiness  is  mother. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3.  6. 

The  tyrant  custom,  most  grave  senators, 
Hath  made  the  flinty  and  steel  couch  of 

war, 
My  thrice-driven  bed  of  down. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 


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HARMONY 


HATE,  HATRED 


HARMONY 

There's  no  music  when  a  woman  is  in 
the  concert. 

DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Pt.  z,  Act  4,  3. 

From  harmony,  from  heavenly  harmony 

This  universal  frame  began  : 
From  harmony  to  harmony, 
Through  all  the  compass  of  the  notes  it  ran, 
The  diapason  closing  full  in  Man. 

DRYDEN. — St.  Cecilia's  Day,  1687. 

Heard    melodies     are    sweet,    but    tho'e 
unheard  are  sweeter. 

KEATS. — A  Grecian  Urn. 

By  harmony  our  souls  are  swayed  ; 
By  harmony  the  world  was  made. 

LORD  LANSDOWNE. — British 
Enchanters,  Act  i. 

Lifted  on  the  breeze 
Of  harmony,  beyond  all  earthly  care. 

WORDSWORTH. — The  fairest,  brightest 

hues. 

HARSHNESS 

Now  there  will  be  an  outbreak  of  new 

laws  :  .  .  . 

This  deed  will  prompt  forthwith 
All  mortal  men  to  callous  recklessness.  .  . 
For  since  no  wrath  on  evil  deeds  will  creep 

Henceforth  from  those  who  watch 
With  wild,  fierce  souls  the  evil  deeds  of 

men, 
I  will  let  loose  all  crime.* 

^ESCHYLUS. — Eumenides,  727 
(Plumptre  tr.). 
HARVEST 

How  good  the  God  of  Harvest  is  to  you, 
Who  pours  abundance  o'er  your  flowing 
fields.  THOMSON. — Autumn,  170. 

If  weather  be  fair  and  tidy  thy  grain, 
Make  speedy  carriage,  for  fear  of  rain  : 
For  tempest  and  showers  deceiveth  a 

many, 

And  lingering  lubbers  lose  many  a  penny. 
T.  TUSSER. — August's  Husbandry. 

Mist  in  May  and  heat  in  June 
Make  the  harvest  richt  sune. 

Scottish  prov. 

Good  harvests  make  men  prodigal ;  bad 
ones,  provident.  Prov.  (Ray's  Collection). 

HASTE 

A  man  of  sense  may  be  in  haste,  but 
can  never  be  in  a  hurry,  because  he 
knows  that  whatever  he  does  in  a  hurry  he 
must  necessarily  do  very  ill. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his 

Son. 

*  This  is  a  faithfully-drawn  picture  of  that  over- 
rigid  severity  with  which  men  of  sterner  nature 
generally    meet    the    advocates    of    mercy    and 
indulgence.    KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry.    No.  22 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 


Hurry  is  the  mark  of  a  weak  mind  ; 
dispatch,  of  a  strong  one. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

I  find  this  proverb  true, 

That  haste  makes  waste. 

G.  GASCOIGNE. — Memories,  3,  7. 

Heyo  dar !  don't  kick  'fo'  you  er 
spurred,  honey  ! 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  22. 

Bloody   with   spurring,    fiery-red   with 

haste. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  3. 

Haste  administers  all  things  badly. 

STATIUS. — Thebaidos  Libri. 

But  who  in  heat  of  blood  was  ever  wise  ? 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  3. 

Man  is  created  of  haste.    Koran,  ch.  21. 

A  hasty  man  drinks  his  tea  with  a  fork. 
Chinese  prov. 

Hurry  is  of  the  devil,  but  slow  advancing 
comes  from  God.  Eastern  prov. 

Dress  slowly  when  you  are  in  a  hurry. 

French  prov. 

HATE,  HATRED 

Dante,  who  loved  well  because  he  hated, 
Hated  wickedness  that  hinders  loving. 
BROWNING. — One  Word  More. 

And  when  his  frown  of  hatred  darkly  fell, 

Hope  withering  fled — and  Mercy  sighed 

farewell.         BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  9. 

These  two  hated  with  a  hate 
Found  only  on  the  stage. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  4,  93. 

Now  rose  the  unleavened  hatred  of  his 
heart.          BYRON. — Lara,  c.  2,  4. 

The  ruling  principle  of  Hate, 
Which  for  its  pleasure  doth  create 
The  things  it  may  annihilate. 

BYRON. — Prometheus. 

I  do  not  hate  him  near  as  much  as  I  fear 
I  ought  to  do. 

CARLYLE. — In  reference  to  Bishop  of 
Oxford. 

Love,  as  though  some  day  you  would 
have  to  hate  ;  hate,  as  though  some  day 
you  would  have  to  love. 

CHILO  (c.  550  B.C.). 

Heaven  has  no  rage  like  love  to  hatred 

turned, 

Nor  hell  a  fury  like  a  woman  scorned. 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  3,  2. 

We  can  hardly  hate  anyone  that  we 
know.  HAZLITT. — Distant  Objects. 


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HATE,  HATRED 


HEALTH 


A  good  hater. 

JOHNSON. — Mrs.  Piozzi's 
"  Johns oniana." 

Dear  Bathurst  was  a  man  to  my  very 
heart's  content.  He  hated  a  fool,  and  he 
hated  a  rogue,  and  he  hated  a  whig.  He 
was  a  very  good  hater. 

JOHNSON. — Of  Richard  Bathurst 
(d.  1762) 

We  never  will  forgo  our  hate  ; 
We  have  all  but  a  single  hate  ; 
We  love  as  one,  we  hate  as  one, 
We  have  one  foe  and  one  alone, 

England  ! 

ERNST    LISSAUER. — "  Song  of  Hate  " 
(1914)   as  tr.  by  Barbara  Henderson. 

There's  nothing  in  this  world  so  sweet  as 

love, 

And  next  to  love  the  sweetest  thing  is  hate. 
LONGFELLOW. — Spanish  Student,  Act  2,  5. 

Folks   never   understand   the  folks   they 
hate. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers, 
2nd  Series,  2. 

A  true  man  hates  no  one.     NAPOLEON. 

As  if  thou  hadst  unlearned  the  power  to 
hate.      J.  OLDHAM. — On  C.  Morwent. 

There  is  no  good  result  when  hatred  is 
returned  for  hatred.  SCHILLER. 

Honey  from  silkworms  who  can  gather, 
Or  silk  from  the  yellow  bee  ? 

The  grass  may  grow  in  winter  weather 
As  soon  as  hate  in  me. 

SHELLEY. — To  a  Critic. 

I  would  find  grievous  ways  to  have  thee 

slain, 
Intense  device  and  superflux  of  pain. 

SWINBURNE. — A  nactoria. 

Who  cannot  hate,  can  love  not. 

SWINBURNE. — In  the  Bay. 

It  is  not  so  easy  as  people  suppose  to 
hate  continuously. 

TALLEYRAND. — Memoir  read  before  the 
French  Institute. 

There  is  no  enmity  can  mate 

With  what  was  love  and  now  is  hate. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — From  Euripides. 

To  instruct  the  human  race  need  one 
discard  humanity  ?  Is  the  torch  of  Hatred 
indispensable  to  show  us  the  Truth  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — Fanaticism. 

Hate  and  mistrust  are   the  children    of 

blindness  ; 
Could  we  but  see  one  another,  'twere 

well! 

Knowledge  is  sympathy,  charity,  kindness  ; 
Ignorance  only  is  maker  of  hell. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — England  to  Ireland. 


We  hold  our  hate  too  choice  a  thing 
For  light  and  careless  lavishing. 

SIR  W.  WATSON.— Hate. 

And  man  is  hate,  but  God  is  love. 

WHITTIER. — Chapel  of  the  Hermits. 

O,  woman  wronged  can  cherish  hate 
More  dark  and  deep  than  manhood  may. 
WHITTIER. — Mogg  Megone. 

HATS 

In  spite  of  their  hats  being  very  ugly, 
Goddam  !  I  love  the  English.  BERANGER. 

If  he  be  not  in  love  with  some  woman, 
there  is  no  believing  old  signs  :  a'  brushes 
his  hat  o'  mornings  ;  what  should  that 
bode  ?  SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado, 

Act  3,  2. 
HEALTH 

To  gather  riches,  do  not  hazard  health, 
For  truth  to  say,  health  is  the  wealth 
of  wealth.          SIR  RICHARD  BAKER. 

The  healthy  know  not  of  their  health, 
but  only  the  sick  :  this  is  the  Physician's 
Aphorism.  CARLYLE. — Characteristics. 

Good  or  bad  health  makes  our  philo- 
sophy. CHAULIEU. 

What  a  searching  preacher  of  self- 
command  is  the  varying  phenomenon  of 
Health  !  EMERSON. — Discipline. 

I  honour  health  as  the  first  muse,  and 
sleep  as  the  condition  of  health. 

EMERSON. — Inspiration. 

Give  me  health  and  a  day  and  I  will 
make  the  pomp  of  emperors  ridiculous. 
EMERSON. — Nature. 

Rich,  from  the  very  want  of  wealth, 
In    heaven's    best    treasures,    peace    and 
health.  GRAY. — Ode. 

We  er  sorter  po'ly  [sort  of  poorly],  Sis 
Tempy,  I'm  'blige  ter  you.  You  know 
w'at  de  jay-bird  say  ter  der  squinch-owl, 
"  I'm  sickly  but  sassy." 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  50. 

A  sound  mind  in  a  sound  body  is  a  thing 
to  pray  for.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  4. 

Life  is  not  to  be  alive,  but  to  be  well. 
MARTIAL. — Bk.  6. 

Perfect  health  and  spirits  ...  is  an 
enjoyment  [which]  probably  constitutes, 
in  a  great  measure,  the  happiness  of  infants 
and  brutes,  especially  of  the  lower  and 
sedentary  orders  of  animals,  as  of  oysters, 
periwinkles,  and  the  like,  for  which  I  have 
sometimes  been  at  a  loss  to  find  out  amuse- 
men{,  PALEY. — Moral  and  Political 

Philosophy.  Bk.  i,  ch.  6. 


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HEARTLESSNESS 


Grant  me  but  health,  thou  great  Be- 
stower  of  it,  and  give  me  but  this  fair 
goddess  as  my  companion,  and  shower 
down  thy  mitres,  if  it  seem  good  unto  thy 
Divine  Providence,  upon  those  heads 
which  are  aching  for  them 

STERNE . — Sent imental  Jo urney . 

Look  to  your  health  ;  and  if  you  have  it, 
praise  God,  and  value  it  next  to  a  good 
conscience ;  for  health  is  the  second 
blessing  that  we  mortals  are  capable  of  ; 
a  blessing  that  money  cannot  buy. 

I.  WALTON. — Complete  Angler,  ch.  21. 

The  health  (or  safety)  of  the  people  is 
the  highest  law. 

Derived  (by  tradition)  from  the  12  Law 
Tables  at  Rome. 

HEARTLESSNESS 

He  hath  the  sore  which  no  man  heleth, 
The  which  is  cleped  lacke  of  herte. 

GOWER. — Con/.  Amantis. 

One  that  would  peep  and  botanize 
Upon  his  mother's  grave. 

WORDSWORTH. — A   Poet's  Epitaph. 

HEARTS 

With  women  the  heart  argues,  not  the 
mind.  M.  ARNOLD. — Merope. 

All  people  have  their  blind  side — their 
superstitions  ;  and  I  have  heard  her  de- 
clare, under  the  rose,  that  hearts  was  her 
favourite  suit. 

LAMB. — Mrs.  Battle  on  Whist. 

HEAVEN 

I  hear  thee  speak  of  the  better  land, 
Thou  callest  its  children  a  happy  band  ; 
Mother,  oh  !  where  is  that  radiant  shore  : 
Shall  we  not  seek  it  and  weep  no  more  ? 
MRS.  HEMANS.— The  Better  Land. 

God,   to  remove  His  ways  from  human 

sense, 
Placed  heaven   from   earth  so   far,    that 

earthly  sight 
If  it  presume,   might  err  in  things  too 

high, 
And  no  advantage  gain. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  119. 

That  Prophet  ill  sustains  his  holy  call, 
Who  finds  not  heavens  to  suit  the  tastes 
of  all.  MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

A  Persian's  heaven  is  easily  made, 
'Tis  but  black  eyes  and  lemonade. 

MOORE. — Twopenny  Postbag,  6. 

For  all  we  know 
Of  what  the  blessed  do  above 
Is  that  they  sing  and  that  they  love. 
WALLER. — While  I  listen  to  thy  Voice. 


HELP 

HEIRESSES 

All  heiresses  are  beautiful. 

DRYDEN. — King  Arthur. 

HELL 

The  fear  o"  hell's  a  hangman's  whip 
To  baud  the  wretch  in  order. 

BURNS. — To  a  young  friend. 

Grisly  drede  that  evere  shal  laste. 
CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  10  (Part 
of  a  description  of  Hell). 

So     that     their    joyis    shal    be    without 

measure  ; 

They  shal  rejoyce  to  see  the  great  dolour 

Of  dampnit  folk  in  hell,  and  thare  torment. 

SIR  D.  LYNDESAY. — Monarche. 

The  most  frightful  idea  that  has  ever 
corroded  human  nature,  the  idea  of  eternal 
punishment. 

LORD  MORLEY. — Vauvenargttes. 

I  see  a  brimstone  sea  of  boiling  fire, 

And  fiends,  with  knotted  whips  of  flaming 

wire, 
Torturing   poor   souls,    that   gnash    their 

teeth  in  vain, 
And  gnaw  their  flame-tormented  tongues 

for  pain. 
F.  QUARLES. — Emblems,  Bk.  3,  14. 

To  preach  loud,  long,  and  Damnation,  is 

the  way  to  be  cried  up.  We  love  a  man  that 

Damns  us,  and  we  run  after  him  to  save  us. 

J.  SELDEN. — Damnation. 

But  always  recollect,  my  dear, 
That  wicked  people  go  to  hell. 
ANN  AND  JANE  TAYLOR. — About 
Dying. 

How  I  shall  admire,  laugh,  rejoice,  ex- 
ult, to  see  so  many  great  Kings  consigned 
with  Jove  himself  and  his  followers,   to 
groan  in  the  lowest  depths  of  darkness. 
TERTULLIAN. — De  Spectaculis. 

The  loss  of  heaven's  the  greatest  pain  in 
hell. 

SIR  S.  TUKE. — Adv.  of  Five  Hours, 
Act  5. 

The  gates  of  hell  are  open  night  and  day  ; 

Smooth  the  descent,  and  easy  is  the  way. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  6  (Dryden  tr.). 

There  is  a  dreadful  hell, 

And  everlasting  pains  ; 
Where  sinners  must  with  devils  dwell 

In  darkness,  fire,  and  chains. 

I.  WATTS. — Heaven  and  Hell. 

HELP 

May  Might  and  Right, 
And  sovran  Zeus  as  third,  my  helpers  be  ! 
AESCHYLUS. — Choephorce,  244  (Plumptre 

tr.). 


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HEROES 


Sweet  the  help 
Of  one  we  have  helped. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  7. 

In  man's  most  dark  extremity 
Oft  succour  dawns  from  Heaven. 
SCOTT. — Lord  of  the  Isles,  c.  i,  20. 

Tis  not  enough  to  help  the  feeble  up, 
But  to  support  him  after. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  i,  i. 

Angels  and  ministers  of  grace  defend 
us  !  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

HEREDITY 

Rarely  into  the  branches  of  the  tree 
Doth  human  worth  mount  up. 
DANTE. — Purgatorio  (Gary's  tr.),  c.  7,  122. 

Ah  me  !  how  seldom  see  we  sons  succeed 
Their  fathers'  praise  ! 

BISHOP  Jos.  HALL. — Satire  3  (znd  series). 

Few  sons  attain  the  praise 
Of  their  great  sires,  and  most  their  sires 
disgrace. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  2,  315. 

He's  all  the  mother's,  from  the  top  to  toe. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  3,  i. 

Those  transparent  swindles — transmis- 
sible nobility  and  kingship. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Yankee  at  Court,  c.  28. 

Be  mindful  of  the  race  from  whence  you 

came, 

And  emulate  in  arms  your  fathers'  fame. 
Fortune  befriends  the  bold. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.). 

The  fathers  have  eaten  sour  grapes  and 
the  children's  teeth  are  set  on  edge. 

Jeremiah  xxxi,  29  (R.V.)  and 
Ezekiel  x,   10  (A.V.). 

HERESY 

I  smelle  a  loller  in  the  wind,  quod  he. 

CHAUCER. — Shopman's  Tale. 

They  that  approve  a  private  opinion 
call  it  opinion  ;  but  they  that  mislike  it, 
heresy  :  and  yet  heresy  signifies  no  more 
than  private  opinion. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  n. 

A  man  may  be  a  heretic  in  the  truth  : 
and  if  he  believe  things  only  because  his 
pastor  says  so,  or  the  assembly  so  deter- 
mines, without  knowing  other  reason, 
though  his  belief  be  true,  yet  the  very 
truth  he  holds  becomes  his  heresy. 

MILTON. — A  reopagitica. 

Better    heresy    of   doctrine    than   heresy 
of  heart.     WHITTIER. — Mary  Garvin. 


HEROES 

How  sleep  the  brave  •who  sink  to  rest, 
By  all  their  country's  wishes  blest  ? 

By  fairy  hands  their  knell  is  rung, 
By  forms  unseen  their  dirge  is  sung. 

W.  COLLINS. — Ode. 

All  actual  heroes  are  essential  men, 
And  all  men  possible  heroes. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  5. 

In  short,  he  was  a  perfect  cavaliero, 
And  to  his  very  valet  seemed  a  hero. 
BYRON. — Beppo,  33. 

Heroes  have  trod  this  spot — 'tis  on  their 
dust  ye  tread. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  144. 

Lights   of   the    world    and  demi-gods   of 
Fame. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  2. 

Thou  and  I,  my  friend,  can,  in  the  most 
flunky  world,  make,  each  of  us,  one  non- 
flunky,  one  hero,  if  we  like  ;  that  will  be 
two  heroes  to  begin  with. 
CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present,  Bk.  i,  ch.  6. 

That  subject  for  an  angel's  song, 
The  hero,  and  the  saint. 
COWPER. — On  "  Sir  C.  Grandison." 

Nurture  your  mind  with  great  thoughts. 
To  believe  in  the  heroic  makes  heroes. 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  3,  c.  i 
(Sidonia). 

Every  hero  becomes  a  bore  at  last. 

EMERSON. — Great  Men. 

But  to  the  hero,  when  his  sword 

Has  won  the  battle  of  the  free, 
Thy  voice  sounds  like  a  prophet's  word 
And  in  its  hollow  tones  are  heard 
The  thanks  of  millions  yet  to  be. 

F.  HALLECK. — Marco  Bozzaris. 

Heroic  virtues  are  the  bons  mots  of  life. 
They  do  not  appear  often,  and  when  they 
do  appear  are  too  much  prized,  I  think  ; 
like  the  aloe- tree  which  shoots  and  flowers 
once  in  a  hundred  years. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  recorded  by  Mrs. 
Piozzi. 

Brave  men  and  worthy  patriots,  dear  to 
God,  and  famous  to  all  ages. 

MILTON. — Of  Education. 

Samson  hath  quit  himself 
Like  Samson,  and  heroically  hath  finished 
A  life  heroic. 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,   1709. 

Like  the  day-star  in  the  wave, 
Sinks  a  hero  in  bis  grave, 
'Midst  the  dew-fall  of  a  nation's  tears. 

MOORE. — Before  the  Battle. 


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HISTORY 


Still,  though  death's  wave  without  distinc- 
tion roll 

O'er  all  alike,  the  nameless  and  the  great, 
For  warriors  yet,  that  reach  the  eternal 

goal, 

Approved      of      heaven,      conspicuous 

honours      wait.       PINDAR. — Pythian 

Odes,  3,  137  (Moore  tr.). 

Hero-worship  is  strongest  where  there  is 

least  regard  for  human  freedom. 

H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  Pt.  3. 

Strange  fate  of  heroes,  who  like  comets 

blaze, 

And  with  a  sudden  light  the  world  amaze  ; 
But  when,  with  fading  beams,  they  quit 

the  skies, 

No  more  to  shine  the  wonder  of  our  eyes, 
Their   glories    spent   and   all   their   fiery 

store, 
We    scorn    the    omens  which   we    feared 

before.        SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

One  brave  deed  makes  no  hero. 

WHITTIER. — Hero. 

HESITATION 

For  if  it  be  but  half-denied, 
'Tis  half  as  good  as  justified. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  2. 

Was  none  who  would  be  foremost 

To  lead  such  dire  attack  ; 
But  those  behind  cried  "  Forward," 

And  those  before  cried  "  Back." 

MACAULAY. — Horatius. 

And  yet  another  yet. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  2,  i. 

When   you  are  in  doubt  whether  an 
action  is  good  or  bad,  abstain  from  it. 
ZOROASTER  (Maxim). 

HINTS 

Therefore  use  thy  discretion  ;  I  had  as 
lief  thou  didst  break  his  neck  as  his  finger. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  i,  i. 

Upon  this  hint  I  spake. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

HISTORY 

Histories  make  men  wise. 

BACON. — Of  Studies. 

But  e'en  when  at  college,  I  fairly  acknow- 
ledge I 
Never  was  very  precise  at  chronology. 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Aunt  Fanny. 

I  have  read  somewhere  or  other — in 
Dionysius  of  Halicarnassus,  I  think — 
that  History  is  Philosophy  teaching  by 
examples.  BOLINGBROKE. — Letter.* 

*  Found  in  Dionysius  of  Halicarnassus,  who, 
however,  was  quoting  from  Thucydides. 


History  is  the  essence  of  innumerable 
biographies.  BOLINGBROKE. — On  History. 

The  love  of  history  seems  inseparable 
from  human  nature  because  it  seems 
inseparable  from  self-love. 

BOLINGBROKE. — Ib. 

These  gentle  historians,  on  the  contrary, 
dip  their  pens  in  nothing  but  the  milk 
of  human  kindness. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord  (1796). 

People  will  not  look  forward  to  posterity, 
who  never  look  backward  to  their  ances- 
tors. BURKE. — Reflections  on  the 

Revolution. 

History  after  all  is  the  true  poetry. 

CARLYLE. — Boswell's  Johnson. 

History,  a  distillation  of  Rumour. 

CARLYLE. — French    Revolution. 

All  History  ...  is  an  inarticulate 
Bible.  CARLYLE. — Latter-Day  Pamphlets. 

The  first  law  of  history  is  that  it  shall 
not  dare  to  state  anything  which  is  false, 
and  consequently  that  it  shall  not  shrink 
from  stating  anything  that  is  true. 

CICERO. — De  Oratore,  Bk.  2,  15. 

Some  write  a  narrative  of  wars,  and  feats 
Of  heroes  little  known,  and  call  the  rant. 
A  history.  COWPER. — Garden,  139. 

The  use  of  history  is  to  give  value  to 
the  present  hour  and  its  duty. 

EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

History,  which  is  indeed  little  more  than 
the  register  of    the  crimes,  follies,   and 
misfortunes  of  mankind. 
GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  3  (1776). 

On  whatever  side  we  regard  the  history 

of  Europe,  we  shall  perceive  it  to  be  a 

tissue  of  crimes,  follies,  and  misfortunes. 

GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World,  42 

(1762). 

History  is  the  chart  and  compass  for 
national  endeavour. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,ch.n. 

Happy  are  the  people  whose  annals  are 
tedious.  MONTESQUIEU. 

The  worst  historians  for  a  young  man  to 

read  are  those  who  pronounce  judgment. 

Facts  !  Facts  !  Let  him  judge  for  himself  ! 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Alas !  Hegel  was  right  when  he  said 
that  we  learn  from  history  that  men  never 
learn  anything  from  history. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Pref., 
The  Next  Phase. 


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Poetrie  ever  setteth  forth  virtue  in  her 
best  colours.  .  .  .  But  the  Historian, 
being  captived  to  the  truth  of  a  foolish 
world,  is  many  times  a  terror  from  well 
doing  and  an  encouragement  to  unbridled 
wickedness. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for  Poelrie. 

The  history  of  the  great  events  of  the 

world  is  little  more  than  the  history  of 

crimes.       VOLTAIRE. — Essay  on  Manners, 

c.  23  (c.  1750). 

In  effect  history  is  only  a  picture  of 
crimes  and  misfortunes. 

VOLTAIRE. — L'Inginu  (1767). 

How  history  makes  one  shudder  and 
laugh  by  turns  ! 

HORACE  WALPOLE. — Letter,  1786. 

Oh,  do  not  read  history,  for  that  I  know 
must  be  false.  SIR  R.  WALPOLE. — Saying. 

Deal  not  in  history,  often  have  I  said  ; 
'Twill  prove  a  most  unprofitable  trade. 
J.  WOLCOT. — Ep.  to  Sylvanus  Urban. 

HOLIDAYS 

I  care  not  a  fig  for  the  cares  of  business ; 

Politics  fill  me  with  doubt  and  dizziness. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Fine  Weather. 

What  is  this  life  if,  full  of  care, 

We  have  no  time  to  stand  and  stare  ? 

W.  H.  DAVIES. — Leisure. 

Who  first  invented  work,  and  bound  the 

free 
And  holiday-rejoicing  spirit  down  ? 

LAMB. — Work. 
HOLLAND 

A  country  that  draws  fifty  feet  of  water ; 
In  which  men  live  as  in  the  hold  of  nature ; 

A  land  that  rides  at  anchor  and  is  moored  ; 

In  which  they  do  not  live,  but  go  aboard. 

S.  BUTLER. — Description  of  Holland. 

Embosomed  in  the  deep  where  Holland 

lies, 

Methinks  her  patient  sons  before  me  stand, 
Where  the  broad  ocean  leans  against  the 

land.  GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

Holland,  that  scarce  deserves  the  name  of 

land, 

As  but  the  off-scouring  of  the  British  sand. 
MARVELL. — Character  of  Holland. 

HOME 

His  wee  bit  ingle,  blinking  bonnily. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

To  make  a  happy  fire-side  clime 

For  weans  and  wife  ; 
That's  the  true  pathos  and  sublime 

Of  human  life. 
BURNS. — Epistle  to  Dr.  Blacklock. 


My  whinstone  house  my  castle  is, 
I  have  my  own  four  walls. 

CARLVLE. — My  own  Four  Walls. 

The  house  of  everyone  is  to  him  as  his 
castle  and  fortress. 
SIR  E.  COKE. — Semayne's  Case,  5  Rep.  91. 

None  love  their  country  but  who  love  their 
home.     COLERIDGE. — Zapolya,  Pt.  a. 

But  wheresoe'er  I'm  doomed  to  roam, 
I  still  shall  say — that  home  is  home. 

W.  COMBE. — Dr.  Syntax,  c.  26. 

The  world  has  nothing  to  bestow  ; 
From  our  own  selves  our  joys  must  flow, 
And  that  dear  hut — our  home. 

N.  COTTON. — Fireside. 

Forced  from  home  and  all  its  pleasures. 
COWPER. — Negro's  Complaint. 

The  language  of  a  ruder  age  has  given 

to  common  law  the  maxim  that  every 

man's  house  is  his  castle.     The  progress 

of  truth  will  make  every  house  a  shrine. 

EMERSON. — Domestic  Life. 

Where'er  I  roam,  whatever  realms  to  see, 

My   heart,    untravelled,    fondly   turns   to 

thee.  GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

The  stately  homes  of  England  ! 

How  beautiful  they  stand, 
Amidst  their  tall  ancestral  trees, 

O'er  all  the  pleasant  land. 
MRS.  HEMANS. — Homes  of  England. 

Awful  Divinity !  be  not  incensed. 
I  know  that  my  Penelope  in  form 
And  stature  altogether  yields  to  thee, 
For  she  is  mortal,  and  immortal  thou, 
From  age  exempt.     Yet  not  the  less   I 

wish 

My  home,  and  languish  daily  to  return. 
HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  5,  215 
(Cowper  tr.). 

The  fairyest  of  fairy  land. 

The  land  of  home. 
JEAN  INGELOW. — Letter  L.  Absent,  st.  34. 

It    is     this    sweet    home-feeling,    this 

settled  repose  of  affection  in  the  domestic 

scene,  that  is,  after  all,  the  parent  of  the 

steadiest  virtues  and  purest  enjoyments. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. — Sketch  Book 

(c.  1820). 

A  man's  best  things  are  nearest  him, 
Lie  close  about  his  feet. 

R.  M.  MILNES. — Men  of  Old. 

But  O,  my  babies  on  the  floor  ; 

My  wife's  blithe  welcome  at  the  door  ; 

My  bread  well  earned  with  sweat  of 
brows ; 

My  garden  flowerful,  green  of  boughs  ; 


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HONESTY 


Friends,  books  ; — I  would  not  change  ye 
for 

Ten  thousand  pounds. 
COSMO  MONKHOUSE. — Rondel,   "  Ten 
Thousand  Pounds." 

There  is  a  spot  of  earth  supremely  blest, 

A  dearer,  sweeter  spot  than  all  the  rest. 

JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Home. 

I  knew  by  the  smoke  that  so  gracefully 

curled 
Above  the  green  elms,  that  a  cottage  was 

near. 
And  I  said,  "  If  there's  peace  to  be  found 

in   the  world, 

A  heart  that  was  humble  might  hope 
for  it  here." 

MOORE. — Ballad  Stanzas. 

Who  has  not  felt  how  sadly  sweet 

The  dream  of  home,  the  dream  of  home, 

Steals  o'er  the  heart,  too  soon  to  fleet, 
When  far  o'er  sea  or  land  we  roam  ? 

MOORE. — Dream  of  Home. 

Round  the  hearth-stone  of  home,  in  the 

land  of  our  birth, 

The  holiest  spot  on  the  face  of  the  earth. 
GEO.  P.  MORRIS. — Land  Ho  ! 

Mid  pleasures  and  palaces  though  we  may 

roam, 
Be  it  never  so  humble,  there's  no  place 

like  home.         J.  H.  PAYNE. — Clari. 

Home-keeping  youth  have  ever  homely 
wits. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 
Verona,  Act  i,  i. 

A  comfortable  house  is  a  great  source 

of  happiness.     It  ranks  immediately  after 

health  and  a  good  conscience. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lord  Murray, 

Sept.  29,  1843. 

"  There's  no  place  like  home."     It's  a 
great  pity  when  either  husband  or  wife  is 
forced  to  answer,  "  I'm  glad  there  isn't." 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

That  unconquerable  love  of  home, 
That  burns  even  in  the  hearts  of  evil  men. 
F.  TENNYSON. — Andros. 

Seek  home  for  rest, 

For  home  is  best. 

T.  TUSSER. — Instructions  to  Housewifery. 

Though  home  be  but  homely,  yet  house- 
wife is  taught 

That  home  hath  no  fellow  to  such  as  have 
aught.  T.  TUSSER. — Ib. 

God  looks  down  well  pleased  to  mark 
In  earth's  dusk  gloom  each  rosy  spark, 
Lights  of  home  and  lights  of  love, 
And  the  child,  the  heart  thereof. 

K.  TYNAN.— Night  Thought. 

O  !  what's  a  table  richly  spread 
Without  a  woman  at  its  head  ? 
THOS.  WARTON. — Progress  of  Discontent. 


Whatever  brawls  disturb  the  street, 
There  should  be  peace  at  home. 

I.  WATTS. — Love. 

And  a  single  small  cottage,  a  nest  like  a 

dove's, 
The  one  only  dwelling  on  earth  that  she 

loves. 
WORDSWORTH. — Reverie  of  Poor  Susan. 

Type  of  the  wise  who  soar,   but  never 

roam  ; 
True  to  the  kindred  points  of  heaven  and 

home  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — To  a  Skylark. 

HOMER 

The  blind  old  man  of  Scio's  rocky  isle. 
BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  2,  2. 

That    blind    bard,    who    on    the    Chian 

strand, 
By  those  deep  sounds  possessed  with 

inward  light, 
Beheld  the  Iliad  and  the  Odyssee 

Rise  to  the  swelling  of  the  voiceful  sea. 
COLERIDGE. — Fancy  in  Nubibus. 

Read  Homer  once,  and  you  can  read  no 

more  ; 
For  all  books  else  appear  so  mean,  so 

poor, 
Verse  will  seem  prose  ;  but  still  persist  to 

read, 

And  Homer  will  be  all  the  books  you  need. 
J.  SHEFFIELD. — On  Poetry,  322. 

HONESTY 

In  a  word,  to  appear  an  honest  man  it 
is  necessary  to  be  one.  BOILEAU. 

'Tis  my  opinion  every  man  cheats  in 
his  way,  and  he  is  only  honest  who  is 
not  discovered. 

MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — Artifice,  Act  5. 

The  modest  front  of  this  small  floor, 
Believe  me,  reader,  can  say  more 
Than  many  a  braver  marble  can, — 
"  Here  lies  a  truly  honest  man !  " 

R.  CRASHAW. — On  Mr.  Ashton. 

Honesty  is  really  only  the  art  of  appear- 
ing honest.     GUARINI. — Of  the  honesty  or 
virtue  of  women. 

He  that  loseth  his  honestie  hath  noth- 
ing else  to  lose.  J.  LYLY. — Euphues. 

Ay,  sir,  to  be  honest,  as  this  world 
goes,  is  to  be  one  man  picked  out  of  ten 
thousand. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Hamlet :  What  news  ? — Rosencrantz  : 
None,  my  lord,  but  that  the  world's 
grown  honest. — Hamlet :  Then  is  dooms- 
day near.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 


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HONOUR 


I  am  as  honest  as  any  man  living,  that 
is  an  old  man,  and  no  honester  than  I. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  5. 

Whip  me  such  honest  knaves. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  i. 

Every  man  has  his  fault,  and  honesty 
is  his.  SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  3,  i. 

Though  I  am  not  naturally  honest,  I 
am  so  sometimes  by  chance. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Honesty  is  the  best  policy,  but  he  who 
acts  on  that  principle  is  not  an  honest 
man. 

ARCHBISHOP  WHATELY. — Apophthegms. 

Th'  Almighty,  from  his  throne,  on  Earth 

surveys 
Nought  greater  than  an  honest,  humble 

heart.      YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

Pope  boldly  states  (some  think  his  maxim 

odd), 
"  An  honest  man's  the  noblest  work  of 

God." 

If  this  assertion  is  from  error  clear, 
One   of   the   noblest   works   of   God   lies 

here.  Epitaph,  Said  to  be  in 

Wingfield  Churchyard,  Suffolk. 

HONEYMOON 

The  moon — the  moon,  so  silver  and  cold, 
Her  fickle  temper  has  oft  been  told, 
Now  shady — now  bright  and  sunny — 
But  of  all  the  lunar  things  that  change, 
The  one  that  shows  most  fickle  and  strange, 
Is  the  moon — so  called — of  honey  ! 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Eat  up  the  moon  and  keep  the  honey. 
Some  eat  all  the  honey  and  have  nothing 
left  but  the  moon. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars. " 

HONOUR 

When    vice    prevails,    and    impious    men 

bear  sway, 

The  post  of  honour  is  a  private  station. 
ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  4,  4. 

It  is  gone,  that  sensibility  of  principle, 
that  chastity  of  honour,  which  felt  a 
stain  like  a  wound. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  French 
Revolution. 

Honour  is  like  a  widow,  won 
With  brisk  attempt  and  putting  on. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Quoth  Ralpho,  Honour's  but  a  word 
To  swear  by  only  in  a  Lord. 

BUTLER. — Ib.,  Pt.  z,  c.t. 

What  is  fitting  is  honourable  ;  what  is 
honourable  is  fitting. 

CICERO. — De  Officiis. 


By  fairy  hands  their  knell  is  rung, 
By  forms  unseen  their  dirge  is  sung  ; 
There  Honour  comes,  a  pilgrim  grey, 
To  bless  the  turf  that  wraps  their  clay. 
W.  COLLINS. — Ode. 

War,  he  sung,  is  toil  and  trouble  ; 
Honour  but  an  empty  bubble. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast. 

Costar :  Pray  now,  what  may  be  that 
same  bed  of  honour  ? — Kite :  Oh,  a 
mighty  large  bed  ;  bigger  by  half  than  the 
great  bed  at  Ware — ten  thousand  people 
may  lie  in  it  together,  and  never  feel  one 
another. 

FARQUHAR. — Recruiting  Officer,  Act  i. 

What  can't  be  done  with  honour  can't 
be  done  at  all. 

HENRY  Fox  (LORD  HOLLAND). — Letter 
to  the  Duke  of  Richmond,  1756. 

When  honour's  lost,  'tis  a  relief  to  die  ; 
Death's  but  a  sure  retreat  from  infamy. 

SIR  S.  GARTH. — Dispensary,  5,  321. 

Life  is  ended  when  our  honour  ends. 

GOLDSMITH. — Prologue. 

Purity  is  the  feminine,  Truth  the  mas- 
culine, of  Honour. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth,  vol.  i. 

Yet  this  inconstancy  is  such 

As  you  shall  too  adore  ; 
I  could  not  love  thee,  dear,  so  much, 

Loved  I  not  honour  more. 

R.  LOVELACE. — To  Lucasta. 

Once  to  every  man  and  nation  comes  the 

moment  to  decide 
In  the  strife  of  Truth  with  Falsehood,  for 

the  good  or  evil  side. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Present  Crisis. 

I  account  more  strength  in  a  true  heart 
than  in  a  walled  citie. 

J.   LYLY. — Endymion. 

Let  others  write  for  glory  or  reward  ; 
Truth  is  well  paid  when  she  is  sung  and 
heard. 

SIR  THOS.  OVERBURY. — Elegy  on  Lord 
Effingham. 

For  honour  is  the  guerdon  of  the  brave. 
PINDAR. — Isthmian  Odes,  6,  31 
(Moore  tr.). 
Rightly  to  be  great 
Is  not  to  stir  without  great  argument, 
But  greatly  to  find  quarrel  in  a  straw, 
When  honour's  at  the  stake. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  4. 

I  am  more  an  antique  Roman  than  a 
Dane.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

By  heaven,  methinks,  it  were  an  easy 
leap, 

To  pluck  bright  honour  from  the  pale- 
faced  moon  ; 


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HONOURS  (REWARDS) 


Or  dive  into  the  bottom  of  the  deep 
Where  fathom-line  could  never  touch  the 

ground, 
And   pluck   up   drowndd  honour   by   the 

locks. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  1,2. 

Honour  pricks  me  on.  Yea,  but  how 
if  honour  prick  me  off,  when  I  come  on  ? 
how  then  ?  Can  honour  set  to  a  leg  ? 
No.  Or  an  arm  ?  No.  Or  take  away 
the  grief  of  a  wound  ?  No.  Honour  hath 
no  skill  in  surgery,  then  ?  No.  What  is 
honour  ?  A  word.  .  .  .  Who  hath  it  ? 
He  that  died  o'  Wednesday.  Doth  he 
feel  it  ?  No.  Doth  he  hear  it  ?  No. 
Is  it  insensible,  then  ?  Yea,  to  the  dead. 
But  will  it  not  live  with  the  living  ?  No. 
Why  ?  Detraction  will  not  suffer  it — 
therefore,  I'll  none  of  it :  honour  is  a  mere 
scutcheon  : — and  so  ends  my  catechism. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Pt.  i,  Act  5,  i. 

But  if  it  be  a  sin  to  covet  honour, 
I  am  the  most  offending  soul  alive. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  4,  3. 

For  Brutus  is  an  honourable  man  ; 
So  are  they  all,  all  honourable  men. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Cccsar,  Act  3,  2. 

Mine  honour  is  my  life  ;  both  grow  in  one  ; 

Take  honour  from  me,  and  my  life  is  done. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act   i,  i. 

Life  every  man  holds  dear  ;  but  the  brave 

man 
H  olds  honour  far  more  precious-dear  than 

life. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  5,  3. 

Honour  should  be  concerned  in  honour's 
cause.     T.  SOUTHERN. — Oroonoko,  Act  3. 

Dearer  is  love  than  life,  and  fame  than 

gold; 
But  dearer  than  them  both  your  faith  once 

plighted  hold. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  5,  n,  63. 

Lo,  one  who  loved  true  honour  more  than 

fame, 

A  real  goodness,  not  a  studied  name. 
EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Doomsday,  8th  hour, 

109. 

As  natural  life  the  body  warms, 
And,  scholars  teach,  the  soul  informs, 
So  honour  animates  the  whole, 
And  is  the  spirit  of  the  soul. 
Those  numerous  virtues  which  the  tribe 
Of  tedious  moralists  describe, 
And  by  such  various  titles  call, 
True  honour  comprehends  them  all. 

SWIFT. — To  Stella,  1720. 

A  true  man,  pure  as  faith's  own  vow, 
Whose  honour  knows  not  rust. 

SWINBURNE. — Balen,  3,  18. 


But  this  thing  is  God, 

To  be  man  with  thy  might, 
To  grow  straight  in  the  strength  of  thy 

spirit, 
And  live  out  thy  life  as  the  light. 

SWINBURNE. — Hertha,  15. 

Man's  word  is  God  in  man  : 
Let  chance  what  will,  I  trust  thee  to  the 
death. 
TENNYSON. — Coming  of  Arthur,  132. 

Upon  this  fatal  quest 

Of  honour,  where  no  honour  can  be  gained. 
TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  704. 

I  would  strangle  you  with  my  own  hands 
rather  than  allow  an  affront  to  your 
honour,  for  mark  you,  I  love  you  enough 
for  that. 

VOLTAIRE. — L'Exchange  (Baron  de  la 
Canardiire). 

Honour's  a  mistress  all  mankind  pursue  ; 
Yet  most  mistake  the  false  one  for  the 

true  ; 
Lured  by  the  trappings,  dazzled  by  the 

paint, 
We  worship  oft  the  idol  for  the  saint. 

P.  WHITEHEAD. — Honour. 

Honour  that  knows  the  path,  and  will 
not  swerve. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  No.  28. 

HONOURS  (REWARDS) 

Examine  the  honours  list  and  you  will 
know  exactly  how  the  government  feels 
in  its  inside. 

A.  BENNETT. — The  Title  (1918),  Act  i. 

I  had  rather  it  should  be  asked  why  I 
had  not  a  statue,  than  why  I  had  one. 

CATO  (according  to  Plutarch). 

Fortune,  the  great  commandress  of  the 
world, 

Hath  divers  ways  to  advance  her  followers  ; 

To  some  she  gives  honour  without  deserv- 
ing ; 

To  other  some,  deserving  without  honour. 
CHAPMAN. — All  Fools,  Act  5. 

Be  not  with  honour's  gilded  baits  beguiled, 
Nor  think  ambition  wise  because  'tis 

brave ; 

For  though  we  like  it,  as  a  forward  child, 

'Tis  so  unsound  her  cradle  is  her  grave. 

SIR  W.  DAVENANT. — Gondibert, 

Bk.  i,  c.  5,  st.  75. 

Honours  and  great  employments  are  great 
burthens. 

MASSINGER. — Bondman,  Act  i,  3. 

Honours  never  fail  to  purchase  silence. 
MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  2,  i. 

This  man  ought  to  have  a  statue  of 
gold.  PLAUTUS. — Bacchides. 


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HOPE 


Theopompus  said  :  "  Moderate  honours 
time  augments,  but  defaces  the  immoder- 
ate." PLUTARCH. — Laconic  Apophthegms. 

This  is  the  state  of  man  :  to-day  he  puts 

forth 
The   tender  leaves   of   hope ;   to-morrow 

blossoms, 
And    bears    his    blushing    honours  thick 

upon  him  : 

The  third  day  comes  a  frost,  a  killing  frost. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

And,  to  add  greater  honours  to  his  age 
Than  man  could  give  him,  he  died  fearing 
God.        SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  2. 

I  would  rather  win  honour  than  honours. 
I  would  rather  have  genius  than  wealth, 
I  would  rather  make  my  name  than  inherit 
it.  THACKERAY. — The  Virginians. 

HOPE 

With  the  faint  glimmering  of  a  doubtful 
hope.         ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  3,  2. 

Hope  is  a  good  breakfast,  but  it  is  a  bad 
supper.  BACON. — Apophthegms,  95. 

Were  it  not  then  for  Hope  the  hart  were 

slaine.  R.  BARNFIELD. — Complaint  of 

Poetrie  (1598). 

Hope  never  leaves  a  wretched  man  that 

seeks  her. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — The  Captain, 

Act  2,  i. 

Hope,  thou  nurse  of  young  desire  ! 
I.  BICKERSTAFFE. — Love  in  a  Village, 
Act  i,i. 

What  is  man's  hope,  good  friend  ? 
Is't  not  a  beggar  in  the  land  of  doubt  ? 
R.  BRIDGES. — Return  of  Ulysses,  Act  4. 

One   who   never    turned   his    back,    but 

marched  breast  forward, 
Never  doubted  clouds  would  break, 
Never  dreamed,  though  right  were  worsted 

wrong  would  triumph, 
Held  we    fall    to    rise,   are  baffled   to 
fight  better,  sleep  to  wake. 

BROWNING. — Asolando. 

Far  greater  numbers  have  been  lost  by 

hopes 

Than  all  the  magazines  of  daggers,  ropes, 
And  other  ammunitions  of  despair. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

Be  thou  the  rainbow  to  the  storms  of  life  ! 
The  evening  beam  that  smiles  the  clouds 

away, 

And  tints  to-morrow  with  prophetic  ray. 
BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,  c.  2,  st.  20. 

But    hope,    the    charmer    lingered    still 
behind. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  i. 


Cease,  every  joy,  to  glimmer  on  my  mind, 

But  leave — oh  !  leave  the  light  of  Hope 

behind!  CAMPBELL. — Ib.,  Pi.   2. 

Thou,   undismayed,   shalt  o'er  the  ruins 

smile, 
And  light  thy  torch  at  Nature's  funeral 

pile.         CAMPBELL. — Ib.,  Conclusion. 

It  has  been  well  said  :  "  Man  is  based 
on  Hope,  he  has  properly  no  other  pos- 
session but  Hope  ;  this  habitation  of  his 
is  named  the  Place  of  Hope." 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  i, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  3. 

And  Hope  enchanted  smiled,  and  waved 
her  golden  hair. 

W.  COLLINS. — The  Passions. 

I  have  been  disappointed  of  my  only 
hope  ;  and  he  that  loses  hope  may  part 
with  anything. 

CONGREVE. — Love  for  Love,  Act  5,  2. 

If  things  then  from  their  end  we  happy 

call, 

'Tis  Hope  is  the  most  hopeless  thing  of  all. 
COWLEY. — Against  Hope. 

Hope  !  of  all  ills  that  men  endure 
The  only  cheap  and  universal  cure  ! 

COWLEY. — For  Hope. 

Though  hope    be    dying,  yet    it    is    not 
dead. 

DRYDEN. — Rival  Ladies,  Act  4,  i. 

Hope  is  a  poor  salad 
To  dine  and  sup  with. 
FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Custom  of  the 

Country. 

All    men    are    guests    where   Hope   doth 
hold  the  feast. 

G.  GASCOIGNE. — Fruits  of  War. 

Hope,  like  the  glimmering  taper's  light, 

Adorns  and  cheers  the  way, 
And  still,  as  darker  grows  the  night, 

Emits  a  brighter  ray. 

GOLDSMITH. — Song. 

Gay  Hope  is  theirs,  by  Fancy  fed, 
Less  pleasing  when  possessed. 

GRAY. — Eton  College. 

Hope  is  not  yet  taxed. 
SIR  ANTHONY  HOPE  HAWKINS. — Dolly 
Dialogues,  18. 
Reflected  on  the  lake,  I  love 

To  see  the  stars  of  evening  glow  ; 
So  tranquil  in  the  heavens  above, 

So  restless  in  the  wave  below. 
Thus  heavenly  hope  is  all  serene, 

But  earthly  hope,  how  bright  soe'er, 
Still  fluctuates  o'er  this  changing  scene, 
As  false  and  fleeting  as  'tis  fair. 

BISHOP  HEBER. — On   Heavenly  and 
Earthly  Hope. 


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HOPE 


Hope,    that  with  honey  blends   the  cup 
of  pain.     SIR  W.  JONES. — Sereswaty. 

Hope  and  fear  are  inseparable.  There 
is  no  hope  without  fear  and  no  fear 
without  hope. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  594. 

None  without  hope  e'er  loved  the  brightest 

fair, 
But  love   can   hope  where   reason  would 

despair. 
GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Epigram. 

O  welcome  pure-eyed  Faith,  white-handed 

Hope, 
Thou    hovering   angel,    girt   with    golden 

wings  !  MILTON. — Comus,  213. 

Was  I  deceived,  or  did  a  sable  cloud 
Turn  forth  her  silver  lining  on  the  night  ? 
MILTON. — Ib.,  221. 

Chase 
Anguish,  and  doubt,  and  fear,  and  sorrow, 

and    pain, 
From  mortal  or  immortal  minds. 

MILTON. — Paradise   Lost,  Bk.  i,  557. 

Hope  elevates,  and  joy 
Brightens  his  crest. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  g,  633. 

The  Gods  are  kind,  and  hope  to  men  they 

give 
That  they  their  little  span  on  earth  may 

live, 
Nor  yet  faint  utterly. 

W.  MORRIS. — Bellerophon,  1617. 

Hope  it  is  which  makes  the  shipwrecked 
sailor  strike  out  with  his  arms  in  the  midst 
of  the  sea,  even  though  on  all  sides  he 
can  see  no  land. 

OVID. — Ep.  ex  Pont.,  Bk.  i,  6. 

Hope  springs  eternal  in  the  human  breast  ; 
Man  never  is,  but  always  to  be  blest. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  95. 

For  hope  is  but  the  dream  of  those  that 
wake.    PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  3,  102. 

Hope  told  a  flattering  tale, 
Much  longer  than  my  arm. 

W.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastcs. 

It  may  be  said  of  man  in  general  that 
befooled  by  hope  he  dances  into  the  arms 
of  death.  SCHOPENHAUER. — Emptiness  of 

Existence. 

And    thus    Hope    me   deceived,    as    she 
deceiveth  all. 

SCOTT. — Harold,  3,  i. 

The   miserable   have 
No  other  medicine  but  only  hope. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  3,  i. 


The  worst  is  not, 

So  long  as  we  can  say,  "  This  is  the  worst." 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  4,  i. 

Cozening  hope  ;  he  is  a  flatterer, 
A  parasite,  a  keeper-back  of  death. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —Richard  II.,  Act  2,  2. 

True  hope  is  swift  and  flies  with  swallow's 

wings ; 

Kings  it  makes  gods,  and  meaner  creatures 
kings. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  2. 

The  essential  truth  of  life  remains, 
Its  goodness  and  its  beauty  too, 
Pure  love's  unutterable  gains, 
And  hope  which  thrills  us  through  and 
through  ; 

God  has  not  fled  ; 
Souls  are  not  dead. 
J.  L.  SPALDING. — Believe  and  Take  Heart. 

Hope  knows  not  if  fear  speaks  truth,  nor 

fear  whether  hope  be  not  blind  as  she. 

SWINBURNE. — England. 

Oh  yet  we  trust  that  somehow  good 
Will  be  the  final  goal  of  ill. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  54. 

So   lives   inveterate    Hope,  on   her   own 
hardihood. 
SIR  W.  WATSON.— Hope  of  the  World. 

Hope,  the  paramount  duty  that  Heaven 

lays 

For  its  own  honour,  on  man's  suffering 
heart. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  33. 

Hope  rules  a  land  for  ever  green  : 

All    powers    that   serve    the    bright-eyed 

Queen 

Are  confident  and  gay  ; 
Clouds  at  her  bidding  disappear  ; 
Points  she    to  aught  ?     The   bliss   draws 

near, 
And  Fancy  smooths  the  way. 

WORDSWORTH. — The  Wishing-Gatc. 

Hope  tells  a  flattering  tale, 
Delusive,   vain,    and   hollow ; 

Ah,  let  not  Hope  prevail, 
Lest  disappointment  follow  ! 
Miss  WROTHER. — Universal  Songster. 

Restless  hope,  for  ever  on  the  wing. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  7. 

Hope,  of  all  passions,  most  befriends  us 
here.  YOUNG. — Ib. 

Hope  deferred  maketh  the  heart  sick. 
Proverbs  xiii,   12. 

Who  against  hope  believed  in  hope. 

Romans  iv,  18. 

Be  sober,  and  hope  to  the  end. 

i  St.  Peter  i,  13 


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HORSES 


Yf  hope  were  not,  herte  shulde  breke. 
Gesta  Romanorum  (i^th  cent.  MS.). 

Hope  told  a  flattering  tale 
That  joy  would  soon  return. 

ANON. — Song  (c.  1800). 

In  the  wedding  cake  hope  is  the  sweetest 
of  the  plums. 

Quoted  as  a  proverb  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

HOPELESSNESS 

A  low,  hopeless  spirit  puts  out  the  eyes  ; 
scepticism  is  slow  suicide. 

E  MERSO  N  . — Resources . 

For  where  no  hope  is  left,  is  left  no  fear. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  3,  206. 

Regions  of  sorrow,  doleful  shades,  where 

peace 
And  rest  can  never   dwell :   hope  never 

comes, 
That  comes  to  all. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  62. 

Alas  !  I  speak  of  heaven  who  am  in  hell. 
I  speak  of  change  of  days,  who  know  full 

well 

How  hopeless  now  is  change  from  misery. 

WM.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise,  Lovers 

of  Gudrun,  45. 

I  cultivate  hope  and  I  see  it  wither  daily. 
Alas,  what  does  it  serve  to  water  the  leaves 
when  the  tree  is  cut  off  at  its  foot  ? 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

HORRORS 

Tiger,  tiger,  burning  bright 
In  the  forests  of  the  night, 
What  immortal  hand  or  eye 
Dare  frame  thy  fearful  symmetry  ? 

WM.  BLAKE. — The  Tiger 

Wi'  mair  o*  horrible  and  awfu', 
Which  even  to  name  wad  be  unlawfu'. 
BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

Farewell  happy  fields, 
Where  joy  for  ever  dwells  !  Hail,  horrors, 
hail! 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  249. 

But  that  I  am  forbid 
To  tell  the  secrets  of  my  prison  house, 
I  could  a  tale  unfold,  whose  lightest  word 
Would  harrow  up  thy  soul  ;   freeze  thy 

young  blood  ; 
Make  thy  two  eyes  like  stars,  start  from 

their  spheres  ; 

Thy  knotted  and  combined  locks  to  part, 
Like  quills  upon  the  fretful  porcupine. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

O  horrible  !  O  horrible  !  most  horrible  ! 
If  thou  hast  nature  in  thee,  bear  it  not. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 


I  have  supped  full  with  horrors. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

On  horror's  head  horrors  accumulate. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

HORSES 

A  true  Philip — a  lover  of  horses    [i.e. 
Phil-hippos]. 

DR.  J.  BROWN. — Horcs  Subsecivce, 
A gchinoia. 

So    that   his   horse,    or   charger,    hunter, 

hack, 

Knew  that  he  had  a  rider  on  his  back. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  14,  32. 

Whose  only  fit  companion  is  his  horse. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  412. 

His  horse,  who  never  in  that  sort 

Had  handled  been  before, 
What  thing  upon  his  back  had  got 

Did  wonder  more  and  more. 

COWPER. — John  Gilpin. 

A  canter  is  the  cure  for  every  evil. 
DISRAELI. — Young  Duke,  Bk.  2,  c.  5. 

He  made  him  turn  and  stop  and  bound, 
To  gallop  and  to  trot  the  round, 
He  scarce  could  stand  on  any  ground, 
He  was  so  full  of  mettle. 

DRAYTON. — Nymphidia. 

She  was  iron-sinewed  and  satin-skinned, 
Ribbed  like  a   drum  and  limbed  like 

a  deer, 

Fierce  as  the  fire  and  fleet  as  the  wind, 
There  was  nothing  she  couldn't   climb 
or  clear. 

A.  L.  GORDON. — Britomarte. 

If  man,  of  all  the  Creator  planned, 
His  noblest  work  is  reckoned, 

Of  the  works  of  His  hand,  by  sea  or  land, 
The  horse  may  at  least  rank  second. 
A.  L.  GORDON. — Hippodromania. 

Where  folks  that  ride  a  bit  of  blood 
May  break  a  bit  of  bone. 

HOOD. — Epping  Hunt. 

He  [the  horsedealer]  dealeth  not  in 
detraction,  and  would  not  disparage  the 
character  even  of  a  brute.  Like  unto 
Love,  he  is  blind  to  all  blemishes. 

HOOD. — A  Horsedealer,   1832. 

There's  nothing  like  a  rattling  ride 
For  curing  melancholy. 

W.  M.  PRAED. — Troubadour. 

He  grew  into  his  seat ; 
And  to  such  wondrous  doing  brought  his 

horse, 

As  he  had  been  incorpsed  and  demi-natured 
With  the  brave  beast. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  7. 


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HOUSES 


I  saw  young  Harry,  with  his  beaver  on, 
His  cuisses  on  his  thighs,  gallantly  armed, 
Rise  from  the  ground  like  feathered  Mer- 
cury, 

And  vaulted  with  such  ease  into  his  seat, 
As  if  an  angel  dropped  down  from  the 

clouds, 

To  turn  and  wind  a  fiery  Pegasus, 
And  witch  the  world  with  noble  horseman- 
ship. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  4,  i. 

A  horse  !  a  horse  !  my  kingdom  for  a  horse  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  4. 

Look  what  a  horse  should  have,  he  did 

not  lack, 

Save  a  proud  rider  on  so  proud  a  back. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  50. 

Go  anywhere  in  England  where  there 
are  natural,  wholesome,  contented,  and 
really  nice  English  people  ;  and  what  do 
you  find  ?  That  the  stables  are  the  real 
centre  of  the  household. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Act  3. 

Philip  of  Macedon  reckoned  a  horse- 
race, won  at  Olympus,  among  his  three 
fearful  felicities. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apology  for  Poetry. 

Horse-racing  is  supposed  to  improve 
the  breed  of  horses,  but  it  sadly  deterior- 
ates the  breed  of  men. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

A  horse  thou  knowest,  a  man  thou  dost 
not  know. 
TENNYSON. — Gareth  and  Lynette,  454. 

A  horse  is  counted  but  a  vain  thing  to 
save  a  man. 

Psalter  (Book  of  Common  Prayer)  14,  6. 

HOSPITALITY 

The   courteous    host,    and    all-approving 
guest.  BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  29- 

To  do  the  honours  of  a  table  gracefully 

is  one  of  the  outlines  of  a  well-bred  man. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Letter  to  his  Son. 

On  hospitable  thoughts  intent. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  5,  332. 

Be  thou  familiar,  but  by  no  means  vulgar. 

The  friends  thou  hast,  and  their  adoption 
tried, 

Grapple  them  to  thy  soul  with  hoops  of 
steel ; 

But  do  not  dull  thy  palm  with  entertain- 
ment 

Of  each  new-hatched,  unfledged  comrade. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

Profusion  is  the  charm  of  hospitality. 
Have  plenty,  if  it  be  only  beer. 

THACKERAY. — Barmecide  Banquets. 


Given  to  hospitality.        Romans  xii,  13. 

Thereby  some  have  entertained  angels 
unawares.  Hebrews  xiii,  2. 

A  drap  and  a  bite's  but  a  sma'  requite. 
Scottish  prov. 

HOSPITALS 

I  think  it  frets  the  saints  in  heaven  to  see 
How  many  desolate  creatures  on  the  earth 
Have  learnt  the  simple  dues  of  fellowship 
And  social  comfort,  in  a  hospital. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  3. 

The  atmosphere 

Suggests  the  trail  of  a  ghostly  druggist. 
Dressings  and  lint  on  the  long,  lean  table — 
Whom  are  they  for  ? 

W.  E.  HENLEY. — In  Hospital,  3. 

Behold  me  waiting — waiting  for  the  knife. 
A  little  while,  and  at  a  leap  I  storm 
The  thick,  sweet  mystery  of  chloroform, 
The  drunken  dark,  the  little  death-in-life. 
W.  E.  HENLEY. — Ib.,  4. 

HOUSEKEEPING 

Dreading  that  climax  of  all  human  ills, 
The  inflammation  of  his  weekly  bills. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  35. 

My  sister  manages  the  house  for  me  and 
does  not  leave  me  much  to  do  as  regards 
the  management  of  myself. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  3 

Some  respite  to  husbands  the  weather  may 

send, 

But  housewives'  affairs  have  never  an  end. 
T.  TUSSER. — Book  of  Housewifery. 

Man's  work  lasts  till  set  of  sun  ; 
Woman's  work  is  never  done. 

Proverbial  saying. 

HOUSES 

Houses  are  built  to  live  in  and  not  to 
look  on.  BACON. — Of  Building. 

A  man's  house  is  his  castle. 

COKE. — On  Littleton. 

Every  English  family,  though  it  consist 
of  only  two  persons,  must  still  have  a 
house  to  itself  for  its  own  castle. 

HEINE. — London. 

I  in  my  own  house  am  an  emperor, 
And  will  defend  what's  mine. 

MASSINGER. — Roman  Actor,  Act  i,  2. 

Thanks,  sir,  cried  I,  'tis  very  fine, 
But  where  d'ye  sleep  or  where  d'ye  dine  ? 
I  find  by  all  you  have  been  telling 
That  'tis  a  house  but  not  a  dwelling. 

SWIFT. — Verses  on  Blenheim. 


HUMAN  NATURE 


HUMANENESS 


HUMAN  NATURE 

Pity  and  need 
Make  all  flesh  kin.     There  is  no  caste  in 

blood, 
Which  runneth  of  one  hue  ;  nor  caste  in 

tears, 
Which  trickle  salt  with  all. 

SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Light  of  Asia,  Bk.  6. 

We  are  much  beholden  to  Machiavel 
and  others,  that  write  what  men  do,  and 
not  what  they  ought  to  do. 
BACON. — Advancement  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Would  you  have  your  songs  endure  ? 
Build  on  the  human  heart. 

BROWNING. — Sordello,  Bk.  2. 

We  have  hearts  within 
Warm,  live,  improvident,  indecent  hearts. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  3. 

But  don't  you  go  and  make  mistakes,  like 
many  durned  fools  I've  known, 

For  dirt  is  dirt,  and  snakes  is  snakes,  but 
an  Injin's  flesh  and  bone. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Phil  Blood's  Leap. 

A  fool  and  knave   are    plants  of   every 
soil.  BURNS. — Prologue. 

Our  actions  often  contradict  each  other 
so  amazingly  that  it  seems  impossible 
that  they  can  have  come  from  the  same 
shop.  CHARRON. — De  la  Sagesse,  Bk.  i,  38. 

What  we' all  love  is  good  touched  up  with 

evil — 

Religion's  self  must  have  a  spice  of  devil. 
A.  H.  CLOUGH. — Dipsychus. 

All  argument  will  vanish  before  one 
touch  of  nature. 

G.  COLMAN,  JR. — Poor  Gentleman, 
Act  5,  i. 

Would  you  know  the  qualities  in  which 
a  man  is  wanting  ?  Examine  those  of 
which  he  boasts.  DE  SEGUR. 

Even  from  the  tomb  the  voice  of  Nature 

cries, 

Even  in  our  ashes  live  their  wonted 
fires.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

A  thorough  conviction  of  the  difference 
of  men  is  the  great  thing  to  be  assured  of 
in  social  knowledge. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  7. 
We  praise  him  not  for  gifts  divine, — 

His  muse  was  born  of  woman, — 
His  manhood  breathes  in  every  line, — 
Was  ever  heart  more  human  ? 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Burns  Centennial. 

Truth  is  for  ever  truth,  and  love  is  love. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Hero  and  Leander, 

c.  i,  13- 


I  have  only  two  comforts  to  live  upon. 
The  one  is  in  the  Perfections  of  Christ ; 
the  other  is  in  the  Imperfections  of  all 
Christians. 

INCREASE  MATHER. — Saying  (attrib.). 

Human  nature  is  not  a  machine  to  be 
built  after  a  model  and  set  to  do  exactly 
the  work  prescribed  for  it,  but  a  tree, 
which  requires  to  grow  and  develop  itself 
on  all  sides,  according  to  the  tendency 
of  the  inward  forces  which  make  it  a 
living  thing.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  3. 

Our  soul  is  full  of  a  thousand  internal 
contrarieties.  PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  10,  5. 

Chaos  of  thought  and  passion,  all  confused  ; 
Still  by  himself  abused,  or  disabused  ; 
Created  half  to  rise,  and  half  to  fall ; 
Great  lord  of  all  things,  yet  a  prey  to  all ; 
Sole  judge  of  truth,  in  endless  error  hurled  : 
The  glory,  jest,  and  riddle  of  the  world  ! 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  13. 

Virtuous  and  vicious  every  man  must  be, 

Few  in  the  extreme,  but  all  in  the  degree. 

POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  2,  231. 

How  hard  it  is  to  hide  the  sparks  of  nature  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  3. 

Virtue  !  a  fig  !  'tis  in  ourselves  that  we 
are  thus  or  thus. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

You  cannot  slander  human  nature  ;  it 
is  worse  than  words  can  paint  it. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

I  thought  I  could  not  breathe  in  that  fine 

air, 

That  pure  severity  of  perfect  light — 
I  wanted  warmth  and  colour,   which    I 

found 
In  Lancelot.   TENNYSON. — Guinevere,  626. 

E'en  here  the  tear  of  pity  springs, 
And  hearts  are  touched  by  human  things. 
VIRGIL. — JEneid,  i,  462  (Conington  tr.). 

Heaven's  Sovereign  saves  all  beings,  but 

himself, 

That  hideous  sight,  a  naked  human  heart. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

HUMANENESS 

Mankind  will  not  be  reasoned  out  of  the 
feelings  of  humanity. 

BLACKSTONE. — Commentaries,  i,  5. 

I'm  truly  sorry  man's  dominion 
Has  broken  nature's  social  union, 
And  justifies  the  ill  opinion, 

Which  makes  thee  startle 
At  me,  thy  poor  earth-born  companion 

And  fellow-mortal  ! 

BURNS. — To  a  Mouse. 


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HUMILITY 


Humanely  glorious  !     Men  will  weep  for 

him 

When    many    a    guilty    martial    fame   is 

dim.     CAMPBELL. — In  "  La  Ptrouse's 

Voyages  " 

He  prayeth  well  who  loveth  well 
Both  man  and  bird  and  beast. 
He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best 
All  things  both  great  and  small ; 
For  the  dear  God,  who  loveth  us, 
He  made  and  loveth  all. 
COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  7. 

I  would  not  enter  on  my  list  of  friends 
(Though  graced  with  polished  manners  and 

fine  sense, 

Yet  wanting  sensibility)  the  man 
Who  needlessly  sets  foot  upon  a  worm. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Take  not  away  the  life  you  cannot  give, 

For  all  things  have  an  equal  right  to  live. 

DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Metam.,  Bk.  15. 

The   behaviour   of   men   to   the   lower 
animals,  and  their  behaviour  to  each  other, 
bear  a  constant  relationship. 
HERBERT  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  c.  30. 

The   Animosities   are  mortal,   but   the 
Humanities  live  for  ever. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes. 

Never  to  blend  our  pleasure  or  our  pride 
With  sorrow  of  the  meanest  thing  that 

feels. 
WORDSWORTH. — Hart-leap  Well,  Pt.  2. 

Thou   shalt   not   seethe    a    kid    in   his 
mother's  milk.  Exodus  xxiii,  19. 

Thou  shalt  not  muzzle  the  ox  when  he 
treadeth  out  the  corn.  Deuteronomy  xxv,  4. 

HUMBLE  ORIGIN 

Here  rests  his  head  upon  the  lap  of  Earth, 
A  youth   to  Fortune  and  to  Fame  un- 
known, 
Fair  Science  frowned  not  on  his  humble 

birth, 

And  Melancholy  marked  him  for  her 
own.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

I  made  all  my  generals  out  of  mud. 

NAPOLEON. 

As  some  divinely-gifted  man 
Whose  life  in  low  estate  began, 

And  on  a  simple  village  green  ; 

Who  breaks  his  birth's  invidious  bar, 
And  grasps  the  skirts  of  happy  chance, 
And  breasts  the  blows  of  circumstance, 

And  grapples  with  his  evil  star. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  64. 

HUMILITY 

Soaring  you'll  sink  and  sinking  you  will 


rise ; 


Let  humble  thoughts  thy  wary  footsteps 

guide  ! 
Regain  by  meekness  what  you  lost  by 

pride.    ARBUTHNOT. — Gnothi  Seauton. 

Nothing  is  more  scandalous  than  a  man 
that  is  proud  of  his  humility. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  12,  27. 

Life  is  a  long  lesson  in  humility. 
SIR  J.  M.  BARRIE. — Little  Minister,  c.  3. 

He  that  is  down  need  fear  no  fall, 
He  that  is  low,  no  pride. 
BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  2. 

Humility  is  the  foundation  of  all  virtues. 
CONFUCIUS. 

A  man  should  be  a  guest  in  his  own; 

house,  and  a  guest  in  his  own  thought. 

EMERSON. — Sovereignty  of  Ethics. 

In  the  Christian  graces  humility  stands 

highest  of  all,  in  the  form  of  the  Madonna  ; 

and  in  life  this  is  the  secret  of  the  wise. 

EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

Humility  is  the  true  cure  for  many  a 
needless  heartache. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  9. 

A  great  many  people  want  to  be  devout, 
but  no  one  wants  to  be  humble. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  613. 

Humility  is  the  altar  from  which  God 
would  receive  sacrifices. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  616. 

Be  lowly  wise  ; 
Think  only  what  concerns  thee  and  thy 

being  ; 
Dream  not  of  other  worlds. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  173. 

Humility,  that  low,  sweet  root, 
From  which  all  heavenly  virtues  shoot. 
MOORE. — Loves  of  the  Angels.  Third 
A  ngel's  Story. 

Thy  sum  of  duty  let  two  words  contain  ; 
(O  may  they  graven  in  thy  heart  remain  !  ) 
Be  humble,  and  be  just. 

PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.   3,   873   (The 
angel's  final  advice  to  Solomon). 

I  sing  a  Man,  amid  his  sufferings  here, 
Who  watched  and  served  with  humbleness 

and  fear  ; 
Gentle  to  others,  to  himself  severe. 

ROGERS. — Voyage  of  Columbus,  c.  6. 

Humility  is  a  virtue  all  preach,  none 
practise,  and  yet  everybody  is  content 
to  hear.  SELDEN. — Table  Talk. 


I  thank  my  God  for  my  humility. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  z,  i. 


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HUNTING 


Humility  is  to  have  a  just  idea  of 
yourself. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt- Cellars." 

True  humility, 

The  highest  virtue,  mother  of  them  all. 
TENNYSON. — Holy  Grail,  445. 

The  lowly  heart  doth  win  the  love  of  all. 

G.    TURBERVILLE. To   PlCfO. 

Set  not  your  mind  on  high  things, 
but  condescend  to  things  that  are  lowly. 
Be  not  wise  in  your  own  conceits. 

Romans  xii,  16  (R.V.). 

Better  eat  humble-pie  than  no  pie  at 
all.  Prov. 

The  vale  best  discovereth  the  hills. 

Prov.  (quoted  by  Bacon). 

The  meekness  of  Moses  is  better  than 
the  strength  of  Samson.  Prov. 

HUMOUR 

I  hasten  to  laugh  at  everything,  for 
fear  of  being  obliged  to  weep. 

BEAUMARCHAIS. — Barbier  de   Seville. 

And  if  I  laugh  at  any  mortal  thing, 
'Tis  that  I  may  not  weep. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c,  44. 

A  joke's  a  very  serious  thing. 

C.  CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost. 

A  rogue  alive  to  the  ludicrous  is  still 
convertible.  If  that  sense  is  lost  his 
fellow-men  can  do  little  for  him. 

EMERSON.— Resources. 

Nothing  corrects   theories  better  than 
this  sense  of  humour,  which  we  [English- 
men] have  in  a   greater  degree  than  is  to 
be  met  with,  I  believe,  in  any  other  people. 
SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council,  Bk.  2, 

ch.  5. 
All  things  are  big  with  jest :  nothing  that's 

plain 

But  may  be  witty,  if  thou  hast  the  vein. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

And  since,  I  never  dare  to  write 
As  funny  as  I  can. 

O.  W.  HOLMES.— Height  of  the 
Ridiculous. 

Is  he  gone  to  a  land  of  no  laughter, 
This  man  who  made  mirth  for  us  all? 
JAS.  RHOADES. — On  the  death  of  Artemus 

Ward. 

Alas,  poor  Yorick  !  I  knew  him,  Horatio  • 
a  fellow  of  infinite  jest,  of  most  excellent 
fancy.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

Argument  for  a  week,  laughter  for  a 
month,  and  a  good  jest  for  ever. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  2,  2. 


A  merrier  man, 

Within  the  limit  of  becoming  mirth, 
I  never  spent  an  hour's  talk  withal ; 
His  eye  begets  occasion  for  his  wit ; 
For  every  object  that  the  one  doth  catch 
The  other  turns  to  a  mirth-moving  jest. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 

A  jest's  prosperity  lies  in  the  ear 
Of  him  that  hears  it,  never  in  the  tongue 
Of  him  that  makes  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

Nature  hath  framed  strange  fellows  in  her 

time  ; 
Some   that  will  evermore   peep   through 

their  eyes 

And  laugh,  like  parrots,  at  a  bagpiper  ; 
And  other  of  such  vinegar  aspect, 
That  they'll  not  show  their  teeth  in  way  of 

smile 
Though  Nestor  swear  the  jest  be  laughable. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  i. 

This  fellow's  wise  enough  to  play  the  fool, 

And  to  do  that  well  craves  a  kind  of  wit. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  i. 

It  requires  a  surgical  operation  to  get 

a  joke  well  into  a  Scotch  understanding. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

Humour  is  odd,  grotesque,  and  wild, 
Only  by  affectation  spoiled  ; 
'Tis  never  by  invention  got, 
Men  have  it  when  they  know  it  not. 
SWIFT. — To  Mr.  Delany,  1718. 

I  tried  him  with  mild  jokes  ;  then  with 
severe  ones.  MARK  TWAIN. — A  Deception. 

HUNGER 

No  one  is  so  laughable  as  when  he  is 
hungry.  PLAUTUS. — Stichus,  Act  2. 

Hunger  is  insolent  and  will  be  fed. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  7,  380. 

It's  ill  speaking  between  a  fou  (full)  man 
and  a  fasting  Scottish  prov. 

HUNTING 

If  once  we  efface  the  joys  of  the  chase 
From  the  land  and  outroot  the  Stud, 

Goodbye  to  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  ! 
Farewell  to  the  Norman  blood. 
A.  L.  GORDON. — Wearie  Wayfarer,  7. 

The  field  kept  getting  more  select, 
Each  thicket  served  to  thin  it ! 

HOOD. — Epping  Hunt. 

It  is  very  strange  and  very  melancholy 
that  the  paucity  of  human  pleasures  should 
persuade  us  ever  to  call  hunting  one  of 
them. 

JOHNSON. — Remark   as   recorded   by 
Mrs,  Piozzi. 


HUSBANDS 


HYPOCRISY 


Half  the  hurry  and  hubbub  and  horn- 
blowing  in  the  world  is  provided  by  things 
invisible  till  caught  and  worthless  after- 
wards. But  ...  a  brush  is  often  won 
by  manlier  work  than  a  peerage. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

A  mighty  hunter,  and  his  prey  was  man. 
POPE. — Windsor  Forest,  62. 

Huntsman,  rest !  thy  chase  is  done. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  i,  32. 

The  chase  I  follow  far, 
Tis  mimicry  of  noble  war. 

SCOTT. — /&.,  c.  2,  26. 

Hunting  he  loved,  but  love  he  laughed 
to  scorn. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  i. 

It  isn't  mere  convention.  Everyone 
can  see  that  the  people  who  hunt  are  the 
right  people,  and  the  people  who  don't 
are  the  wrong  ones. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Act  3 
(Lady  Utterford). 

Invites  thee  to  the  Chase,   the  sport  of 

kings  ; 
Image  of  war  without  its  guilt. 

W.  SOMERVILLE. — The  Chase,  Bk.  i. 

Hunting  has  now  an  idea  of  quality 
joined  to  it,  and  is  become  the  most  im- 
portant business  in  the  life  of  a  gentleman. 
Anciently  it  was  quite  otherwise.  M. 
Fleury  has  severely  remarked  that  this 
extravagant  passion  for  hunting  is  a 
strong  proof  of  our  Gothic  extraction, 
and  shows  an  affinity  of  humour  with  the 
savage  Americans. 

WM.  WALSH. — Pref.  to  the  Pastorals 
(by  Dry  den)  (1697). 

HUSBANDS 

You're  not  married  ;  if  you  were,  you 
would  know  that  being  a  husband  is  a 
whole- time  job. 

ARNOLD  BENNETT. — The  Title. 

Ah,  gentle  dames  !  it  gars  me  greet 
To  think  how  mony  counsels  sweet, 
How  mony  lengthened  sage  advices 
The  husband  frae  the  wife  despises. 

BURNS. — Tarn  o    Shanter. 

But  oh  !  ye  lords  of  ladies  intellectual, 
Inform  us  truly,  have  they  not  henpecked 
you  all  ? 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  22. 

"  Father  to. me  thou  art  and  mother  dear, 
And  brother  too,  kind  husband  of  my 
heart." 

KEBLE. — Christian  Year.     Monday 
before  Easter. 

A  man  who  admires  a  fine  woman  has 
yet  no  more  reason  to  wish  himself  her 


husband  than  one,  who  admired  the 
Hesperian  fruit,  would  have  had  to  wish 
himself  the  dragon  that  kept  it. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

No  woman  should  marry  a  teetotaller 
or  a  man  who  does  not  smoke. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Virginibus,  Pt.  i. 

I  am  thine  husband — not  a  smaller  soul, 
Nor  Lancelot,  nor  another. 

TENNYSON. — Guinevere,  562. 

I  want  to  know  how  it  is  that  women 
do  not  find  out  their  husbands  to  be  hum- 
bugs. Nature  has  so  provided  it. 

THACKERAY. — Ravenswin*. 

The  husband  who  wishes  to  surprise 
is  often  badly  surprised  himself. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Femme  qui  a  Raison. 

Husbands,  love  your  wives,  and  be  not 
bitter  against  them.  Colossians  iii,  19. 

HYPERCRITICISM 

At  every  trifle  scorn  to  take  offence  ; 
That  always  shows  great  pride,  or  little 
sense.  POPE. — Criticism,  386. 

'Twere  to  consider  too  curiously  to 
consider  so. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

All  his  faults  observed, 
Set  in  a  notebook,  learned  and  conned  by 

rote, 

To  cast  into  my  teeth. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  4,  3. 

But  optics  sharp  it  needs,  I  ween, 
To  see  what  is  not  to  be  seen. 

J.  TRUMBULL. — McFingal. 

HYPOCHONDRIA 

Some  men  employ  their  health,  an  ugly 

trick, 
In  making  known  how  oft  they  have  been 

sick.         COWPER. — Conversation,  311. 

I  eat  well,  drink  well  and  sleep  well  ; 
but  that's  all,  Tom,  that's  all ! 

C.  MORTON. — Roland  for  an  Oliver 
(Sir  Mark  Chase). 

We  con  ailments,  which  makes  us  very 
fond  of  each  other.  SWIFT. — Letter,  1711. 

She  is  very  much  interested  in  her  own 
health. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  no  Importance. 

It's  lang  ere  "  like  to  dee  "  fills  the  kirk- 
yard.  Scottish  prov. 

HYPOCRISY 

Your  cold  hypocrisy's  a  state  device, 
A  worn-out  trick. 

ADDISON. — Calo,  Act  i,  3, 


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HYPOCRISY 


HYPOTHESIS 


Great  hypocrites  are  the  real  atheists. 
BACON. — Instanratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6. 

It  is  the  wisdom  of  the  crocodiles,  that 
shed  tears  when  they  would  devour. 
BACON. — Of  Wisdom  for  a  Man's  Self. 

God  knows  I'm  no  the  thing  I  should  be, 
Nor  am  I  even  the  thing  I  could  be, 
But  twenty  times  I  rather  would  be 

An  atheist  clean, 
Than  under  gospel  colours  hid  be, 

Just  for  a  screen. 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  J.  M'Math. 

Compound  for  sins  they  are  inclined  to 
By  damning  those  they  have  no  mind  to. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

As  if  hypocrisy  and  nonsense 
Had  got  the  advowson  of  his  conscience. 
BUTLER. — Ib. 

Hypocrisy  will  serve  as  well 

To  propagate  a  church  as  zeal. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

There's  nothing  so  absurd,  or  vain, 

Or  barbarous,  or  inhumane, 

But  if  it  lay  the  least  pretence 

To  piety  and  godliness, 

Or  tender-hearted  conscience, 

And  zeal  for  gospel-truths  profess, 

Does  sacred  instantly  commence. 

'S.  BUTLER. — On  a  Hypocritical 
Nonconformist. 

Oh,  for  a  forty-Parson  power  to  chant 
Thy  praise,  Hypocrisy. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  10,  34. 

The  prayers  of  Abel  linked  to  deeds  of 
Cain.       BYRON. — The  Island,  c.  2,  4. 

If  the  devil  ever  laughs  it  must  be  at 
hypocrites.  They  are  the  greatest  dupes 
he  has.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

My    friends,    I    remember  a  duty  un- 
fulfilled yesterday.      It    is    right    that    I 
should  be  chastened  in  some  penalty. 
DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  c.  19  (Chadband). 

Art  thou  a  statesman, 
And  canst  not  be  a  hypocrite  ?     Impos- 
sible ! 
Do  not  distrust  thy  virtues. 

DRYDEN. — Don  Sebastian,  Act  2,  i. 

All  uneducated  people  are  hypocrites. 
HAZLITT. — Knowledge  of  Character. 

I  lie,  I  cheat,  do  anything  for  pelf, 
But  who  on  earth  can  say  I  am  not  pious  ? 
HOOD.— Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

Vice  deceives,  under  the  appearance 
and  shadow  of  virtue,  when  sad  in  its 
appearance,  and  austere  in  countenance 
and  dress.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  14,109. 


Hypocrisy  is  the  homage  which  vice  pays 
to  virtue. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  218. 

For  neither  man  nor  angel  can  discern 
Hypocrisy,  the  only  evil  that  walks 
Invisible,  except  to  God  above. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  682. 

He  was  a  man 

Who  stole  the  livery  of  the  court  of  Heaven 
To  serve  the  DevU  in. 

R.  POLLOK. — Course  of  Time,  Bk.  8,  616. 

O  what  a  crocodilian  world  is  this  ! 
F.  QUARLES. — Emblems,  Bk.  i,  4. 

'Tis  too  much  proved, — that  with  devo- 
tion's visage 

And  pious  action,  we  do  sugar  o'er 
The  devil  himself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

Now  step  J  forth  to  whip  hypocrisy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 

Act  4,  3. 

And  thus  I  clothe  my  naked  villainy 
With  odd  old  ends  stol'n  forth  of  holy  writ. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  3. 

There  is  as  much  folly  in  hypocrisy  as 
in  vice.  It  is  just  as  easy  to  be  an  honour- 
able man  as  to  seem  one.  MME.  DE  STAEL. 

A  man  is  at  his  worst  when  he  pretends 
to  be  good.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Are  we  bound,  out  of  respect  for  society, 
to  speak  of  humbug  only  in  a  circumlo- 
cutory way — to  call  it  something  else,  as 
they  say  some  Indian  people  do  their  devil? 
THACKERAY. — On  Men  and  Pictures. 

To  speak  like  Paul  and  live  like  Epicurus. 
VOLTAIRE. — Hypocrisy. 

Indifference  and  hypocrisy  between 
them  keep  orthodoxy  alive. 

I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto, 
ch.  15. 

Religion  is  a  stalking-horse  to  shoot 
other  fowl.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

HYPOTHESIS 

For  of  all  sad  words  of  tongue  or  pen, 
The  saddest  are  these  :    "  It  might  have 
been."         WHITTIER. — Maud  Mutter. 

If  all  the  world  were  paper 
And  all  the  sea  were  inke, 
If  all  the  trees  were  bread  and  cheese, 

How  showld  we  do  for  drinke  ? 
Wit's  Recreations  (1640).    Interrogation 
Cantilena. 


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IDEALISM  AND  IDEALS 


IDLENESS 


May-be's  are  no  aye  honey-bees. 

Scottish  prov. 


I 


IDEALISM  AND  IDEALS 

But  still  the  heart  doth  need  a  language, 

still 
Doth  the  old  instinct  bring  back  the  old 

names. 

COLERIDGE. — -Piccolomini,  Act  2,  5. 

Whence  comes  solace  ?     Not  from  seeing 
What  is  doing,  suffering,  being  ; 
Not  from  noting  life's  conditions, 
Not  from  heeding  Time's  monitions  ; 
But  in  cleaving  to  the  Dream 
And  in  gazing  at  the  gleam 
Whereby  grey  things  golden  seem. 

T.  HARDY. — -On  a  Fine  Morning. 

She's  all  my  fancy  painted  her, 
She's  lovely,  she's  divine. 

WM.  MEE. — Song. 

Wert  thpu  all  that  I  wish  thee, — great' 

glorious,  and  free — 
First  flower  of  the  earth,  and  first  gem  of 

the  sea.        MOORE. — Remember  thee  I 

Swift-footed  to  uphold  the  right 

And  to  uproot  the  wrong. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Noble  Sisters. 

He  is  the  greatest  artist  who  has  em- 
bodied, in  the  sum  of  his  works,  the  greatest 
number  of  the  greatest  ideas. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  i,  Pt.  i, 
sect.  i. 

The  idea  of  her  life  shall  sweetly  creep 
Into  his  study  of  imagination. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  i. 

To   unpathed  waters,  undreamed  shores. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Ah,  my  God, 
What  might  I  not  have  made  of  thy  fair 

world 

Had  I  but  loved  thy  highest  creature  here  ? 
It  was  my  duty  to  have  loved  the  highest : 
It  surely  was  my  profit  had  I  known  : 
It  would  have  been  my  pleasure  had  I 

seen.       TENNYSON. — -Guinevere,  648. 

We  needs  must  love  the  highest  when  we 

see  it, 
Not  Lancelot,  nor  another. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  654. 

To  nurse  a  blind  ideal  like  a  girl. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  3,  201. 

'Tis  a  thing  impossible,  to  frame 
Conceptions  equal  to  the  soul's  desires. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4. 


Of  all   that   is  most  beauteous — imaged 

there 

In  happier  beauty  ;  more  pellucid  streams, 
An  ampler  ether,  a  diviner  air, 
And  fields  invested  in  purpureal  gleams. 
WORDSWORTH. — Laodamia. 

Ah  then,  if  mine  had  been  the  painter's 

hand, 
To  express  what  then  I  saw,  and  add  the 

gleam, 

The  light  that  never  was,  on  sea  or  land, 

The  consecration,  and  the  Poet's  dream. 

WORDSWORTH. — On  a  picture  of 

Peele  Castle. 

IDENTITY 

The  real  Simon  Pure. 
MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — Bold  Stroke  for  a  Wife. 

I  am  the  true  Amphitryon. 

DRYDEN. — Amphitryon,  Act  5. 

I  am  he,  that  unfortunate  he. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  2. 

If  it  be  not  Bran  (Fingal's  dog)  it  is 
Bran's  brother.  Highland  prov. 

IDLENESS 

He  slept  beneath  the  moon, 
He  basked  beneath  the  sun ; 

He  lived  a  life  of  going-to-do, 
And  died  with  nothing  done. 

JAS.  ALBERY. — Epitaph. 

An  idle  life  is  the  life  for  me — 
Idleness  spiced  with  philosophy. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Fine  Weather  on  the 
Digentia,  4. 

There  is  no  greater  cause  of  melancholy 
than  idleness. 

BURTON. — A  natomy  of  Melancholy. 
Democritus  to  the  Reader. 

Idleness  overthrows  all. 

BURTON. — Ib.,  Pt.  3,  sec.  2. 

Then    cometh    Idleness,    that    is    the 

gate  of  all  harms.  .  .  .  Heaven  is  given 

to  them  that  will  labour,  and  not  to  idle 

folk.      CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  57 

(de  Accidia). 

Idleness   is   only   the   refuge   of   weak 
minds. 
EARL  OF  CHESTERFIELD. — Letter  to  his  Son. 

Absence  of  occupation  is  not  rest ; 
A  mind  quite  vacant  is  a  mind  distressed. 
COWPER. — Retirement,  623. 

A  life  of  ease,  a  difficult  pursuit. 

COWPER. — Ib.,  634. 

An  idler  is  a  watch  that  wants  both  hands, 

As  useless  if  it  goes  as  when  it  stands. 

COWPER. — Ib.,  68 1. 


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IDLENESS 

Firm  friends  to  peace,  to  pleasure,   and 
good  pay.    COWPER. — Table  Talk,  194. 

Business  was  his  aversion ;  pleasure 
was  his  business. 

.Miss  EDGEWORTH. — The  Contrast,  ch.  i 
(of  Philip  Folingsby). 

Ye  curious  carpet  knights,  that  spend  the 

time  in  sport  and  play, 
Abroad,  and  see  new  sights,  your  country's 
cause  calls  you  away. 
HUMPHREY  GIFFORD. — For  Soldiers 
(A   Posie  of  Gilloflowers,  1580). 

Sloth  bringeth  in  all  woe. 

GOWER. — Con/.  Am. 

Slackness  breeds  worms. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Sloth,  that  shameful  siren,  is  to  be 
shunned.  HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  2,  3. 

It  is  impossible  to  enjoy  idling  thor- 
oughly unless  one  has  plenty  of  work  to  do. 
J.  K.  JEROME. — Idle  Thoughts. 

Let  the  devil  never  find  thee  unem- 
ployed. ST.  JEROME. 

Every  man  is,  or  hopes  to  be,  an  Idler. 
JOHNSON. — Idler. 

Of  all  our  passions  the  one  we  are  least 
cognizant  of  is  idleness. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  572. 

It  seems  as  though  it  must  be  the  devil 
who  has  carefully  placed  idleness  across 
the  approach  to  several  virtues. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  591. 

A  glorious  lazy  drone,   grown  fat  with 

feeding 
On  others'  toil. 

MASSINGER. — Great  Duke,  Act  i,  2. 

Thus  Belial,  with  words  clothed  in  reason's 

garb, 
Counselled  ignoble  ease,  and  peaceful 

sloth, 
Not  peace. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  226. 

Remove  idleness,  and  Cupid's  artillery  is 
silenced.  OVID. — Rem.  Amoris. 

Stretched    on    the   rack    of    a    too    easy 
chair.       POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  4,  342. 

No  father  can  transmit  to  his  son  the 

right  of  being  useless  to  his  fellow  creatures. 

Rou  ss  E  AU  . — Emile. 

Rich  or  poor,  powerful  or  weak,  every 
idle  citizen  is  a  rogue.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

Incapable  of  doing  aught 
Yet  ill  at  ease  with  nought  to  do. 
SCOTT. — Triermain,  c.  2,  28. 


IDLENESS 

They  laboriously  do  nothing. 

SENECA. — De  Brevitate  Vita. 

If  all  the  year  were  playing  holidays, 
To  sport  would  be  as  tedious  as  to  work. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  i,  2. 

That  ghostliest  of  all  unrealities,   the 
non-working    man. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  17. 

For  thee,  O  Idleness  !  the  woes 
Of  life  we  patiently  endure  ; 
Thou   art    the   source   whence    Labour 

flows, 

We  shun  thee  but  to  make  thee  sure. 
CHRISTOPHER  SMART. — To  Idleness 

Sluggish  idleness,  the  nourse  of  sin. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  c.  4,  18. 

The    insupportable    labour    of    doing 
nothing.  STEELE. — Spectator. 

A  pleasing  land  of  drowsy-head  it  was, 
Of  dreams  that  wave  before  the  half-shut 

eye, 
And  of   gay  castles   in  the  clouds  that 

pass. 

THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,  6. 

Their  only  labour  was  to  kill  the  time  ; 
And  labour  dire  it  is,  and  heavy  woe. 
THOMSON. — Ib.,  c.  i,  72. 

For    sluggard's    brow    the    laurel    never 

grows  ; 

Renown  is  not  the  child  of  indolent  repose. 
THOMSON. — Ib.,  c.  2,  50. 

My  profession  is  the  profession  of  having 

none.  VOLTAIRE. — Les  Originaux 

(Le  Chevalier  du  Hasard). 

But   when   dread  Sloth,   the   Mother  of 

Doom,  steals  in, 
And  reigns  where  Labour's  glory  was  to 

serve, 

Then  is  the  day  of  crumbling  not  far  off. 

SIR  W.  WATSON.— The  Mother  of 

Doom  (August  28,  1919). 

For  Satan  finds  some  mischief  still 
For  idle  hands  to  do. 

I.  WATTS. — Against  Idleness. 

'Tis  the  voice  of  the  sluggard,  I  heard  him 

complain 
"  You  have  waked  me  too  soon,  I  must 

slumber  again ; " 

As  the  door  on  its  hinges,  so  he  on  his  bed 
Turns  his  sides  and  his  shoulders  and  his 

heavy  head.      I.  WATTS. — Sluggard. 

For    who    does    nothing    with    a  better 
grace?    YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  4. 

"  What  are  you  doing,  Joe  ?  "  said  I, 
"  Nothing,  sir,"  was  his  reply ; 
"  And  your  job,  Tom,  I'd  like  to  know  ?  " 
"  I'm  busy,  sir — I'm  helping  Joe."  ANOV. 


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IF 


IGNORANCE 


Blame  is  the  lazy  man's  wages 

Danish  prov. 

He  lives  unworthily  through  whom  no 
other  person  lives.  Latin  prov. 

As  lazy  as  Ludlam's  dog,  that  leaned 
his  head  against  the  wall  to  bark. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
He  that  does  nothing  finds  helpers. 

Prov. 
Idle  bodies  are  generally  busybodies. 

Prov. 
Idleness  is  the  devil's  bolster.      Prov. 

Katie  Sweerock,  frae  where  she  sat, 
Cried  "  Reik  (reach)  me  this  and  reik  me 
that."  Scottish  saying. 

IF 

Your  "  if  "  is  the  only  peace-maker  ; 
much  virtue  in  "  if." 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  5,  4. 

With  an  "  if  "  you  might  put  Paris  in 
a  bottle.  French  prov. 

If  my  aunt  had  wheels  she  would  be  an 
omnibus.  German  prov. 

If  my  aunt  had  been  a  man,  she'd  have 
been  my  uncle.  Prov.  (Ray's  collection). 

IGNORANCE 

'Tis  ignorance  makes  the  child  sublime- 
G.  BARLOW. — Poetry  and  Science,  17- 

Be   ignorance   thy  choice,   where   know- 
ledge leads  to  woe. 
BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  2,  30. 

Ignorance  is  not  innocence,  but  sin. 

BROWNING. — Inn  Album,  c.  5. 

The   truest  characters  of  ignorance 
Are  vanity  and  pride  and  arrogance. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

For  men  are  grown  above  all  knowledge 

now, 
And  what  they're  ignorant  of  disdain  to 

know. 

S.  BUTLER.— On  the  Licentiousness  of  the 

Age. 

Until  you  understand  a  writer's  ignor- 
ance, presume  yourself  ignorant  of  his 
understanding. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Literaria,  ch.  12 
(his"  golden  rule") 

Ignorance   lies   at   the   bottom   of   all 

buman   knowledge,   and   the   deeper   we 

penetrate,  the  nearer  we  arrive  unto  it. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

General  ignorance — in  which  accom- 
plishment I  excelled. 

DE  QUINCEY. — Opium  Eater. 


Some  minds  seem  well  glazed  by  nature 
against  the  admission  of  knowledge. 
GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such.    A 
Political  Molecule. 

The  man  in  the  street  does  not  know  a 
star  in  the  sky.  EMERSON. — Self -Reliance. 

Thought  would  destroy  their  Paradise. 
No  more  : — where  ignorance  is  bliss 
'Tis  folly  to  be  wise. 

GRAY. — Eton  College. 

Like  Montanus  [in  Holberg's  comedy 
'  Erasmus  Montanus ']  I  assert  that  the 
earth  is  flat,  my  friends.  My  eyes  de- 
ceived me  ;  it  is  flat, — flat  as  a  pancake  ! 
Now  are  you  satisfied  ? 

IBSEN. — Love's  Comedy,  Act  3  (1862). 

He  that  voluntarily  continues  ignorance 
is  guilty  of  all  the  crimes  which  ignorance 
produces. 

JOHNSON. — Letter  to  W.  Drummond, 
Aug.  30,  1766. 

Art  hath  an  enemy  called  ignorance. 
BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man  Out  of  his 
Humour. 

The  only  useful  conquests,  the  only 
conquests  which  leave  no  sort  of  regret 
behind,  are  the  conquests  one  makes  over 
ignorance.  NAPOLEON  I. 

Fools  grant  whate'er  ambition  craves, 
And  men,  once  ignorant,  are  slaves. 

POPE. — Choruses  to  "  Brutus,"  26. 

From  ignorance  our  comfort  flows, 
The  only  wretched  are  the  wise. 

PRIOR. — To  C.  Montague. 

For  when  I  dinna  clearly  see, 

I  always  own  I  dinna  ken. 

And  that's  the  way  with  wisest  men. 

ALLAN  RAMSAY. — Eclogue. 

Let  me  not  burst  in  ignorance  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

Ignorance  is  the  curse  of  God, 
Knowledge  the  whig  wherewith  we  fly  to 
heaven. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,    Pt.  2, 
Act  4,  7. 

A  very  superficial,  ignorant  unweighing 

fellow.  SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for 

Measure,  Act  3,  2. 

There  is  no  darkness  but  ignorance. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Nigkt,  Act  4,  2. 

In  knowing  nothing  is  the  sweetest  life 
SOPHOCLES. — Ajax. 

Our  lives  are  usually  shortened  by  out 
ignorance. 

HERBERT  SPENCER. — Principles  of  Biology, 
Pt.  6,  c.  12,  372. 


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ILL-NATURE 


IMAGINATION 


For  as  of  old  mathematicians 
Were  by  the  vulgar  thought  magicians, 
So  academic  dull  ale-drinkers 
Pronounce  all  men  of  wit  free-thinkers. 
SWIFT. — To  Dr.  Delany,  1729. 

Where  blind  and  naked  ignorance 
Delivers  brawling  judgments,  unashamed, 
On  all  things  all  day  long. 

TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  662. 

ILL-NATURE 

Set  not  thy  foot  to  make  the  blind  to  fall, 

Nor  wilfully  offend  thy  weaker  brother, 

Nor  wound  the  dead  with  thy  tongue's 

bitter  gall ; 

Neither    rejoice    thou    in    the    fall   of 

other.  R.  BURTON. — From 

"  Pybrac,  Quadraint,"  37. 

In  working  evils   for   another   a   man 

works  evils  for  himself. 

HESIOD. — Works  and  Days,  265, 

For   pointed  satire,    I   would   Buckhurst 

choose, 
The  best  good  man  with  the  worst-natured 

Muse.  EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — 

Allusion  to  Horace. 
ILLITERACY 

He  can't  write  nor  rade  writing  from 
his  cradle,  plase  your  honour ;  but  he  can 
make  his  mark  equal  to  another,  sir. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Love  and  Law,  Act 
3,  i  (Catty  Rooney,  of  Ulick  Rooney). 

For  there  be  women  fair  as  she 
Whose  verbs  and  nouns  do  more  agree. 
BRET  HARTE. — Mrs.  Judge  Jenkins. 

He  hath  never  fed  of  the  dainties  that 
are  bred  in  a  book  ;  he  hath  not  eat  paper, 
as  it  were  ;  he  hath  not  drunk  ink  ;  his 
intellect  is  not  replenished  ;  he  is  only  an 
animal,  only  sensible  in  the  duller  parts. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 

4-  2. 
ILLNESS 

The  surest  way  to  health,  say  what  they 

will, 
Is  never  to  suppose  we  shall  be  ill. 

C.  CHURCHILL. — Night,  69. 

Is  there  no  hope  ?  the  sick  man  said  ; 
The  silent  doctor  shook  his  head. 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  i,  27. 

Now   I    am   past   all   comforts  here  but 

prayers.  SHAKESPEARE. — Henry 

VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

Be  lang  sick  that  ye  may  be  sune  hale. 
Scottish  prov. 
ILLUSION 

What  youth  deemed  crystal,  age  finds  out 
was  dew. 
BROWNING. — Jochanan  Hakkadosh. 


Half  our  daylight  faith's  a  fable ; 
Sleep  disports  with  shadows  too. 

CAMPBELL. — A   Dream. 

Beauty's  witching  sway 
Is  now  to  me  a  star  that's  fallen — a  dream 
that's  passed  away. 

CAMPBELL. — Farewell  to  Love. 

Why  should  we  strive,  with  cynic  frown, 
To  knock  their  fairy  castles  down  ? 

ELIZA  COOK. — Dear  to  Memory. 

The  restless  throbbings  and  burnings 

That  hope  unsatisfied  brings, 
The  weary  longings  and  yearnings, 

For  the  mystical  better  things, 
Are  the  sands  on  which  is  reflected 

The  pitiless  moving  lake, 
Where  the  wanderer  falls  dejected 
By  a  thirst  he  can  never  slake. 
A.  L.  GORDON. — Wormwood  and 
Nightshade. 

Dream  on  !   there's  nothing  but  illusion 
true.  O.W.  HOLMES.— The  Old  Player. 

So  does  the  glory  depart,  and  so  danger- 
ous and  disillusioning  is  it  to  grow  up. 
E.  V.  LUCAS. — One  Day  and  Another. 

Like  Dead  Sea  fruits,  that  tempt  the  eye, 
But  turn  to  ashes  on  the  lips. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

O  futile  fires  !  the  counterpart  are  ye 
Of  most  that  we 

Heap  for  our  prizes,  gather  for  our  goal  ; 
While  overhead  the  steadfast  stars  still 

burn, 
And  shine  their  challenge  to  the  human 

soul. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — Dance  of  the  Months, 
Jack  o'  Lantern  (July). 

When  all  the  illusions  of  his  Youth  were 

fled, 
Indulged  perhaps  too  much,  cherished  too 

long.  ROGERS. — Italy,  Arqud. 

O,  who  can  hold  a  fire  in  his  hand 
By  thinking  on  the  frosty  Caucasus  ? 
Or  cloy  the  hungry  edge  of  appetite 
By  bare  imagination -of  a  feast  ? 
Or  wallow  naked  in  December  snow 
By  thinking  on  fantastic  summer's  heat  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  3. 

Ah  !  whither  now  are  fled 

Those  dreams  of  greatness  ?    those   un- 

solid  hopes 
Of     happiness  ?     Those     longings     after 

fame  ? 
Those  restless  cares  ?  those  busy,  bustling 

days  ? 
Those  gay-spent,  festive  nights  ? 

THOMSON. — Winter,  1033. 

IMAGINATION 

Rub  out  the  colours  of  imagination. 
MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  7,  29. 


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IMAGINATION 


IMITATION 


Supposition  is  greater  than  truth. 
BACON  (Given  as  a  quotation  in  a  letter 
to  Lord  Essex). 

To  see  the  world  in  a  grain  of  sand, 
And  a  heaven  in  a  wild  flower. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Auguries  of  Innocence. 

I  know  of  no  other  Christianity  and 
of  no  other  gospel  than  the  liberty  both  of 
body  and  mind  to  exercise  the  divine  arts 
of  imagination.  WM.  BLAKE. — Jerusalem. 

What  is  now  proved  was  once  only 
imagined.  WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

Imagination  hath  a  grasp  of  joy 
Finer  than  sense. 
R.  BRIDGES. — Return  of  Ulysses,  Act  2. 

One  does  see  somewhat  when  one  shuts 
one's  eyes.  BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

Thou  wert  a  beautiful  thought,  and 
softly  bodied  forth. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  115. 

Or  wallow  naked  in  December's  snow, 
By  bare  remembrance  of   the  summer's 

heat. 

C.   GIBBER. — Richard  III.   (Shakespeare 
adapted)  Act  i,  i. 

Good  sense  is  the  Body  of  poetic  genius, 
Fancy  its  drapery,  Motion  its  Life,  and 
Imagination  the  Soul  that  is  everywhere 
and  in  each,  and  forms  all  into  one  grace- 
ful and  intelligent  whole. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Literaria,  ch.  14. 

Some  of  your  griefs  you  have  cured, 
And   the  sharpest  you  still  have  sur- 
vived ; 

But  what  torments  of  pain  you  endured 
From  evils  that  never  arrived  ! 
EMERSON. — From  "  an  old  French  verse  " 
(Conduct  of  Life.      Considerations  by 
the  way). 

Don't  let  us  make  imaginary  evils,  when 
you  know  we  have  so  many  real  ones  to 
encounter. 

GOLDSMITH. — Good-natured  Man,  Act  i. 

Imagination  and  memory  are  but  one 
thing,  which  for  divers  considerations 
hath  divers  names. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  Bk.  i,  ch.  2. 

Imagination's  paper  kite, 
Unless  the  string  is  held  in  tight, 
Whatever  fits  and  starts  it  takes, 
Soon  bounces  on  the  ground  and  breaks. 
W.  S.  LANDOR. — Miscell.,  306.  To 
Barry  Cornwall. 

It  is  imagination  which  rules  the  human 
race.  NAPOLEON. 

The  faculty  of  degrading  God's  works 
which  man  calls  his  "  imagination." 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Pref. 


The  essence  of  the  Imaginative  faculty 

is    utterly   mysterious    and   inexplicable, 

and  to  be  recognized  in  its  results  only. 

RUSKIN. — Ib.,  Vol.  2    Pt.  3,  ch.  i,  2. 

This  is  the  very  coinage  of  your  brain  : 
This  bodiless  creation  ecstasy 
Is  very  cunning  in. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

Give  me  an  ounce  of  civet,  good  apothe- 
cary, to  sweeten  my  imagination. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  4,  6. 

Poetry,  in  a  general  sense,  may  be 
denned  to  be  "  the  expression  of  the  imag- 
ination." 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

Reason  is  to  imagination  as  the  instru- 
ment to  the  agent,  as  the  body  to  the 
spirits,  as  the  shadow  to  the  substance. 
SHELLEY. — Ib. 

Imagination  is  the  faculty  which 
"  images  "  within  the  mind  the  pheno- 
mena of  sensation. 

WM.  TAYLOR. — English  Synonyms 
Described  (1813). 

For  any  man  with  half  an  eye 
What  stands  before  him  may  espy  ; 
But  optics  sharp  it  needs,  I  ween, 
To  see  what  is  not  to  be  seen. 

J.  TRUMBULL. — McFingal. 

We  cannot  reproach  our  author  for 
having  invented  what  he  states  ;  nothing 
would  be  more  unjust  than  to  attribute 
imagination  to  him. 

VOLTAIRE. — On  the  Memoirs  ofDangeau. 

Then  blame  not  those  who,  by  the  mighti- 
est lever 

Known  to  the  moral  world,  Imagination, 
Upheave,  so  seems  it,  from  her  natural 

station, 
All  Christendom. 

WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.   i, 
34  (Crusades). 

Imagination  wanders  far  afield. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

A  powerful  imagination  brings  about 
the  event. 

Latin  saying  quoted  by  Montaigne. 

IMITATION 

No,  not  a  good  imitation  of  Johnson.  It 
has  all  his  pomp,  without  his  force  ;  it  has 
all  the  nodosities  of  the  oak  without  its 
strength  ;  it  has  all  the  contortions  of 
the  sibyl,  without  the  inspiration. 

BURKE. — See  Prior's  "  Life  of  Burke." 

Imitation  is  the  sincerest  of  flattery. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

No  man  was  ever  great  by  imitation. 

JOHNSON. — Rasselas. 


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IMMORTALITY 


IMMORTALITY 


We  are  all  quick  to  imitate  what  is  base 
and  depraved.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  14. 

Wherever  a  poet  of  the  first  order  has 
appeared,  before  long  a  rank  crop  of 
wretched  imitators  follows. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  16 
(E.  K.  Francis,  tr.). 

Most  can  raise  the  flowers  now, 
For  all  have  got  the  seed. 

TENNYSON. — The  Flower. 

As  if  his  whole  vocation 
Were  endless  imitation. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality. 

IMMORTALITY 

It    must    be    so, — Plato,    thou    reasonest 

well!— 
Else  whence  this  pleasing  hope,  this  fond 

desire, 
This  longing  after  immortality  ? 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  5. 

They  shall  not  grow  old,  as  we  that  are 

left  grow  old  ; 
Age  shall  not  weary  them,  nor  the  years 

condemn. 
At  the  going  down  of  the  sun,  and  in  the 

morning 
We  will  remember  them. 

LAURENCE  BIN  YON. — For  the  Fallen. 

The  graves  of  those  that  cannot  die. 

BYRON. — Giaour,  140. 

If  I  err  in  this,  that  I  believe  the  souls 
of  men  to  be  immortal,  I  err  of  my  own 
free  will ;  nor  do  I  wish  this  error,  in  which 
I  find  delight,  to  be  wrested  from  me  as 
long  as  I  live.  CICERO. — Of  old  ai>e,  23,  86. 

To  things  immortal,  Time  can  do  no  wrong, 
And  that  which  never  is  to  die,  for  ever 
must  be  young. 

COWLEY. — To  Dr.  Scarborough. 

If   death    do   quench  us  quite,  we  have 
great  wrong. 

SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum. 

If  then  all  souls,  both  good  and  bad  do 

teach 
With  general  voice,  that  souls  can  never 

die  ; 
'Tis  not  man's  nattering  gloss,  but  Nature's 

speech, 

Which,  like  God's  oracles,  can  never  lie. 
SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Ib.,  sec.  30. 

Immortality  will  come  to  such  as  are 
fit  for  it,  and  he  who  would  be  a  great 
soul  in  future  must  be  a  great  soul  now. 
EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life,  Worship. 

Let  no  one  honour  me  with  tears  or  bury 
me  with  lamentation.  Why  ?  Because 
I  fly  hither  and  thither,  living  in  the 
mouths  of  men.  ENNIUS  (quoted  by  Cicero). 


For  thou  art  Freedom's  now,  and  Fame's  : 
One  of  the  few  immortal  names 

That  were  not  born  to  die. 
FITZ-GREENE  HALLECK. — Marco  Bozzaris. 

I  saw  i.  dead  man's  finer  part 

Shining  within  each  faithful  heart 

Of  those  bereft.     Then  said  I,  "  This  must 

be 
His  Immortality." 

T.  HARDY. — His  Immortality. 

On  wing  sublime  eternal  valour  soars, 
And  scorning  human  haunts  and  earthly 

shores, 
To  those,  whom  Godlike  deeds  forbid  to 

die, 
Unbars  the  gate  of  immortality. 

HORACE. — Odes,  Bk.  3,  2  (tr.  by 
Wm.  Pitt,  jun.). 

In  the  wreck  of  noble  lives 
Something  immortal  still  survives  ! 
LONGFELLOW. — Building  of  the  Ship. 

Yet   some    there   be    that   by   due   steps 

aspke 
To  lay  their  just  hands  on  that  golden 

key 
That  opes  the  palace  of  Eternity. 

MILTON. — Comus,   12. 

We  have  nothing  about  us  immortal 
except  the  good  qualities  of  our  hearts  and 
intellects.  OVID. — Trist.,  3,  7. 

Then,  as  it  seems,  we  shall  obtain  that 
which  we  desire  and  which  we  profess 
ourselves  to  be  lovers  of, — wisdom,  when 
we  are  dead,  as  reason  shows,  but  not 
while  we  are  alive. 

PLATO — Phado,  30  (Gary  tr.). 

Ye  are  but  poor  philosophers,  ye  who  do 

say  we  must 
Wane  with  the  years  in  grief  and  tears 

and  turn  again  to  the  dust ; 
Our  Souls  are  ourselves — (though  our  dust 
be  dust,  and  our  body  sinks  to  the  sod) 
Coeval  with  all  Eternity — and  part  of  the 
Very  God. 

LT.-COL.  DUDLEY  SAMPSON. — Songs 
of  Love  and  Life. 

Age  cannot  wither  her,  nor  custom  stale 
Her  infinite  variety. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and 
Cleopatra,  Act  2,  2. 

But  thy  eternal  summer  shall  not  fade. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  18. 

You  still  shall  live — such  virtue  hath  my 

pen — 
Where  breath  most  breathes,  even  in  the 

mouths  of  men. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  81. 

The  shadow  stayed  not,  but  the  splendour 

stays, 

Our  brother,  till  the  last  of  English  days. 
SWINBURNE. — In  the  Bay. 


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IMPENITENCE 


IMPRESSIONABILITY 


All  outward  wisdom  yields  to  that  within, 
Whereof  nor   creed   nor  canon  holds  the 

key  ; 

We  only  feel  that  we  have  ever  been, 
And  evermore  shall  be. 

B.  TAYLOR. — Metempsychosis. 

I  will  give  them  an  everlasting  name, 
that  shall  not  be  cut  off.      Isaiah  Ivi,  5. 

One  thing  is  certain,  when  this  life  is  o'er, 
We  die  to  live,  and  live  to  die  no  more. 

Epitaph  at  Brighton. 

IMPENITENCE 

No  power  can  the  impenitent  absolve. 
DANTE. — Inferno  (Gary's  tr.),  c.  27, 

114. 

May    one    be    pardoned    and    retain    th' 
offence  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  3. 

He  dies  and  makes  no  sign  :    O  God,  for- 
give him  !         SHAKESPEARE. — Henry 
VI.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  3. 

IMPERFECTION 

What  does  Man  see  or  feel  or  apprehend, 
Here,   there,   and  everywhere,   but  faults 

to  mend, 

Omissions    to   supply, — one  wide    disease 
Of    things    that  are,  which  Man  at  once 

would  ease, 
Had  will  but  power  and  knowledge  ? 

BROWNING. — Francis  Furini. 

Skill  comes  so  slow,  and  life  so  fast  doth 

fly, 

We  learn  so  little  and  forget  so  much. 

SIR  J.  DA  VIES. — NosceTeipsum. 

The  best  of  what  we  do  and  are, 

Just  God,  forgive. 
WORDSWORTH. — On  the  Banks  of  Nith. 

Let  other  bards  of  angels  sing, 
Bright  suns  without  a  spot ; 

But  thpu  art  no  such  perfect  thing  ; 
Rejoice  that  thou  art  not ! 

WORDSWORTH. — To  Mrs.  — 

The  flawed  pot  lasts  longest. — Prov. 

IMPETUOUSNESS 

The  tigers  of  wrath  are  wiser  than  the 
horses  of  instruction. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

And  though  he  stumbles  in  a  full  career, 
Yet  rashness  is  a  better  fault  than  fear. 

DRYDEN. — tyrannic  Love,  Prol. 

His  rash  fierce  blaze  of  riot  cannot  last, 
For  violent  fires  soon  burn  o"ut  themselves  ; 
Small    showers    last    long,    but    sudden 
storms  are  short. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  2,  i. 


IMPORTUNITY 

Oliver  Twist  has  asked  for  more. 

DICKENS. — Oliver  Twist,  ch.  z. 

Hold  the  fleet  angel  fast  until  he  bless  thee. 
LONGFELLOW. — Kavanagh. 

Antigonus  the  Elder,  wearied  of  the 
importunity  of  Bias,  said  to  his  servants, 
"  Give  one  talent  to  Bias,  because  it  must 
be  so."  PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

Ask  me  no  more,  the  moon  may  draw  the 
sea. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  7,  Song. 

The  hprseleach  hath  two  daughters 
crying,  Give,  give.  Proverbs  xxx,  15. 

IMPOSSIBILITY 

It  is  not  a  lucky  word  this  same  impos- 
sible :  no  good  comes  of  those  that  have 
it  so  often  in  their  mouth. 

CARLYLE. — Chartism,  ch.  10. 

And  what's  impossible  can't  be, 
And  never,  never  comes  to  pass. 

G.  COLMAN. — Maid  of  the  Moor. 

Impossible  is  a  word  I  never  say. 

COLLIN  D'HARLEVILLE. — Malice  pour 
Malice  (1793). 

A  wise  man  never 
Attempts  impossibilities. 

MASSINGER. — Renegado,  Act  i,  i. 

Impossible !  Never  say  that  foolish 
word  to  me  ! 

MIRABEAU. — (as  quoted  by  Carlyle). 

You  write  "  It  is  not  possible."  That 
is  not  French. 

NAPOLEON. — Letter,  July  9,  1813. 

IMPOTENCE 

Thou  canst  hurt  no  man's  fame  with  thy 

ill  word  ; 

Thy  pen  is  full  as  harmless  as  thy  sword. 
SIR  C.  SCROPE. — On  Lord  Rochester. 

And  as,  when  heavy  sleep  has  closed  the 

sight, 

The  sickly  fancy  labours  in  the  night ; 
We  seem  to  run,  and  destitute  of  force, 
Our  sinking  limbs  forsake  us  in  the  course  : 
In  vain  we  heave  for  breath  ;    in  vain  we 

cry  ; 
The  nerves  unbraced  their  usual  strength 

deny. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  12  (Dryden  tr.). 

IMPRESSIONABILITY 

His  heart  was  one  of  those  which  most 

enamour  us, 
Wax  to  receive,  and  marble  to  retain. 

BYRON. — Beppo,    34. 


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IMPRESSIVENESS 


IMPULSIVENESS 


And  when  she  ceased,  we  sighing  saw 
The  floor  lay  paved  with  broken  hearts. 
R.  LOVELACE. — Gratiana  Dancing. 

No  ;  life  is  a  waste  of  wearisome  hours, 
Which   seldom   the  rose  of  enjoyment 

adorns ; 
And  the  heart  that  is  soonest  awake  to  the 

flowers, 

Is  always  the  first  to  be  touched  by  the 
thorns.        MOORE. — 0  Think  Not. 

You  are  not  wood,  you  are  not  stones,  but 

men. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ctzsar,  Act  3,  2. 

I  am  a  part  of  all  that  I  have  met. 

TENNYSON. — Ulysses. 

Thanks  to  the  human  heart  by  which  we 

live, 
Thanks  to  its  tenderness,  its  joys,  its 

fears, 
To  me  the  meanest  flower  that  blows  can 

give 

Thoughts  that  do  often  lie  too  deep  for 
tears. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  n. 

IMPRESSIVENESS 

He,  above  the  rest 

In  shape  and  gesture  proudly  eminent, 
Stood  like  a  tower. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  i,  589. 

Earth   has  not   anything    to   show   more 

fair: 
Dull  would  he  be  of  soul  who  could  pass 

by 
A  sight  so  touching  in  its  majesty. 

WORDSWORTH. — Miscell.  Sonnets,  36. 

IMPROMPTU 

Impromptu  is  truly  the  touchstone  of 
wit. 
MOLIERE. — Les  prtcieuses  ridicules,  sc.  10. 

Poured  forth  his  unpremeditated  strain. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,  68. 

IMPROVEMENT 

Nothing  is  clearer  to  me  than  that  the 
present  period  of  your  life  is  as  good  for 
philosophy  and  for  improvement  as  any 
other.  MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  n,  7. 

The  spirit  of  improvement  is  not  always 
a  spirit  of  liberty,  for  it  may  aim  at  forcing 
improvements  on  an  unwilling  people. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  3. 

IMPROVIDENCE 

Buy  wh.it  thou  hast  no  need   of,  and 
ere  long  thou  shalt  sell  thy  necessaries. 
B.  FRANKLIN. — Poor  Richard's  Almanac. 


Who  cannot  live  on  twenty  pounds  a  year 
Cannot  on  forty ;  he's  a  man  of  pleasure, 
A  kind  of  thing  that's  for  itself  too  dear. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

If  people  take  no  care  for  the  future  they 

will  soon  have  to  sorrow  for  the  present. 

Chinese   prov. 

He  who  reckons  without  his  host, 
May  chance  to  find  his  labour  lost. 

Old  Saying. 

IMPUDENCE 

You  have  the  gift  of  impudence  ;  be  thank- 
ful ; 
Every  man  has  not  the  like  talent. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Wild 
Goose  Chase. 

For  he  that  has  but  impudence, 
To  all  things  has  a  just  pretence. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

"  You  don't  happen  to  know  why  they 

killed    the    pig,  do    you  ?  "  retorts    Mr. 

Bucket.     ..."  Why,   they  killed  him. .  . 

on  account  of  his  having  so  much  cheek." 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  c.  53. 

Bold  knaves  thrive,  without  one  grain  of 
sense, 

But  good  men  starve  for  want  of  impu- 
dence. DRYDEN. — Constantine,  Ep. 

Nae  wut  without  a  portion  o'  imper- 
tinence. JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,  30. 

When  facts  were  weak,  his  native  cheek 

Brought  him  serenely  through. 
"  Said  of  an  eminent  lawyer  "  (according 
to  C.  H.  Spurgeon). 

IMPULSIVENESS 

A  thing  of  impulse  and  a  child  of  song. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  8,  24. 

"  Halloa  !  here's  a  church.  .  .  Let's  go 
in  !  ".  .  .  "  Halloa  !  "  said  Wemmick, 
"  here's  Miss  Skiffins !  Let's  have  a 
wedding  !  " 

DICKENS. — Great  Expectations,  ch.  55 

A  fiery  soul,  which,  working  out  its  way, 
Fretted  the  pigmy  body  to  decay. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pt.  i,  156. 

The  pupil  of  impulse,  it  forced  him  along, 

His  conduct  still  right,  with  his  argument 

wrong.          GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Hasty  impulse  (impetus)  manages  all 
things  badly.  STATIUS. — Thebais. 

Ah,  well  1    the  world  is  discreet ; 

There  are  plenty  to  pause  and  wait  ; 
But  here  was  a  man  who  set  his  feet 

Sometimes  in  advance  of  fate. 
J.  G.  WHITTIER. — On  G.  L.  Smith. 


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INACTION 


INCONGRUITY 


A  youth  to  whom  was  given 
So  much  of  earth,  so  much  of  heaven, 
And  such  impetuous  blood. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ruth. 

INACTION 

As  idle  as   a  painted  ship 
Upon  a  painted  ocean. 
COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  z. 

Admirals,  extolled  for  standing  still, 
And  doing  nothing  with  a  deal  of  skill. 
COWPER. — Table  Talk,   191. 

A  Book  of  Verses  underneath  the  Bough, 
A  Jug  of  Wine,   a   Loaf  of  Bread — and 

Thou 

Beside  me  singing  in  the  Wilderness — 
Oh,  Wilderness  were  Paradise  enow  ! 

E.  FITZGERALD. — Rubaiyat,  st.  12. 

The  Commons,  faithful  to  their  system, 
remained  in  a  wise  and  masterly  in- 
activity. 

SIR  J.  MACKINTOSH. — Vindicice  Gallictz. 

INAPPROPRIATENESS 

When  a  dog  is  drowning  everyone  offers 
him  drink.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

You  mustn't  tie  up  a  dog  with  a  string 
of  sausages.  Prov. 

INCLINATION 

She  is  far  too  clever  to  understand  any- 
thing she  does  not  like. 

A.  BENNETT.— The  Title  (1918),  Act  i. 

Men,  as  well  as  women,  are  much  oftener 
led  by  their  hearts  than  by  their  under- 
standings. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

For  though  with  judgment  we  on  things 

reflect, 
Our  will  determines,  not  our  intellect. 

WALLER. — Divine  Love,  c.  i. 

INCOHERENCE 

These  are  but  wild   and  whirling  words, 
my  lord. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

Put  your  discourse  into  some  frame, 
and  start  not  so  wildly  from  my  affair. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.t  Act  3,  2. 

It  is  a  tale 

Told  by  an  idiot,  full  of  sound  and  fury, 
Signifying  nothing. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

I  understand  a  fury  in  your  words, 
But  not  the  words. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  2. 


INCOME  TAX 

Taxing  is  an  easy  business.  Any  pro- 
jector can  contrive  new  impositions,  any 
bungler  can  add  to  the  old  ;  but  is  it  alto- 
gether wise  to  have  no  other  bounds  to 
your  impositions  than  the  patience  of 
those  who  are  to  bear  them  ?  BURKE. 

Robin :  On  Tuesday  I  made  a  false  in- 
come tax  return.  All :  Ha  !  ha  !  ist 
Ghost :  That's  nothing.  2nd  Ghost  : 
Nothing  at  all.  yd  Ghost :  Everybody 
does  that.  \th  Ghost :  It's  expected  of 
you.  SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

These  exactions, 
Whereof  my  sovereign  would  have  note, 

they  are 
Most  pestilent  to  the  hearing  ;  and,  to  bear 

'em 
The  back  is  sacrifice  to  the  load. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  i,  2. 

INCOMPLETENESS 

Never  the  time  and  the  place 

And  the  loved  one  all  together ! 

BROWNING. — Never  the  Time. 

Inscribe  all  human  effort  with  one  word, 
Artistry's  haunting  curse,  the  Incomplete  ! 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  n,  1560. 

INCONGRUITY 

Did  He  smile  His  work  to  see  ? 
Did  He  who  made  the  lamb  make  thee  ? 
WM.  BLAKE. — The  Tiger. 

The  offspring  of  ill-mated  things  is  dis- 
agreement. OVID. — Metam.,  i. 

Those  who  make  the  shoe  do  not  feel  it 
pinch,  and  those  who  feel  it  pinch  do  not 
know  how  shoes  are  made. 

SIR  F.  POLLOCK. — Land  Laws,  ch.  i. 

Pretty  in  amber  to  observe  the  forms 
Of  hairs,  or  straws,  or  dirt,  or  grubs  or 

worms  ! 
The  things,  we  know,  are  neither  rich  nor 

rare, 

But  wonder  how  the  devil  they  get  there. 
POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires. 

If  you  choose  to  represent  the  various 
parts  in  life  by  holes  upon  a  table,  of 
different  shapes, — some  circular,  some 
triangular,  some  square,  some  oblong — 
and  the  persons  acting  those  parts  by  bits 
of  wood  of  similar  shapes,  we  shall  gener- 
ally find  that  the  triangular  person  has 
got  into  the  square  hole,  the  oblong  into 
the  triangular,  and  a  square  person  has 
squeezed  himself  into  the  round  hole. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  9.. 


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INCONSISTENCY 


INCONSTANCY 


In  half  the  affairs  of  this  busy  life 
(As  that  same  day  I  said  to  my  wife), 
Our  troubles  come  from  trying  to  put 
The  left-hand  shoe  on  the  right-hand  foot. 
Saying  quoted  or  invented  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon . 

How  agree  the  kettle  and  the  earthen  pot 
together  ?  Ecclesiasticus  xiii,  2 

You  cannot  make  a  sparrow-hawk  out 
of  a  buzzard.  French  prov.  (Roman  de 

la  Rose). 

He  that  has  teeth  has  not  bread  ;  he 
that  has  bread  has  not  teeth.  Italian  prov. 

INCONSISTENCY 

A  marciful  Providunce  fashioned  us  holler, 
O'  purpose  thet  we  might  our  principles 

swaller. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  series  i,  4. 

INCONSTANCY 

Thy  favours  are  but  like  the  wind 
That  kisseth  everything  it  meets. 

SIR  R.  AYTON. — /  do  confess. 

Of  her  scorn  the  maid  repented, 
And  the  shepherd  of  his  love. 
ANNA  L.  BARBAULD. — Leave  me,  simple 
shepherd. 

Maidens'  hearts  are  always  soft : 
Would  that  men's  were  truer  ! 

W.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — Song. 

Let  not  woman  e'er  complain, 

Fickle  man  is  apt  to  rove  : 
Look  abroad  through  nature's  range, 
Nature's  mighty  law  is  change. 
BURNS. — Let  not  woman  e'er  complain. 

Had  sighed  to  many,  though  he  loved  but 
one.         BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  5. 

As  Juan  mused  on  mutability, 

Or  on  his  mistress — terms  synonymous. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  15,  20. 

The  sea-green  Incorruptible  [Robespierre]. 
CARLYLE. — French  Revolution. 

The  miracle  to-day  is  that  we  find 
A  lover  true  :    not  that  a  woman's  kind. 
CONGREVE. — Love  for  Love,  Act  5,  2. 

The  world's  a  scene  of  changes  ;   and  to  be 
Constant,  in  Nature  were  inconstancy. 

COWLEY. — Inconstancy. 

Your    Cleopatra,    Dolabella's    Cleopatra, 
every  man's  Cleopatra  ! 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  4,  i. 

Fool,  not  to  know  that  love  endures  no  tie, 

And  Jove  but  laughs  at    lovers'  perjury. 

DRYDEN. — Palamon,  Bk.  2,  148. 

How  happy  could  I  be  with  either, 
Were  t'other  dear  charmer  away ! 


But  while  ye  thus  tease  me  together, 
To  neither  a  word  will  I  say. 

GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 

Pretty  Polly,  say, 
When  I  was  away, 
Did  your  fancy  never  stray 
To  some  newer  lover  ? 

GAY.— Ib. 

Campaspe :   Were  women  never  so  fair 

men    would    be    false. — Apelles :     Were 

women  never  so  false,  men  would  be  fond. 

LYLY. — Alexander  and  Campaspe, 

Act  3,  3. 

They  that  do  change  old  love  for  new, 
Pray  gods  they  change  for  worse. 
PEELE. — Arraignment  of  Paris,  Act  i,  2. 

Too  dear  I  prized  a  fair  enchanting  face  : 
Beauty  unchaste  is  beauty  in  disgrace. 

POPE. — Odyssey,    Bk.    8,    359. 

Since  'tis  Nature's  law  to  change, 
Constancy  alone  is  strange. 

EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — Dialogue. 

Murderous  darts,  blindness,  and  wings 
are  Cupid's  attributes.  The  wings  signify 
inconstancy,  which,  as  a  rule,  comes  with 
the  disillusion  following  possession. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Metaphysics  of  Love. 

Credit  me,  friend,  it  hath  been  ever  thus, 
Since  the  ark  rested  on  Mount  Ararat : 
False  man  hath  sworn,  and  woman  hath 

believed — 

Repented  and  reproached,  and  then  be- 
lieved once  more. 

SCOTT. — Fortunes  of  Nigel,  ch.  to. 

Sigh  no  more  ladies,  sigh  no  more, 
Men  were  deceivers  ever. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3. 

Were  man 

But  constant,  he  were  perfect. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 
Verona,  Act  5,  4. 

There  is  nothing  in  this  world  constant, 
but  inconstancy. 

SWIFT. — Faculties  of  the  Mind. 

Who  never  sold  the  truth  to  serve  the 

hour, 

Nor  paltered  with  Eternal  God  for  power. 
TENNYSON. — Duke  of  Wellington. 

With  men  and  women  'tis  alike  the  way, 

To  hate  to-morrow  what  they  love  to-day. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Sales  Attici. 

I  have  somewhat  against  thee,  because 
thou  hast  left  thy  first  love. 

Revelation   ii,    4. 

Woman  changeable  we  find, 
As  a  feather  in  the  wind. 

Tr.  of  Italian  prov. 


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INDECISION 


INDEXES 


INDECISION 

Half  the  failures  in  life  arise  from  pulling 
in  one's  horse  as  he  is  leaping. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth,  vol.  i. 

Like  a  man  to  double  business  bound, 
I  stand  in  pause  where  I  shall  first  begin. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  3. 

Lord  Chatham,  with  his  sword  drawn, 

Is  waiting  for  Sir  Richard  Strachan ; 

Sir   Richard,   longing   to  be   at   "em, 

Is  waiting  for  the  Earl  of  Chatham. 

Epigram  (1809),  referring  to  failure  of  the 

Earl  of  Chatham's  military  operations. 

INDEPENDENCE 

I  care  for  nobody,  not  I, 
If  no  one  cares  for  me. 
I.  BICKERSTAFFE. — Love  in  a  Village. 

For  body-killing  tyrants  cannot  kill 
The  public  soul — the  hereditary  will, 
That  downward  as  from  sire  to  son  it  goes, 
By  shifting  bosoms  more  intensely  grows. 
CAMPBELL. — On    Poland. 

Heaven  never  meant  him  for  that  passive 

thing 
That  can  be  struck  and  hammered  out  to 

suit 

Another's  taste  and  fancy.  He'll  not  dance 
To  every  tune  of  every  minister. 
It  goes  against  his  nature—he  can't  do  it. 
COLERIDGE. — Piccolomi»i,  Act  i,  4. 

When   independence   of   principle   con- 
sists in  having  no  principle  to  depend  upon. 
C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Nelson  was  nothing  if  he  was  not  in- 
subordinate.      LORD  FISHER. — Memories. 

Give  me,  kind  Heaven,  a  private  station, 
A  mind  serene  for  contemplation ; 
Title  and  profit  I  resign  ; 
The  post  of  honour  shall  be  mine. 

GAY.— Fables,  Pt.  z,  2. 

That  independence  Britons  prize  too  high, 

Keeps  man  from  man,   and  breaks   the 

social  tie.         GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

Too  poor  for  a  bribe,  and  too  proud  to 
importune, 

He  had  not  the  method  of  making  a  for- 
tune. GRAY. — His  own  Character. 

He  earns  whate'er  he  can, 
And  looks  the  whole  world  in  the  face, 
For  he  owes  not  any  man. 

LONGFELLOW. — Village  Blacksmith. 

We've  a  war,  an'  a  debt,  an'  a  flag ;    an' 

ef  this 

Ain't  to  be  inderpendunt,  why,  wut  on 
air Ui  is  ? 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers, 
2nd  ser.,   4. 


Independence,  like  honour,  is  a  rocky 
island  without  a  beach.  NAPOLEON. 

I  cannot  tell  what  you  and  other  men 
Think  of  this  life  ;   but,  for  my  single  self, 
I  had  as  lief  not  be,  as  live  to  be 
In  awe  of  such  a  thing  as  I  myself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  i,  2. 

Thy  spirit,  Independence,  let  me  share  ! 

Lord  of  the  lion-heart  and  eagle-eye, 
Thy  steps  I  follow  with  my  bosom  bare, 

Nor  heed  the  storm  that  howls  along  the 
sky.         SMOLLETT. — Independence. 

There  are  persons  who  are  so  indepen- 
dent that  you  cannot  depend  upon  them. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars. " 

In  the  end  injustice  produces  inde- 
pendence. VOLTAIRE. 

It  is  easier  to  control  a  hundred  thousand 

men  in  battle  than  to  subjugate  the  mind 

of  one   thoroughly  convinced  individual. 

VOLTAIRE. — Essay  on  Manners, 

Remarks,  16. 

His  march  is  a  go-as-you-please ; 
He  most  keeps  step  with  hisself. 

E.  WALLACE. — Naval  Brigade,  st.  2. 

Happy  is    he  who,  caring  not  for  Pope, 
Consul  or  King,  can  sound   himself  to 

know 

The  destiny  of  man,  and  live  in  hope. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National  Indep. 

Pt.  i,  5. 

How  happy  is  he  born  and  taught, 
That  serveth  not  another's  will, 
Whose  armour  is  his  honest  thought, 
And  simple  truth  his  utmost  skill. 
SIR  H.  WOTTON. — Character  of  a  Happy 

Life. 
This  man  is  freed  of  servile  bands, 

Of  hope  to  rise,  or  fear  to  fall ; 
Lord  of  himself,  though  not  of  lands, 
And,  having  nothing,  yet  hath  all. 

SIR  H.  WOTTON. — Ib. 

INDESCRIBABLE,  THE 

Not  all  the  lip  can  speak  is  worth 
The  silence  of  the  heart. 

J.  Q.  ADAMS. — Lip  and  Heart. 

A  sight  to  dream  of,  not  to  tell. 

COLERIDGE. — Christabel,  Pt.  i. 

INDEXES 

The  man  who  publishes  a  book  without 
an  index  ought  to  be  damned  ten  miles 
beyond  hell,  where  the  Devil  himself  can- 
not get,  for  stinging  nettles. 

JOHN  BAYNES. 

So  essential  did  I  consider  an  Index  to 
be  in  every  book,  that  I  proposed  to  bring 
a  Bill  into  Parliament  to  deprive  an  author, 


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INDULGENCE 


who  publishes  a  book  without  an  index, 
of  the  privilege  of  copyright,  and  moreover 
to  subject  him,  for  his  offence,  to  a  pe- 
cuniary penalty. 

LORD  CAMPBELL. — Pref.  to  Lives  of 
the  Chief  Justices  (1857). 

One  writer,  for  instance,  excels  at  a  plan 
or  title-page,  another  works  away  at  the 
book,  and  a  third  is  a  dab  at  an  index. 

GOLDSMITH. — The  Bee,  i. 

INDIA 

Dominions  of  the  Sun. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  i. 

India  knelt  at  her  feet  and  felt  her  sway 
more  fruitful  of  life  than  spring. 

SWINBURNE. — England. 

INDIFFERENCE 

A  mild  indifferentism. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve. 

He  hated  the  bad  world  that  loved  not  him. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Barbara  Gray. 

Full  of  a  sweet  indifference. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Charmian. 

And  I  must  say,  I  ne'er  could  see  the  very 

Great  happiness  of  the  "  Nil  Admirari." 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  5,  100. 

Here's  a  sigh  for  those  who  love  me, 
And  a  smile  to  those  who  hate  ; 

And  whatever  sky's  above  me 
Here's  a  heart  for  every  fate. 

BYRON.— To  T.  Moore. 

Nor  fame  I  slight,  nor  for  her  favours  call ; 

She  comes  unlocked  for,  if  she  comes  at  all. 

POPE. — Temple  of  Fame,  I.  513. 

The  worst  sin  towards  our  fellow-crea- 
tures is  not  to  hate  them,  but  to  be  in- 
different to  them.  That's  the  essence  of 
inhumanity. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Devil's  Disciple,  Act  2. 

The  noblest  answer  unto  such, 
Is  kindly  silence  when  they  bawl. 
TENNYSON.— The  After  Thought. 

Charlotte,  having  seen  his  body 
Borne  before  her  on  a  shutter, 

Like  a  well-conducted  person, 

Went  on  cutting  bread  and  butter. 
THACKERAY. — Sorrows  of  Werther. 

'  And  Gallio  cared  for  none  of  those  things. 
Acts  xviii,  17. 

If  ye  winna  come  ye'll  bide, 
Quoth  Rory  to  his  bride. 

Scottish  saying. 
INDIGNITIES 

By  indignities  men  come  to  dignities. 

BACON. — Essays  of  Great  Place. 


It  can  never  be 

They  will  digest  this  harsh  indignity. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  5,  2. 

INDISPENSABILITY 

They  love,  they  hate,  but  cannot  do  with- 
out him. 

ARISTOPHANES  (434  B.C.). — As  quoted 
by  Plutarch. 

INDIVIDUALISM 

The  apple  tree  never  asks  the  beech  how 
he  shall  grow,  nor  the  lion  the  horse  how 
he  shall  take  his  prey. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

Use  what  language  you  will,  you  can 

never  say  anything   but  what   you   are. 

What  I  am,  and  what  I  think,  is  conveyed 

to  you,  in  spite  of  my  efforts  to  hold  it  back. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life,  Worship. 

Literary  history  and  all  history  is  a 
record  of  the  power  of  minorities,  and  of 
minorities  of  one. 

EMERSON. — Progress  of  Culture. 

You  see  the  fact  is  that  the  strongest 

man  upon  earth  is  he  who  stands  most 

alone.  IBSEN. — An  Enemy  of  Society 

(Dr.  Stockmann's  "  Great  Discovery  "). 

O,  let  me  be  myself  !   But  where,  oh  where 
Under    this    heap    of    precedent,    this 

mound 
Of    customs,  modes,    and   maxims,    cum- 

brance  rare, 

Shall  the  Myself  be  found  ? 
JEAN  INGELOW. — Honours,  Pt.  2,  30. 

There  is  "a  limit  to  the  legitimate  inter- 
ference of  collective  opinion  with  indi- 
vidual independence ;  and  to  find  that 
limit  and  maintain  it  against  encroach- 
ment, is  as  indispensable  to  a  good  condi- 
tion of  human  affairs  as  protection  against 
political  despotism. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  Introd. 

Whatever  crushes  individuality  is  des- 
potism, by  whatever  name  it  may  be 
called.  J.  S.  MILL.— Ib. 

Only  in  the  world  I  fill  up  a  place,  which 
may  be  better  supplied  when  I  have  made 
it  empty. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  i,  2. 

God  is  no  respecter  of  persons. 

Acts  x,  34. 

What  is  not  good  for  the  hive  is  not 
good  for  the  bee.  Greek  prov. 

INDULGENCE 

How  sad  and  bad  and  mad  it  was — 
But  then,  how  it  was  sweet ! 

BROWNING. — Confessions. 


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INDUSTRY 


INFAMY 


Be  to  her  virtues  very  kind, 
Be  to  her  faults  a  little  blind. 

PRIOR. — English  Padlock. 

The  land  of  Egypt,  when  we  sat  by  the 
flesh-pots,  and  when  we  did  eat  bread  to 
the  full.  Exodus  xvi,  3. 

INDUSTRY 

There  is  nothing  truly  valuable  which 
can  be  purchased  without  pains  and 
labour.  ADDISON. — Taller,  No.  97. 

Industry  is  a  loadstone  to  draw  all  good 
things. 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy, 
Democritus  to  the  Reader. 

Since  what  by  Nature  was  denied 
By  art  and  industry's  supplied. 
S.  BUTLER. — Upon  Plagiaries  (written 
satirically). 

He  was  never  less  at  leisure  than  when 
at  leisure  ;  he  was  never  less  alone  than 
when  alone. 

CICERO. — (Quoted  as  a  saying  of  Scipio 
Africanus) . 

Chase  brave  employments  with  a  naked 

sword 
Throughout  the  world.     Fool  not,  for  all 

may  have 

If  they  dare  try,  a  glorious  life  or  grave. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Temperance  and  industry  are  the  two 
real  physicians  of  mankind. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Abroad  in  arms,  at  home  in  studious  kynd, 
Who    seekes    with    painfull    toile,    shall 
Honor  soonest  fynd. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene, 
Bk.  2,  c.  3,  40. 

Go  to  the  ant — but  don't  go  to  your 
uncle's.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Riches  consist  in  the  great  number  of 
industrious  men. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dialogues,  No.  4. 

How  doth  the  little  busy  bee 

Improve   each  shining  hour, 
And  gather  honey  all  the  day 
From  every  opening  flower ! 

I.  WATTS. — Against  Idleness. 

Ease  from  this  noble  miser  of  his  time 
No  moment  steals  ;    pain  narrows  not  his 

cares. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  pt.  i,  23. 

Diligence  is  the  mother  of  good  fortune. 
Prov.  quoted  by  Cervantes. 

INEQUALITY 

But  why  should  ae  man  better  fare, 
And  a'  men  brithers  ? 

BURNS. — To  Dr.  Blacklock. 


It's  hardly  in  a  body's  power 

To  keep  at  times  frae  being  sour, 

To  see  how  things  are  shared  ; 
How  best  o'  chiels  are  whiles  in  want, 
While  coofs  on  countless  thousands  rant, 

And  ken  na  how  to  wair't. 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  Davie. 

Oh,  there  are  moments  for  us  here,  when 

seeing 

Life's  inequalities,  and  woe,  and  care, 
The  burdens  laid  upon  our  mortal  being 
Seem  heavier  than  the  human  heart  can 
bear.  W.  G.  CLARK. — A  Song 

of  May. 

Order  is  Heaven's  first  law,  and  thus  con- 
fessed, 

Some  are,  and  must  be,  greater  than  the 
rest.  POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  49. 

He  would  not  believe  that  Providence 

had  sent  a  few  men  into  the  world,  ready 

booted  and  spurred  to  ride,  and  millions 

ready  saddled  and  bridled  to  be  ridden. 

R.  RUMBOLD. — At  his  execution,  1685. 

Macaulay's  England,  ch.  5. 

Immortal  gods  !  How  one  man  excels 
another  !  What  a  difference  between  a  man 
of  sense  and  a  fool ! 

TERENCE. — Eunuchus. 

How  unequal  things  are,  that  those  who 
have  very  little  should  be  always  adding 
something  to  the  possessions  of  the  more 
wealthy.  TERENCE. — Phormio,  Act  i. 

What  are  we  ?   How  unequal !   Now  we 

soar 
And  now  we  sink. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 

The  Ox  does  the  work,  but  the  man  eats 

the  grain  ; 
One  does  the  work,  and  another  gets  the 

gain.  Chinese  saying. 

INEXPERIENCE 

My  salad  days, 

When  I  was  green  in  judgment. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  i,  5. 

You  speak  like  a  green  girl, 
Unsifted  in  such  perilous  circumstance. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

INFAMY 

Infamy  was  never  incurred  for  nothing. 
BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings. 

Leaving  behind  them  horrible  dispraise. 
DANTE. — Inferno  (Gary's  tr.),  c.  8,  50. 

Cancelled     from     Heaven,     and     sacred 

memory, 

Nameless  in  dark  oblivion  let  them  dwell. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  6,  375. 


INFANCY 


INGRATITUDE 


Hate  cannot  wish  thee  worse 

Than  guilt  and  shame  have  made  thee. 

MOORE. — When  First  I  Met. 

Shame  and  dishonour  sit 
By  his  grave  ever  ; 
Blessing  shall  hallow  it, — 
Never,  O  never  ! 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  3,  n. 

INFANCY 

The  god  in  babe's  disguise, 

BROWNING. — Jos.  Lee's  Wife. 

O,  hush  thee,  my  baby,   thy  sire  was  a 

knight, 

Thy  mother  a  lady,  both  lovely  and  bright ; 
The  woods  and  the  glens,  from  the  towers 

which  we  see, 

They  all  are  belonging,  dear  baby,  to  thee. 
SCOTT. — Lullaby. 

INFATUATION 

She  for  him  had  given 
Her  all  on  earth,  and  more  than  all  in 
Heaven.         BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  3,  17. 

She  was  his  life, 

The  ocean  to  the  river  of  his  thoughts, 
Which  terminated  all. 

BYRON. — The  Dream,   st.   2. 

Why  she  would  hang  on  him 
As  if  increase  of  appetite  had  grown 
By  what  it  fed  on. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

INFIDELITY 

Mock  on,  mock  on,  Voltaire,  Rousseau  ; 

Mock  on,  mock  on  ;    'tis  all  in  vain  ; 
You  throw  the  dust  against  the  wind, 

And  the  wind  blows  it  back  again. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Scoffers. 

If  Christians  would  teach  infidels  to  be 
just  to  Christianity,  they  should  them- 
selves be  just  to  infidelity. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  z. 

INFINITY 

But  how  can   finite   grasp   infinity  ? 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  Pt.  i,  105. 

The  infinity  of  God  is  not  mysterious, 
it  is  only  unfathomable,  not  concealed,  but 
incomprehensible  :  it  is  a  clear  infinity, 
the  darkness  of  the  pure,  unsearchable  sea. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Pt.  3,  sec.  i, 
ch.  5,  19. 

INFLUENCE 

Writers,  especially  when  they  act  in  a 
body  and  with  one  direction,  have  great 
influence  on  the  public  mind. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  French 
Revolution. 


Thoughts   sublime  that  pierce  the  night 

like  stars, 
And  with  their  mild  persistence  urge  man' s 

search 
To  vaster  issues. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — O  May  I  Join  the  Choit 
Invisible. 

Like  moonlight  on  the  troubled  sea, 
Brightening  the  storm  it  cannot  calm. 

MOORE. — Loves  of  the  Angels. 

The  greatest  efforts  of  the  race  have 
always  been  traceable  to  the  love  of  praise, 
as  its  greatest  catastrophes  to  the  love  of 
pleasure. 

RUSKIN. — Sesame  and  Lilies,  Sec.  i. 

Whose  powers  shed  round  him  in  the  com- 
mon strife, 

Or  mild  concerns  of  ordinary  life, 
A  constant  influence,  a  peculiar  grace. 

WORDSWORTH. — Happy  Warrior. 

A  little  leaven  leaveneth  the  whole  lump. 
Galatians  v,  9. 

INGRATITUDE 

Men  remember 

When  they're  forgotten.     When  remem- 
bered, they 

Themselves  forget. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Fortunatus,  Act  2,  8. 

Much   I   muse, 
How  bitter  can  spring  up,  when  sweet  is 

sown. 
H.  F.  CARY. — Dante's  "Paradise,"  c.  8,  99. 

The   good   received,   the  giver   is  forgot. 
CONGREVE. — To  Ld.  Halifax. 

On  adamant  our  wrongs  we  all  engrave, 
But  write  our  benefits  upon  the  wave. 

DR.  W.  KING.— Art  of  Love. 

Ah,  how  have  I  deserved,  inhuman  maid, 
To  have  my  faithful  service  thus  repaid  ? 
GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Progress  of  Love. 

For  vicious  natures,  when  they  once  begin 

To  take  distaste,  and  purpose  no  requital, 

The  greater  debt  they  owe,  the  more  they 

hate.  T.  MAY. — Agrippina. 

Blow,  blow,  thou  winter  wind ! 
Thou  art  not  so  unkind 
As  man's  ingratitude ; 
Thy  tooth  is  not  so  keen, 
Because  thou  art  not  seen, 
Although  thy  breath  be  rude. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

Ingratitude,  thou  marble-hearted  fiend, 
More  hideous  when  thou  show'st  thee  in  a 

child, 
Than  the  sea-monster ! 

SHAKESPEARK. — Lear,  Act  i,   4. 


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INHUMANITY 


INNOCENCE 


1  bate  ingratitude  more  in  a  man 
Thau  lyiug,  vainness,  babbling,  drunken- 
ness. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  4. 

Ingratitude  he  often  found, 
And  pitied  those  who  meant  the  wound. 
SWIFT.— OH  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

Kindness  is  very  indigestible.     It  dis- 
agrees with  very  proud  stomachs. 

THACKERAY. — Philip,  Bk.  2,  ch.  6. 

Injuries    we    write    in    marble ;     kind- 
nesses in  dust.  Prov. 

Do  a  man  a  gude  turn  and  he'll  ne'er 
forgie  ye.  Shetland  prov. 

INHUMANITY 

Blow,  blow,  ye  winds,  with  heavier  gusts  ! 
And  freeze,  thou  bitter,  biting  frost ! 
Descend,  ye  chilly,  smothering  snows  ! 
Not  all  your  rage,  as  now  united,  shows 
More  hard  unkindness,  unrelenting, 
Vengeful  malice,  unrepenting, 
Than   heaven-illumined  man   on   brother 
man  bestows.  BURNS. — A  Winter  Night. 

Man's  inhumanity  to  man 

Makes  countless  thousands  mourn. 
BURNS. — Man  was  Made  to  Mourn. 

Where  the  virgins  are  soft  as  the  roses  they 

twine, 

And  all,  save  the  spirit  of  man,  is  divine. 
BYRON. — Bride  ofAbydos,  c.  i,  st.  i. 

Butchered  to  make  a  Roman  holiday. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  141. 

So  young  and  so  untender. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act   i,   i. 

In  nature  there's  no  blemish  but  the  mind. 
None  can  be  called  deformed  but  the  un- 
kind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  5. 

No  greater   shame    to    man   than    inhu- 

manitie. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  6,  c.  i, 

st.  26. 
INJURIES 

For  injuries  are  writ  in  brass,  kind  Graccho, 
And  not  to  be  forgotten. 

MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  5,  i. 

A  wound,  though  cured,  yet  leaves  behind 
a  scar.          J.  OLDHAM. — Lydia's  Will. 

Oblivion  is  the  remedy  for  injuries. 
SENECA. — (Quoted  as  front  "  an  old  poet.") 

Kindnesses    are   easily    forgotten,    but 

injuries  ! what  worthy  man  does  not 

keep  those  in  mind  ? 

THACKERAY. — Lovel  the  Widower. 


A  wounded  spirit  who  can  bear  ? 

Proverbs  xviii,  14. 

INJUSTICE 

Injustice  is  no  less  than  high  treason 
against  Heaven. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  9,  x. 

Omissions,  no  less  than  commissions,  are 
often  a  part  of  injustice. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  9,  5. 

"  A  book,"  I  observed,  "  might  be 
written  on  the  Injustice  of  the  Just." 

SIR  A.  HOPE  HAWKINS. — Dolly 
Dialogues,  15. 

The  injustice  done  to  an  individual  is 
sometimes  of  service  to  the  public. 

JUNIUS. — Letter  41. 

Truth  for  ever  on  the  scaffold,  Wrong 
for  ever  on  the  throne. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Present  Crisis. 

It  makes  me  very  angry  indeed  to  be  in 
the  wrong  when  I  am  right. 

MOLIERE. — (George  Dandin.) 

I  should  wish  neither,  but  had  I  of 
necessity  to  choose,  I  would  rather  suffer 
unjustly  than  act  unjustly. 

PLATO. — Gorgias,  55.     (Remark  attrib. 
to  Socrates.) 

The  most  complete  injustice  is  to  seem 
just,  when  not  so. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  2,  4. 

Unjust  rule  never  endures  perpetually. 
SENECA. — Medea. 

In  all  time,  in  every  place,  the  public 
is  unjust.  Horace  complained  of  it  in  the 
empire  of  Augustus.  Malice,  pride,  an 
unworthy  desire  to  disparage  the  talents 
which  form  our  delight,  to  blight  the  fine 
arts  which  solace  life,  that  is  the  heart  oi 
man  ;  it  is  born  for  envy. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  Mdlle.  Clairon. 

But  Truth  inspired  the  bards  of  old 

When  of  an  iron  age  they  told, 

Which  to  unequal  laws  gave  birth 

And    drove    Astraea    [Justice]    from    the 

earth.  WORDSWORTH. — The  Italian 

Itinerant,  Pt.  2,  2. 

Jeddart  (or  Jedburgh)  justice ;  first 
hang  a  man  and  syne  try  him. — Scottish 
prov.  founded  on  a  wholesale  hanging  of 
political  prisoners  at  Jedburgh  in  1574. 
(A  similar  prov.  attaches  to  Lidford,  Devon.) 

INNOCENCE 

Modesty  does  not  long  survive  innocence. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 

(Feb.  17,  1788). 

Oh,  Mirth  and  Innocence  !    Oh,  Milk  and 

Water ! 

Ye  happy  mixtures  of  more  happy  days  ! 
BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  80. 


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INNOVATIONS 


INQUISITIVENESS 


Life  is  fullest  of  content, 
Where  delight  is  innocent. 
T.  CAMPION. — Tell  tne,  gentle  hour  of 

night. 

Folly  and  Innocence  are  so  alike, 
The  difference,  though  essential,  fails  to 
strike. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  203. 

However  few  of  the  other  good  things 
of  life  are  thy  lot,  the  best  of  all  things, 
which  is  innocence,  is  always  within  thy 
own  power. 

FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  8,  c.  3. 

I  dare  (for  what  is  that  which  innocence 
dares  not  ?). 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Little 
French  Lawyer,  Act  3,  i. 

The  smile  that  was  childlike  and  bland. 
BRET  HARTE. — Plain  Language. 

He's  armed  without  that's  innocent  within. 
POPE. — Satires,  Bk.   i,  94. 

Not  proven  !    I  hate   that  Caledonian 

medium   quid.     One   who   is   not    proved 

guilty  is  innocent  in  the  eyes  of  the  law. 

SCOTT. — Diary,  Feb.  20,  1827. 

We  that  have  free  souls,  it  touches  us 
not.  Let  the  galled  jade  wince ;  our 
withers  are  unwrung. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

When  my  love  swears  that  she  is  made  of 

truth, 

I  do  believe  her,  though  I  know  she  lies, 
That  she  might  think  ine  some  untutored 

youth, 

Unlearndd  in  the  world's  false  subtleties. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  138. 

The  silence  often  of  pure  innocence 
Persuades,  when  speaking  fails. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  2,  2. 

There  is  no  courage  but  in  innocence, 
No  constancy  but  in  an  honest  cause. 

T.  SOUTHERN. — Fate  of  Capua. 

INNOVATIONS 

Striving  to  better,  oft  we  mar  what's  well. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  i,  4. 

All   with   one    consent    praise   new-born 

gauds.          SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus  and 

Cressida,  3,  3. 

All  great  truths  begin  as  blasphemies. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Annajanska. 

They  wha  put  plough  into  new  land 
must  look  to  have  it  hank  on  a  stane 
now  and  then.  Scottish  prov. 

INNS 

A  novel....  should  always  be  kept  moving 
on.  Nobody  knew  this  better  than  Field- 


ing, whose  novels,  like  most  good  ones,  are 
full  of  inns. 

A.  BIRRELL. — Office  of  Literature. 

He  knew  the  tavernes  wel  in  every  toun. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

Along  the  varying  road  of  life, 
In  calm  content,  in  toil  or  strife, 
At  morn  or  noon,  by  night  or  day, 
As  time  conducts  him  on  his  way, 
How  oft  doth  man,  by  care  oppressed, 
Find  in  an  inn  a  place  of  rest. 

W.  COOMDE. — Dr.  Syntax,  c.  9. 

There  is  no  private  house  in  which 
people  can  enjoy  themselves  so  well  as  in  a 
capital  tavern.  JOHNSON. — Remark,  1776. 

There  is  nothing  which  has  yet  been 
contrived  by  man  by  which  so  much  happi- 
ness is  produced,  as  by  a  good  tavern  or 
inn.  JOHNSON. — Remark. 

Shall  I  not  take  mine  ease  in  mine  inn  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  3. 

Whoe'er  has  travelled  life's  dull  round, 
Where'er  his  stages  may  have  been, 

May  sigh  to  think  he  still  hath  found 
The  warmest  welcome  at  an  inn. 

SHENSTONE. — At  Henley. 

INNUENDO 

'Tis  not  the  wholesome  sharp  morality, 

Or  modest  anger  of  a  satiric  spirit, 

That  hurts  or  wounds  the  body  of  a  state, 

But  the  sinister  application 

Of  the  malicious,  ignorant,  and  base 

Interpreter.  BEN  JONSON. — Poetaster,  5,  i. 

Nor  do  they  trust  their  tongues  alone, 

But  speak  a  language  of  their  own ; 

Can  read  a  nod,  a  shrug,  a  look, 

Far  better  than  a  printed  book  ; 

Convey  a  libel  in  a  frown, 

And  wink  a  reputation  down. 

SWIFT. — Journal  of  a  Modern  Lady,  1728. 

INQUISITIVENESS 

Seek  not  the  wherefore,  race  of  human 

kind.  H.  F.  CARY. — Dante's 

"Purgatory,"  c.  3,  35. 

Avoid  a  person  who  asks  questions,  for 

such  a  man  is  a  talker  ;  nor  will  open  ears 

keep   faithfully    the   things  entrusted    to 

them.  HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i,  18. 

Inquisitive  people  are  all  ill-natured. 

PLAUTUS. — Stichus. 
I  hope  I  don't  intrude. 

POOLE. — Paul  Pry. 

You  would  play  upon  me ;  you  would 
seem  to  know  my  stops  ;  you  would  pluck 
out  the  heart  of  my  mystery ;  you  would 
sound  me  from  my  lowest  note  to  the  top 
of  my  compass. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3, 


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INSANITY 


INSPIRATION 


INSANITY 

Babylon  in  all  its  desolation  is  a  sight 
not  so  awful  as  that  of  the  human  mind  in 
ruins.  SCROPE  DAVIES. — Letter,  1835. 

All  power  of  fancy  over  reason  is  a 
degree  of  insanity. 

JOHNSON. — Rasselas,  ch.  44. 

Demoniac  frenzy,  moping  melancholy, 
And  moon-struck  madness. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  n,  485. 

INSCRUTABILITY 

Not  a  thought  to  be  seen 
On  his  steady  brow  and  quiet  mouth. 

BROWNING. — Statue  and  the  Bust. 

His  face, 
The  tablet  of  unutterable  thoughts. 

BYRON. — The  Dream,  6. 

High  and  inscrutable  the  old  man  stood, 

Calm  in  his  voice,  and  calm  within  his 

eye.  BYRON. — Don  Juan,  4,  39. 

INSECTS 

Or  great  ugly  things,  All  legs  and  wings, 
With  nasty  long  tails,  Armed  with  nasty 

long  stings. 
R.  H.  BARHAM. — The  Knight  and  the  Lady. 

Kill  not  the  moth  nor  butterfly, 

For   the  last  judgment  draweth  nigh. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

Of  all  the  plagues  that  Heaven  has  sent, 
A  wasp  is  most  impertinent. 

GAY. — Fables. 

If  you  wish  to  live  and  thrive, 

Let  the  spider  run  alive.    Old  Saying. 

INSENSIBILITY 

A  stoic  of  the  woods — a  man  without 
a  tear.  CAMPBELL. — Gertrude. 

If  the  man  who  turnips  cries, 
Cry  not  when  his  father  dies, 
'Tis  a  proof  that  he  had  rather 
Have  a  turnip  than  his  father. 
JOHNSON. — Burlesque  of  Lopez  de  Vega. 

INSIGNIFICANCE 

'Tis  not  to  die  we  fear,  but  to  die  poorly, 
To  fall  forgotten,  in  a  multitude. 
FLETCHER. — Humorous  Lieutenant,Act  2,2. 

Willows  are  weak,  yet  they  bind  other 
wood.  Frov.  (Italian  ?) 

INSINCERITY 

Our  hands  have  met  but  not  our  hearts. 
Hoop, — To  a  False  Friend. 


I,  under  fair  pretence  of  friendly  ends, 
And  well-placed  words  of  glozing  courtesy 
Baited  with  reasons  not  implausible, 
Wind  me  into  the  easy-hearted  man, 
And  hug  him  into  snares. 

MILTON. — Comus,  160. 

It  is  vile  to  say  one  thing  and  to  think 
another.  How  much  more  base  to  write 
one  thing  and  think  another  ! 

SENECA. — Ep.  24. 
The  hearts  of  old  gave  hands  : 
But  our  new  heraldry  is — hands  not  hearts. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  4. 

INSPIRATION 

And  doubtless  this  too,  comes  from  grace 

of  Gods, 

Seated  in  might  upon  their  awful  thrones. 

AESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  170 

(Plumptre  tr.). 

My  soul   within   me    burning   with    hot 
thoughts. 
^ESCHYLUS. — Ib.  1030  (Plumptre  tr.). 

Stung  by  the  splendour  of  a  sudden 
thought.  BROWNING. — Death  in  the  Desert. 

There's  a  melody  born  of  melody, 

Which  melts  the  world  into  a  sea ; 

Toil  could  never  compass  it ; 

Art  its  height  could  never  hit ; 

It  never  came  out  of  wit ; 

But  a  music  music-born 

Well  may  Jove  and  Juno  scorn. 

EMERSON. — F. 

Yet  his  look  with  the  reach  of  past  ages 

was  wise, 
And  the  soul  of  eternity  thought  through 

his  eyes. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Feast  of  Poets. 

He  ne'er  is  crowned 
With  immortality  who  fears  to  follow 
Where  airy  voices  lead. 

KEATS. — Endymion.  Bk.  2. 

Great  thoughts,  great  feelings  came  to  him, 
Like  instincts,  unawares. 
R.  M.  MILNES  (LORD  HOUGHTON). — Men 

of  Old. 

And  looks  commercing  with  the  skies, 
Thy  rapt  soul  sitting  in  thine  eyes. 

MILTON. — //  Penseroso,  39. 

What  in  me  is  dark 

Illumine  ;   what  is  low  raise  and  support  ; 
That  to  the  height  of  this  great  argument 
I  may  assert  eternal  Providence, 
And  justify  the  ways  of  God  to  man. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  /.  27. 

He  who  receives 
Light  from  above,  from  the  fountain   of 

light, 
No  other  doctrine  needs,  though  granted 

true. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  288, 


INSTABILITY 


INTEGRITY 


There  is  a  God  within  us,  and  we  glow 
when  he  stirs  us.         OVID. — Fast.,  Bk.  6. 

From  nature  all  perfections  flow  ; 
And   though  from  tasked  attention  slow 
Taught  excellence  will  sometimes  strain 
And  struggle  to  renown  ;  if  Heaven 
Has  not  the  inspiring  impulse  given, 
'Tis  silence  best  rewards  the  pain. 

PINDAR. — Olympian  Odes,  g,  151 
(Moore  tr.). 

Some  feelings  are  to  mortals  given, 
With  less  of  earth  in  them  than  Heaven. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  2,  22. 

The  feather  whence  the  pen 

Was  shaped,  that  traced  the  lives  of  these 

good  men, 

Dropped  from  an  angel's  wing. 
WORDSWORTH. — -Eccles.  Sonnets,  PL  3,  5. 

We  are  laid  asleep 
In  body,  and  become  a  living  soul : 
While  with  an  eye  made  quiet  by  the  power 
Of  harmony,  and  the  deep  power  of  joy, 
We  see  into  the  life  of  things. 

WORDSWORTH. — Tinier  n  Abbey. 

INSTABILITY 

Nothing  is  fixed  that  mortals  see  or  know, 
Unless  perhaps  some  stars  be  so. 

SWIFT. — Ode  to   Bancroft. 
INSTINCT 

Instinct  is  untaught  ability. 
DR.  A.  BAIN. — Senses  and  Intellect  (1855). 

Reasoning  at  every  step  he  treads, 

Man  yet  mistakes  his  way. 
Whilst  meaner  things,  whom  instinct  leads, 

Are  rarely  known  to  stray. 

COWPER. — The  Doves. 

Armed  men  have  gladly  made 
Him  their  guide,  and  him  obeyed 

And  to  all  this  fame  he  rose, 
Only  following  his  nose. 

COWPER. — On  a  Pointer  Dog. 

Instinct  preceded  wisdom 
Even  in  the  wisest  men,  and  may  some- 
times 
Be  much  the  better  guide. 

G.  LILLO. — Fatal  Curiosity. 

Instinct  and  reason  how  can  we  divide  ? 
'Tis  the  fool's  ignorance  and  the  pedant's 
pride.       PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  i,  235. 

An  instinct  call  it,  a  blind  sense, 
A  happy,  genial  influence, 
Coming  one  knows  not  how  nor  whence, 
Nor  whither  going. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  the  Daisy. 

A  few  strong  instincts  and  a  few  plain  rules. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poenis  of  the  Imagination, 

Pt.  2,    12 


Swift  Instinct  leaps  ;   slow  Reason  feebly 
climbs.      YOUNG. — \ight  Thoughts,  7. 

For  a  man's  mind  is  sometime  wont  to 
tell  him  more  than  seven  watchmen,  that 
sit  above  in  an  high  tower. 

Ecdesiasticus  xxxvii,  14. 

INSTRUCTION 

He  that  shortens  the  road  to  knowledge 
lengthens  life.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon 

It  is  always  safe  to  learn,  even  from  our 
enemies ;  seldom  safe  to  venture  to  in 
struct,  even  our  friends.  C.  C.  COLTON.-/&. 

If  wisdom  were  offered  me  on  condition 
that  I  should  keep  it  close  and  not  com- 
municate it,  I  would  refuse  the  gift. 

SENECA. 

Lord  teach  my  teacher  that  he  may 
teach  me.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. 

A  nod  for  a  wise  man  and  a  rod  for  a  fool. 
Hebrew  prov. 
INSUBORDINATION 

Jellicoe  has  all  the  Nelsonic  attributes 
except  one — he  is  totally  wanting  in  the 
great  gift  of  insubordination. 
LORD  FISHER. — Letter  to  a  Privy  Councillor, 
Dec.  27,  1916. 
INSUFFICIENCY 

Oh,  the  little  more,  and  how  much  it  is  1 
And  the  little  less,  and  what  worlds  away 
BROWNING. — By  the  Fireside, 

INSULTS 

Insects 

Have  made  the  lion  mad  ere  now  ;  a  shaft 
I'  the  heel  o'erthrew  the  bravest  of  the 
brave. 

BYRON. — Marino  Faliero,  Act  5,  i. 

An  injury  is  much  sooner  forgotten  than 
an  insult. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Letter,  1746. 

Fate  never  wounds  more  deep  the  generous 

heart, 
Than  when  a  blockhead's  insult  points  the 

dart.  JOHNSON. — London. 

Insults  are  like  bad  coins  ;  we  cannot 
help  their  being  offered  to  us,  but  we  need 
not  take  them. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

INTEGRITY 

He  had  kept 

The  whiteness  of  his  soul,  and  thus  men 
o'er  him  wept. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  57. 

Hath   he   not    always    treasures,    always 

friends, 
The   good   great   man  ? — three   treasures, 

love  and  light, 


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INTELLECT 


And   calm   thoughts,    regular   as   infant's 

breath, 
And   three  linn  friends,   more   sure  than 

day  and  night — 

Himself,  his  Maker,  and  the  angel  Death. 
COLERIDGE. — Job's   Litck. 

His  faith,   perhaps,  in  some  nice  tenets, 

might 
Be  wrong  ;    his  life,  I'm  sure,  was  in  the 

right.       COWLEY. — On  Mr.  Crashaw. 

Nor   holds   this   earth   a   more   deserving 

knight, 

For  virtue,  valour,  and  for  noble  blood, 
Truth,   honour,   all   that  is  comprised  in 

good. 

DRYDEN. — Palamon,  Bk.  3,  /.  823. 

Integrity  is  praised  and  starves. 

JUVENAL. — Sat.  i. 

Free  from   self-seeking,    envy,  low  design, 

I  have  not  found  a  whiter  soul  than  thine. 

LAMB. — To  M.  C.  Burney. 

For  he  that  is  trewe  of  his  tonge,  and  of  his 

two  handes, 
And  doth  the  werkes  therewith,  and  willeth 

no  man  ille, 
He  is  a  god  by  the  gospel. 

LANGI.AND. — Piers  Plowman, 

Passus  2,  82. 

He  that  has  light,  within  his  own  clear 

breast 

May  sit  i'  th*  centre,  and  enjoy  bright  day. 
MILTON. — Comus,  381. 

Men  whose  life,  learning,  faith,  and  pure 

intent 
Would  have  been  held  in  high  esteem  with 

Paul.  MILTON. — Sonnet. 

Teach  me  through  life  truth's  simple  path 

to  find, 

That  my  sons  blush  not  for  their  sire. 
Some   showers    of    gold    from    heaven 

require ; 

Others  for  boundless  wealth  have  pined  ; 

Grant  me  my  country's  smiles  to  meet ! 

PINDAR. — Nemean  Odes,  8,  60  (Moore  tr.). 

Preserve  me,  O  my  integrity,  since  I 
have  diligently  preserved  thee. 

PLAUTUS. — Curcitlio,  Act  5. 

An  honest  man's  the  noblest  work  of  God. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  248. 

Statesman,  yet  friend  to  truth  !    of  soul 

sincere, 

In  action  faithful,  and  in  honour  clear  ; 
Who  broke  no  promise,  served  no  private 

end, 
Who  gained   no   title,    and  who  lost  no 

friend.    POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  5. 

Just  of  thy  word,  in  every  thought  sincere, 

Who  knew  no  wish    but  what  the  world 

might  hear.       POPE. — On  K.  Digby. 


Horatio,  thou  art  e'en  as  just  a  man 
As  e'er  my  conversation  coped  withal. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  j,   2. 

Be  just  and  fear  not. 
Let  all  the  ends  thou  aim'st  at  be  thy 

country's, 
Thy  God's  and  truth's. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

He  was  not  born  for  shame  : 
Upon  his  brow  shame  is  ashamed  to  sit. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  3,  2. 

Villain  and  he  be  many  miles  asunder. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  5. 

Though  our  works 
Find  righteous  or  unrighteous  judgment, 

this 

At  least  is  ours,  to  make  them  righteous. 
SWINBURNE. — Marino  Faliero,  Act  3,  i. 

Live  pure,  speak  true,  right  wrong,  follow 

the  King — 
Else,  wherefore  born  ? 

TENNYSON. — Gareth. 

Who  reverenced  his  conscience  as  his  king  ; 

Whose  glory  was,  redressing  human  wrong  ; 

Who  spake  no  slander,  no,  nor  listened  to 

it.      TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication. 

Who  never  sold  the  truth  to  serve  the  hour, 

Nor  paltered  with  Eternal  God  for  power. 

TENNYSON. — Duke  of  Wellington,  st.  7. 

To  God,  thy  country  and  thy  friend  be 
true.  H.  VAUGHAN. — Rules  and  Lessons. 

Customs,  interests,  forms  of  worship, 
laws, — all  differ.  Let  a  man  be  true,  that 
is  enough.  The  rest  does  not  matter. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Loi  naiurelle. 

Suffice  it  that  he  never  brought 

His  conscience  to  the  public  mart ; 

But  lived  himself  the  truth  he  taught, 
White-souled,     clean-handed,    pure     of 
heart.  WHITTIER. — Sumner. 

Him  only  pleasure  leads  and  peace  attends, 

Him,  only  him,  the  shield  of  Jove  defends, 

Whose  means  are  fair  and  spotless  as  his 

ends.  WORDSWORTH. — Laodamia. 

INTELLECT 

Go  put  off  holiness  and  put  on  intellect. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Jerusalem. 

The  dome  of  Thought,  the  palace  of  the 
Soul.    BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  6. 

The  true  way  to  render  age  vigorous  is 
to  prolong  the  youth  of  the  mind. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. — Village  Comedy, 

1,56. 


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INTROSPECTION 


My  rnind  to  me  a  kingdom  is  ; 

Such  perfect  joys  therein  I  find, 
That  it  excels  all  other  bliss 

That  earth  affords,  or  grows  by  kind. 
SIR  E.  DYER. 

Though  never  nurtured  in  the  lap 
Of  luxury,  yet  I  admonish  you, 
I  am  an  intellectual  chap, 

And  think  of  things  that  would  as- 
tonish you. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

All  the  wise — therein  really  extolling 
themselves — agree  that  Mind  is  to  us  a 
king  of  heaven  and  of  earth. 

PLATO. — Philebus,  50. 

The  true  and  the  pure  pleasures,  asso- 
ciated with  health  and  sobriety  and  virtue, 
these  partake  of.  But  those  which  accom- 
pany folly  and  depravity  it  is  an  absurdity 
to  mix  with  Intellect.  PLATO. — Ib.,  152. 

The  feast  of  reason  and  the  flow  of  soul. 
POPE. — Satires,  Bk.  2,  Sat.  i,  128. 

The   power   least    prized    is    that   which 
thinks  and  feels 

WORDSWORTH. — Humanity,  i,  94. 

Intellect  obscures  more  than  it  illumines. 
I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  15. 
INTENTION 

I  praise   the  heart  and  pity  the  head  of 
him.  BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve. 

I  do  believe  you  think  what  now  youspeak; 
But  what  we  do  determine  oft  we  break. 
Purpose  is  but  the  slave  to  memory. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

The  attempt,   and   not   the  deed, 
Confounds  us. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  2. 

It  has  been  more  wittily  than  charit- 
ably said  that  hell  is  paved  with  good  in- 
tentions. They  have  their  place  in  heaven 
also.  SOUTHEY. — Colloquies. 

If  wrong  our  hearts,  our  heads  are  right 
in  vain.         YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

But  the  olde  proverbe  is  exceeding  true, 
That  these  great  wishers,  and  these  com- 
mon woulders, 

Are  never,  for  the  most  part,  good  house- 
holders.     The  Times'  Whistle  (1614). 

Heaven  favours  good  intentions. 

Spanish  prov. 

INTERRUPTION 

The  most  intelligent  of  all  the  Euro- 
pean nations  has  called  "  Never  Inter- 
rupt "  the  eleventh  commandment. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Noise. 


You  have  displaced  the  mirth,  broke  the 

good  meeting, 
With  most  admired  disorder. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

INTERVENTION 

Those  who  in  quarreU  interpose. 
Must  often  wipe  a  bloody  nose. 

GAY. — Fables.  Pt.  i,  34. 

Come   not    between    the   dragon   and  his 
wrath.     SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  i,  i. 

INTERVIEWERS 

With  much  communication  will  he 
tempt  thee,  and  smiling  upon  thee  will  get 
out  thy  secrets.  Ecclesiasticus  xiii,  n. 

INTOLERANCE 

Religious  persecution  may  shield  itself 
under  the  guise  of  a  mistaken  and  over- 
zealous  piety.       BURKE. — Impeachment  of 
Hastings,  Feb.  17,  1788. 
The  soberest  saints  are  more  stiff-necked 
Than-  th*   hottest-headed  of  the  wicked. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscell.   Thoughts. 

Christians  have  burnt  each  other,  quite 

persuaded 
That  all  the  Apostles  would  have  done  as 

they  did.  BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  83 ' 

Bigotry  murders  Religion,  to  frighten 
fools  with  her  ghost. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon,  No.  101. 

For  both  were  bigots — fateful  souls  that 

plague 
The  gentle  world. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — A  Woman  and  her  Son. 

Where  it  is  a  duty  to  worship  the  sun  it 
is  pretty  sure  to  be  a  crime  to  examine  the 
laws  of  heat.  LORD  MORLEY. — Voltaire. 

The  Athenians,  as  it  appears  to  me 
[Spcrates],  do  not  care  very  much  whether 
they  think  a  man  is  clever,  so  long  as  he 
does  not  communicate  his  wisdom.  When 
they  think  a  man  makes  others  wise,  they 
are  angry,  either  through  envy,  as  you  say, 
or  from  some  other  cause. 

PLATO. — Euthyphron,  3. 

To  say  a  man  is  bound  to  believe  is 
neither  truth  nor  sense. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Religion. 

They  [Luther  and  Calvin]  condemned 

the  Pope  and  yet  wished  to  imitate  him. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Author  of  the  Three 

Impostors. 

INTROSPECTION 

Yet  we  shall  one  day  gain,  life  past, 

Clear  prospect  o'er  our  being's  whole  ; 

Shall  see  ourselves,  and  learn  at  last 
Our  true  affinities  of  soul. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Farewell. 


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IRELAND 


Look  then  into  thine  heart  and  write. 
LONGFELLOW. — Voices  oftheNight,  Prelude. 

True  dignity  abides  with  him  alone 
Who,  in  the  silent  hour  of  inward  thought, 
Can  still  suspect  and  still  revere  himself 
In  lowliness  of  heart. 

WORDSWORTH. — Lines,  1795 

That  inward  eye 
Which  is  the  bliss  of  solitude. 
WORDSWORTH. — /  Wandered  Lonely. 

INTUITION 

But  God  has  a  few  of  us,  whom  he  whispers 

in  the  ear  ; 
The  rest  may  reason  and  welcome  :  'tis  we 

musicians  know. 

BROWNING. — Abt  Vogler,  n. 

Thought  is  deeper  than  all  speech  ; 

Feeling  deeper  than  all  thought ; 
Souls  to  souls  can  never  teach 

What  unto  themselves  was  taught. 

C.  P.  CRANCH. — Stanzas. 

That  you  are  fair  or  wise  is  vain, 

Or  strong,  or  rich,  or  generous  ; 

You  must  have  also  the  untangled  strain 

That  sheds  the  beauty  on  the  rose. 

EMERSON. — Fate. 

Heroism  feels  and  never  reasons,  and 
therefore  is  always  right. 

EMERSON. —  Heroism. 

INVENTORS  AND  INVENTIONS 

He  shall  have  chariots  easier  than  air, 

That  I  will  have  invented  ;  .  . .  And  thy- 
self. 

That  art  the  messenger,  shalt  ride  before 
him 

On  a  horse  cut  out  of  an  entire  diamond. 

That  shall  be  made  to  go  with  golden 
wheels, 

I  know  not  how  yet. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — A  King  and 
No  King  (1611),  Act  5. 

For  though  some  meaner  artist's  skill  were 

shown, 

In  mingling  colours,  or  in  placing  light, 
Yet  still  the  fair  designment  was  his  own. 
DRYDEN. — Death  of  Cromwell,  st.  24. 

The  inventions  of  the  last  fifty  years 
counterpoise  those  of  the  fifty  centuries 
before  them.  EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

Invention  breeds  invention.  No  sooner 
is  the  electric  telegraph  devised  than  gutta- 
percha,  the  very  material  it  requires,  is 
found.  EMERSON. — Ib. 

Deduct  all  that  men  of  the  humbler 
classes  have  done  for  England  in  the  way 
of  inventions  only,  and  see  where  she 
would  have  been  but  for  them. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Slavery,  ch.  3. 


"  I    am   Ymaginatyf,"    quath   he,    "  ydel 
was  I  nevere." 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman, 

Passus  15. 

Th'  invention  all  admir'd,  and  each  how 

he 
To  be   th'    inventor   miss'd ;    so  easy    it 

seem'd, 
Once    found,    which    yet    unfound    most 

would  have  thought 
Impossible. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  6,  498. 

Invention  is  the  most  expensive  thing 
in  the  world.  It  takes  no  end  of  time  and 
no  end  of  money. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  3. 

In  the  arts  of  life  man  invents  nothing  ; 
but  in  the  arts  of  death  he  outdoes  Nature 
herself,  and  produces  by  chemistry  and 
machinery  all  the  slaughter  of  plague,  pes- 
tilence and  famine. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

The  devil  has  a  very  inventive  mind. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Pucelle. 

It  is  easy  to  add  to  inventions. 

Latin  prov. 

INVISIBILITY 

I  could  not  see  my  little  friend  because 

he  was  not  there. 
R.  H.  BARHAM. — Misadventures  at  Margate. 

The  Spanish  fleet  thou  canst  not  see — 

because 
It  is  not  yet  in  sight. 

SHEXIDAN. — Critic,  Act  2,  2. 

But  optics  sharp  it  needs,  I  ween, 
To  see  what  is  not  to  be  seen. 

J.  TRUMBULL. — McFingal. 

INVITATION 

"  Will  you  walk  into  my  parlour  ?  "  said 

a  spider  to  a  fly  ; 
"  It's  the  prettiest  little  parlour  that  ever 

you  did  spy." 

MARY  HOWITT. — Spider  and  Fly 

Come  live  with  me  and  be  my  love. 

MARLOVVK. — ]ew  of  Malta,  Song. 

Whether  they  give  or  refuse,  it  delights 
women  equally  to  have  been  asked. 

OVID. — Ars  Amat.,  Bk.  i. 

Look,  with  what  courteous  action 
It  waves  you  to  a  more  removed  ground. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

IRELAND 

There  came  to  the  beach  a  poor  exile  of 
Erin.  CAMPBELL. — Exile  of  Erin. 

He  sang  the  bold  anthem  of  Erin-go-bragh 
["  Ireland  for   Ever  "].      CAMPBELL. —  Ib. 


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IRELAND 


ISOLATION 


That  domestic  Irish  Giant,  named  of 
Despair. 

CARLYLE. — Latter  Day  Pamphlets,  3. 

Our  Irish  blunders  are  never  blunders 
of  the  heart. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Essay  on  Irish  Bulls, 

ch.  5. 

There  is  one  distinguishing  peculiarity 
of  the  Irish  Bull — its  horns  are  tipped  with 
brass  [i.e.  impudence  or  self-possession]. 

Miss  EDGEWOKTH. — Ib.,  ch.  7. 

There  is  no  harm,  but  sometimes  a  great 

deal  of  good  done  by  laughing,  especially 

in  Ireland.          Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Rose, 

Thistle,  and  Shamrock,  Act  i,  i. 

I  never  met  anyone  in  Ireland  who 
understood  the  Irish  question,  except  one 
Englishman  who  had  only  been  there  a 
week. 

SIR  K.  FRASER,  M.P.,  House  of  Commons, 
May,  1919. 

Oh,  while  a  man  may  dream  awake, 

On  gentle  Irish  ground, 
'Tis  Paradise  without  the  snake — 
That's  easy  to  be  found. 
F.  LANGBRIDGE. — Dedicatory  Poem, 

The  Irish  are  a  fair  people  ;  they  never 
speak  well  of  one  another. 

JOHNSON. — Remark. 

For  'tis  the  capital  o'  the  finest  nation, 
Wid  charming  pisintry  upon  a  fruitful 

sod, 

Fightin'  like  divils  for  conciliation, 
An'  hatin"  each  other  for  the  love  of 

God. 
C.  LEVER. — Founded  on  old  Irish  Ballad. 

And  now  the  Irish  are  ashamed 
To  see  themselves  in  one  year  tamed  : 
So  much  one  man  can  do, 
That  does  both  act  and  know. 

MARVELL. — Ode  on  Cromwell,  75. 

An  Irishman's  heart  is  nothing  but  his 
imagination. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— John  Bull's  Other  Island, 

Act   i. 

Erin  go  bragh  !    A  far  better  anthem 
would  be,  Erin  go  bread  and  cheese. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — On  the  Irish  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

Glorious  Ireland,  sword  and  song 
Gird  and  crown  thee  :  none  may  wrong, 

Save  thy  sons  alone. 
The  sea  that  laughs  around  us 
Hath  sundered  not  but  bound  us  ; 
The  sun's  first  rising  found  us 

Throned  on  its  equal  throne. 

SWINBURNE — The   Union. 

The  lovely  and  the  lonely  bride, 
Whom  we  have  wedded  but  have  never 
won.        W.  WATSON. — Coronation  Ode. 


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The  cup  of  Ireland's  miseries  has  long 

been  overflowing,  and  even  yet  it  is  not 

full.          "An  Irish  Patriot  "  (as  quoted  by 

C.  H.  Spurgeon). 

He  that  would  England  win, 
Must  with  Ireland  first  begin. 

Old  Saying  (Ray). 

IRRESOLUTION 

Thus  conscience  doth  make  cowards  of  us 

all; 

And  thus  the  native  hue  of  resolution 
Is   sicklied   o'er   with    the   pale   cast   of 

thought ; 

And  enterprises  of  great  pith  and  moment, 
With  this  regard,  their  currents  turn  awry 
And  lose  the  name  of  action. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

Now  hear  what  I  revolve  : 
A  thought  unripe,  and  scarcely  yet  resolve. 
VIRGIL. — ^Eneid,  Bk.  9  (Dryden  tr.). 

IRRESPONSIBILITY 

The  hare-brained  chatter  of  irresponsible 
frivolity.  DISRAELI. — Speech,  1878. 

A  dark  horse  in  a  loose  box. 

LORD  MORLEY. — Referring  to  Lord 
Rosebery. 

Blame  not  my  lute  !   for  he  must  sound 
Of  this  or  that  as  liketh  me. 
SIR  T.  WYATT. — The  Lover's  Lute. 

IRRESPONSIVENESS 

Which  refuseth  to  hear  the  voice  of  the 
charmer,  charm  he  never  so  wisely. 

Church  Psalter,  Iviii,   5. 

We  have  piped  unto  you,  and  ye  have 
not  danced.  St.  Matthew  xi,  17. 

IRRETRIEVABLE,  THE 

Ole  Brer  Rabbit,  he  lean  fum  out  de 
steeple  en  'pollygize  de  bes'  he  kin,  but  no 
'pollygy  aint  gwine  ter  make  ha'r  come 
back  whar  de  b'iling  water  hit. 

J.  C.  HARRIS.— Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  ch.  45. 
IRRITATION 

There  is  a  common  saying  that  when  a 
horse  is  rubbed  on  the  gall,  he  will  kick. 

BISHOP  LATIMER. — Sermon,  1552. 

A*  things  anger  you,  and  the  cat  breaks 
your  heart.  Scottish  prov. 

ISOLATION 

I   have  made   a   great   discovery.  .  . 
The  strongest  man  upon  earth  is  he  who 
stands  most  alone  (Dr.  Stockmann). 

IBSEN. — An  Enemy  of  Society. 

One  and  none  is  all  one. 

Spanish  prov.  (Ray). 


ITALY 


ITALY 

Open  my  heart  and  you  will  see 
Graved  inside  of  it,  "  Italy." 

BROWNING. — De  Gustibus. 

I  love  the  language,  that  soft  bastard  Latin, 
Which  melts  like  kisses  from  a  female 

mouth, 

And  sounds  as  if  it  should  be  writ  on  satin, 
With   syllables    which    breathe   of    the 
sweet  south. 

BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  44. 

A  man  who  has  not  been  in  Italy  is 
always  conscious  of  an  inferiority. 

JOHNSON. — Remark,  1776. 

Subtle,  discerning,  eloquent,  the  slave 
Of  Love,  of  Hate,  for  ever  in  extremes  ; 
Gentle  when  unprovoked,  easily  won, 
But  quick  in  quarrel — through  a  thousand 

shades 

His  spirit  flits,  chameleon-like  ;  and  mocks 
The  eye  of  the  observer.  [Sketch  of 
Italian  character.] 

ROGERS. — Italy,  Venice. 

They  spell  it  Vinci  and  pronounce  it 
Vinchy ;  foreigners  always  spell  better 
than  they  pronounce. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  Abroad, 
ch.  19. 

Lump  the  whole  thing  !  Say  that  the 
Creator  made  Italy  from  designs  by 
Michael  Angelo  ! 

MARK  TWAIN. — Ib.,  ch.  27. 

Fair  Land  !  Thee  all  men  greet  with  joy  ; 

how  few, 
Whose  souls  take  pride  in  freedom,  virtue, 

fame, 

Part  from  thee  without  pity  dyed  in  shame  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Tour  in  Italy,  25. 


JANUARY 

If  the  grass  grows  in  Janiveer, 

It  grows  the  worse  for  "t  all  the  year. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
JEALOUSY 

There  is  more  iealousy  between  rival 
wits  than  rival  beauties,  for  vanity  has 
no  sex.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

The  wise  too  jealous  are,  fools  too  secure. 

CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World, 

Act  3,  3. 

Thou  tyrant,  tyrant  Jealousy, 
Thou  tyrant  of  the  mind  ! 

DRYDEN. — Love  Triumphant, 

A  jealous  woman  believes  everything 
her  passion  suggests. 

GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 


JESTING 


What  frenzy  dictates  jealousy  believes. 
GAY. — Dione. 

Jealousy  is  always  born  with  love,  but 
does  not  always  die  with  it. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  361. 

In  jealousy  there  is  more  self-love  thau 
love.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  361. 

Nor  jealousy 

Was  understood,  the  injured  lover's  hell. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  5,  449. 

For  story  and  experience  tell  us 
That  man  grows  old  and  woman  jealoui. 
PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  z,  65. 

Rash-embraced  despair, 
And    shuddering    fear,     and    green-eyed 
jealousy.      SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant 
of  Venice,  Act  3,  2. 
How  many  fools  serve  mad  jealousy  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  i. 

O  beware,  my  lord,  of  jealousy  ; 
It  is  the  green-eyed  monster,  which  doth 

mock 
The  meat  it  feeds  on. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3 

Trifles,  light  as  air. 
Are  to  the  jealous  confirmations  strong 
As  proofs  of  holy  writ. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

For  where  Love  reigns,  disturbing  Jealousy 
Doth  call  himself  Affection's  sentinel ; 
Gives  false  alarms,  suggesteth  mutiny. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  st.  109. 

This  carry-tale  dissentious  Jealousy, 
That    sometimes    true    news,    sometimes 
false  doth  bring. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  st.  no. 

Jealousy's  a  city  passion ;  'tis  a  thing 
unknown  among  people  of  quality. 

SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — Confederacy. 

And  even  mother  earth  had  loved  him 

more 
Than  me ;   his  wide  sun-flooded  meadows 

bore 
A  golden  host  that  numbered  mine  thrice 

o'er. 
AUGUSTA  WEBSTER. — The  Snow  Waste. 

It  is  the  hydra  of  calamities, 
The  seven-fold  death. 

YOUNG. — The  Revenge. 

Love  is  strong  as  death  ;  jealousy  is 
cruel  as  the  grave.  Song  of  Solomon  ii,  2. 

JESTING 

Beware  of  jokes  !  Too  much  temperance 
cannot  be  used — inestimable  for  sauce, 
but  corrupting  for  food  ;  we  go  away 
hollow  and  ashamed. 

EMERSON. — Social  .-\  iins. 


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JEWELS 


JOURNALISM 


Nor  dare  I  rally  with  such  dangerous  folk, 

Lest  I  be  torn  in  pieces  for  a  joke. 

P.  FRANCIS — Horace,  Epistles,  Bk.  i,  iy. 

He  makes  a  foe  who  makes  a  jest. 

GAY. — Fables,  46. 

Full    well    they    laughed,    with    counter- 
feited glee, 

At  all  his  jokes,  for  many  a  joke  had  he. 
GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

The  jests  of  the  rich  are  ever  successful. 
GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  ch.  7. 

May  there  be  no  ill-natured  interpreter 
to  put  false  constructions  on  the  honest 
meaning  of  my  jests. 

MARTIAL. — Epig.,  Bk.  i,  Preface. 

I  suppose  the  chief  bar  to  the  action  of 

imagination,  and  stop  to  all  greatness  in 

this  present  age  of  ours,  is  its  mean  and 

shallow  love  of  jest.        RUSKIN. — Modern 

Painters,  vol.  2,  Pi.  3,  ch.  3,  10. 

For  the  love  of  laughter,  hinder  not  the 
humour  of  his  design. 

SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  3,  6. 

No,  no,  they  do  but  jest,  poison  in  jest : 
no  offence  i'  the  world. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamle',  Act  3,  2. 

A  jest  unseen,  inscrutable,  invisible 
As  a  nose  on  a  man's  face,  or  a  weather- 
cock on  a  steeple  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  2,  i. 

My  way  of  joking  is  to  tell  the  truth. 
It's  the  funniest  joke  in  the  world. 
G.  B.  SHAW.— John  Bull's  Other  Island, 

Act  2. 

Guides  cannot  master  the  subtleties  of 
the  American  joke.  MARK  TWAIN. — 

Innocents  Abroad,  ch.  27. 
Better  lose  a  joke  than  a  friend. 

French  prov. 

Affront  your  friend  in  damn  [in  joke], 
and  tine  [lose]  him  in  earnest. 

Scottish  prov. 

The  wise  make  jests  and  fools  repeat  them. 
Prov.  (Kay). 
JEWELS 

Jewels,  orators  of  Love. 
S.  DANIEL. — Rosamond,  st.  52. 

Rich  and  rare  were  the  gems  she  wore, 
And  a  bright  gold  ring  on  her  hand  she 
bore.  MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

They  marveyle  that  any  men  be  so 
folyshe  as  to  have  delite  and  pleasure  in 
the  doubteful  glisteringe  of  a  lytil  try- 
fellyuge  stone,  which  maye  beholde  annye 
of  the  starres  or  elles  the  sonne  it  selfe. 

SIR  T.  MORE. — Utopia  (Ralph  Robinson 
tr.),  Bk.  2. 


On  her  white  breast  a  sparkling  cross  she 

bore, 

Which  Jews  might  kiss,  and  infidels  adore. 
POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  2,  7. 

Win   her  with   gifts,   if  she   respect   not 

words : 

Dumb  jewels  often,  in  their  silent  kind, 
More    quick     than    words,    do    move    a 

woman's  mind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act,  3,  i. 
JEWS 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  phenomena 
in  the  history  of  this  scattered  people, 
made  for  ages  "  a  scorn  and  a  hissing," 
is  that . . .  they  have  come  out  of  it  (in  any 
estimate  which  allows  for  numerical  pro- 
portion) rivalling  the  nations  of  all 
European  countries  in  healthiness  and 
beauty  of  physique,  in  practical  ability, 
in  scientific  and  artistic  aptitude,  and  in 
some  forms  of  ethical  value. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such. 
The  Modern  Hep  !  Hep!  Hep! 

A  hopeless  faith,  a  homeless  race, 
Yet  seeking  the  most  holy  place, 

And  owning  the  true  bliss. 
KEBLE. — 5th  Sun.  in  Lent. 

Hath  not  a  Jew  eyes  ?  Hath  not  a  Jew 
hands,  organs,  dimensions,  senses,  affec- 
tions, passions  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  i. 

And  Israel  shall  be  a  proverb  and  a 
byword  among  all  peoples. 

i   Kings  iv,   25   (R.V.). 

JILTED 

Better  be  courted  and  jilted 
Than  never  be  courted  at  all. 

CAMPBELL. — Jilted  Nymph. 

Say  what  you  will,  'tis  better  to  be  left, 
than  never  to  have  been  loved. 

CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World,  Act  2,  i. 

Alas,  she  married  another.  They  fre- 
quently do.  I  hope  she  is  happy — because 
I  am.  ARTEMUS  WAKD. — Lecture. 

JOHN  BULL 

The  world  is  a  bundle  of  hay, 

Mankind  are  the  asses  who  pull  ; 

Each  tugs  it  a  different  way, 

And  the  greatest  of  all  is  John  Bull. 
BYRON  . — Epigra  m. 

JOURNALISM 

Nor  ever  once  ashamed. 
So  we  be  named — 

Press-men  ;  Slaves  of  the  Lamp  :  Servants 
of  Light. 

SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Tenth  Muse. 


JOY 


JUDGMENT 


Journalists  always  say  what  they  know 
is  untrue,  in  the  hope  that  if  they  go  on 
saying  it  long  enough  it  will  come  true. 

'  A.  BENNETT.— The  Title  (1918),  Act  2. 

Great  is  Journalism.     Is  not  every  able 

Editor    a    Ruler   of    the    World,    being   a 

persuader  of  it  ?  CARI.YLE. — French 

Revolution,  Pt.  2,  Bk.  i,  14. 

The  crimes  I  commit  are  not  all  kept 
out  of  the  newspapers. 
PETT  RIDGE. — Mr.  Frank  Cardwell  (who 
"  wrote  for  the  press  "). 

For  a  slashing  article,  sir,  there's  nobody 
like  the  Capting. 

THACKERAY. — Pendennis,  Bk.  i,  ch.  32. 

Ah,  ye  Knights  of  the  pen  !  May  honour 
be  your  shield,  and  truth  tip  your  lances  ! 
Be  gentle  to  all  gentle  people.  Be  modest 
to  women.  Be  tender  to  children.  And 
as  for  the  Ogre  Humbug,  out  sword  and 
have  at  him  ! 
THACKERAY. — Roundabout  Papers,  Ogres. 

JOY 

Full   from   the   fount   of  Joy's   delicious 

springs, 
Some  bitter  o'er  the  flowers  its  bubbling 

venom  flings. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  82. 

Earth's  sweetest  joy  is  but  disguised  woe. 
W.  DRUMMOND. — Song. 

And  Joy,  whose  hand  is  ever  at  his  lips, 
Bidding  adieu. 

KEATS. — Ode  to  Melancholy. 

Great    joys,    like    griefs,    are    silent. 
S.  MARMION. — Holland's  Leaguer,  Act  5,  i. 

But  headlong  joy  is  ever  on  the  wing. 

MILTON. — The  Passion,   5. 

In  folly's  cup  still  laughs  the  bubble  joy. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  288. 

For  when  the  power  of  imparting  joy 
Is  equal  to  the  will,  the  human  soul 
Requires  no  other  heaven. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab,  c.  3. 

Though  grief  be  a  more  violent  passion 
than  joy — as  indeed  all  uneasy  sensations 
seem  naturally  more  pungent  than  the 
opposite  agreeable  ones — yet  of  the  two, 
surprises  of  joy  are  still  more  insupportable 
than  surprises  of  grief. 

ADAM  SMITH. — History  of  Astronomy. 

JUDGES 

A  great  judge  and  a  little  judge, 
The  judges  of  Assize. 

HOOD. — Tim  Turpin. 


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A    Daniel    come    to    judgment ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice,  Act 

4i  i. 

If  thou  be  a  severe,  sour-complex ioned 
man,  then  I  here  disallow  thee  to  be  a 
competent  judge. 
IZAAK  WALTON. — Complete  Angler,  Pref. 

JUDGMENT 

Virtuous  and  wise  he  was,  but  not  severe  ; 
He  still   remembered   that  he  once   was 

young. 

DR.  J.  ARMSTRONG. — Art  of  Preserving 
Health,  Bk.  4. 

Then  at  the  balance  let's  be  mute, 

We  never  can  adjust  it ; 
What's  done  we  partly  may  compute, 

We  know  not  what's  resisted. 

BURNS. — To  the  Unco  Guid. 

Then  gently  scan  your  brother  man, 

Still  gentlier  sister  woman  ; 
Though  they  may  go  a  kennin  wrang, 

To  step  aside  is  human.      BURNS. — 76. 

Affection  bends  the  judgment  to  her  ply. 
H.  F.  GARY. — Dante's  Paradise,  c.  13,  115. 

Why  is  it  that  we  so  constantly  hear 
men  complaining  of  their  memory,  but 
none  of  their  judgment  ? 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

And  judgment  at  the  helm  was  set, 
But  judgment  was  a  child  as  yet, 
And  lack-a-day  !   was  all  unfit, 

To  guide  the  boat  aright. 
G.  P.  R.  JAMES. — The  Voyage  of  Life. 

Still  mark  if  vice  or  nature  prompts  the 

deed  ; 

Still  mark  the  strong  temptation,  and  the 
need.  J.  LANGHORNE. — Country 

Justice,  Intro.,  143. 
In  men  whom  men  deem  ill, 
I  find  so  much  of  goodness  still ; 
In  men  whom  men  pronounce  divine, 

I  find  so  much  of  fin  and  blot, 
I  hesitate  to  draw  the  line 

Between  the  two,  where  God  has  not. 
JOAOUIN  MILLER. 

The  greatest  and  most  beautiful  example 
of  intellect  is  when  it  is  effective  in  the 
well-ordering  of  cities  and  of  private 
dwellings,  and  which  is  given  the  name  of 
judgment  and  justice. 

PLATO. — Banquet,  33  (Statement  of 
Diotima). 

To  perceive  is  to  feel :  to  compare  is  to 
judge.  Judging  and  feeling  are  not  the 
same  thing.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Commonly  we  say  a  Judgment  falls  upon 
a  man  for  something  in  them  we  cannot 
abide.  SELDEN. — Judgment. 

O  judgment,  thou  art  fled  to  brutish  beasts, 
And  men  have  lost  their  reason  ! 
SHAKESPEARE, — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2 


JUNE 

Before  you  answer  '  Yea  '  or  '  Nay  ,' 
Hear  what  both  sides  shall  have  to  say. 
D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Saks  Attici. 

From  all  rash  censure  be  the  mind  kept 
free  ! 

He  only  judges  right  who  weighs,  com- 
pares, 

And  in  the  sternest  sentence  which  his 
voice 

Pronounces,  ne'er  abandons  Charity. 

WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,   i. 

I  speak  as  to  wise  men  ;  judge  ye  what 
I  say.  i  Corinthians  x,  15. 

The  vials  of  the  wrath  of  God. 

Revelation  xvi,  i. 

JUNE 

And  what  is  so  rare  as  a  day  in  June  ? 

Then  if  ever  come  perfect  days; 
Then  heaven  tries  earth  if  it  be  in  time, 

And  over  it  softly  her  warm  ear  lays. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — SirLaunfal. 

The  roses  make  the  world  so  sweet, 
The  bees,  the  birds  have  such  a  tune, 

There's  such  a  light  and  such  a  heat 
And  such  a  joy  in  June. 

G.  MACDONALD. — To . 


Oh,  to  go  back  to  the  days  of  June, 
Just  to  be  young  and  alive  again, 

Hearken  again  to  the  mad  sweet  tune 
Birds    were    singing    with    might    and 
main. 

LOUISE  C.  MOULTON. — Ballade  of  Winter. 

JURIES 

The  whole  machinery  of  the  State,  all 
the  apparatus  of  the  System  and  its  varied 
workings,  end  simply  in  bringing  twelve 
good  men  into  a  box. 

LORD  BROUGHAM. — Present  State  of 
the  Law. 

Thou  that  goest  upon  Middlesex  juries, 
and  will  make  haste  to  give  up  thy  verdict 
because  thou  will  not  lose  thy  dinner. 
MIDDLETON. — Trick  to  Catch  the  Old  One, 

Act  4,  5- 
Twelve  good  honest  men  shall  decide  in 

our  cause, 
And  be  judges  of  fact,  though  not  judges 

of  laws. 

WM.  PULTENEY  (EARL  OF  BATH). — Song 
in  "  The  Craftsman." 
The  jury,  passing  on  the  prisoner's  life, 
May,  in  a  sworn  twelve,  have  a  thief  or  two 
Guiltier  than  him  they  try. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  2,   i. 
JUSTICE 

There  are  in  nature  certain  fountains 
of  justice,  whence  all  civil  laws  are  derived 
but  as  streams. 

BACON. — Adv,  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 


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JUSTICE 

This  world  would  be  more  just  if  truth 

and  lies, 
And  right  and  wrong,  did  bear  an  equal 

price  ; 

But  since  impostures  are  so  highly  raised, 
And  faith  and  justice  equally  debased, 
Few  men  have  tempers  for  such  paltry 

gains 
To  undo  themselves  with  drudgery  and 

pains. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

When  justice  on  offenders  is  not  done, 
Law,  government,  and  commerce  are  o'er- 
thrown. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Of  Justice,  85. 

Justice  is  blind,  he  knows  nobody. 
DRYDEN. — Wild  Gallant,  Act  5,  i. 

Stainless  soldier  on  the  walls, 
Knowing  this, — and  knows  no  more, — 
Whoever  fights,  whoever  falls 
Justice  conquers  evermore. 

EMERSON. — Voluntaries,  No.  4 

To  honour  justice  and  to  love  the  right, 
Which  friends  to  friends  and  state  to  state 

unite, 

Be  ours.  We  honour  equal  aims  and  ends. 
But  still  the  greater  with  the  less  contends, 
And  evil  times  begin. 

EURIPIDES. — Phcen.,  5,  545. 

The  rule  of  right  and  the  eternal  fitness 
of  things. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  4,  ch.  4. 

Justice  is  only  a  lively  apprehension 
lest  we  should  be  deprived  of  what  belongs 
to  us.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  520. 

Justice  is  so  fine  a  thing  that  one  cannot 
buy  it  too  dear.  LK  SAGE. — Crispin. 

Where  justice  reigns,  'tis  freedom  to  obey. 
JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Greenland. 

Justice  is  lame,  as  well  as  blind  amongst 

us. 
T.  OTWAY. — Venice  Preserved,  Act  i,  i. 

Nothing  becomes  a  king  so  much  as  the 
distribution  of  justice.  War  is  a  tyrant, 
as  Timotheus  (c.  B.C.  500)  expresses  it, 
but  Pindar  (B.C.  518-439)  says,  Justice  is 
the  rightful  sovereign  of  the  world. 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Demetrius. 

Poetic  justice,  with  her  lifted  scale, 
Where,  in  nice  balance,  truth  with  gold 

she  weighs, 

And  solid  pudding  against  empty  praise. 
POPE. — Dunciad,  52. 

Strict  justice  is  the  sovereign  guide 
That  o'er  our  actions  should  preside. 
This  queen  of  virtues  is  confessed 
To  regulate  and  bind  the  rest. 
Thrice  happy  if  you  once  can  find 
Jfer  equal  balance  poise  your  mind  : 


KENT 


KINGS 


All  different  graces  soon  will  enter, 
Like  lines  concurrent  to  their  centre. 

PRIOR. — Conversation,  29. 

The  love  of  men,  derived  from  self-love, 
is  the  principle  of  human  justice. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

What  stronger  breastplate  than  a  heart 

untainted  ? 
Thrice  is  he  armed  that  hath  his  quarrel 

just. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  2. 

Justice  is  pleasant  even  when  she  de- 
stroys. SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on 
Moral  Philosophy,  No.  12. 

Justice  is  fled  and  truth  is  now  no  more. 
VIRGIL. — ,£neid,  Bk.  4  (Dryden  tr.). 

Extreme  justice  is  an  extreme  injury. 
VOLTAIRE. — (Edipus,  Act  3.  (A  variant  of 
the  "  trite  saying  "  quoted  by  Cicero.    Sec 

"  Law."). 


K 

KENT 

Kent,    sir — everybody    knows     Kent — 
apples,  cherries,  hops,  and  women. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  2. 

For  a  yeoman  of  Kent,  with  his  yearly 

rent, 

There  never  was  a  widow  could  say  him 
nay.  SCOTT. — Ivanhoe,  40. 

Kent,  in  the  commentaries  of  Caesar  writ, 
Is  termed  the  civillest  place  of  all  this  isle. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  z,  Act  4,  7. 

KINDNESS 

Thy  Godlike  crime  was  to  be  kind, 
To  render  with  thy  precepts  less 
The  sum  of  human  wretchedness. 

BYRON. — Prometheus. 

Little  deeds  of  kindness,  little  words  of 

love, 
Help  to  make  earth  happy,  like  the  heaven 

above. 

JULIA  A.  CARNEY. — Little  Things. 

Nothing  is  so  popular  as  kindness. 

CICERO. — Pro  Ligario. 
And  kind  as  kings  upon  their  coronation 

day. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther,Pt.  i,  271. 

A  heart  as  soft,  a  heart  as  kind, 

A  heart  as  sound  and  free 
As  in  the  whole  world  thou  canst  find, 

That  heart  I'll  give  to  thee. 

HERRICK. — Hesperides,  268. 

Give,  if  thou  canst,  an  alms  :  if  not,  afford, 

Instead  of  that,  a  sweet  and  gentle  word. 

HERRICK, — Noble  Numbers,  No.  71. 


Men  love  us,  or  they  need  our  love. 
KEBLE. — Christian  Year,  7th  Sunday 
after  Trinity. 

Kindness,  nobler  ever  than  revenge. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  4,  3. 

Is  she  kind  as  she  is  fair  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  4,  2. 

Surely  never  did  there  live  on  earth 
A  man  of  kindlier  nature. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  i. 

That  best  portion  of  a  good  man's  life, 
His  little,  nameless,  unreraembered  acts 
Of  kindness  and  of  love. 

WORDSWORTH. — Tintern  Abbey. 

KINDRED 

A  little  more  than  kin,  and  less  than  kind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

KINGS 

For  this  is  the  true  strength  of  guilty  kings, 

When  they  corrupt  the  souls  of  those  they 

rule.  M.  ARNOLD. — Mcrope. 

Alexander,  Julius  Caesar,  and  Pompey, 
what  were  they  compared  with  Diogenes, 
Heraclitus,  and  Socrates  ? 

MARCUS  AURELIUS,  8,  3. 

Kings  will  be  tyrants  from  policy,  when 
subjects  are  rebels  from  principle. 

BURKE. — Appeal  from  New  to  Old 

Whigs. 

Whilst  doubts  assailed  him,  o'er  and  o'er 

again, 

If  men  were  made  for  kings,  or  kings  for 
men.      CAMPBELL. — Pilgrim  of  Glencoe. 

Drede  God,  do  law,  love  truth  and  wor- 
th inesse, 

And  wed  thy  folk  agein  to  stedfastnesse. 
CHAUCER. — To  K.  Richard  II. 

Power  on  an  ancient  consecrated  throne, 
Strong    in    possession,    founded    in    old 

custom ; 
Power  by  a  thousand  tough  and  stringy 

roots 

Fixed  to  the  people's  pious  nursery-faith. 
COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini,  Act  4,  4. 

A  sovereign's  ear  ill  brooks  a  subject's 
questioning. 

COLERIDGE. — Zapolya,  Pt.  i,  i. 

We  love 

The  king  who  loves  the  law. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk,  336. 

I  would  not  be  a  king  to  be  beloved 
Causeless,  and  daubed  with  undiscerning 
praise.  COWPER. — lb.,  364. 


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KISSES 


When  kings  the  sword  of  justice  first  lay 

down, 
They  are  no  kings,  though  they  possess 

the  crown. 
DEFOE. — True-Born  Engliskman,Pt.  2,  313. 

Titles   are   shadows,   crowns   are   empty 

things, 
The  good  of  subjects  is  the  end  of  kings. 

DEFOE. — Ib.,  PI.   2,   315. 

A  patient  man's  a  pattern  for  a  king. 
DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Pt.  2,  Act  5,  2. 

Thus  Kings,  by  grasping  more  than  they 

could  hold, 
First  made  their  subjects  by  oppression 

bold; 
And  popular  sway,  by  forcing  Kings  to 

give 

More  than  was  fit  for  subjects  to  receive, 

Ran  to  the  same  extremes  ;  and  one  excess 

Made  both,  by  striving  to  be  greater,  less. 

SIR  J.  DENHAU. — Cooper's  Hill,  343. 

Kings'  titles  commonly  begin  by  force, 
Which  time  wears  off  and  mellows  into 

right ; 

And  power,  which  in  one  age  is  tyranny, 
Is  ripened  in  the  next  to  true  succession. 
DRYDEN. — -Spanish  Friar,  Act  4,  2. 

'Tis  hard  for  kings  to  steer  an  equal  course, 

And  they  who  banish  one  oft  gain  a  worse. 

DRYDEN. — Tarquin   and    Tullia. 

The  fortune  which  made  you  a  king,  for- 
bade you  to  have  a  friend.  It  is  a  law  of 
nature,  which  cannot  be  violated  with 
impunity.  JUNIUS. — Letter  35. 

For  therein  stands  the  office  of  a  king, 
His  honour,  virtue,  merit,  and  chief  praise, 
That  for  the  public  all  this  weight  he  bears. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  463. 

The   Right   Divine   of   kings    to    govern 
wrong.        POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  4,  188. 

Here  lies  our  sovereign  lord  the  king, 

Whose  word  no  man  relies  on  ; 
He  never  says  a  foolish  thing, 

Nor  ever  does  a  wise  one. 
EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — On  Charles  II. 

A  merry  monarch,  scandalous  and  poor. 
EARL  OF  ROCHESTER.— -On  the  King. 

A  Kin^  of  shreds  and  patches. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

There's  such  divinity  doth  hedge  a  king, 
That   treason  can   but   peep   to  what   it 
would.      SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  5. 

Nice  customs  court'sey  to  great  kings. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  5,  2. 


There  was  a  Brutus  once,  that  %vould  have 

brooked 

The  eternal  devil  to  keep  his  state  in  Rome, 
As  easily  as  a  king. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  2. 

Ay,  every  inch  a  King. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  4,  6. 

Not  all  the  water  in  the  rough,  rude  sea, 

Can  wash  the  balm  from  an  anointed  king. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  2. 

Besides,  the   king's   name    is   a  tower  of 

strength. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3. 

What  care  these  roarers  for  the  name  of 
king? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  i. 

Kings  are  like  stars — they  rise,  they  set, 

they  have 

The  worship  of  the  world,  but  no  repose. 
SHELLEY. — Hellas. 

Death  lays  his  icy  hand  on  kings  : 

Sceptre  and  crown 

Must  tumble  down, 
And  in  the  dust  be  equal  made 
With  the  poor  crooked  scythe  and  spade. 

JAS.  SHIRLEY. — Ajax  and  Ulysses. 

The  power  of  kings  (if  rightly  understood) 

Is  but  a  grant  from  Heaven  of  doing  good. 

W.  SOMERVILLE. — Fables,  No.  12. 

Our  great  King  [Cromwell]  came  from 
Huntingdon,   not  Hanover. 

THACKERAY. — Esmond,  Bk.   3,  ch.  5. 
(St.  John). 

The  universe  distrusts  the  friendship  of 
kings.  VOLTAIRE. — Don  Pedre. 

Heaven,  in  its  vengeance,  often  bestows 
kings.  VOLTAIRE. — Simiramis. 

Hail  to  the  crown  by  Freedom  shaped — 

to  gird 
An  English  Sovereign's  brow,  and  to  the 

throne 
Whereon  he  sits  !  whose  deep  foundations 

lie 
In  veneration  and  the  people's  love. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  6,  i. 

The  Crown  alone  can  legally  create  that 
which  does  not  actually  exist. 

Ancient  law  maxim  (Lot.). 

KISSES 

A  long,  long  kiss,  a  kiss  of  youth,  and  love. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  186. 

My  wish  is  quite  as  wide,  but  not  so  bad, 

That  womankind  had  but  one  rosy  mouth, 

To  kiss  them  all  at  once  from  North  to 

South.  BYRON. — Ib.,  6,  27. 


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KNOWLEDGE 


Being  used  but  sisterly  salutes  to  feel, 
Insipid   things — like   sandwiches  of  veal. 
HOOD.—  Bianca's  Dream. 

O,  a  kiss, 

Long  as  my  exile,  sweet  as  my  revenge  ! 
SHAKESPKARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  5,  3. 

The  woman  that  cries  hush  bids  kiss  :    I 

learnt 

So  much  of  her  that  taught  me  kissing. 
SWINBURNE. — Marino  Faliero,  Act   i. 

And  sweet  red  splendid  kissing  mouth. 
SWINBURNE. — Tr.  of  Villon 

O  Love,  O  fire  !    once  he  drew 

With  one  long  kiss  my  whole  soul  through 

My  lips,  as  sunlight  drinketh  dew. 

TENNYSON. — Fatima. 

A  man  had  given  all  other  bliss 
And  all  his  worldly  worth  for  this, 
To  waste  his  whole  heart  in  a  kiss 

Upon  her  perfect  lips. 
TENNYSON. — Launcelot  and  Guinevere. 

And  our  spirits  rushed   together  at   the 
touching  of  the  lips. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Dear  as  remembered  kisses,  after  death, 
And  sweet  as  those  by  hopeless  fancy 

feigned 
On  lips  that  are  for  others. 

TENNYSON — Princess,  c.  4,  36. 

KNIGHTS 

He  was  a  verray  parfit  gentil  knight. 
CHAUCER. — Canterbury  Tales,  Prol.,  72. 

For  lady's  suit,  and  minstrel's  strain, 
By  knight  should  ne'er  be  heard  in  vain. 
SCOTT. — Marmion,  i,  13. 

He  then  that  is  not  furnished  in  this  sort 
Doth  but  usurp  the  sacred  name  of  knight. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  i,  Act  4,  i. 

KNOWLEDGE 

For  knowledge  itself  is  power. 

BACON. — De  Hceresibus. 

A  man  is  but  what  he  knoweth. 
BACON. — In  Praise  of  Knowledge. 

Is  it  not  knowledge  which  doth  alone 
clear  the  mind  of  all  perturbations  ? 

BACON. — Ib. 

The  sovereignty  of  man  lieth  hid  in 
knowledge.  BACON. — Ib. 

It  is  no  less  true  in  this  human  kingdom 

of  knowledge,  than  in  God's  kingdom  of 

heaven,  that  no  man  shall  enter  unto  it, 

"except  he  become  first  as  a  little  child." 

BACON. — Valerius  Terminus. 


How  small  is  our  knowledge  in  com- 
parison of  our  ignorance  ! 

BAXTER. — Saints'  Everlasting  Rest. 

Be  ignorance  thy  choice,  when  knowledge 
leads  to  woe. 

BEATTIE. — Minstrel,  Bk.  2,  st.  30. 

Can  you  think  at  all  and  not  pronounce 
heartily  that  to  labour  in  knowledge  is  to 
build  up  Jerusalem,  and  to  despise  know- 
ledge is  to  despise  Jerusalem  and  her 
builders  ?  WM.  BLAKE. — Jerusalem. 

There  is  no  knowledge  which  is  not 
valuable. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 

Sorrow   is   knowledge :     they   who   know 

the  most 
Must  mourn   the   deepest  o'er   the  fatal 

truth  : 

The  tree  of  knowledge  is  not  that  of  life 
BYRON. — Manfred,  Act  i,  i. 

What  a  man  kens  he  cans. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution. 

Grace  is  given  of  God,  but  knowledge 
is  bought  in  the  market. 

A.  H.  CLOUGH. — Tober-na-Vuolich. 

Knowledge  and  wisdom,  far  from  being 

one, 
Have  oft-times  no  connection. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Knowledge  is  the  antidote  to  fear. 

EMERSON. — Courage. 

And  still  they  gazed,  and  still  the  wonder 

grew, 
That  one  small  head  could  carry  all  he 

knew.    GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Time  and  industry  produce  every  day 
new  knowledge. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  30. 

It  is  the  province  of  knowledge  to  speak' 

and  it  is  the  privilege  of  wisdom  to  listen- 

O.  W.  HOLMES.— Poet  at  Breakfast  Table. 

If  a  little  knowledge  is  dangerous,  where 
is  the  man  who  has  so  much  as  to  be  out 
of  danger  ? 

T.  H.  HUXLEY. — Science  and  Culture. 

What  sages  would  have  died  to  learn, 
Now  taught  by  cottage  dames. 

KE  BLE. — Catech  ism. 

We  are  afflicted  by  what  we  can  prove  ; 
We  are  distracted  by  what  we  know. 

KIPLING. — Rewards  and  Fairies,  Our 
Fathers  of  Old. 

To  know  is  not  to  know,  unless  someone 
else  has  known  that  I  know. 

LUCULLUS. — Fragments. 


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LABOUR 


The  first  and  wisest  of  them  all  professed 
To  know  this  only,  that  he  nothing  knew. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained  (of  Socrates), 
Bk.  4,  29;,. 
Knowledge,  when  wisdom  is  too  weak  to 

guide  her, 
Is  like  a  headstrong  horse,  that  throws  the 

rider.  QUARLES. — Miscellanies. 

The  more  men  know,  the  more  they 
deceive  themselves.  The  only  way  to 
avoid  error  is  ignorance. 

ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

The  only  thing  we  do  not  know  is  how 
to  be  ignorant  of  that  which  we  cannot 
know.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

Most  men  want  knowledge,  not  for 
itself,  but  for  the  superiority  which  know- 
ledge confers. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  9. 

A  man  who  dedicates  his  life  to  know- 
ledge becomes  habituated  to  pleasure 
which  carries  with  it  no  reproach. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Ib.,  No.  19. 

One  eminent  man  of  our  time  has  said 
of  another  that  "  science  was  his  forte 
and  omniscience  his  foible."  But  that 
instance  was  not  an  extreme  one  .  .  . 
The  universalist,  who  handles  everything 
and  embraces  nothing,  has  been  seen  to 
pass  into  a  pursuer  of  the  mere  vanities 
and  frivolities  cf  intellectual  display. 

SIR  H.  TAYLOR. — Notes  from  Life. 

Knowledge  comes,  but  wisdom  lingers. 
TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Woe  to  every  mind  which  wishes  to  be 
over-wise  !  VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire. 

He  who  knows  not  and  knows  not  that 
he  knows  not  is  a  fool — avoid  him  ! 

He  who  knows  and  knows  not  that  he 
knows  is  asleep — awake  him  ! 

He  who  knows  not  and  knows  that  lie 
knows  not  wants  beating — beat  him  ! 

But  he  who  knows  and  knows  that  he 
knows  is  a  wise  man — know  him  ! 

Oriental  prov. 


LABELS 

Don't  rely  too  much  on  labels, 
For  too  often  they  are  fables. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

LABOUR 

Tools  were  made  and  born  were  hands, 
Every  farmer  understands. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 


They  who  always  labour  can  have  no 

true  judgment.    BURKE. — Letter  to  Member 

of  National  Assembly  (1791). 

Such  hath  it  been — shall  be — beneath  the 

sun — 
The  many  still  must  labour  for  the  one. 

BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  8. 

Till  toil  grows  cheaper  than  the  trodden 

weed, 

And   man   competes  with   man,   like  foe 

with  foe.     CAMPBELL. — On  Re-visiting 

a  Scotch  River. 

Labour  makes  us  insensible  to  sorrow. 
CICERO. — Tusc.  Quasi. 

I  have  found  out,  I  repeat,  the  true 
secret  of  happiness,  Labour  with  Inde- 
pendence. [Mr.  Belfield.] 

MME.  D'ARBLAY. — Cecilia,  Bk.  8,  c.  5. 

Honest  labour  bears  a  lovely  face. 

DEKKER. — Patient  Grissell. 

Pay  ransom  to  the  owner, 

And  fill  the  bag  to  the  brim. 

Who  is  the  owner  ?     The  slave  is  owner 

And  ever  was.     Pay  him. 

EMERSON. — Boston  Hymn,  Jan.  i,  1863. 

Life  gives  nothing  to  mortals  except 
with  great  labour.  HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  i. 

Never  is  work  without  reward,  or  reward 
without  work,  LIVY. — Hist.,  5. 

Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing, 
Onward  through  life  he  goes ; 
LONGFELLOW. — Village  Blacksmith. 

Labour  is  but  refreshment  from  repose. 
JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Greenland. 

Another  lean,  unwashed  artificer. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  4,  2. 

Many  faint  with  toil, 
That  few  may  know  the  cares  and  woes 
of  sloth.   SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab,  c.  3. 

He  toiled,  and  toiled,  of  toil  no  end   to 

know, 
But  endless  toil  and  never-ending  woe. 

SOUTHEY. — Maid  of  Orleans,  Bk.  2. 

I  was  not  born  a  little  slave, 

To  labour  in  the  sun, 
And  wish  I  were  but  in  my  grave 
And  all  my  labour  done. 
ANN  AND  JANE  TAYLOR. — Child's 
Hymn  of  Praise. 

O  mortal  man,  who  livest  here  by  toil, 
Do  not  complain  of  this  thy  hard  estate. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,  i. 

"  All  events  are  linked  together  for  good 
in  this  best  of  all  worlds,"  said  Pangloss. 
"  That  is  well  said,"  replied  Candide,  but 
at  the  same  time  we  must  cultivate  our 
garden."  VOLTAIRE. — Candide. 


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LAUGHTER 


Labour  is  often  the  father  of  pleasure. 
VOLTAIRE. — Discours,  4. 

Too  long,  that  some  may  rest, 

Tired  millions  toil  unblest. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — New  National  Anthem. 

Freedom,    hand    in    hand    with    labour, 
walketh  strong  and  brave. 

WHITTIER. — Lumbermen. 

All  things  are  full  of  labour ;  man  cannot 
utter  it :  the  eye  is  not  satisfied  with  see- 
ing, nor  the  ear  filled  with  hearing. 

Ecclesiastes  i,  8. 

Masters,  give  unto  your  servants  that 
which  is  just  and  equal.  Colossians  iv,  i. 

Eight  hours'  work,  and  eight  hours'  play, 

Kight  hours'  sleep,  and  eight  bob  a  day. 

Australian  (?)  saying  (igth  Century). 

Many  times  has  even  a  labouring  man 
spoken  to  the  purpose. 

Ancient  Greek  prov.  (quoted  by  Aulus 
Gellius). 

Naething  is  got  without  pains,  but  an 
ill  name  and  long  nails.  Scottish  prov. 

Labour  has  a  bitter  root  but  a  sweet 
taste.  Prov. 

LAND    AND    LANDOWNERS 

No,  down  with  everything  and   up  with 
rent !        BYRON. — Age  of  Bronze,  st.  14. 

The  trade  of  owning  land. 

CARLYLE. — Downing  Street. 

The  first  farmer  was  the  first  man,  and 
all  historic  nobility  rests  on  possession  and 
use  of  land.  EMERSON. — Farming. 

Praise  great  estates  ;  cultivate  a  small 
one.  VIRGIL. — Georgics,  2,  413. 

It  [land]  gives  one  position,  and  pre- 
vents one  from  keeping  it  up. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Importance  of  being 
Earnest,  Act  i. 
LANGUAGES 

And  Frensh  she  spak  ful  faire  and  fetisly, 
After  the  scole  of  Stratford  atte  Bowe. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

The  basis  of  poetry  is  language,  which 
is  material  only  on  one  side.  It  is  a  demi- 
god. EMERSON. — Art. 

I  like  to  be  beholden  [i.e.  in  translations] 
to  the  great  metropolitan  English  speech, 
which  receives  tributaries  from  every 
region  under  heaven.  EMERSON. — Books. 

Writing  is  an  abuse  of  language  ;  read- 
ing silently  to  oneself  is  a  pitiful  substitute 
for  speech.  GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  10. 


His  language  is  painful  and  free. 

BRET  HARTE. — His  Answer. 

Language  is  but  a  poor  bull's-eye  lantern 
wherewith  to  show  off  the  vast  cathedral 
of  the  world. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Walt  Whitman. 

Language   is   the   amber   on   which   a 

thousand    precious    and    subtle   thoughts 

have  been  safely  embedded  and  preserved. 

ARCHBP.  TRENCH. 

Music  is  the  universal  language. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,  8. 

Where  Nature's  end  of  language  is  de- 
clined, 
And  men  talk  only  to  conceal  the  mind. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  2. 

You  are  worth  as  many  men  as  you  know 
languages.  Attrib.  to  Charles  V. 

LARK,  THE 

But  the  lark  is  so  brimful  of  gladness  and 

love, 
The  green  fields  below  him,  the  blue  sky 

above, 
That  he  sings,  and  he  sings ;   and  for  ever 

sings  he — 

"  I  love  my  Love,  and  my  Love  loves  me !  " 
COLERIDGE. — Answer  to  a  Child's 
Question. 
Not  loftiest  bard  of  mightiest  mind 

Shall  ever  chant  a  note  so  pure, 
Till  he  can  cast  the  earth  behind, 
And  breathe  in  heaven  secure. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — First  Skylark  of  Spring. 

LATENESS 

From  youth  to  age,  whate'er  the  game, 
The  unvarying  practice  is  the  same, — 

The  devil  takes  the  hindmost,  O ! 
A.  H.  CLOUGH. — In  the  Great  Metropolis. 

Brer  Wolf  fetcht  a  grab  at  'im,  but  he 

wuz  des  [just]  in  time  fer  ter  be  too  late. 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  18. 

Too  late,  too  late  !    ye  cannot  enter  now. 
TENNYSON. — Guinevere. 

It  is  in  vain  to  look  for  yesterday's  fish 
in  the  house  of  the  otter.  Hindoo  prov. 

LAUGHTER 

Nothing  is  more  foolish  than  foolish 
laughter.  CATULLUS. — Carmen,  39. 

Ill  may  a  sad  mind  forge  a  merry  face  ; 

Nor  hath  constrained  laughter  any  grace. 

CHAPMAN. — Hero  and  Leander 

(Continuation  of  Marlowe's  Poem),  st.  5. 

In  my  mind  there  is  nothing  so  illiberal 
and  so  ill-bred  as  audible  laughter  .  .  .  not 
to  mention  the  disagreeable  noise  it  makes, 


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and  the  shocking  distortion  of  the  face 

that  it  occasions. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

And  laughter  oft  is  but  an  art 
To  drown  the  outcry  of  the  heart. 
HARTLEY  COLERIDGE. — To  Gold  Fishes. 

There  is  nothing  more   unbecoming   a 
man  of  quality  than  to  laugh. 

CONGREVE. — Double  Dealer,  Act  i,  2. 

And  the  loud  laugh  that  spoke  the  vacant 
mind.        GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

I  cannot  say  whether  we  had  more  wit 
amongst  us  now   than  usual,   but   I   am 
certain    we    had    more    laughing,    which 
answered  the  end  as  well. 
GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  ch.  32. 

Laugh   not   too   much :    the   witty   man 
laughs  least.   HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

The  giggler  is  a  milkmaid. 

HERBERT. — Ib. 

You  hear  that  boy  laughing  ? — You  think 

he's  all  fun  ; 
But  the  angels  laugh,  too,  at  the  good  he 

has  done ; 
The  children  laugh  loud  as  they  troop  at 

his  call, 
And  the  poor  man  that  knows  him  laughs 

loudest  of  all ! 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — The  Boys. 

Sport  that  wrinkled  Care  derides, 
And  Laughter  holding  both  his  sides. 
MILTON. — L' Allegro,  31. 

Smiles  from  reason  flow, 
To  brute  denied,  and  are  of  love  the  fooJ. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  239. 

Theirs  was  the  glee  of  martial  breast, 
And  laughter  theirs  at  little  jest. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  3,  st.  4. 

The  heaving  of  my  lungs  provokes  me 
to  ridiculous  smiling. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  3,  i. 
O,  I  am  stabbed  with  laughter. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

Laugh  with  a  vast  and  inextinguishable 
laughter.  SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  4. 

Gaiety  without  eclipse, 
Wearieth  me,  May  Lilian. 

TENNYSON. — Lilian. 
A  sight  to  shake 
The  midriff  of  despair  with  laughter. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  i,  196. 

Laugh  while  you  can.     Everything  has 
its  time.  VOLTAIRE. — Chariot. 

Laughter  does  not  prove  a  man  at  ease. 
French  prov. 


LAW 

Law  is  king  of  all. 
DEAN  ALFORD. — School  of  the  Heart,  6. 

Law  is  a  bottomless  Pit. 
J.  ARBUTHNOT. — Title  of  Pamphlet. 

One  of  the  Seven  was  wont  to  say  that 
laws  were  like  cobwebs,  where  the  small 
flies  were  caught  and  the  great  brake 
through.  BACON. — Apophthegms,  291. 

It  is  oppression  to  torture  laws  so  that 
they  torture  men. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  8,  3. 

Laws  are  generally  found  to  be  nets  of 
such  a  texture,  as  the  little  creep  through, 
the  great  break  through,  and  the  middle- 
sized  alone  are  entangled  in. 

BACON. — On  Politics. 

What  is  a  law  if  those  who  make  it 
Become  the  forwardest  to  break  it  ? 
J.  BEATTIE.— Wolf  and  the  Shepherds. 

All  laws  creative  of  liberty  are,  as  far  as 
they  go,  abrogative  of  liberty. 

J.  BENTHAM. — Theory  of  Legislation. 

People  crushed  by  law  have  no  hopes 
but  from  power.  If  laws  are  their  enemies 
they  will  be  enemies  to  laws  ;  and  those 
who  have  much  to  hope  and  nothing  to 
lose  will  always  be  dangerous,  more  or  less. 
BURKE. — Letter  to  Fox  (Oct.,  1777). 

There  is  but  one  law  for  all,  namely, 

that  law  which  governs  all  law,  the  law  of 

our  Creator,  the  law  of  humanity,  justice, 

equity — the  law  of  nature  and  of  nations. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 

(May  28,  1794). 

Laws,  like  houses,  lean  on  one  another. 
BURKE. — On  the  Popery  Laws,  ch.  3, 

Pt.  i. 

There  are  two,  and  only  two,  founda- 
tions of  law  .  . .  equity  and  utility. 

BURKE. — Ib. 

A  good   parson  once  said   that  where 

mystery  begins  religion  ends.     Cannot  I 

say,  as  truly  at  least,  of  human  laws,  that 

where  mystery  begins,  justice  ends  ? 

BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

The  law  of  England  is  the  greatest 
grievance  of  the  nation,  very  expensive 
and  dilatory. 

BURNET. — Hist,  of  his  own  Times. 

That  which  is  a  law  to-day  is  none  to- 
morrow. 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy. 
Democritus  to  the  Reader. 
So  Justice,  while  she  winks  at  crimes, 
Stumbles  on  innocence  sometimes. 

S.  BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.   2. 


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LAW 


The  law  can  take  a  purse  in  open  court, 
Whilst  it  condemns  a  less  delinquent  for  't. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

Law  does  not  put  the  least  restraint 
Upon  our  freedom,  but  maintain  't.  .  .  . 
For  wholesome  laws  preserve  us  free 
By  stinting  of  our  liberty. 

S.  BUTLER. — Ib. 

Where  law  ends,  tyranny  begins. 

LORD  CHATHAM. — Speech,  1770. 

Extreme  law  is  extreme  injustice. 

CICERO. — De  Off.  (quoted  as  a  "  trite 
proverb  "). 

But  in  every  matter  the  consensus  of 
opinion  among  all  nations  is  to  be  regarded 
as  the  law  of  nature. 

CICERO. — Tusc.  QucBst.,  i,  13,  30. 

Laws  are  so  framed  that  they  shall  speak 
in  all  matters  always  with  one  and  the 
same  voice.  CICERO. 

The  gladsome  light  of  jurisprudence. 
COKE. — On  Littleton.  Institutes,  No.  i. 

The  Law  which  is  the  perfection  of 
reason.  COKE. — Ib. 

How  long  soever  it  hath  continued,  if 

it  be  against  reason,  it  is  of  no  force  in  law. 

COKE. — Ib..  No.  i,  80. 

Custom  is  the  best  interpreter  of  the 
laws.  COKE. 

The  laws  sleep  sometimes,  but  never  die. 

COKE. 

Law  and  equity  are  two  things  which 
God  hath  joined,  but  which  man  hath  put 
asunder.  C.  C.  COLTOK. — Lacon. 

The  mere  repetition  of  the  Cantilena  of 
the  lawyers  cannot  make  it  law. 
LORD  CHIEF  JUSTICE  DENMAN. — O'Connell 
v.  the  Queen. 

"  If  the  law  supposes  that,"  said  Mr. 

Bumble,  ..."  the  law  is  a  ass, — a  idiot." 

DICKENS. — Oliver  Twist,  ch.  51 . 

No  written  laws  can  be  so  plain,  so  pure, 
But    wit    may    gloss,    and    malice    may 

obscure. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther,  Pt.  2,318. 

The  law's  made  to  take  care  of  raskills. 
GEO.  ELIOT. — Mill  on  the  Floss,  Bk.  3,  ch.  4. 

Their  law  [English  law]  is  a  network  of 
fictions  ;    their  property,  a  scrip  or  cer- 
tificate of  right  to  interest  on  money  that 
no  man  ever  saw.         EMERSON. — English 
Traits,  5,  Ability. 

A  law  or  statute  is  to  him  [Hafiz]  what 
a  fence  is  to  the  nimble  schoolboy, — a 
temptation  for  a  jump. 

EMERSON. — Essay  on  Persian  Poetry. 


What   natural   reason   has   established 

among  all  men  we  call  the  law  of  nations. 

GALUS. — Inst.  Jur.  Civ. 

Do  lawe  away,  what  is  a  king  ? 
Where  is  the  right  of  anything 
If  that  there  be  no  lawe  in  land  ? 
This  ought  a  king  well  understand. 
GOWER. — Confessio  A  mantis,  Bk.  7. 

You  chuckled  over  those  people  who 
could  see  beauty  only  in  pictures  ;  but 
you  cannot  imagine  the  beauty  of  an  in- 
tricate, mazy  law  process,  embodying  the 
doubts  and  subtleties  of  generations  of 
men.  I  say  looked  at  in  that  way  there  is 
something  picturesque  in  an  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council. 
Slavery,  ch.  i. 

Unnecessary  laws  are  not  good  laws,  but 
traps  for  money. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  30. 

Of  law  there  can  be  no  less  acknowledged 
than  that  her  seat  is  the  bosom  of  God, 
her  voice  the  harmony  of  the  world. 

HOOKER. — Ecclesiastical  Polity,  i,  16. 

Let  us  hear  no  general  abuse  [of  law]. 
The  law  is  the  last  result  of  human  wisdom 
acting  upon  human  experience  for  the 
benefit  of  the  public. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.   Piozzi. 

The  law  is  so  lordlich  and  loth  to  maken 
ende. 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman,  Passus 
4,  199- 

The  law  is  a  sort  of  hocus-pocus  science 
that  smiles  in  yer  face  while  it  picks  yer 
pocket ;  and  the  glorious  uncertainty  of 
it  is  of  mair  use  to  the  professors  than  the 
justice  of  it. 

C.  MACKLIN, — Love  a  la  Mode. 

Good  laws  are  produced  by  bad  cus- 
toms. MACROBIUS. — Sat.  2. 

Litigious  terms,  fat  contentions,  and 
flowing  fees.  MILTON. — Education. 

The  law  of  England  is,  at  best,  but  the 
reason  of  parliament. 

MILTON. — Eikonoclastes. 

Against  the  law  of  nature,  law  of  nations. 
MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  889. 

It  is  the  rule  of  rules,  the  law  of  laws, 
that  everyone  should  observe  that  of  the 
place  where  he  is.  MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  i 

The  atrocity  of  laws  prevents  their 
execution.  MONTESQUIEU. 

There  is  no  worse  tyranny  than  that 

which  is  exercised  under  cover  of  the  .law. 

MONTESQUIEU, 


LAW 


LAW 


Law  should  be  clear,  precise,  consistent. 
To  interpret  it  is  to  corrupt  it.    NAPOLEON. 

Law,  being  a  tyrant  over  men,  compels 

many  things  to  be  done  contrary  to  nature. 

PLATO. — Protagoras,  69  (Remark 

assigned  to  Hippias  the  Wise)  (Gary  tr.). 

Laws  are  subservient  to  custom. 

PLAUTUS. — Trinummus. 

The  first  Almighty  Cause 
Acts  not  by  partial,  but  by  general  laws. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  145. 

"  There  take,"  says  Justice,   "  take  you 

each  a  shell. 
We  thrive  at  Westminster  on  fools  like 

you. 
'Twas    a    fat 

Adieu  ! " 


oyster — Live     in    peace — 
POPE. — Tr.  from  Boileau. 


The  hungry  judges  soon  the  sentence  sign, 

And  wretches  hang  that  jurymen  may  dine. 

POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  3,  21. 

The  spirit  of  the  laws  is  like  the  Nile — 
wide,  immense,  fruitful  in  its  course ; 
feeble  and  obscure  in  its  source. 

A.  DE  RIVAROL. 

The  universal  spirit  of  the  laws  of  all 
countries  is  to  put  always  the  strong 
against  the  weak,  and  him  who  has  against 
him  who  has  nothing.  This  disadvantage 
is  inevitable  and  it  is  without  exception. 

ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

"  That  sounds  like  nonsense,  my  dear." 
"  May  be  so,  my  dear  ;    but  it  may  be 
very  good  law  for  all  that." 

SCOTT. — Guy  Mannering,  ch.  9. 

The  law's  delay. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

Old  father  antic,  the  law. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  1,2. 

But  in  these  nice  sharp  quillets  of  the  law, 
Good  faith,  I  am  no  wiser  than  a  daw. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  i,  Act  2,  4. 

We  must  not  make  a  scarecrow  of  the  law, 
Setting  it  up  to  fear  the  birds  of  prey. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  2,  i. 

In  law  what  plea  so  tainted  and  corrupt 
But,  being  seasoned  with  a  gracious  voice, 
Obscures  the  show  of  evil  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  oj  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 

Still  keep  you  o'  the  windy  side  of  the  law. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  4. 

Who  ever  knew  an  honest  brute 
At  law  his  neighbour  prosecute. 


Bring  action  for  assault  and  battery, 
Or  friend  beguile  with  lies  and  flattery  ? 
SWIFT. — Logicians  Refuted. 

A  people  can  be  strong  where  the  laws 
are  strong.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Mercy  loosens  the  law. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

In  the  most  corrupt  state  there  are  the 
most  laws.  TACITUS. — Annals. 

Mastering  the  lawless  science  of  our  law, 
That   codeless   myriad  of  precedent, 
That  wilderness  of  single  instances, 
Through  which  a  few,  by  wit  or  fortune 

led, 
May  beat  a  pathway  out  to  wealth  and 

fame.      TENNYSON. — Aylmer's  Field. 

The  highest  law  is  often  the  greatest 
roguery.  TERENCE. — Heaut.,  Act  4. 

No  man  e'er  felt  the  halter  draw, 
With  good  opinion  of  the  law. 

J.  TRUMBULL. — McFingaL 

Your  laws  are  your  tyrants. 

VOLTAIRE. — Brutus; 

Would  you  have  good  laws  ?  Burn 
those  that  exist  and  make  new  ones. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dictionnaire  Philosophique 

(Lois). 

He  (Zadig)  believed  that  the  laws  were 
intended  to  help  citizens  as  much  as  to 
intimidate  them.  VOLTAIRE. — Zadig. 

The  stars  of  heaven  are  free  because 

In  amplitude  of  liberty 
Their  joy  is  to  obey  the  laws. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Things  that  are  more 
excellent,  st.  4. 
Laws  were  made  to  be  broken. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes. 

When  the  law  shows  her  teeth,  but  dares 
not  bite. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  i. 

According  to  the  law  of  the  Medes  and 
Persians,  which  altereth  not.  Daniel  vi,  8. 

Let  it  be  written  among  the  laws  of  the 
Persians  and  the  Medes,  that  it  be  not 
altered.  Esther  i,  19. 

The  law  is  good,  if  a  man  use  it  lawfully, 
i  Timothy  i,  8. 

The  law  is  King  (Lex  Rex). 

Covenanters'  saying. 

Lawsuits  consume  time  and  money  and 
rest  and  friends.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

Better  a  lean  agreement  than  a  fat 
judgment.  Italian  prov. 

Abundance  o'  law  breaks  nae  law. 

Scottish  prov. 


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LEADERSHIP 


There  is  no  law  without  a  loophole. 

Prov. 

In  law  there's  many  a  loss  without  a 
gain,  but  never  a  gain  without  a  loss. 

Saying. 
LAWYERS 

A  lawyer  is  a  gentleman  who  rescues 
your  estate  from  your  enemies  and  keeps 
it  to  himself.  LORD  BROUGHAM. — Saying. 

But  what  his  common  sense  cam  short, 

He  eked  out  wi"  law,  man. 
BURNS. — Extempore:  On  Two  Lawyers,  i. 

'Tis  boldness,  boldness,  does  the  deed  in 

the  Court.  CHAPMAN. — Monsieur  d' Olive, 

Act  3  (Alluding  to  the  King's  Court). 

He  saw  a  Lawyer  killing  a  viper 

On  a  dunghill  hard  by  his  own  stable  ; 
And  the  Devil  smiled,  for  it  put  him  in 

mind 
Of  Cain  and  his  brother  Abel. 

COLERIDGE. — Devil's   Thoughts. 

If  there  were  no  bad  people,  there  would 
be  no  good  lawyers. 

DICKENS. — Old  Curiosity  Shop,  ch.  56. 

Battledore  and  shuttlecock's  a  wery 
good  game,  vhen  you  a'n't  the  shuttle- 
cock and  two  lawyers  the  battledores,  in 
wich  case  it  gets  too  excitin'  to  be  pleasant. 
[Sam  Weller.]  DICKENS. — Pickwick 

Papers,  c.  20. 

I  know  you  lawyers  can  with  ease 
Twist  words  and  meanings  as  you  please  ; 
That  language,  by  your  skill  made  pliant, 
Will  bend  to  favour  every  client. 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  2,  i. 

Lawyers  are  always  more  ready  to  get 
a  man  into  troubles  than  out  of  them. 
GOLDSMITH. — Good-natured  Man. 

Yet  one  fault  he  had,   and  that  was  a 

thumper — 
He   was,   could   he   help   it  ?     a   special 

attorney.      GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Do  you  know  the  lawyer's  story. .  . . 
"  Many  times  when  I  have  had  a  good 
case,"  he  said,  "  I  have  failed  ;  but  then 
I  have  often  succeeded  in  bad  cases.  And 
so  justice  is  done."  SIR  A.  HELPS. — 
Friends  in  Council,  Bk.  i,  ch.  n. 

I  cannot  exactly  tell  you,  sir,  who  he  is, 
and  I  would  be  loth  to  speak  ill  of  any  per- 
son who  I  do  not  know  deserves  it,  but  I 
am  afraid  he  is  an  attorney. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 
The  man  of  law,  that  never  saw 

The  ways  to  buy  and  sell, 

Wenyng  to  rise  by  merchandise, 

I  pray  God  spede  him  well ! 

SIR  T.  MORE. — A  Merry  Jest. 


All  lawyers,  be  they  knaves  or  fools, 

Know  that  a  seat  is  worth  the  earning 
Since  Parliament's  astounding  rules 

Vouch  for  their  honour  and  their  learn- 
ing. 

J.  E.  THOROLD  ROGERS. — On  the  Eager- 
ness of  Lawyers  to  obtain  Seats  in  the  House. 

Where  be  his  quiddits  now,  his  quillets, 
his  cases,  his  tenures  and  his  tricks  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

The  first  thing  we  do,  let's  kill  all  the 
lawyers. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2,  Act  4,  2. 

And  do  as  adversaries  do  in  law, 
Strive   mightily,    but    eat   and   drink   as 
friends. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  i,  2. 

No  doubt  the  good  people  who  are  called 

lawyers  are  as  honest  as  others  ;    though 

I  once  knew  a  gentleman  who  used  to  sigh 

for  a  day's  shooting  in  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Woe  unto  you,  lawyers  !  for  ye  have 
taken  away  the  key  of  knowledge. 

St.  Luke  xi,  52. 

There  was  a  young  lady  of  Cirencester, 
Who  went  to  consult  her  solicitor, 

When  he  asked  for  his  fee 

She  said  "  Fiddle-de-dee  ! 
I  only  looked  in  as  a  visitor."  Anon. 

Our  Civill  Law  doth  seeme  a  royall  thing' 
It  hath  more  titles  than  the  Spanish  King  ' 
But  yet  the  Common  Law  quite  puts  it 

downe, 

In   getting,   like   the   Pope,   so   many   a 
Crowne. 

The  Sophister,  Act  i,  sc.  4  (c.  1650) 
(Authorship  uncertain). 

Every  house  which  a  man  not  a  lawyer 
builds  out  of  Edinburgh  enables  a  man, 
who  is  a  lawyer,  to  build  one  equally  com- 
fortable in  Edinburgh.  Scottish  prov. 

Fools  and  obstinate  men  make  rich 
lawyers.  Spanish  prov. 

"  Virtue  in  the  middle,"  said  the  devil, 
when  seated  between  two  lawyers. 

Said  to  be  "  a  very  old  proverb.'' 


Fools  and  perverse 
Fill  the  lawyer's  purse. 


Prov. 


LEADERSHIP 

Rides   in   the  whirlwind  and  directs  the 
storm.       ADDISON. — The  Campaign. 

We  that  had  loved  him  so,  followed  him, 

honoured  him, 
Lived  in  his  mild  and  magnificent  eye, 


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LEARNING 


Learned  his  great  language,  caught  his  clear 

accents, 

Made  him  our  pattern  to  live  and  to  die. 
BROWNING. — The  Lost  Leader. 

Great  men  are  the  guide-posts  and  land- 
marks in  the  State. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 

The  men  of  England — the  men,  I  mean, 
of  light  and  leading  in  England. 
BURKE. — Thoughts  on  French  Revolution. 

Still  sways  their  souls  with  that  command- 
ing art 

That  dazzles,  leads,  yet  chills  the  vulgar 
heart.  BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  8. 

And  when  we  think  we  lead  we  most  are 
led.  BYRON. — Two  Foscari,  Act  2,  i. 

Here's  to  the  pilot  that  weathered  trie 
storm.  G.  CANNING. — The  Pilot. 

Surely  of  all  "  rights  of  man,"  this  right 

of  the  ignorant  man  to  be  guided  by  the 

wiser,  to  be,  gently  or  forcibly,  held  in  the 

true  course  by  him,  is  the  indisputablest. 

CARLYLE. — Chartism,  6. 

A  daring  pilot  in  extremity, 
Pleased  with  the  danger  when  the  waves 
ran  high. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitopnel, 
Pt.  i,  159- 

He  led  his  regiment  from  behind 
(He  found  it  less  exciting). 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Gondoliers. 

When  I  rush  on,  sure  none  will  dare  to 

stay  ; 

'Tis  Beauty  calls  and  Glory  shows  the  way. 
N.  LEE. — Rival  Queens,  Act  4,  2. 

The  time  is  in  want  of  a  leader. 

LUCANUS. 

A  man,  a  man  !   My  Kingdom  for  a  man  ! 
MARSTON. — Scourge  of  Villainy. 

O  for  a  living  man  to  lead  ! 

That  will  not  babble  when  we  bleed  ; 

O  for  the  silent  doer  of  the  deed  ! 

STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — A  Man. 

The  man  within  the  coach  that  sits, 
And  to  another's  skill  submits, 
Is  safer  much,  whate'er  arrives, 
And  warmer  too,  than  he  that  drives. 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  3,  137. 

Where,  where  was  Roderick  then  ? 

One  blast  upon  his  bugle  horn 
Were  worth  a  thousand  men. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  6,  18. 

A  rarer  spirit  never, 
Did  steer  humanity  ;    but  you,  gods,  will 

give  us 
Some  faults  to  make  us  men. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  5,   i. 


Go  on,  I'll  follow  thee. 
SHAKESPEARE  — Hamlet,  Act  I,  4. 

An  two  men  ride  of  a  horse,  one  must 
ride  behind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  5 

The  fire  of  God 
Fills  him  :    I  never  saw  his  like  :    there 

lives 
No  greater  leader. 

TENNYSON. — Lancelot  and  Elaine,  314. 

Ten  good  soldiers,  wisely  led, 
Will  beat  a  hundred  without  a  head. 
D.  W.  THOMPSON.— Para/>/jr.  of  Euripides. 

When  winds  are  steady  and  skies  are  clear, 
Every  hand  the  ship  would  steer  ; 
But  soon  as  ever  the  wild  winds  blow, 
Every  hand  would  go  below. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Ib. 

Oh,  for  a  single  hour  of  that  Dundee, 
Who  on  that  day  the  word  of  onset  gave  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Pass  of  Killiecrankie. 

An  army  of  stags  led  by  a  lion  would  be 
more  formidable  than  an  army  of  lions  led 
by  a  stag.  Latin  prov. 

Ah,  John,  by  me  thou  setst  no  store, 

And  that  I  fairly  finde  ; 
How  ofte  send  I  my  men  before, 

And  tarrye  myself  behinde  ? 

Old  Ballad.     Robin  Hood. 

LEANNESS 

Let  me  have  men  about  me  that  are  fat, 
Sleek-headed  men,  and  such  as  sleep  o' 

nights  ; 

Yond*  Cassius  has  a  lean  and  hungry  look 
He  thinks  too  much :   such  men  are  dan- 
gerous. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Caesar,  Act  i,  2. 

LEARNING 

All  men  naturally  desire  to  know. 

ARISTOTLE. — Melaph.,  i,  i. 

There  is  no  power  on  earth  which  setteth 
up  a  throne  or  chair  of  state  in  the  spirits 
and  souls  of  men,  and  in  their  cogitations, 
imaginations,  opinions,  and  beliefs,  but 
knowledge  and  learning. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

The  learned  eye  is  still  the  loving  one. 
BROWNING. — Red  Cotton  Night  Cap 
Country,  Bk.  i. 

Learning,  that  cobweb  of  the  brain, 
Profane,  erroneous,  and  vain. 

S.  BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c    3. 

Man  has  a  natural  desire  to  know, 
But  th*  one  half  is  for  interest,  th'  otber 
show. 
S.BUTLER. — Human  Learning,  !„ 


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LEARNING 


LEGISLATION 


Learn,  but  learn  from  the  learned.     CATO. 

For  out  of  olde  feldes,  as  men  seith, 
Cometh  al  this  newe  corn  fro  yere  to  yere  ; 
And  out  of  olde  bokes,  in  good  feith, 
Cometh  al  this  newe  science  that  men  lere. 
CHAUCER. — Parliament  of  Foules. 

To  them  the  sounding  jargon  of  the  schools 

Seems  what  it  is — a  cap  and  bells  for  fools. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  368. 

Truths  that  the  learn'd  pursue  with  eager 

thought 

Are  not  important  always  as  dear-bought. 
COWPER. — Tirocinium,  73 

Knowledge  is  proud  that  he  has  learned  so 

much, 

Wisdom  is  humble  that  he  knows  no  more. 
COWPER. — Winter  Walk  at  Noon,  96. 

And   yet,   alas  !   when  all  our  lamps  are 
burned, 

Our  bodies  wasted,  and  our  spirits  spent, 

When   we   have  all  the  learned   volumes 
turned, 

Which    yield  men's   wits  both  help    and 
ornament, 

What  can  we  know  or  what  can  we  dis- 
cern ? 
SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum.  Intro. 

When  land  is  gone  and  money's  spent, 
Then  learning  is  most  excellent. 
Though  house  and  land  be  never  got, 
Learning  will  give  what  they  cannot. 
DICKENS.  —  Who,    according    to    C.    H. 
Spurgeon,  added  the  last  two  lines  to  the 

old  saying. 

Hated  not  learning  worse  than  toad  or 
asp.  MILTON. — Sonnet. 

Learning   alone,   of   all   things   in  our 
possession,  is  immortal  and  divine. 

PLUTARCH. — Morals. 

A  little  learning  is  a  dangerous  thing  ; 
Drink  deep,  or  taste  not  the  Pierian  spring. 
There    shallow    draughts    intoxicate    the 

brain, 
And  drinking  largely  sobers  us  again. 

Po  PE. — Criticism. 

Take  from  the  learned  the  pleasure  of 

making   their  learning   heard,    and   their 

learning  will  be  worth  nothing  to  them. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

Learning  makes  most  men  more  stupid 
and  foolish  than  they  are  by  nature. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Thinking  for  Oneself. 

No  man  is  wiser  for  his  learning.     Wit 
and  wisdom  are  born  with  a  man. 

SELDEN. — Learning. 

The  mind  is  slow  in  unlearning  what  it 
nas  been  long  in  learning. 

SENECA. — Troades. 


A  progeny  of  learning. 
SHERIDAN. — The  Rivals,  Act  i,  2. 
(Mrs.  Malaprop). 

Wearing  all  that  weight 
Of  learning  lightly,  like  a  flower. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  Conclusion, 

st.  10. 

Much  learning  shows  how  little  mortals 
know.      YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

For  it  is  precept  upon  precept,  precept 
upon  precept ;  line  upon  line,  line  upon 
line  ;  here  a  little,  there  a  little. 

Isaiah  xxviii,  10  (R.V.). 

Much  learning  doth  make  thee  mad. 

Acts  xx vi,  24. 

Learned  fools  are  the  greatest  fools. 

Prov. 

Learning  makes  the  wise  wiser,  but 
the  fool  more  foolish.  Prov. 

LEGENDS 

So  simple  were  those  times,  when  a  grave 

sage 
Could  with  an  old  wife's  tale  instruct  the 

age ; ... 

Make  a  dull  sentence  and  a  moral  fable 
Do  more  than  all  our  holdings-forth  are 
able.  S.  BUTLER. — On  the 

Licentiousness  of  the  A  ge. 
Most    men    of    unusual    power    have 
peculiarities  which  the  vulgar  folk  cannot 
understand :     whence    there   rises   round 
them  a  rank  growth  of  myth. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. — Thoughts  in  my 

Garden,  2,  287. 

These  and  a  thousand  more  of  doubtful 

fame, 
To  whom  old  fables  give  a  lasting  name. 

POPE. — Temple  of  Fame,  129. 

And  twenty  more  such  names  and  men  as 

these, 

Which  never  were,  nor  no  man  ever  saw. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  Shrew, 

Induction,  sc.  2. 

Fable  is  the  elder  sister  of  history. 
VOLTAIRE. — Dictionnaire  philosophique 
(Zoroastre). 

There  are  no  ancient  histories — except 
fables.  VOLTAIRE. — Origin  of  Fables. 

I  grant  it's  a  gey  lee-like  story  [a  very 
lie-like  story].  JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes. 

LEGISLATION 

Bad  laws  are  the  worst  sort  of  tyranny. 
BURKE.— Speech  (1780) 

Moderation  should  be  the  guiding  spirit 
of  the  legislator.  MONTESQUIEU. 

Poets  are  the  unacknowledged  legis- 
lators of  the  world. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 


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LEISURE 

No  laws,  however  stringent,  can  make 
the  idle  industrious,  the  thriftless  provi- 
dent, or  the  drunken  sober. 

S.  SMILES. — Self-Help,  ch.  i. 

As  though  conduct  could  be  made  right 
or  wrong  by  the  votes  of  some  men  sitting 
in  a  room  at  Westminster. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics. 

LEISURE 

What  shelter  to  grow  ripe  is  ours  ? 
What  leisure  to  grow  wise  ? 

M.  ARNOLD. — Obermann. 

When  a  man's  busy,  why,  leisure 
Strikes  him  as  wonderful  pleasure  ; 
'Faith,  and  at  leisure  once  is  he  ? 
Straightway  he  wants  to  be  busy. 

BROWNING. — The  Glove. 

How  various  his  employments,  whom  the 

world 
Calls  idle.  COWPER. — Garden,  352. 

He  who  does  not  know  how  to  use 
leisure  makes  more  business  of  it  than  there 
is  business  in  business  itself. 

ENNIUS. — (quoted  by  Aulus  Gellius). 

"  Leisure  "  is  the  mother  of  "  philo- 
sophy," and  "  Commonwealth "  the 
mother  of  "  peace  "  and  "  leisure." 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  46. 

Leisure  is  time  for  doing  something 
useful.  DR.  N.  HOWE. — Proverbs. 

And  add  to  these  retired  leisure, 

That  in  trim  gardens  takes  his  pleasure. 

MILTON. — II  Penseroso,  49. 

Leisure  without  books  is  death,  burial 
alive.  SENECA. — Ep.,  82. 

He  hath  no  leisure  that  useth  it  not. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 
LENIENCY 

Curse  on  his  virtues  !   They've  undone  his 

country  : 
Such  popular  humanity  is  treason. 

ADDISON. — Goto,  Act  4,  4. 

Forbear  to  judge,  for  we  are  sinners  all. 
Close  up  his  eyes,  and  draw  the  curtain 

close, 

And  let  us  all  to  meditation. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  3. 

He  harms  the  good  that  doth  the  evil 
spare. 

"  Times  Whistle "  (c.  1614),  A  prov. 

LESSONS 

"  That's  the  reason  they're  called 
lessons,"  the  Gryphon  remarked  ;  "  because 
they  lessen  from  day  to  day." 

C.  L.  DODGSON. — Alice  in  Wonderland, 

c.  10. 


LEVITY 

Thus  may  we  gather  honey  from  the  weed, 
And  make  a  moral  of  the  devil  himself. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V .,  Act  4,  i. 

Happy  in  this,  she  is  not  yet  so  old 
But  she  may  learn  ;    happier  than  this, 
She  is  not  bred  so  dull  but  she  can  learn. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  2. 
LETTERS  (ALPHABETICAL) 

The  invention  of  printing,  though  in- 
genious, compared  with  the  invention  of 
letters,  is  no  great  matter. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  4. 

LETTERS  (CORRESPONDENCE) 

The  earth  has  nothing  like  a  she  epistle. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  13,  105. 

Love  is  the  life  of  friendship  :    letters  aro 
The  life  of  love. 

J.  HOWELL. — Familiar  Letters,  Bk.  i. 

Love  is  the  marrow  of  friendship,  and 
letters  are  the  Elixir  of  love. 

J.  HOWELL. — Ib. 

As  keys  do  open  chests, 

So  letters  open  breasts. 

J.  HOWELL. — To  the  Sagacious  Reader. 

Letter-writing,     that    most    delightful 
way  of  wasting  time. 
VISCOUNT  MORLEY. — Life   of  Geo.   Eliot, 

p.  96. 

For  God's  sake,  Madam,  let  not  my 
correspondence  [with  you]  be  like  a  traffic 
with  the  grave,  from  whence  there  is  no 
return. 

POPE. — Letter  to  Lady  M.  W.  Montagu, 
Oct.,  1716  (?). 

I  dread  letter  writing,  and  envy  the  old 
hermit  of  Prague,  who  never  saw  pen  or 
ink.  SCOTT. — Diary,  1826. 

His  letters,  say  they,  are  weighty  and 
powerful ;  but  his  bodily  presence  is  weak, 
and  his  speech  contemptible. 

2  Corinthians  x,  10. 
LEVELLERS 

Levelling  is  comfortable,  as  we  often 
say,  levelling,  yet  only  down  to  oneself. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  2, 
Bk.  5,  ch.  4. 

Your  levellers  wish  to  level  down  as  far 
as  themselves ;  but  they  cannot  bear 
levelling  up  to  themselves. 

JOHNSON. — Remark. 
LEVITY 

Scoffing  cometh  not  of  wisdom. 
SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for  Poetrie. 

I  think  the  immortal  servants  of  mankind, 
Who,  from  their  graves  watch  by  how  slow 
degrees 


28i 


LIBEL 


LIBERTY 


The  World-Soul  greatens  with   the  cen- 
turies, 

Mourn  most  man's  barren  levity  of  mind. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Sonnet. 

LIBEL 

For  oh,  it  was  nuts  to  the  Father  of  Lies, 
(As  this  wily  fiend  is  named  in  the  Bible), 

To  find  it  was  settled  by  laws  so  wise 
That  the  greater  the  truth,  the  worse 
the  libel.          MOORE. — Case  of  Libel. 

He  evaded  accusation  for  libel  by  speak- 
ing in  humorous  fables. 

PH^SDRUS. — Bk.  3,  Prol. 

It  often  happens  that  if  a  lie  be  believed 
only  for  an  hour,  it  has  done  its  work  and 
there  is  no  further  occasion  for  it. 

SWIFT. — Examiner,  No.  15. 

LIBERAL,  THE 

But  the  liberal  deviseth  liberal  things  ; 
and  in  liberal  things  shall  he  continue. 

Isaiah  xxxii,  8.  (R.V.). 

LIBERTY 

A  day,  an  hour  of  virtuous  liberty 
Is  worth  a  whole  eternity  in  bondage. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  2,  z, 

When  liberty  is  gone, 
Life  grows  insipid  and  has  lost  its  relish. 
ADDISON. — Ib.,  Act  2,  3. 

Chains  or  conquest,  liberty  or  death 

ADDISON. — Ib.,  Act  2,  4. 

Liberty  of  speech  inviteth  and  pro- 
voketh  liberty  to  be  used  again,  and  so 
bringeth  much  to  a  man's  knowledge. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

Liberty  too  must  be  limited  in  order  to 
be  possessed.  BURKE. — Letter. 

Abstract  liberty,  like  other  mere 
abstractions,  is  not  to  be  found. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

The  only  liberty  I  mean,  is  a  liberty 
connected  with  order  ;  that  not  only  exists 
along  with  order  and  virtue,  but  which 
cannot  exist  at  all  without  them. 

BURKE. — Speech  at  his  arrival  at 
Bristol. 

Liberty's  in  every  blow  ! 
Let  us  do  or  die  I 

BURNS. — Bruce' 's  Address. 

Hereditary  bondsmen  !  know  ye  not 
Who  would  be  free,  themselves  must  strike 
the  blow  ? 
BYRON.— Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  st.  76. 

For  Freedom's  battle  once  begun, 
Bequeathed  by  bleeding  sire  to  son, 
Though  baffled  oft,  is  ever  won. 

BYRON. — The  Giaour,  123. 


Our  land,   the  first  garden  of  Liberty's 

tree — 
It  has  been,  and  yet  shall  be,  the  land  of 

the  free. 

CAMPBELL. — Song  of  the  Greeks. 

Liberty  will  not  descend  to  a  people  ; 
a  people  must  raise  themselves  to  liberty. 
It  is  a  blessing  that  must  be  earned  before 
it  can  be  enjoyed. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Let  my  name  perish  so  long  as  France  is 
free  !  DANTON. — March,  1793. 

The  love  of  liberty  with  life  is  given, 
And  life  itself  the  inferior  gift  of  Heaven. 
DRYDEN. — Palawan. 

In  a  perfect  community  liberty  would 

be  complete.     Every  one  would  do  as  he 

pleased.     Human  nature  is  for  the  present 

unequal  to  the  realisation  of  the  ideal. 

FROUDE. — Short  Studies,  Party  Politics. 

There  are  two  kinds  of  liberty— the 
liberty  of  anarchy,  which  is  death,  and  the 
true  liberty,  which  alone  is  worth  a  wise 
man's  caring  for,  the  liberty  which  is  made 
possible  by  obedience  to  rational  authority 
FROUDE. — Ib. 

The  love  of  liberty  is  the  love  of  others  ; 

the  love  of  power  is  the  love  of  ourselves. 

HAZLITT. — Toad-Eaters. 

I  know  not  what  course  others  may  take; 
but  as  for  me,  give  me  liberty  or  give  me 
death  !  PHILIP  HENRY. — Speech,  1775. 

As  He  died  to  make  men  holy,  let  us  live 

to  make  men  free, 
While  God  is  marching  on  ! 

JULIA  WARD  HOWE. — Battle  Hymn. 

God  who  gave  us  life  gave  us  liberty  at 
the  same  time. 
T.  JEFFERSON. — Rights  of  British  America. 

There  is  but  one  task  for  all — 
For  each  one  life  to  give. 

Who  stands  if  freedom  fall  ? 
Who  dies  if  England  live  ? 

KIPLING. — For  all  we  have. 

But  libbaty's  a  kind  o*  thing 
That  don't  agree  with  niggers. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  Series 

i,  6. 

At  length  a  mighty  one  of  Greece  began 
To  assert  the  natural  liberty  of  man, 
By  senseless  terrors  and  vain  fancies  led 
To  slavery.    Straight  the  conquered  phan- 
toms fled. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  i,  67 
(Creech  tr.). 

Pray  you  use  your  freedom, 
And  so  far,  if  you  please,  allow  me  mine. 
MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  4,  3. 


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Liberty,  as  a  principle,  has  no  applica- 
tion to  any  state  of  things  anterior  to  the 
time  when  mankind  have  become  capable 
of  being  improved  by  free  and  equal  dis- 
cussion. J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  Introd. 

The  liberty  of  the  individual  must  be 
thus  far  limited  :  he  must  not  make  him- 
self a  nuisance  to  other  people. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Ib.,  ch.  3. 

None  can  love  freedom  heartily  but 
good  men  ;  the  rest  love  not  freedom,  but 
licence.  MILTON. — Tenure  of  Kings. 

To  have  a  really  free  people,  the  gov- 
erned must  be  virtuous  and  the  governors 
must  be  gods.  NAPOLEON. 

Yet  well  brave  hearts,  I  ween, 
Wounds  deep  as  ours,   with   Freedom 

blest, 
May  bear  ;  and  for  success  to  come 

On  hope's  assurance  rest. 
PINDAR. — Isthmian  Odes,  8,  17  (Moore  tr.). 

Liberty  is  not  in  any  form  of  govern- 
ment. It  is  in  the  heart  of  the  free  man  ; 
he  carries  it  with  him  everywhere. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

The  more  the  State  extends  itself,  the 
more  liberty  diminishes. 

ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

That  treacherous  phantom  which  men 
call  Liberty. 

RUSKIN. — Seven  Lamps,  c.  7,   i. 

And  liberty  plucks  justice  by  the  nose. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  i,  4. 

So  loving-jealous  of  his  liberty. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  2,  2. 

Englishmen  never  will  be  slaves  ;  they 
are  free  to  do  whatever  the  Government 
and  public  opinion  allow  them  to  do. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Fair  liberty  was  all  his  cry  ; 
For  her  he  stood  prepared  to  die  ; 
For  her  he  boldly  stood  alone  ; 
For  her  he  oft  exposed  his  own. 
SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

If  man  is  created  free,  he  ought  to  govern 
himself.  If  man  has  tyrants,  he  ought  to 
dethrone  them.  It  is  known  only  too  well 
that  these  tyrants  are  the  vices. 

VOLTAIRE. — Discours.    De  I'Envie. 

Liberty,  when  it  begins  to  take  root, 
is  a  plant  of  rapid  growth. 

GEO.  WASHINGTON. — Saying. 

Liberty  and  Union,  now  and  for  ever, 
one  and  inseparable. 
D.  WEBSTER. — Speech  on  Foot's  Resolution. 


VVe  must  be  free  or  die,  who  speak  the 

tongue 
That  Shakespeare  spake  ;   the  faith  and 

morals  hold 
Which    Milton   held.     In   everything   we 

are  sprung 

Of  Earth's  first  blood,  have  titles  mani- 
fold. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence. 

O  Liberty  !   how  many  crimes  are  com- 
mitted in  thy  name  ! 

Attr.  to  Madame  Roland,  on  the  Scaffold. 

If  you  love  liberty  don't  keep  it  all  for 
yourself. 

Given  as  a  prov.  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

Men  rattle  their  chains  to  show  that  they 
are  free.  Prov. 

LIBRARY 

A  library  is  but  the  soul's  burial  ground  ; 

It  is  the  land  of  shadows. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. — Oxford  :  Bodleian 
Library. 

With   awe,   around  these  silent  walks  I 
tread  ; 

These  are  the  lasting  mansions  of  the  dead: 

"  The  dead,"  methinks  a  thousand  tongues 
reply, 

"  These  are  the  tombs  of  such  as  cannot 
die." 

Crowned  with  eternal  fame  they  sit  sub- 
lime, 

And  laugh  at  all  the  little  strife  of  time. 
CRABBE. — The  Library. 

Athens    lives    here    more  than    in    Plu- 
tarch's lives. 
VAUGHAN. — Sir  T.  Bodley's  Library. 

LICENCE 

Poets  and  painters,  as  all  artists  know, 
May  shoot  a  little  with  a  lengthened  bow. 
BYRON. — Hints  from  Horace,  I.  15. 

In  all  pointed  sentences  some  degree  of 

accuracy  must  be  sacrificed  to  conciseness. 

JOHNSON. — On  English  Soldiers. 

Let  the  wild  falcon  soar  her  swing, 
She'll  stoop  when  she  has  tired  her  wing. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  i,  st.  17. 
LIFE 

We  are  the  voices  of  the  wandering  wind, 
Which  moan  for  rest,  and  rest  can  never 

find; 

Lo,  as  the  wind  is,  so  is  mortal  life, 
A  rnoan,  a  sigh,  a  sob,  a  storm,  a  strife. 
SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Light  of  Asia:  Deva's 

Song. 
Joy  comes  and  goes,  hope  ebbs  and  flows 

Like  the  wave ; 

Change  doth  unknit  the  tranquil  strength 
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Love  lends  life  a  little  grace, 
A  few  sad  smiles  ;    and  then, 
Both  are  laid  in  one  cold  place, 
In  the  grave. 

M.  ARNOLD. — A  Question. 

Too  fast  we  live,  too  much  are  tried, 

Too  harassed,  to  attain 

Wordsworth's    sweet   calm,    or    Goethe's 

wide 
And  luminous  view  to  gain. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Obermann, 

Whose  mind  hath  known  all  arts  of  govern- 
ing, 

Mused  much,  loved  life  a  little,  loathed  it 
more. 

M.  ARNOLD. — To  a  Gipsy  Child. 

O  born  in  days  when  wits  were  fresh  and 

clear, 

And  life  ran  gaily  as  the  sparkling  Thames  : 
Before  this  strange  disease  of  modern 

life, 

With  its  sick  hurry,  its  divided  aims, 
Its  heads  o'ertaxed,  its  palsied  hearts, 
was  rife. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Scholar-Gipsy. 

Live  every  day  as  if  thy  last. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — 7,  69. 

He  most  lives 

Who  thinks  most,  feels  the  noblest,  acts 
the  best.  P.  J.  BAILEY. — Festus. 

It  is  misery  to  be  born,  pain  to  live, 
grief  to  die.  ST.  BERNARD. — Chap.  3. 

Everything  that  lives  is  holy. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Vala. 

How  time  runs  away  !  and  we  meet  with 
death  almost  ere  we  have  time  to  think 
ourselves  alive.  One  doth  but  breakfast 
here,  another  dines,  he  that  liveth  longest 
doth  but  sup  ;  we  must  all  go  to  bed  in 
another  world. 

DR.  JOHN  BROWN. — Horce  Subsecivce. 

Thus  we  are  men,  and  we  know  not  how. 
There  is  something  in  us  that  can  be  with- 
out us,  and  will  be  after  us,  though  it  is 
strange  that  it  hath  no  history  what  it 
was  before  us. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  i,  36. 

Life  treads  on  life,  and  heart  on  heart, 
We  press  too  close,  in  church  and  mart, 
To  keep  a  dream  or  grave  apart. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Vision  of  Poets. 

A  quiet  life,  which  was  not  life  at  all. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh. 

This  world's  no  blot  for  us, 
Nor  blank  :  it  means  intensely,  and  means 

good. 

To  find  its  meaning  is  my  meat  and  drink. 
BROWNING. — Fro,  Lippo  Lippi. 


Life  is  probation,  and  the  earth  no  goal, 

But  starting  point  of  man. 

BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  10,  1436. 

You  never  know  what  life  means  till  you 

die  ; 
Even  throughout  life,  'tis  death  that  makes 

life  live  ; 
Give  it  whatever  the  significance. 

BROWNING. — Ib.,  n,  2375. 

O  life  !    thou  art  a  galling  load, 
Along  a  rough,  a  weary  road, 
To  wretches  such  as  I  ! 

BURNS. — Despondency. 

Life  is  but  a  day  at  most, 

Sprung  from  night,  in  darkness  lost. 

BURNS. — Lines  in  Friars-Carse 

Hermitage. 

Well — well,  the  world  must  turn  upon  its 

axis, 
And  all  mankind  turn  with  it,  heads  or 

tails, 
And  live  and  die,  make  love  and  pay  our 

taxes, 

And  as  the  veering  wind  shifts,  shift  our 
sails.  BYRON. — Don  Juan,  2,  4. 

We  live  and  die, 

But  which   is  best,   vou  know  no  more 
than  I.  BYRON. — Ib.,  7,  4. 

The  life  even  of  the  meanest  man,  it 
were  good  to  remember,  is  a  Poem. 

CARLYLE. — Cagliostro. 

"  I  must  live,  sir,"  say  many.    To  which 

I  answer,  "  No,  sir,  you  need  not  live.', 

CARLYLE.* — Letter  Dec.  20,  1831. 

This  world  nis  but  a  thurghfare  ful  of  wo' 

And  we  ben  pilgrimes,  passinge  to  and  fro. 

CHAUCER. — Knightes  Tale. 

No  wish  profaned  my  overwhelmed  heart. 
Blest  hour  !   it  was  a  luxury, — to  be  ! 

COLERIDGE. — On  having  left  a  place 
of  Retirement. 
You  promise  heavens  free  from  strife, 

Pure  truth,  and  perfect  change  of  will ; 
But  sweet,  sweet  is  this  human  life, 

So  sweet  I  fain  would  breathe  it  still. 
Your  chilly  stars  I  can  forego  ; 
This  warm  kind  world  is  all  I  know. 

WM.  CORY. — Mimnermus  in  Church. 

Life  is  an  incurable  disease. 

COWLEY. — To  Dr.  Scarborough. 

"  Sairey,"  says  Mrs.  Harris,  "  sech  is  life. 
Vich  likewise  is  the  hend  of  all  things." 
DICKENS. — Martin  Chuzzlewit,  ch.  29. 

Youth  is  a  blunder  ;  Manhood  is  a  strug- 
gle ;   Old  age  a  regret. 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  3,  ch.  i. 


*  Cf.  ROUSSEAU,  page  286. 


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Live  while  you  live,  the  epicure  would  say, 
And  seize  the  pleasures  of  the  present  day  ; 
Live  while  you  live,  the  sacred  preacher 

cries, 

And  give  to  God  each  moment  as  it  flies. 
Lord,  in  my  view  let  both  united  be  ; 
I  live  in  pleasure  when  I  live  to  thee. 

REV.  P.  DODDRIDGE. — On  his  family 
motto,   "  Dum  vivimus  vivamus." 

To  view  the  light  of  life 
To  mortals  is  most  sweet,  but  all  beneath 
Is  nothing.     Of  his  senses  is  he  reft 
Who  hath  a  wish  to  die  ;    for  life,  though 

ill, 

Excels  whate'er  there  is  of  good  in  death. 

EURIPIDES. — Andromeda,  147 

(Woodhull  tr.). 

Think,  in  this  battered  Caravanserai, 
Whose  Portals   are   alternate   Night   and 

Day, 

How  Sultan  after  Sultan  with  his  Pomp 
Abode  his  destined  Hour,   and  went  his 
way. 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  17. 

Into  this  Universe,  and  Why  not  knowing, 

Nor  Whence,  like  Water  willy-nilly  flowing; 

And  out  of  it,  as  Wind  along  the  Waste 

I  know  not  Whither,  willy-nilly  blowing. 

FITZGERALD. — Ib.,  st.  29. 

A  Moment's  Halt — a  momentary  taste 
Of  BEING  from  the  Well  amid  the  waste — 
And  Lo  ! — the    phantom    caravan    has 

reached 
The  NOTHING  it  set  out  from — Oh,  make 

haste.  FITZGERALD. — Ib.,  st.  48. 

Glory  is  bought  at  the  cost  of  happiness  ; 
pleasure  at  the  cost  of  health  ;  favour  at 
the  cost  of  independence. 

PIERRE  GASTON  (Due  DE  LEVIS). 
Maxims. 

Life  is  a  jest  and  all  things  show  it ; 
I  thought  so  once  and  now  I  know  it. 

GAY. — My  own  Epitaph. 

A  little  season  of  love  and  laughter, 

Of  light  and  life  and  pleasure  and  pain, 
And  a  horror  of  outer  darkness  after, 
And  dust  returneth  to  dust  again. 
Then  the  lesser  life  shall  be  as  the  greater, 
And  the  lover  of  life  shall  join  the  hater, 
And  the  one  thing  cometh  sooner  or  later, 
And  no  one  knoweth  the  loss  or  gain. 

A.  L.  GORDON. — The  Swimmer. 

Life's  little  ironies. 
;     THOS.  HARDY. — Title  of  Book  (1894). 

Life  is  the  greatest  good,  and  death  the 
worst  evil.  HEINE. — Reisebilder,  c.  3. 

Death  is  still  working  like  a  mole, 
And  digs  my  grave  at  each  remove. 

HERBERT. — Grace. 


Life    is    a    fatal    complaint     and    an 
eminently  contagious  one. 
O.  W.  HOLMES.— Poet  at  Breakfast  Table. 

"  To  him  that  lives  well,"  answered  the 
hermit,  "  every  form  of  life  is  good." 

JOHNSON. — Rassclas. 

Teach  me  to  live  that  I  may  dread 
The  grave  as  little  as  my  bed. 

Bp.  KEN. — Evening  Hymn. 

I  strove  with  none,  for  none   was  worth 

my  strife  ; 

Nature  I  loved,  and  next  to  Nature,  Art; 
I  warmed  both  hands  before    the    fire  of 

life; 
It  sinks,  and  I  am  ready  to  depart. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Finis. 

For  you   the  To-come, 
But  for  me  the  Gone-by  ; 

You  are  panting  to  live, 

I  am  waiting  to  die. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — Old  Man's  Song. 

Is  Love  a  lie,  and  fame  indeed  a  breath  ; 
And  is  there  no  sure    thing  in  life — but 
death  ? 

R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — On  Stevenson. 

Oh  thou  child  of  many  prayers, 

Life  hath  quicksands,  life  hath  snares. 

Lo  N  GFE  LLO  w. — Maidenhood. 

Life  is  real  !    life  is  earnest ! 
And  the  grave  is  not  its  goal. 

LONGFELLOW. — Psalm  of  Life. 

Our  life  must  once  have  end  ;    in  vain  we 

fly 
From  following  Fate  ;  e'en  now,  e'en  now, 

we  die. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  3,   1093 
(Creech  tr.). 

Nor  love  thy  life,  nor  hate  ;    but  what 

thou  liv'st 
Live  well,  how  long   or   short  permit  to 

Heaven. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  n,  553. 

Who  that  hath  ever  been 

Could  bear  to  be  no  more  ? 
Yet  who  would  tread  again  the  scene 

He  trod  through  life  before  ? 

J.  MONTGOMERY. — Falling  Leaf. 

This   life  is  all  chequered  with    pleasures 
and  woes.      MOORE. — 7mA  Melodies. 

Still  as  death  approaches  nearer, 
The  joys  of  life  are  sweeter,  dearer. 

MOORE. — Odes  of  Anacreon. 

They  may  rail  at  this  life — from  the  hour 

I  began  it, 

I've  found  it  a  li/e  full  of  kindness  and 
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And  until  they  can  show  me  some  happier 

planet, 

More  social  and  bright,  I'll  content  me 
with  this.      MOORE.  —  They  may  rail. 

The  great  business  of  life  is  to  be,  to  do, 
to  do  without,  and  to  depart. 

LORD  MORLEY.  —  Address,  Nov.,  1887. 

Death  have  we  hated,  knowing  not  what 

it  meant  ; 
Life  have  we  loved,   through  green  leaf 

and  through  sere, 

Though  still  the  less  we  knew  of  its  intent. 

W.  MORRIS.  —  Earthly  Paradise, 

L'Envoi,  13. 

Make  the  most  of  life  you  may  — 
Life  is  short  and  wears  away. 
W.  OLDYS.  —  Busy,  curious,  thirsty  fly. 

Alas  !    Hope's  rays 
Die  in  the  distance,   and  Life's  sadness 

stays; 

Why,  but  because  our  task  is  yet  undone. 
JOHN  PAYNE.  —  Ballad,  "  What  do  we  here  ?  " 

In  laments  and  in  rejoicings,  not  merely 

in  dramas  but  in  the  whole  tragedy  and 

comedy  of  life,  and  in  ten  thousand  other 

matters,  pains  and  pleasures  are  mingled. 

PLATO.  —  Philebus,  112. 

Grantor  tells  us  that  very  wise  men  have 

esteemed  life  a  punishment,   and   to  be 

born  a  man  the  highest  pitch  of  calamity. 

PLUTARCH.  —  Consol.  to  Apollonius. 

The  vanity  of  human  life  is  like  a  river, 
constantly  passing  away,  and  yet  con- 
stantly coming  on. 

POPE.  —  Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

All  covet  life,  yet  call  it  pain, 
And  feel  the  ill,  yet  shun  the  cure. 
PRIOR.  —  Written  in  Mezeray's  History. 

Who  breathes  must  suffer,  and  who  thinks 

must  mourn  ; 
And  he  alone  is  blest  who  ne'er  was  born. 


"  My  lord,  I  must  live,"  said  an  unfor- 
tunate satirical  author  to  a  minister  who 
reproached  him  with  the  infamy  of  his 
calling.  "I  do  not  see  the  necessity,"  re- 
plied the  man  of  office  coldly.  This  reply, 
excellent  for  a  minister,  would  have  been 
barbarous  and  false  in  every  other  mouth. 
It  is  necessary  that  every  man  should  live. 
I  ROUSSEAU.  —  Emile.* 

There  is  no  wealth  but  Life  —  Life,  in- 
cluding all  its  powers  of  love,  of  joy,  and 
of  admiration. 

RUSKIN.  —  Unto  this  Last,  ch.  4. 

*  VOLTAIRE  (Prelim.  Discourse  to  "  Alzirt," 
c-  1736),  says  that  this  reply  was  by  the  Comte 
d'Argenson  to  the  Abbe1  Guyot  Desfontaines,  who 
had  excused  himself  for  writing  scurrilous  at- 
tacks on  the  ground  that  "  be  must  live." 


Life  is  a  game,  at  which  everybody  loses. 
SARKADI-SCHULLER. — Within  Four  Walls. 

In  the  world  of  human  beings  and  in 
that  of  animals  [life]  is  sustained  and  kept 
going  by  two  simple  impulses — hunger 
and  the  instinct  of  sex,  helped  perhaps  a 
little  by  boredom.  SCHOPENHAUER. — 

Emptiness  of  Existence. 

Life  is  a  difficult  question.     I  have  de- 
cided to  spend  my  life  in  thinking  about  it. 
SCHOPENHAUER. — Remark  to  Wieland 
(1809). 

Twist  ye,  twine  ye  !   even  so 
Mingle  shades  of  joy  and  woe, 
Hope  and  fear,  and  peace  and  strife, 
In  the  thread  of  human  life. 

SCOTT. — Guy  Mannering,  ch.  4. 

Life  is  long  if  you  know  how  to  use  it. 

SENECA. — De  Brev.  Vita. 

Life  is  like  a  tale  ;    what  makes  it  of 
value  is  not  its  length  but  its  goodness. 
SENECA. — Ep.  87. 

To  live  is  to  do  battle. 

SENECA. — Ep.  96 

It  matters  not  how  long  you  have  lived 
but  how  well. 

SENECA. — (Adapted)  Ep.  101  and  77. 

The  web  of  our  life  is  of  a  mingled  yarn, 
good  and  ill  together. 

SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  4,  3. 

I  do  not  set  my  life  at  a  pin's  fee. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

To-morrow,     and     to-morrow,     and     to- 
morrow. 

Creeps  in  this  petty  pace  from  day  to  day, 

To  the  last  syllable  of  recorded  time  ; 

And  all  our  yesterdays  have  lighted  fools 

The  way  to  dusty  death.     Out,  out,  brief 
candle ! 

Life's   but   a   walking   shadow ;     a   poor 
player, 

That  struts  and  frets  his  hour  upon  the 
stage, 

And  then  is  heard  no  more. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

Put  out  the  light,  and  then — put  out  the 

light  ? 

If  I  quench  thee,  thou  flaming  minister, 
I  can  again  thy  former  light  restore, 
Should  I  repent  me  ; — but  once  put  out 

thy  light, 
Thou    cunningest    pattern    of    excelling 

nature, 

I  know  not  where  is  that  Promethean  heat 
That  can  thy  light  relume. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  2. 

We  are  such  stuff 

As  dreams  are  made  of,  and  our  little  life 
Is  rounded  with  a  sleep 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  4,  i 


286 


LIFE 


LIFE 


We  have  passed  Age's  icy  caves, 

And  Manhood's  dark  and  tossing  waves, 

And    Youth's   smooth   ocean,   smiling   to 

betray  : 

Beyond  the  glassy  gulfs  we  flee 
Of  shadow-peopled  Infancy 
Through  Death  and  Birth,  to  a  diviner  day. 
SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  2,  5. 

Life's  cup  is  nectar  at  the  brink, 
Midway  a  palatable  drink, 

And  wormwood  at  the  bottom. 

JAS.  SMITH.— Chigwell  Revisited. 

What  is  the  life  of  man  ?    Is  it  not  to 
shift  from  side  to  side,  from  sorrow  to 
sorrow  ? — to  button  up  one  cause  of  vexa- 
tion and  unbutton  another. 
STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  Vol.  4,  ch.  31. 

Old  and  young,  we  are  all  on  our  last 
cruise.      R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Crabbed  Age. 

For  life   and   death   are   but   indifferent 

things, 
And  of  themselves  not  to  be  shunned 

nor  sought, 

But  for  the  good  or  ill  that  either  brings. 
EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Darius. 

His  life  is  a  watch  or  a  vision, 
Between  a  sleep  and  a  sleep. 

SWINBURNE. — A  lalanta. 

Sleep ;    and   if  life  was   bitter   to   thee, 

pardon  ; 
If  sweet,  give  thanks  ;  thou  hast  no  more 

to  live  ; 

And  to  give  thanks  is  good,  and  to  forgive. 
SWINBURNE. — Ave  atqtte  Vale. 

A  loving  little  life  of  sweet  small  works. 
SWINBURNE. — Bothwell,  Act  i,  i. 

A  little  sorrow,  a  little  pleasure 
Fate  metes  us  out  from  the  dusty  measure 
That  holds  the  date  of  all  of  us. 

SWINBURNE. — Ilicet. 

No  life  that  breathes  with  human  breath 
Has  ever  truly  longed  for  death. 

TENNYSON. — Two  Voices. 

Were  all  things  certain,  nothing  would 

be  sure  ; 
Joy   would   be   joyless,    of   misfortune 

free  ; 

Were  we  all  wealthy,  then  we  all  were  poor; 
And  death  not    being,  life  would  cease 
to  be. 
D.  W.  THOMPSON. — From  Euripides. 

Some  come,  some  go  ; 
This  life  is  so. 
T.  TUSSER. — August's  Abstract. 

In  youth  alone  unhappy  mortals  live, 
But  ah  !    the  mighty  bliss  is  fugitive. 
VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  3  (Dryden  tr.}. 


I  see  them  walking  in  an  air  of  glory, 

Whose  light  doth  trample  on  my  days  ; 
My  days,  which  are  at  best  but  dull  and 

hoary. 
Mere  glimmering  and  decays. 

H.  VAUGHAN. — Resolutions. 

Life  is  but  a  day.  What  does  it  matter 
whether  it  finishes  towards  evening  or 
towards  the  morning  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Prince  de  Ligne. 

Desire  not  to  live  long,  but  to  live  well  ; 

How  long  we  live  not  years,  but  actions, 

tell.  R.  WATKYNS. — Hour  Glass. 

The  petty  joys 

Of  fleeting  life  indignantly  it  spurned, 
And  rested  on  the  bosom  of  its  God. 

H.  K.  WHITE.— Time. 

Pleasure  that  most  enchants  us 

Seems  the  soonest  done  ; 
What  is  life  with  all  it  grants  us 
But  a  hunting  run  ? 
G.  J.  WHYTE-MELVILLE. — Ranston 
Bloodhounds. 

Somehow  the  grace,  the  bloom  of  things 

has  flown, 
And  of  all  men  we  are  most  wretched 

who 
Must  live  each  other's  lives  and  not  our 

own, 

For  very  pity's  sake,  and  then  undo 
All  that  we  lived  for. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Humanitad. 

One's  real  life  is  so  often  the  life  that 
one  does  not  lead. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — L'Envoi  to  Rose-Leaf  and 
Apple-Lea]. 

Bliss  was  it  in  that  dawn  to  be  alive, 
But  to  be  young  was  very  heaven  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Prelude. 

We  live  by  admiration,  hope,  and  love  ; 
And  even  as  these  are  well  and  wisely 

fixed, 
In  dignity  of  being  we  ascend. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4. 

Life  I  repeat,  is  energy  of  love, 
Divine  or  human. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib.    Bk.  5 

Each  night  we  die, 

Each  morn  are  born  anew :    each  day,  a 
life  !         YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

Death  but  entombs  the  body  ;  life,  the 
soul.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  3. 

Life  is  much  flattered ;   Death  is  much 
traduced.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  3. 

That    life     is  long   which   answers   life's 
great  end.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  5. 

Our  life  is  but  a  chain  of  many  deaths. 

YOUNG. — The  Revenge,  Act  4,  i. 


2*7 


LIGHT 

Fear  less,  hope  more  ;  eat  less,  chew 
inore  ;  whine  less,  breathe  more ;  talk 
less,  say  more  ;  hate  less,  love  more  ;  and 
all  good  things  are  yours. 

Quoted  by  Lord  Fisher  in  "  Records" 
Nov.  25,  1919. 

The  changes  and  chances  of  this  mortal 
life.  Common  Prayer.  Collect. 

The  days  of  our  age  are  threescore  years 
and  ten  ;  and  though  men  be  so  strong 
that  they  come  to  fourscore  years,  yet  is 
their  strength  then  but  labour  and  sorrow  ; 
so  soon  passeth  it  away,  and  we  are  gone. 
Psalter  (Book  of  Common  Prayer),  go,  10. 

This  world's  a  city  with  many  a  crooked 

street, 
And  Death  the  Market  place  where  all  men 

meet ; 
If  Life  were  merchandise  that  men  could 

buy, 
The  rich  would  live  and  none  but  poor 

would  die. 

Henry   Devall's   Epitaph    (1860),    Nutfield 
Churchyard. 

Man's  life  is  like  unto  a  summer's  day  : 
Some  break  their  fast  and  so  away  ; 
Others  stay  dinner  and  depart  full  fed  ; 
The  longest  age  but  sups  and  goes  to  bed. 
Old  Epitaph.     A   prose  version  is  in  Dr. 
Brown's  Hora  Subsecivce  (1858).       (Vide 

p.  284.) 

The  life  of  love  is  better  than  the  love 
of  life.  Prov. 

Round  and  round  the  unseen  hand 
Turns  the  fate  o'  mortal  man  ; 
A  screech  at  birth,  a  grane  (groan)  at  even, 
The  flesh  to  earth,  the  soul  to  Heaven. 

Scottish  rhyme. 

We  scream  when  we  are  born, 
We  groan  when  we  are  dying  ; 

And  all  that  is  between 
Is  laughter  and  crying. 

Old  Rhyme. 

LIGHT 

God's  first  creature,  which  was  light. 
BACON. — New   Atlantis. 

Casting  a  dim  religious  light. 

MILTON. — //  Penseroso,  161. 

Hail,  holy  Light,  offspring  of  Heaven  first- 
born, 

Or  of  th*  Eternal  co-eternal  beam, 
May  I  express  thee  unblamed  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  i. 

Dark  with  excessive  bright. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  3,  380. 

Light,  seeking  light,   doth  light  of  light 
beguile. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 


LITERATURE 

LIMITATIONS 

Whether  you  nil  it  from  the  sea  or  from 
a  tiny  stream,  the  vessel  will  not  contain 
a  single  drop  more. 

E.  AUGIER. — Joueur  de  Fl&te. 

What  you  see,  yet  cannot  see  over,  is  as 
good  as  infinite. 
CARLYLE. — Sartor  Resartus,  Bk.  2,  c.  i. 

Seek  not  to  go  beyond  your  tether 
But  cut  your  thongs  unto  your  leather. 
CHAPMAN. — Eastward  Hoe  (1605). 

Feels  himself  spent,  and  fumbles  for  his 
brains.  COVVPER. — Table  Talk,  536. 

Remember,  cobbler,  to  keep  to  your 
last.  MARTIAL. — 3,  16. 

Each  might  his  several  province  well  com- 
mand, 

Would  all  but  stoop  to  what  they  under- 
stand. POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  66. 

Such  harmony  is  in  immortal  souls  ; 
But,  whilst  this  muddy  vesture  of  decay 
Doth  grossly  close  it  in,  we  cannot  hear  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.  of  Venice,  Acts,  i. 

My  nature  is  subdued 
To  what  it  works  in,  like  the  dyer's  hand  ; 
Pity  me  then,  and  wish  I  were  renewed. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  in. 

Hitherto  shalt  thou  come,  but  no 
further  :  and  here  shall  thy  proud  waves 
be  stayed.  Job  xxxviii,  n. 

LIONS 

A  lion  among  ladies  is  a  most  dreadful 
thing,  for  there  is  not  a  more  fearful  wild- 
fowl than  your  lion,  living. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer    Night's 
Dream,  Act  3,  i. 
LISTENERS 

Were  we  as  eloquent  as  angels  yet  we 
should  please  some  men,  some  women, 
and  some  children,  much  more  by  listening, 
than  by  talking.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Give  us  grace  to  listen  well. 

KEBLE. — Palm   Sunday. 

It  takes  two  to  speak  the  truth — one 
to    speak,  and  another  to  hear. 
H.  D.  THOREAU. — A  Week  on  the  Concord. 

LITERATURE 

Literature  is  always  a  good  card  to  play 
for  honours.  It  makes  people  think  that 
Cabinet  Ministers  are  educated. 

ARNOLD  BENNETT. — The  Title  (1917). 

Let  us  be  Catholics  in  this  great  matter 
[modern  poetry]  and  burn  our  candles  at 
many  shrines.  A.  BIRRELL. — Obiter 

Dicta,  Browning's  Poetry. 


LITTLENESS 


LONDON 


Literature  and  fiction  are  two  entirely 
different  things.  Literature  is  a  luxury, 
fiction  is  a  necessity. 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — The  Defendant. 
Defence  of  Penny  Dreadfuls. 

No  prince  fares  like  him  ;  he  breaks  his 
fast    with    Aristotle,    dines    with    Tully, 
drinks  tea  at  Helicon,  sups  with  Seneca. 
COLLEY  GIBBER. — Love  Makes  the  Man, 

Act  i,   i. 

Learn  to  write  well  or  not  to  write  at  all. 
DRYDEN. — Upon  Satire,  281. 

Beneath  the  rule  of  men  entirely  great 
The  pen  is  mightier  than  the  sword. 

(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Richelieu. 

Literature — the  most  seductive,  the 
most  deceiving,  the  most  dangerous  of 
professions.  LORD  MORLEY. — Burke. 

The  Sibyl,  uttering  sentences  all  full  of 
serious  thought  and  meaning,  continues 
her  voice  a  thousand  years,  through  the 
favour  of  the  divinity  that  speaks  within 
her.  PLUTARCH. — Of  the  Pythian  Oracle. 

Who  lasts  a  century  can  have  no  flaw  ; 
I  hold  that  wit  a  classic,  good  in  law. 

POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  55. 

You  must  not  suppose,  because  I  am 
a  man  of  letters,  that  I  never  tried  to  earn 
an  honest  living. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Preface  (1905)  to 
"  The  Irrational  Knot." 

Captains    and    conquerors   leave    a    little 

dust, 

And  Kings  a  dubious  legend  of  their  reign  ; 
The  swords  of  Caesars,  they  are  less  than 

rust  ; 

The  poet  doth  remain. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Lachryma  Musarum, 

114. 

Communities  are  lost,  and  empires  die, 
And  things  of  holy  use  unhallowed  lie  ; 
They  perish, — but  the  intellect  can  raise, 
From  airy  words  alone,  a  pile  that   ne'er 
decays.      WORDSWORTH. — Inscription 
for  a  seat  at  Coleorton. 

Dreams,  books,   are  each  a  world  ;    and 

books,  we  know, 
Are  a    substantial  world,  both   pure    and 

good.  WORDSWORTH. — Personal  Talk. 

LITTLENESS 

What  dwarfs  men  are,  when  I  come  to 
think  of  it !  PLAUTUS. — Capteivei,  Prol. 

Fine  by  degrees  and  beautifully  less. 

PRIOR. — Henry  and  Emma. 

Pygmies  are  pygmies  still,  though  perched 

on  Alps ; 

And  pyramids  are  pyramids  in  vales. 
Each  man  makes  his  own  stature,  builds 

himself.  YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

T  289 


Small  people  love  to  talk  of  great  people. 

Prov. 
LITURGY 

It  is  an  armoury  of  light  ; 

Let  constant  use  but  keep  it  bright, 

You'll  find  it  yields 
To  holy  hands  and  humble  hearts, 

More  swords  and  shields 
Than  sin  hath  snares,  or  hell  hath  darts. 
CRASH  AW.— On  a  Prayer  Book. 

The  monk  with   unavailing  cares, 
Exhausted  all  the  Church's  prayers. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  32. 

LOCALISM 

Poetic  fields  encompass  me  around, 
And  still  I  seem  to  tread  on  classic  ground. 
ADDISON. — Letter  from  Italy. 

The  genuine  spirit  of  localism. 

BORROW. — Bible  in  Spain. 

My  heart's  in  the  Highlands,  my  heart  is 

not  here, 
My  heart's  in  the  Highlands,  a-chasing  the 

deer  ; 
A-chasing  the  wild  deer  and  following  the 

roe — 
My  heart's  in  the  Highlands,  wherever  I 

go..  BURNS. — Song. 

Be  useful  where  thou  livest. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

God  gave  all  men  all  earth  to  love; 

But  since  our  hearts  are  small, 
Ordained  for  each  one  spot  should  prove 

Beloved  over  all. 

RUDYARD  KIPLING. — Sussex. 

They  take  the  rustic  murmur  of  their  bourg 
For  the  great  wave  that  echoes  round  the 

world. 

TENNYSON. — Marriage  of  Geraint,  419. 

LOGIC 

Logical  consequences  are  the  scarecrows 
of  fools  and  the  beacons  of  wise  men. 

T.  H.  HUXLEY. — Science  and  Culture 

Those  points  indeed  you  quaintly  prove, 
But  logic  is  no  friend  to  love. 

PRIOR. — Turtle  and  Sparrow,  263. 

He  owns  her  logic  of  the  heart, 
And  reason  of  unreason. 

WHITTIER. — Among  the  Hills. 

Prove  all  things  ;    hold  fast  that  which 
is  good.  i   Thessalonians  v,  21. 

LONDON 

Lo,  where  huge  London,  huger  day  by  day, 
O'er  six  fair  counties  spreads  its  hideous 
sway.  A.  AUSTIN. — Golden  Age. 


LONDON 

Why  should  I  care  for  the  men  of  Thames, 
And    the    cheating    waters    of    chartered 
streams  ? 

WM.  BLAKE. — Thames  and  Ohio. 

Thou   art   in    London — in   that   pleasant 

place 
Where    every    kind    of    mischief's    daily 

brewing.     BYRON. — Don  Juan,  12,  23. 

That  monstrous  tuberosity  of  civilised 
life,  the  capital  of  England. 

CARLYLE. — Sartor. 

Let  but  thy  wicked  men  from  out  thee  go, 
And  all  the  fools  that  crowd  thee  so, 

Even  thou  who  dost  thy  millions  boast, 
A  village  less  than  Islington  wilt  grow, 

A  solitude  almost. 

COWLEY. — Of  Solitude. 

The  crowd,  the  buzz,  and  murmurings 
Of  this  great  hive,  the  city. 

COWLEY. — The  Wish. 

Oh  thou,  resort  and  mart  of  all  the  earth, 
Chequered  with  all  complexions  of  man- 
kind, 
And  spotted  with  all  crimes  ;   in  which  I 

see 

Much  that  I  love,  and  more  that  I  admire, 
And  all  that  I  abhor  ;  thou  freckled  fair, 
That  pleases  and  yet  shocks  me. 

COWPER. — Garden,  835. 

The  centre  of  a  thousand  trades. 

COWPER. — Hope,  248. 

B  Where  has  commerce  such  a  mart, 
So  rich,  so  thronged,  so  drained,  and  so 

supplied, 

As  London,  opulent,  enlarged,  and  still 
Increasing  London  ? 

COWPER. — The  Sofa. 

Mr.  Weller's  knowledge  of  London  was 
extensive  and  peculiar. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  20. 

London  is  a  roost  for  every  bird. 

DISRAELI. — Lothair,  ch.  n. 

London — a  nation,  not  a  city. 

DISRAELI. — Ib.,  ch.  27. 

I  belong  to  the  "  Nation  of  London." 

GEORGE  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such : 

Looking  Backward. 

London  is  the  epitome  of  our  times  and 
the  Rome  of  to-day. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  18, 
Result  (1833). 

Ye    towers   of   Julius,    London's   lasting 

shame, 
With  many  a  foul  and  midnight  murder 

fed.  I  GRAY. — Bard. 

I  do  not  think  there  is  anything  deserv- 
ing the  name  of  society  to  be  found  out  of 


LONDON 

London.  .  .  .  You   can    pick   your   society 
nowhere  but  in  London. 

HAZLITT. — On  Coffee-House  Politicians. 

London  is  the  only  place  in  which  the 

child  grows  completely  up  into  the  man. 

HAZLITT. — Londoners. 

London  !  the  needy  villain's  general  home, 

The  common-sewer  of  Paris  and  of  Rome. 

JOHNSON. — London. 

Prepare  for  death  if  here  at  night  you  roam, 

And  sign  your  will  before  you  sup  from 

home.  JOHNSON. — Ib. 

When  a  man  is  tired  of  London  he  is 
tired  of  life ;  for  there  is  in  London  all 
that  life  can  afford. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  to  Boswell. 

Whoever  has  once  experienced  the  full 
flow  of  London  talk,  when  he  retires  to 
country  friendships  and  rural  sports,  must 
either  be  contented  to  turn  baby  again 
and  play  with  the  rattle,  or  he  will  pine 
away  like  a  great  fish  in  a  little  pond,  and 
die  for  want  of  his  usual  food. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

The  noble  spirit  of  the  metropolis  is  the 
lifeblood  of  the  State,  collected  at  the 
heart.  JUNIUS. — Letter,  1770. 

I'm  sick  for  London  again  ;  sick  for  the 
sounds  of  'er,  an'  the  sights  of  'er,  and  the 
stinks  of  'er  ;  orange  peel  and  hasphalte 
an'  gas  comin'  in  over  Vauxhall  Bridge  .  .  . 
That  an"  the  Stran"  lights,  where  you 
knows  ev'ry  one. 

KIPLING. — Stanley  Ortheris. 

I  love  the  halls  of  old  Cockaigne, 

Where  wit  and  wealth  were  squandered, 

The  halls  that  tell  of  hoop  and  train, 

Where  grace  and  rank  have  wandered. 

F.  LOCKER  LAMPSON. — -St.  James's 

Street. 

And    London   Town,    of    all    towns,   I'm 
glad  to  leave  behind. 

J.  MASEFIELD. — London    Town. 

London's  the  dining-room  of  Christendom. 
T.  MIDDLETON. — City  Pageant  1617. 

There,  London's    voice :     "  Get    money, 

money  still ! 
And  then  let  virtue  follow  if  she  will." 

POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  79. 

Where  London's  column,  pointing  to  the 

skies, 
Like  a  tall  bully,  lifts  the  head  and  lies. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  3. 

That  great  foul  city  of  London — rattling, 
growling,  smoking,  stinking — a  ghastly 
heap  of  fermenting  brickwork,  pouring  out 
poison  at  every  pore — a  cricket  ground 


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LOSS 


without  the  turf,  a  huge  billiard  table  with- 
out the  cloth,  and  with  pockets  as  deep  as 
the  bottomless  pit. 

RUSKIN. — Crown  of  Wild  Olive. 

In  London,  that  great  sea,  whose  ebb  and 

flow 
At  once  is  deaf  and  loud. 

SHELLEY. — To  Maria  Gisborne. 

Fly,  Honesty,  fly  to  some  safer  retreat. 
For  there's  craft  in  the  river — and  craft 

in  the  street- 

JAMES  SMITH. — Epigram  made  at  a  dinner 
at  his  home  in  Craven  Street. 

A    few    yards    in    London    dissolve    or 

cement  friendship.          SYDNEY  SMITH. — 

Letter  to  Countess  Grey,  Feb.  g,  1821. 

To  mery  London,  my  most  kyndly  nurse, 

That  to  me  gave  this  life's  first  native 

source.          SPENSER. — Prothalamion. 

Under  the  cross  of  gold 

That  shines  over  city  and  river. 

TENNYSON. — On  Wellington. 

It  is  worth  while  living  in  London, 
surely,  to  enjoy  the  country  when  you  get 
to  it.  THACKERAY. — Letter. 

Fleet  Street !    Fleet  Street !    Fleet  Street 

in  the  evening, 
Darkness  set  with  golden  lamps  down 

Ludgate  Hill  a-row  ; 
Oh,  hark  the  voice  o'  the  city,  that  breaks 

our  hearts  with  pity, 
That  crazes  us  with  shame  and  wrath, 
and  makes  us  love  her  so  ! 
ALICE  WERNER. — Song  of  Fleet  Street. 

LONELINESS 

Alone  ! — that  worn-out  word, 
So  idly  spoken,  and  so  coldly  heard, 
Yet  all  that  poets  sing,  and  grief  hath 

known, 
Of  hopes  laid  waste,  knells  in  that  word 

ALONE ! 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — New  Timon,  Pt.  2.  7. 

When  musing  on  companions  gone, 
We  doubly  feel  ourselves  alone. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  2,  Intro. 

LONGEVITY 

His  eye  was  not  dim,  nor  his  natural 
force  abated.  Dent,  xxxiv,  7. 

Thou  shalt  come  to  thy  grave  in  a  full 
age,  like  as  a  shock  of  corn  cometh  in  in 
his  season.  Job  v,  26. 

LORD  MAYORS 

By  the  lord  of  Ludgate  it's  a  fine  life  to 
be  a  lord  mayor  ;  it's  a  stirring  life,  a  fine 
life,  a  velvet  life,  a  careful  life. 

T.  DEKKER  — Shoeni^er's  Holiday, 
Act  5,  2. 


LORDS 

But  let  a  lord  once  own  the  happy  lines, 
How  the  art   brightens  !    how   the  style 

refines  ! 

Before  his  sacred  name  flies  every  fault. 
And    each    exalted    stanza    teems    with 

thought  ! 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  419. 

The  court  affords 

Much  food  for  satire  : — it  abounds  in  lords. 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  i 

LOSS 

Every  mortal  loss  is  an  immortal  gain. 
The  ruins  of  time  build  mansions  in 
eternity.  WM.  BLAKE. — Letter. 

Lose  who  may — I  still  can  say, 
Those  who  win  heaven,  blest  are  they. 
BROWNING.— One  Way  of  Love,  3. 

For  'tis  a  truth  well  known  to  most, 
That  whatsoever  thing  is  lost, 
We  seek  it,  ere  it  come  to  light, 
In  every  cranny  but  the  right. 

COWPER.— The  Retired   Cat. 

The  loss  of  wealth  is  loss  of  dirt, 
As  sages  in  all  times  assert. 

J.  HEYWOOD. — Be  Merry. 

Measure  thy  life  by  loss  instead  of  gain  ; 
Not  by  the  wine  drunk  but  by  the  wine 

poured  forth. 
H.  E.  HAMILTON  KING. — The  Disciples. 

Better  is  a  littel  losse  than  a  long  sorrow. 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman,  Passus 

i,  195- 

Then  many  a  lad  I  liked  is  dead, 
And  many  a  lass  grown  old, 

And  as  the  lesson  strikes  my  head, 
My  weary  heart  grows  cold. 

CHAS.    MORRIS. — Toper's  Apology. 

I  would  rather  have  lost  honourably 
than  gained  basely.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Poor  Jack,  farewell  ! 

I  could  have  better  spared  a  better  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry JV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  5,4. 

A  fellow  that  hath  had  losses. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  2. 

O  you  gods ! 
Why  do  you  make  us  love  your  goodly 

gifts, 
And  snatch  them  straight  away  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Pericles,  Act  3,   i. 

Varus,  give  me  back  my  legions  ! 

SUETONIUS. — A  ugustus. 

My  loss  may  shine  yet  goodlier  than  your 

gain, 
When  time  and  God  give  judgment. 

SWINBURNE. — Marino  Falierg. 


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The  shadow  of  his  loss  drew  like  eclipse, 
Darkening  the  world. 

TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication. 

'Tis  better  to  have  loved  and  lost 
Than  never  to  have  loved  at  all. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,   c.   27. 

The  feeling  of  my  loss  will  ne'er  be  old  ; 
This,  which  I  know,  I  speak  with  mind 

serene. 
WORDSWORTH. — Elegiac  Stanzas,  1805. 

Men  are  we,  and  must  grieve  when  even 

the  shade 
Of  that  which  once  was  great  is  passed 

away. 
WORDSWORTH. — On  the  Venetian  Republic. 

How    blessings    brighten    as    they    take 
their  flight ! 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

Good  things  are  never  good  till  they  are 
lost.  Prov. 

Sometimes  the  best  gain  is  to  lose. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

LOVE 

Love  is  not  to  be  reasoned  down,  or  lost 

In  high  ambition  and  a  thirst  of  greatness. 

ADDISON. — Goto,  Act  i,  i. 

There  is  no  worldly  pleasure  here  below, 
Which    by  experience    doth  not    folly 

prove  : 

But  amongst  all  the  follies  that  I  know 
The  sweetest  folly  in  the  world  is  love. 
SIR  R.  AYTON. — On  Love. 

Love  is  a  fiend,  a  fire,  a  heaven,  a  hell, 
Where  pleasure,  paine,  and  sad  repentance 
dwell. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Content   (1594). 

Love  and  sorrow  twins  were  born 
On  a  shining  showery  morn. 

DR.  T.  BLACKLOCK. — The  Graham. 

He  caught  me  in  his  silken  net 
And  shut  me  in  his  golden  cage. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Song. 

Love  seeketh  only  Self  to  please, 
To  bind  another  to  its  delight, 

Joys  in  another's  loss  of  ease, 

And  builds  a  Hell  in  Heaven's  despite. 
WM.  BLAKE. — The  Clod  and  the  Pebble. 

The  moon  returns,  and  the  spring,  birds 
warble,  trees  burst  into  leaf, 

But  Love  once  gone  goes  for  ever,  and  all 
that  endures  is  the  grief. 
MATHILDE  BLIND. — Love  Trilogy,  3. 

Much  ado  there  was,  God  wot ; 
He  would  love,  and  she  would  not. 

N.  BRETON. — Phyllida  and  Corydon. 


Two  human  loves  make  one  divine. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Isabel's  Child. 

Whoso  loves 
Believes  the  impossible. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  5. 

Love  shut  our  eyes  and  all  seemed  right. 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  n. 

What's  the  earth 

With  all  its  art,  verse,  music,  worth — 
Compared  with  love,  found,  gained,  and 
kept  ?     BROWNING. — Dis  aliter  visum. 

So  down    the   flowery   path    of    love   we 
went.  R.  BUCHANAN. — Sigurd. 

But  to  see  her  was  to  love  her, 
Love  but  her,  and  love  for  ever. 

BURNS. — Farewell  to  Nancy. 

Let  those  love  now  who  never  loved  before, 
And  those  who  always  loved  now  love  the 

more. 
BURTON. — (Tr.  of  Pcrvigilium  Vencris.) 

Love  is  too  great  a  happiness 

For  wretched  mortals  to  possess. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

Man's  love  is  of  man's  life  a  thing  apart, 
'Tis  woman's  whole  existence. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  194. 

Alas  !    the  love  of  women  !    it  is  known 
To  be  a  lovely  and  a  fearful  thing. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  2,  199. 

In  her  first  passion  woman  loves  her  lover, 
In  all  the  others  all  she  loves  is  love. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  3. 

And  all  because  a  lady  fell  in  love. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  4,  12. 

For  soon  or  late  Love  is  his  own  avenger. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  4,  73. 

Love  will  find  its  way 
Through  paths  where  wolves  would  fear 
to  prey.  BYRON. — Giaour,  1047. 

A  loving  heart  is  the  beginning  of  all 
knowledge.  CARLYLE. — On  Biography. 

The  god  of  love,  a  !  benedicite  ! 
How  mighty  and  how  great  a  lord  is  he  ! 
CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale. 

Love  and  I  be  fer  a-sonder. 
kCHAUCER. — Troilus,  Bk.  5,  983  (Cressid 
to  Diomed). 

Such  maner  folk,  I  gesse, 
Defamen  love,  as  no-thing  of  him  knowe, 
They  speken,  but  they  bente  never  his 
bowe.  CHAUCER. — Troilus. 

What  a  recreation  it  is  to  be  in  love 

It  sets  the  heart  aching  so  delicately  there's 

no  taking  a  wink  of  sleep  for  the  pleasure 

of  the  pain. 

G.  COLMAN,  JR. — Mountaineers,  Act  i,  i. 


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Life  without   lo%'e  is  load  ;    and   time 

stands  still  : 

What  we  refuse  to  him,  to  death  we  give, 
And  then,  then  only,  when  we  love,  we 

live. 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  2,  3. 

Love's  hut  a  frailty  of  the  mind, 
When  'tis  not  with  ambition  joined. 
CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World,  Act  3,  3. 

If  there's  delight  in  love,  'tis  when  I  see 

That  heart,  which  others  bleed  for,  bleed 

for    me.  CONGREVE. — Ib. 

How  wise  are  they  that  are  but  fools  in 

love  ! 

JOSHUA  COOKE. — How  a  man  may  choose, 

Act  i,   i. 

A  mighty  pain  to  love  it  is, 
And  'tis  a  pain  that  pain  to  miss  ; 
But  of  all  pains  the  greatest  pain 
It  is  to  love,  but  love  in  vain. 

COWLEY. — Gold. 

Better    to   love    amiss    than   nothing    to 
have  loved. 
CRABBE. — The  Struggles  of  Conscience. 

To  love  is  to  know  the  sacrifices  which 
eternity  exacts  from  life. 
MRS.  CRAIGIE  ("  JOHN  OLIVER  HOBBES  ") 
— School  for  Saints,  ch.  25. 

Poor  love  is  lost  in  men's  capacious  minds, 
In  ours,  it  fills  up  all  the  room  it  finds. 

J.  CROWNE. — Thyestes. 

Love  most    concealed    doth    most    itself 
discover.      W.  DAVISON. — Sonnet,  14. 

O  what  a  heaven  is  love  !    O  what  a  hell  ! 
T.  DEKKER. — Honest  Whore. 

The  magic  of  first  love  is  our  ignorance 
that  it  can  ever  end. 

DISRAELI. — Henrietta  Temple,  Bk.  2,  c.  4. 

See  the  couples  advance, — 
Oh  !  Love's  but  a  dance  ! 
A  whisper,  a  glance, — 

"  Shall  we  twirl  down  the  middle  ?  " 
Oh,  Love's  but  a  dance, 

Where  time  plays  the  fiddle. 
AUSTIN  DOBSON. — Triolet.     Oh,  Love's 
but  a  dance. 

That  reason  of  all  unreasonable  actions. 
DRYDEN. — Assignation. 

But  she  ne'er  loved  who  durst  not  venture 
all.   DRYDEN. — Aureng-Zebe,  Act  5,  i. 

Love's  the  noblest  frailty  of  the  mind. 
DRYDEN. — Indian  Emperor,  Act  2,  2. 

To  cure  the  pains  of  love  no  plant  avails  ; 
And  his  own  physic  the  physician  fails. 
DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Metam.,  Bk.  i. 


The  proverb  holds,  that  to  be  wise  and  love 
Ii  hardly  granted  to  the  gods  above. 

DKYDEN. — Palamon,  Bk.  2,  364. 

And  Antony,  who  lost  the  world  for  love. 
DRYDEN. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  607. 

In  hell  and  earth  and  seas  and  heaven 

above, 
Love  conquers  all  ;    and  we  must  yield  to 

Love. 

DRYDEN. — Virgil,  Pastoral,  10. 

All  the  young  ladies  said  that  to  be  sure 
a  love  match  was  the  only  thing  for  hap- 
piness, where  the  parties  could  any  way 
afford  it. 
Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Castle  Rackrent,  ch.  2. 

If  with  love  thy  heart  has  burned, 

If  thy  love  is  unre turned, 

Hide  thy  grief  within  thy  breast. 

EMERSON. — To  Rhea. 

The  affirmative  of  affirmatives  is  love. 
As  much  love,  so  much  perception. 

EMERSON. — Success. 

Cupid  is  a  blind  gunner. 
FARQUHAR. — Love  and  a  Bottle,  Act  i,  i. 

I  love  you  ; 

I'll  cut  your  throat  for  your  own  sake. 
FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Little  French 
Lawyer,  Act  4,  i. 

Only  in  love  they  happy  prove. 
Who  love  what  most  deserves  their  love. 
PHINEAS  FLETCHER. — Sicelides,  Act  3,  6. 

Again  new  tumults  fire  my  breast ; 
Ah,  spare  me,  Veuus,  let  thy  suppliant  rest. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Odes  Bk.  4,  i. 

Sorry  her  lot  who  loves  too  well, 
Heavy  the  heart  that  hopes    but  vainly. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Pinajori 

Time  was  when  Love   and   I   were   well 

acquainted, 
Time  was  when  we  walked  ever  hand  in 

hand.    SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Sorcerer. 

To  love  for  money  all  the  world  is  prone  ; 

Some  love  themselves,  and  live  all  lonely ; 
Give  me  the  love  that  loves  for  love  alone, 

I  love  that  love — I  love  it  only. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— Ib. 

Or  love  me  less,  or  love  me  more  ; 

And  play  not  with  my  liberty  : 
Either  take  all,  or  all  restore  ; 

Bind  me  at  least,  or  set  me  free  ! 

S.  GODOLPHIN. — Song. 

The  bashful  virgin's  sidelong  looks  of  love. 
GOLDSMITH. — Deserted   Village. 

Foolish  loves  make  foolish  people. 

E.  GONDINET. — The  Club. 


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Among  the  holy  bookes  wise, 

I  nude  write  in  suche  wise, 

Who  loveth  nought  is  here  as  dede. 

GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis. 

For  love's  law  is  out  of  reule. 

GOWER. — Ib. 

But  ah  !  in  vain  from  Fate  I  fly, 
For  first,  or  last,  as  all  must  die, 
So  'tis  as  much  decreed  above, 
That  first,  or  last,  we  all  must  love. 
G.  GRANVILLE  (LORD  LANSDOWNE). — 
To  Myra. 

Whoe'er    thou   art,  thy  lord  and  master 

see  ; 
Thou  wast  my  slave,  thou  art,  or  thou  shalt 

be.     G.  GRANVILLE  (LORD  LANSDOWNE). 
— God  of  Love  (Tr.  of  Voltaire). 

Love  in  extremes  can  never  long  endure. 
HERRICK. — Hesperides,  495. 

Love  of  itself 's  too  sweet.    The  best  of  all 
Is  when  love's  honey  has  a  dash  of  gall. 

HERRICK. — Ib.,  No.  1085. 

Pray  love  me  little  so  you  love  me  long. 
HERRICK. — Love  me  Little,  Love  me  Long. 

Truth  is  for  ever  truth  and  love  is  love. 
LEIGH  HUNT. — Hero  and  Leander. 

Love  is  like  the  measles  ;  we  all  have  to 
go  through  it. 

J.  K.  JEROME. — Idle  Thoughts. 

Love  in  a  hut,  with  water  and  a  crust, 
Is — Love,  forgive  us ! — cinders,  ashes,  dust ; 
Love  in  a  palace  is,  perhaps,  at  last 
More  grievous  torment  than  a  hermit's 
fast.  KEATS. — Lamia,  Pt.  2. 

Love  at  fifty  ! — why  look  you,  it  is  like 
rheumatism,  nothing  can  cure  it. 
LABICHE. — Le    Commandant    Mathieu    in 
"  Le  Voyage  de  M.  Perrichon." 

I  loved  him  too  as  woman  loves — 
Reckless  of  sorrow,  sin,  or  scorn. 

L.  E.  LANDON. — Indian  Bride. 

Oh  if  thou  lovest 

And  art  a  woman,  hide  thy  love  from  him 
Whom  thou  dost  worship  ;   never  let  him 

know 
How  dear  he  is.  L.  E.  LANDON. 

"  I'm  half  in  love,"  he  who  with  smiles 

hath  said, 

In  love  will  never  be. 
Whoe'er,  "  I'm  not  in  love,"  and  shakes 

his  head, 
In  love  too  sure  is  he. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Miscell.,  No.  258. 

Like  these  cool  lilies  may  our  loves  remain, 

Perfect  and  pure,  and  know  not  any  stain. 

A.  LANG. — To  Heavenly  Venus. 


True  love  is  like  the  apparition  of  spirits; 

everyone  speaks  of  it  but  few  have  seen  it. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  76. 

In  their  first  passions  women  love  the 
lover  ;  in  others  they  love  love. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  471. 

Like  Dian's  kiss,  unasked,  unsought 
Love  gives  itself,  but  is  not  bought. 

LONGFELLOW. — Endymion. 

Luife  (love)  bene  the  ladder  quhilk  (which) 
hes  bot  steppis  twa  (has  but  two  steps), 

Be  quhilk  we  may  clim  up  to  lyfe  againe 

Out  of  this  vaill  of  miserie  and  wa. 

SIR  D.  LYNDSAY. — The  Three  Estates 

(The  two  steps  being  i,  Love  of  God  ;  2,  Love 
of  one's  Neighbours). 

Tell  me  my  heart,  if  this  be  love. 

GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Song. 

Whoever  loved  that  loved   not    at   first 

sight  ?  MARLOWE. — Hero  and 

Leander,  Sestiad,  i. 

Love  always  makes  those  eloquent  that 
have  it.      MARLOWE. — Ib.,  Sestiad,  2. 

Love  not,  love  not,  ye  hapless  sons  of  clay. 
LADY  STIRLING  MAXWELL. — Rosalie. 

No,  there's  nothing  half  so  sweet  in  life 
As  love's  young  dream. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Is  it,  in  heaven,  a  crime  to  love  too  well  ? 

POPE. — Elegy  to  the  Memory  of  an 

Unfortunate  Lady,  6. 

Curse  on  all  laws  but  those  which  love  has 
made  !  POPE. — Eloisa,  I.  74. 

Love,  free  as  air,  at  sight  of  human  ties 
Spreads  his  light  wings,  and  in  a  moment 
flies.  POPE. — Ib.,  75. 

In   her   soft   breast   consenting    passions 

move, 
And  the  warm  maid  confessed  a  mutual 

love. 

POPE. — Vertumnus  and  Pomona,  122. 

There  is  no  pleasure  like  the  pain 

Of  being  loved,  and  loving. 
W.  M.  PRAED. — Legend  of  the  Haunted  Tree. 

A  dish  of  married  love  right  soon  grows 

cauld. 
ALLAN  RAMSAY. — Gentle  Shepherd,  Act  i. 

And  where  are  you  going  with  your  love- 
locks flowing  ? 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Amor  Mundi. 

Knowledge  is  strong,  but  love  is  sweet  ; 
Yea  all  the  progress  he  had  made 
Was  but  to  learn  that  all  is  small 
Save  love,  for  love  is  all  in  all. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Convent  Threshold. 


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Friendship 
avaricious. 


prodigal     but    love     is 
ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 


Love  rules  the  court,  the  camp,  the  grove, 
And  men  below,  and  saints  above, 
For  love  is  heaven,  and  heaven  is  love. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel  3,  2. 

True  love's  the  gift  which  God  has  given 
To  man  alone  beneath  the  heaven. 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  5,  13. 

For  love  will  still  be  lord  of  all. 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  6,  iz. 

There's  beggary  in  the  love  that  can  be 

reckoned.  SHAKESPEARE. — 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  Act  z,  i. 

Down  on  your  knees, 
And   thank  heaven,  fasting,   for  a  good 

man's  love. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  5. 

He  that  will  divide  a  minute  into  a 
thousand  parts,  and  break  but  a  part  of 
the  thousandth  part  of  a  minute  in  the 
affairs  of  love,  it  may  be  said  of  him,  that 
Cupid  hath  clapped  him  on  the  shoulder, 
but  I'll  warrant  him  heart-whole. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  z. 

Men  have  died  from  time  to  time,  and 

worms  have  eaten  them,  but  not  for  love. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

No  sooner  met,  but  they  looked ;  no 
sooner  looked,  but  they  loved  ;  no  sooner 
loved,  but  they  sighed  ;  no  sooner  sighed, 
but  they  asked  one  another  the  reason. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

From  me,  whose  love  was  of  that  dignity, 
That  it  went  hand  in  hand  even  with  the 

vow 
I  made  to  her  in  marriage. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

This  is  the  very  ecstasy  of  love. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  z,  z. 

This  whimpled,  whining,  purblind,  way- 
ward boy, 

This      senior-junior,      giant-dwarf,      Dan 
Cupid. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  3,  z. 

Love  like  a  shadow  flies  when  substance 

love  pursues, 
Pursuing  that  that  flies,  and  flying  what 

pursues. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  2,  2. 

O  powerful  love  !  that  in  some  respects 
makes  a  beast  a  man ;  in  some  other,  a 
man  a  beast. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  5. 


Love  looks  not  with  the  eyes,  but  with  the 

mind ; 

And   therefore   is   winged   Cupid   painted 
blind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  z,  z. 

The    course    of    true    love  never  did  run 
smooth.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

To  say  the  truth,  reason  and  love  keep 
little  company  together  now-a-days. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

Cupid  is  a  knavish  lad 

Thus  to  make  poor  females  mad. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

He  brushes  his  hat  o"  mornings  ;    what 
should  that  bode  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  2. 

Excellent   wretch !     Perdition   catch   my 

soul, 
But  I  do  love  thee  !  And  when  I  love  thee 

not, 
Chaos  is  come  again. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

This  bud  of  love,  by  summer's  ripening 

breath, 
May  prove  a  beauteous  flower  when  next 

we  meet. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2, 2. 

Love  in  Idleness. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  z,  z. 

Was  not  this  love  indeed  ? 
We  men  may  say  more,  swear  more  ;   but, 

indeed, 
Our  shows  are  more  than  will ;    for  still 

we  prove 

Much  in  our  vows,  but  little  in  our  love. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

Love  sought  is  good,  but  given  unsought 
is  better. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,   i. 

I    have    done    penance    for    contemning 

love. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  2,  4. 

Didst  thou  but  know  the  inly  touch  of  love, 
Thou  wouldst  as  soon  go  kindle  fire  with 

snow, 
As  seek  to  quench  the  fire  of  love  with 

words. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  7. 

I  hold  him  but  a  fool  that  will  endanger 
His  body  for  a  girl  that  loves  him  not. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  4. 

Love  is  a  spirit,  all  compact  of  fire, 
Not  gross  to  sink,  but  light,  and  will  aspire. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Venus  and  Adonis,  25. 


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LOVE 


Were  beauty  under  twenty  locks  kept  fast, 

Yet  love  breaks  through  and  picks  them 

all  at  last.  SHAKESPEARE. — 

Venus  and  Adonis,  96. 

Gone  already  ! 
Inch-thick,  knee-deep,  o'er  head  and  ears, 

a  forked  one  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  i,  2. 

First  love  is  only  a  little  foolishness  and 
a  lot  of  curiosity  :  no  really  self-respecting 
woman  would  take  advantage  of  it 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Bull's  Other  Island. 

Love  did  nothing  but  prove  the  sound- 
ness of  La  Rochefoucauld's  saying  that  very 
few  people  would  fall  in  love  if  they  had 
never  read  about  it. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Pref. 

All  love  is  sweet 
Given  or  returned.     Common  as  light  is 

love, 
And  its  familiar  voice  wearies  not  ever. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  2,  5. 

They  who  inspire  it  are  most  fortunate, 
As  I  am  now  ;  but  those  who  feel  it  most 
Are   happier   still.  SHELLEY. — Ib. 

An  oyster  may  be  crossed  in  love. 

SHERIDAN. — Critic,  Act  3,  i. 

True  be  it  said,  whatever  man  it  sayd, 

That  love  with  gall  and  hony  doth  abound. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  c.  10,  i. 

To  love  her  is  a  liberal  education. 

SIR  R.  STEELE. — Spectator  (of  Lady 
Elizabeth  Hastings). 

"  I    thought   love   had   been   a    joyous 

thing,"    quoth    my    uncle    Toby. — "  'Tis 

the  most  serious  thing,  an'  please  your 

Honour  (sometimes)  that  is  in  the  world." 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  7,  20. 

Love,  an'  please  your  Honour,  is  exactly 
like  war,  in  this,  that  a  soldier,  though  he 
has  escaped  three  weeks  complete  o' 
Saturday  night,  may  nevertheless  be  shot 
through  his  heart  on  Sunday  morning. 

STERNE. — Ib.,  vol.  5,  ch.  21. 

God    gives  us  love.     Something  to  love 
He  lends  us.      TENNYSON. — To  J    S. 

For   the  man's   love  once  gone  never  re- 
turns. 
TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  335. 

I  know  not  if  I  know  what  true  love  is, 
But  if  I  know,  then,  if  I  love  not  him, 
I  know  there  is  none  other  I  can  love. 
TENNYSON. — Lancelot  and  Elaine,  672. 

Sweet  is  true  love,  though  given  in  vain. 
TENNYSON. — Ib.,  949. 

Love  took  up  the  harp  of  Life,  and  smote 
on  all  the  chords  with  might, 


LOVE 

Smote  the  chord  of  Self,  that,  trembling, 
passed  in  music  out  of  sight. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Love  is  love  for  evermore. 

TENNYSON. — Ib. 

For  in  a  wink  the  false  love  turns  to  hate. 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  850. 

0  God,  that  I  had  loved  a  smaller  man  ! 

1  should  have  found  in  him  a  greater  heart. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  860. 

And  he  that  shuts  out  love  in  turn  shall  be 
Shut  out  from  love,  and  on  the  threshold 

lie, 
Howling  in  utter  darkness. 

TENNYSON. — To ("  /  send  you  here  a 

sort  of  Allegory  "). 

We*  love  being  in  love,  that's  the  truth 
on't.  THACKERAY. — Esmond,  c.  15. 

Who  does  not  know  how  to  love  has  but 
a  faithless  heart. 

VOLTAIRE. — Fete  de  BelUbat. 

Love  not  each  other  too  much,  I  beseech 
you.  It  is  the  surest  way  to  love  each 
other  always.  It  is  better  to  be  friends 
all  your  life  than  to  be  lovers  for  a  few  days. 
VOLTAIRE. — To  Mdlle.  de  Guise  on  her  im- 
pending marriage  with  the  Due  de  Richelieu. 

Love  is  the  breath  and  life  of  a  godlike 
and  blessed  man. 

JOHN  WESSEL  OF  GRONINGEN. 

O,  rank  is  good,  and  gold  is  fair, 
And  histh  and  low  mate  ill ; 

But  love  has  never  known  a  law 
Beyond  its  own  sweet  will. 

WHITTIER. — Amy  Wentworth. 

One  should  always  be  in  love.     That  is 
the  reason  one  should  never  marry. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  no  Importance, 

Act  3. 

When  one  is  in  love  one  begins  to  deceive 

oneself.    And  one  ends  by  deceiving  others. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Ib. 

Shall    I,    wasting    in    despair, 
Die  because  a  woman's  fair  ? 
G.  WITHER. — Shepherd's  Resolution. 

A  Briton,  even  in  love,  should  be 

A  subject,  not  a  slave  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Ere  with  cold  beads  of 
midnight  dew. 

He  spake  of  love,  such  love  as  Spirits  feel 
In  worlds  whose  course  is  equable  and 

pure  ; 

No  fears  to  beat  away — no  strife  to  heal — 

The  past  unsighed  for  and  the  future 

sure.  WORDSWORTH. — Laodamia. 


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LOVERS 


LOYALTY 


'Tis  sense,  unbridled  will,  and  not  true  love 
That  kills  the  soul.     Love  betters  what 

is  best, 

Even   here   below,    but   more   in   heaven 
above. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets,  No.  25. 

What  easy,  tame,  suffering,  trampled 
things  does  that  little  god  of  talking 
cowards  make  of  us  ! 

WYCHERLEY. — Plain  Dealer. 

Ryches  be  unstable 

And  beauty  will  dekay 
But  faithful  love  will  ever  last 
Till  death  dryve  it  away. 

Old  Rhyme. 
LOVERS 

Thrice  nappy's  the  wooing  that's  not  long 

a  doing, 
So  much  time  is  saved  in  the  billing  and 

cooing.     R.  H.  BARHAM. — Sir  Rupert. 

Affection  chained  her  to  that  heart  ; 
Ambition  tore  the  links  apart. 

BYRON. — Bride  of  Abydos,   i,  6. 

The  miracle  to-day  is  that  we  find 

A  lover  true,  not  that  a  woman's  kind. 

CONGREVE. — Love  for  Love,  Act  5,  2. 

All   mankind   love   a  lover. 

EMERSON. — Love. 

Nor   could    the    Fates    this   faithful    pair 

divide  ; 
They  lived  united  and  united  died. 

F.  FAWKES. — Hero  and  Leander,  494. 
(Tr.  of  Musceus.) 

A  lover  without  indiscretion  is  no  lover 
at  all. 
T.  HARDY. — Hand  of  Ethelberta,  ch.  20. 

The  old,  old  story, — fair  and  young, 
And  fond, — and  not  too  wise. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Agnes. 

The  lovers,  interchanging  words  and  sighs, 

Lost  in  the  heaven  of  one  another's  eyes. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Rimini,  c.  4. 

How  strange  a  thing  a  lover  seems 
To  animals  that  do  not  love. 

C.  PATMORE. — Angel  in  the  House. 

The  lover  is  a  more  godlike  thing  than 

the  beloved,  as  being  inspired  by  a  divinity. 

PLATO. — Banquet,  7. 

Ye  gods  !    annihilate  but  space  and  time, 

And  make  two  lovers  happy  ! 

POPE  AND  SWIFT. — Art  of  Sinking,  ch.  9. 

A  quotation,  the  source  not  being 

indicate. I. 

No  woman  hates  a  man  for  being  in  love 
with  her  ;  but  many  a  woman  hates  a  man 
for  being  a  friend  to  her. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


For  love  is  blind  and  lovers  cannot  see 
The  pretty  follies  they  themselves  commit. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  6. 

Then  must  you  speak 
Of  one  that  loved  not  wisely,  but  too  well  ; 
Of    one    not    easily   jealous,    but,    being 

wrought, 
Perplexed  in  the  extreme. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Othello,  Act  5,  2. 

I  think  there  is  not  half  a  kiss  to  choose 
Who  loves  another  best. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Why  so  pale  and  wan,  fond  lover  ? 
Prithee,  why  so  pale  ? 

SIR  J.  SUCKLING. — Aglaura 

The  shackles  of  an  old  love  straitened  him, 
His  honour  rooted  in  dishonour  stood, 
And  faith  unfaithful  kept  him  falsely  true. 
TENNYSON. — Lancelot,  870. 

Our  bond  is  not  the  bond  of  man  and  wife. 
TENNYSON. — Ib.,   1198. 

Perhaps  all  early  love  affairs  ought  to 
be  strangled  or  drowned,  like  so  many 
blind  kittens.  THACKERAY. — Pendennis. 

And  sadly  reflecting 
That  a  lover  forsaken 

A  new  love  may  get, 
But  a  neck,  when  once  broken, 

Can  never  be  set. 

W.  WALSH. — Despairing  Lover. 

LOYALTY 

True  as  the  dial  to  the  sun, 
Although  it  be  not  shined  upon. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  2. 

I  will  never  desert  Mr.  Micawber.  [Mrs. 
Micawber.} 

DICKENS. — D.  Copperfield,  c.  12. 

The  obligation  of  subjects  to  the 
sovereign  is  understood  to  last  as  long, 
and  no  longer,  than  the  power  lasteth  by 
which  he  is  able  to  protect  them. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  21. 

Devotion  to  princes  is  a  second  self-love. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  597. 

A  jewel  in  a  ten  times  barred  up  chest 
Is  a  bold  spirit  in  a  loyal  breast. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  i. 

Every  subject's  duty  is  the  king's  ;  but 
every  subject's  soul  is  his  own. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  4,  i . 

To  reverence  the  King  as  if  he  were 
Their  conscience,  and  their_conscience  as 
their  King. 

TENNYSON. — Guinevere,  464. 


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LYING 


LUCK 

Renown's  all  hit  or  miss  ; 
There's  fortune  even  in  fame,   we  must 
allow.         BYRON. — Don  Juan,  7,  33. 

Shallow  men  believe  in  luck,  believe  in 

circumstances  .  .  .  Strong  men  believe   in 

cause  and  effect.  EMERSON. — 

Conduct  of  Life.    Worship, 

"  Luck,"  continued  the  gambler  [Oak- 
shpttl  reflectively,  "  is  a  mighty  queer 
thing.  All  you  know  about  it  for  certain 
is  that  it's  bound  to  change." 

BRET  HARTE. — Outcasts  of  Poker  Flat. 

Happiness  or  misery  generally  go  to 
those  who  have  most  of  the  one  or  the 
other.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  360. 

"  Then  here  goes  another,"  says  he,  "  to 

make  sure, 
"  For  there's  luck  in  odd  numbers,"  says 

Rory  O'More. 

S.  LOVER. — Rory  O'More. 

For  there's  nae  luck  about  the  house ; 

There's  nae  luck  at  aw  : 
There's  little  pleasure  in  the  house, 

When  our  gude  man's  awa'. 

W.  J.  MICKLE. — Song. 

Call   me   not   fool    till  heaven  hath  sent 

me  fortune. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

I  bear  a  charmdd  life. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,    Act   5,    7. 

Fortune,  which  is  imagined  to  be  so 
sovereign,  can  do  scarcely  anything  with- 
out Nature. 

VAUVENARGUES. — Maxim  579. 

A  chip  of  chance  weigheth  more  than 
a  pound  of  wit. 
SIR  T.  WYATT. — Courtier's  Life  (c.  1530). 


LUKEWARMNESS 

In  doing  good,  we  are  generally  cold, 
and  languid,  and  sluggish  ;  and  of  all 
things  afraid  of  being  too  much  in  the  right. 
But  the  works  of  malice  and  injustice  are 
quite  in  another  style.  They  are  finished 
with  a  bold,  masterly  hand. 

BURKE. — Speech  at  Bristol  (1780). 

Lukewarmness  I  account  a  sin, 
As  great  in  love  as  in  religion. 
COWLEY. — The  Mistress. — Love  Verses  ; 
The  Request. 

I  know  thy  works,  that  thou  art  neither 
cold  nor  hot ;  I  would  thou  wert  cold  or 
hot.  Revelation  iii,  15. 


LUXURY 

What  will  not  Luxury  taste  ?   Earth,  sea, 

and  air, 
Are  daily  ransacked  for  the  bill  of  fare  ! 

GAY. — Trivia,  Bk.  3,  I.  199. 

Such   dainties   to   them,   their   health   it 

might  hurt ; 
It's  like  sending  them  ruffles,  when  wanting 

a  shirt. 

GOLDSMITH. — Haunch  of  Venison. 

Nature  is  free  to  all,  and  none  were  foes 
Till  partial  luxury  began  the  strife. 

JAS.  HAMMOND. — Elegy,  No.  n. 

Impatient  of  a  scene  whose  luxuries  stole, 
Spite  of  himself,  too  deep  into  his  soul. 

MOORE. — Lalla    Rookh. 

The  superfluous — a  very  necessary  thing- 
VOLTAIRE. — Le  Mondain. 

LYING 

Behold  him  there  !   He  stands  before  your 

eyes, 
To  bear  you  down  with  a  superior  frown, 

A  fiercer  stare, 

And  more  incessant,  more  exhaustless  lies. 

ARISTOPHANES. — The  Knights 

(Freretr.). 

It  is  not  the  lie  that  passeth  through  the 
mind,  but  the  lie  that  sinketh  in  and 
settleth  in  it,  that  doth  the  hurt. 

BACON. — Of  Truth. 

It  isn'  every  fool  that's  fit 
To  make  a  real  good  lie,  that'll  sit 
On  her  keel,  and  answer  the  helm. 

T.  E.  BROWN.— The  Doctor. 

And  after  all,  what  is  a  lie  ?     'Tis  but 
The  truth  in  masquerade. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  n,  st.  37. 

Man  everywhere  is  the  born  enemy  of 
lies.  CARLYLE. — Heroes,  sec.  i. 

The  talent  of  lying  in  a  way  that  cannot 
be  laid  hold  of. 

CARLYLE. — Latter  Day  Pamphlets,  7. 

Thou  liar  of  the  first  magnitude ! 
CONGREVE. — Love  for  Love,  Act  4,  2. 

A  liar  is  always  prodigal  of  oaths. 

CORNEILLE. — Le  Menteur. 

"  There's  one  thing  you  may  be  sure  of, 
Pip,"  said  Joe,  "  namely  that  lies  is  lies. 
However  they  come,  they  didn't  ought  to 
come,  and  they  come  from  the  father  of 
lies,  and  work  round  to  the  same." 

DICKENS. — Gt.  Expectations,  ch.  g. 

The  art  of  speaking  well  consists  largely 
in  lying  skilfully.  . 

ERASMUS. — Philetymus. 


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MAGIC 


"  I  am  Ymaginatyf,"  quath  he,  "  ydel 
was  I  uevere." 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman,  Passus  15. 

An  innocent  truth  can  never  stand  in  need 
Of  a  guilty  lie. 

MASSINGER. — Emperor  of  East, 
Act  5,  3. 

I  have  heard  that  a  warm  lie  is  the  best. 
Whatever  the  gods  put  into  your  rnind  is 
the  best  thing  to  say. 

PLAUTUS. — Mostellaria,  Act  3. 

He  who  tells  a  lie  is  not  sensible  how 
great  a  task  he  undertakes  ;  for  he  must 
be  forced  to  invent  twenty  more  to  main- 
tain that  one. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

A  very  honest  woman,  but  something 
given  to  lie. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  5,  2. 

Lord,  lord,  how  the  world  is  given  to 
lying  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  5,  4. 

Let  me  have  no  lying  ;  it  becomes  none 
but  tradesmen. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Lying's  a  certain  mark  of  cowardice. 

T.  SOUTHERN. — Oroonoko,  Act  5. 

A  lie  travels  round  the  world  while 
Truth  is  putting  on  her  boots. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. 

If  a  man  had  the  art  of  the  second  sight 
for  seeing  lies,  as  they  have  in  Scotland 
for  seeing  spirits,  how  admirably  he  might 
entertain  himself  in  this  town  [London], 
by  observing  the  different  shapes,  sizes, 
and  colours  of  those  swarms  of  lies  which 
buzz  about  the  heads  of  some  people. 

SWIFT. — Examiner,  No.  15. 

An  experienced,  industrious,  ambitious, 
and  often  quite  picturesque  liar. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Military  Campaign. 

But  liars  we  can  never  trust, 
Though    they   should   speak    the    thing 

that's  true ; 

And  he  that  does  one  fault  at  first, 
And  lies  to  hide  it,  makes  it  two. 

I.  WATTS. — Against  Lying. 

There  is  such  a  thing  as  robbing  a  story 
of  its  reality  by  trying  to  make  it  too 
true.  OSCAR  WILDE. — The  Decay  of 

Lying. 

Truth  never  was  indebted  to  a  lie. 

YOUNG.— Night   Thoughts,   8. 

Whosoever  loveth  and  maketh  a  lie. 
Revelation  xxii,  15. 


M 

MADNESS 

Out  of  my  course  I'm  borne 
By  the  wild  spirit  of  fierce  agony, 

And  cannot  curb  my  lips ; 
And  turbid  speech  at  random  dashes  on 
Upon  the  waves  of  dread  calamity. 

AESCHYLUS. — Prometheus,    877 
(Plumptre  tr.). 
There  is  a  pleasure  sure 
In  being  mad,  which  none  but  madmen 
know. 

DRYDEN. — Spanish  Friar,  Act  2,  i. 

0  greater  madman,  pray  have  mercy 
on  a  lesser  one  !      HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk.  2. 

It  is  a  common  calamity  ;  at  some  time 
or  other  we  have  all  been  mad. 

JOH.  BAPTISTA  MANTUANUS. 

That  he  is  mad  'tis  true  ;  'tis  true  'tis  pity, 
And  pity  'tis  'tis  true. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Though   this   be    madness,   yet    there   is 
method  in  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

1  am  but  mad  north-north-west.     When 
the  wind  is  southerly,  I  know  a  hawk  from 
a  handsaw.     SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

Madness  in    great   ones    must    not    un- 
watched  go. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

O,  that  way  madness  lies  ;   let  me  shun 
that !     SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  4. 

Why,  this  is  very  midsummer  madness. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  4. 

I  think  for  my  part  one  half  of  the 
Nation  is  mad — and  the  other  not  very 
sound.  SMOLLETT. — Sir  L.  Greaves. 

He  gave  the  little  wealth  he  had 

To  build  a  house  for  fools  and  mad ; 

To  show,  by  one  satiric  touch, 

No  nation  wanted  it  so  much. 

SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

'Tis  a  mad  world,  my  masters.      Prov. 

MAGIC 

Charmes  for  woundes  or  raaladye  of 
men  or  of  bestes  (beasts),  if  they  taken  any 
effect,  it  may  be  peraventure  that  God 
suffreth  it,  for  [so  that]  folk  sholden  yeve 
[should  give]  the  more  feith  and  reverence 
to  his  name. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  38. 

Wizards  that  peep,  and  that  mutter. 

Isaiah  viii,   19. 


MAGISTRATES 


MALEVOLENCE 


MAGISTRATES 

Authority  intoxicates 
And  makes  mere  sots  of  magistrates  ; 
The  fumes  of  it  invade  the  brain, 
And  make  men  giddy,  proud,  and  vain. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

Be  this,  ye  rural  magistrates,  your  plan, 
Firm  be  your   justice,  but  be  friends  to 

man. 

J.  LANGHORNE. — Country  Justice,  133. 

Fear  God.  and  offend  not  the  Prince  and 

his  laws, 
And  keep  thyself  out  of  the  magistrate's 

claws.     T.  TUSSER. — Good  Husbandry, 

MAGNANIMITY 

England  and  Ireland  may  flourish  to- 
gether. The  world  is  large  enough  for  us 
both.  Let  it  be  our  care  not  to  make  our- 
selves too  little  for  it. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Samuel  Span. 

Magnanimity  in  politics  is  not  seldom  the 
truest  wisdom  ;  and  a  great  empire  and 
little  minds  go  ill  together. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

His  [Abraham  Lincoln's]  heart  was  as 
great  as  the  world,  but  there  was  no  room 
in  it  to  hold  the  memory  of  a  wrong. 

EMERSON. — Greatness. 

The  eagle  suffers  little  birds  to  sing, 

And   is   not   careful    what   they   mean 

thereby. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  Andronicus,  Act  4, 4. 

Dowered  with  the  hate  of  hate,  the  scorn 

of  scorn, 
The  love  of  love.     TENNYSON. — The  Poet. 

Praises  to  the  vanquished  are  an  addi- 
tional laurel  to  the  victors. 
VOLTAIRE. — Prelim.   Discourse,   Poime  de 

Fontenoi. 
MAGNIFICENCE 

For  wheresoe'er  I  turn  my  ravished  eyes 
Gay  gilded  scenes  and  shining  prospects 
rise.         ADDISON. — Letter  from  Italy. 

Thought  in  gold  and  dreamed  in  silver. 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Herod. 

MAHOMETANS 

One  of  that  saintly  murderous  brood, 
To  carnage  and  the  Koran  given. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 
MAJORITIES 

A  majority  is  always  the  best  repartee. 
DISRAELI. — Tancred,  Bk.  2,  c.  14 . 

Decision  by  majorities  is  as  much  nu 
expedient  as  lighting  by  gas. 

W.  E.  GLADSTONE. — Speech,  1858. 


The  majority  is  never  right .  .  .  Who 
are  they  that  make  up  the  majority  in  a 
country  ?  Is  it  the  wise  men  or  the  foolish  ? 
.  .  .  The  minority  is  always  right. 

IBSEN. — An  Enemy  of  Society. 

Safer  with  multitudes  to  stray, 
Than  tread  alone  a  fairer  way  : 
To  mingle  with  the  erring  throng, 
Than  boldly  speak  ten  millions  wrong. 
EARL  NUGENT. — Ep.  to  a  Lady. 

I  believe  it  to  be  a  great  truth  that  to 
carry  a  point  in  your  house  [Irish  House 
of  Commons],  the  two  following  circum- 
stances are  of  great  advantage  :  first,  to 
have  an  ill  cause  ;  and  secondly,  to  be  in 
a  minority  .  .  .  Whereas  on  the  contrary 
a  majority  with  a  good  cause  are  negligent 
and  supine. 
SWIFT. — Letter  to  an  M.P.  in  Ireland  (1708). 

Hain't  we  got  all  the  fools  in  town  on 
our  side  ?     And  ain't  that  a  big  enough 
majority  in  any  town  ? 
MARK  TWAIN. — Huckleberry  Finn,  ch.  26. 

MALEVOLENCE  AND  MALICE 

A  truth  that's  told  with  bad  intent 
Beats  all  the  lies  you  can  invent. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

A  bitter  heart  that  bides  its  time  and  bites. 
BROWNING. — Caliban. 

Let  those  who  have  betrayed  him  [Lord 
Chatham]  by  their  adulation,  insult  him 
with  their  malevolence.  But  what  I  do 
not  presume  to  censure,  I  may  have  leave 
to  lament. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 

An  honest  man  may  like  a  glass, 
An  honest  man  may  like  a  lass, 
But   mean  revenge,   an'  malice    fause, 
He'll  still  disdain. 

BURNS.— Epistle  to  J.  M'Math. 

Much  malice  mingled  with  a  little  wit. 
DRVDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther,  Pt.  3,  i. 

Malice  feeds  on  the  living  ;  after  life  is 
over,  it  rests.  OVID. — Amores,  Bk.  i. 

Willing  to  wound  and  yet  afraid  to  strike. 
POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires. 

Let  us  taste  the  unique  pleasure  of  un- 
happy souls — let  us  not  be  the  only  ones 
to  be  miserable.  QUINAULT. — Theseus,  3,  7. 

Malice  is  the  ordinary  vice  of  those  who 
live  in  the  mode  of  religion,  without  the 
spirit  of  it. 

STEELE. — The  Guardian,  No.  65 
(May  26,  1713). 

Shipwrecked,    kindles    on    the    coast 
False  fires,  that  others  may  be  lost. 
WORDSWORTH. — To  Lady  Fleming. 


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MANKIND 


All  malice  is  but  little  to  the  malice  of 
a  woman.  Ecdesiasticus  xxv,  19 

(R.V.). 

MANKIND 

Strong  is  the  Soul,  and  wise,  and  beautiful  ; 
The  seeds  of  godlike  power  are  in  us  still  : 
Gods  are  we,  Bards,  Saints,  Heroes,  if  we 
will. 

M.  ARNOLD. — In  Emerson's  Essays. 

The   human  comedy. 
Title  given  to  his  works  by  H.  DE  BALZAC. 

Nature  has  placed  mankind  under  the 
governance  of  two  sovereign  masters,  pain 
and  pleasure  .  .  .  They  govern  us  in  all  we 
do.  J.  BENTHAM. — Introd.  to  Principles 

of  Morals. 

Most  men  are  bad. 
BIAS  OF  PRIENE. — (c.  B.C.  560.) 

Man  is  a  noble  animal,  splendid  in  ashes, 
and  pompous  in  the  grave. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Hydriotaphia. 

Men  arc  not  angels,  neither  are  they  brutes , 

Something  we  may  see,  all  we  cannot  see. 

BROWNING. — Bp.  Blougram. 

Man  seeks    his   own    good    at    the  whole 
world's  cost.          BROWNING. — Luria. 

Good  Lord,  what  is  man  ?     for  as  simple 

he  looks, 
Do  but  try  to  develop  his  hooks  and  his 

crooks  ; 
With  his  depths  and  his  shallows,  his  good 

and  his  evil, 
All  in  all  he's  a  problem  must  puzzle  the 

devil.  BURNS. — To  C.  J.  Fox. 

A  man's  a  man  for  a'  that. 

BURNS. — Is  there,  for  Honest  Poverty  ? 

Let  us  then  praise  their  good,  forget  their 

ill ! 

Men  must  be  men  and  women  women  still. 
CAMPION. — Vain  Men. 

For  ours  is  a  most  fictile  world,  and  man 
is  the  most  fingent  plastic  of  creatures. 
CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  i. 

Ye  were  not  formed  to  live  the  life  of 

brutes, 

But  virtue  to  pursue,  and  knowledge  high. 
H.  F.  GARY.— Dante's  "Hell,"  c.  26,  116. 

Man  is  an  embodied  paradox,  a  bundle 
of  contradictions.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

'Tis    pleasant    through    the   loopholes   of 

retreat 

To  peep  at  such  a  world  ;  to  see  the  stir 
Of  the  great  Babel,  and  not  feel  the  crowd. 
COWPER. — Winter  Evening,   88. 


Men  are  but  children  of  a  larger  growth, 

Our  appetites  as  apt  to  change  as  theirs, 

And  full  as  craving  too,  and  full  as  vain. 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  4,  i. 

How  dull,  and  how  insensible  a  beast 
Is  man,  who  yet  would  lord  it  o'er  the  rest  ! 
DRYDEN. — On  Satire,  I.  i. 

Men's  men  :    gentle    or   simple,  they're 
much  of  a  muchness. 
GEO.  ELIOT. — Daniel  Dcronda,  Bk.  4,  ch.  31. 

Men  in  all  ways   are   better    than  they 
seem. 

EMERSON. — New  England  Reformers. 

So  nigh  is  grandeur  to  our  dust 
So  near  is  God  to  man. 

EMERSON. — Voluntaries. 

Oh  Thou,  who  Man  of  baser  Earth  didst 

make, 

And  ev'n  with  Paradise  devise  the  Snake  ; 
For  all  the  Sin  wherewith  the  Face  of  Man 
Is    blackened — Man's    forgiveness    give — 
and  take ! 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  81. 

Man  is  Nature's  sole  mistake. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Man  will  swear  and  man  will  storm  ; 
Man  is  not  at  all  good  form  ; 
Man  is  of  no  kind  of  use  ; 
Man's  a  donkey,  man's  a  goose. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— Ib. 

Man's  not  worth  a  moment's  pain, 
Base,  ungrateful,  fickle,  vain. 

J.  GRAINGER. — Ode  to  Solitude. 

Though  every  prospect  pleases, 
And  only  man  is  vile. 

BISHOP  HEBER. — Hymn. 

Man  is  one  world,  and  hath 
Another  to  attend  him. 

HERBERT. — Man. 

Thou'lt  find  thy  Manhood  all  too  fast — 
Soon  come,  soon  gone  !   and  age  at  last 
A  sorry  breaking-up ! 

HOOD. — Clapham  Academy. 

If  there  is  one  beast  in  all  the  loathsome 
fauna  of  civilization  I  hate  and  despise, 
it  is  a  man  of  the  world. 

HENRY  ARTHUR  JONES. — The 
Liars,  Act  i. 

Hard  fate  of  man,  on  whom  the  heavens 

bestow 
A  drop  of  pleasure  for  a  sea  of  woe. 

SIR  W.  JONES. — Laura. 

We  fear  all  things  as  mortals,  and  we 

desire  all  things  as  if  we  were  immortals. 

LA   ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  590. 

Man,  false  man,  smiling,  destructive  man. 
N.  LEE. — Theodosius,  Act  3,  2. 


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MANKIND 


Before  Man  made  us  citizens,  great  Nature 

made  us  men. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Capture  of  Fugitive  Slaves. 

I've  studied  men  from  my  topsy-turvy 
Close,  and,  I  reckon,  rather  true. 

Some  are  fine  fellows  :  some,  right  scurvy  : 
Most,  a  dash  between  the  two. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Juggling  Jerry,  st.  7. 

Once  in  the  flight  of  ages  past, 
There  lived  a  man  : — and  who  was  he  ? 
Mortal !  howe'er  thy  lot  be  cast, 
That  man  resembled  thee. 

J.  MONTGOMERY. — The  Common  Lot. 

Why  hast  thou  made  me  so, 
My  Maker  ?    I  would  know 
Wherefore  Thou  gav'st  me  such  a  mourn- 
ful dower  ; — 
Toil  that  is  oft  in  vain, 
Knowledge  that  deepens  pain, 
And  longing  to  be  pure  without  the  power. 
J.  J.  MURPHY. — Eternity. 

In  short  what  is  man  in  nature  ? 
Nothing  in  regard  to  the  infinite,  every- 
thing in  regard  to  nothing,  something  in 
between  nothing  and  all. 

PASCAL. — Penstes. 

Child  of  a  day,  what's  man  ?     What  is 

he  not  ? 
His  life  a  shadow's  dream. 

PINDAR. — Pythian  Odes,  8,  131. 

Let  us  (since  life  can  little  more  supply 
Than  just  to  look  about  us  and  to  die), 
Expatiate  free  o'er  all  this  scene  of  man  ; 
A  mighty  maze  !   but  not  without  a  plan  ! 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  3. 

All  are  but  parts  of  one  stupendous  whole, 

Whose  body  nature  is,  and  God  the  soul. 

POPE. — Ib.,  268. 

Know  then  thyself  ;  presume  not  God  to 

scan  : 
The  proper  study  of  mankind  is  man. 

POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  2,   i. 

Placed  on  this  isthmus  of  a  middle  state, 
A  being  darkly  wise  and  rudely  great. 

POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  2,  3. 

The  glory,  jest,  and  riddle  of  the  world. 
POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  2,   18. 

Man  is  man's  A. B.C.    There  is  none  can 
Read  God  aright,  unless  he  first  spell  man. 
QUARLES. — Hieroglyphics. 

Once  it  came  into  my  heart  and  whelmed 

me  like  a  flood, 
That  these  too  are  men  and  women,  human 

flesh  and  blood ; 
Men   with   hearts   and   men   with   souls, 

though  trodden  down  like  mud. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Royal  Princess. 

Men,  be  human  ;  that  is  your  first  duty. 
ROUSSEAU, — E.mile. 


Ah,  let  us  for  a  little  while  abate 
The  outward  roving  eye,  and  seek  within 
Where  spirit  unto  spirit  is  allied  ; 
There,  in  our  inmost  being,  we  may  win 
The  joyful  vision  of  the  heavenly  wise 
To  see  the  beauty  in  each  other's  eyes. 
GEO.  RUSSELL. — Shadows  and  Lights. 

The  doctor  sees  mankind  in  all  its  weak- 
nesses ;  the  lawyer  in  all  its  wickedness  ; 
the  theologian  in  all  its  stupidity. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Psychological 
Observations. 

What  a  piece  of  work  is  man  !  How 
noble  in  reason  !  How  infinite  in  faculty  ! 
In  form  and  moving  how  express  and 
admirable  !  In  action,  how  like  an  angel ;  in 
apprehension,  how  like  a  god  !  The  beauty 
of  the  world,  the  paragon  of  animals ! 
And  yet  to  me  what  is  this  quintessence 
of  dust  ?  Man  delights  not  me,  no  nor 
woman  neither,  though  by  your  smiling 
you  seeni  to  say  so. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

What  should  such  fellows  as  I  do, 
crawling  between  heaven  and  earth  ?  We 
are  arrant  knaves,  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

Ay,  in  the  catalogue  ye  go  for  men. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  i. 

God  made  him,  and  therefore  let  him 
pass  for  a  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  2. 

When  I  am  grown  to  man's  estate 
I  shall  be  very  proud  and  great, 
And  tell  the  other  girls  and  boys 
Not  to  meddle  with  my  toys. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Looking  Forward. 

I  cannot  but  conclude  the  bulk  of  your 
natives  to  be  the  most  pernicious  race  of 
odious  little  vermin  that  nature  ever  suf- 
fered to  crawl  upon  the  surface  of  the  earth. 
SWIFT. — Brobdingnag. 

Vain  humankind  !    fantastic  race  ! 
Thy  various  follies  who  can  trace  ? 
Self-love,  ambition,  envy,  pride, 
Their  empire  in  our  hearts  divide. 

SWIFT. — On  the  death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

For  good  ye  are  and  bad,  and  like  to  coins, 
Some  true,  some  light,  but  every  one  of 

you 
Stamped  with  the  image  of  the  king. 

TENNYSON. — Holy  Grail,  25. 

Thou  madest  man,  he  knows  not  why  ; 
He  thinks  he  was  not  made  to  die. 

TENNYSON. — In  Mentor  iam,  Introd. 

I,  the  heir  of  all  the  ages,  in  the  foremost 
files  of  time. 

TENNYSON,— L.ocks(ey  Hal} 


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MANNERISMS 


But  what  am  I  ? 
An  infant  crying  in  the  night : 
An  infant  crying  for  the  light : 
And  with  no  language  but  a  cry. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  54. 

For  man  is  man,  and  master  of  his  fate. 
TENNYSON. — Marriage  of  Geraint,  I.  355. 

Man  is  the  hunter  ;  woman  is  his  game. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  5,  147. 

This  truth  within  thy  mind  rehearse, 

That  in  a  boundless  universe 

Is  boundless  better,  boundless  worse. 

TENNYSON. — Two  Voices. 

Every  moment  dies  a  man, 
Every  moment  one  is  born. 
TENNYSON. — Vision  of  Sin,  st.  9  and  15. 

Fill  the  can  and  fill  the  cup  ; 

All  the  windy  ways  of  men 
Are  but  dust  that  rises  up 

And  is  lightly  laid  again. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  st.  18  and  27. 

Oh,  vanity  of  vanities  ! 

How  wayward  the  decrees  of  Fate  are  ! 
How  very  weak  the  very  wise, 

How  very  small  the  very  great  are  ! 
THACKERAY. — Vanitas  Vanitatum. 

The  mice  inhabiting  small  holes  in  some 
immense  building,  do  not  know  whether 
that  building  is  eternal,  nor  who  is  the 
architect,  nor  why  he  built  it.  They  try 
to  preserve  their  lives,  to  people  their  holes, 
and  to  escape  the  preying  animals  which 
pursue  them.  We  are  the  mice,  and  the 
Divine  Architect,  as  far  as  I  know,  has  not 
yet  told  his  secret  to  any  one  of  us. 
VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  Frederick  the  Great, 
Aug.  26,1736. 

He  that  hi  sight  diminishes  mankind, 
Does  no  addition  to  his  stature  find ; 
But  he  that  does  a  noble  nature  show, 
Obliging  others,  still  does  higher  grow. 

WALLER.— -On  the  Fear  of  God,  c.  3,  7. 

We  are  children  of  splendour  and  fame, 
Of  shuddering  also,  and  tears  ; 

Magnificent  out  of  the  dust  we  came, 
And  abject  from  the  spheres. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Ode  in  May. 

Good  are  life  and  laughter,  though  we  look 

before  and  after, 
And  good  to  love  the  race  of  men  a  little 

ere  we  go. 

ALICE  WERNER. — Song  of  Fleet  Street. 

Here  are  we  in  a  bright  and  breathing 

world  : 
Our  origin,  what  matters  it  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  3. 

All  creatures  and  all  objects  in  degree 
Are  friends  and  patrons  of  humanity. 


These  are  to  whom  the  garden,  grove,  and 

field 
Perpetual  lessons  of  forbearance  yield. 

WORDSWORTH. — Humanity,  I.  103. 

Much  it  grieved  my  heart  to  think 
What  man  has  made  of  man. 

WORDSWORTH. — In  Early  Spring. 

The  still,  sad  music  of  humanity, 

Nor  harsh,  nor  grating,  though  of  ample 

power, 

To  chasten  and  subdue. 
WORDSWORTH. — Lines,  nr.  Tintern  Abbey. 

How   poor,   how   rich,    how   abject,   how 

august, 

How  complicate,  how  wonderful,  is  man  ! 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i. 

O  what  a  miracle  to  man  is  man  ! 

YOUNG. — Ib.,  i. 

So  great,  so  mean  is  man. 

YOUNG. — Ib.,  6. 

Fond  man  !  the  vision  of  a  moment  made  ! 

Dream  of  a  dream,  and  shadow  of  a  shade. 

YOUNG. — Book  of  Job,   187. 

There's  nought  so  queer  as  folk. 

North  Country  prov. 

Man  to  man  is  either  a  god  or  a  wolf. 
Quoted  as  a  Latin  prov.  by  Erasmus. 

MANLINESS 

Do  all  things  like  a  man,  not  sneakingly  : 

Think  the  King  sees  thee  still,  for  his  King 

doth.  HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Far  may  we  search  before  we  find 
A  heart  so  manly  and  so  kind. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  4,  Intro. 

He  only,  in  a  general  honest  thought, 
And  common  good  to  all,  made  one  of 

them. 

His  life  was  gentle  ;   and  the  elements 
So  mixed  in  him  that  Nature  might  stand 

up 
And  say  to  all  the  world,   "  This  was  a 

man  !  " 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  5,  5. 

MANNERISMS 

And  then  hi  the  fulness  of  joy  and  hope, 
Seemed  washing  his  hands  with  invisible 

soap, 
In  imperceptible  water. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

And  rubbed  his  hands,  and  smiled  aloud, 
And  bowed,  and  bowed,  and  bowed,  and 

bowed, 
Like  a  man  who  is  sawing  marble. 

Hoon. — Ib. 


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MANNERS 


MARRIAGE 


And  with  a  sweeping  of  the  arm, 
And  a  lack-lustre  dead-blue  eye, 
Devolved  his  rounded  periods. 

TENNYSON. — A  Character. 

And   slight   Sir    Robert,  with  his  watery 

smile 
And  educated  whisker. 

TENNYSON. — Edwin  Morris. 

MANNERS 

He  was  the  mildest  mannered  man 

That  ever  scuttled  ship  or  cut  a  throat  ; 

With  such  true  breeding  of  a  gentleman 
You  never  could  divine  his  real  thought. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  41. 

Everyone's  manners  make  his  fortune. 
CORNELIUS  NEPOS. — Vita  Attici. 

The  basis  of  good  manners  is  self- 
reliance  .  .  .  Those  who  are  not  self-pos- 
sessed obtrude,  and  pain  us. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life, 
Behaviour. 

Who  does  not  delight  in  fine  manners  ? 
Their  charm  cannot  be  predicted  or  over- 
stated. EMERSON. — Social  Aims. 

Religious,  moral,  generous,  and  humane 
He  was, — but  self-sufficient,  rude  and 

vain  ; 

Ill-bred   and  overbearing   in   dispute, 
A  scholar  and  a  Christian, — yet  a 'brute. 
SOAME  JENYNS. — On  Dr.  S.  Johnson. 

True  is,  that  whilome  that  good  poet  sayd, 
The  gentle  mind  by  gentle  deeds  is  knowne; 
For  a  man  by  nothing  is  so  well  bewrayd 
As  by  his  manners. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Qtteene,  Bk.  6,  c.  3,  i. 

Gentle  bloud  will  gentle  manners  breed. 
SPENSER. — Ib.,  Bk.  6,  c.  3,  2. 

There   is   an   oblique   way   of   reproof, 

which  takes  off  from  the  sharpness  of  it ; 

and  an  address  in  flattery,  which  makes  it 

agreeable,  though  never  so  gross. 

STEELE. — The  Guardian,  No.   10  (March 

18,    1713). 

Few  are  qualified  to  shine  in  company, 
but  it  is  in  most  men's  power  to  be  agree- 
able. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

How  rude  are  the  boys  that  throw  pebbles 
and  mire  !     I.  WATTS. — Innocent  Play. 

The  mainners  o'  a'  nations  are  equally 
bad. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,   39   (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

Leave  off  first  for  manners'  sake. 

Ecclesiasticus  xxxi,  17. 


And  this  he  truly  taught,  and  this  we  know, 

A  man's  own  manners  gild  or  soil  his  name. 

F.  E.  W. — In  memory  of  Dr.  Warre, 

Jan.  28, 1920. 

Come  when  you're  called, 
And  do  as  you're  bid  ; 
Shut  the  door  after  you  ; 
And  you'll  never  be  chid. 
Old  Rhyme.     Quoted  by  Miss  Edgeworth  in 
"  The  Contrast,"  ch.  i. 

MAN'S  AGES 

At  twenty  years  of  age,  the  will  reigns  ; 
at  thirty,  the  wit  ;  and  at  forty,  the  judg- 
ment. H.  GRATTAN. 

MARCH 

When  that  the  month  in  winch  the  world 

bigan, 
That  highte  [is   called]  March,  when  God 

first  maked  man. 

CHAUCER. — Nun   Priest's    Tale,    367. 

Slayer  of  the  winter,  art  thou  here  again? 
W.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise.  March,  1. 1. 

But    when    the    wreath    of    March    has 

blossomed, 

Crocus,  anemone,  violet. 
TENNYSON. — To  the  Rev.  F.  D.  Maurice. 

When  March  comes  in  with  an  adder's 
head,  it  goes  out  with  a  peacock's  tail  ; 
when  March  comes  in  with  a  peacock's 
tail,  it  goes  out  with  an  adder's  head. 

Scottish  saying. 

MARRIAGE 

Marriage  is  a  tie  which  hope  makes  beau- 
tiful, which  happiness  preserves,  and  which 
misfortune  strengthens. 

AI.IBERT  (1767-1837). 

He  was  reputed  one  of  the  wise  men, 
[Thales]  that  made  answer  to  the  question 
when  a  man  should  marry  ?  "A  young 
man  not  yet ;  an  elder  man  not  at  all." 

BACON. — Of  Marriage. 

They  gied  him  my  hand,  though  my  heart 

was  at  sea. 
LADY  ANN  BARNARD. — A  uld  Robin  Gray. 

We    should  marry  to  please  ourselves, 
not  other  people. 
I.  BICKERSTAFF. — Maid  of  the  Mill,  Act  3,4. 

Youth  means  love  ; 
Vows  can't  change  nature ;    priests  are 

only  men. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Boukt  1056. 

Oh,  gie  me  the  lass  that  has  acres  o'  charms, 
Oh,  gie  me  the  lass  wi'    the  weel-stockit 
farms. 
BURNS. — Hey  for  a  Lass  wi'  a  Tocher. 


MARRIAGE 


MARRIAGE 


One  was  never  married,  and  that's  his 
hell  ;   another  is,  and  that's  his  plague. 
BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy,  PI.  i, 
sec.  z,  mem.  4,  7. 

'Tis  pity  learned  virgins  ever  wed 
With  persons  of  no  sort  of  education. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  22. 

Yet  'tis  "  so  nominated  in  the  bond," 
That  both  are  tied  till  one  shall  have  ex- 
pired. BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  7. 

Why  don't  they  knead  two  virtuous  souls 

for  life 

Into  that  moral  centaur,  man  and  wife  ? 
BYRON. — Ib.,  5,  158. 

Though  women  are  angels,  yet  wedlock's 
the  devil.    BYRON. — Hours  of  Idleness. 

Since  first  he  called  her  his  before  the  holy 
man. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  2. 

It  [marriage]  is  an  action  of  life  like  to 
a  stratagem  of  war,  wherein  a  man  can  err 
but  once.  If  thy  estate  be  good,  match 
near  home  and  at  leisure  ;  if  weak,  far  off 
and  quickly. 

WM.  CECIL  (LORD  BURGHLEY). — 
Precepts  to  his  Son. 

Ther  as  myn  herte  is  set,  ther  wol  I  wyve. 
CHAUCER. — Clerk's  Tale. 

And  such  a  bliss  is  there  betwixt  them 

two, 

That,  save   the  Joye  that  lasteth  evermo, 
There  is  none  like. 
CHAUCER. — Tale  of  the  Man  of  Law,  977. 

Oh  !  how  many  torments  be  in  the  small 
circle  of  a  wedding  ring  ! 

CIBBER. — Double  Gallant,  Act  i,  2. 

Marriage  is  a  feast  where  the  grace  is 
sometimes  better  than  the  dinner. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Valentine  :  The  two  greatest  monsters 
in  the  world  are  a  man  and  a  woman. 
Sir  Sampson  Legend :  Why,  my  opinion 
is  that  those  two  monsters,  joined  to- 
gether, make  a  yet  greater,  that's  a  man 
and  his  wife. 

CONGREVE. — Love  for  Love,  Act  4,  2. 

Sharper  :   Thus  grief  still  treads  upon  the 

heels  of  pleasure ; 

Married  in  haste,  we  may  repent  at  leisure. 
Setter :    Some    by   experience    find    those 

words  misplaced  ; 

At  leisure  married,  they  repent  in  haste. 
CONGREVE. — Old  Bachelor,  Act  5,  3. 

Choose  not  alone  a  proper  mate, 
But  proper  time  to  marry. 

COWPER.— Pairing-Time. 

u  305 


Wedlock,  indeed,  hath  oft  compared  been 
To  public  feasts,  where  meet  a  public 

rout ; 
Where  they  that  are  without  would  fain 

go  in, 

And    they  that   are  within  would   fain 
go  out. 

SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Contention. 

Wen  you're  a  married  man,  Samivel, 
you'll  understand  a  good  many  things  as 
you  don't  understand  now  ;  but  vether 
it  is  worth  while  goin'  through  so  much  to 
learn  so  little,  as  the  charity  boy  said  ven 
he  got  to  the  end  of  the  alphabet,  is  a 
matter  o'  taste. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  27. 

His  designs  were  strictly  honourable,  as 
the  phrase  is,  that  is  to  rob  a  lady  of  her 
fortune  by  way  of  marriage. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  n,  ch.  4. 

They  that  marry  ancient  people,  merely 
in  expectation  to  bury  them,  hang  them- 
selves, in  hope  that  one  will  come  and  cut 
the  halter. 

FULLER. — Holy  and  Profane  State  of 
Marriage. 

You  are  of  the  society  of  the  wits  and 
railers  ;  .  .  .  the  surest  sign  is,  you  are  an 
enemy  to  marriage,  the  common  butt  of 
every  railer. 

GARRICK. — Country  Girl,  Act  a. 

I  sit  all  day 

Giving  agreeable  girls  away, 
With  one  for  him,  and  one  for  he, 
And  one  for  you,  and  one  for  ye, 
And  one  for  them,  and  one  for  thee ; 
But  never,  oh,  never  a  one  for  me  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

Husband  twice  as  old  as  wife 
Argues  ill  for  married  life. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Marriage  is  the  great  civiliser  of  the 
world.  ROBT.  HALL. — Modern  Infidelity. 

Holy  and  pure  are  the  drops  that  fall 
When    the    young    bride   goes    from    her 
father's  hall. 
MRS.  HEMANS. — Bride  of  Greek  Isle. 

He  loves  his  bonds,  who,  when  the  first 

are  broke, 
Submits  bis  neck  unto  a  second  yoke. 

HERRICK. — Hesperides,  42. 

Yet  Wedlock's  a  very  awful  thing ! 
'Tis  something  like  that  feat  in  the  ring, 

Which  requires  good  nerve  to  do  it — 
When  one  of  a  "  Grand  Equestrian  Troop  " 
Makes  a  jump  at  a  gilded  hoop, 

Not  certain  at  aU 

Of  what  may  befall 
After  his  getting  through  it ! 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 


MARRIAGE 


MARRIAGE 


Nobody  can  define  precisely  what  love 
is,  or  the  reason  for  that  delightful  per- 
suasion that  bliss  is  only  to  be  found  in 
double  harness. 

IBSEN. — Love's  Comedy,  Act  3  (1862). 

At  length  he  stretches  out  his  foolish 
head  to  the  conjugal  halter. 

JUVENAL. — Sat.,  6,  43. 

The  lover  in  the  husband  may  be  lost. 
GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Advice  to  a  Lady. 

How  much  the  wife   is   dearer   than   the 

bride  ! 
GEO.   LORD  LYTTELTON. — Irregular  Ode. 

The  sum  of  all  that  makes  a  just  man  happy 
Consists  in  the  well  choosing  of  a  wife. 
MASSINGER. — New  Way  to  pay  Old  Debts, 

Act  4,  i. 

For  any  man  to  match  above  his  rank 

Is  but  to  sell  his  liberty. 

MASSINGER. — Virgin  Martyr,  Act  i,  i. 

As  the  birds  do,  so  do  we, 
Bill  our  mate,  and  choose  our  tree. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Three  Singers. 

Hail   wedded   love,   mysterious  law,   true 

source 

Of  human  offspring,  sole  propriety 
In  Paradise  of  all  things  common  else. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  750. 

It  happens  as  one  sees  in  cages.  The 
birds  outside  despair  of  ever  getting  in  ; 
those  inside  are  equally  desirous  of  getting 
out.  MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  3. 

Where  I  love  I  must  not  marry  ; 
Where  I  marry,  cannot  love. 

MOORE. — Love  and  Marriage. 

People  say  that  May  is  the  month  in 
which  to  marry  bad  wives. 

OVID. — Fast.  5. 

Strange  to  say  what  delight  we  married 
people  have  to  see  these  poor  folks  de- 
coyed into  our  condition. 

PEPYS. — Diary,  1665. 

There  swims  no  goose  so  grey  but  soon  or 

late 

She  finds  some  honest  gander  for  her  mate. 
POPE.— Wife  of  Bath. 

A  dish  o'  married  love  right  soon  grows 

cauld, 
And  douzens  doun  (settles  down)  to  nane, 

as  folks  grow  auld.         A.  RAMSAY. 

Marry  too  soon,  and  you'll  repent  too  late. 
A  sentence  worth  my  meditation  ; 
For  marriage  is  a  serious  thing. 
T.  RANDOLPH. — Jealous  Lovers,  Act  5,  i. 


Wooed,  and  married,  and  a', 
Married,  and  wooed,  and  a'  ! 
And  was  she  nae  very  weel  off 
That  was  wooed,  and  married,  and  a*  ? 
ALEX.  Ross. — Song. 

1  have  often  thought  that  if  only  one 
could  prolong  the  joy  of  love  in  marriage, 
we  should  have  paradise  on  earth.  That 
is  a  thing  which  has  never  been  seen 
hitherto.  ROUSSEAU. — Entile,  Bk.  5. 

In  our  part  of  the  world,  where  mono- 
gamy rules,  to  marry  means  to  halve  one's 
rights  and  to  double  one's  duties. 

SCHOPENHAUER.— On  Women. 

Marriage  itself  is  nothing  but  a  civil 
contract.  SELDEN. — Marriage. 

A  young   man  married   is   a   man  that's 
marred. 
SHAKESPEAPE. — All's  Well,  Act  2,  3 

Men  are  April  when  they  woo,  December 
when  they  wed. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  4,  i. 

The  funeral  baked  meats 
Did    coldly    furnish    forth    the    marriage 
tables. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

Hasty  marriage  seldom  proveth  well. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  3,  Act  4,  i. 

If  there  be  no  great  love  in  the  beginning, 
yet  heaven  may  decrease  it  upon  better 
acquaintance,  when  we  are  married,  and 
have  more  occasion  to  know  one  another  ; 
I  hope  upon  familiarity  will  grow  more 
contempt. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  i,  i. 

But  earthly  happier  is  the  rose  distilled. 
Than  that  which,  withering  on  the  virgin 

thorn, 

Grows,  lives,  and  dies,  in  sinele  blessed- 
ness.        SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer 
Niglit's  Dream,  Act  i,  i. 

When  I  said  I  would  die  a  bachelor, 
I  did  not  think  I  should  live  till  I  were 
married. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3. 

For  this  alliance  may  so  happy  prove, 
To  turn  your  household's  rancour  to  pure 

love. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  3. 

Let  still  the  woman  take 
An  elder  than  herself  :    so  wears  she  to 

him, 

So  sways  she  level  in  her  husband's  heart. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

Every  woman  who  hasn't  any  money  is 
a  matrimonial  adventurer. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Act  2. 


MARRIAGE 


MARTYRDOM 


It  is  a  woman's  business  to  get  married 
as  soon  as  possible,  and  a  man's  to  keep 
unmarried  as  long  as  he  can. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

When  a  man  marries  or  turns  Hindoo, 
His  best  friends  hear  no  more  of  him. 

SHELLEY. — To  Maria  Gisborne. 

Whichever  you  do  you  will  repent. 
SOCRATES. — Advice  attributed  to  him  when 
he  was  asked  if  it  was  better  to  marry  or  not. 

If  marriages 

Are    made    in    Heaven,    they   should    be 
happier.  T.  SOUTHERN. — Isabella. 

And  other  hopes  and  other  fears 
Effaced  the  thoughts  of  happier  years. 
SOUTHEY. — To  Mary. 

The  marriage  state,  with  and  without 
the  affection  suitable  to  it,  is  the  com- 
pletest  image  of  Heaven  and  Hell  we  are 
capable  of  receiving  in  this  life. 

STE  ELE  . — Spectator. 

Even  if  we  take  matrimony  at  its  lowest, 
even  if  we  regard  it  as  no  more  than  a  sort 
of  friendship  recognised  by  the  police. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Virginibus. 

Cupid  and  Hymen  thou  hast  set  at  odds, 
And  bred  such  feuds  between  those  kin- 
dred gods, 

That  Venus  cannot  reconcile  her  sons  ; 
When  one  appears,  away  the  other  runs. 
SWIFT. — To  Love. 

Marriage  hath  in  it  less  of  beauty  and 
more  of  safety  than  the  single  life  ;  it 
hath  more  care  but  less  danger  ;  it  is  more 
merry  and  more  sad  ;  it  is  fuller  of  sorrows 
and  fuller  of  joys. 
JEREMY  TAYLOR. — 25  Sermons  (No.  17). 

Him 

That  was  a  god,  and  is  a  lawyer's  clerk, 
The  ren  troll  Cupid  of  our  rainy  isles. 

TENNYSON. — Edwin  Morris. 

Either  sex  alone 

Is  half  itself,  and  in  true  marriage  lies 
Nor  equal  nor  unequal. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  7,  283. 

Remember,  it's  as  easy  to  marry  a  rich 
woman  as  a  poor  woman. 

THACKERAY. — Pendennis,  Bk.  i,  28. 

If  truth  were  truly  bolted  out, 
As  touching  thrift,  I  stand  hi  doubt 
If  men  were  best  to  wive. 

T.  TUSSER. — Wiving  and  Thriving. 

Design,  or  chance,  makes  others  wive  ; 
But  Nature  did  this  match  contrive. 

WALLER. — Marriage  of  the  Dwarfs. 


He  is  dreadfully  married.     He  is  the 

most  married  man  1  ever  saw  in  my  life. 

AKTEMUS  WARD. — Moses  the  Sassy. 

For  every  marriage  then  is  best  in  tune, 
When  that  the  wife  is  May,  the  husband 
June. 

R.  WATKYNS. — To  Mrs.  E.  Williams. 

'Tis  just  like  a  summer  bird-cage  in  a 
garden  ;  the  birds  that  are  without  des- 
pair to  get  in,  and  the  birds  that  are  within 
despair  and  are  in  a  consumption,  for  fear 
they  shall  never  get  out. 

WEBSTER. — White  Devil,  Act  i,  2 
(from  Montaigne). 

In  married  life  three  is  company  and 
two  none. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Importance  of  being 
Earnest. 

I  wish  I  could  make  her  agree  with  me 
in  the  church. 

WYCHERLEY. — Plain  Dealer,  Act  i,  i. 

Marriage  is  honourable  in  all. 

2  Timothy  xiii,  4. 

Needles  and  pins,  needles  and  pins  ! 
When  a  man  marries  his  trouble  begins. 
Old  Nursery  Rhyme. 

Then  the  little  maid  she  said,  "  Your  fire 

may  warm  the  bed, 
But  what  shall  we  do  for  to  eat  ? 
Will  the  flames  you're  only  rich  in  make  a 

fire  in  the  kitchen, 

And    the  little  God  of  Love  turn  the 
spit  ?  " 

Version  of  Nursery  Rhyme  (printed  at 
Strawberry  Hill,  i8th  cent.). 

Who  marries  between  the  sickle  and 
scythe  will  never  thrive.  Prov.  (Ray.) 

Gude  Enough  has  got  a  wife  and  Fare 
Better  wants.  Scottish  prov. 

Marriage  is  a  creel  where  ye  catch  an 
adder  or  an  eel.  Scottish  prov. 

Who  marries  for  love  must  live  in  sorrow. 
Spanish  prov. 

A  friend  married  is  a  friend  lost. 
Prov.  quoted  by  Ibsen  in  "  Love's  Comedy," 
Act  2  (1862). 

Advice  to  persons  about   to  marry. — • 

Don't.     Punch's  Almanac,  1845.     (Attrib. 

to  H.  May  hew.) 

MARTYRDOM 

He  that  dies  a  martyr  proves  that  he 
was  not  a  knave,  but  by  no  means  that 
he  was  not  a  fool. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — I.acnn. 

For  all  have  not  the  gift  of  martyrdom. 
DKYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  PI.  2,  59. 


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MASTERS 


MEANING 


The  torments  of  martyrdoms  are  prob- 
ably most  keenly  felt  by  the  bystanders. 
EMERSON. — Courage. 

I  look  on  martyrs  as  mistakes, 
But  still  they  burned  for  it  at  stakes. 
J.  MASEFIELD. — Everlasting  Mercy,  933. 

It  is  the  cause,  not  the  death,  which 
makes    the   martyr.  NAPOLEON. 

Like  a  pale  martyr  in  his  shirt  of  fire. 
ALEXANDER  SMITH. — Life  Drama, 
Sc.  2. 

I  love  truth  very  much,  but  I  do  not 
love  martyrs  at  all. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  D'Alembert,  Feb.  8, 

1776. 

Unbounded   is   the  might 
Of  martyrdom  and  fortitude  and  right. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  23. 

Who  perisheth  in  needless  danger  is  the 
devil's  martyr.  Prov.  (Ray). 

MASTERS 

More  have  been  ruined  by  their  servants 
than  by  their  masters. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

And,  strange  to  tell,  among  that  Earthen 

Lot 

Some  could  articulate,  while  others  not  : 
And     suddenly     one     more    impatient 

cried — 
"  Who  is  the  Potter,  pray,  and  who  the 

Pot  ?  " 
FITZGERALD.— Rubdiydl,  st.  69  (ist  Ed.). 

The  master  who  fears  his  servant  is  less 
than  a  servant.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

MATHEMATICS 

Scarcely  any  person  seems  to  have 
studied  this  science  ardently  without 
success. 

CICERO. — De  Oratore,  Bk.  i,  3 
(Of  Mathematics). 
MATTER 

When  Bishop  Berkeley  said  "  there  was 

no  matter," 
And  proved  it — 'twas  no  matter  what  he 

said.        BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  n,  i. 

MAXIMS 

Don't  you  go  believing  in  sayings, 
Pico  tee  ;  they  are  all  made  by  men,  for 
their  own  advantage. 

T.  HARDY. — Hand  of  Ethelberta,  ch.  20. 

Many  men,  prejudiced  early  in  disfavour 
of  mankind  by  bad  maxims,  never  aim  at 
making  friendships. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


As  Rochefoucauld  his  maxims  drew 
From  nature,  I  believe  them  true  ; 
They  argue  no  corrupted  mind 
In  him  ;   the  fault  is  in  mankind. 

SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

With  a  little  hoard  of  maxims  preaching 
down  a  daughter's  heart. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Faithful  is  the  saying  and  worthy  of  all 
acceptation.  i  Timothy  i,  15  (R.V.). 

MAY 

As  it  fell  upon  a  day, 

In  the  merry  month  of  May. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Ode. 

He  was  as  fresh  as  is  the  month  of  May. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

May,  that  moder  is  of  monthes  glade. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus  and  Cressid, 
Bk.  t,  50. 

But  winter  lingering  chills  the  lap  of  May. 
GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

O  !  that  we  two  were  Maying  ! 
C.  KINGSLEY. — Saints'  Tragedy,  Act  2,  9. 

May  is  a  pious  fraud  of  the  Almanac. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Under  the  Willows. 

Hail,  bounteous    May,   that    dost    inspire 
Mirth  and  youth  and  warm  desire. 

MILTON. — On  May  Morning 

Rough  winds  do  shake  the-  darling  buds 

of  May  ; 
And  summer's  lease  hath  all  too  short  a 

date.  SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  18. 

You  must  wake  and  call  me  early,  call  me 

early,  mother  dear  ; 
To-morrow  'ill  be  the  happiest  time  of  all 

the  glad  New  Year  ; 
Of  all  the  glad  New  Year,   mother,  the 

maddest,  merriest  day  ; 
For  I'm  to  be  Queen  o'  the  May,  mother, 

I'm  to  be  Queen  o'  the  May. 

TENNYSON. — May  Queen. 

For  Flora  in  her  clene  array, 
New  washen  with  a  showir  o'   May, 
Lookit  full  sweet  and  fair. 
ANON. — The  Vision  (c.  1715  ? — printed 

1783). 

Button  to  chin 
Till  May  be  in  ; 
Cast  not  a  clout 
Till  May  be  out.       Old  Saying. 

A  hot  May  makes  a  full  churchyard. 

Prov. 
MEANING 

Where  more  is  meant  than  meets  the  ear. 
MILTON, — //  Penseroso,  120, 


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MEANNESS 


MELANCHOLY 


Oft  has  good  nature  been  the  fool's  defence, 
And  honest  meaning  gilded  want  of  sense. 
SHENSTONE. — To  a  Lady. 
MEANNESS 

With  one  hand  he  put 
A  penny  in  the  urn  of  poverty, 
And  with  the  other  took  a  shilling  out. 

K.  I'OLLOK. — Course  of  Time,  ttk.  8. 

It's  just  like  Duncan  McGirdie's  mare  ! 
he  wanted  to  use  her  by  degrees  to  live 
without  food,  and  she  died  just  when  he 
had  put  her  on  a  straw  a  day. 

SCOTT. — Waverley. 

There  are  some  meannesses  which  are 
too  mean  even  for  men — woman,  lovely 
woman  alone,  can  venture  to  commit  them. 
THACKERAY. — Shabby  Genteel  Story,  ch.  3. 

"  A  penny  saved  is  a  penny  got  ;  " 
Finn  to  this  scoundrel  maxim  keepeth  he. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,  50. 

MEAT 

Oh  !  the  roast  beef  of  old  England  ! 
And  oh  !    the  old  English  roast  beef ! 

H.  FIELDING. — Song. 

The  fat  was  so  white  and  the  lean  was  so 
ruddy. 

GOLDSMITH. — Haunch  of  Venison. 

I  am  a  great  eater  of  beef,  and  I  believe 
that  does  harm  to  my  wit. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  i,  3. 

MEDDLING 

It  may  be  true,  it  may  be  true, 
But  has  it  aught  to  do  with  you  ? 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Do  not  stir  up  Lake  Camarina  [the  lake 
which  caused  pestilence  through  a  futile 
attempt  to  drain  it],  Greek  prov. 

MEDICINE 

Medicine  is  a  science  which  hath  been 
more  professed  than  laboured,  and  more 
laboured  than  advanced ;  the  labour 
having  been,  in  my  judgment,  rather  in 
circle  than  in  progression. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Better  to  hunt  in  fields  for  health  unbought, 

Than  fee  the  doctor  for  a  nauseous  draught. 

DRYDEN. — To  J.  Driden. 

Some   fell   by   laudanum,    and   some    by 

steel, 
And  death  in  ambush  lay  in  every  pill. 

S.  GARTH. — Dispensary,  4,  62. 

Zinzis  Khan,  when  he  was  most  crim- 
soned witli  blood,  never  slaughtered  the 


human  race  as  they  have  been  slaughtered 

by  rash  and  erroneous  theories  of  medicine. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 

Philosophy.    Introductory  (1804). 

MEDIOCRITY 

This  miserable   fate 
Suffer  the  wretched  souls  of  those  who 

lived 
Without  or  praise  or  blame. 

H.  F.  GARY.— Dante's  "  Hell,"  c.  3,  60. 

Who    like    the    hindmost   chariot-wheels 

art  curst 
Still   to  be  near,  but  ne'er   to  reach   the 

first.     DRYDEN. — Persius,  Sat.  5,  103. 

Oh,  mediocrity, 

Thou  priceless  jewel,  only  mean  men  have, 
But  cannot  value. 

FLETCHER  (AND  MASSINGER  ?). — 
Queen  of  Corinth,  Act  3,  i. 

Yet  still  he  fills  affection's  eye, 
Obscurely  wise,  and  coarsely  kind. 

JOHNSON. — On  R.  Levett. 

Old  Andrew  Fairservice  used  to  say  that 
"  There  were  many  things  ower  bad  for 
blessing  and  ower  gude  for  banning,  like 
Rob  Roy." 

SCOTT. — Rob  Roy,  ch.  39  (Conclusion) . 

Too  bad  for  a  blessing,  too  good  for  a  curse, 

I  wish  from  my  soul  they  were  better  or 

worse.  SWIFT. — On  his  Country  House. 

Let  us  thank  Heaven,  my  dear  sir,  for 

according  to  us  the  power  to  taste  and 

appreciate  the  pleasures  of  mediocrity. 

THACKERAY. — On  the  French  School  of 

Painting. 

With  several  others  of  ignobler  name, 
Whom  time  has  not  delivered  o'er  to  fame. 
VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  5  (Dryden  tr.). 

A  fool  amongst  philosophers,  but  a 
philosopher  amongst  fools. 
Greek  saying  referring  to  Critias,  a 
wealthy  friend  of  Socrates,  afterwards 
his  bitter  enemy. 
MEEKNESS 

Now  the  man  Moses  was  very  meek, 
above  all  the  men  which  were  upon  the 
face  of  the  earth.  Numbers  xii,  3. 

The  ornament  of  a  meek  and  quiet  spirit, 
i  St.  Peter  iii,  4. 
MELANCHOLY 

It  is  a  very  dreadful  melancholy  when 
it  is  a  case  of  melancholy  without  any 
cause.  PIERRE  BALLANCHE  (1786-1847). 

Ah,  what  is  mirth  but  turbulence  unholy, 
When    with     the     charm     compared     of 
heavenly  melancholy  ? 
J.  BKATTIE. — Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  st.  55. 


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MELANCHOLY 


MEMORY 


All  my  joys  to  this  are  folly, 
Nought  so  sweet  as  melancholy. 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy. 

Heigho !  now  I'll  be  melancholy,  as 
melancholy  as  a  vvatchlight. 

CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World. 

Did  it  ever  strike  you  on  such  a  morning 
as  this,  that  drowning  would  be  happiness 
and  peace  ?  DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  5. 

There  is  a  kindly  mood  of  melancholy 
That  wings  the  soul,  and  points  her  to  the 
skies.      J.  DYER. — Ruins  of  Rome,    346. 

There's  nought  in  this  life  sweet, 
If  men  were  wise  to  see't, 
But  only  melancholy  ; 
Oh,  sweetest  melancholy  ! 
FLETCHER. — Nice  Valour,  Act  3,  i. 

Remote,  unfriended,  melancholy,  slow. 
GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

And  Melancholy  marked  him  for  her  own. 
GRAY. — Elegy. 

Come  let  us  sit  and  watch  the  sky, 
And  fancy  clouds,  where  no  clouds  be. 

HOOD. — To   Melancholy. 

There's  not  a  string  attuned  to  Mirth 
But  has  its  chord  in  Melancholy. 

HOOD. — Ib. 

There  are  times 

When  simplest  things  put  on  a  sombre  cast. 
KEATS. — Otho,  Act  4,  i. 

Hence,  loathed  Melancholy, 
Of  Cerberus  and  blackest  Midnight  born, 
In  Stygian  cave  forlorn, 
Mongst  horrid  shapes,  and  shrieks,  and 
sights  unholy.  MILTON. — U Allegro,  i. 

Hail,  divinest  Melancholy ! 

MILTON. — //  Penseroso,  12. 

I  can  suck  melancholy  out  of  a  song  as 
a  weasel  sucks  eggs. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  5. 

My  cue  is  villainous  melancholy,  with 
a  sigh  like  Tom  o'  Bedlam. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  i,  2 

I  am  not  merry,  but  I  do  beguile 

The  thing  I  am,  by  seeming  otherwise. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  i. 

We  should  have  shone  at  a  wake,  but 
not  at  anything  more  festive. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  Abroad,  ch.  2. 

I  have  learned 

To  look  on  Nature,  not  as  in  the  hour 
Of  thoughtless  youth  ;  but  hearing  often- 
times 

The  still,  sad  music  of  humanity. 
WORDSWORTH. — Lines,  nr.  Tintern  Abbey 

(1897). 


Some  folks  like  to  sigh, 

Some  folks  do  ; 
Some  folks  like  to  die, 

But  that's  not  me  nor  you. 

Song(c.  1865). 

Let  him  be  wretched  who  thinks  himself 
Spanish  prov. 


so. 


MELODRAMA 

Some  jealousy  of  someone's  heir, 

Some  hopes  of  dying  broken-hearted, 

A  miniature,  a  lock  of  hair, 
The  usual  vows — and  then  we  parted. 
W.  M.  PRAED.— Belle  of  the  Ball,  st.  12. 

No,  no,  I'll  love  no  more  ;    let  him  who 

can 

Fancy  the  maid  who  fancies  every  man  ; 
In  some  lone  place  I'll  find  a  gloomy  cave, 
There  my  own  hands  shall  dig  a  spacious 

grave : 

Then  all  unseen  I'll  lay  me  down  and  die, 

Since  woman's  constancy  is — all  my  eye. 

W.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastes. 

MEMENTOES 

So  let  it  rest !   And  time  will  come 
When  here   the  tender-hearted 

May  heave  a  gentle  sigh  for  him 

As  one  of  the  departed. 
WORDSWORTH. — Inscriptions,  10  (1830). 

MEMORY 

O  memory  !    thou  fond  deceiver, 
Still  importunate   and  vain. 

GOLDSMITH. — Song. 

Much  memory,  or  memory  of  many 
things,  is  called  "  experience." 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  2. 

Ah  tell  me  not  that  memory 
Sheds  gladness  o'er  the  past ; 

What  is  recalled  by  faded  flowers, 
Save  that  they  did  not  last  ? 

Were  it  not  better  to  forget, 

Than  but  remember  and  regret  ? 

L.  E.  LANDON. — Despondency. 

The  other  kind  of  pleasures,  namely 
those  peculiar  to  the  soul,  are  all  produced 
through  memory.  PLATO. — Philebus,  65. 

Sorrows  remembered  sweeten  present  joy. 
POLLOK. — Course  of  Time,  Bk.  i,  464. 

The  memory  strengthens  as  you  lay 
burdens  upon  it. 

DE  QUINCEY. — Opium  Eater,  Pt.  i. 

Of  this  at  least  I  feel  assured,  that  there 
is  no  such  thing  as  ultimate  forgetting. 
Traces  once  impressed  upon  the  memory 
are  indestructible. 

DE  QUINCEY. — Ib.,  Pt.  3. 

Sweet  Memory,  wafted  by  thy  gentle  gale, 

Oft  up  the  stream  of  Time  I  turn  my  sail. 

ROGERS. — Pleasures  of  Memory,  Pi.  2' 


MERCHANDISE 


METAPHOR 


Better  by  far  you  should  forget  and  smile, 
Than  that  you  should  remember  and  be 
sad. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Remember. 

Memory,  the  warder  of  the  brain. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

Memories,  images,  and  precious  thoughts, 
That  shall  not   die  and   cannot   be  des- 
troyed. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  7. 

My  eyes  are  dim  with  childish  tears, 

My  heart  is  idly  stirred, 
For  the  same  sound  is  in  my  ears 

Which  in  those  days  I  heard. 

WORDSWORTH. — Fountain. 

The  music  in  my  heart  I  bore, 
Long  after  it  was  heard  no  more. 

WORDSWORTH. — Solitary  Reaper. 

MERCHANDISE 

Good  honest  merchandise  easily  finds 
a  customer.  PLAUTUS. — Pcenulus,  Act  i. 

Whose  merchants  are  princes. 

Isaiah  xxiii,  3. 
MERCY 

For  soothly,  our  swete  Lord  lesu  Crist 
hath  spared  us  so  debonairly  [merci- 
fully] in  our  folies,  that  if  he  ne  hadde 
pitee  of  mannes  soule,  a  sory  song  we 
mighten  alle  singe. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.   15. 

We  hand  folks  over  to  God's  mercy, 
and  show  none  ourselves. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Adam  Bedc,  ch.  42. 

Yet  shall  I  temper  so 
Justice  with  mercy,  as  may  illustrate  most 
Them  fully  satisfied,  and  thee  appease. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  10,  77. 

He  that's  merciful 
Unto  the  bad,  is  cruel  to  the  good. 

T.  RANDOLPH. — Muses'  Looking  Glass. 

No  ceremony  that  to  great  ones  longs, 
Not  the   King's  crown,  nor  the  deputed 

sword, 
The  Marshal's  truncheon,  nor  the  judge's 

robe, 
Become   them  with  one  half  so  good  a 

grace 

As  mercy  does.     SHAKESPEARE. — Measure 
for  Measure,  Act  2,  2. 

The  quality  of  mercy  is  not  strained, 
It  droppeth  as  the  gentle  rain  from  heaven 
Upon  the  place  beneath  ;  it  is  twice  blessed, 
It  blesseth  him  that  gives  and  him  that 

takes : 

'Tis  mightiest  in  the  mightiest :  it  becomes 
The   crowned    monarch    better    than   his 

crown.  , 

SHAKESPEARE. — Mercht.of  Venice,  Act  4,  i. 


It  is  an  attribute  to  God  Himself  ; 

And  earthly  power  doth  then  show  likest 

God's 
When  mercy  seasons  justice. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib, 

We  do  pray  for  mercy, 
And  that  same  prayer  doth  teach  us  all 

to  render 
The  deeds  of  mercy.      SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Sweet  mercy  is  nobility's  true  badge. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  A  ndronicus,  Act  i,  2 . 

Brother,  you  have  a  vice  of  mercy  in  you, 
Which  better  fits  a  lion  than  a  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  5,  3. 

Yet  think,  oh,  think  !    if  mercy  may  be 

shown — 

Thou  hadst  a  father  once  and  hast  a  son. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  12  (Dryden  tr.) 

(Turnus  to  JEneas). 

For  the  man  of  low  estate  may  be  par- 
doned in  mercy,  but  mighty  men  shall  be 
searched  out  mightily. 

Wisdom  of  Solomon  vi,  6.  (/?.  V.). 

MERIT 

I  rejoice  that  we  can  of  our  own  free 
will  love  him,  whom  it  was  our  duty  to 
love,  whatever  sort  of  man  he  might  have 
been.  CICERO. 

It  sounds  like  stories  from  the  land  of 

spirits, 

If  any  man  obtain  that  which  he  merits, 
Or  any  merit  that  which  he  obtains. 

COLERIDGE. — Complaint. 

It  stung  me  to  the  quick  that  birth  and 

title 
Should  have  more  weight  than  merit  has 

in  th*  army.   COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini. 

What  is  merit  ?     The  opinion  one  man 
entertains  of  another. 
VISCOUNT  PALMERSTON.  —  Speech  (quoted 
by  Carlyle  in  "  Shooting  Niagara  "). 

Honour  and  shame  from  no  condition  rise  ; 

Act  well  your  part ;   there  all  the  honour 

lies.     POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  193 . 

MESSENGERS 

Gently  hast  thou  told 
Thy  message,  which  might  else  in  telling 
wound. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  xx,  298. 

God  best  knoweth  whom  he  will  appoint 
for  his  messenger.  Koran,  ch.  6. 

METAPHOR 

I  hate  to  hunt  down  a  tired  metaphor. 
BVRON. — Don  Juan,  13,  36. 


3" 


METAPHYSICS 


MIDDLE  AGE 


It  [imagery]  is  a  wonderful  aid  to  the 
memory,  which  carries  away  the  image 
and  never  loses  it.  EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

A  symbol  always  stimulates  the  in- 
tellect ;  therefore  is  poetry  ever  the  best 
reading.  EMERSON. — Poetry  and 

Imagination. 

In  all  the  mazes  of  metaphorical  con- 
fusion. JUNIUS. — Letter,  1769. 

METAPHYSICS 

Undoubtedly  the  study  of  the  more 
abstruse  regions  of  philosophy,  which  we 
now  call  Metaphysics,  and  wherein  Lucre- 
tius took  special  delight,  always  seems  to 
have  included  an  element  not  very  much 
removed  from  a  sort  of  insanity. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  34 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

And  reasoned  high 
Of    providence,    foreknowledge,    will    and 

fate, 

Fixed  fate,  free  will,  foreknowledge  abso- 
lute, 

And  found  no  end,  in  wandering  mazes  lost. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  558. 

For  wit's  false  mirror  held  up  nature's 

light ; 

Showed  erring  pride,  whatever  is,  is  right  ; 
That  reason,  passion,  answer  one  great 

aim  ; 

That  true  self-love  and  social  are  the  same  ; 
That  virtue  only  makes  our  bliss  below  ; 
Arid  all  our  knowledge  is,  ourselves  to 

know. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  393. 

Abstracted  metaphysical  notions,  beat 
out  upon  the  anvil  of  the  schools,  can  never 
support  natural  religion,  or  make  any  part 
of  it. 

BISHOP  THOS.  SHERLOCK. — Immortality 
of  the  Soul. 

There  is  a  word  of  dire  sound  and  hor- 
rible import  which  I  would  fain  have  kept 
concealed  if  I  possibly  could.  The  word  to 
which  I  allude  is  that  very  tremendous 
one  of  Metaphysics. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  Introductory  (1804). 

In  Scotland  every  man  is  a  metaphy- 
sician. SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on 
Moral  Philosophy,  No.  3. 

He  that  has  never  doubted  the  existence 
of  matter  may  be  assured  that  he  has  no 
aptitude  for  metaphysical  enquiries. 
TURGOT. — As  cited  by  Emerson,  Idealism. 

When  the  man  to  whom  you  speak  does 
cot  understand,  and  when  the  man  who 
speaks  does  not  understand  himself,  that 
is  metaphysics.  VOI.TAIRF.. 


312 


All  metaphysic  contains,  as  it  seems  to 
me,  two  things  : — the  first,  all  that  men 
of  good  sense  know ;  the  second,  that 
which  they  will  never  know. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  Frederick,  1737. 

METHOD 

Of  method  this  may  be  said, — if  we 
make  it  our  slave,  it  is  well ;  but  it  is  bad 
if  we  are  slaves  to  method. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Let  all  things  be  done  decently,  and  in 
order.  i  Corinthians  xiv,  40. 

METRES 

And  the  rolling  anapa3stic 

Curled  like  a  vapour  over  shrines. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Wine  of  Cyprus. 

Strongly  it  bears  us  along  in  swelling  and 

limitless  billows, 

Nothing  before  and  nothing  behind  but 
the  sky  and  the  ocean. 

COLERIDGE. — Homeric  Hexameter 
(from  Schiller). 

In    the    hexameter    rises    the    fountain's 

silvery  column  ; 
In  the  pentameter  aye  falling  in  melody 

back.         COLERIDGE. — Metrical  Feet. 

Iambics    march    from    short    to    long ; — 
With  a   leap  and  a  bound  the  swift  ana- 
paests throng.  COLERIDGE. — Ib. 

Trochee  trips  from  long  to  short. 

COLERIDGE. — Ib. 

And  ten  low  words  oft  creep  in  one  dull 
line.  POPE. — Criticism,  347. 

A    needless    Alexandrine   ends    the   song, 

Which,  like  a  wounded  snake,  drags  its 

slow  length  along.         POPE. — Ib.,  356. 

MIDDLE  AGE 

She  was  not  old,  nor  young,  nor  at  the 

years 
Which   certain   people   call   a    "  certain 

age," 

Which  yet  the  most  uncertain  age  appears. 
BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  22. 

Laura  was  blooming  still,  had  made  the 
best 

Of  time,  and  time  returned  the  compli- 
ment. BYRON. — Ib.,  st.  23. 

Of  all  the  barbarous  middle  ages,  that 
Which  is  most  barbarous,  is  the  middle 

age 

Of  man  :   it  is — I  really  scarce  know  what, 

But  when  we  hover  between  fool  and 

sage.  BYRON. — Don  Juan,  12,  i. 

A  lady  of  a  "  certain  age,"  which  means 
CerMinly  aged.       BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  6,  69. 


MIDDLE  CLASSES 


MILITARISM 


Fat  old  women,  fat  and  five  and  fifty. 
FLETCHER    AND    BEAUMONT. — Women 
Pleased,  Act  3,  2. 

Life  declines  from  thirty-five. 

JOHNSON. — To  Mrs.   Thrale. 

Our  youth  began  with  tears  and  sighs, 
With      seeking     what     we    could    not 

find  ;  .  .  . 
We  sought  and  knew  not  what  we  sought  ; 

We  marvel,  now  we  look  behind  : 
Life's  more  amusing  than  we  thought. 

A.  LANG. — Ballade  of  Middle  Age. 

For  ah  !   rny  heart,  how  very  soon 
The    glittering    dreams    of    youth    are 

passed  ! 

And  long  before  it  reach  its  noon 
The  sun  of  life  is  overcast. 

MOORE. — Elegiac  Stanzas. 

A  man  not   old,  but   mellow,    like    good 
wine.       STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Ulysses, 

3,  2. 

On  his  bold  visage  middle  age 
Had  slightly  pressed  its  signet  sage, 
Yet  had  not  quenched  the  open  truth 
And  fiery  vehemence  of  youth. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  i,  21. 

At  your  age, 
The  hey-day   in   the  blood   is  tame,   it's 

humble, 
And  waits  upon  the  judgment. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

Your  lordship,  though  not  clean  past 
your  youth,  hath  yet  some  smack  of  age 
in  you,  some  relish  of  the  saltness  of  time. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV .,  Pt.  2,  Act  i,  2. 

He  is  more  than  half  way 
On  the  road  from  Grizzle  to  Grey. 

SOUTHEY. — Robert  the  Rhymer. 

A'  men  begin  to  get  into  a  kind  o'  dotage 
after  five-and-twunty.  They  think  their- 
sels  wiser,  but  they're  only  stupider. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  19  (Eltrick 
Shepherd). 

A  fool  at  forty  is  a  fool  indeed. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  2. 

MIDDLE  CLASSES 

Tenants  of  life's  middle  state, 
Securely   placed    between   the  small   and 

great, 

Whose   character,    yet    undebauched,    re- 
tains 

Two-thirds  of  all  the  virtue  that  remains. 
COWPER. — Tirocinium,  807. 

All  great  men  come  out  of  the  middle 
classes.  "Tis  better  for  the  head ;  'tis 
better  for  the  heart. 

EMERSON. — Conduct   of  Life  : 
Considerations  by  the  \\'av. 


"  Bourgeois,"  I  observed,  "  is  an  epithet 
which  the  riff-raff  apply  to  what  is  respect- 
able, and  the  aristocracy  to  what  is  decent." 

SIR  ANTHONY  HOPE  HAWKINS. — Dolly 
Dialogues. 

Froth  at  top,  dregs  at  bottom,  but  the 
middle  excellent. 

VOLTAIRE. — Description  of  the  English 
Nation. 
MIDNIGHT 

The  hour,  o'  night's  black  arch  the  key- 
stane.  BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shantcr. 

Is  it  for  work  ?     There  comes  no  fool  to 

bore  us. 

Midnight  intoxicates  the  human  swine  ; 

I,  pen  in  hand,  with  all  the  gods  for  chorus, 

Write   then  my  clearest   thought,   my 

noblest  line. 
Midnight  is  mine. 
MORTIMER  COLLINS. — Midnight  is  Mine. 

But  wouldst   thou  hear  the  melodies  of 

time, 
Listen  when  sleep  and  drowsy  darkness 

roll 

Over  hushed  cities,  and  the  midnight  chime 
Sounds  from   their  hundred  clocks,   and 

deep  bells  toll, 

Like  a  last  knell  over  the  dead  world's  soul. 
HOOD. — Plea  of  Midsummer  Fairies. 

There  is  a  budding  sorrow  in  midnight. 
KEATS. — Sonnet  to  Homer. 

Soon  as  midnight  brought  on  the  dusky 

hour 
Friendliest  to  sleep  and  silence. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  5,  667. 

We  have  heard  the  chimes  at  midnight. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  2. 

The  iron   tongue  of  midnight  hath   told 

twelve : 

Lovers,  to  bed  ;   'tis  almost  fairy  time. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Mid.    Night's    Dream, 
Act  5,  i. 

Not  to  be  abed  after  midnight  is  to  be 
up  betimes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  3. 

MILITARISM 

Such  as  do  build  their  faith  upon 
The  holy  text  of  pike  and  gun. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i 

The  flames  of  Moscow  were  the  aurora 
of  the  liberty  of  the  world. 

BENJ.  CONSTANT. — Esprit  de  Conqutte, 
Pref.  (1813). 

The  good  orator  is  despised  ;  the  fierce 
soldier  is  loved. 

ENNIUS. — Quoted  by  Aulus  Gellius 
Bk.  30,  10 


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MILITARY  MUSIC 


MIRTH 


Brutes  never  meet  in  bloody  fray, 
Nor  cut  each  other's  throats  for  pay. 

GOLDSMITH. — Logicians  Refuted. 

MILITARY  MUSIC 

The  trumpets'  round  clangour 
Excites  us  to  arms. 
DRYDEN. — St.  Cecilia's  Day,  st.  3. 

For  the  rum-tum-tum 
Of  the  military  drum, 
And  the  guns  that  go  boom  !    boom  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

And  nearer  yet,  and  yet  more  near, 
The  martial  chorus  strikes  the  ear. 
BISHOP  HEBER. — Lines  written  to  a  March. 

MILTON 

Milton's  the  prince  of  poets — so  we  say, 
A  little  heavy,  but  no  less  divine. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  91. 
MIND 

The  mind  is  invincible  when  it  turns  to 
itself  and  relies  upon  its  own  courage.  If 
this  is  so  when  only  obstinacy  is  your 
defence,  what  must  the  strength  of  a  mind 
be  when  fortified  with  reason  ? 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  8,  48. 

The  mind  is  the  man. 
BACON. — In  Praise  of  Knowledge. 

The  power  of  thought — the  magic  of  the 
Mind.  BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  8. 

The  mind  itself  does  not  know  what  the 

mind  is.  CICERO. — Founded  on  Pro 

Milone,  c.  31. 

The    mind    is   free,  whate'er    afflict    the 
man.     DRAYTON. — Baron's  Wars,  Bk.  5, 

st.  36. 

A  mind  not  to  be  changed  by  place  or  time, 
The  mind  is  its  own  place,  and  in  itself 
Can   make  a  heaven  of  hell,   a   hell   of 
heaven. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  253. 

Mind  is  ever  the  ruler  of  the  universe. 

PLATO. — Philebus,  57  (see  also  under 

"  Intellect  "). 

O  what  a  noble  mind  is  here  o'erthrown  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

He  who  seeks  the  mind's  improvement, 
Aids  the  world  in  aiding  mind. 

CHAS.  SWAIN.— What  is  Noble  ? 

Straining  breaks  the  bow,  relaxation 
breaks  the  mind.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

My  mind  to  me  a  kingdom  is  ; 

Such  perfect  joy  therein  I  find 
As  far  exceeds  all  earthly  bliss 

That  God  or  Nature  hath  assigned. 

Byrd's  Collection  (c.  1585). 


MINISTRIES 

To  be  acquainted  with  the  merit  of  a 
ministry,  we  need  only  observe  the  con- 
dition of  the  people. 

JUNIUS. — Letter  i,  Jan.  21,  1769. 

MINORITIES 

To  be  in  the  weakest  camp  is  to  be  in 
the  strongest  school. 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — Heretics. 

Minority   is   no   disproof : 
Wisdom  is  not  so  strong  and  fleet 
As  never  to  have  known  defeat. 
L.  HOUSMAN. — Advocatus  Diaboli. 

The  minority  is  always  right. 

IBSEN. — An  Enemy  of  Society. 

They  are  slaves  who  dare  not  be 
In  the  right  with  two  or  three. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Freedom. 

The    fewer    men    the    greater    share   of 
honour. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  4,  3. 

MIRACLES 

There  never  was  miracle  wrought  by 
God  to  convert  an  atheist,  because  the 
light  of  nature  might  have  led  him  to  con- 
fess a  God. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

The  one  miracle  which  God  works  ever- 
more is  in  Nature,  and  imparting  himself  to 
the  mind. 

EMERSON. — Sovereignty  of  Ethics. 

For  myself  I  believe  too  much  in  God 
to  be  able  to  believe  in  so  many  miracles 
which  are  so  little  worthy  of  Him. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile,  Bk.  4. 

Miracles  are  to  those  who  believe  in  them. 

Prov. 
MIRTH 

For   wicked    mirth    never    true    pleasure 

brings, 
But  honest  minds  are  pleased  with  honest 

things. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Knight 
of  the  Burning  Pestle,  Prol. 

Flower  o'  the  rose  ! 

If    I've    been   merry,    what    matter    who 
knows  ?  BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo. 

The  mirth  and  fun  grew  fast  and  furious. 
BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

And  all  went  merry  as  a  marriage  bell. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  21. 

Mirth  makes  the  banquet  sweet. 

CHAPMAN. — Blind   Beggar. 


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MISANTHROPY 


MISERY 


A  merry  fellow  was  never  yet  a  respect- 
able man. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

Nothing  but  mirth  can  conquer  fortune's 

spite  ; 
No  sky  is  heavy  if  the  heart  be  light. 

CHURCHILL. — Prophecy  of  Famine, 
v.  360. 

Nothing  is  more  hopeless  than  a  scheme 
of  merriment.  JOHNSON. — Rambler,  74. 

Laugh,  for  the  time  is  brief,  a  thread  the 

length  of  a  span. 
Laugh,  and  be  proud  to  belong  to  the  old 

proud  pageant  of  man. 
JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Laugh  and  be  Merry. 

Haste  thee,  Nymph,  and  bring  with  thee 
Jest  and  youthful  Jollity, 
Quips,  and  Cranks,  and  wanton  Wiles, 
Nods,  and  Becks,  and  wreathed  Smiles. 

MILTON. — L' 'Allegro,  25. 

I  had  rather  have  a  fool  to  make  me 
merry,  than  experience  to  make  me  sad. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  4,  i. 

Where  be  your  gibes  now  ?  your  gam- 
bols ?  your  songs  ?  your  flashes  of 
merriment  that  were  wont  to  set  the  table 
on  a  roar  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

Woe  to  philosophers  who  do  not  know 
how  to  unbend !  I  regard  austerity  as 
a  disease.  I  would  prefer  a  thousand 
times  to  languish  and  be  subject  to  fever 
— as  I  am — than  to  think  dismally.  It 
seems  to  me  that  Virtue,  Study  and 
Gaiety  are  three  sisters  who  should  never 
be  separated. 

VOLTAIRE — Letter  to  Frederick,  1737. 

Hang  sorrow  !   care  will  kill  a  cat. 
And   therefore  let's  be  merry. 

G.  WITHER. — Christmas. 

MISANTHROPY 

He  that  can  please  nobody  is  not  so 
much  to  be  pitied  as  he  whom  nobody  can 
please.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

To  be  the  friend  of  the  human  race  is 
not  at  all  in  my  line. 

MOLI&RE. — Misanthrope. 

How  weary,  stale,  flat  and  unprofitable 
Seem  to  me  all  the  uses  of  this  world  ! 
Fie  on't !  O  fie  !  'tis  an  unweeded  garden, 
That  grows  to  seed  !    Things  rank  and 

gross  in  nature 
Possess  it  merely. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

I  hate  and  detest  that  animal  called 
man,  although  I  heartily  love  John,  Peter, 
Thomas,  and  so  forth. 

SWIFT. — Letter  to  Pope,  Sept.,  1725. 


Alas,  poor  dear  !    his  only  scope 
Was  to  be  held  a  misanthrope. 
This  into  general  odium  drew  him, 
Which,  if  he  liked,  much  good  may't  do 
him. 

SWIFT.— On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

MISCHIEF 

He  wolde  sowen  som  difficultee 

Or  springen  cokkel  in  our  clene  corn. 

CHAUCER. — Shipman's  Prologue. 

The  devil  is  diligent  at  his  plough. 

BISHOP  LATIMER. — Sermon. 

Marry,   this   is   miching    mallecho ;    it 
means  mischief. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Now  let  it  work  ;  mischief  thou  art  afoot  ; 
Take  thou  what  course  thou  wilt ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

Nay,  whether  he  kill  Cassio, 
Or  Cassio  him,  or  each  do  kill  the  other, 
Every  way  makes  my  game. 

SHAKESPEARE  — Othello,  Act  5,  i. 

Factious  and  rich,  bold  at  the  council- 
board, 
But  cautious  in  the  field,  he  shunned  the 

sword, — 

A  close  caballer  and  tongue-valiant  lord. 
VIRGIL. — &neid,  Bk.  n  (Dryden  tr.) 
(OfDrances). 
MISERY 

He  felt  as  if  he  ne'er  should  cease  to  feel — 

A    wretch    live-broken    on    misfortune's 

wheel.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

Who  calls  that  wretched  thing  that  was 
Alphonso  ? 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  2,  2. 

O  Misery  !  where  once  thou  art  possessed, 
See  but  how  quickly  thou  canst  alter  kind, 
And,  like  a  Circe,  metamorphosest 
The  man  that  hath  not  a  most  godlike 

mind. 
DRAYTON. — Baron's  Wars,  Bk.  6,  st.  77. 

The  big  drops  mingling  with  the  milk  he 

drew, 

Gave  the  sad  presage  of  his  future  years, 
The  child  of  misery,  baptised  in  tears  ! 

J.  LANGHORNE. — Country  Justice, 
Intro.  164. 

A  wretched  man  is  a  sacred  thing. 

SENECA. 

Meagre  were  his  looks, 
Sharp  misery  had  worn  him  to  the  bones. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  5,  i. 

Famine  is  in  thy  cheeks, 
Need  and  oppression  starveth  in  thine  eyes, 
Contempt    and   beggary   hang    upon    thy 
back.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 


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MISFORTUNE 


MISTAKES 


Misery  acquaints  a  man  with  strange 
bedfellows. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  2,  i. 

Preach    to   the   storm,    and   reason   with 

despair, 
But  teli  not  Misery's  son  that  life  is  fair. 

H.  K.  WHITE. — On  reading  Pref.  to 
N.  Bloomfield's  Poems. 
MISFORTUNE 

When  anything  brings  trouble,  remem- 
ber this  maxim  :  This  accident  is  not  a 
disaster,  but  bearing  it  well  may  turn  it 
into  an  advantage. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Meditations, 
Bk.  4,  49. 

The  amiable  Fortune  deceyveth  folk  ; 
the  contrarie  Fortune  techeth. 

CHAUCER. — Boethius,  Bk.  2,  8. 

For  of  Fortunis  sharp  adversite 
The  worst  kinde  of  infortune  is  this, 
A  man  to  have  been  in  prosperite, 
And  it  remembren,  whan  it  passed  is. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus,  Bk.  3,  v.  1625. 

This  is  the  worst  of  all  worst  worsts  that 
hell  could  have  devised. 

BEN  JONSON. — Epiccene. 

It  is  a  kind  of  happiness  to  know  exactly 
how  far  one  ought  to  be  unhappy. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  512. 

The  good  are  better  made  by  111, 
As  odours  crushed  are  sweeter  still. 

ROGERS. — Jacqueline,  Pt.  3. 

I  do  not  read  unavoidable  evils  into  the 
future,  but  I  cultivate  hope,  and  I  see  it 
within  day  by  day.  Alas  !  what  serves 
it  to  water  the  leaves  when  the  tree  is  cut 
off  at  the  foot  ?  ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

Would  I  had  met  my  dearest  foe  in  heaven, 
Ere  I  had  ever  seen  that  day,  Horatio  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  1,2. 

I  am  a  man 
More  sinned  against  than  sinning. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  2. 

O,  no  !    the  apprehension  of  the  good 
Gives  but  the  greater  feeling  to  the  worse. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  3. 

The  world    is    not    thy  friend,  nor    the 

world's  law. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  5,  i. 

Meseemes  the  world  is  runne  quite  out  of 

square 
From   the   first   point   of   his   appointed 

sourse  ; 

And  being  once  amisse  growes  daily  wourse 
and  wourse. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  5, 
Intro  i . 


These  [Lutherans  and  Calvinists]  had 
lived  in  much  friendship  and  agreement 
...  as  it  is  the  talent  of  fellow  sufferers 
to  do,  men  in  misfortune  being  like  men  in 
the  dark,  to  whom  all  colours  are  the  same. 
SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub. 

Fortune  is  not  satisfied  with   injuring 
a  man  only  once.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

If  our  hard  fortune  no  compassion  draws, 
Nor  hospitable  rights  nor  human  laws, 
The  gods  are  just,  and  will  revenge  our 
cause. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  i  (Dryden). 

My  flocks  feed  not, 
My  ewes  breed  not, 
My  rams  speed  not, 

All   is   amiss. 

From  Thos.  Weelkes's  Madrigals 
(i597)- — Adapted. 
For  every  ill  beneath  the  sun 
There  is  some  remedy  or  none  ; 
If  there  be  one,  resolve  to  find  it ; 
If  not,  submit,  and  never  mind  it. 

ANON  (c.  1843). 
MISGIVINGS 

Something    is    rotten    in    the    state   of 
Denmark. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

MISOGYNY 

No,  you  were  too  stern  for  an  amorous 

turn, 
For  Venus  and  Cupid  too  stern  and  too 

stupid.      (Of  Mschylus.) 
ARISTOPHANES. — Frogs,    1039    (Frere   tr.). 

He  seldom  errs 

Who  thinks  the  worst  he  can  of  woman- 
kind.      J.  HOME. — Douglas,  Act  2,  3. 

MISREPRESENTATION 

And  charge 

His    mind  with  meanings  that  he  never 
had.  COWPER. — Garden,  148. 

He  cannot  'scape  their  censures,  who  de- 
light 
To  misapply  whatever  he  shall  write. 

MASSINGER. — Emperor  of  East,  Prol. 

There  is  nothing  which  cannot  be  per- 
verted by  being  told  badly. 

TERENCE. — Phormio,  Act  4. 

Woe  unto  them  that  call  evil  good,  and 
good  evil !  Isaiah  v,  20. 

MISTAKES 

The  man  who  makes  no  mistakes  does 
not  usually  make  anything. 

E.  J.  PIIELPS. — Speech,  1889. 


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MODERATION 


The  best  may  slip,  and  the  most  cautious 

fall; 
He's  more  than  mortal  that  ne'er  erred  at 

all. 

J.  POMFRET. — Love  Triumphant  over 
Reason,  145. 

Probably  he  who  never  made  a  mistake 
never  made  a  discovery. 

S.  SMILES. — Self-Help. 

For  God's  sake  give  me  the  young  man 
who  has  brains  enough  to  make  a  fool  of 
himself. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Crabbed  Age. 

To  make  mistakes  as  we  are  on  the  way 
to  knowledge  is  far  more  honourable  than 
to  escape  making  them  through  never 
having  set  out  to  seek  knowledge. 

ARCHBP.  TRENCH. — Study  of  Words. 

With  skill  she  vibrates  her  eternal  tongue, 
For  ever  most  divinely  in  the  wrong. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  6. 

MISUNDERSTANDING 

All  battle  is  well  said  to  be  Misunder- 
standing. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  3, 
Bk.  3,  ch.  2. 

Alas  !    they  had  been  friends  in  youth  : 
But  whispering  tongues  can  poison  truth  ; 
And  constancy  lives  in  realms  above  : 

And  life  is  thorny  ;  and  youth  is  vain  ; 
And  to  be  wroth  with  one  we  love 

Doth  work  like  madness  in  the  brain. 
COLERIDGE. — Christabel. 

Mai-information  is  more  hopeless  than 
no  information.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Pale  famine  and  frightful  pestilence 
cannot  equal  the  evils  and  diversity  of 
troubles  which  misunderstandings  scatter 
throughout  the  universe. 

DE  RULHIERES. — Disputes. 

MOB 

A  mob  is  a  compound  mass  of  human 
beings  in  which  each  one  has  for  the  moment 
all  the  follies  and  evil  passions  of  the  rest, 
in  addition  to  his  own. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council : 
Slavery,  ch.  4. 

MODERATION 

Nothing  which  is  moderate  pleases  the 
crowd. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6. 

A  good  cause  needs  not  to  be  patroned 
by  passion,  but  can  sustain  itself  upon 
a  temperate  dispute. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici, 
Pt.  i,  5. 


I  know  many  have  been  taught  to  think 
that  moderation,  in  a  case  like  this,  is  a 
sort  of  treason. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Sheriffs  of  Bristol. 

This  only  grant  me  that  my  means  may  lie 

Too  low  for  envy,  for  contempt  too  high. 

COWLEY.— Of  Myself. 

To  find  the  medium  asks  some  share  of 

wit 

And  therefore  'tis  a  mark  fools  never  hit. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  884. 

To  be  content  with  moderate  fortune  is 
the  best  proof  of  philosophy.  All  others 
seem  to  me  doubtful. 

FRANCOIS  DROZ  (1773-1851). — The  Art 
of  being  Happy. 

His  best  companions,  innocence  and  health  ; 

And  his  best  riches,  ignorance  of  wealth. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

The  flaming  patriot,  who  so  lately 
scorched  us  in  the  meridian,  sinks  tem- 
perately to  the  west,  and  is  hardly  felt 
as  he  descends. 

JUNIUS. — Letter,   1771. 

Mesure  is  medecyne. 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman, 
Passus  2,  33. 

Joy  and  Temperance  and  Repose 
Slam  the  door  on  the  doctor's  nose. 

LONGFELLOW. — From  the  German. 

If  thou  well  observe 

The  rule  of  not  too  much,  by  temperance 
taught. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  u,  530. 

By  moderation  doubling  victory. 
F.  T.  PALGRAVE. — Alfred  the  Great, 
Sonnet,  3. 

Give  me  again  my  hollow  tree, 
A  crust  of  bread  and  liberty. 
POPE. — Imit.  of  Horace,  Bk.  2,  Sat.  6,  220. 

In  moderation  placing  all  my  glory, 
While  Tories  call  me  Whig,  and  Whigs  a 
Tory. 

POPE. — Satires  of  Horace,  Bk.  2,  67. 

Over  the  doors  of  every  school  of  Art 

I  would  have  this  one  word,  relieved  out 

in  deep  letters  of  pure  gold — Moderation. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  2, 

sec.  2,  ch.  6,  8. 

I  swear  'tis  better  to  be  lowly  born, 
And  range  with  humble  livers  in  content, 
Than  to  be  perked  up,  in  a  glist'ring  grief, 
And  wear  a  golden  sorrow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  2,  3. 

The  moderation  of  the  feeble  man  is 
only  idleness  and  vanity. 

VAUVENARGUES, — Maxim  73. 


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MODERNITY 


MONARCHY 


Ye  sumph,  I'm  a  hce-flyer  rnysel, — one 
o'  the  wild  men  ;  o'  a'  things  whatsomever, 
be  it  in  sacred  matters  or  profane,  I  detest 
moderation. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  (Ettrick  Shepherd). 

Man's  rich  with  little,  were  his  judgment 

true  ; 
Nature  is  frugal,  and  her  wants  are  few. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  5. 

Give  me  neither  poverty  nor  riches  ; 
feed  me  with  food  convenient  for  me. 

Proverbs  xxx,  8. 

A  little  house  well  filled, 
A  little  land  well  tilled, 
A  little  wife  well  willed. 

Old  Saying. 

MODERNITY 

But  we,  brought  forth  and  reared  in  hours 

Of  change,  alarm,  surprise — 
What  shelter  to  grow  ripe  is  ours  ? 

What  leisure  to  grow  wise  ? 

M.  ARNOLD. — Memory  of  "  Obermann." 

I  am  indignant  when  I  hear  something 
abused,  not  because  rudely  or  ungrace- 
fully framed,  but  simply  because  it  is 
modern.  HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  2,  i,  75. 

Motions  and  Means,  on  land  and  sea  at 

war 

With  old  poetic  feeling,  not  for  this 
Shall  ye,  by  poets  even,  be  judged  amiss  ! 
Nor  shall  your  presence,  howsoe'er  it  mar 
The  loveliness  of  Nature,  prove  a  bar 
To    the    mind's    gaining    that    prophetic 

sense 
Of   future  change,    that   point   of   vision 

whence 
May  be  discovered  what  in  soul  ye  are. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  during  a  Summer 

Tour,  1833,  No.  42.     (Steamboats,  Viaducts 

and  Railways.) 

MODESTY 

Ever  with  the  best  desert  goes  diffidence. 

BROWNING. — Blot  in  the  'Scutcheon. 

Modesty  does  not  long  survive  innocence. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 

(Feb.,  1788). 

And  though  that  he  were  worthy,  he  was 

wise 

And  of    his  port  as  meek  as  is  a  maid. 
CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

On  their    own    merits    modest    men    are 
dumb.  G.  COLMAN,  JR. — Heir-at-Law. 

William  was  such  a  bashful  youth  ; 

His  modesty  was  such, 
That  one  might  say  (to  say  the  truth) 

He  rather  had  too  much. 

COWPER. — Of  Himself. 


He  [Capl.  John  Brown]  held  the  belief 
that  courage  and  chastity  are  silent  con- 
cerning themselves.  EMERSON. — Courage. 

Wherever  valour  true  is  found 
True  modesty  will  there  abound. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Yeomen  of  the  Guard. 

All  men  have  their  faults  :  too  much 
modesty  is  his. 

GOLDSMITH. — Good-Natured  Man,  Act  2. 

The  maid  who  modestly  conceals 
Her  beauties,  while  she  hides,  reveals. 
E.  MOORE. — Fables,  No.  10. 

Greediness  is  rich  and  shame  poor. 

PH^EDRUS. — Bk.  2. 

I  have  marked 

A  thousand  blushing  apparitions  start 
Into    her    face ;     a    thousand    innocent 

shames 
In    angel    whiteness    bear    away    those 

blushes. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  i. 

A  maiden  never  bold  ; 
Of  spirit  so  still  and  quiet,  that  her  motion 
Blushed  at  herself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

No  man  can  ever  end  with  being  superior 
who  will  not  begin  with  being  inferior. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  9. 

We  see  him  as  he  moved, 
How    modest,    kindly,    all-accomplished, 

wise, 

With  what  sublime  repression  of  himself, 
And  in  what  limits,  and  how  tenderly. 
TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication,  I.  16. 

In  me  there  dwells 

No  greatness,  save  it  be  some  far-off  touch 

Of  greatness  to  know  well  I  am  not  great. 

TENNYSON. — Lancelot  and  Elaine,  447. 

It  is  easy,  but  it  is  a  fine  thing  neverthe- 
less, to  be  modest  when  one  is  great. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Pucelle. 

Methinks 

Wisdom  is  oft-times  nearer  when  we  stoop, 
Than  when  we  soar. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  3. 

Modesty  is  a  very  good  thing,  but  a  man 
in  this  country  may  get  on  very  well  with- 
out it. 

Motto  said  to  liave  been  inscribed  on  a  banner 
in  a  Western  State. 

Bashful  dogs  get  little  meat : 
Bravely  take  thy  proper  seat. 

Old  Saying. 
MONARCHY 

Never  does  liberty  appear  more  pleasing 
than  under  a  righteous  King. 

CLAUDIAN. — 24,  113. 


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MONEY 


All  human  things  are  subject  to  decay, 
And  when  fate  summons,  monarchs  must 
obey.      DRVDEN. — MacFlecknoe,  1.  i. 

The  Prince  exists  for  the  sake  of  the 
State,  not  the  State  for  the  sake  of  the 
Prince.  ERASMUS. — Fam.  Coll. 

The  trappings  of  a  monarchy  would  set 
up  an  ordinary  commonwealth. 

JOHNSON. — Quoted  (paraphrastically) 
as  from  Milton. 

The  prince  is  not  above  the  laws,  but 
the  laws  above  the  prince. 

PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. — Paneg.  Traj. 

A  King  may  be  a  tool,  a  thing  of  straw  ; 
but  if  he  serves  to  frighten  our  enemies 
and  secure  our  property,  it  is  well  enough  ; 
a  scarecrow  is  a  thing  of  straw,  but  it  pro- 
tects the  corn. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

For  a  King  to  make  an  amiable  character 
he  needs  only  to  be  a  man  of  common 
honesty,  well  advised.  POPE. — Ib. 

Entire  and  sure  the  monarch's  rule  must 
prove, 

Who  founds  her  greatness  on  her  sub- 
jects' love.  PRIOR. — Prologue. 

For  monarchs  seldom  sigh   in  vain. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  5,  9. 

No  worthier  victim  and  none  more 
acceptable  can  be  sacrificed  to  Jove  than 
an  evil-minded  King. 

SENECA. — Hercules  Furens. 

And  what  so  fair  has  the  world  beholden, 
And   what  so   firm  has  withstood   the 

years, 

As  Monarchy  bound  in  chains  all  golden, 

And  Freedom  guarded  about  with  peers  ? 

SWINBURNE. — Midsummer  Holiday. 

A   Word  from  the  Psalmist. 

Princes  are  mortal,  the  commonwealth 
is  immortal.  TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  3. 

A  doubtful  throne  is  ice  on  summer  sea. 
TENNYSON. — Coming  of  Arthur. 

In  that  fierce  light  which  beats  upon  a 

throne, 
And  blackens  every  blot. 

TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication. 

Her  court  was  pure  ;    her  life  serene  ; 

God  gave  her  peace  ;   her  land  reposed  ; 

A  thousand  claims  to  reverence  closed 
In  her  as  Mother,  Wife,  and  Queen. 

TENNYSON. — To  the  Queen. 

That  sober  freedom  out  of  which   there 

springs 
Our  loyal  passion  for  our  temperate 

Kings. 

TENNYSON.— On  Wellington,  si.  7. 


The  passing  poor  magnificence  of  Kings. 
THOMSON. — Liberty. 

Hail  to  the  crowii  by  Freedom  shaped — to 

gird 
An  English  sovereign's  brow  1   and  to  the 

throne 
Whereon  he  sits  !   whose  deep  foundations 

lie 
In  veneration  and  the  people's  love. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  6. 

The  King  reigns  but  does  not  govern. 
JAN  ZAMOISKI  (of  Poland  ;  d.  1605} . 

MONASTICISM 

I  cannot  praise  a  fugitive  and  cloistered 
virtue,  unexercised  and  unbreathed,  that 
never  sallies  out  and  sees  her  adversary, 
but  slinks  out  of  the  race,  where  that  im- 
mortal garland  is  to  be  run  for,  not  with- 
out dust  and  heat. 

MILTON. — A  reopagitica. 

Embryos  and  idiots,  eremites  and  friars, 
White,  black,  and    grey,    with    all    their 
trumpery. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  474. 

Here  Man  more  purely  lives,  less  oft  doth 

fall, 
More  promptly  rises,  walks  with  stricter 

heed, 

More  safely  rests,  dies  happier,  is  freed 
Earlier    from    cleansing    fires,    and   gains 

withal 

A  brighter  crown. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  3. 

MONDAY 

Monday  is  parson's  holiday. 

SWIFT. — Letter,  1712. 

Monday  is  the  key  of  all  the  week.  Prov. 

Monday  religion  is  better  than  Sunday 
profession.  Prov. 

MONEY 

No  man's  fortune  can  be  an  end  worthy 
of  his  being. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Wealth  is  a  good  servant ;  a  very  bad 
mistress. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6. 

Money  is  like  muck,  not  good  except  it 
be  spread.  BACON. — Of  Seditions. 

She    is    the    Soveraigne    Queene    of    all 

Delightes  : 
For  her  the  Lawyer  pleades  ;   the  Souldier 

fights. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Pecitnia  (1598). 

He  may  love  riches  that  wanteth  them, 
as  much  as  he  that  hath  them. 

R.  BAXTER. — Christian  Ethics. 


MONEY 


MONEY 


Money  is  honey,  my  little  sonny,' 
And  a  rich  man's  joke  is  allis  funny. 

T.  E.  BROWN. — The  Doctor. 

Then  hey  for  the  lass  wi'  a  tocher, 
The  nice  yellow  guineas  for  me ! 

BURNS. — Song. 

What     makes     all     doctrines    plain    and 

clear  ? 

About  two  hundred  pounds  a  year. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  i. 

Maidens,  like  moths,  are  ever  caught  by 

glare, 
And  Mammon  wins  his  way,  where  seraphs 

might  despair. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  9. 

Kill  a  man's  family  and  he  may  brook  it, 
But  keep  your  hands  out  of  his  breeches 
pocket ! 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  10,  79. 

Yes,  ready  money  is  Aladdin's  lamp. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  12,  12. 

Money,  which  is  of  very  uncertain  value, 
and  sometimes  has  no  value  at  all  and  even 
less.  CARLYLE. — Frederick  the  Great, 

Bk.  4,  13. 

But  one  thing  is,  ye  know  it  well  enow, 
Of  chapmen,   that   their  money  is   their 
plough. 

CHAUCER. — Shopman's  Tale,  287. 

Mirabeau  was  capable  of  everything  for 
money,  even  of  a  good  action. 

A.  DE  RIVAROL. 

It  is  not  the  longest  sword  but  the  long- 
est purse  that  conquers. 

DEFOE. — (A  "  favourite  maxim  " 
several  times  repeated  by  him.) 

He  [Sir  Cpndy  Rackrent]  could  never — 
God  bless  him  again  !    I  say, — bring  him- 
self to  ask  a  gentleman  for  money,  des- 
pising such  sort  of  conversation  himself. 
Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Castle  Rackrent, 

ch.  2. 

Gold  is  the  touchstone  whereby  to  try 
men.  FULLER. — The  Good  Judge. 

And  gold  can  make  of  hate  love, 
And  wene  of  pees,  and  right  of  wrong, 
And  long  to  short,  and  short  to  long. 
Without  gold  may  be  no  fest ; 
Gold  is  the  lord  of  man  and  best. 

GOWER. — Con/.  Amantis,  Bk.  5,  238. 

Money,  thou  bane  of  bliss  and  source  of 
woe!  HERBERT. — Avarice. 

Use  alone 

Makes  money  not  a  contemptible  stone. 
HERBERT. — Church  l\inh. 


Fight  thou  with  shafts  of  silver  and  o'er- 

come, 

When  no  force  else  can  get  the  masterdom. 
HERRICK. — Money  gets  Mastery 

Spurned  by  the  young,  but  hugged  by  the 

old 
To    the    very    verge   of    the    churchyard 

mould, 

Price  of  many  a  crime  untold  ; 
Gold  !    Gold  !    Gold  !    Gold  ! 
Good  or  bad  a  thousand-fold  ! 
How  widely  its  agencies  vary  ! 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Make  Money  !  If  you  can,  make  money 
honestly ;  if  not,  by  whatever  means  you 
can,  make  money.  HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i. 

O  citizens,  citizens  !    Money  is  the  first 

thing  ;   cash   first,  and  virtue  afterwards. 

HORACE. — Ib. 

Wealth  sanctions  folly. 

HORACE. — Ep.  i,  16. 

The  Almighty  Dollar,  that  great  object 

of  universal  devotion  throughout  our  land. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. — Creole  Village. 

There  are  few  ways  in  which  a  man  can 
be  more  innocently  employed  than  in 
getting  money.  JOHNSON. — Remark. 

Get  money,  still  get  money,  boy ; 
No  matter  by  what  means  ;  money  will  do. 
BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man  in  his 
Humour,  Act  2,  5. 

"  I  wish  the  good  old  times  would  come 
again,"  she  said,  "  when  we  were  not  quite 
so  rich.  I  do  not  mean  that  I  want  to  be 
poor  ;  but  there  was  a  middle  state." 

LAMB. — Last  Essays  of  Elia  :  Old  China. 

Men  who  make  money  rarely  saunter  ; 
men  who  save  money  rarely  swagger, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — My  Novel,  Bk.  n,  2. 

The  picklock 
That  never  fails. 
MASSINGER. — Unnatural  Combat,  Act  i,  i. 

Mammon  led  them  on  ; 
Mammon,  the  least  erected  Spirit  that  fell 
From    heaven ;    for    e'en  in  heaven   his 

looks  and  thoughts 
Were  always  downwards  bent. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  6/8. 

Worth  now  means  what  a  man  is  worth  ; 
property  gives  honours  ;  property  brings 
friendship  :  the  poor  man  is  everywhere 
at  a  discount.  OVID. — Fast. 

Happy  the  man  who,  void  of  cares  and 

strife. 

In  silken  or  in  leathern  purse  retains 
A  Splendid  Shilling. 

J .  PHILIPS. — Splendid  Shilling. 


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MONEY 


The  wealthy  and  the  poverty-stricken 
are  in  like  case  :  both  are  too  preoccupied 
with  finance  to  use  time  to  better  purpose. 
Perhaps  that  is  a  sound  argument  for 
sweeping  both  classes  away. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

'    Even   wisdom  surrenders   to   desire  of 
gain.  PINDAR. 

He  must  expend  money  who  wants  to 
make  it.  ,  PLAUTUS. 

More  passionately  fond  of  money  than 
of  glory,  in  order  to  live  in  abundance  they 
die  in  obscurity,  and  leave  to  their  children 
as  their  only  example  the  love  of  the 
treasures  they  have  amassed  for  their 
benefit.  ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

To  few  is  good  faith  dearer  than  money. 
SALLUST. — Jugurtha. 

He  that  wants  money,  means,  and  con- 
tent, is  without  three  good  friends. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  2. 

Seven  hundred  pounds,  and  possibilities, 
is  good  gifts. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  i,  i. 

If  money  go  before,  all  ways  do  lie  open. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

O,  what  a  world  of  vile,  ill-favoured  faults 

Looks  handsome  in  three  hundred  pounds 

a  year  !  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  4. 

Put  money  in  thy  purse. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

Nothing   comes   amiss,   so   money  comes 

withal. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  Shrew,  Act  i,  2. 

Money  is  indeed  the  most  important 
thing  in  the  world,  and  all  sound  and 
successful  personal  and  national  morality 
should  have  this  fact  for  its  basis.  Every 
teacher  or  twaddler  who  denies  it  or  sup- 
presses it,  is  an  enemy  of  life.  Money 
controls  morality. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  Pref.(igo5). 

In  losing  fortune,  many  a  lucky  elf 
Has  found  himself. 

HORACE  SMITH. — Moral  Alchemy 

A  toiling  man 
Intent  on   worldly  gains,   one  in   whose 

heart 
Affection  had  no  root. 

SOUTHEY. — Joan  of  Arc,  Bk.  i. 

There  is  nothing  an  honest  man  should 
fear  more  timorously  than  getting  and 
spending  more  than  he  deserves. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Profession  of  Letters. 


The  world's  chief  idol,  nurse  of  fretting 

cares, 

Dumb  trafficker,  yet  understood  o'er  all. 
EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Doomsday. 

Every  door  is  barred  with  gold  and  opens 
but  to  golden  keys. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

But  the  jingling  of  the  guinea  helps  the 
hurt  that  Honour  feels.  TENNYSON.— Ib. 

Or  that  eternal  want  of  pence 
Which  vexes  public  men. 

TENNYSON.— Will  Waterproof. 

The  great  rule  is  to  be  frugal  in  great 
matters  and  liberal  in  small  ones. 
J.  TRUSLER. — System  of  Etiquette  (1804). 

There  was  worlds  of  reputation  in  it, 
but  no  money. 

MARK  TWAIN. — A  Yankee  at  Court  of  King 
Arthur,  ch.  9. 

O  love  of  Gold  !  thou  meanest  of  amours ! 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 

The  strongest  castle,  tower,  and  town, 
The  golden  bullet  beats  it  down. 

No.  17  in  "  The  Passionate  Pilgrim  " 

(1599),  Adapted  from  Thos.  Weelkcs's 

"  Madrigals  "  (1597). 

Wine     maketh     merry ;     but     money 

answereth  all  things.      Ecclesiastes  x,  19. 

A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than 
great  riches.  Proverbs  xxii,  j . 

He  that  maketh  haste  to  be  rich  shall 
not  be  innocent.  Proverbs  xxviii,  20. 

Not  greedy  of  filthy  lucre. 

i  Timothy  iii,  3. 

For  the  love  of  money  is  a  root  of  all 
kinds  of  evil. 

i   Timothy  vi,  10  (R.V.). 

God  send  us  siller,  for  they're  ill-thought 
o'  that  want  it. 

Prayer  of  the  "  good  Earl  of  Eglinton." 

Earn  all  you  can ;    save  all  you  can  ; 
give  all  you  can. 
Attrib.  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon  to  John  Wesley 

Put  not  your  trust  in  money,  put  your 
money  in  trust.  American  saying. 

If  a  little  cash  does  not  go  out,  much 
cash  will  not  come  in.  Chinese  prov. 

Nothing    more    eloquent    than    ready 
money.  French  prov. 

A  guinea  it  will  sink,  and  a  note  it  will 
float, 

But  I'd  rather  have  a  guinea  than  a  one- 
pound  note. 

Popular  So«f,  c.  1830-1840. 


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MORALISING 


Money  is  flat  and  meant  to  be  piled  up. 
Scottish  prov.  (The  English  prov.  is  said 
to  be  "  Money  is  round,  and  meant  to  roll.") 

The  best  foundation  in  the  world  is 
money. 

Spanish  prov.  found  in  "  Don  Quixote." 

Honour  and  money  are  not  found  in  the 
same  purse.  Spanish  prov. 

Money  is  often  lost  for  want  of  money. 

Prov. 

Hard  got,  soon  gone. 
Prov.  (quoted  by  T.  Carlyle). 

When  money's  taken 
Freedom's  forsaken. 

Old  Saying. 
MONOPOLISTS 

Bone  and  Skin,  two  millers  thin, 
Would  starve  us  all,  or  near  it : 

But  be  it  known  to  Skin  and  Bone 
That  Flesh  and  Blood  can't  bear  it. 

J.  BYROM. — On  Two  Monopolists. 

MONSTERS 

Worse 

Than  fables  yet  have  feigned,  or  fear  con- 
ceived, 

Gorgons  and  Hydras  and  Chimapras  dire. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  626. 

MONUMENTS 

Death    comes    even     to    monumental 

stones,  and  the  names  inscribed  thereon. 

AUSONIUS. — Ep.  xxxv,  9. 

And,  talking  of  epitaphs,  much  I  admire 

his, 

"  Circumspice,  si  monumentum  requiris," 
Which  an  erudite  verger  translated  to  me, 
"  If   you   ask   for   bis   monument,   Sir — 
come — spy — see  !  " 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — In  allusion  to  Sir  C. 

Wren's  epitaph  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral. 

No — marble  and  recording  brass  decay, 
And,  like  the  graver's  memory,  pass  away. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  551. 

Toils  much  to  earn  a  monumental  pile, 
That  may  record  the  mischiefs  he  hath 
done.  COWPER. — Task,  276. 

Nothing   can   cover   his   high   fame   but 

Heaven  ; 

No  pyramids  set  off  his  memories, 
But  the  eternal  substance  of  his  greatness  : 
To  which  I  leave  him. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINCER. — The  False 
One,  Act  2,  i. 

The  pyramids  themselves,  doting  with 
age,  have  forgotten  the  names  of  their 
founders. 

FULLER.' — Holy  and  Profane  State  : 
Of  Tuntbs. 


Can  storied  urn  or  animated  bust 

Back  to   its    mansion  call  the  fleeting 

breath  ? 
Can   Honour's   voice   provoke   the   silent 

dust, 

Or  Flattery  soothe  the  dull,  cold  ear  of 
Death  ?  GRAY.— Elegy. 

In  lapidary  inscriptions  a    man  is  not 
upon  his  oath.  JOHNSON. — Remark. 

Protect  his  memory,  and  preserve  his  story 

Remain  a  lasting  monument  of  his  glory. 

QUARLES. — Drayton's  Monument. 

Vanity  dies  hard  ;    in  some  obstinate 
cases  it  outlives  the  man. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Prince  Otto. 

A  warrior  with  his  shield  of  pride 
Cleaving  humbly  to  his  side, 
And  hands  in  resignation  pressed, 
Palm  to  palm,  on  his  tranquil  breast. 
WORDSWORTH. — White  Doe  of  Rylstonetc.  i. 

MOON 

What  is  there  in  thee,  Moon  !    that  thou 

should'st  move 
My  heart  so  potently  ? 

KEATS. — Endymion,  Bk.  2. 

Till  the  Moon, 

Rising  in  clouded  majesty,  at  length 
Apparent   queen,   unveiled    her    peerless 

light, 

And  o'er  the  dark  her  silver  mantle  threw. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  606. 

Sing,  minstrel,  sing  us  now  a  tender  song 
Of  meeting  and  parting, with  the  moon  in  it. 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Ulysses,  Act  i,  i. 

If  thou  would'st  view  fair  Melrose  aright, 
Go  visit  it  by  the  pale  moonlight. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  2,  i. 

That  orbfed  maiden,  with  white  fire  laden, 
Whom  mortals  call  the  moon. 

SHELLEY. — The  Cloud. 

With  how  sad  steps,  O  Moon,  thou  climb'st 

the  skies  ! 

How  silently  and  with  how  wan  a  face ! 
SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Aslrophel,  31. 

Late,  late  yestreen,  I  saw  the  new  moone, 

Wi"  the  auld  moone  in  hir  arme  ; 
And,  if  we  gang  to  sea,  master, 
I  fear  we'll  come  to  harm. 

Ballad,  "Sir  Patrick  Spens<"  (circa 
*    1 5th  century). 

MORALISING  AND  MORALISTS 

Thou  art  an  endless  moralist. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Edward  III. 

A  moral  (like  all  morals)  melancholy. 
" BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  5,  63 


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MORNING 


Though  sages  may  pour  out  their  wisdom's 

treasure, 

There  is  no  sterner  moralist  than  Pleasure. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  3,  65. 

Let  us  be  moral.  Let  us  contemplate 
existence.  (Mr.  Pecksniff.) 

DICKENS. — Martin  Chuzzlewit,  ch.  10. 

"  Tut,   tut,   child,"   said   the   Duchess. 
"  Everything's  got  a  moral  if  only  you  can 
find  it." 
C.  L.  DODGSON. — Alice  in  Wonderland,  c.  9. 

Neckband  pedants,  dismal  critics  of 
pleasures  which  they  do  not  possess. 

VOLTAIRE. 
MORALITY 

Men  talk  of  "  mere  morality  " — which 
is  much  as  if  one  should  say,  "  Poor  God, 
with  nobody  to  help  Him  !  " 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life-Worship. 

The  end  of  all  political  struggle  is  to 
establish  morality  as  the  basis  of  legis- 
lation . .  .  Morality  is  the  object  of  govern- 
ment. EMERSON. — Fortune  of  the  Republic. 

We  know  of  no  spectacle  so  ridiculous 
as  the  British  public  in  one  of  its  periodical 
fits  of  morality. 

MACAULAY. — Moore's  Byron. 

The  plain  good  man,  whose  actions  teach 
More  virtue  than  a  sect  can  preach. 

MOORE. — Morality  e 

An  Englishman  thinks  he  is  moral  when 
he  is  really  only  uncomfortable. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman 

Morality  knows  nothing  of  geographical 
boundaries  or  distinctions  of  race. 
H.  SPENCER. — Study  of  Sociology,  ch.  23 

Morality  was  made  for  man,  and  not 
man  for  morality. 

I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto,  Bk.  2, 

ch.  6. 
MORNING 

Now  had  the  poore    man's   clock, — shrill 

chaunticleare — 

Twice  given  notice  of  the  Morne's  approach, 
That  then  began  in  glorie  to  appeare, 
Drawne   in   her   stately   coloured   saffron 

coach.       R.  BARNFIELD. — Cassandra. 

The  morn  is  up  again,  the  dewy  morn, 
With  breath  all  incense,  and  with  cheek 
all  bloom. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  98. 

When  genial  Morn  appears, 
Like  pensive  Beauty,  smiling  in  her  tears. 
».  CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  2. 

Each  matin  bell,  the  Baron  saith, 
Knells  us  back  to  a  world  of  death. 

COLERIDGE. — Christabel,  PL  2. 


The  lark  now  leaves  his  watery  nest, 
And  climbing,  shakes  his  dewy  wings. 

SIR  W.  D'AVENANT. — Song. 

Awake,  awake,  the  morn  will  never  rise 
Till  she  can  dress  her  beauty  at  your  eyes. 
SIR  W.  D'AVENANT. — Ib. 

The  rosy-fingered  morn  appears, 
And  from  her  mantle  shakes  her  tears 
In  promise  of  a  glorious  day 

DRYDEN. — Albion. 

None  can  tell  how  sweet, 
How  virtuous  the  morning  air. 

EMERSON. — May-Day. 

The     breezy    call     of    incense-breathing 
Morn.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

Beloved,  it  is  morn  ! 
A  redder  berry  on  the  thorn, 
A  deeper  yellow  on  the  corn, 
For  this  good  day  new-born. 
EMILY  H.  HICKEY. — Beloved,  it  is  morn. 

A  poet's  face  asleep  is  this  grey  morn. 
ALICE  MEYNELL. — In  February. 

Under  the  opening  eyelids  of  the  morn. 
MILTON. — Lycidas,  26. 

Sweet  is  the  breath  of  morn,  her  rising 

sweet, 
With  charm  of  earliest  birds  ;    pleasant 

the  Sun, 
When   first   on    this   delightful   land   he 

spreads 
His  orient  beams. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  641. 

Now  morn  her  rosy  steps  in  th'  eastern 

clime 
Advancing,  sowed  the  earth  with  orient 

pearl.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  5,  i. 

Till  morn, 
Waked  by  the  circling  hours,  with  rosy 

hand 
Unbarred  the  gates  of  light. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  6,  2. 

Till  morning  fair 
Came  forth  with  pilgrim  steps  in  amice 

grey. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  426. 

Hark  !    hark !    the  lark  at  heaven's  gate 
sings, 

And  Phoebus  'gins  arise, 
His  steeds  to  water  at  those  springs 

On  chaliced  flowers  that  lies  ; 
And  winking  Mary-buds  begin 

To  ope  their  golden  eyes  ; 
With  everything  that  pretty  is, 

My  lady  sweet,  arise  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  2,  3. 

But  look  the  morn,  in  russet  mantle  clad, 

Walks  o'er  the  dew  of  yon  high  eastern  hill. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  i. 


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MOTHERS-IN-LAW 


Night's  "candles  are  burnt  out,  and  jocund 

day 

Stands  tiptoe  on  the  misty  mountain's  tops. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  3,  5. 

Come  into  the  garden,  Maud, 

For  the  black  bat,  night,  hath  flown. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  i,  22. 

Mornings  are  mysteries  ;   the  first  world's 

youth, 

Man's  resurrection,  and  the  future's  bud, 
Shroud  in  their  births. 

H.  VAUGHAN. — Rules  and  Lessons. 

Few  folk  hae  seen  oftener  than  me 
Natur  gettin'  up  i'  the  mornin'  . .  .  Never 
see  ye  her  hair  in  papers. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  19  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

All  the  speed  is  in  the  morning. 
Saying  attnb.  by  Gabriel  Harvey  (c.  1600) 
to  his  mother,  Alice  Harvey. 

The  morning  hour  has  gold  in  its  mouth. 

Prov. 
MORTALITY 

The  earth  is  a  host  who  murders  his 
guests. 

HAFIZ. — A  s  given  by  Emerson,  Essay  on 
Persian  Poetry. 

How  gladly  would  I  meet 
Mortality  my  sentence,  and  be  earth 
Insensible  !    how  glad  would  lay  me  down 
As  in  my  mother's  lap  !    There  should  I 

rest 
And  sleep  secure. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  10,  775. 

War  its  thousands  slays  ;    Peace,  its  ten 
thousands.       BISHOP  PORTEUS. — Death. 

The  form  remains,    the   Function  never 

dies 
While  we,  the  brave,  the  mighty,  and  the 

wise, 

We  men,  who  in  our  morn  of  life  defied 
The  elements,  must  vanish.     Be  it  so  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — River  Duddon,  34. 

All  men  think  all  men  mortal  but  them- 
selves.         YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i. 

MOTHERS 

A  mother  is  a  mother  still, 
The  holiest  thing  alive. 

COLERIDGE. — Three  Graves. 

Many  men,  my  lord, 

Of  hardihood  sufficient,  have  been  known 

To  hold  the  memories  of  their  mothers 

dear.  J.  DAVIDSON. — The  Ordeal,  241. 

In  the  first  days 

Of  my  distracting  grief,  I  found  myself 

As  women  wish  to  be,  who  love  their  lords. 

J.  HOME. — Douglas. 


Beer  will  grow  "  mothery,"  and  ladies  fair 
Will  grow  like  beer. 

HOOD. — Slag-Eyed,  Lady. 

In  the  heavens  above 
The  angels,  whispering  to  one  another, 
Can  find,  amid  their  burning  terms  of  love, 
None  so  devotional  as  that  of  "  mother." 
E.  A.  POE. — To  my  Mother. 

Thou  art  thy  mother's  glass,  and  she  in 

thee 

Calls  back  the  lovely  April  of  her  prime. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet,  3. 

Who  ran  to  help  me  when  I  fell, 
And  would  some  pretty  story  tell, 
Or  kiss  the  place  to  make  it  well  ? 

My  Mother  I 
ANN  TAYLOR. — My  Mother. 

Happy  he 

With  such  a  mother  !   Faith  in  womankind 
Beats  with  his  blood,  and  trust  in  all  things 

high 
Comes  easy  to  him,  and  though  he  trip 

and  fall, 
He  shall  not  blind  his  soul  with  clay. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  7,  308. 

Is   not   a   young    mother   one   of   the 
sweetest  sights  which  life  shows  us  ? 

THACKERAY.— Newcomes,  Bk.  2,  f.  13. 

Mother  is  the  name  for  God  in  the  lips 
and  hearts  of  little  children. 
THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  vol.  2,  ch.  12. 

They  say  that  man  is  mighty, 

He  governs  land  and  sea, 
He  wields  a  mighty  sceptre 

O'er  lesser  powers  that  be  : 
But  a  mightier  power  and  stronger 

Man  from  his  throne  has  hurled, 
And  the  hand  that  rocks  the  cradle 

Is  the  hand  that  rules  the  world. 
W.  R.  WALLACE.— What  rules  the  World  ? 

All  women  become  like  their  mothers. 

That   is   their   tragedy.      No  man   does. 

That  is  bis.      OSCAR  WILDE. — Importance 

of  being  Earnest. 

Thou,  while  thy  babes  around  thee  cling, 
Shalt  show  us  how  divine  a  thing 
A  woman  may  be  made. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  a  young  Lady. 

One  good  mother  is  worth  a  hundred 
schoolmasters.  Prov. 

There  is  no  mother  like  my  mother. 

Prov. 

MOTHERS-IN-LAW 

While  thy  wife's  mother  lives,  expect  no 
peace.        GIFFORD. — Juvenal,  6,  333. 


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MOURNING 


There  is  no  good  mother-in-law  but  she 
that  wears  a  green  gown  [i.e.  who  is  under 
the  turf].  Old  Prov. 

MOTIVES 

It  was  a  favourite  remark  of  the  lat« 
Mr.  Whitbread's,  that  no  man  does  any- 
thing from  a  single  motive. 

COLERIDGF. — Eiog.  Literaria,  fh.  xx. 

And  set  his  heart  upon  the  goal, 

Not  on  the  prize. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — I.aleham  Churchyard. 

And  rare  is  noble  impulse,  rare 

The  impassioned  aim. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Shelley's  Centenary. 

MOUNTAINS 

I  live  not  in  myself,  but  I  become, 
Portion  of  that  around  me  ;   and  to  me 
High  mountains  are  a  feeling,  but  the  hum 
Of  human  cities,  torture. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  72. 

Mont  Blanc  is  the  monarch  of  mountains  ; 

They  crowned  him  long  ago 
On  a  throne  of  rocks,  in  a  robe  of  clouds, 

With  a  diadem  of  snow. 

BYRON. — Manfred,   i.   i. 

The  nodding  horror  of  whose  shady  brows 
Threats   the  forlorn  and  wand'ring  pas- 
senger. MILTON. — Comus,  38. 

Two  voices  are  there  ;  one  is  of  the  sea, 
One   of   the   mountains,    each    a   mighty 

voice  : 

In  both  from  age  to  age  thou  didst  reioice  ; 
They  were  thy  chosen  music,  Liberty  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — On  the  Subjugation  of 
Switzerland. 

Thou  wear'st  upon  thy  forehead  clear 
The  freedom  of  a  mountaineer. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  a  Highland  Girl. 

MOURNING 

Nature's  law 

That  man  was  made  to  mourn. 
BURNS. — Man  was  made  to  Mourn. 

Happy  long  life,  with  honour  at  the  close, 
Friends'     painless     tears,     the     softened 
thought  of  foes  ! 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Memories  Positum, 
R.  G.  S.,  2 

Whom  universal  Nature  did  lament. 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  60. 

Weep  not  for  her  !    Her  memory  is  the 

shrine 
Of  pleasant  thoughts,  soft  as  the  scent 

of  flowers, 
Calm  as  on  windless  eve  the  sun's  decline, 


Sweet  as  the  song  of  birds  among  the 

bowers, 

Rich  as  a  rainbow  with  its  hues  of  light, 
Pure  as  the  moonshine  of  an  autumn  night ; 
Weep  not  for  her  ! 

D.  M.  MOIR. — A  Dir%e. 

He  who  general  tears  can  shed 
For  folks  that  happen  to  be  dead, 
May  e'en  with  equal  justice  mourn 
For  those  who  never  yet  were  born. 
PRIOR. — The  Turtle  and  the  Sparrow 

'Tls  not  alone  my  inky  cloak,  good  mother, 
Nor  customary  suits  of  solemn  black,  .  .  . 
Nor  the  dejected  'haviour  of  the  visage. 
Together  with  all  forms,  modes,  shows  of 

grief, 
That  can  denote  me  truly. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  x,  2. 

I  have  that  within  which  passeth  show. 
These  but  the  trappings  and  the  suits  of 
woe.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Hung  be  the  heavens  with  black,  yield  day 

to  night. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  i 

Come  not,  when  I  am  dead, 

To   drop   thy   foolish    tears   upon   my 

grave. 
To  trample  round  my  fallen  head, 

And  vex  the  unhappy  dust  thou  vrouldst 
not  save.        TENNYSON. — Come  Not. 

Peace  ;  come  away  :  the  song  of  woe 
Is  after  all  an  earthly  song  r 
Peace  :  come  away,  we.  do  him  wrong 

To  sing  so  wildly  :   let  us  go 

TENNYSON. — In  Memyriam,  c.  57. 

I  count  it  crime 
To  mourn  for  any  overmuch. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.t  c.  85. 

All  gentle  things  that  live  will  moan  thee, 

All  fond  regrets  for  e\  er  wake  ; 
For  earth  is  happier  having  known  thee, 
And  heaven  is  sweeter  for  thy  sake  ! 
WM.  WINTER. — (New  York).  Vagrant 
Memories.     On  Henry  Irving. 

Few  and  short  were  the  prayers  we  said, 
And  we  spoke  not  a  word  of  sorrow  ; 
But  we  steadfastly  gazed  on  the  face  that 

was  dead, 

And  we  bitterly  thought  of  the  morrow. 
WOLFE. — Burial  of  Sir  J.  Moore. 

Not  without  hope  we  suffer  or  we  mourn. 
WORDSWORTH. — Elegiac  Stanzas,  1805. 

He  mourns  the  dead  who  lives  as   they 
desire.      YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 


How    wretched    is    the    man    who  never 
mourned  !  YOUNG. — Ib.,  5. 


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MUSIC 


It  is  better  to  go  to  the  house  of  mourn- 
ing, than  to  go  to  the  house  of  feasting. 
Ecclesiastes  vii,  2. 
MULTITUDE,  THE 

That  great  enemy  of  reason,  virtue,  and 
religion,  the  Multitude. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  2,  i. 

Learning  will  be  cast  into  the  mire  and 

trodden  down  under  the  hoofs  of  a  swinish 

multitude.  BURKE. — Reflections  on 

French  Revolution, 

Serves  and  fears 

The  fury  of  the  many-headed  monster, 
The  giddy  multitude. 
MASSINGER. — Unnatural  Combat,  Act  3,  2. 

Who  o'er  the  herd  would  wish  to  reign, 
Fantastic,  fickle,  fierce  and  vain  ? 
Vain  as  the  leaf  upon  the  stream, 
And  fickle  as  a  changeful  dream. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  5,  30. 

MURDER 

I  come  fairly  to  kill  him  honestly. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Little 
French  Lawyer,  Act  4,  i . 

Murder  most  foul,  as  in  the  best  it  is, 
But  this  most  foul,  strange,  and  unnatural. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

For  murder,  though  it  have  no  tongue, 

will  speak 
With  most  miraculous  organ. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

Simple,  plain  Clarence,  I  do  love  thee  so, 

That  I  will  shortly  send  thy  soul  to  heaven. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  i. 

They  cut  his  throat  from  ear  to  ear, 

His  brains  they  battered  in. 
His  name  was  Mr.  William  Weare, 

He  dwelt  in  Lyons  Inn. 
ANON. — Alluding  to  the  murder  of  Wm. 
Weare  by  John  Thurtell  (1823). 
MUSIC 

Music,    the   greatest   good    that   mortals 

know, 
And  all  of  heaven  we  have  below. 

ADDISON. — St.  Cecilia's  Day. 

Nothing  is  capable  of  being  well  set  to 
music  that  is  not  nonsense. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  vol.  i,  18. 

Rugged    the    breast    that    music   cannot 
tame.  J.  C.  BAMPFYLDE. — Sonnet. 

If  musique  and  sweet  poetrie  agree, 
As  they  must  needes,  the  Sister  and  the 
Brother. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Poems  in  Divers 
Humors,  Sonnet  i. 

His  harp  the  sole  companion  of  his  way. 
BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  3. 


Is  there  a  heart  that  music  cannot  melt  ? 
Alas  !   how  is  that  rugged  heart  forlorn. 

BEATTIE. — Ib.,  Bk.  i,  56. 

'Tis  a  sure  sign  work  goes  on  merrily, 
when  folks  sing  at  it. 
I.  BICKERSTAFF. — Maid  of  the  Mt7/,Act  i,  i 

There  is  a  music  wherever  there  is  har- 
mony, order,  or  proportion  :  and  thus  far 
we  may  maintain  the  music  of  the  Spheres  ; 
for  those  well-ordered  motions  and  regular 
paces,  though  they  give  no  sound  to  the 
ear,  yet  to  the  understanding  they  strike 
a  note  most  full  of  harmony. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  2, 

sec.   9. 

There  are  few  such  swains  as  he 
Now-a-days  for  harmonic. 
WILLIAM  BROWNE. — Shepherd's  Pipe. 

Who  hears  music,  feels  his  solitude 
Peopled  at  once. 

BROWNING. — Balaustion's  A dventure. 

There  is  no  truer  truth  obtainable 
By  man,  than  comes  of  music. 

BROWNING. — Chas.  Avison. 

Such  sweet, 

Soft  notes  as  yet  musician's  cunning 
Never  gave  the  enraptured  air. 

BROWNING. — Pied  Piper,  c.  12. 

For  this  did  Paganini  comb  the  fierce 
Electric  sparks,  or  to  tenuity 
Pull  forth  the  inmost  wailing  of  the  wire — 
No  cat-gut  could  swoon  out  so  much  of 
soul.  BROWNING. — Red  Cotton 

Nightcap  Country. 

In  fact  he  had  no  singing  education, 
An  ignorant,   noteless,   timeless,   tune- 
less fellow. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  4,  87. 

There's  music  in  the  sighing  of  a  reed  ; 

There's  music  in  the  gushing  of  a  riJl ; 
There's  music  in  all  things,  if  men  had  ears, 
Their  earth  is  but  an  echo  of  the  spheres. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  15,  5. 

Her  fingers  witched  the  chords  they  passed 

along, 
And  her  lips  seemed  to  kiss  the  soul  in 

song.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

When  music,  heavenly  maid,  was  young, 
While  yet  in  early  Greece  she  sung. 

COLLINS. — The  Passions. 

A  solemn,  strange  and  mingled  air, 

'Twas  sad  by  fits,  by  starts  'twas  wild. 
COLLINS. — Ib. 

O  Music  !  sphere-descended  maid, 
Friend  of  Pleasure,  Wisdom's  aid. 

COLLINS. — Ib. 

As  if  an  angel's  harp  had  sung  of  bliss 
In  some  bright  world  beyond  the  tears  of 
this.  REV.  W.  COLTON. — Byron. 


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MUSIC 


Music  hath   charms   to  soothe   a  savage 

breast, 

To  soften  rocks,  or  bend  a  knotted  oak. 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  i,  i. 

Music  is  the  stalk 

And  flower  of  health,  and  most  remedial. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Selfs  the  Man,  Act  4. 

No  dinner  goes   off    well  without  him 
[Apollo].     [Jupiter.] 

DISRAELI. — Ixion,  c.  i. 

Sound  the  trumpets  ;    beat  the  drums  ! 
Flushed  with  a  purple  grace 
He  shows  his  honest  face  ; 
Now  give  the  hautboys  breath  ;  he  comes, 
he  comes  ! 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  3. 

Softly  sweet,  in  Lydian  measures, 
Soon  he  soothed  his  soul  to  pleasures. 
DRYDEN. — Ib.,  st.  5. 

Could   swell   the  soul    to  rage,  or  kindle 
soft  desire.  DRYDEN. — Ib.,  st.  6. 

What    passion    cannot    Music     raise   or 
.       quell  ? 

DRYDEN. — St.  Cecilia's  Day,  st.  2. 

The  soft,   complaining  flute. 

DRYDEN. — Ib.,  st.  4. 

Music  is  the  poor  man's  Parnassus. 

EMERSON. — Poetry  and 
Imagination. 

Where  through  the  long  drawn  aisle  and 

fretted  vault 
The  pealing   anthem  swells   the  note  of 

praise.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

There  is  no  music  in  Nature,  neither 

melody  or  harmony.     Music  is  the  creation 

of  man.  H.  R.  HAWEIS. — Music  and 

Morals,  Bk.  i,  i. 

Emotion,  not  thought,  is  the  sphere  of 
music.  H.  R.  HAWEIS. — Ib. 

Their  discords  sting  through   Burns  and 

Moore, 
Like  hedgehogs  dressed  in  lace. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Music  Grinders. 

Of  all  noises  I  think  music  the  least  dis- 
agreeable. 

JOHNSON. — Reply  to  an  enquiry  whether 
he  was  fond  of  music. 

Music  is  the  only  sensual  pleasure  with- 
out vice. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  recorded  by  Sir 
John  Hawkins. 

Fair  Melody  !  kind  Siren  !  I've  no  choice  ; 
I  must  be  thy  sad  servant  evermore  ; 
I  cannot  choose  but  kneel  here  and  adore. 
KEATS. — Endymion,  Bk.  4. 


Let  me  have  music  dying,  and  I  seek 
No  more  delight.  KEATS. — Ib. 

Popular  favourites,  I  apprehend,  please 
by  the  sequence  rather  than  by  the  com- 
bination of  sounds.  Only  a  few  highly 
trained  experts  can  appreciate  the  masters 
of  intricate  Harmony. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  3 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

I  even  think  that  sentimentally  I  am 
disposed  to  harmony.  But  organically 
I  am  incapable  of  a  tune. 

LAMB. — A  Chapter  on  Ears. 

Though  cheerfulness  and  I  have  long  been 

strangers, 
Harmonious  sounds  are  still  delightful  to 

me  : 

There's  sure  no  passion  in  the  human  soul 
But  finds  its  food  in  music. 

G.  LILLO. — Fatal  Curiosity. 

Music's  the  medicine  of  the  mind. 

J.  LOGAN. — Danish  Ode. 

The  sound  of  singing  and  the  gurgling  throb 
Of  lute  and  viol, — meant  for  many  things, 
But  most  for  misery. 

ERIC  MACKAY. — Lover's  Litanies,  8. 

Lap  me  in  soft  Lydian  airs, 
Married  to  immortal  Verse, 
Such  as  the  meeting  soul  may  pierce, 
In  notes  with  many  a  winding  bout 
Of  linked  sweetness  long  drawn  out. 

MILTON. — L'Allegro,  135. 

Such  sweet  compulsion  doth  in  music  lie. 
MILTON. — Arcades,  Song,  i. 

Musical  as  is  Apollo's  lute. 

MILTON. — Comus,  478. 

I  was  all  ear, 
And  took  in  strains  that  might  create  a 

soul 
Under  the  ribs  of  Death. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  560. 

Such  notes  as  warbled  to  the  string, 
Drew  iron  tears  down  Pluto's  cheek. 

MILTON. — II  Penseroso,  104. 

Sphere-born  harmonious  sisters,  Voice  and 
Verse.    MILTON. — At  a  Solemn  Music. 

None  knew  whether 
The  voice  or  lute  was  most  divine, 
So  wondrously  they  went  together. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

Music  doth  all  our  joys  refine, 
And  gives  the  relish  to  our  wine. 

J.  OLDHAM. — St.  Cecilia. 

Music's  the  cordial  of  a  troubled  breast, 
The  softest  remedy  that  grief  can  find  ; 
The  gentle  spell  that  charms  our  care  to 

rest 

And  calms  the  ruffled  passions  of  the  mind. 
J.  OLDHAM. — Ode. 


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MUSIC 


The  half  of  music,  I  have  heard  men  say, 
Is  to  have  grieved  ;  when  comes  the  lonely 

wail 
Over  the  mind. 

STEPHEN  PHILLIPS.  —  Marpessa,  244. 

Dealt  to  the  wise,  delight  they  bring  ; 
To  vulgar  ears  unmeaning  ring. 

PINDAR.  —  01.,  2,  154  (Moore  lr.). 

Philosophy  is  the  highest  music. 

PLATO.  —  Phado,  12  (Carylr.). 

I  know  not  what  I  was  playing, 
Or  what  I  was  dreaming  then, 

But  I  struck  one  chord  of  music 
Like  the  sound  of  a  great  Amen. 

A.  A.  PROCTER.  —  Lost  Chord. 

The  soul  of  music  slumbers  in  the  shell, 
Till  waked  and  kindled  by  the  master's 
spell.  ROGERS.  —  Human  Life. 

The  only  universal  tongue. 


.-^  Italy. 

It  [music]  is  either  the  vain  noise  of 
a  language  you  do  not  understand,  or  it 
is  a  vehemence  of  sentiment,  which  forces 
you  along  with  it  and  which  it  is  impossible 
for  the  soul  to  resist.  ROUSSEAU.  —  Julie. 

Music  is  the  nearest  at  hand,  the  most 
orderly,  the  most  delicate,  and  the  most 
perfect  of  all  bodily  pleasures.  It  is  the  only 
one  which  is  equally  helpful  to  all  the  ages 
of  man  —  helpful  from  the  nurse's  song  to 
her  infant,  to  the  music,  unheard  of  others, 
which  so  often  haunts  the  deathbed  of 
pure  and  innocent  spirits. 

RUSKIN.  —  Letter  XI.,  1867. 

So  sweet,  so  soft,  so  faint, 

It  seemed  an  angel's  whispered  call 
To  an  expiring  saint. 

SCOTT.  —  Bridal  of  Triermain,  1,4. 

As  sweet  and  musical 

As  bright  Apollo's  lute,  strung  with  his 
hair. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  4,  i. 

And  the  vile  squeaking  of  the  wry-necked 
fife. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  5. 

Here  will  we  sit  and  let  the  sounds  of  music 
Creep  in  our  ears. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Ib.,  Act  4,  i. 

I   am   never   merry    when    I  hear  sweet 
music.    SHAKESPEARE.  —  Ib.,  Act  5,  j. 

Since  nought  so  stockish,  hard,  and  full  of 

rage, 
But  music  for  the  time  doth  change  his 

nature.  SHAKESPEARE.  —  Ib. 


The  man  that  hath  no  music  in  himself, 
Nor  is  not  moved  with  concord  of  sweet 

sounds, 

Is  fit  for  treasons,  stratagems,  and  spoils  ; 
The  motions  of  his  spirit  are  dull  as  night, 
And  his  affections  dark  as  Erebus  ; 
Let  no  such  man  be  trusted  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

O  she  will  sing  the  savageness  out  of   a 
bear  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  i. 

"  Music  with  her  silver  sound,"  because 
musicians  have  no  gold  for  sounding. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  4,  5. 

That  strain  again — it  had  a  dying  fall ; 
O,  it  came  o'er  my  ear  like  the  sweet  south, 
That  breathes  upon  a  bank  of  violets, 
Stealing,  and  giving  odour. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  i,  i. 

True  concord  of  well-tuned  sounds. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet,  8. 

At  every  one  of  those  concerts  in  Eng- 
land you  will  find  rows  of  weary  people  who 
are  there,  not  because  they  really  like 
classical  music,  but  because  they  think 
they  ought  to  like  it. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Hell  is  full  of  musical  amateurs.  Music 
is  the  brandy  of  the  damned. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— Ib. 

If  I  were  to  begin  life  again,  I  would 
dedicate  it  to  music.  It  is  the  only  cheap 
and  unpunished  rapture  upon  earth. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lady  Carlisle, 
Aug.,  1844. 

Discord  ofte  in  music  makes  the  sweeter 
lay. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  3,  2,  15. 

Music    bright    as    the    soul  of  light,  for 
wings  an  eagle,  for  notes  a  dove. 

SWINBURNE. — A  strophel. 

Some  dead  lute-player, 
That   in   dead  years  had  done   delicious 
things.    SWINBURNE. — Ballad  of  Life. 

The  city  is  built 

To  music,  therefore  never  built  at  all, 
And  therefore  built  for  ever. 

TENNYSON. — Garelh,  I.  2/2. 

Music  that  gentlier  on  the  spirit  lies 
Than  tir'd  eyelids  upon  tir'd  eyes. 

TENNYSON. — Lotos  Eaters. 

Blow,  bugle,  blow  !    set  the  wild  echoes 
flying. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  Song, 

Music  is  the  real  universal  speech  of 
mankind.  C.  F.  WEBER. 


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NAMES 


Music  is  the  universal  language. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  (July,  1826). 

MUTABILITY 

For  this  and  that  way  swings 
The  flux  of  mortal  things. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Westminster  Abbey. 

Our   revels   now   are   ended.     These   our 

actors, 

As  I  foretold  you,  were  all  spirits,  and 
Are  melted  into  air,  iato  thin  air  ; 
And  like  the  baseless  fabric  of  this  vision, 
The    cloud-capped    towers,    the   gorgeous 

palaces, 

The  solemn  temples,  the  great  globe  itself, 
Yea,  all  which  it  inherit,  shall  dissolve, 
And  like  this  unsubstantial  pageant  faded, 
Leave  not  a  rack  behind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  4,  i. 

MUTINY 

But  were  I  Brutus, 

And  Brutus  Antony,  there  were  an  Antony 
Would  ruffle  up  your  spirits,  and  put  a 

tongue 

In  every  wound  of  Caesar,  that  should  move 
The  very  stones   of    Rome   to   rise   and 

mutiny. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  3,  2. 

MYSTERY 

Veil  after  veil  will  lift — but  there 

must  be 

Veil  upon  veil  behind. 
SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Light  of  Asia,  Bk.  8. 

I  love  the  doubt,  the  dark,  the  fear, 
That  still  surroundeth  all  things  here. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Hymn  to  Death. 

Plain  truth  will  influence  half  a  score  men 
at  most  in  a  nation,  while  mystery  will  lead 
millions  by  the  nose. 

BOLINGBROKE. — Letter,  1721. 

The  lucrative  business  of  mystery. 
BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

Things  that  do  almost  mock  the  grasp  of 

thought. 
H.  F.  GARY. — Dante's  "Purgatory,"  c.  29, 41. 

Take  care  never  to  seem  dark  and  mys- 
terious, which  is  not  only  a  very  unamiable 
character,  but  a  very  suspicious  one  too. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

Mystery  magnifies  danger  as  the  fog  the 
sun.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

There  was  the  Door  to  which  I  found  no 

key  : 
There  was  the  Veil  through  which  I  might 

not  see. 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  32. 


Deep  into  that  darkness  peering,  long  I 
stood  there,  wondering,  fearing, 

Doubting  ;    dreaming  dreams  no  mortal 
ever  dared  to  dream  before. 

E.  A.  POE. — Raven. 

Everything   unknown  ffi.e.  mysterious] 
is  taken  for  something  transcendent. 

TACITUS. — A  gricola. 

So  now  I  am  in  for  Hobbes's  Voyage ;  a 
great  Leap  in  the  Dark. 

SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — Provoked  Wife, 
Act  5,  5- 
MYSTICISM 

Myself  when  young  did  eagerly  frequent 
Doctor  and  Saint,  and  heard  great  Argu- 
ment 

About  it  and  about :  but  evermore 
Came  out  by  the  same  door  wherein  I  went. 
FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  27. 

Where  I  am  not  understood,  it  shall  be 
concluded  that  something  very  useful  and 
profound  is  couched  underneath. 
SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub:   Author's  Preface. 


N 

NAMES 

The  glory  and  the  Nothing  of  a  Name. 
BYRON. — Churchill's  Grave. 

Oh,  Amos  Cottle  !  Phoebus  !  what  a  name 

To  fill  the  speaking  trump  of  future  fame ! 

BYRON. — English  Bards. 

Who  hath  not  owned,  with  rapture-smitten 

frame, 
The  power  of  grace,  the  magic  of  a  name  ? 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  2. 

Giving  a  name,  indeed,  is  a  poetic  art ; 
all  poetry,  if  we  go  to  that  with  it,  is  but  a 
giving  of  names.  CARLYLE. — Journal. 

It  is  not  names  which  give  confidence  in 
things,  but  things  which  give  confidence  in 
names.  CHRYSOSTOM. 

Charmed  with  the  foolish  whistlings  of  a 
name.  COWLEY. — Of  Agriculture. 

Some  to  the  fascination  of  a  name 
Surrender  judgment  hoodwinked. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Pride  lives  with  all ;    strange  names  our 

rustics  give 

To  helpless  infants,  that  their  own  may  live. 
CRABBE. — Parish  Register,  Pt.  i. 

I  am  not  a  man  scrupulous  about  words 
or  names  or  such  things. 

OLIVER  CROMWELL. — Speech,  1657. 


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NATIONS 


A  man's  name  is  not  like  a  mantle,  which 
merely  hangs  about  him,  and  which  per- 
haps may  be  safely  twitched  and  pulled.  It 
is  a  perfectly  fitting  garment,  which  has 
grown  to  him  like  his  very  skin,  and  one 
cannot  scratch  and  scrape  it  without 
wounding  the  man  himself. 

GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  10. 

Fate  tried  to  conceal  him  by  naming  him 
Smith.  O.  W.  HOLMES.— The  Boys. 

A  name  ? — if  the  party  had  a  choice, 
What  mortal  would  be  a  Bugg  by  choice  ? 
As  a  Hogg,  a  Grubb,  or  a  Chubb  rejoice  ? 
Or  any  such  nauseous  blazon  ? 

HOOD. — Miss  Kiltnansegg. 

What's  in  a  name  ?  as  the  white  blackbird 
said  when  'e  sat  on  a  wooden  milestone  eat- 
ing a  red  blackberry. 

H.  G.  HUTCHINSON. — A   Fine  Ear  for  the 
Haspirate.    Punch  (Jan.  29,  1919). 

Indeed  there  is   a  woundy  luck  in  names, 

sir, 

And  a  main  mystery  an'  a  man  knew  where 
To  vind  it.     BEN  JONSON. — Tale  of  a  Tub. 

A  name  and  also  an  omen. 

PLAUTUS. — Persa,  Act  4. 

Smith's  no  name  at  all. 

POPE. — Epitaph. 

What's  in  a  name  ?     That  which  we  call  a 

rose 

By  any  other  name  would  smell  as  sweet. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2, 2. 

Human  pride 

Is  skilful  to  invent  most  serious  names, 
To  hide  its  ignorance. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mob,  c.  7. 

A  name  which  you  all  know  by  sight  very 

well, 
But  which  no  one  can  speak,  and  no  one 

can  spell. 

SOUTHEY. — March  to  Moscow,  c.  8. 

The  superstition  of  a  name. 

TACITUS. — Hist.,  Ch.  3. 

Let  be  my  name  until  I  make  my  name. 
TENNYSON. — Gareth,  I.  563. 

I  cannot  love  my  lord  and  not  his  name. 
TENNYSON. — Marriage  of  Geraint,  92. 

And  a  wee  bit  name — canna  it  carry  in  it 
a  wecht  o'  love  ! 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

A  good  name  endureth  for  ever. 

Ecclesiasticus  xli,  i,  3. 

It  is  not  fair  to  tell  names. 
Given  as  "  a  saying  "  in  Mrs.  Centlivre's 
"  Beau's  Ideal  "  (1702). 


NAPLES 

Naples,  the  paradise  of  Italy, 
As  that  is  of  the  earth. 
FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Double 
Marriage,  Act  i. 
NATIONS 

Look  to  life  in  every  part ;  in  all  they  prac- 
tise, all  they  know, 

Every  nation  has  derived  the  best  instruc- 
tion from  the  foe. 
ARISTOPHANES. — The  Birds  (Frere  tr.) 

A  people  is  but  the  attempt  of  many 
To  rise  to  the  completer  life  of  one  ; 
And  those  who  live  as  models  for  the  mass 
Are  singly  of  more  value  than  they  all. 

BROWNING. — Luria,  Act  5. 

It  is  with  nations  as  with  men, — 
One  must  be  first.     We  are  the  mightiest, 
The  heirs  of  Rome. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — Self's  the  Man,  Act  3. 

Some  people  may  be  Rooshans  and  others 

may  be  Prooshans  ;    they  are  born  so  and 

will  please  themselves.    Them  which  is  of 

other  naturs  thinks  different.  [Mrs.  Gamp.] 

DICKENS. — M.  Chuzzlewit,  c.  19. 

Our  backs  is  easy  ris.  We  must  be 
cracked-up,  or  they  rises  and  we  snarls. 
You'd  better  crack  us  up,  you  had  ! 

DICKENS. — Ib.t  c.  33. 

Each  nation  grows  after  its  own  genius 
and  has  a  civilization  of  its  own. 

E  MERSON  . — Civilizatio  n . 

If  there  be  one  test  of  national  genius 
universally  accepted,  it  is  success.  And  if 
there  be  one  successful  country  in  the 
universe  for  the  last  millennium,  that 
country  is  England. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  3,  Land. 

A  nation  with  whom  sentiment  is  nothing 

is  on  the  way  to  cease  to  be  a  nation  at  all. 

FROUDE. — The  Premier. 

Nations  are  but  enlarged  schoolboys. 
FROUDE. — Exceptional  Conditions. 

Strike — for  your  altars  and  your  fires  ; 
Strike — for  the  green  graves  of  your  sires  ; 

God — and  your  native  land  ! 
FITZ-GREENE  HALLECK. — Marco  Bozzaris. 

The  celebrated  apophthegm  that  nations 
never  profit  by  experience,  becomes  yearly 
more  and  more  untrue. 
SIR  J.  HERSCHEL. — Influence  of  Science. 

There  is  no  extremity  of  distress,  which, 
of  itself,  ought  to  reduce  a  great  nation  to 
despair.  JUNIUS. — Letter  i. 

Oh,  East  is  East,  and  West  is  West,  and 
never  the  twain  shall  meet. 

KIPLING. — East  and  West. 


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NATIVE  LAND 


Nations  are  long  results,  by  ruder  ways 
Gathering  the  might  that  warrants  length 

of  days. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Under  the  Old  Elnt,  4,  2. 

It  is  better  to  remain  a  nation  capable  of 
displaying  the  virtues  of  a  nation,  than 
even  to  be  free.  MAINE. 

The  world  in  all  doth  but  two  nations  bear, 
The  good,  the  bad,  and  these  mixed  every- 
where.         A.  MARVELL. — Loyal  Scot. 

The  worth  of  a  State  in  the  long  run  is 

the  worth  of  the  individuals  composing  it. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  5. 

Methinks  I  see  in  my  mind  a  noble  and 
puissant  nation  rousing  herself  like  a  strong 
man  after  sleep,  and  shaking  her  invincible 
locks.  Methinks  I  see  her  as  an  eagle 
mewing  her  mighty  youth,  and  kindling 
her  undazzled  eyes  at  the  full  mid-day 
beam.  MILTON. — Areopagitica. 

An  old  and  haughty  nation,  proud  in  arms. 
MILTON. — Comus,  33. 

To  a  brave  man  every  country  is  a  native 
land.  OVID. — Fast.,  i. 

England  has  saved  herself  by  her  own 
energy  ;  I  hope  that  she  will  save  Europe 
by  her  example. 

WILLIAM  PITT. — Speech,  1805  (after- 
wards compressed  into  the  Latin  inscription 
on  a  medal,  "  Seipsum  virtute,  Europam 

exemplo  "). 

Study  a  people  apart  from  its  cities  ;  it 
is  only  thus  that  you  can  know  it. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile,  Bk.  5. 

That  country  is  the  richest  which  nour- 
ishes the  greatest  number  of  noble  and 
happy  human  beings. 

RUSKIN. —  Unto  this  Last,  Essay  4. 

A  nation's   institutions  and  beliefs  are 
determined  by  its  character. 
HERBT.   SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  ch.  16,  5. 

Not    with    dreams,  but    with    blood    and 

with  iron, 
Shall  a  nation  be  moulded  at  last. 

SWINBURNE. — Word  for  the  Country. 

If  a  state  submit 

At  once,  she  may  be  blotted  out  at  once, 
And  swallowed  in  the  conqueror's  chron- 
icle. TENNYSON. — The  Cup. 

lie  was  probably  fond  of  them,  but  he 
was  always  able  to  conceal  it. 
[Referring  to  Thomas  Carlyle  and  Ameri- 
cans.] MARK  TWAIN. — My  First  Lie. 

A  people  rude  in  peace,  and  rough  in  war. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  i  (Dryden)  (Of  the 

people  of  Libya). 


This  was  the  race  that  sure  portents  fore- 
shew, 

To  sway  the  world  and  land  and  sea  subdue. 
VIRGIL. — lb.,  Bk.  7  (Dryden  tr.). 

O  citizens  !  we  wage  unequal  war 

With  men,  not  only  heaven's  peculiar  care, 

But  heaven's  own  race, — unconquered  in 

the  field, 
Or    conquered,    yet     unknowing    how    to 

yield. 

VIRGIL.— Ib.,  Bk.  n  (Dryden tr.). 

Just  pride  is  no  mean  factor  in  a  State  ; 
The  sense  of  greatness  keeps  a  nation  great. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Ver  Tenebrosum. 

The  mainners  o'  a'  nations  are  equally 
bad.  JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  39  (EUrick 

Shepherd). 

Minds  like  ours,  my  dear  James,  must 
always  be  above  national  prejudices,  and 
in  all  companies  it  gives  me  true  pleasure 
to  declare  that,  as  a  people,  the  English 
are  very  little  indeed  inferior  to  the  Scotch. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes, 

The  Land  we  from  our  fathers  had  in  trust, 
And  to  our  children  will  transmit  or  die  : 
This  is  our  maxim,  this  our  piety. 

WORDSWORTH. — Feelings  of  the  Tyrolese. 

Once  did  she  hold  the  gorgeous  East  in  fee, 
And  was  the  safeguard  of  the  West. 
WORDSWORTH. — On  the  Venetian  Republic. 

A  fatherland  focuses  a  people. 
I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto,  c.  15. 

She  that  was  great  among  the  nations, 
and  princess  among  the  provinces,  how  is 
she  become  tributary  !  Lamentations  i,  i. 

Righteousness  exalteth  a  nation. 

Proverbs  xiv,  34. 

The  land  that  feeds  me  is  my  fatherland. 
Paraphr.  of  Euripides. 

Every  land  is  his  native  land  to  a  brave 
man.  Greek  prov. 

The  Italians  are  wise  before  the  deed  ; 
the  Germans  in  the  deed  ;  the  French  after 
the  deed.  Italian  prov. 

NATIVE  LAND 

Because  all  earth,  except  his  native  land, 
To  him  is  one  wide  prison,  and  each  breath 
Of  foreign  air  he  draws  seems  a  slow  poison, 
Consuming  but  not  killing. 

BYRON. — TwoFoscari,  i,  i. 

Nothing  is  more  discreditable  than  to  be 
ignorant  of  one's  own  native  land. 

GABRIEL  HARVEY. — Note  in  Lluyd's 
"  Breviary  of  Briiayne." 


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NATURALNESS 


NATURE 


We  have  learned  the  lesson  of  time,  and  we 
know  three  things  of  worth  : 

Only  to  sow  and  sing  and  reap  in.  the  land 

of  our  birth.          R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — 

Cry  of  the  Little  Peoples. 

My  foot  is  on  my  native  heath,  and  my 
name  is  McGregor. 

SCOTT. — Rob  Roy,  ch.  24. 

NATURALNESS 

To  me  more  dear,  congenial  to  my  heart, 
One  native  charm,  than  all  the  gloss  of  art. 
GOLDSMITH. — Deserted    Village. 

Nothing  so  much  hinders  being  natural 
as  the  longing  to  appear  so. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Ah,  no  !   the  conquest  was  obtained  with 

ease  ; 

He  pleased  you  by  not  studying  to  please. 

GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Progress 

of  Love,  3. 

Various  arts  mankind  delight, 

But  he  that  tempts  the  field  of  fame 
Must  march  with  Nature  to  the  fight. 

PINDAR. — Nemean  Odes,  i,  26 
(Moore  tr.). 

Let  your  precept  be,  "  Be  Easy." 
SIR  R.  STEELE. — Spectator,  vol.  3,  196. 

Then  Nature  said,  "  A  lovelier  flower 
On  earth  was  never  sown  ; 
This  child  I  to  myself  will  take, 
She  shall  be  mine,  and  I  will  make 
A  lady  of  my  own." 

WORDSWORTH. — Three  Years. 

NATURE 

If  Nature  built  by  rule  and  square, 
Than  man  what  wiser  would  she  be  ? 

What  wins  us  is  her  careless  care, 
And  sweet  unpunctuality. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Nature. 

There  never  was  miracle  wrought  by  God 

to  convert  an  atheist,  because  the  light  of 

nature  might  have  led  him  toconfessa  God. 

BACON — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  z. 

Nature  is  not  governed,  except  by  obey- 
ing her.  BACON. — Aphorism,  129. 

I  beseech  you  that  next  after  the  Scrip- 
tures you  study  that  great  volume,  the 
works  and  created  objects  of  God,  strenu- 
ously and  before  all  books,  which  should 
only  be  regarded  as  commentaries. 

BACON. — Epistola,  6. 

About  Nature  consult  nature  herself. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  3,Introd. 
[Described  by  Bacon  as  "  the  only  way  in 
which  the  foundations  of  true  and  active 
philosophy  can  be  established."] 


There's  the  wind  on  the  heath,  brother  ; 
if  I  could  only  feel  that  I  would  gladly  live 
for  ever.  BORROW. — Lavengro. 

Nature  is  the  Art  of  God. 
SiRT.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  i,  16. 

Earth's  crammed  with  heaven, 
And  every  common  bush  afire  with  God  ; 
But  only  he  who  sees,  takes  off  his  shoes. 
The  rest  sit  round  it  and  pluck  blackberries, 
And  daub  their  natural  faces  unaware 
More  and  more  from  the  first  similitude. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  7. 

God's   gifts    put    man's    best  dreams  to 
shame. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Sonnets  from  the 
Portuguese,  26. 

God  is  the  perfect  poet, 
Who  in  His  person  acts  His  own  creation. 
BROWNING. — Paracelsus,  pt.  2. 

Now  is  the  time  for  those  who  wisdom  love, 
Who  love  to  walk  in  virtue's  flowery 

road, 

Along  the  lovely  paths  of  Spring  to  rove, 
And  follow  Nature  up  to  Nature's  God. 
MICHAEL  BRUCE. — Elegy  :  To  Spring. 

To  him  who  in  the  love  of  Nature  holds 
Communion  with  her  visible  forms,   she 

speaks 
A  various  language. 

W.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — Thanatopsis,  i. 

Go  forth  under  the  open  sky  and  list 
To  Nature's  teaching. 

W.  C.  BRYANT.— Ib.,  14. 

Set  him  before  a  hedgerow  in  a  lane, 
And  he  was  happy  all  alone  for  hours. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — E.  Crowhurst. 

Never,  no  never,  did  Nature  say  one 
thing  and  wisdom  say  another. 

BURKE. — Letters  on  a  Regicide  Peace 
(Borrowed  from  Juvenal,  Sat.  14). 

Yet  nature's  charms — the  hills  and  woods, 
The  sweeping  vales  and  foaming  floods, 
Are  free  alike  to  all. 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  Davie. 

Dear  Nature  is  the  kindest  mother  still, 
Though  always  changing,   in  her  aspect 
mild. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  37. 

Art,  Glory,  Freedom  fail,  but  Nature  still 
is  fair.  BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  2,  87. 

There  is  a  pleasure  in  the  pathless  woods, 
There  is  a  rapture  in  the  lonely  shore, 
There  is  society,  where  none  intrudes, 
By  the  deep  sea,  and  music  in  its  roar  ; 
I  love  not  man  the  less,  but  Nature  more, 


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NATURE 


From  these  our  interviews,  in  which  I  steal 
From  all  I  may  be,  or  have  been  before, 
To  mingle  with  the  Universe,  and  feel 
What  I  can  ne'er  express,  yet  cannot  all 
conceal.  BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  4,  178. 

Nature  admits  no  lie. 

CARLYLE. — Latter  Day  Pamphlets,  5 . 

Nature,  the  vicar  of  the  Almightie  Lord. 
CHAUCER. — Assembly  of  Foules. 

Habit  can  never  conquer  Nature  ;  she  is 
for  ever  unconquered. 

CICERO. — Tusc.  Quasi.,  5,  27. 

In  nature  there  is  nothing  melancholy. 

COLERIDGE. — The  Nightingale. 

Full  often  too 

Our  wayward  intellect,  the  more  we  learn 
Of  nature,  overlooks  her  Author  more. 

COWPER. — Garden,   235. 

Nature  is  but  a  name  for  an  effect, 
Whose  cause  is  God. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Time  is  as  young  as  ever  now, 
Nature  as  fresh  and  sweet. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Ballad  of  Euthanasia. 

For  Nature  in  man's  heart  her  laws  doth 

pen. 
SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum,  sec.  26,  2. 

Nature  is  more  powerful  than  education  ; 
time  will  develop  everything. 

DISRAELI. — Contarini  Fleming,  c.  13. 

For  Art  may  err, but  Nature  cannot  miss. 
DRYDEN. — Cock  and  Fox,  I.  452. 

Ever  charming,  ever  new, 
When  will  the  landscape  tire  the  view  ? 
JOHN  DYER. — Grongar  Hill. 

The  ancient  precept,  "  Know  Thyself," 
and  the  modern  precept,  "  Study  Nature," 
become  at  last  one  maxim. 

EMERSON. — The  American  Scholar 
(1837)- 

Nature  never  hurries.  Atom  by  atom, 
little  by  little,  she  achieves  her  work. 

EMERSON. — Farming. 

For  what  are  they  all  in  their  high  conceit 
When  man  in  the  bush  with  God  may  meet  ? 
EMERSON. — Good-bye,  Proud  World. 

And  in  the  vaunted  works  of  Art 
The  master-stroke  is  still  her  part. 

EMERSON. — Nature. 

The  lover  of  nature  is  he  whose  inward 
and  outward  senses  are  still  truly  adjusted 
to  each  other  ;  who  has  retained  the  spirit 
of  infancy  even  into  the  era  of  manhood. 

EMERSON. — Ib. 


Nothing  is  great  but  the  inexhaustible 
wealth  of  Nature. 

EMERSON. — Resources. 

Nature  paints  the  best  part  of  the  picture, 
carves  the  best  part  of  the  statue,  builds 
the  best  part  of  the  house,  and  speaks  the 
best  part  of  the  oration. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

Keep  Nature's  great  original  in  view, 
And  thence  the  living  images  pursue. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

The  meanest  floweret  of  the  vale, 
The  simplest  note  that  swells  the  gale, 
The  common  sun,  the  air,  the  skies, 
To  him  are  opening  paradise. 
GRAY. — Ode  on  Pleasure  from  Vicissitude, 

I-  53- 

The  house  is  a  prison,  the  schoolroom's  a 

cell; 
Leave  study  and  books  for  the  upland  and 

dell.     ' 

J.  H.  GREEN. — Morning  Invitation. 

He  would  adore  my  gifts  instead  of  me, 
And  rest  in  Nature,  not  the  God  of  Nature. 
HERBERT. — The  Pulley. 

You  may  drive  out  nature  with  a  fork, 
but  she  will  ever  return. 

HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i,  10,  24. 

I  am  tired  of  four  walls  and  a  ceiling  ; 
I  have_need  of  the  grass. 

R.  HOVEY. — Spring. 

A  plant,  a  leaf,  a  blossom, — but  contains 
A  folio  volume.  We  may  read  and  read. 
And  read  again,  and  still  find  something 

new. 
JAMES  HURDIS.D.D. — Village  Curate  (1788). 

Nature  never  says  one  thing,  and  wisdom 
another.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  14,  321. 

The  poetry  of  earth  is  never  dead. 

KEATS. — Grasshopper  and  Cricket. 

Tracing  out  wisdom,  power,  and  love, 
In  earth  or  sky,  in  stream  or  grove. 

KEBLE. — Evening. 

Thou,  who  hast  given  me  eyes  to  see 

And  love  this  sight  so  fair, 
Give  me  a  heart  to  find  out  Thee 

And  read  Thee  everywhere. 

KEBLE. — Septuagesima. 

I  am  in  love  with  this  green  earth. 

LAMB. — New  Year's  Eve. 

As  one  awaked  out  of  sleep,  I  saw  the 
Lord  passing  by — eternal,  infinite,  omni- 
scient, omnipotent,  and  I  stood  as  in  a 
trance. 

LINNAEUS. — Systema     Naturce,     ad     init. 
(as   translated   by    Ruskin). 


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NATURE 


And  Nature,  the  old  nurse,  took 
The  child  upon  her  knee, 

Saying,  "  Here  is  a  story-book 
Thy  Father  has  written  for  thee." 
LONGFELLOW. — Fiftieth  Birthday  of 
A  gassiz. 

In  those  vernal  seasons  of  the  year,  when 
the  air  is  calm  and  pleasant,  it  were  an  in- 
jury and  sullenness  against  Nature  not  to 
go  out  and  see  her  riches,  and  partake  in 
her  rejoicing.  MILTON. — Of  Education, 

Unspeakable  desire  to  see  and  know 
All  these  His  wondrous  works,  but  chiefly 
man. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  663. 

Thy  desire  which  tends  to  know 
The  works  of  God,  thereby  to  glorify 
The  great  Work  Master,  leads  to  no  excess 
That   reaches   blame,    but   rather   merits 

praise 
The  more  it  seems  excess. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  3,  694. 

But  neither  breath  of  Morn,  when  she  as- 
cends 
With  charm  of  earliest  birds  ;  nor  rising 

Sun 
On  this  delightful  land ;  nor  herb,  fruit, 

flower, 
Glist'ring  with  dew  ;  nor  fragrance  after 

showers ; 
Nor    grateful   evening   mild ;    nor    silent 

Night, 
With  this  her  solemn  bird,  nor  walk  by 

Moon, 
Or   glittering   starlight,    without    thee    is 

sweet.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  650. 

These  are  thy  glorious  works,  Parent  of 

Good, 

Almighty,  thine  this  universal  frame, 
Thus  wondrous  fair  ;  thyself  how  wondrous 

then  !  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  5,  153. 

Nature  hath  need  of  what  she  asks. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  253. 

Nature's  cult  is  above  all  things  reason- 
able and  thus  fulfils  the  conditions  of  a  good 
working  faith.  Much  is  hidden  ;  much  is 
lucid  and  practical.  Mystery  does  not 
lack,  for  there  are  many  holies,  where  no 
foot  has  trodden. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

From  Nature's  chain,  whatever  link  you 

strike, 
Tenth,  or  ten  thousandth,  breaks  the  chain 

alike.     POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  i,  245. 

Slave  to  no  sect,  who  takes  no  private  road, 

But  looks  through  Nature  up  to  Nature's 

God.  POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  4,  331. 

Never  does  nature  deceive  us  ;  it  is  we 
who  deceive  Nature.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 


Clouds  and  mountains  have  been  life  to 
inc.  RUSKIN. — Pr&terita. 

The  saddest  heart  might  pleasure  take 
To  see  all  nature  gay. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  4,  15. 

New  Art  would  better  Nature's  best, 
But  Nature  knows  a  thing  or  two. 
SIR  OWEN  SEAMAN. — Ars  Poster  a.. 

O  Nature  !   how  we  worship  thee,  even 
against  our  wills  !       SENECA. — Hippolytus. 

And  thisour  life, exempt  from  public  haunt, 
Finds  tongues  in  trees,  books  in  the  run- 
ning brooks, 

Sermons  in  stones,  and  good  in  everything. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  i. 

One   touch   of   nature   makes    the  whole 
world  kin. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  3,  3. 

Nature's  rales  have  no  exceptions. 
HERBT.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  Intro. 

What  more  felicitie  can  fall  to  creature 
Than  to  enjoy  delight  with  libertie, 
And  to  be  lord  of  all  the  workes  of  Nature  ; 
To  raigne  in  th'  aire  from  th'  earth   to 

highest  skie  : 
To  feed  on  flowres  and  weeds  of  glorious 

feature  ? 

SPENSER. — Muiopotmos,  st.  26. 

But  any  man  that  walks  the  mead, 
In  bud  or  blade,  or  bloom,  may  find, 

According  as  his  humours  lead, 
A  meaning  suited  to  his  mind. 

TENNYSON. — Day-Dream,  Moral,  2. 

So  careful  of  the  type  she  seems, 
So  careless  of  the  single  life. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  55. 

I  care  not,  Fortune  !  what  you  me  deny  ; 
You  cannot  rob  me  of  free  Nature's  grace  ; 
You  cannot  shut  the  windows  of  the  sky, 
Through  which  Aurora  shows  her  brighten- 
ing face  ; 

You  cannot  bar  my  constant  feet  to  trace 
The  woods  and  lawns,  by  living  stream,  at 
eve  : 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Ignorance,  c.  2. 

When  on  some  gilded  cloud  or  flower 
My  gazing  soul  would  dwell  an  hour, 
And  in  those  weaker  glories  spy 
Some  shadows  of  eternity. 

VAUGHAN. — The  Retreat. 

Happy  is  he  who  has  known  the  rural 
divinities.  VIRGIL. — Georgics,  2. 

Happy  the  man,  who,  studying  Nature's 

laws, 
Through  known  effects  can  trace  the  secret 

cause. 
VIRGIL. — Georgics,  2,  490  (Dryden  tr.). 


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NATURE 


NAVY 


ove, 


"  Is  this,"  I  cried, 

"  The  end  of  prayer,  and  preaching  ? 
Then  down  with  pulpit,  down  with  priest, 
And  give  us  Nature's  teaching  !  " 

WHITTIER. — A  Sabbath  Scene. 

I  never  knew  a  Naturalist  who  was  not  a 
good  man.  JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  zi. 

Few  folk  hae  seen  oftener  than  me  Natur 
gettin*  up  i'  the  mornin".  .  .  .  She  sleeps  a' 
nicht  in  her  claes,  yet  they're  never  run- 
kled.  Never  see  ye  her  hair  in  papers. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  ig  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

As  in  the  eye  of  Nature  he  has  lived, 
So  in  the  eye  of  Nature  let  him  die. 
WORDSWORTH. — Old  Cumberland  Beggar. 

Vain  is  the  glory  of  the  sky, 
The  beauty  vain  of  field  and  gr< 

Unless,  while  with  admiring  eye 
We  gaze,  we  also  learn  to  love. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  of  Fancy,  20. 

Come  forth  into  the  light  of  things  ; 
Let  nature  be  your  teacher. 
WORDSWORTH. — Tables  Turned,  st.  4. 

One  impulse  from  a  vernal  wood 
May  teach  you  more  of  man, 
Of  moral  evil,  and  of  good, 
Than  all  the  sages  can. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  st.  6. 

Sweet  is  the  love  which  Nature  brings. 
WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

I  have  learned 

To  look  on  nature,  not  as  in  the  hour 
Of  thoughtless  youth  ;  but  hearing  often- 
times 

The  still,  sad  music  of  humanity, 
Nor  harsh,  nor  grating,  though  of  ample 

power 
To  chasten  and  subdue. 

WORDSWORTH. — Tintern  A  bbey. 

Nature  never  did  betray 
The  heart  that  loved  her. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

The  sounding  cataract 
Haunted  me  like  a  passion.    The  tall  rock, 
The  mountain,  and  the  deep  and  gloomy 

wood, 
Their  colours  and  their  forms,  were  then  to 

me 

An  appetite  ;  a  feeling  and  a  love. 
WORDSWORTH. — Lines,  nr.  Tintern  Abbey 

(1798). 

Read  Nature  ;  Nature  is  a  friend  to  truth  ; 
Nature  is  Christian  ;  preaches  to  mankind  : 
And  bids  dead  matter  aid  us  in  our  creed. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 

The  course  of  Nature  is  the  art  of  XJod. 

YOUNG. — Ib.,  9,  ad  fin. 


Take  God  from  Nature,  nothing  great  is 
left.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  9. 

Nature  does  nothing  in  vain. 

Latin  prov. 

It's  merrye  walkyng  in  the  fayre  forest, 
To  heare  the  smalle  birdes  song. 

Old  Ballad,  Robin  Hood. 
NAVY 

Britain's  best  bulwarks  are  her  wooden 

walls.        T.  A.  ARNE. — Britain's  Best 

Bulwarks. 

Not  all  the  legions  of  the  land 
Shall  ever  wrest  from  England's  hand 
The  Sceptre  of  the  Sea. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Look  Seaward. 

He  that  commands  the  sea  is  at  great 
liberty,  and  may  take  as  much  and  as  little 
of  the  war  as  he  will. 

BACON. — Of  Expense. 

Let  us  think  of  them  that  sleep, 
Full  many  a  fathom  deep, 
By  thy  wild  and  stormy  steep 
Elsinore  ! 

CAMPBELL. — Battle  of  the  Baltic. 

While  the  battle  rages  loud  and  long, 
And  the  stormy  winds  do  blow. 

CAMPBELL. — Ye  Mariners. 

Naval  matters  involve  great  expenditure. 

CICERO. 

It  was  the  opinion  of  Themistocles  that 
whoso  can  hold  the  sea  has  command  of 
the  situation.  CICERO. — Ep.  ad  At 

Toll  for  the  brave  ! 

The  brave  that  are  no  more  ! 
All  sunk  beneath  the  wave, 

Fast  by  their  native  shore. 
COWPER. — Loss  of  "Royal  George." 

With  the  submitted  fasces  of  the  main. 
DRYDEN. — Astrtza  Redux,  249. 

Heart  of  oak  are  our  ships, 
Heart  of  oak  are  our  men, 

We  always  are  ready, 

Steady,  boys,  steady  ! 
We'll  fight  and  we'll  conquer  again  and 

again.  GARRICK. — Hearts  of  Oak. 

The  British  army  should  be  a  projectile 
to  be  fired  by  the  British  navy. 

VISCOUNT     GREY. — Quoted    by    Lord 

Fisher,    in     "  Memories,"     as     "  the 

splendid  words  of  Sir  Edward  Grey." 

The  trident  of  Neptune  is  the  sceptre  of 
the  world.  LEMIERRE. — Commerce. 

But  on  the  sea  be  terrible,  untamed, 
Unconquerable  still. 

THOMSON. — Britannia. 


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NECESSITY 


NEW  YEAR 


They  that  the  whole  world's  monarchy 

designed 

Are  to  their  ports  by  our  bold  fleet  confined. 
WALLER. — Of  a  War  with  Spain. 

Thus  did  England  fight : 
And  shall  not  England  smite 
With  Drake's  strong  stroke  in  battles  yet 
to  be? 

T.  WATTS-DUNTON. — Christmas  at  the 
Mermaid.     Chorus. 
NECESSITY 

Thanne  is  it  wisdom,  as  it  thinketh  me, 
To  maken  vertu  of  necessitee. 

CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  v.  3043. 

Necessity  hath  no  law.  Feigned  neces- 
sities, imaginary  necessities,  are  the  great- 
est cozenage  men  can  put  upon  the  Provi- 
dence of  God,  and  make  pretences  to 
break  known  rules  by. 

CROMWELL. — Speech,  Sept.  12,  1654. 

Necessity  makes  an  honest  man  a  knave. 
DEFOE. — Robinson  Crusoe. 

So  spake  the  fiend,  and  with  necessity, 
The   tyrant's  plea,   excused   his   devilish 
deeds. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  393. 

Necessity  is  the  plea  for  every  infringe- 
ment of  human  freedom.  It  is  the  argu- 
ment of  tyrants  ;  it  is  the  creed  of  slaves. 

WM.  PITT.— Speech,  1783. 

There  is  no  necessity  to  live  in  necessity. 
SENECA. — Ep.  58. 

There  is  no  virtue  like  necessity. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  3. 

Necessity,  thou  mother  of  the  world  ! 
SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab,  c.  6. 

Necessity,  thou  tyrant  conscience  of  the 
great !  SWIFT. — Ode  to  Bancroft. 

Wit's  whetstone,   Want,   there  made   us 
quickly  learn. 
JOHN  TAYLOR. — Penniless  Pilgrimage. 

NEGLECT 

On  Butler  who  can  think  without  just  rage? 
The  glory  and  the  scandal  of  the  age  ! 

J.  OLDHAM. — A  Satire,  175. 

The  wretch,  at  summing  up  his  misspent 

days, 

Found  nothing  left  but  poverty  and  praise. 
J.  OLDHAM. — Ib.,  182. 

O  negligence, 
Fit  for  a  fool  to  fall  by  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

Ah  me  !  how  sorely  is  my  heart  forlorn, 
To  think  how  modest  worth  neglected 
lies,         SHENSTONE, — Schoolmistress. 


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NEGROES 

Our  Captain  counts  the  image  of  God, 
nevertheless  his  image,  cut  in  ebony,  as  if 
done  in  ivory. 

FULLER. — The  Good  Sea-Captain. 

NEIGHBOURS 

A  bad  neighbour  is  as  great  an  evil  as  a 
good  neighbour  is  an  advantage.  HESIOD. 

Surely  it  is  your  concern  when  the  wall 
of  your  neighbour's  house  is  burning  ;  fire 
neglected  is  apt  to  gain  in  power. 

HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i,  18,  84. 

There  is  no  being  alone  but  in  a  metro- 
polis. The  worst  place  in  the  world  to  find 
solitude  is  the  country.  Questions  grow 
there,  and  that  unpleasant  Christian  com- 
modity, neighbours. 

HORACE  WALPOLE. — Letter. 

A  hedge  between  keeps  friendship  green. 

Prov. 

Love  'your  neighbour,  yet  pull  not  down 
your  hedge.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

NEMESIS 

The  sword  of  heaven  is  not  in  haste  to 

smite, 
Nor  yet  doth  linger. 

H.  F.  CARY. — Dante's  "  Paradise" 

C.  22,  l6. 

No  less  he  knows 

The  day  fast  comes  when  all  men  must  de- 
part 

And  pay  for  present  pride  in  future  woes. 
The  deeds  that  frantic  mortals  do 
In  this  disordered  nook  of  Jove's  domain 
All  meet  their  meed. 

PINDAR. — Olympian  Odes,  2,  105 
(Moore  tr.). 
NEUTRALITY 

Here  I  am  between  two  fires.  Shall  I  be 
an  honest  man  or  a  rogue  ?  I  think  it  is 
most  prudent  to  remain  neutral. 

E.  SCRIBE. — Cascaro  in  "  Les  Freres 
invisibles." 

Something   between    a   hindrance    and    a 
help.  WORDSWORTH. — Michael. 

NEVERMORE 

"  Take  thy  beak  from  out  my  heart,  and 

take  thy  form  from  off  my  door  !  " 
Quoth  the  Raven,  "  Nevermore." 

E.  A.  POE. — Raven. 
NEW  YEAR 

A  towmont,  sirs,  is  gane  to  wreck  ! 
O  Eighty-eight,  in  thy  sma'  space, 
What  dire  events  hae  taken  place  ! 
Of  what  enjoyments  thou  hast  reft  us  ! 
In  what  a  pickle  thou  hast  left  us  ! 

BURNS. — Elegy  on  1788. 


NEWS 


NEWSPAPERS 


For  hark  !    the  last  chime  of  the  dial  has 

ceased, 

And  Old  Time,  who,  his  leisure  to  cozen, 
Has  finished  the  Months,  like  the  flasks  at 

a  feast, 
Is  preparing  to  tap  a  fresh  dozen  ! 

HOOD.  —  The  New  Year. 

Each  age  has  deemed  the  new-born  year 
The  fittest  time  for  festal  cheer. 

SCOTT.  —  Marmion,  c.  6,  Intro. 

Ring  out  the  old,  ring  in  the  new, 
Ring,  happy  bells,  across  the  snow  ; 
The  year  is  going  ;  let  him  go  ; 

Ring  out  the  false,  ring  in  the  true. 

TENNYSON.  —  In  Memoriam,  c.  106. 

NEWS 

111  news  hath  wings,  and  with  the  wind  doth 

go; 

Comfort's  a  cripple,  and  comes  ever  slow. 
DRAYTON.  —  Barons'  Wars,  Bk.  2,  28. 

Where  village  statesmen  talked  with  looks 

profound, 

And  news,  much  older  than  their  ale,  went 
round.   GOLDSMITH.  —  Deserted  Village. 

And  are  ye  sure  the  news  is  true  ? 

And  are  ye  sure  he's  weel  ? 

W.  J.  MICKLE.  —  Song. 
For  evil  news  rides  post,  while  good  news 

baits.       MILTON.  —  Samson  A  gonistes, 
1.  1538. 

Even  such  a  man,  so  faint,  so  spiritless, 
So  dull,  so  dead  in  look,  so  woe-begone, 
Drew  Priam's  curtain  in  the  dead  of  night, 
And  would  have  told  him  half  his  Troy  was 

burned. 
SHAKESPEARE.  —  Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  i,  i. 

Yet  the  first  bringer  of  unwelcome  news 
Hath  but  a  losing  office  ;  and  his  tongue 
Sounds  ever  after  as  a  sullen  bell, 
Remembered  knolling  a  departed  friend. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Ib. 

Here  are  a  few  of  the  unpleasant'st  words 

That  ever  blotted  paper. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Mercht.  of  Venice,  Act  3,  2. 

The  messenger  of  good  news  is  always 
an  object  of  benevolence  .  .  .  No  one  envies 
his  reward,  though  no  one  pretends  to  say 
that  he  has  deserved  it. 

SYDNEY  SMITH.  —  Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  22. 

The  times  are  big  with  tidings. 

SOUTHEY.  —  Roderick. 

How  beautiful  upon  the  mountains  are 
the  feet  of  him  that  bringeth  good  tidings, 
that  publisheth  peace.  Isaiah  lii,  7. 

As  cold  waters  to  a  thirsty  sou),  so  is 
good  news  from  a  far  country. 

Proverbs  xxv,  25. 


NEWSPAPERS 

If  there's  a  hole  in  a'  your  coats, 

I  rede  you  tent  it ; 
A  chiel's  amang  you  takin'  notes, 

And,  faith,  he'll  prent  it ! 
BURNS. — On  Capt.  Grose's  Peregrinations. 

The  true  Church  of  England,  at  this  mo- 
ment, lies  in  the  Editors  of  its  newspapers. 
CARLYLE. — Signs  of  the  Times. 

This  folio  of  four  pages,  happy  work  ! 
Which  not  even  critics  criticise. 

COWPER. — Winter  Evening. 

The  tyrant  on  the  throne 

Is  the  morning  and  evening  press. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — New  Year's  Day. 

Then  hail  to  the  Press  !  chosen  guardian  of 
freedom  ! 

Strong  sword-arm  of  justice  !   bright  sun- 
beam of  truth  ! 

HORACE  GREELEY. — The  Press. 

News,  the  manna  of  a  day. 

MATTHEW  GREEN. —  Spleen,   169. 

A  reply  to  a  newspaper  attack  resembles 
very  much  the  attempt  of  Hercules  to  crop 
the  Hydra,  without  the  slightest  chance  of 
his  ultimate  success. 
THEOD.  HOOK. — Gilbert  Gurney,  vol.  2,  ch.  i. 

The  liberty  of  the  press  is  the  palladium 
of  all  the  civil,  political,  and  religious  rights 
of  an  Englishman.  JUNIUS. — Dedication. 

He  hath  sold  his  heart  to  the  old  Black  Art, 
We  call  the  daily  Press. 

KIPLING. — The  Press. 

Newspapers  always  excite  curiosity.  No 
one  ever  lays  one  down  without  a  feeling 
of  disappointment. 

LAMB. — Thoughts  on  Books, 

The  gallery  in  which  the  reporters  sit  has 
become  a  fourth  estate  of  the  realm. 

MACAULAY. — On  Hallam. 

Can  it  be  maintained  that  a  person  of 
any  education  can  learn  anything  worth 
knowing  from  a  penny  paper  ? 

MARQUIS  OF  SALISBURY. — Speech,  1861. 

Newspapers  are  the  Bibles  of  worldlings. 

How  diligently  they  read  them  !  Here  they 

find  then-  law  and  profits,  their  judges  and 

chronicles,  their  epistles  and  revelations. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

Here  shall  the  Press  the  People's  right 

maintain, 

Unawed  by  influence  and  unbribed  by  gain. 
JOSEPH  STORY. — Salem  Register. 

The  Pall  Mall  Gazette  is  written  by  gen- 
tlemen for  gentlemen. 

THACKERAY. — Pendennis,  Bk.  i,  ch.  32. 


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NICKNAMES 


NIGHTINGALE 


It  [yellow  journalism]  means,  according 
to  my  belief,  a  newspaper  which  glows  with 
the  colour  of  sunshine  and  throws  light 
into  dark  places. 

ELLA  WHEELER  WILCOX. — The  Worlds 

and  I. 

In  old  days  men  had  the  rack.  Now 
they  have  the  press. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  under 
Socialism. 
NICKNAMES 

His  intimate  friends  called  him  "  Candle- 
ends," 
And  his  enemies,  "  Toasted-cheese." 

C.  L.  DODGSON. — Hunting  of  the 
Snark. 

Of  all  eloquence  a  nickname  is  the  most 
concise  ;  of  all  arguments  the  most  un- 
answerable. HAZLITT. — Nicknames. 

Nicknames  and  whippings,  when  they 
are  once  laid  on,  no  one  has  discovered  how 
to  take  off. 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Imag.  Conversations, 
Du  Paty. 

Then    you  can  call   me  "  Timbertoes," — 

thet's  wut  the  people  likes  ; 
Sutthin'     combinin'    morril    truth    with 

phrases  sech  ez  strikes. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Billow  Papers,  No.  8. 

A  nickname  is  the  hardest  stone  that 
the  devil  can  throw  at  a  man. 

Quoted  by  Hazlitt  in  "  Essay  on 
Nicknames." 

Sticks  an'  stanes  may  break  my  banes, 
But  names  will  never  hurt  me. 

Scottish  prov. 
NIGGARDLINESS 

That  man  may  last,  but  never  lives, 
Who  much  receives  but  nothing  gives  ; 
Whom  none  can  love,  whom  none  can 

thank, 
Creation's  blot,  creation's  blank. 

THOS.  GIBBONS. — When  Jesus  dwelt. 

Never  was  scraper  brave  man.   Get  to  live  ; 
Then  live  and  use  it. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Thou  shalt  not  muzzle  the  ox  when  he 
treadeth  out  the  corn.  Deut.  xxv,  4. 

NIGHT 

And  the  sentinel  stars  set  their  watch  in 
the  sky. 

CAMPBELL. — Soldier's  Dream. 

Night,  with  her  train  of  stars, 
And  her  great  gift  of  sleep. 

W.  E.  HENLEV. — Margarita  Sorori. 

And  all  the  little  birds  had  laid  their  heads 

Under  their  wings,  sleeping  in  feather-beds. 

HOOD. — Bianca's  Dream. 


God  makes  sech  nights,  all  white  and  still 
Fur  'z  you  can  look  or  listen. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,   2nd 
Series,  The  Courtin'. 

Sable-vested  Night,  eldest  of  things. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  962. 

'Tis  never  too  late  for  delight,  my  dear, 

And  the  best  of  all  ways 

To  lengthen  our  days 

Is  to  steal  a  few  hours  from  the  night,  my 
dear.  MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Oft  in  the  stilly  night 

Ere  slumber's  chain  has  bound  me. 

MOORE. — Song. 

In  complete  steel, 

Revisit'st  thus  the  glimpses  of  the  moon, 
Making  night  hideous. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

'Tis  now  the  very  witching  time  of  night, 
When  churchyards  yawn,  and  hell  itself 

breathes  out 
Contagion.       SHAKESPEARE — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

Let  us  be  Diana's  foresters,  gentlemen  of 
the  shade,  minions  of  the  moon. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

Soft  stillness  and  the  night 
Become  the  touches  of  sweet  harmony. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Mercht.  of  Venice, 
Act  5,  i 

O  comfort-killing  night,  image  of  hell ! 
Dim  register  and  notary  of  shame  ! 
Black  stage  for  tragedies  and  murders  fell  ! 
Vast  sin-concealing  chaos  !  nurse  of  blame  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  no. 

Ne'er  saw  I,  never  felt,  a  calm  so  deep  ! 
The  river  glideth  at  his  own  sweet  will ; 
Dear  God  !  the  very  houses  seem  asleep, 
And  all  that  mighty  heart  is  lying  still. 
WORDSWORTH. — Westminster  Bridge. 

Creation  sleeps.  'Tis,  as  the  general  pulse 
Of  life  stood  still,  and  Nature  made  a  pause  ; 
An  awful  pause  !  prophetic  of  her  end. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i. 

By  night  an  atheist  half  believes  in  God. 
YOUNG. — Ib.,  5. 

Night  is  a  good  herdsman  :    she  brings 
all  creatures  home.  Gaelic  prov. 

NIGHTINGALE 

Like  to  that  tawny  one, 
Insatiate  in  her  wail, 

The  nightingale,  who  still  with  sorrowing 
soul 

And  "  Itys,  Itys  "  cry, 
Bemoans  a  life  o'erflourishing  in  ills. 

/ESCHYLUS, — Agamemnon,  1141 
(Plumptre  tr.). 


3  8 


NOBILITY 


NONENTITIES 


Ah,  for  the  doom  of  clear-voiced  nightin- 
gale ! 

The  Gods  gave  her  a  body  bearing  wings, 
And  life  of  pleasant  days 
With  no  fresh  cause  to  weep. 
/ESCHYLUS. — Ib.,  1146  (Plumplre  tr.). 

The  nightingale  among  the   thick-leaved 

spring 

That  sits  alone  in  sorrow,  and  doth  sing 
Whole  nights  away  in  mourning. 
FLETCHER. — Faithful  Shepherdess,  Act  5. 

Sweet  bird  that  shunn'st  the  noise  of  folly, 
Most  musical,  most  melancholy. 

MILTON. — //  Penseroso,  b.  61. 

All  but  the  wakeful  nightingale  ; 
She  all  night  long  her  amorous  descant 

sung  ; 
Silence  was  pleased. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  602. 

But  she  [the  "  mother  nightingale  "]  sup- 
plies the  night  with  mournful  strains, 
And  melancholy  music  fills  the  plains. 
VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  4,  511  (Dryden  tr.). 

NOBILITY 

Nobility  of  birth  commonly  abateth  in- 
dustry. '  BACON. — Of  Nobility. 

Nobility  is  a  graceful  ornament  to  the 
civil  order.  It  is  the  Corinthian  capital  of 
polished  society. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  French 
Revolution. 

It  becomes  noblemen  to  do  nothing  well. 
CHAPMAN. — Gentleman  Usher. 

The  nose  of  nice  nobility. 

COWPER. — Time  Piece,  259. 

Great  families  of  yesterday  we  show, 

And  lords,  whose  parents  were    the  Lord 

knows  who. 
DEFOE. — True-Born  Englishman, Pt.  i,  374. 

Princes  and  lords  may  flourish,  or  may 

fade  ; 
A  breath  can  make  them,  as  a  breath  has 

made.    GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Virtue  is  the  one  and  only  nobility. 

JUVENAL. — Sat.  8. 

As  one  lamp  lights  another,  nor  grows  less, 
So  nobleness  enkindleth  nobleness. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Yussouf,  3. 

Let  wealth  and  commerce,  laws  and  learn- 
ing die, 
But  give  us  still  our  old  nobility. 

LORD  J.  MANNERS. — England's  Trust. 

"  My  nobility,"  said  Iphicrates  to  Har- 
modius,  "  begins  with  me  ;  yours  ends  with 
you."  PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 


This  was  the  noblest  Roman  of  them  all. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ceesar,  Act  5,  5. 

Howe'er  it  be,  it  seems  to  me 

'Tis  only  noble  to  be  good. 
Kind  hearts  are  more  than  coronet?, 

And  simple  faith  than  Norman  blood. 
TENNYSON. — Clara  Vere  de  Vere. 

Without  fear  and  without  reproach. 
Description  of  the  Chevalier  Bayard  (d.  1524 ). 

NOISE 

The  blast  that  blows  loudest  is  soon  over- 
blown.      SMOLLETT. — Reprisal,  Act  2. 

Music  is  the  sound  which  one's  own 
children  make  as  they  romp  through  the 
house.  Noise  is  the  sound  which  other 
people's  children  make  under  the  same  cir- 
cumstances. 

Given  as  a  Quotation  by  C.  H.  Sptirgeon, 
in  "  Salt-Cellars." 

NONAGENARIANS 

Fate  seemed  to  wind  him  up  for  fourscore 

years, 

Vet  freshly  ran  he  on  ten  winters  more  : 
Till,  like  a  clock  worn  out  with  eating  time, 
The  wheels  ot  weary  life  at  last  stood  still. 
DRYDEN. — CEdip'ts,  Act  4,  if 

NONCONFORMITY 

Whoso  would  be  a  man  must  be  a 
Nonconformist. 

EMERSON. — Self-Reliance. 

When  we  talk  of  non-conformity  it  may 
onlv  be  that  we  non-conform  to  the  im- 
mediate sect  of  thought  or  action  about  us, 
to  conform  to  a  much  wider  thing  in  human 
nature. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  2. 

NONENTITIES 

But  Tom's  no  more — and  so  no  more  of 
Tom.         BYRON. — Don  Juan,  n,  20. 

Some  men  were  born  for  great  things  ; 

Some  were  born  for  small  ; 
Some — it  is  not  recorded 

Why  they  were  born  at  all. 

W.  CARLETON. — Uncle  Sammy 

For  three-score  years  this  life  Cleora  led ; 
At  morn  she  rose,  at  night  she  went  to  bed 
COWPER. — On  a  Worthless  Old  Maid. 

Lord  of  oneself,  uncumbered  with  a  name 
DRYDEN. — Ep.  to  John  Driden,  18 

To  do  nothing  is  the  way  to  be  nothing 
DR.  N.  HOWE. — Proverbs: 

Unwept,  unnoted,  and  for  ever  dead. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  Hk.  5,  401. 


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NONSENSE 


NOVELTY 


It  is  a  terrible  advantage  to  have  done 
nothing  at  all,  but  it  is  not  right  to  abuse 
such  an  advantage.  DE  RIVAROL 

The  earth's  high  places  who  attain  to  fill 
By  most  indomitably  sitting  still. 

SIR  W.WATSON. — A  Political  Character. 

Find  in  the  golden  mean  their  proper  bliss, 
And  doing  nothing,  never  do  amiss ; 
But  lapt  in  men's  good  graces  live,  and  die 
By  all  regretted,  nobody  knows  why. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Ib. 

'Tis  infamy  to  die  and  not  be  missed. 

C.  WILCOX. — Religion  of  Taste. 

NONSENSE 

For  learned  nonsense  has  a  deeper  sound 
Than  easy  sense,  and  gees  for  more  pro- 
found. 

S.  BUTLER. — Upon  the  Abuse  of  Human 

Learning. 

For  daring  nonsense  seldom  fails  to  hit, 
Like  scattered  shot,  and  pass  with  some 
for  wit.     S.  BUTLER. — Modern  Critics. 

The  rest  to  some  faint  meaning  make  pre- 
tence, 
But  Shadwell  never  deviates  into  sense. 

DRYDEM. — MacFlecknoe,  19. 

And  such  a  deal  of  skimble-skamble  stuff 
As  puts  me  from  my  faith. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

Gratiano    speaks    an    infinite    deal    of 

nothing,  more  than  any  man  in  all  Venice. 

His  reasons  are  as  two  grains  of  wheat,  hid 

in  two  bushels  of  chaff.     You  shall  seek  all 

day  ere  you  find  them  ;  and  when  you  have 

found  them,  they  are  not  worth  the  search. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  i,  i. 

NOON 

With  twelve  great  shocks  of  sound,  the 
shameless  noon 

Was  clashed  and  hammered  from  a  hun- 
dred towers.  ^TENNYSON. — Godiva. 

NORTH,  THE 

The  pale  unripened  beauties  of  the  North. 
ADDISON. — Goto,  Act  i,  4. 

And  dark  and  true  and  tender  is  the  North. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  80. 

Out  of  the  North 
All  ill  comes  forth. 
Quoted  as  an  old  English  prov.  in  1588. 

NOSES 

When  I  want  good  headwork,  I  always 
choose  a  man,  if  otherwise  suitable,  with 
a  long  nose.  NAPOLEON. 


If  Cleopatra's  nose  had  been  shorter  the 
whole  face  of  the  world  would  have  been 
changed.  PASCAL. — Pensies,  Pt  1,9, 46. 

And  lightly  was  her  slender  nose 
Tip-tilted  like  the  petal  of  a  flower. 

TENNYSON. — Gareth,  577. 

Folks  wi*  lang  noses  aye  tak'  till  them- 
selves. Scottish  prov. 

NOTHING 

From  nothing  nothing  can  proceed,  and 
nothing  can  be  resolved  into  nothing. 

PERSIUS. — Sat.  3. 

Nothing !  thou  elder  brother  even  to  shade. 
EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — On  Nothing. 

NOTORIETY 

Sir,  if  they  should  cease  to  talk  of  me  I 
must  starve.  JOHNSON. — Remark,  1784. 

There  are  such  as  fain  would  be  the  worst 
Amongst  ah1  men,  since  best  they  cannot 

be, 
So  strong  is  that  wild  lie  that  men  call 

pride. 
W.  MORRIS. — HUl  of  Venus,  st.  184. 

It  is  a  fine  thing  to  be  pointed  at  with  the 
finger,  and  to  hear  people  saying,  "  That's 
he  !  "  PERSIUS. — Sat.  i,  28. 

As  industry  has  brought  others  to  fame, 
so  knavery  has  brought  this  man. 

TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  16,  18. 

Peregrinus  is  content  as  long  as  people 
talk  of  Peregrinus.  Jean  Jacques'FRous- 
seau]  would  be  charmed  to  be  hanged, 
provided  that  they  put  his  name  in  the 
sentence.  VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to 

dJAlembert,Jan.  15,  1765. 
NOVELTY 

To  innovate  is  not  to  reform. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord. 

There  is  no  new  thing  under  the  sun. 
Perhaps  that  sun  himself,  which  now 
beams  so  impressively,  is  only  an  old 
warmed-up  jest.  HEINE. — Confessions. 

It  is  the  customary  fate  of  new  truths, 
to  begin  as  heresies,  and  to  end  as  super- 
stitions. T.  H.  HUXLEY. — Science  and 

Culture. 

New  opinions  are  always  suspected,  and 

usually  opposed,  without  any  other  reason 

but  because  they  are  not  already  common. 

LOCKE. — Human  Understanding: 

Dedicatory  Epistle. 

It  is  the  nature  of  man  to  be  greedy  for 
novelty.  PLINY  THE  ELDER. 

New  faces  and  new  ties 
Wash  away  old  memories. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Sales  Attici. 


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NOVEMBER 


OBEDIENCE 


The  one  thing  that  the  public  dislike  is 

novelty.        OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man 

under  Socialism. 

Under  the  sun 

There's  nothing  new  ; 
Poem  or  pun, 
Under  the  sun, 
Said  Solomon, 

And  he  said  true 
Under  the  sun 
There's  nothing  new. 
ANON. — Triolet  (Love  in  Idleness). 

NOVEMBER 

Oh  !  for  a  day  of  a  burning  noon, 
And  a  sun  like  a  glowing  ember, 

Oh  !  for  one  hour  of  golden  June 
In  the  heart  of  this  chill  November  ! 
LORD  ALFRED  DOUGLAS. — In  Winter. 

No  warmth,  no  cheerfulness,  no  healthful 

ease — 

No  comfortable  feel  in  any  member — 
No  shade,  no  shine,  no  butterflies,  no  bees, 
No  fruits,  no  flowers,  no  leaves,  no  birds, 
No-vember  ! 

HOOD.— No!  (1844). 

The  month  was  November, 
And  the  weather  a  subject  for  prayer. 

E.  NESBIT. — Unofficial. 

November's  sky  is  chill  and  drear, 
November's  leaf  is  red  and  sear. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  Introd. 
NUMBER 

A   few   honest    men    are    better    than 
numbers.  CROMWELL. — Letter,  1643. 

And  if  you  want  it  he  makes  a  reduction 
on  taking  a  quantity. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Sorcerer. 

As  thick  and  numberless 
As  the  gay  motes  that  people  the  sunbeams. 
MILTON. — II  Penscroso. 

Thick  as  autumnal  leaves  that  strew  the 

brooks 
In  Vallombrosa. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  302. 

But  Hercules  himself  must  yield  to  odds  ; 
And  many  strokes,  though  with  a  little  axe, 
Hew  down  and  fell  the  hardest  timbered 

oak. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  3,  Act  2,  i. 

They  say  that  God  is  always  for  the  big 
battalions.  VOLTAIRE. — Letter,  1770. 

My  name  is  Legion  :  for  we  are  many. 

St.  Mark  v,  9. 

NUMISMATICS 

To  have  a  relish  for  ancient  coins  it  is 
necessary  to  have  a  contempt  for  the 
modern.  ADDISON. — Ancient  Medals. 


NUNS 

Her  hopes,  her  fears,  her  joys  were  all 
Bounded  within  the  cloister  wall. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  2,  3 


o 

OAK 

The  builder  oake,  sole  king  of  forests  all. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  i,  8. 

OATHS 

Some  fresh  new  othe  that  is  not  stale, 
but  will  rin  round  in  the  mouth. 

R.  ASCHAM. — Scholemasler. 

Oaths  are  but  words,  and  words  but  wind. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  2. 

You  may  depend  upon  it,  the  more  oath- 
taking,  the  more  lying  generally  among 
the  people.  COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk 

(1830). 
Oaths   terminate,    as   Paul   observes,    all 

strife  ; 

Some  men  have  surely  then  a  peaceful  life. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  55. 

I'm  Gormed — and  I  can't  say  no  fairer 

than  that !     DICKENS. — David  Copperfield 

(Mr.  Peggotty),  ch.  63. 

"  I'll  take  my  world-without-end  ever- 
lasting Alfred  David,"  answered  Riderhood. 
DICKENS. — Our  Mutual  Friend,  Bk.  2,  ch.iz 

A  woman's  oaths  are  wafers,  break  with 
making. 
FLETCHER. — Chances  (1625),  Act  2,  r. 

When  thou  dost  tell  another's  jest,  therein 

Omit  the  oaths,  which  true  wit  cannot  need. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

A  good  mouth-filling  oath. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

That  in  the  captain  *s  but  a  choleric  word, 
Which  in  the  solaier  is  flat  blasphemy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure t 
Act  2,  2. 

Dp  not  swear  at  all ; 

Or,  if  thou  wilt,  swear  by  thy  gracious  self, 
Which  is  the  god  of  my  idolatry. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  2. 

Rather  too  close  an  imitation  of  that 
language  which  is  used  in  the  apostolic 
occupation  of  trafficking  in  fish. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Third,  Letter  to  Arch- 
deacon Singleton. 

OBEDIENCE 

Obedience  is  the  mother  of  success,  the 
wife  of  safety.  /ESCHYLUS. — Septem  Duces. 


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OBLIVION 


OBSCURITY  (OF  LIFE,  ETC.) 


Only  obedience  can  be  great ; 

It  brings  the  golden  age  again. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Ballad  of  a  Workman. 

For  who  is  bounden,  he  must  bowe  ; 
So  will  I  bowe  unto  your  best. 

GOWEK. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  2. 

OBLIVION 

Therefore  eternal  silence  be  their  doom ! 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  6,  385. 

But  when  the  prosperous  hour  returns, 
O'er  woes  long  wept  Oblivion  softly  lays 
Her  shadowy  veil. 

PINDAR. — Olympian  Odes,  2,  34 
(Moore  tr.). 

You'll  be  forgotten,  as  old  debts 
By  persons  who  are  used  to  borrow. 
W.  M.  PRAED. — Portrait  of  a  Lady. 

A  name  to  be  washed  out  with  all  men's 
tears.  SWINBURNE. — Atalanta 

Out  of  the  world's  way,  out  of  the  light, 
Out  of  the  ages  of  worldly  weather, 
Forgotten  of  all  men  altogether. 

SWINBURNE. — Triumph  of  Time. 

Oblivion,  the  cold  shadow  of  dead  hope. 
F.  TENNYSON. — Anaktoria,  2,  184. 

One  Caesar  lives  :  a  thousand  are  forgot. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

OBSCURITY      (OF     LANGUAGE     OR 
THOUGHT) 

In  the  natural  fog  of  the  good  man's  mind. 
BROWNING. — Christmas, Eve,  c.  4. 

Obscurity   illustrated    by   further  ob- 
scurity. BURKE. — Impeachment  of 
Hastings,  May,  1798. 

Darkness  is  more  productive  of  sublime 
ideas  than  light. 
BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

What  is  clear  is  wise,  but  what  is  not 
clear  is  not  wise.  EURIPIDES. — Orestes,  397. 

Labouring  to  be  brief,  I  become  obscure. 
HORACE. — De  Arte  Poelica. 

Whoever  wrote  it  could,  if  he  chose, 
make  himself  understood ;  but  'tis  the 
letter  of  an  embarrassed  man,  sir. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  (to  Mrs.  Piozzi) 
concerning  a  letter  difficult  to  interpret. 

A  great  interpreter  of  life  ought  not  him- 
self to  need  interpretation. 
LORD  MORLEY. — Miscellanies:  Emerson. 

Where  I  am  not  understood,  it  shall  be 
concluded  that  something  very  useful  and 
profound  is  couched  underneath. 

SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub,  Preface. 


Abstruse  questions  must  have  abstruse 
answers. 

Philosopher's  reply  to  Alexander  (according 
to  Plutarch). 

That  must  be  fine,  for  I  cannot  under- 
stand a  word  of  it. 

French  prov.,  see  Moliere,  "  Mtdecin 
malgrt  lui,"  Act  2,5. 

OBSCURITY  (OF  LIFE,  ETC.) 
While  glory  crowns  so  many  a  meaner  crest. 
What  hadst  thou  done  to  sink  so  peace- 
fully to  rest  ? 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  r,  91 . 

Ah,  reader,  ere  you  turn  the  page, 

I  leave  you  this  for  Moral, — 
Remember  those  who  tread  Life's  stage 
With  weary  feet  and  scantest  wage, 
And.ne'er  a  leaf  for  laurel. 
AUSTIN  DOBSON. — Before  the  Curtain. 

But  knowledge  to  their  eyes  her  ample 

page, 
Rich  with  the  spoils  of  time,  did  ne'er 

unroll ; 

Chill  penury  repressed  their  noble  rage, 
And  froze  the  genial  current  of  the  soul. 
GRAY. — Elegy . 

Let  not  ambition  mock  their  useful  toil, 

Their  homely  joys  and  destiny  obscure  ; 
Nor    grandeur    hear,    with    a    disdainful 

smile, 

The  short  and  simple  annals  of  the  poor. 
GRAY. — Ib. 

Full  many  a  gem  of  purest  ray  serene 
The  dark,  unfathomed  caves  of  ocean 

bear  ; 

Full  many  a  flower  is  born  to  blush  unseen 

And  waste  its  sweetness  on  the  desert 

air.  GRAY. — Ib. 

Some  village  Hampden,  that  with  daunt- 
less breast 

The  little  tyrant  of  his  fields  withstood  ; 
Some  mute,  inglorious  Milton  here  may 

rest, 

Some  Cromwell,  guiltless  of  his  country's 
blood.  GRAY. — Ib. 

Deeds 

Above  heroic,  though  in  secret  done, 
And  unrecorded  left  in  many  an  age. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  14. 

And   passed   content,  leaving   to   us   the 
pride 

Of  lives  obscurely  great. 
SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Minora  Sidera. 

Thus  let  me  live,  unseen,  unknown, 
Thus  unlamented  let  me  die, 

Steal  from  the  world,  and  not  a  stone 
Tell  where  I  lie. 

POPE. — Ode  on  Solitude 


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OBSERVATION 


OBSERVATION 


Men  who  lived  and  died  without  a  name, 
Are  the  chief  heroes  in  the  sacred  list  of 
fame. 

SWIFT. — To  the  Athenian  Society. 

Others  too, 

There  are  among  the  walks  of  homely  life, 
Still  higher,  men  for  contemplation  framed, 
Shy,  and  unpractised  in  the  strife  of  phrase, 

Words  are  but  under-agents  in  their  souls. 
.WORDSWORTH. — Postscript    (to  Preface) 

(1835). 

God,  who  feeds  our  hearts 
For  his  own  service,  knoweth,  loveth  us, 
When  we  are  unregarded  by  the  world. 

WORDSWORTH. — 76. 

OBSERVATION 

Not  deep  the  poet  sees,  but  wide. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Resignation. 

He  learns  the  look  of  things,  and  none  the 

less 
For  admonition  from  the  hunger-pinch. 

BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo  Lippi. 

I'm  eyes,  ears,  mouth  of  me,  one  gaze  and 

gape, 

Nothing  eludes  me,  everything's  a  hint, 
Handle,  and  help. 

BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

Still  he  beheld,  nor  mingled  with  the  throng, 
But  viewed  them  not  with   misanthropic 
hate. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  84. 

He  had   the  skill,  when   Cunning's   gaze 

would  seek 
To  probe  his  heart  and  watch  his  changing 

cheek, 

At  once  the  observer's  purpose  to  espy, 
And  on  himself  roll  back  the  scrutiny. 

BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  9. 

Stolen  glances,  sweeter  for  the  theft. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  st.  74. 

Men  are  born  with  two  eyes,  but  with 
one  tongue,  in  order  that  they  should  see 
twice  as  much  as  they  say. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Here  the  heart 

May  give  a  useful  lesson  to  the  head, 
And  learning  wiser  grow  without  his  books. 
COWPER. — Winter  Walk  at  Noon,  85. 

He   listens   to   good    purpose   who    takes 
note. 

DANTE. — Hell,  c.  15,   100 
(Carytr.). 

"  He's  got  his  eyes  on  me  !  "  cried  Stagg. 
"  I  feel  'em,  though  I  can't  see  'em.  Take 
'em  off,  noble  captain.  Remove  'em,  for 
they  pierce  like  gimlets." 

DICKENS. — Barnaby  Rudge,  c.  8. 


When  found,  make  a  note  of.  [Captain 
Cuttle.] 

DICKENS. — Dombey  and  Son,  ch.  15. 

"  Yes,  I  have  a  pair  of  eyes,"  replied 
Sam,  "  and  that's  just  it.  If  they  wos  a 
pair  of  patent  double  million  magnifyin" 
gas  microscopes  of  hextra  power,  p'raps 
I  might  be  able  to  see  through  a  flight  o* 
stairs  and  a  deal  door  ;  but  bein'  only  eyes, 
you  see,  my  wision's  limited." 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  34 

The  difference  between  landscape  and 
landscape  is  small ;  but  there  is  a  great 
difference  between  the  beholders. 

EMERSON. — Nature. 

It'  you  would  learn  to  write,  'tis  in  the 
street  you  must  learn  it. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

One  man  does  not  see  everything. 

EURIPIDES. — Phcenissa. 

Without  doubt  beauty  is  to  be  found 
everywhere  :  but  it  needs  an  artist  to  see 
it,  and. to  understand  it. 

IBSEN. — Love's  Comedy,  Art  3  (1862). 

I  describe  not  men,  but  manners ;  not 
an  individual,  but  a  species. 

FIELDING. — Joseph  Andrews,  Bk.  3,  c.  I. 

Let  observation,  with  extensive  view, 
Survey  mankind  from  China  to  Peru. 

JOHNSON. — Vanity  of  Human 
Wishes. 

Some  are  more  strongly  affected  by  the 
facts  of  human  life  ;  others  by  the  beauty 
of  earth  and  sky. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  31 
(£.  K.  Francis  lr.). 

His  vigorous  and  active  mind  was  hurled 
Beyond  the  flaming  limits  of  this  world, 
Into  the  mighty  space,  and  there  did  see 
How  things  begin,  what  can,  what  cannot 

be. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  i,  73 
(Creech  tr.)     (Of  Epicurus). 

From  such  like  thoughts  I  mighty  pleasure 

find, 

And  silently  admire  thy  strength  of  mind, 
By  whose  one  single  force,  to  curious  eyes, 
All  naked  and  exposed  whole  Nature  lies. 
LUCRETIUS. — 76.,  3,  28. 

He  who  has  looked  upon  earth 
Deeper  than  flower  and  fruit, 
Losing  some  hue  of  his  mirth, 
As  the  tree  striking  rock  at  the  root. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Day  of  the  Daughter  of 

Hades. 

For  him  there's  a  story  in  every  breeze, 
And  a  picture  in  every  wave. 
MOORE. — Boat  Glee  (from  "  M.P.  ;  or  the 
Blue-Stocking  ")_ 


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OCTOBER 


And  yet  the  fate,  of  all  extremes  is  such, 
Men  may  be  read,  as  well  as  books,  too 
much.     POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  i,  9. 

For  he  is  but  a  bastard  to  the  time, 
That  doth  not  smack  of  observation. 

SHAKESPEARE. — K.  John,  Act  i,  i. 

The  harvest  of  a  quiet  eye 

That  broods  and  sleeps  on  his  own  heart. 

WORDSWORTH. — A  Poet's  Epitaph. 

Vain  is  the  glory  of  the  sky, 
The  beauty  vain  of  field  and  grove, 
Unless,  while  with  admiring  eye 
We  gaze,  we  also  learn  to  love. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  of  the  Fancy, 
No.  20. 

O  let  me  gaze  !  Of  gazing  there's  no  end. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  9. 

Seeing  many  things,  but  thou  observest 
not.  Isaiah  xlii,  20. 

Where  I  look  I  like,  and  where  I  like  I 
love. 
Saying  quoted  by  R.  BURTON,  Anal.  Melan. 

OBSESSION 

Mr.  Dick  had  been  for  upwards  of  ten 
years  endeavouring  to  keep  King  Charles 
the  First  out  of  the  Memorial ;  but  he  had 
been  constantly  getting  into  it,  and  was 
there  now.  DICKENS.— Copper  field,  ch.  15. 

His  name  in  my  ear  was  ever  ringing  ; 
His  form  to  my  brain  was  ever  clinging. 
SHELLEY. — Rosalind. 

OBSTINACY 

The  man  who  never  alters  his  opinion 
is  like  standing  water,  and  breeds  reptiles 
of  the  mind. 
W.  BLAKE. — Marriage  of  Heaven  and  Hell. 

And  obstinacy's  ne'er  so  stiff 
As  when  'tis  in  a  wrong  belief. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  2. 

Wilful  will  do't,  that's  the  word. 
CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World,  Act  4,  2 
(Sir  Wilfull  Witwould). 

Where  Obstinacy  takes  his  sturdy  stand 
To  disconcert  what  Policy  has  planned. 

COWPER. — Expostulation,  298. 

The   gods   that   unrelenting   breast  have 

steeled 
And  cursed  thee  with  a  mind  that  cannot 

yield.  POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  9,  749. 

As  headstrong  as  an  allegory  on  the 
banks  of  the  Nile. 

SHERIDAN. — Rivals,  Act  5,  3  (Mrs. 
Malaprop) . 


There  is  nothing  gained  by  arguing  with 
an  enthusiast.  It  is  no  good  trying  to  tell 
a  man  the  faults  of  his  mistress,  or  to  con- 
vince a  litigant  of  the  weakness  of  his  case, 
or  to  give  reasons  to  a  devotee. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

The  crest  of  the  southern  English  is  a 
hog,  and  their  motto  is  "  We  won't  be 
druv."  Saying  (quoted  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon). 

OBVIOUS,  THE 

What  need  of  books  these  truths  to  tell, 
Which  folks  perceive  who  cannot  spell  ? 
And  must  we  spectacles  apply, 
To  view  what  hurts  our  naked  eye  ? 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  3,  590. 

There  needs  no  ghost,  my  lord,  come  from 

the  grave 
To  tell  us  this. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

An  obvious  case  carries  its  own  decision. 
PUBLII.IUS  SYRUS. 

OCCUPATIONS 

I  hold  every  man  a  debtor  to  his  pro- 
fession. 

BACON. — Elements  of  Common  Law. 

Business  whets  the  appetite  and  gives 
a  taste  to  pleasures,  as  exercise  does  to 
food. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

For  this  of  old  is  sure, 
That  change  of  toil  is  toil's  sufficient  cure. 
SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Love  in  Death. 

Hath  this  fellow  no  feeling  of  his  business  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i . 

Farewell  !  Othello's  occupation's  gone  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

A  man  who  has  no  office  to  go  to — I 
don't  care  who  he  is — is  a  trial  of  which 
you  can  have  no  conception. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  18. 

Did  I  not  give  you  ten,  then  fifteen,  now 
twenty  shillings  a  week  to  be  sorrowful  ? 
And  the  more  I  give  you,  I  think  the 
gladder  you  are. 

STEELE. — Funeral,  Act  i,  sc.  i  [Sable, 
the  undertaker,  to  his  man], 

There  is  no  need  for  a  sculptor  to  be  him- 
self made  of  marble.  French  saying. 

OCTOBER 

Hail,  old  October,  bright  and  chill, 
First  freedman  from  the  summer  sun  ! 
Spice  high  the  bowl  and  drink  your  fill ! 
Thank  heaven,  at  last  the  summer's  done  ! 
REV.  THOS.  CONSTABLE. — Old  October. 


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Then  came  October,  full  of  merry  glee, 
For  yet  his  noule  was  totty  of  the  must, 
[his  head  was  unsteady  from  the  wine- 
juice.] 

SPENSER. — Of  Mutabilitie,  c.  7,  39  (Oc- 
tober was  anciently  called  "  Wine-month"). 

ODD  NUMBERS 

They  say  there  is  divinity  in  odd  num- 
bers, either  in  nativity,  chance,  or  death. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  5,  i. 

Unequal  numbers  please  the  gods. 

VIRGIL. — Pastoral  8  (Dry den  tr.). 

ODOURS 

Virtue  is  like  precious  odours,  most  fra- 
grant when  they  are  incensed  and  crushed. 
BACON. — Of  Adversity. 

Sabean  odours  from  the  spicy  shore 
Of  Araby  the  blest. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  162. 

The  good  are  better  made  by  ill, 
As  odours  crushed  are  sweeter  still. 

ROGERS. — Jacqueline,  Pt.  3. 

OFFENCES 

O !  my  offence  is  rank,  it  smells  to  heaven. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  3. 

And  where  the  offence  is  let  the  great  axe 
fall.        SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  5. 

Raise  no  more  spirits  than  you  are  able 
to  lay.  Prov.  (Ray.) 

OFFICE  (PUBLIC) 

O  Athenians,  what  toil  do  I  undergo  to 
please  you  ! 

ALEXANDER  THE  GREAT. — (Quoted  by 
Carlyle.) 

Men  in  great  place  are  thrice  servants. 
BACON. — Of  Great  Place. 

All  countries  are  a  wise  man's  home, 
And  so  are  governments  to  some. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  2. 

Upon  my  soul,  you  mustn't  come  into 
this  place  saying  you  want  to  know,  you 
know. 

DICKENS. — Little  Dorrit,  PI.  i,  ch.  10. 

Taper  and  Tadpole  were  great  friends. 
Neither  of  them  ever  despaired  of  the 
Commonweal  th . 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  i,  ch  i. 

Stick  close  to  your  desks,  and  never  go  to 

sea, 
And  you  all  may  be  rulers  of  the  Queen's 

Navee. 
SIR  VV.  S.  GILBERT.— H.M.S.  Pinafore. 


Great  positions  render  great  men  still 
greater  ;  small  positions  make  little  men 
smaller.  LA  BRUYERE. — De  I'Homme,  95. 

The  proverb  says  true :  "  Leave  the  court 
and  the  court  will  leave  you."     So  is  it 
•  with  me. 

MALORY. — -Morte  d' Arthur  (Sir  Gawain  to 

Merlin). 

The  insolence  of  office,  and  the  spurns 
Which  patient  merit  of  the  unworthy 
takes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

But  man,  proud  man  ! 
Drest  in  a  little  brief  authority, 
Most  ignorant  of  what  he's  most  assured, — 
His  glassy  essence, — like  an  angry  ape, 
Plays    such  fantastic  tricks  before  high 

heaven 
As  make  the  angels  weep. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  2,  2. 

We  shall  generally  find  that  the  tri- 
angular person  has  got  into  the  square  hole, 
the  oblong  into  the  triangular,  and  a  square 
person  has  squeezed  himself  into  the  round 
hole.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on 

Moral  Philosophy,  No.  9. 

OFFICIOUSNESS 

O  fate  of  fools  !  officious  in  contriving  ; 
In  executing  puzzled,  lajne  and  lost. 

CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  5,  i. 

Who  can  tell  the  mischief  which  the 
very  virtuous  do  ? 

THACKERAY. — Newcomes,  Bk.  i,  ch.  20. 

OLD  ACQUAINTANCE 

Should  auld  acquaintance  be  forgot, 

And  never  brought  to  min'  ? 
Should  auld  acquaintance  be  forgot, 

And  auld  lang  syne  ? 
BURNS. — Song  (founded  on  older  songs). 

Old  wood,  old  friends,  and  old  wine  are 
best.  Prov. 

Old  loves  and  old  brands  rekindle  sud- 
denly at  any  moment.  French  prov. 

OLD  AGE 

Old  age  is  charming,  but  what  a  mis- 
fortune that  it  lasts  so  short  a  time  ! 

EMILE  AUGIER. 

Men  of  age  object  too  much,  consult  too 

long,  adventure  too  little,  repent  too  soon. 

BACON. — Essays,  youth  and  Age 

John  Anderson,  my  jo,  John, 
We  clamb  the  hill  tbegither, 

And  mony  a  canty  day,  John, 
We've  had  wi*  one  anither  ; 


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OLD  AGE 


Now  we  maun  totter  down,  John, 
But  baud  in  hand  we'll  go, 

And  sleep  thegither  at  the  foot, 
John  Anderson,  my  jo. 

BURNS. — John  Anderson. 

I've  seen  sae  mony  changefu'  years, 
On  earth  I  am  a  stranger  grown  ; 

I  wander  in  the  ways  of  men, 
Alike  unknowing  and  unknown. 
BURNS. — Lament  for  James,  Earl  of 
Glencairn. 

'Tis  the  defect  of  age  to  rail  at  the 
pleasures  of  youth. 

MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — Basset  Table,  Act  i. 

As  sooth  is  sayd,  elde  hath  great  avantage  ; 

In  elde  is  bothe  wisdom  and  usage  [ex- 
perience] ; 

Men  may  the  olde  at-renne  [out-run],  and 
noght  at-rede  [surpass  in  counsel]. 
CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  I.  1589. 

Yet  in  our  asshen  olde  is  f  yr  y-reke. 

CHAUCER. — Reeve's  Prologue,  28. 

No  one  is  so  old  that  he  does  not  think 
h  e  has  a  year  to  live. 

CICERO. — De  Senectule,  7. 

I  am  very  thankful  to  old  age,  which  has 

increased  my  eager  desire  for  information. 

CICERO. — Ib.,  14. 

But  age  is  froward,  uneasy  scrutinous, 
Hard  to  be  pleased,  and  parsimonious. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Old  Age,  PL  3. 

These  are  the  effects  of  doting  age, 
Vain  doubts    and   idle    cares    and    over- 
caution.  DRYDEN. — Sebastian. 

Few  envy  the  consideration  enjoyed  by 
the  oldest  inhabitant. 

EMERSON. — Old  Age. 

The  creed  of  the  street  is,  Old  age  is 
not  disgraceful,  but  immensely  disadvan- 
tageous. EMERSON. — Ib. 

It  is  time  to  be  old, 
To  take  in  sail. 

EMERSON. — Terminus. 

His  head  was  silvered  o'er  with  age, 
And  long  experience  made  him  sage. 

GAY. — Fables :  Introduction. 

There  is  beauty  in  extreme  old  age  : 
Do  you  fancy  you  are  elderly  enough  ? 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— Mikado. 

As  newer  comers  crowd  the  fore, 

We  drop  behind, — 
We  who  have  laboured  long  and  sore 

Times  out  of  mind, 
And  keen  are  yet,  must  not  regret 
To  drop  behind. 

Tuos.  HARDY. — Superseded. 


Wen  folks  get  old  en  stricken  wid  the 
palsy,   dey  mus  'speck   ter  be  laff'd  at. 
Goodness  knows  I  bin  used  ter  dat  sence 
de  day  my  whiskers  'gun  to  bleach. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  23. 

And  a  crook  is  in  his  back, 
And  a  melancholy  crack 
In  his  laugh. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Last  Leaf. 

Call  him  not  old  whose  visionary  brain 
Holds  o'er  the  past  its  undivided  reign  : 
For  him  in  vain  the  envious  seasons  roll, 
Who  bears  eternal  summer  in  his  soul. 
O.  W.  HOLMES.— Old  Player. 

When  he  is  forsaken, 

Withered  and  shaken, 

What  can  an  old  man  do  but  die  ? 

HOOD. — Ballad. 

Superfluous  lags  the  veteran  on  the  stage. 
JOHNSON. — Vanity  of  Human  Wishes. 

Life  protracted  is  protracted  woe. 
Time  hovers  o'er,  impatient  to  destroy. 
And  shuts  up  all  the  passages  of  joy. 

JOHNSON. — Ib. 

On  parent  knees,  a  naked  new-born  child, 
Weeping,  thou  sat'st  whilst  all  around  thee 

smiled  ; 

So  live,  that,  sinking  in  thy  last  long  sleep, 
Calm  thou  mayst  smile,  while  all  around 

thee  weep. 
SIR  W.  JONES.--— Frowt  the  Persian. 

When  our  vices  leave  us,  we  flatter  our- 
selves with  the  idea  that  we  are  leaving 
them.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  192. 

Few  people  know  how  to  be  old. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  423. 

For  you  the  To-come, 

But  for  me  the  Gone-by  ; 

You  are  panting  to  live, 

I  am  waiting  to  die. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — An  Old  Man's  Song. 

Time  hath  laid  his  hand 
Upon  my  heart,  gently,  not  smiting  it, 
But  as  a  harper  lays  his  open  palm 
Upon  his  harp,  to  deaden  its  vibrations. 
LONGFELLOW. — Golden  Legend. 

So  mayst  thou  live,  till,  like  ripe  fruit,  thou 

drop 

Into  thy  mother's  lap,  or  be  with  ease 
Gathered,  not  harshly  plucked,  for  death 

mature. 
This  is  old  age. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  u,  535. 

Old  age  plants  more  wrinkles  in  the 
mind  than  in  the  face.  MONTAIGNE. 


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His    golden    locks    time    hath    to    silver 

turned  ; 

O   time  too  swift  !   O  swiftness  never 
ceasing  !     G.  PEELE. — Polyhymnia. 

A  man  not  old,  but  mellow,  like  good  wine. 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Ulysses,  Act  3. 

The  tree  of  deepest  root  is  found 
Least  willing  still  to  quit  the  ground  ; 
"Twas  therefore  said  by  ancient  sages 
That  love  of  life  increased  with  years. 
MRS.  PIOZZI. — Three  Warnings. 

In  life's  cool  evening,  satiate  of  applause. 
POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  /.  9. 

Old  men  for  the  most  part  are  like  old 
chronicles,  that  give  you  dull  but  true 
accounts  of  time  past,  and  are  worth  know- 
ing only  on  that  score. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

When  men  grow  virtuous  in  their  old  age 
they  only  make  a  sacrifice  to  God  of  the 
devil's  leavings.  POPE. — Ib. 

Age  sits  with  decent  grace  upon  his  visage, 

And  worthily  becomes  his  silver  locks  ; 

He  wears  the  marks  of  many  years  well 
spent, 

Of  virtue,  truth  well  tried,  and  wise  ex- 
perience. ROWE. — Jane  Shore. 

His  withered  fist  still  knocking  at  death's 

door. 

T.  SACKVILLE   (LORD   DORSET). — Mirrour 
for  Magistrates 

Doubts,  horrors,  superstitious  fears 
Saddened  and  dimmed  descending  years. 
SCOTT. — Rokeby,  i,  17. 

Let  me  not  live,  quoth  he, 

After  my  flame  lacks  oil,  to  be  the  snuff 

Of  younger  spirits. 

SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  i,  2. 

The  satirical  rogue  says  here,  that  old 
men  have  grey  beards  ;  that  their  faces  are 
wrinkled  ;  their  eyes  purging  thick  amber 
and  plum-tree  gum  ;  and  that  they  have  a 
plentiful  lack  of  wit,  together  with  most 
weak  hams. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

You  yourself,  sir,  should  be  as  old  as  I 

am,  if,  lake  a  crab,  you  could  go  backward. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

How  subject  we  old  men  are  to  this 
vice  of  lying  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Act  3,  2. 

How  ill  white  hairs  become  a  fool  and 
jester.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  3. 

An  old  man,  broken  with  the  storms  of 

state, 

Is  come  to  lay  his  weary  bones  among  ye. 
Give  him  a  little  earth  for  charity. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 


O,  sir,  you  are  old  ! 

Nature  in  you  stands  on  the  very  verge 
Of  her  confine. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  2,  4 

T  confess  that  I  am  old  ; 
Age  is  unnecessary.       SHAKESPEARE. — Ib 

A  poor,  infirm,  weak  and  despised  old  man 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2 

I  am  a  very  foolish,  fond  old  man. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  7. 

Vex  not  his  ghost  !  Oh,  let  him  pass  !   He 

hates  him, 
That  would  upon  the  rack  of  this  tough 

world 
Stretch  him  out  longer. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  3. 

The  wine  of  life  is  drawn,  and  the  mere  lees 
Is  left  this  vault  to  brag  of. 

SHAKESPEARE.—  Macbeth,  Act  2,  3, 

I  have  lived  long  enough,  my  way  of  life 
Is  fall'n  into  the  sear,  the  yellow  leaf ; 
And  that  which  should  accompany  old  age, 
As    honour,    love,    obedience,    troops   of 

friends, 
I  must  not  look  to  have. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  3. 

I  am  declined 
Into  the  vale  of  years. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3 

To  me,  fair  friend,  you  never  can  be  old, 
For  as  you  were  when  first  your  eye  I  eyed, 
Such  seems  your  beauty  still. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  104. 

But  spite  of  Heaven's  fell  rage, 
Some  beauty  peeped   through  lattice  of 
seared  age.  SHAKESPEARE  (?). — 

Lover's  Complaint,  st.  2 . 

Old   men   are   testy,  and  will  have  their 
way.  SHELLEY. — Cenci,  Act  i,  2. 

You  are  old,  Father  William,  the  young 

man  cried, 

And  pleasures  with  youth  pass  away  ; 
And  yet  you  lament  not  the  days  that  are 

gone: 
Now  tell  me  the  reason  I  pray. 

SOUTHEY. — Old  Man's  Comforts. 

O  !  why  do  wretched  men  so  much  desire 

To  draw  their  dayes  unto  the  utmost  date  ? 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Qvtene,  Bk.  4,  c.  3,  i. 

Age  may  have  one  side,  but  assuredly 
Youth  has  the  other.  There  is  nothing 
more  certain  than  that  both  are  right, 
except  perhaps  that  both  are  wrong. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Crabbed  Age. 


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ONIONS 


When  an  old  gentleman  waggles  his  head 
and  says  :  "  Ah,  so  I  thought  when  I  was 
your  age,"  it  is  not  thought  an  answer  at 
all,  if  the  young  man  retorts  •.  "  My  vener- 
able sir,  so  I  shall  mostprobably  thinkwhen 
I  am  yours."  And  yet  the  one  is  as  good 
as  the  other.  R.  L.  STEVENSON. — 

Crabbed  Age. 

Let  life  burn  down,  and  dream  it  is  not 
death.  SWINBURNE. — Anactoria. 

Ah  !  there's  no  fool  like  the  old  one. 

TENNYSON. — The  Grandmother. 

O  good  grey  head  which  all  men  knew. 

TENNYSON. — On   Wellington. 

For  Age,  with  stealing  steps, 
Hath  clawed  me  with  his  crutch. 
THOS.  LORD  VAUX. — Aged  Lover. 

Old  age  is  reputed  to  be  incorrigible  ; 
for  myself,  I  believe  one  ought  to  think  of 
correcting  one's  errors  even  when  a  hun- 
dred years  old. 

VOLTAIRE. — Irene  (Pref.  Letter,  1778). 

The  soul's  dark  cottage,  battered  and  de- 
cayed, 

Lets  in  new  light  through  chinks  that  time 
has  made ; 

Stronger  by  weakness,  wiser  men  become 

As  they  draw  near  to  their  eternal  home. 

WALLER. — On  the  "  Divine  Poems." 

How  strange  it  seems,  with  so  much  gone 
Of  life  and  love,  to  still  live  on  ! 

WHITTIER. — Snowbound. 

Thus  fares  it  still  in  our  decay, 
And  yet  the  wiser  mind 
Mourns  less  for  what  age  takes  away 
Than  what  it  leaves  behind. 
WORDSWORTH. — The  Fountain  (1799). 

The  Clouds  that  gather  round  the  setting 

sun 

Do  take  a  sober  colouring  from  an  eye 
That  hath  kept  watch  o'er  man's  mortality. 
WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  1 1 . 

The  oldest  man  he  seemed  that  ever  wore 
grey  hairs. 

WORDSWORTH. — Resolution  and 
Independence. 

But  an  old  age,  serene  and  bright, 
And  lovely  as  a  Lapland  night, 
Shall  lead  thee  to  thy  grave. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  a  Young  Lady. 

We  see  Time's  furrows  on  another's  brow, 
And  Death  entrenched,  preparing  his  as- 
sault. 

How  few  themselves  in  that  just  mirror 
see  !         YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 

And    gently    slope    our    passage    to  the 
grave.  YOUNG. — Ib. 


The  man  of  wisdom  is  the  man  of  years. 
YOUNG. — Ib. 

With  the  ancient  is  wisdom  ;   and  in 
length  of  days  understanding.    Job  xii,  12. 

Crabbed  age  and  youth 
Cannot  live  together. 
ANON.-^-Sowg  in  "  Passionate  Pilgrim  " 
(pub.  1599). 

Fear  old  age,  for  it  does  not  come  alone. 
Greek  prov. 

No  Greek  was  ever  an  old  man. 
Greek  prov.    (implying    that    the    ancient 
Greeks  remained   children  all  their  lives). 

I'm  ower  auld  a  dog  to  learn  new  tricks. 
Scottish  prov. 

Little  may  an  old  horse  do  if  he  mauna 
nicher  (neigh).  Scottish  prov. 

The  feet  are  slow  when  the  head  wears 
snow.  Prov. 

OLD  FASHIONS 

I  know  it  is  a  sin 
For  me  to  sit  and  grin 

At  him  here  ; 

But  the  old  three-cornered  hat, 
And  the  breeches  and  all  that, 

Are  so  queer  ! 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Last  Lea). 

O  good  old  man,  how  well  in  thee  appears 
The  constant  service  of  the  antique  world, 
When  service  sweat  for  duty,  not  for  need  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  3. 

Thou  art  not  for  the  fashion  of  these  times, 

Where  none  will  sweat  but  for  promotion, 

And  having  that,  do  choke  their  service  up. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

OMENS 

"  A  jolly  place,"  said  he,  "  in  times  of  old, 
But  something  ails  it  now ;  the  spot  is 
cursed." 

WORDSWORTH. — Heart-leap  Well. 

A  House, — but  under  some  prodigious  ban 
Of  excommunication. 

HOOD. — The  Haunted  House 

OMISSION 

Poets  lose  half  the  praise  they  should  have 

got, 

Could  it  be  known  what  they  discreetly 
blot. 
WALLER. — On  Roscommon's  "  Horace." 

ONIONS 

Let  onion  atoms  lurk  within  the  bowl, 
And,  half-suspected,  animate  the  whole. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Recipe  for  Salad 
Dressing. 


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OPINION 


For  this  is  every  cook's  opinion, 
No  savoury  dish  without  an  onion  ; 
But  lest  your  kissing  should  be  spoiled, 
Your  onions  must  be  thoroughly  boiled. 

SWIFT. — Onions. 
ONLOOKERS 

As  many  more 
Crowd  round  the  door, 
To  see  them  going  to  see  it. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

The  little  pleasure  of  the  game 
Is  from  afar  to  view  the  flight. 

PRIOR. — To  C.  Montague. 

OPEN-MINDEDNESS 

A  person  who  derives  all  his  instruction 
from  teachers  or  books ...  is  under  no 
compulsion  to  hear  both  sides.  Accord- 
ingly it  is  far  from  a  frequent  accomplish- 
ment, even  among  thinkers,  to  know  both 
sides.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  2. 

He  who  knows  only  his  own  side  of  the 
case  knows  little  of  that. 

J.  S.  MILL.— Ib. 

One  man's  speech 

Is  no  man's  speech  ; 

Let  a  man  give  ear  to  each. 

German  saying. 
OPINION 

Remember  that  all  things  are  only 
opinion  and  that  it  is  in  your  power  to 
think  as  you  please. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  12,  22. 

The  absurd  man  is  he  who  never  changes 
his  opinions.  BARTHELEMY. 

An  illogical  opinion  only  requires  rope 
enough  to  hang  itself. 

A.  BIRRELL. — Via  Media. 

Who  doth  not  know  with  what  fierce  rage 
Opinions,  true  or  false,  engage  ? 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

And  nothing's  so  perverse  in  nature 
As  a  profound  opiniator. 

S.  BUTLER. — Ib. 

It  is  opinion  governs  all  mankind, — 
As  wisely  as  the  blind  that  leads  the  blind. 
S.  BUTLER. — Upon  the  Abuse  of  Human 
Learning,  Pt.  2  (Fragment). 

We  are  more  inclined  to  hate  one  another 

for  points  on  which  we  differ,  than  to  love 

one  another  on  points  on  which  we  agree. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

His  sole  opinion,  whatsoe'er  befall, 
Centering  at  last  in  having  none  at  all. 
COWPER. — Conversation,  133. 

Mr.  Podsnap  settled  that  whatever  he  put 
behind  him  he  put  out  of  existence.  .  .  . 
He  had  even  acquired  a  peculiar  flourish 
of  his  right  arm  in  often  clearing  the  world 


of  its  most  difficult  problems,  by  sweeping 
them  behind  him. 

DICKENS. — Our  Mutual  Friend,  Bk.  i, 

ch.  ii. 

Stiff  in  opinions,  always  in  the  wrong, 
Was  everything  by  starts  and  nothing  long. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pt.  i,  545. 

As  long  as  words  a  different  sense  will  bear. 
And  each  may  be  his  own  interpreter, 
Our  airy  faith  will  no  foundation  find  ; 
The  word's  a  weathercock  for  every  wind. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  462. 

A  heap  er  sayins  en  a  heap  er  doins  in 
dis  roun'  worl*  got  to  be  tuck  on  trus".  You 
got  yo'  sayins,  en  I  got  mine. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  42. 

We  are  all  of  us  more  or  less  the  slaves 
of  opinion.  HAZLITT. — Court  Influence. 

Men  fear  public  opinion  now  as  they  did 
in  former  times  the  Star  Chamber :    and 
those  awful  goddesses,  Appearances,  are 
to  us  what  the  Fates  were  to  the  Greeks. 
SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council,  Bk.  i, 

ch.  5. 

Opinions  are  a  great  care  and  a  great 

trouble ;    but  still  they  are  acquisitions. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  ch.  2. 

Opinion  is  that  high  and  mighty  Dame 

Which  rules  the  world. 

J.  HOWELL. — Before  "  The  Vocal  Forest." 

Opinions  are  like  fashions,  beautiful 
when  we  first  assume  them — ugly  when  we 
discard  them. 

THEODORE  JOUFFROY  (1796-1842). 

We  scarcely  ever  find  any  people  of  good 
sense,  excepting  those  who  are  of  our  own 
opinion. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  347. 

Men  are  never  so  good  or  so  bad  as  their 
opinions. 
SIR  J.  MACKINTOSH. — Ethical  Philosophy. 

Sir,  though  I  would  persuade,  I'll  not  con- 
strain : 

Each  man's  opinion  freely  is  his  own 
Concerning  anything,  or  anybody. 

MASSINGER. — Fatal  Dowry,  Act  2,  2. 

We  can  never  be  sure  that  the  opinion 
we  are  endeavouring  to  stifle  is  a  false 
opinion ;  and  if  we  were  sure,  stifling 
would  be  an  evil  still. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  2. 

Opinion  in  good  men  is  but  knowledge 
in  the  making.  MILTON. — Areopagitica. 

My  opinion,  my  conviction,  gains  in- 
finitely in  strength  and  success,  the 
moment  a  second  mind  has  adopted  it. 

NOVALIS  (aj  lr.  by  Carlylt). 


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OPPORTUNITY 


He  who  does  not  know  the  truth,  but 
hunts  after  opinions,  will,  as  it  appears, 
produce  but  a  ridiculous  and  inartistic 
art  of  speaking. 

PLATO. — Phcsdrus,  99  (Gary  tr.). 

'Tis  with  our  judgments,  as  our  watches, 

none 

Go  just  alike,  yet  each  believes  his  own. 
POPE. — Criticism,  6. 

Some  praise  at  morning  what  they  blame 

at  night, 
But  always  think  the  last  opinion  right. 

POPE. — Ib.,  431. 

Whenever  opposite  views  are  held  with 
warmth  by  religious-minded  men,  we  may 
take  it  for  granted  there  is  some  higher 
truth  which  embraces  both.  All  high 
truth  is  the  union  of  contradictions. 

F.  W.  ROBERTSON. 

Opinion  obeys  the  same  law  as  the  pen- 
dulum. If  it  goes  beyond  the  centre  of 
gravity  on  one  side,  it  must  go  as  far  be- 
yond on  the  other.  It  is  only  after  a  time 
that  it  finds  its  true  resting-place  and 
becomes  settled. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Psychological 
Observations. 

Human  nature  causes  us  to  be  depen- 
dent on  other  people's  opinion  in  a  way 
completely  out  of  proportion  to  its  value. 
SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Women. 

Hear  you  this  Triton  of  the  minnows  ? 

mark  you 
His  absolute  shall  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  3,  i. 

Hath  there  been  such  a  time,  I'd  fain  know 

that, 

When  I  have  positively  said,  "  'Tis  so," 
And  it  proved  otherwise  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  z. 

There  is  nothing  either  good  or  bad,  but 
thinking  makes  it  so. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

His  own  opinion  was  his  law. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

I  have  bought 

Golden  opinions  from  all  sorts  of  people. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

A  plague  of  opinion  !  A  man  may  wear  it 
on  both  sides  like  a  leather  jerkin. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  3,  3. 

Opinion  is  ultimately  determined  by  the 
feelings,  and  not  by  the  intellect. 

H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  Pt.  3, 
sec.  8. 
In  war,  opinion  is  nine  parts  in  ten. 

SWIFT. — Letter,  1711. 


But  foolish  man  still  judges  what  is  best 
In  his  own  balance,  false  and  light, 
Following  opinion,  dark  and  blind, 
That  vagrant  leader  of  the  mind, 
Till  honesty  and  conscience  are  clear  out 
of  sight.          SWIFT. — Ode  to  Sancroft. 

So  many  men,  so  many  opinions. 

TERENCE. — Phormio,  2. 

"  So  many  heads,  so  many  opinions " — 

fie  ! 

Is't  not  a  shame  for  Proverbs  thus  to  lie 
I've  known,  though  my  acquaintance  be 

but  small, 

Heads  which  have  no  opinion  at  all. 
Epigram.     Founded  on  lines  in  Camden's 
"  Remains  "  (1657). 

OPPORTUNISM 

"  It's  always  best  on  these  occasions  to 
do  what  the  mob  do." — "  But  suppose 
there  are  two  mobs  ?  "  suggested  Mr. 
Snodgrass. — "  Shout  with  the  largest,"  re- 
plied Mr.  Pickwick. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers. 

Let  fools  the  name  of  loyalty  divide  ! 
Wise  men  and  gods  are  on  the  strongest 
side.     SIR  C.  SEDLEY. — Marc  Antony. 

An  thou  canst  not  smile  as  the  wind  sits, 
thou'lt  catch  cold  shortly. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  i,  4. 

There  is  a  right  way  and  a  wrong  ; 
You  cannot  travel  both  along. 
Choose  this  or  that  without  delay, 
But  don't  pretend  a  middle  way. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars" 

OPPORTUNITY 

Give  me  a  standing  place,  and  I  will  move 
the  earth.  ARCHIMEDES  (traditional). 

Time,  so  complained  of, 
Who  to  one  man 
Shows  partiality, 

Brings  round  to  all  men 
Some  undimmed  hours. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Consolation. 

A  wise  man  will  make  more  oppor- 
tunities than  he  finds. 

BACON. — Of  Ceremonies. 

'Tis  clear  if  we  refuse 
The  means  so  limited,  the  tools  so  rude 
To  execute  our  purpose,  life  will  fleet, 
And  we  shall  fade,   and  nothing  will  be 
done.:  BROWNING. — Paracelsus. 

Youth,  once  gone,  is  gone  : 
Deeds,  let  escape,  are  never  to  be  done. 

BROWNING. — Sorddlo,  Bk.  3. 
Any  nose 
May  ravage  with  impunity  a  rose. 

BROWNING. — Ib.,  Bk.  6. 


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OPPRESSION 


Never  had  mortal  man  such  opportunity, 
Except  Napoleon,  or  abused  it  more. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  g,  9. 

We  must  beat  the  iron  while  it  is  hot  ; 
but  we  may  polish  it  at  leisure. 

DRYDEN.  — Dedication  of  JEneid. 

Thou  strong  seducer,  opportunity  1 
DRYDEN. — Conquest  of  Granada,  Pt.  2, 
Act  4,  3. 

Use  May,  while  that  you  may, 
For  May  hath  but  his  time  : 
When  all  the  fruit  is  gone,  it  is 
Too  late  the  tree  to  climb. 

R.  EDWARDS. — May. 

There  is  an  hour  in  each  man's  life  ap- 
pointed 

To  make  his  happiness,  if  then  he  seize  it. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Custom  of 

the  Country,  Act  2,  i. 

Her  case  may  any  day 

Be  yours,  my  dear,  or  mine. 

Let  her  make  her  hay 

While  the  sun  doth  shine. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Pirates  of  Penzance. 

Give  ample  room  and  verge  enough. 

GRAY. — Bard. 

Here  is  the  sum, — that  when  one  door 
opens,  another  shuts. 

HAFIZ. — As  given  by  Emerson,  Essay  on 
Persian  Poetry. 

Gather  ye  rosebuds  while  ye  may, 

Old  Time  is  still  a-flying  ; 
And  this  same  flower,  that  smiles  to-day, 

To-morrow  will  be  dying. 

HERRICK. — To  the  Virgins. 

The   man    who   loses   his   opportunity, 
loses  himself. 
G.  MOORE. — Bending  of  the  Bough,  Act  5. 

Every  French  soldier  carries  in  his  knap- 
sack the  baton  of  a  French  field-marshal. 
NAPOLEON. — Saying. 

Jupiter  himself  cannot  bring  back  lost 
opportunity.  PH.SDRUS. — Bk.   5. 

Know  the  proper  season. 

PlTTACUS  OF  MlTYLENE  (C.  B.C.  55O). 

Oh  how  bitter  a  thing  it  is  to  look  into 
happiness  through  another  man's  eyes  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  5,  2. 

For  courage  mounteth  with  occasion. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  2,  i. 

How  oft  the  sight  of  means  to  do  ill  deeds 
Makes  ill  deeds  done  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — /&.,  Act  4,  2. 

There  is  a  tide  in  the  affairs  of  men, 
Which,  taken   at   the  flood,   leads  on  to 
fortune  ; 


Omitted,  all  the  voyage  of  their  life 
Is  bound  in  shallows  and  in  miseries. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  4,  3. 

0  Opportunity,  thy  guilt  is  great ! 

'Tis    thou    that    execut'st    the    traitor's 
treason. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  126. 

Turning,  for  them  who  pass,  the  common 

dust 
Of  servile  opportunity  to  gold. 

WORDSWORTH. — Desultory  Stanzas. 

1  do  but  wait  a  time  and  fortune's  chance  ; 
Oft  many  things  do  happen  in  one  houre. 

SIR  T.  WYATT.— (Tottel,  1557.) 

Let  us  crown  ourselves  with  rosebuds 
before  they  be  withered. 

Wisdom  of  Solomon  ii,  8. 

Be  in  time  at  the  hedge  if  you  would  dry 
your  linen.  Prov.  quoted  by  Goethe. 

The  open  door  tempts  a  saint. 

Spanish  prov. 
OPPOSITION 

Without  contraries  is  no  progression. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Book  of  Thel. 

No  Government  can  be  long  secure  with- 
out a  formidable  Opposition. 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  2,  c.  I. 

Dame  Partington,  who  lived  upon  the 
beach,  was  seen  at  the  door  of  her  house, 
with  mop  and  pattens,  trundling  her  mop, 
squeezing  out  the  sea  water,  and  vigor- 
ously pushing  away  the  Atlantic  Ocean 
The  Atlantic  was  aroused.  Mrs.  Parting- 
ton's  spirit  was  up  ;  but  I  need  not  tell 
you  that  the  contest  was  unequal.  The 
Atlantic  Ocean  beat  Mrs.  Partington. 
She  was  excellent  at  a  slop  or  a  puddle 
but  she  should  not  have  meddled  with 
a  tempest. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Speech  at  Taunion,i83i. 

When  I  first  came  into  Parliament,  Mr. 
Tierney,  a  great  Whig  authority,  used 
always  to  say  that  the  duty  of  an  Opposi- 
tion was  very  simple — it  was  to  oppose 
everything  and  propose  nothing. 

LORD  STANLEY. — Speech,  June  4,  1841. 

The  tiny-trumpeting  gnat  can  break  our 

dream 
When  sweetest ;    and  the  vermin  voices 

here 
May  buzz  so  loud — we  scorn  them,  but 

they  sting. 

TENNYSON. — Lancelot  and  Elaine,  137. 

OPPRESSION 

Oppression  makes  the  wise  man  mad. 
BROWNING. — Luria,  Act  4. 


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ORATORY 


All  oppressors  . .  .  attribute  the  frus- 
tration of  their  desires  to  the  want  of  suffi- 
cient rigour.  Then  they  redouble  the 
efforts  of  their  impotent  cruelty. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings. 

Hope,  for  a  season,  bade  the  world  farewell, 

And  freedom  shrieked — as  Kosciusko  fell. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope. 

•yrd  Fisher,  Master,  I  marvel  how  the 
fishes  live  in  the  sea. — ist  Fisher.  Why, 
as  men  do  a-land — the  great  ones  eat  up 
the  little  ones. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Pericles,  Act  2,  i. 

It  is  the  duty  of  a  good  shepherd  to 
shear  the  sheep,  not  to  flay  them. 
SUETONIUS. — Given  as  a  saying  of  Tiberius 

Cezsar. 

Mastiffs  on  whom  their  master  has 
placed  collars  of  iron  can  strangle  dogs 
who  have  none. 

VOLTAIRE. — Historical  Fragments  on 
India,  etc. 

My  little  finger  shall  be  thicker  than  my 
father's  loins. 

i  Kings  xii,  10.    (Also  z  Chron.  x,  10.) 

My  father  hath  chastised  you  with  whips, 
but  I  will  chastise  you  with  scorpions, 
i  Kings  xii,  n.    (A Iso  2  Chron.  x,  14.) 

And  he  looked  for  judgment,  but  behold 
oppression  ;  for  righteousness,  but  behold 
a  cry.  Isaiah  v,  7. 

Then  has  not  the  gude  cause  to  grumble 

That's  forst  to  be  a  slave  ? 
Oppression  does  the  judgment  jumble, 
And  gars  a  wise  man  rave. 

May  chains  then  and  pains  then 
Infernal  be  thair  byre, 
Wha  dang  us  and  flang  us, 
Into  this  ugsum  myre  ! 
ANON. — The  Vision    (c.  1715  ? — printed 

1783). 
OPTIMISM 

The  barren  optimistic  sophistries 
Of  comfortable  moles. 
M.  ARNOLD. — To  a  Republican  Friend. 

I  find  earth  not  grey  but  rosy, 
Heaven  not  grim,  but  fair  of  hue. 

BROWNING. — At  the  Mermaid. 

0  world  as  God  has  made  it !  All  is  beauty. 
BROWNING. — Guardian  Angel. 

God's  in  His  heaven — 
All's  right  with  the  world  ! 

BROWNING. — Pippa  Passes. 

Seeing  only  what  is  fair, 

Sipping  only  what  is  sweet, 
Thou  dost  mock  at  fate  and  care. 

EMERSON. — To  the  Humble  Bee. 


For  some  there  are  who  say  the  ills  which 

wait 

On  man  exceed  his  joys  ;   but  I  maintain 
The  contrary  opinion,  that  our  lives 
More  bliss  than  woe  experience. 

EURIPIDES. — Suppliants,  198 
(Woodhull  tr.). 
And  I  am  right, 
And  you  are  right, 
And  all  is  right  as  right  can  be. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado,  Act  i. 

By  happy  alchymy  of  mind 
They  turn  to  pleasure  all  they  find. 
MATTHEW  GREEN. — Spleen.  630. 

'Tis  always  morning  somewhere,  and  above 
The  awakening  continents,  from  shore  to 

shore, 
Somewhere  the  birds  are  singing  evermore. 

LONGFELLOW. — Birds  of  Killingworth. 

Youth  goes ;  childhood  need  never  be 
lost.  EDITH  SICHEL. — Thoughts. 

The  world  is  a  looking-glass,  and  gives 
back  to  every  man  the  reflection  of  his  own 
face.  Frown  at  it  and  it  will  in  turn  look 
sourly  upon  you  ;  laugh  at  it  and  with  it, 
and  it  is  a  jolly  kind  companion. 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair  (1847). 

Heed  not  the  folk  who  sing  or  say 

In  sonnet  sad  or  sermon  chill, 
"  Alas,  alack,  and  well-a-day  ! 
This  round  world's  but  a  bitter  pill." 
We  too  are  sad  and  careful ;  still 
We'd  rather  be  alive  than  not. 
GRAHAM  R.  TOMSON. — Ballade  of  the 
Optimist. 

"  What  is  optimism  ?  "  said  Cacambo. 
"  Alas,"  said  Candide,  "it  is  the  passion 
for  saying  that  everything  is  well  when  it 
is  evil."  VOLTAIRE. — Candide. 

Age  brought  him  no  despairing 
Of  the  world's  future  faring  ; 
In  human  nature  still 
He  found  more  good  than  ill. 

WHITTIER. — An  Autograph. 

Love  lights  more  fire  than  hate  extin- 
guishes, 

And  men  grow  better  as  the  world  grows 
old.  ELLA  W.  WILCOX. — Optimism. 

ORACLES 

The  oracles  are  dumb. 

MILTON. — Christmas  Hymn. 

There  is  no  truth  at  all  i'  the  oracle. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  3,  2. 

ORATORY 

Their  discourses  are  as  the  stars,  which 
give  little  light  because  they  are  so  high. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 


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ORATORY 

The  clear  harangue,  and  cold  as  it  is  clear, 
Falls  soporific  on  the  listless  ear. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  19. 

The  Chadband  style  of  oratory  is  widely 
received  and  much  admired. 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  19. 

A  man  may  speak  very  well  in  the  house 
of  Commons,  and  fail  very  completely  in 
the  House  of  Lords.  There  are  two  dis- 
tinct styles  requisite  ;  I  intend  in  the 
course  of  my  career,  if  I  have  time,  to  give 
a  specimen  of  both. 

DISRAELI. — Young  Duke,  Bk.  5,  c.  7. 

I  will  sit  down  now,  but  the  time  will 
come  when  you  will  hear  me. 

DISRAELI. — Maiden  Speech  in  House  of 
Commons,  1837. 

The  orator  must  be,  to  a  certain  extent, 
a  poet.  EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

The  finest  eloquence  is  that  which  gets 
things  done ;  the  worst  is  that  which 
delays  them. 

D.  LLOYD  GEORGE. — Conference  of  Paris, 
Jan.,  1919. 

Sheridan  once  said  of  some  speech  . .  . 
that  it  contained  a  great  deal  of  what  was 
new,  and  what  was  true ;  but  that  what 
was  new  was  not  true,  and  what  was  true 
was  not  new.  HAZLITT. 

In  orations  of  praise,  and  in  invectives, 
the  fancy  is  predominant ;  because  the 
design  is  not  truth,  but  to  honour  or  dis- 
honour. HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  8. 

See  how  he  throws  his  baited  lines  about, 
And  plays  his  men  as  anglers  play  their 
trout.  O.  W.  HOLMES. — Banker's 

Dinner. 

Ha  !  my  friend,  rescue  me  from  my 
danger.  You  can  deliver  your  speech 
afterwards.  LA  FONTAINE. — Fables. 

Begin  low,  speak  slow  ; 

Take  fire,  rise  higher  ; 

When  most  impressed, 

Be  self-possessed  ; 

At  the  end  wax  warm 

And  sit  down  in  a  storm. 

DR.  LEIFCHILD  (?) — (i8th  Century). 

Knowin'    the   ears  long  speeches  suit  air 
mostly  made  to  match. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  znd 
Series,  3. 

He  has  one  gift  most  dangerous  to  a 
speculator,  a  vast  command  of  a  kind  of 
language,  grave  and  majestic,  but  of  vague 
and  uncertain  import. 

MACAULAY. — (On  Gladstone.} 

What  orators  lack  in  depth,  they  make 
up  in  length,  MONTESQUIEU. 


ORDER 

He  who  would  be  a  good  orator  ought 
to  be  just,  and  skilled  in  the  knowledge  ef 
things  just.  PLATO. — Gorgias,  136 

(Gary  tr.). 

Cicero  used  to  ridicule  loud  speakers, 
saying  that  they  shouted  because  they 
could  not  speak,  like  lame  men  who  get  on 
horseback  because  they  cannot  walk. 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Cicero. 

"  Young  man,"  he  [Phocion]  said  [to 
Leosthenes],  "  your  speeches  are  like 
cypress-trees,  stately  and  tall,  but  no  fruit 
to  come  of  them." 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Phocion. 

There  are  three  qualities  which  an  orator 
ought  to  display,  namely,  that  he  should 
instruct,  he  should  move,  and  he  should 
delight.  QUINTILIAN. 

There  is  not  less  eloquence  in  the  tone 
of  the  voice,  in  the  eyes,  and  in  the  de- 
meanour, than  in  the  choice  of  words. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  249 
(1678  ed.). 

Few  speeches  which  have  produced  an 
electrical  effect  on  an  audience  can  bear 
the  colourless  photography  of  a  printed 
record. 

LORD  ROSEBERY. — Life  of  Pitt,  ch.  13. 

If  you  look  for  a  good  speech  now,  you 

undo  me. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Epilogue. 

I  am  no  orator,  as  Brutus  is  ; 

But,  as  you  know  me  all,  a  plain  blunt 

man, 
That  love  my  friend. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  C&sar,  Act  3,  2. 

The  right  honourable  gentleman  is  in- 
debted to  his  memory  for  his  jests,  and  to 
his  imagination  for  his  facts. 
SHERIDAN. — Speech  (reply  to  Mr.  Dundas, 
but  borrowed  from  "  Gil  Bias"). 

Ye  may  say  I  am  hot ; 
I  say  I  am  not ; 

Only  warm,  as  the  subject  in  which  I  am 
got.     SWIFT. — Famous  Speech-maker. 

On  the  day  of  the  dinner  of  the  Oyster- 
mongers'  Company,  what  a  noble  speech  I 
thought  of  in  the  cab  ! 

THACKERAY. — Roundabout  Papers. 

It  is  with  men  as  with  asses  ;  whoever 
would  keep  them  fast  must  find  a  very  good 
hold  at  their  ears.  Slavonian  prov. 

ORDER 

Good  order  is  the  foundation  of  all  good 
things. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  Fr.  Revolution, 


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ORGANS 


OUTLAWS 


If  God  had  laid  all  common,  certainly 
Man  would  have  been  th'  incloser  ;  but 

since  now 

God  hath  impaled  us,  on  the  contrary 
Man  breaks  the  fence,  and  every  ground 
will  plough. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Method  is  good  in  all  things.  Order 
governs  the  world.  The  devil  is  the  author 
of  confusion.  SWIFT. — Letter,  1710. 

ORGANS 

There  let  the  pealing  organ  blow 

To  the  full-voiced  choir  below, 

In  service  high  and  anthems  clear, 

As  may,  with  sweetness,  through  mine  ear, 

Dissolve  me  into  ecstasies 

And  bring  all  heaven  before  mine  eyes. 

MILTON. — II  Penseroso,  162. 

While  in  more  lengthened  notes  and  slow 
The  deep,  majestic,  solemn  organs  blow. 

POPE. — St.  Cecilia's  Day. 

ORIENTALISM 

The  East  bowed  low  before  the  blast, 

In  patient  deep  disdain  ; 
She  let  the  legions  thunder  past, 

And  plunged  in  thought  again. 
MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Obermann  once 
more. 

The  practice  of  politics  in  the  East  may 
be  denned  by  one  word—dissimulation. 
DISRAELI. — Contarini  Fleming,  Pt.  5, 
ch.  10. 
ORIGINALITY 

You   must   not   pump   spring-water   un- 
awares 

Upon  a  gracious  public  full  of  nerves. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  3. 

Originality  is  the  one  thing  which  un- 
original minds  cannot  feel  the  use  of.  They 
cannot  see  what  it  is  to  do  for  them.  How 
should  they  ? 

J.  S.  MILL. — Freedom,  ch.  3. 

All  good  things  which  exist  are  the  fruits 
of  originality.  J.  S.  MILL. — Ib. 

That  virtue  of  originality  that  men  so 
strain  after  is  not  neumess,  as  they  vainly 
think, — there  is  nothing  new.  It  is  only 
genuineness. 

RUSKIN. — Modern   Painters,  vol.  z,  Pt.  3, 

ch.  3,  6. 
ORNAMENT 

His  locked,  lettered,  braw  brass  collar 
Showed  him  the  gentleman  and  scholar. 
BURNS. — The  Twa  Dogs. 

Often  in  the  case  of  weighty  enterprises 
and  great  objects  professed,  one  or  two 
purple  patches  are  sewn  on  to  make  a  fine 
show  in  the  distance. 

HORACE. — De  Arte  Poetica. 


A  carelessness  about  personal  appear- 
ance becomes  men. 

OVID. — Ars  Amat.,  Bk.  i. 

Ornament  cannot  be  overcharged  if  it 
is  good,  and  is  always  overcharged  when 
it  is  bad. 

RUSKIN. — Seven  Lamps:  Lamp  of 
Sacrifice. 

The  world  is  still  deceived  with  ornament. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  3. 
For  Loveliness 

Needs  not  the  foreign  aid  of  ornament, 
But  is,  when  unadorned,  adorned  the  most. 
THOMSON. — Seasons:  Autumn. 

OSTENTATION 

Rich  windows  that  exclude  the  light, 
And  passages  that  lead  to  nothing. 

GRAY. — Long  Story. 

Does  it  come  to  this,  that  your  know- 
ledge is  nothing  to  you  unless  some  other 
person  knows  that  you  know  it  ? 

PERSIUS. — Sat.  i,  27. 

Who  builds  a  church  to  God,  and  not  to 

fame, 

Will  never  mark  the  marble  with  his  name. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  3,  285. 

One  who  paraded  with  a  certain  amount 
of  art  all  that  he  said  or  did. 

TACITUS. — Hist.,  Bk.  2,  80. 

That  jewelled  mass  of  millinery, 
That  oiled  and  curled  Assyrian  Bull. 
TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  6. 

But  all  their  works  they  do  for  to  be  seen 
of  men  :  they  make  broad  their  phylac- 
teries, and  enlarge  the  borders  of  their 
garments,  And  love  the  uppermost  rooms 
at  feasts,  and  the  chief  seats  in  the  syna- 
gogues. St.  Matthew  xxiii,  5,  6. 

Prudent  the  man  who  builds  his  habitation, 

Mansion  or  hall  or  villa  as  preferred  ; 
Yet  let  him  curb  his  j^ride  with  modera- 
tion, 
"  Fine  cage  feeds  not  the  bird." 

ANON. — Tr.  of  Old  French  Inscription 
on  a  Manor  House  in  Normandy. 

OUTCASTS 

Whom  the  heart  of  man  shuts  out, 
Sometimes  the  heart  of  God  takes  in. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — The  Forlorn. 

His  hand  will  be  against  every  man,  and 
every  man's  hand  against  him. 

Genesis  xvi,  12, 
OUTLAWS 

A  famous  man  is  Robin  Hood, 
The  English  ballad-singer's  joy  ! 
And  Scotland  has  a  thief  as  good, 


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An  outlaw  of  as  daring  mood  ; 
She  has  her  brave  Rob  Roy. 
WORDSWORTH. — Memorials  of  a  Tour  in 
Scotland,  ii.    (Rob  Roy's  Grave.) 

OUTLOOK 

Two  men  look  out  through  the  same  bars  : 
One  sees  the  mud,  and  one  the  stars. 

F.  LANGBRIDGE. — Quiet  Thoughts. 

The  man  who  sees  both  sides  of  a  ques- 
tion is  the  man  who  sees  absolutely  nothing 
at  all.  OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions. 

OUTSPOKENNESS 

To  a  poure  man  men  sholde  his  vyces  telle, 

But  nat  to  a  lord,  thogh  he  sholde  go  to 

helle.         CHAUCER. — Somnour's  Tale, 

370. 

"  Not  to  put  too  fine  a  point  upon  it  " — 
a  favourite  apology  for  plain-speaking 
with  Mr.  Snagsby. 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  u. 

Like   a   rough   orator,    that   brings  more 

truth 

Than  rhetoric,  to  make  good  his  accusation. 
MASSINGER. — Gt.  Duke  of  Florence,  Act  5,  3. 

We  drank   the  pure   daylight   of  honest 

speech. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  48. 

For  I  have  neither  wit,  nor  words,  nor 

worth, 

Action,  nor  utterance,  nor  power  of  speech 
To  stir  men's  blood  ;  I  only  speak  right  on. 
I  tell  you  that  which  you  yourselves  do 

know. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

Plain  dealing  is  the  best  when   all  is 

done. 
WM.  PRYNNE. — Histrio-Mastix,  Act  3,  i. 

Speak  thy  purpose  out ; 
I  love  not  mystery  or  doubt. 

SCOTT. — Rokeby,  c.  3,  n. 

Do  you  not  know  I  am  a  woman  ? 
What  I  think  I  speak. 
SHAKESPEARE. — .4s  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  2. 

His  heart's  his  mouth  : 
What  his  breast  forges   that  his  tongue 
must  vent. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  3,  i. 

I  will  a  round  unvarnished  tale  deliver. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

On  an  occasion  of  this  kind  it  becomes 
more  than  a  moral  duty  to  speak  one's 
mind.  It  becomes  a  pleasure. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Importance  of  being 
Earnest. 


OXFORD 

Oxford,  of  whom  the  poet  said 

That  one  of  your  unwritten  laws  is 

To  back  the  weaker  side,  and  wed 

Your  gallant  heart  to  wobbling  causes. 
SIR  OWEN  SEAMAN. — Scholar  Farmer. 

OYSTERS 

"  It's  a  wery  remarkable  circumstance, 
sir,"  said  Sam,  "  that  poverty  and  oysters 
always  seem  to  go  together." 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  22. 

He   had   often    eaten    oysters,    but    had 
never  had  enough. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Etiquette. 

He  was  a  bold  man  that  first  ate  an 
oyster.  SWIFT. — Polite  Conversation. 

A  month  without  an  R  has  nae  richt 
being  in  the  year. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  13. 

What  desperate  breedy  beasts  eisters 
maun  be ! 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  16  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 
Eisters  dinna  interrupt  talkin*. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Ib. 

There's  really  no  end  in  natur*  to  the 
eatin'  o*  eisters. 
JOHN  WILSON.— Ib.,  17  (Ettrick  Shepherd). 

Hech,  sirs !  but  the  month  o'  Sep- 
tember's the  month  after  my  ain  heart — 
and  worth  ony  ither  twa  in  the  year — 
comin'  upon  you,  as  it  does,  after  May, 
June,  July,  and  August,  wi'  its  R  and  its 
Eisters. 

JOHN  WILSON.— Ib.,  17  (Oct.,  1828). 

The  oyster  is  a  gentle  thing, 

And  will  not  come  unless  you  sing. 

Old  Rhyme. 


PACIFICATION 

When  the  victors  show  themselves  more 
regardful  of  justice  and  equal  laws  than 
the  vanquished,  then  all  things  will  be  full 
of  security  and  felicity,  and  there  will  be 
an  escape  from  every  ill. 
PLATO. — Epistle  7  (After  the  assassination 
of  Dion  of  Syracuse). 

PAGEANTRY 

And  pomp  and  feast  and  revelry 
With  mask,  and  antique  pageantry. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  127. 

Thrones,   Dominations,   Princedoms,    Vir- 
tues, Powers. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  5,  601. 


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PAIN 


PARIS 


PAIN 

All  that  the  proud  can  feel  of  pain. 

BVRON. — Prometheus. 

For  all  the  happiness  mankind  can  gain 
Is  not  in  pleasure,  but  in  rest  from  pain. 
DRYDEN. — Indian  Emperor,  Act  4,  r. 

There  are  two  things  to  be  sanctified — 

pains  and  pleasures.       PASCAL. — Pensees, 

Pt.  2,  17,  28. 

He  loves  to  make  parade  of  pain. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  21. 

Nothing  begins  and  nothing  ends 
That  is  not  paid  with  moan  ; 

For  we  are  born  in  other's  pain, 
And  perish  in  our  own. 

F.  THOMPSON. — Daisy. 

The  mark  of  rank  in  nature  is  capacity  for 

pain, 
And  the  anguish  of  the  singer  marks  the 

sweetness  of  the  strain. 

SARAH  WILLIAMS. — Twilight  Hours. 

PAINTING 

And  Painting,  mute  and  motionless, 
Steals  but  a  glance  of  time. 

CAMPBELL. — To  J.  P.  Kemble. 

The  violently  increasing  number  of  ex- 
tremely foolish  persons  who  now  concern 
themselves  about  pictures,  may  be 
counted  among  the  meanest  calamities  of 
modern  society. 

RUSKIN. — Note  (1882)  to  Rev.  Ed.  of 
Modern  Painters,  Vol.  2,  sec.  i,  ch.  i. 

The  essential  difference  between  painting 
and  daubing  is  that  a  painter  lays  not  a 
grain  more  colour  than  is  needed. 

RUSKIN. — Ib.,  Vol.  2,  sec.  2,  ch.  5. 

No  author  can  live  by  his  work  and  be 
as  empty-headed  as  an  average  successful 
painter. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  12. 
(Sidney  Trefusis.) 

Whate'er  their  errors,  they  no  more  remain, 
For  Time,  like  fuller's  earth,  takes  out  each 

stain : 
Nay  more,  on  faults  that  modern  works 

would  tarnish, 
Time  spreads  a  sacred  coat  of  varnish. 

J.  WOLCOT. — Odes  for  1786,  No.  7. 

PALESTINE 

In  those  holy  fields, 
Over  whose  acres  walked   those  blessed 

feet, 
Which,  fourteen  hundred  years  ago,  were 

nailed, 

For  our  advantage,  on  the  bitter  cross. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  i. 


PARADISE 

One  universal  smile  it  seemed  of  all  things  ; 
Joy  past  compare. 

DANTE. — Parodist,  c.  27,  6  (Gary  tr.) 

If  God  hath  made  this  world  so  fair, 

Where  sin  and  death  abound, 
How  beautiful,  beyond  compare, 

Will  paradise  be  found  ! 
J.  MONTGOMERY. — The  Earth  full  of  God's 

Goodness. 

I  have  been  there,  and  still  would  go  ; 
'Tis  like  a  little  heaven  below. 

I.  WATTS. — Lord's  Day. 
PARADOX 

Perhaps  'tis  pretty  to  force  together 
Thoughts  so  all  unlike  each  other. 

S.  T.  COLERIDGE. — Christabel,  Pt.  2 
(Conclusion). 

This  will  be  found  contrary  to  all  ex- 
perience, yet  it  is  true. 
LEONARD  EULER   (1707-1783). — On  his 
law  of  Arches. 

Virtue  itself  turns  vice,  being  misapplied, 
And  vice  sometime's  by  action  dignified. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  2,  3. 
PARASITES 

So,  naturalists  observe,  a  flea 
Hath  smaller  fleas  that  on  him  prey  : 
And  these  have  smaller  still  to  bite  'em, 
And  so  proceed  ad  infinitum. 

SWIFT. — On  Poetry. 

Great  fleas  have  little  fleas  upon  their  backs 

to  bite  'em, 
And  little  fleas  have  lesser  fleas,  and  so  ad 

infinitum. 
And  the  great  fleas  themselves  in  turn  have 

greater  fleas  to  go  on, 
While  these  again  have  greater  still,  and 

greater  still,  and  so  on. 
Quoted  in  Prof.  De  Morgan's  "  Budget  of 
Paradoxes  "  (c.  1850). 
PARENTS 

Lovers  grow  cold,  men  learn  to  hate  their 

wives, 
And  only  parents'  love  can  last  our  lives. 

BROWNING. — Pippa  Passes. 

A  great  distinction,  and  among  mankind 
The  most  conspicuous,  is  to  spring  from 

sires 
Renowned    for    virtue.     Generous    souls 

hence  raise 

To  heights  sublimer  an  ennobled  name. 
EURIPIDES.— Hecuba,  379  (Woodhull  tr.). 

The  virtue  of  parents  is  a  great  dowry. 

HORACE. — Odes,  Bk.  3. 
PARIS 

Nothing  is  more  excellent  than  the 
legend  that  the  Parisian  women  come  into 
this  world  with  all  possible  failings,  but 


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that  a  kind  fairy  has  mercy  on  them  and 
lends  to  each  fault  a  spell  by  which  it  works 
as  a  charm.  That  kind  fairy  is  Grace. 

HEINE. — Florentine  Nights. 

Paris  is  the  New  Jerusalem,  and  the 
Rhine  is  the  Jordan  which  separates  the 
land  of  Freedom  from  the  land  of  the 
Philistines.  HEINE. — The  Liberation. 

Adieu,  Paris  !  Famous  city,  city  of  noise, 
of  smoke,  of  mud,  where  the  women  have 
ceased  to  believe  in  virtue,  and  the  men  in 
honour.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

I  think  every  wife  has  a  right  to  insist 
upon  seeing  Paris. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Countess  Grey, 
Sept.  ii,  1835. 

VVhen  good  Americans  die  they  go  to 
Paris.  Ascribed  to  Thos.  Gold  Appleton. 

PARKS 

Public  money  is  scarcely  ever  so  well 
employed  as  in  securing  bits  of  waste 
ground  and  keeping  them  as  open  spaces. 
SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council,  Bk.  i, 

ch.  10. 

PARLIAMENT 

England,  the  mother  of  Parliaments. 

JOHN  BRIGHT. — Speech,  Jan.  18, 
1865. 

I  like  a  parliamentary  debate, 
Particularly  when  it's  not  too  late. 

BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  47. 

Beautiful  talk  is  by  no  means  the  most 
pressing  want  in  Parliament. 

CARLYLE. — Latter  Day  Pamphlets,  5. 

A  Parliament  speaking  through  reporters 
to  Buncombe  and  the  twenty-seven  mill- 
ions, mostly  fools.  CARLYLE. — Ib.,  6. 

Liberty  to  send  your  fifty-thousandth 
part  of  a  new  Tongue-fencer  into  the 
National  Debating  Club. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution. 

The  notion  that  a  man's  liberty  consists 
in  giving  his  vote  at  election-hustings,  and 
saying,  "  Behold,  now  I  too  have  my 
twenty-thousandth  part  of  a  Talker  in  our 
National  Palaver." 

CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present,  ch.  13. 

"  You  have  not  imparted  to  me,"  re- 
marks Veneering,  "  what  you  think  of 
my  entering  the  House  of  Commons." 
— "  I  think,"  rejoins  Twemlow  feelingly, 
"  that  it  is  the  best  club  in  London." 

DICKENS. — Our  Mutual  Friend,  Bk.  2, 

ch.3. 


PARTIES 

Only  through  the  accident  of  being  a 
hereditary  peer  can  anyone,  in  these  days  of 
Votes  for  Everybody,  get  into  parliament, 
if  handicapped  by  a  serious  modern  cul- 
tural equipment. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Pref. 
The  Cherry  Orchard. 
PAROCHIALISM 

We  never  come  to  be  citizens  of  the 

world,  but  are  still  villagers,  who  think  that 

everything  in  their  petty  town  is  a  little 

superior  to  the  same  thing  anywhere  else. 

EMERSON. — Domestic  Life. 

The  parish  makes  the  Constable,  and 
when  the  Constable  is  made  he  governs 
the  Parish.  SELDEN. — People. 

Ye  think  the  rustic  cackle  of  your  bourg 
The  murmur  of  the  world. 
TENNYSON. — Marriage  of  Geraint,  I.  276. 

O  Lord,  bless  and  be  gracious  to  the 
Greater  and  the  Lesser  Cumbrays,  and  in 
thy  mercy  do  not  forget  the  adjacent 
islands  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland. 
Prayer  of  the  Minister  of  the  Cumbrays, 
"  two  miserable  islands  in  the  mouth  of  the 
Clyde."  (Sir  W.  Scott's  Diary,  1827.) 

The  sun  and  the  moon  may  go  wrong, 
but  the  clock  of  St.  Johnston  (Perth)  never 
goes  wrong.  Scottish  saying  (Chambers). 

PARODY 

It  is  not  right  to  intrude  the  ludicrous 
into  what  is  not  ludicrous.  To  do  so  is  to 
spoil  taste,  to  corrupt  one's  own  judgment 
and  that  of  other  people. 
LA  BRUYERE. — Quoted  by  Geo.  Eliot  in 
"  Theophrastus  Such  "  in  support  of  a  con- 
demnation of  burlesque  and  parody. 

PARTIES 

Party  divisions,  whether  on  the  whole 
operating  for  good  or  evil,  are  things  in- 
separable from  free  government. 
BURKE. — Observations  on  "  Present  State  of 
the  Nation." 

The  consequence  is,  being  of  no  party, 
I  shall  offend  all  parties. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  9,  26. 

In  a  world  which  exists  by  the  balance 
of  Antagonisms,  the  respective  merit  of 
the  Conservator  or  the  Innovator  must  ever 
remain  debatable. 

CARLYLE. — On  Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson. 

I  have  never  loved  any  parties,  but  with 
my  utmost  zeal  have  sincerely  espoused 
the  great  and  original  interest  of  this  na- 
tion, and  of  all  nations — I  mean  truth  and 
liberty, — and  whoever  are  of  that  party, 
I  desire  to  be  with  them. 

DEFOE. — History  of  the  Union. 


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PARTIES 


The  grand  contention's  plainly  to  be  seen, 

To  get  some  men  put  out  and  some  put  in. 

DEFOE. — True-Born  Englishman,  Intro. 

I  believe  that  without  party,  parlia- 
mentary government  is  impossible. 

DISRAELI. — Speech,  1872. 

At   home    the   hateful   names   of   parties 

cease, 

And  factious  souls  are  wearied  into  peace. 
DRVDEN. — Astraa  Redux,  312. 

Of  the  two  great  parties  which,  at  this 

hour,    almost   share    the   nation   between 

them,  I  should  say  that  one  has  the  best 

cause,  and  the  other  contains  the  best  men. 

EMERSON. — Politics. 

Party  Government — the  crown  and 
glory  of  the  British  constitution — is  a 
peculiar  structure,  and  involves  a  peculiar 
assumption. .  .  .  Nature  has  created  us 
with  two  eyes,  but  in  matters  of  state, 
either  of  necessity  or  deliberately,  we  must 
extinguish  one. 

FROUDE. — Short  Studies :  Party  Politics. 

I  often  think  it's  comical 

How  nature  always  does  contrive 
That  every  boy  and  every  gal, 

That's  born  into  this  world  alive, 
Is  either  a  little  Liberal 

Or  else  a  little  Conservative. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

I  always  voted  at  my  party's  call, 
And  I  never  thought  of  thinking  for  my- 
self at  all. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

He  serves  his  party  best  who  serves  the 
country  best. 

R.  B.  HAYES. — Address,  1877. 

[Government!  is  like  an  hour-glass ; 
when  one  side's  quite  run  out,  we  turn  up 
the  other  and  go  on  again. 

D.  JERROLD. — Prisoner  of  War. 

A  wise  Tory  and  a  wise  Whig,  I  believe, 
will  agree.  Their  principles  are  the  same, 
though  their  modes  of  thinking  are  diff- 
erent. 

JOHNSON. — Written  Memorandum,  1783. 

Ez  to  my  princerples,  I  glory 
In  havin'  nothin'  of  the  sort ; 

I  ain't  a  Wig,  I  ain't  a  Tory, 

I'm  jest  a  candidate,  in  short. 
J.  R.LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  ist  Series,  ?. 

We're  clean  out  o*  money,  an*  'most  out 
o'  lyin'. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Ib.,  znd  Series,  4. 

Then  none  was  for  a  party  ; 

Then  all  were  for  the  State  : 
Then  the  great  man  helped  the  poor, 

And  the  poor  man  loved  the  great. 
MACAULAY. — Horatius,  st.  32. 


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In  politics,  again,  it  is  almost  a  common- 
place that  a  party  of  order  or  stability  and 
a  party  of  progress  or  reform  are  both 
necessary  elements  of  a  healthy  state  of 
political  life.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  2. 

Party  spirit,  which,  at  best,  is  but  the 
madness  of  many  for  the  gain  of  a  few. 
POPE. — Letter  to  E.  Blount,  Aug.  27,  1714. 

The  three  chief  qualifications  of  a  party 
writer  are  to  stick  at  nothing,  to  delight  in 
flinging  dirt,  and  to  slander  in  the  dark  by 
guess.  POPE. — Letter. 

There  never  was  any  party,  faction,  sect, 
or  cabal  whatsoever,  in  which  the  most 
ignorant  were  not  the  most  violent. 

POPE. — Ib. 

When  you  have  lived  longer  in  this 
world  and  outlived  the  enthusiastic  and 
pleasing  illusions  of  youth,  you  will  find 
your  love  and  pity  for  the  race  increase 
tenfold,  your  admiration  and  attachment 
to  any  particular  party  or  opinion  fall  away 
altogether.  J.  H.  SHORT-HOUSE. — 

John  Inglesant,  Vol.  i,  ch.  6. 

I  have  never  given  way  to  that  puritan- 
ical feeling  of  the  Whigs  against  dining 
with  the  Tories — 

Tory  and  Whig  in  turns  shall  be  my  host  ; 
I  taste  no  politics  in  boiled  and  roast. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  John  Murray 
(c.  1834). 

The  outs  and  the  ins  are  as  like  as  two 
pins  :  they  both  want  to  stick  in  good 
places.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt- Cellars." 

Abundance  of  political  lying  is  a  sure 
sign  of  true  English  liberty. 

SWIFT. — Art  of  Political  Lying. 

In  this  quarrel  whole  rivulets  of  ink  have 
been  exhausted,  and  the  virulence  of  both 
parties  enormously  augmented. 

SWIFT. — Battle  of  the  Books. 

He  could  not  forbear  taking  me  up  in 
his  right  hand,  and,  stroking  me  gently 
with  the  other,  after  a  hearty  fit  of  laugh- 
ing, asked  me  whether  I  was  a  Whig  or 
Tory.  SWIFT. — Brobdingnag. 

It  is  alleged,  indeed,  that  the  high  heels 
are  most  agreeable  to  our  ancient  consti- 
tution, but,  however  that  may  be,  his 
majesty  has  determined  to  make  use  only 
of  low  heels  in  the  administration. 

SWIFT. — Voyage  to  Lilliput. 

Ring  out  a  slowly-dying  cause, 
And  ancient  forms  of  party  strife  ; 
Ring  in  the  nobler  modes  of  life, 

With  sweeter  manners,  purer  laws. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  106. 


PARTING 


PASSIONS 


Let  Whig  and  Tory  stir  their  blood  ; 

There  must  be  stormy  weather  ; 
But  for  some  true  result  of  good 

All  parties  work  together. 

TENNYSON. — Will  Waterproof. 

"  Fancy  a  party  all  Mulligans !  " 
thought  I,  with  a  secret  terror. 

THACKERAY. — Mrs.  Perkins's  Ball. 

The  puzzling  sons  of  Party  aext  appeared, 
In  dark  cabals  and  nightly  juntos  met. 

THOMSON. — Castle  of  fndolence,  c.  i, 
st.  54- 

When  two  parties  divide  a  kingdom,  no 
more  pleasures,  no  more  tranquillity,  no 
more  tenderness,  no  more  honesty  ! 

VOLTAIRE. — Guerre  civile  de  Geneve. 

It  is  true  that  there  are  always  two 
parties  amongst  us  [the  English]  which 
fight  with  the  pen  and  by  intrigues  ;  but 
it  is  also  true  that  they  always  unite  to- 
gether when  it  is  a  question  of  taking  arms 
in  defence  of  country  and  liberty.  These 
two  parties  watch  over  each  other ;  they 
mutually  prevent  any  violation  of  the 
sacred  depositary  of  the  law  ;  they  hate 
each  other,  but  they  love  the  state  ;  they 
are  jealous  lovers  who  serve  with  emula- 
tion the  same  mistress. 

VOLTAIRE. — Princesse  de  Babylone. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  read  the  books  of  the 
Whigs  and  the  Tories :  listen  to  the  Whigs, 
and  the  Tories  have  betrayed  England  ; 
listen  to  the  Tories,  every  Whig  has  sacri- 
ficed the  state  to  self-interest.  So  that  if 
you  believe  both  parties  there  is  not  a 
single  honest  man  in  the  nation. 

VOLTAIRE. — Pyrrhonism  of  History. 

Toryism  is  an  innate  principle  o'  human 
nature. — Whiggism  but  an  evil  habit. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  4  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

All  political  parties  die  at  length  of 
swallowing  their  own  lies. 

Attrib.  to  Dr.  J.  Arbuthnot. 

PARTING 

Maid  of  Athens,  ere  we  part, 
Give,  oh,  give  me  back  my  heart. 

BYRON. — Maid  of  Athens. 

When  we  two  parted 

In  silence  and  tears, 
Half  broken-hearted 

To  sever  for  years. 
BYRON. — W*hen  we  two  parted. 

Weep  not,  she  says,  at  Nature's  transient 

pain; 
Congenial  spirits  part  to  meet  again. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope. 

Since  there's  no  help,  come  let  us  kiss  and 
part.        DRAYTON. — Ideas,  Sonnet  61. 


In  every  parting  there  is  an  image  of 
death.  GEO.  ELIOT. — Amos  Barton. 

There's  sma'  sorrow  at  our  pairting,  as 
the  auld  mear  [marc]  said  to  the  broken 
cart. 

SCOTT. — Rob  Roy  (Andrew  Fairservice). 

1  remember  the  way  we  parted, 
The  day  and  the  way  we  met ; 

You  hoped  we  were  both  broken-hearted, 
And  knew  we  should  both  forget. 

SWINBURNE. — Interlude. 

But  Fate  ordains  that  dearest  friends 
must  part. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  a. 

PASSIONS 

And  creeping  things  can  tell  the  vehement 
rage 

Of  whirling  storms  of  winds. 

But  who  man's  temper  overbold  may  tell, 

Or  daring  passionate  loves 

Of  women  bold  in  heart 

Passions  close  bound  with  man's  calam- 
ities ? 

AESCHYLUS. — Choephorce,  585 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

His  madness  was  not  of  the  head,  but 
heart.  BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  18. 

For  the  sword  outwears  its  sheath, 
And  the  soul  wears  out  the  breast. 
BYRON. — So.  we'll  go  no  more  a  roving. 

In  all  disputes,  so  much  as  there  is  of 
passion,  so  much  there  is  of  nothing  to  the 
purpose. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici, 
Pt.  2,  3. 

Angry  friendship  is  sometimes  as  bad 
as  calm  enmity. 

BURKE. — Appeal  from  New  to  Old  Whigs. 

It  was  not  strange  ;    for  in  the  human 

breast 
Two  master-passions  cannot  co-exist. 

CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

Nor  can  a  man  of  passions  judge  aright, 
Except  his  mind  be  from  all  passions  free. 
SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum. 

His  passion  cast  a  mist  before  his  sense, 
And  either  made,  or  magnified  the  offence. 
DRYDEN. — Palamon  and  Arcite,  Bk.  2,  334. 

But  love  the  sense  of  right  and  wrong  con- 
founds, 

Strong  love  and  proud  ambition  have  no 
bounds.  DRYDEN. — Ib.,  Bk.  3 , 808. 

Where   passion    rules,    how   weak   does 
reason  prove ! 

DRYDEN. — Rival  Ladies. 


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PAST 


Sensuality,   vanity,   and  avarice,   these 
are  the  three  things  that  destroy  a  man. 
VV.  E.  GLADSTONE. — Remark  as  reported  by 
Lord  Morley  ("  Recollections)." 

Whatever  wild  desires  have  swelled  the 
breast, 

Whatever  passions  have  the  soul  possessed, 

Joy,  Sorrow,  Fear,  Love,  Hatred,  Trans- 
port, Rage, 

Shall  form  the  motley  subject  of  my  page. 
JUVENAL. — Sat.  i,  86  (Gifford  tr.). 

The  passions  are  the  only  orators  which 
always  persuade. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  8. 

A  man  might  preserve  himself  from  all 
the  dangers  and  errors  of  vice,  if,  before 
yielding  to  the  voice  of  imperious  desire, 
he  would  consult  the  past  and  read  a  li ttle 
of  the  future.  LE  S^GUR. — Galerie  Morale. 

There's  sure  no  passion  in  the  human  soul 
But  finds  its  food  in  music. 

G.  LILLO. — Fatal  Curiosity,  Act  1,2. 

But  all  subsists  by  elemental  strife, 
And  passions  are  the  elements  of  life. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  169. 

What  Reason  weaves  by  Passion  is  un- 
done. POPE. — Jb.,  Ep.  2,  42. 

And  hence  one  master  passion  in  the  breast, 

Like  Aaron's  serpent,  swallows  up  the  rest. 

POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  2,  131. 

Search   then,   the  ruling  passion :    there 

alone 
The  wild  are  constant,  and  the  cunning 

known  ; 

The  fool  consistent,  and  the  false  sincere  ; 
Priests,    princes,   women,   no  dissemblers 

here. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  i,  174. 

And  you,  brave  Cobham !   to  the  latest 

breath, 
Shall  feel  your  ruling  passion  strong  in 

death  : 

Such  in  those  moments  as  in  all  the  past, 
"  Oh,  save  my  country,  Heaven  !  "  shall 
be  your  last. 

POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  i,  262. 

The  ruling  passion,  be  it  what  it  will, 
The  ruling  passion  conquers  reason  still. 

POPE.— Ib.,  Ep.  3,  153. 

Passions  are  likened  best  to  floods  and 

streams ; 
The  shallow  murmur,  but  the  deep  are 

dumb. 

SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Silent  Lover. 

Conscience  is  the  voice  of  the  soul ;  pas- 
sions are  the  voice  of  the  body.  Is  it 
astonishing  that  these  two  languages  are 
often  contradictory  ?  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 


His  soul,  like  bark  with  rudder  lost, 
On  passion's  changeful  tide  was  lost. 
SCOTT. — Rokeby. 

I  never  heard  a  passion  so  confused, 
So  strange,  outrageous,  and  so  variable. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Mercht.  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  8. 

Is  the  devil  to  have  all  the  passions  as 
well  as  all  the  good  tunes  ? 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Of  all  the  tyrants  that  the  world  affords, 
Our  own  affections  are  the  fiercest  lords. 

EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Julius  Ctesar. 

O  daughter  of  Death  and  Priapus, 
Our  Lady  of  Pain. 

SWINBURNE. — Dolores. 

"  Consider  well,"  the  voice  replied, 

"  His  face,  that  two  hours  since  hath  died  ; 

Wilt  thou  find  passion,  pain,  or  pride  ?  " 

TENNYSON. — Two  Voices. 

Love,  anguish,  wrath,  and  grief,  to  mad- 
ness wrought ; 

Despair  and  secret  shame  and  conscious 
thought 

Of  inborn  worth  his  labouring  soul  op- 
pressed, 

Rolled  in  his  eyes  and  raged  within  his 
breast. 

VIRGIL.— Mneid,  Bk.  10  (Dryden  tr.).  (Of 
Mezentius.) 

As  it  were  a  ramping  and  a  roaring  lion. 
Church  Psalter  xiv,  6. 

We  also  are  men  of  like  passions  with 
you.  Acts  xiv,  15. 

PAST 

The  world  but  feels  the  present's  spell, 
The  poet  feels  the  past  as  well. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Bacchanalia. 

The  past  is  in  its  grave, 
Though  its  ghost  haunts  us. 

BROWNING. — Pauline. 

The  light  of  other  days. 

A.  BUNN. — Bohemian  Girl. 

People  will  not  look  forward  to  posterity, 

who  never  look  backward  to  their  ancestor's. 

t  BURKE. — Reflections  on  Fr.  Revolution. 

The  "  good  old  times  " — all  times  when 
old  are  good.      BYRON. — Age  of  Bronze. 

And  learn  the  future  by  the  past  of  man. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  i. 

While  Memory  watches  o'er  the  sad  review 
Of  joys  that  faded  like  the  morning  dew. 

CAMPBELL. — Ib.,  Pt.  2. 


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PAST 

To  be  ignorant  of  what  happened  before 
you  were  born  is  to  be  ever  a  child.  For 
what  is  man's  lifetime  unless  the  memory 
of  past  events  is  woven  with  those  of  earlier 
times  ?  CICERO. — Orator,  34,  120. 

The  Knight's  bones  are  dust, 
And  his  good  sword  rust  ; — 
His  soul  is  with  the  saints,  I  trust. 

COLERIDGE. — Knight's  Tomb. 

Actions  of  the  last  age  are  like  almanacs 
of  the  last  year. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — The  Sophy. 

A  proverb  haunts  my  mind, 

As  a  spell  is  cast ; 
"  The  mill  cannot  grind 

With  the  water  that  is  past," 

SARAH  DOUDNEY. 

Another  symptom,  therefore,  in  all  noble 
peoples  is  to  admire,  and  perhaps  ex- 
aggerate the  greatness  of  the  past. 

FROUDE. — Short  Studies:  Party 
Politics. 

Our  sympathy  is  cold  to  the  relation  of 
distant  misery. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  49. 

"  Ah,   Lord,  Sis  Tempy  !  "    he  [Uncle 
Remus]  exclaimed  sorrowfully,  "  don't  le's 
we  all  go  foolin'   roun*  mungs*  dem  ole 
times.     De  bes'  kinder  bread  gits  sour." 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  41. 

Even  men  who  have  warmly  espoused 
the  cause  of  modernism,  ever  retain  a 
secret  sympathy  with  the  heritages  of  olden 
time.  Those  ghostly  voices  of  the  past, 
no  matter  how  faint  their  echo,  stir  our 
souls  marvellously. 

HEINE. — The  Romantic  School. 

Hours  of  work  and  hours  of  play 

Fade  away 

Into  one  immense  Inane. . .  . 
Life  goes  crooning,  faint  and  fain, 

One  refrain, 

"  If  it  could  be  always  May  !  " 
W.  E.  HENLEY. — Ballade  of  Truisms. 

Let's  consider  the  past  with  a  lingering 

gaze, 

Like  a  peacock  whose  eyes  are  inclined 
to  his  tail.     HOOD. — Parthian  Glance. 

Be  fair  or  foul,  or  rain,  or  shine, 
The  joys  I  have  possessed  are  mine  ; 
Not  Heaven  itself  upon  the  past  has  power, 
But  what  has  been  has  been,  and  I  have 
had  my  hour. 

HORACE. — Odes  (Dry den  tr.). 

Where  is  the  heart  that  doth  not  keep 

Within  its  inmost  core 
Some  fond  remembrance,  hidden  deep, 

Of  days  that  are  no  more. 
ELLEN  C.  HOWARTH. — 'Tis  but  a  little  faded 

flower. 


PAST 

Pindar  blended  passing  events  with 
ancient  times  in  such  wise  that  he  does  not 
seem  to  be  praising  the  past,  but  rather 
fanning  into  flames  the  embers  of  a  dying 
beauty. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  24 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

The  best  friend  one  can  have  is  the  past. 
BARONESS  DE  KRUDENER. — (Russian.) 
(1766-1824.) 

Hans  Breitmann  gife  a  barty — 

Vhere  is  dat  barty  now  ? 

C.  G.  LELAND. — Breitmann's  Party. 

This  is  the  place.    Stand  still,  my  steed, 

Let  me  review  the  scene, 
And  summon  from  the  shadowy  Past 

Tl^e  forms  that  once  have  been. 

LONGFELLOW. — Gleam  of  Sunshine. 

For  Time  will  teach  thee  soon  the  truth, 
There  are  no  birds  in  last  year's  nest. 

LONGFELLOW. — It  is  not  always  May 

Old  loves,  old  aspirations,  and  old  dreams, 
More  beautiful  for  being  old  and  gone. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Parting  of  the  Ways 

Time  will  run  back  and  fetch  the  age  of 
gold.          MILTON. — Christmas  Hymn. 

Who  ever  saw  old  age  which  did  not 
praise  the  past  time,  and  blame  the 
present  ?  MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  2,  13. 

To  joys  too  exquisite  to  last, 
And  yet  more  exquisite  when  past. 
J.  MONTGOMERY. — The  Little  Cloud. 

The  harp  that  once  through  Tara's  halls 

The  soul  of  music  shed, 
Now  hangs  as  mute  on  Tara's  walls 

As  if  that  soul  were  fled. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

When  Time,  who  steals  our  years  away, 
Shall  steal  our  pleasures  too, 

The  memory  of  the  past  will  stay 
And  half  our  joys  renew. 

MOORE. — Song. 

For  hope  shall  brighten  days  to  come, 
And  memory  gild  the  past ! 

MOORE. — Song. 

I  am  listening  for  the  voices 
Which  I  heard  in  days  of  old. 
CAROLINE  E.  S.  NORTON  (LADY  STIRLING 
MAXWELL). — The  Lonely  Harp  (Song). 

Prince,  I  counsel  you,  never  say, 

Alack  for  the  years  that  are  left  behind  ! 
Look  you,  keep  love  when  your  dreams 

decay ; 
All  else  flits  past  on  the  wings  of  the 

wind. 
JOHN  PAYNE. — Ballad  of  Past  Delight. 


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The  glory  and  the  glow 
Of  the  world's  loveliness  have  passed  away; 
And  Fate  hath  little  to  inflict  to-day, 

And  nothing  to  bestow  ! 

W.  M.  PRAED. — Stanzas. 

Where  is  the  man  whose  soul  has  never 

waked 
To  sudden  pity  of  the  poor  torn  past  ? 

ROSSETTI. — Ver  sides. 

Where  is  the  life  that  late  I  led  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2, 
Act  5,  3. 

Let  us  not  burden  our  remembrance  with 
An  heaviness  that's  gone. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  5,  i. 

What's  gone,  and  what's  past  help, 
Should  be  past  grief. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  3,  2. 

So  far  as  the  contemplation  of  the  past 
does  not  go  to  put  us  out  of  conceit  with 
the  future,  it  is  wise  :  when  it  does,  it  is 
the  idleness  of  genius  and  feeling. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  22. 

The  good  of  ancient  times  let  others  state  ; 
I  think  it  lucky  I  was  born  so  late. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Modern  Changes. 

An  intelligent  man  judges  the  present 
by  the  past. 

SOPHOCLES. — (Edipus  Tyrannus. 

Man  hath  a  weary  pilgrimage 

As  through  the  world  he  wends  : 
On  every  stage  from  youth  to  age 

Still  discontent  attends  ; 
With  heaviness  he  casts  his  eye 

Upon  the  road  before, 
And  still  remembers  with  a  sigh 

The  days  that  are  no  more. 

SOUTHEY. — Remembrance. 

Danger  well   past   remembered   work's 
delight. 

EARL  OF  SURREY. — Bonum  est. 

I  have  put  my  days  and  dreams  out  of 

mind, 

Days  that  are  over,  dreams  that  are  done. 
SWINBURNE. — Triumph  of  Time. 

We  praise  things  which  are  ancient, 
careless  of  those  which  are  modern. 

TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  2,  88. 

Old  things  are  always  in  good  repute, 
present  things  in  disfavour. 

TACITUS. — Dialogus  de  Oratoribus,  18. 

Let  us  alone.    Time  driveth  onward  fast, 
And  in  a  b'ttle  while  our  lips  are  dumb. 

Let  us  alone.     What  is  it  that  will  last  ? 
All  things  are  taken  from  us  and  become 

Portions  and  parcels  of  the  dreadful  Past. 
TENNYSON. — Lotos  Eaters. 


So  sad,  so  strange,  the  days  that  are  no 
more.    TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  35- 

O  Death  in  Life,  the  days   that  are  no 
more  !  TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  4>  4°- 

For  it  was  in  the  golden  prime 

Of  good  Haroun  Alraschid. 
TENNYSON. — Recollections  of  Arabian 
Nights. 

The  past,  at  least,  is  secure. 

D.  WEBSTER. — Speech. 

Old  customs,  habits,  superstitions,  fears, 
All  that  lies  buried  under  fifty  years. 

WHITTIER. — The  Countess. 

What  lies  before  me  is  my  past.  I  have 
got  to  make  myself  look  on  that  with  dif- 
ferent eyes,  to  make  God  look  on  it  with 
different  eyes.  This  I  cannot  do  by  ig- 
noring it,  or  slighting  it,  or  praising  it,  or 
denying  it.  OSCAR  WILDE. — De  Profundis. 

What  are  mony  o'  the  pleasures  o* 
memory,  sirs,  but  the  pains  o'  the  past 
spiritualeezed  ? 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  31  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 

The  thought  of  our  past  years  in  me  doth 

breed 
Perpetual  benediction. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  9. 

'Tis  greatly  wise  to  talk  with  our  past 

hours : 
And  ask  them  what  report  they  bore  to 

Heaven. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

Say  not  thou,  What  is  the  cause  that  the 
former  days  were  better  than  these  ?  for 
thpu  dost  not  enquire  wisely  concerning 
this.  Ecclesiastes  vii,  10. 

He  praises  al  thing  that  es  gon, 
O  present  thing  he  praises  non. 

Cursor  Mundi  (i^th  Cent.). 

There  are  no  birds  in  last  year's  nest. 

Spanish  prov. 

PATHOS 

Some  things  are  of  that  nature  as  to  make 
One's  fancy  chuckle,  while  his  heart  doth 

ache. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  2,  Pref. 

Strains  that  sigh  and  words  that  weep. 

D.  MALLET. — Funeral  Hymn. 

PATIENCE 

With  close-lipped  patience  for  our  only 

friend, 

Sad   patience,   too  near   neighbour   to 
despair. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Scholar  Gipsy,  st.  20. 


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I    worked   with    patience,    which    means 

almost  power. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  3. 

O  he  is  patient,  and  he  will  await 

Century  after  century  in  peace, 

So  that  he  hears  sweet  songs  of  her  he 

seeks, 

So  that  his  guides  do  speak  to  him  of  her, 

So  that  he  thinks  to  clasp  her  in  the  end. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Titan  and  Avatar,  2. 

Our  patience  will  achieve  more  than  our 
force.  BURKE. — Reflections  on  the 

Revolution, 

Hope  and  patience  are  two  sovereign 
remedies  for  all,  the  surest  reposals,  the 
softest  cushions  to  lean  on  in  adversity. 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy, 
Pt.  2,  3,  3. 

Pacience  is  an  high  vertu  certeyn  ; 
For  it  vanquisheth,  as  these  clerkes  seyn, 
Thinges    that    rigour    [harshness]    sholde 
never  atteyne. 

CHAUCER. — Franklin's  Tale,  45. 

This  vertu  [Patience]  maketh  a  man  lyk 
to  God,  and  maketh  him  Goddes  owene 
dere  child,  as  seith  Crist. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  50. 

He  hasteth  wel  that  wysely  can  abide. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus. 

Patience  is  sorrow's  salve  ;   what  can't  be 

cured, 

So  Donald  right  areads,  must  be  endured. 
CHURCHILL. — Prophecy  of  Famine,  360. 

A  patient  man  's  a  pattern  for  a  king. 
DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Pt.  2,  Act  5. 

Great  Prize  Competition  for  Patience — 
Hawkins,  First  Prize ;  Job,  Honourable 
Mention. 

MR.  JUSTICE  HAWKINS. — At 
Nottingham  Assizes. 

For  troubles  wrought  of  men 
Patience  is  hard — I  tell  you  it  is  hard. 
JEAN  INGELOW. — Brothers  and  a  Sermon, 

503- 

It  may  be  well  to  wait  a  century  for  a 
reader,  as  God  has  waited  six  thousand 
years  for  an  observer. 

JOHN  KEPLER  (1571-1630). 

We  should  be  lowe  and  loveliche,  and  leel 

eche  man  to  other, 
And  pacient  as  pilgrimes,  for  pilgrimes  are 

we  all.      LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman t 
Passus  13,  129. 

Patience  is  an  important  part  of  justice. 
PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. 

Patience  is  bitter,  but  its  truit  is  sweet. 
ROUSSEAU. 


Though  patience  be  a  tired  mare,  yet 
she  will  plod.  i 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  2,  i. 

"Tis  all  men's  office  to  speak  patience 
To  those  that  wring   under  the   load  of 
sorrow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  i. 

How  poor  are  they  that  have  not  patience  ! 

What  wound  did  ever  heal,  but  by  degrees? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Patience,    thou    young    and    rose-lipped 
cherubim  !  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  2. 

She   sat    like   patience   on   a  monument, 
Smiling  at  grief. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

Keep  a  thing,  its  use  will  come. 

TENNYSON.— The  Epic. 

Birdie,  rest  a  little  longer, 
Till  the  little  wings  are  stronger. 
So  she  rests  a  little  longer, 
Then  she  flies  away. 

TENNYSON. — Sea  Dreams. 

God's  ways  seem  dark,  but  soon  or  late 
They  touch  the  shining  hills  of  day  ; 
The  evil  cannot  brook  delay, 

The  good  can  well  afford  to  wait. 

WHITTIER. — Lines  to  Friends. 

Ye  have  heard  of  the  patience  of  Job. 

St.  James  v,  1 1 . 

The  king  himself  must  wait  while  his 
beer  is  being  drawn,  and  the  queen  cannot 
eat  honey  till  the  bees  have  made  it. 

Given  as  a  "  saying  "  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

Though  God  take  the  sun  out  of  heaven , 
yet  we  must  have  patience. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

Patience  is  a  flower  that  grows  not  in 
everyone's  garden.  Prov.  (Ray). 

Patience  is  the  greatest  prayer. 

Hindu  prov.  (a  saying  of  Buddha). 

Patience  conquers  the  world. 

Italian  prov. 

Patience  !   and  shuffle  the  cards  ! 

Spanish  prov.  found  in  "  Don  Quixote." 

Patience  is  the  key  of  Paradise. 

Turkish  prov. 
PATRIOTISM 

These  gentry  are  invariably  saying  all 
they  can  in  dispraise  of  their  native  land  ; 
and  it  is  my  opinion,  grounded  upon  expe- 
rience, that  an  individual  who  is  capable 
of  such  baseness  would  not  hesitate  at  the 
perpetration  of  any  villainy,  for  next  to  the 
love  of  God,  the  love  of  country  is  the  best 
preventive  of  crime. 

BORROW. — Bible  in  Spain. 


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Here  and  here  did  England  help  me  :   how 

can  I  help  England  ? — say 
Whoso  turns  as  I,  this  evening,  turn  to 

God  to  praise  and  pray, 
While  Jove's  planet  rises  yonder,  silent 

over  Africa. 

BROWNING. — Home  Thoughts,  from  the 

Sea. 

One  likes  to  die  where  his  father  before  him 

Died,  with  the  same  sky  shinin'  o'er  him. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — White  Rose  and  Red. 

He  who  loves  not  his  country  can  love 
nothing.  BYRON. — Two  Foscari. 

The  patriot's  blood  's  the  seed  of  Free- 
dom's tree. 

CAMPBELL. — Spanish  Patriots. 

"  My  country,  right  or  wrong,"  is  a 
thing  that  no  patriot  would  think  of  saying 
except  in  a  desperate  case.  It  is  like  say- 
ing, "  My  mother,  drunk  or  sober." 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — The  Defendant. 

Who  loves  his  country  cannot  hate  man- 
kind. CHURCHILL. — The  Farewell,  300. 

Dear  are  our  parents,  dear  are  our  chil- 
dren, our  neighbours,  our  companions  ;  but 
all  the  affections  of  all  men  are  bound  up 
in  their  own  native  land. 

CICERO. — De  Officiis,  Bk.  i,  17. 

Our  country !     In  her  intercourse  with 
foreign  nations  may  she  always  be  in  the 
right ;    but  our  country,  right  or  wrong. 
S.  DECATUR. — Toast,  April,  1816. 

Then,  seized  with  fear,  yet  still  affecting 

fame, 

Usurped  a  patriot's  all-atoning  name. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel,  Pt.  i, 

178. 

Never  was  patriot  yet,  but  was  a  fool. 

DRYDEN. — Ib.,  Pt.  i,  969. 

Is  it  an  offence,  is  it  a  mistake,  is  it  a 
crime  to  take  a  hopeful  view  of  the  pro- 
spects of  your  own  country  ?  Why  should 
it  be  ?  Why  should  patriotism  and  pessi- 
mism be  identical  ?  Hope  is  the  main- 
spring of  patriotism. 

D.  LLOYD  GEORGE. — House  of  Commons, 
Oct.  30,  1919. 

Strike — for  your  altars  and  your  fires  ! 
Strike — for  the  green  graves  of  your  sires  ! 

God — and  your  natiye  land  ! 
FiizGREENE  HALLECK. — Marco  Bozzaris. 

When  shall  the  saner,  softer  polities, 
Whereof  we  dream,  have  play  in  each 

proud  land, 
And  patriotism,  grown  Godlike,  scorn  to 

stand 
Bondslave  to  realms,  but  circle  earth  and 

seas  ?  T.  HARDY. — Departure. 


Life  is  good  and  joy  runs  high 
Between  English  earth  and  sky : 
Death  is  death  :  but  we  shall  die 
To  the  Song  on  your  bugles  blown, 
England. 

W.  E.  HENLEY. — Rhymes. 

Patriotism  is  the  last  refuge  of  a  scoun- 
drel. JOHNSON. — Remark,  1775. 

Far  dearer  the  grave  or  the  prison, 
Illumed  by  one  patriot  name. 

Than  the  trophies  of  all  who  have  risen 
On  liberty's  ruins  to  fame  ! 

MOORE. — Forget  not  the  field. 

A  patriot  is  a  fool  in  every  age. 

POPE. — -Satires,  Epilogue. 

Where  there  is  no  longer  such  a  thing  as 
native  land  there  can  be  no  citizens.  Those 
two  words  patrie  (native  land)  and  citoyens 
(citizens)  ought  to  be  expunged  from 
modern  languages.  I  know  the  reason  very 
well,  but  I  do  not  choose  to  tell  it. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Breathes  there  the  man,  with  soul  so  dead, 
Who  never  to  himself  hath  said, 

This  is  my  own,  my  native  land  ? 
Whose  heart  hath  ne'er  within  him  burned, 
As  home  his  footsteps  he  hath  turned, 

From  wandering  on  a  foreign  strand  ? 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  6,  i. 

Where's  the  coward  that  would  not  dare 
To  fight  for  such  a  land  ? 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  c.  4,  30. 

Stood  for  his  country's  glory  fast, 
And  nailed  her  colours  to  the  mast. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  i,  Intro. 

He  died  a  gallant  knight, 
With  sword  in  hand,  for  England's  right. 
SCOTT. — Ib.,  c.  6,  37. 

Who  is  here  so  vile  that  will  not  love  his 
country  ?  If  any,  speak  ;  for  him  I  have 
offended. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  3,  2. 

You  '11  never  have  a  quiet  world  till  you 
knock  the  patriotism  out  of  the  human 
race.  G.  B.  SHAW. — O'Flaherty,  V.C. 

My  country,  'tis  of  thee, 
Sweet  land  of  liberty — 

Of  thee  I  sing. 
DR.  S.  F.  SMITH. — National  Hymn. 

True  patriotism  is  of  no  party. 

SMOLLETT. — Sir  L.  Greaves. 

"  Libertas  et  natale  solum  !  " 
Fine  words,  indeed  !    I  wonder  where  he 
stole  'em. 

SWIFT. — On  Chief  Justice  Whitshed's 
Motto. 


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None  loves  his  king  and  country  better, 
Yet  none  was  ever  less  their  debtor. 

SWIFT. — Pastoral  Dialogue,  1727. 

Yet  all  things  good  await 
Him  who  cares  not  to  be  great, 
Hut  as  he  saves  or  serves  the  state. 
Not  once  or  twice  in  our  rough  island-story 
The  path  of  duty  was  the  way  to  glory. 

TENNYSON. — On  Wellington. 

Yet  in  whose  fiery  love  for  their  own  land 
No  hatred  of  another's  finds  a  place. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Wales. 

Hands  across  the  sea  ! 
Feet  on  English  ground  ! 
The  old  blood  is  bold  blood   the  whole 
world  round. 

BYRON  WEBBER. — Song. 

Go,  tell  the  Spartans,  thou  that  passest  by, 
That  here  obedient  to  their  laws  we  lie. 

Greek  epitaph. 

This  have  I  done  (quoth  he) 
For  lovely  England's  sake. 
Old  Ballad.  Honour  of  a  London  Prentice. 

PATRONAGE 

The  mud  of  English  patronage 
Grows  round  his  feet,  and  keeps  him  down. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Edward  Crowhurst.  i. 

Is  not  a  patron,  my  lord,  one  who  looks 
with  unconcern  on  a  man  struggling  for 
life  in  the  water,  and  when  he  has  reached 
ground  encumbers  him  with  help  ? 

JOHNSON. — To  Lord  Chesterfield,  1755. 

Patron :  Commonly  a  wretch  who  sup- 
ports with  insolence,  and  is  paid  with 
flattery.  JOHNSON. — Dictionary. 

Let  there  be  Maecenases  and  there  will 
not  be  wanting  Virgils. 

MARTIAL. — Bk.  8,  56. 

Getting  Patronage  is  the  whole  art  of 
life.  A  man  cannot  have  a  career  without 
it.  G.  B.  SHAW. — Capt.  Brassbound. 

PATTER 

This     particularly     rapid,     unintelligible 

patter 
Isn't  generally  heard,  and  if  it  is  it  doesn't 

matter ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

PAUPERISM  AND  POOR  LAWS 

Parish  pay  is  hush  money. 

H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  PL  3. 

The  right  of  the  state  to  require  the 
services  of  its  members,  even  to  the 
jeoparding  of  their  livss  in  the  common 


defence,  establishes  a  right  in  the  people 
.  .  .  to  public  support,  when,  from  any 
cause,  they  may  be  unable  to  support 
themselves. 

WORDSWORTH.  —  Postscript  [to  Preface) 


PAYMENT 

Alas  !   how  deeply  painful  is  all  payment  ! 
BYRON.  —  Don  Juan,  c.  10,  79. 

Wise  men  aver  it  is  the  English  way 
Never  to  grumble  till  they  come  to  pay. 
DEFOE.  —  True-born  Englishman.  Britannia, 

84, 
Base  is  the  slave  that  pays. 

SHAKESPEARE.  —  Henry  V.t  Act  2,  I. 

Pay  beforehand  and  your  work  will  be 
behindhand.  Prov. 

PEACE 

Calm  soul  of  all  things  !  make  it  mine 
To  feel,  amid  the  city's  jeer, 
That  there  abides  a  peace  of  thine, 
Man  did  not  make,  and  cannot  mar. 
MATTHEW  ARNOLD.  —  In  Kensington 
Gardens. 

There's  but  the  twinkling  of  a  star 
Between  a  man  of  peace  and  war. 

BUTLER.  —  Hudibras,  PL  2,  c.  3. 

Peace  is  to  be  produced  by  victory,  not 
by  negotiation.  CICERO. 

You  [Meneclides]  are  counselling  slavery 
in  the  name  of  ease.  For  peace  is  pro- 
duced by  war. 

CORNELIUS  NEPOS.  —  15,  Epaminondas. 

Peace  itself  is  war  in  masquerade. 

DRYDEN.  —  Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
PL  i,  752. 

Those  who  in  quarrels  interpose, 
Must  often  wipe  a  bloody  nose. 

J.  GAY.—  Fables,  Pt.  i,  34. 

So  were  it  good  if  at  this  tyde 
That  every  man  upon  his  syde 
Besought  and  prayed  for  the  peace 
Which  is  the  cause  of  all  increase, 
Of  worship,  and  of  worldes  wealth, 
Of  hertes  rest,  and  soules  health. 
GOWER.  —  Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  i. 

Without  peace  stondeth  nothing  good. 
GOWER.  —  Ib. 

Plenty  breeds  Pride  ;  Pride,  Envy  ;  Envy 

Warre  ; 

Warre,  Poverty  ;    Poverty,  humble  Care. 
Humility  breeds  Peace  and  Peace  breeds 

Plenty. 
Thus  rounde  this  world  doth  roale  alter- 

nately. 

ROBERT  HAYMAN.  —  Quodlibels  (1628) 

(Founded  on  traditional  sayings  to  this 

<ff"t). 


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PEACE 


PEASANTRY 


Ef  you  want  peace,  the  thing  you've  gut 

to  du 
Is  jes'  to  show  you're  up  to  fightin',  tu. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers, 
znd  Series,  2. 

The  inglorious  arts  of  peace. 

A.  MARVELL. — Horatian  Ode. 

Nor  war  nor  battle's  sound 
Was  heard  the  world  around  : 
The  idle  spear  and  shield  were  high  up 
hung.  MILTON. — Nativity  Hymn. 

The  brazen  throat  of  war  had  ceased  to 

roar  : 

All  now  was  turned  to  jollity  and  game, 
To  luxury  and  riot,  feast  and  dance. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  u,  713. 

Teace  to  corrupt  no  less  than  war  to  waste. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  n,  784. 

Peace  hath  her  victories 
No  less  renowned  than  war. 

MILTON. — Sonnet. 

No  vain  desire  of  unknown  things 
Shall  vex  you  there,  no  hope  or  fear 
Of  that  which  never  draweth  near  ; 
But  in  that  lovely  land  and  still 
Ye  may  remember  what  ye  will, 
And  what  ye  will  forget  for  aye. 

W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  14,  368. 

These  honours   Peace   to  happy  Britain 

brings  ; 
These   are   imperial   works    and    worthy 

kings. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  4,  /.  203. 

Plenty  is  the  child  of  peace. 

W.  PRYNNE. — Histrio-Mastix. 

'Twere  good 

That  kings  would  think  withal, 
When   peace  and  wealth  their  land  has 

blessed 

"Tis  better  to  sit  still  and  rest, 
Than  rise,  perchance  to  fall. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  4,  29. 

The  cankers  of  a  calm  world  and  a  long 
peace.  SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 

Act  4,  2. 
A  moth  of  peace. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

Our  stern  alarums  changed  for  merry 

meetings, 
Our  dreadful  marches  to  delightful 

measures. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  i. 

Grim-visaged    war    hath    smoothed    his 

wrinkled  front, 
And  now, — instead  of  mounting  barbed 

steeds,  .  .  . 

He  capers  nimbly  in  a  lady's  chamber, 
To  the  lascivious  pleasing  of  a  lute. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 


Not  thus  doth  Peace  return. 
A  blessed  visitant  she  comes  ; 
Honour  in  his  right  hand 
Doth  lead  her  like  a  bride. 

SOUTHEY — Carmina  Aulica  (1814). 

Only  the  laurel  got  by  peace 
No  thunder  e'er  can  blast, 
And  ever  green  and  flourishing  will  last. 
SWIFT.— To  Sir  W.  Temple. 

It  was  rather  a  cessation  of  war  than  a 
beginning  of  peace.  TACITUS. — Hist. 

Ah  !   when  shall  all  men's  good 
Be  each  man's  rule,  and  universal  Peace 
Lie  like  a  shaft  of  light  across  the  land, 
And  like  a  lane  of  beams  athwart  the  sea  ? 
TENNYSON. — Golden  Year. 

Why  do  they  prate  of  the  blessings  of 
Peace  ?    We  have  made  them  a  curse, 

Pickpockets,  each  hand  lusting  for  all  that 
is  not  its  own. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  i,  6. 

The  surly  murmurs  of  the  people  cease  ; 
And  as  the  Fates  required,  they  give  the 
peace. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  i  (Dryden). 

Sweet  Mercy  !    to  the  gates  of  Heaven 
Th;s  minstrel  lead,  his  sins  forgiven  ; 
The  rueful  conflict,  the  heart  riven 

With  vain  endeavour, 
And  memory  of  Earth's  bitter  leaven 

Effaced  for  ever. 
WORDSWORTH. — On  the  Banks  of  Nith. 

Saying,  Peace,  peace  ;  when  there  is  no 
peace.  Jeremiah  vi,  14. 

Though  peace  be  made,  yet  it 's  interest 
that  keeps  peace. 

Quoted  by  Cromwell,  Sept.  4,  1654,  as  "  a 
maxim  not  to  be  despised." 

Peace    maketh    Plenty,    Plenty    maketh 

Pride, 
Pride  maketh  plee  [pleasure],  Plee  maketh 

Poverty, 
Poverty  maketh  peace. 

1 5th  Century  saying  (of  older  origin) 
(vide  p.  365),  Hayman. 

Where  there  is  peace,  God  is. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 
PEASANTRY 

The  villager,  born  humbly  and  bred  hard, 
Content  his  wealth,  and  poverty  his  guard, 

His  means  but  scanty,  and  his  wan»  but 

few, 

Labour  his  business  and  his  pleasure  too, 
Enjoys  more  comforts,  in  a  single  hour, 
Than  ages  give  the  wretch  condemned  to 

power.     CHURCHILL. — Gotham,  Bk.  3, 


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PEDANTRY 


PENSIONS 


111  fares  the  land,  to  hastening  ills  a  prey, 

Where  wealth  accumulates,  and  men 
decay  ; 

Princes  and  lords  may  flourish,  or  may 
fade  ; 

A  breath  can  make  them  as  a  breath  has 
made  : 

But  a  bold  peasantry,  their  country's 
pride, 

When  once  destroyed  can  never  be  sup- 
plied. GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

PEDANTRY 

A  Babylonish  dialect 

Which  learned  pedants  much  affect. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pi.  i,  c.  i. 

He  [Magis]  is  not  a  man  at  all — he  's 
a  lecture  (une  tirade). 

LABICHE. — Le  Capitaine  Tic. 

What's  all  the  noisy  jargon  of  the  schools 
But  idle  nonsense  of  laborious  fools, 
Who  fetter  reason  with  perplexing  rules  ? 
JOHN  POMFRET. — Reason,  57. 

They  purchase  knowledge  at  the  expense 
Of  common  breeding,  common  sense, 
And  grow  at  once  scholars  and  fools. 

SWIFT. — To  Sir  W.  Temple. 

PEDIGREE 

A  degenerate  nobleman,  or  one  that  is 
proud  of  his  birth,  is  like  a  turnip.  There 
is  nothing  good  of  him  but  what  is  under- 
ground. S.  BUTLER. — Characters. 

I  can  trace  my  ancestry  back  to  a  proto- 
plasmal  primordial  atomic  globule. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

The  fascination  of  pedigree-hunting  no 

doubt  lies  in  its  inscrutable  conundrums. 

FREDERIC  HARRISON. — John  Ruskin 

(Eng.  Men  of  Letters  Series),  ch.  i. 

Nor  stand  so  much  on  your  gentility, 
Which  is  an  airy  and  mere  borrowed  thing, 
From  dead  men's  dust  and  bones,   and 

none  of  yours, 

Unless  you  make  or  hold  it. 
BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man  in  his  Humour, 

Act  i,  i. 

To  have  the  feeling  of  gentility  it  is  not 
necessary  to  have  been  born  gentle. 

LAMB. 

They  talk  about  their  Pilgrim  blood, 
Their  birthright  high  and  holy  ! 

A  mountain-stream  that  ends  in  mud 
Methinks  is  melancholy. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Interview  with  Miles 
Standish. 

A  penniless  lass  wi*  a  lang  pedigree. 
BARONESS  NAIRN. — Laird  of  Cockpen. 


Better  be  the  best  of  a  bad  family  than 
the  worst  of  a  good  one. 

GREGORIUS  NAZIANZEN. — (Greek.) 

Nobles  and  heralds,  by  your  leave, 

Here  lies  what  once  was  Matthew  Prior  ; 

The  son  of  Adam  and  of  Eve : 

Can  Bourbon  or  Nassau  claim  higher  ? 
PRIOR. — Epitaph  on  himself. 

No  tenth  transmitter  of  a  foolish  face. 
R.  SAVAGE. — Bastard. 

What  can  they  see  in  the  longest  kingly 
line  in  Europe,  save  that  it  runs  back  to 
a  successful  soldier  ? 

SCOTT. — Woodstock,  Vol.  2,  ch.  37. 

Each  has  his  own  tree  of  ancestors,  but 
at  the  top  of  all  sits  Probably  Arboreal. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Memories. 

From  yon  blue  heavens  above  us  bent 
The  gardener  Adam  and  his  wife 
Smile  at  the  claims  of  long  descent. 

TENNYSON. — Clara  Vere  de  Vere. 

From  whence  came  Smith,  albe  he  knight 

or  squire, 

But  from  the  smith  that  forgeth  at  the 
fire? 

RICH-D.  VERSTEGAN. — Restitution  of 
Decayed  Intelligence  (c.  1630). 

Who  is  born  in  the  purple  is  seldom 
worthy  of  it.  VOLTAIRE. — Brutus,  Act  2. 

You  should  study  the  Peerage,  Gerald. 
...  It  is  the  best  thing  in  fiction  the 
English  have  ever  done. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  No 
Importance,  Act  3. 

Mules  boast  much  that  their  ancestors 
were  horses.  German  prov. 

PENITENCE 

Gloomy  penitence  is  only  madness 
turned  upside  down. 

JOHNSON. — In  Boswell's  "  Life." 

I  do  not  shame 

To  tell  you  what  I  was,  since  my  conversion 
So  sweetly  tastes,  being  the  thing  I  am. 

SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It, 
Act  4,  3. 

The  lowliest  garb  of  penitence  and  prayer. 
S.  J.  STONE. — Weary  of  Earth. 

Repentance  is  the  May  of  the  virtues. 

Chinese  prov. 

PENSIONS 

Pension  :  An  allowance  made  to  anyone 

without  an  equivalent.     In  England  it  is 

generally  understood  to  mean  pay  given  to 

a  state  hireling  for  treason  to  his  country. 

JOHNSON. — Dictionary. 


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PEOPLE 


PERFORMANCE 


PEOPLE 

A  people  is  but  the  attempt  of  many 
To  rise  to  the  completer  life  of  one. 

BROWNING. — Luria,  Act  5. 

In  all  forms  of  government  the  people 
is  the  true  legislator. 

BURKE. — Tracts  on  Popery  Laws. 

But  while  we  sing  "  God  save  the  King," 
We'll  ne'er  forget  the  People. 

BURNS. — Dumfries  Volunteers. 

O  stormy  peple  !    unsad  [unsettled]  and 

ever  untrewe ; 

Ay  undiscreet  and  chaunging  as  a  vane, 
Delyting  ever  in  rumbel  [rumour]  that  is 

newe.     CHAUCER. — Clerk's  Tale,  939. 

And  what  the  people  but  a  herd  confused, 
A  miscellaneous  rabble,  who  extol 
Things  vulgar  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  3,  49. 

O  People  keen 
For  change,  to  whom  the  new  looks  ever 

green  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  33. 

PERCEPTION 

Minds  that  have  nothing  to  confer 
Find  little  to  perceive. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  on  the 
Affections,  No.  16. 

He  that  sits  on  the  giant's  shoulder  sees 
further  than  the  giant.  French  prov. 

PERDITION 

The  gates  of  hell  are  open  night  and  day  ; 

Smooth  the  descent,  and  easy  is  the  way. 

DRYDEN. — JEnevd,  Bk.  6,  192. 

PERFECTION 

Nor  was  perfection  made  for  man  below. 
BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  6. 

If  you  get  simple  beauty,  and  nought  else, 

You  get  about  the  best  thing  God  invents. 

BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo. 

In  virtues  nothing  earthly  could  surpass 

her, 

Save  thine  "  incomparable  oil,"  Macassar  ! 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  st.  17. 

What  is  better  than  wisdom  ?  Woman. 
And  what  is  better  than  a  good  woman  ? 
Nothing.  CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus. 

Thou  hast  no  faults,  or  I  no  faults  can 

spy; 

Thou  art  all  beauty,  or  all  blindness  I. 
C.  CODRINGTON. — Lines  to  Garth  on  his 
"  Dispensary  "  (1696). 

Mind  cannot  follow  it,  nor  words  express 
Her  infinite  sweetness. 

DANTE, — Paradise,  14,  75  (Gary  lr.). 


My  natural  instinct  teaches  me 
(And  instinct  is  important  O  !) 

You're  everything  you  ought  to  be, 
And  nothing  that  you  oughtn't  O  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Death  ere  thou  hast  slain  another, 
Learn'd  and  fair  and  good  as  she, 
Time  shall  throw  a  dart  at  thee. 

BEN  JONSON. — On  Lady  Pembroke. 

Take  away  the  idea  of  perfection,  and 
you  take  away  enthusiasm. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

The  nobler  and  more  perfect  a  thing  is, 
the  later  and  the  slower  it  is  in  reaching 
maturity. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Women. 

A  maid 

That  paragons  description  and  wild  fame  ; 
One  that  excels  the  quirks  of  blazoning 
pens. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  I. 

No  one  can  be  perfectly  free  till  all  are 
free ;  no  one  can  be  perfectly  moral  till 
all  are  moral ;  no  one  can  be  perfectly 
happy  till  all  are  happy. 

H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  ch.  28,  16. 

Faultily  faulty,  icily  regular,  splendidly 

null, 
Dead  perfection,  no  more. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  2. 

The   Grecian   artist   gleaned   from   many 

faces, 

And  in  a  perfect  whole  the  parts  com- 
bined, 
So  have   I   counted   o'er   dear   women's 

graces 

To  form  the  Mary  of  my  ardent  mind. 
H.  T.  TUCKERMAN. — Mary. 

To  keep  in  sight  Perfection,  and  adore 
The  vision,  is  the  artist's  best  delight. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Epigrams. 

Let  other  bards  of  angels  sing, 
Bright  suns  without  a  spot ; 
But  thou  art  no  such  perfect  thing : 
Rejoice  that  thou  art  not ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  on  tht 
Affections,  No.  15. 

Trust  not  a  man  ;  we  are  by  nature  false, 

Dissembling,  subtle,  cruel,  and  inconstant. 

OTWAY. — The  Orphan,  Act  2,  i. 

Perfidious  she  is,  but  however  perfidious 
still  she  is  dear. 

TIBULLUS. — Bk.  3,  7,  24. 

PERFORMANCE 

He  made  no  answer  ;  but  he  took  the  city. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  7,  53 

(referring  to  Suwaroff), 


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PERFUME 


PERSISTENCE 


To  fair  request 
Silent  performance  maketh  best  return. 

DANTE. — Hell  (Gary's  lr.),  c.  24,  74. 

When  thou  dost  purpose  ought  (within  thy 

power), 
Be  sure  to  do  it,  though  it  be  but  small. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

And  what  he  greatly  thought   he  nobly 
dared.          POPE.— -Odyssey,  Bk.  2,  312. 

I  carena  if  the  fire  gae  about  the  roast, 
or  the  roast  gae  about  the  fire,  if  the  meat 
be  ready.  Scottish  prov. 

PERFUME 

I  cannot  talk  with  civet  in  the  room, 
A  fine  puss  gentleman  that's  all  perfume  ; 
The  sight's  enough — no  need  to  smell  a 
beau  !      COWPER. — Conversation,  283. 

A  woman  smells  best  when  she  smells  of 
nothing. 

PLAUTUS. — Moslellaria,  i,  3,  116. 

He  was  perfumed  like  a  milliner. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

PERIODS 

These  are  the  times  that  try  men's  souls. 
THOS.  PAINE. — American  Crisis. 

For  in  the  fatness  of  these  pursy  times 
Virtue  itself  of  vice  must  pardon  beg. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

The  splendid  period  of  Louis  XIV. — 
that  period  our  glory,  our  model,  and  our 
despair. 

VOLTAIRE. — Irene  (Pref.  Letter,  1778). 

PERJURY 

For  breaking  of  an  oath  and  lying 
Is  but  a  kind  of  self-denying, 
A  saint-like  virtue  ;    and  from  hence 
Some  have  broke  oaths  by  Providence. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  2. 

Perjury,  that  heaven-defying  vice, 

Sells  oaths  by  tale,  and  at  the  lowest  price, 

Stamps  God's  own  name  upon  a  lie  just 

made, 
To  turn  a  penny  in  the  way  of  trade. 

COWPER. — fable-Talk,  419. 

PERSECUTION 

Religious  persecution  may  shield  itself 
under  the  guise  of  a  mistaken  and  over- 
zealous  piety. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 
(Feb.  17,  1788). 

They  lived  unknown, 
Till  Persecution  dragged  them  into  fame, 
And  chased  them  up  to  Heaven. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 


Ignorance  and  fear  combined  have  made 
the  religious  annals  of  mankind  the  most 
hideous  chapters  in  history. 

FROUDE. — Short  Studies,  Party 
Politics. 

Persecution  produced  its  natural  effect 
on  them.  It  found  them  a  sect :  it  made 
them  a  faction. 

MACAULAY. — Hist,  of  England,  ch.  i. 

When  men  of  ability  are  punished,  their 
authority  spreads. 

TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  4. 

I  ask  who  has  most  religion,  the  calum- 
niator, who  persecutes,  or  the  calumniated, 
who  forgives. 

VOLTAIRE. — Alzire,  Prelim.  Discourse. 

But  who  would  force  the  soul,  tilts  with  a 

straw 

Against  a  champion  cased  in  adamant. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  3,  7. 

PERSISTENCE 

If  the  fool  would  persist  in  his  folly  he 
would  become  wise. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

Obstinacy  in  a  bad  cause  is  but  con- 
stancy in  a  good. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici, 
Pt.  i,  sec.  25. 

Enter,  but  this  warning  hear  : 
He  forth  again  departs  who  looks  behind. 
DANTE. — Purgatory  (Gary's  tr.),  c.  9. 

Nor  yet  perceived  the  vital  spirit  fled, 
But  yet  fought  on,  nor  knew  that  he  was 

dead. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — From  the  Italian 
(Essay  on  Irish  Bulls,  ch.  6). 

If  goodness  lead  him  not,  yet  weariness 
May  toss  him  to  my  breast. 

HERBERT. — The  Pulley. 

'Tis  a  lesson  you  should  heed, 

Try,  try,  try  again. 
If  at  first  you  don't  succeed, 

Try,  try,  try  again. 
W.  E.  HICKSON. — Try  and  try  again. 

The  heights  by  great  men  reached  and  kept 
Were  not  attained  by  sudden  flight, 

But  they,  while  the.ir  companions  slept, 
Were  toiling  upward  in  the  night. 

LONGFELLOW. — St.  Augustine. 

Let  us  then  be  up  and  doing, 
With  a  heart  for  any  fate  ; 

Still  achieving,  still  pursuing, 
Learn  to  labour  and  to  wait. 

LONGFELLOW. — Psalm  of  Life. 

What  is  harder  than  rock,  what  softer 
than  water  ?  Yet  hard  rocks  are  hollowed 
out  by  soft  water,  OVID. — Ars  A  mat. 


PERSONALITIES 


PERVERSITY 


A  great  devotee  of  the  Gospel  of  Getting 
On. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Mrs.  Warren's  Profession, 

Act  4. 

No  rock  so  hard  but  that  a  little  wave 

May  beat  admission  in  a  thousand  years. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  3,  138. 

God  is  with  those  who  persevere. 

Koran,  ch.  8. 

For  Witherington  my  heart  is  wo, 

As  one  in  doleful  dumps  ; 
For  when  his  legs  were  smitten  off, 

He  fought  upon  his  stumps. 

Chevy  Chase  (i5th  century). 

By  perseverance  the  snail  reached  the 

ark.  Saying  given  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon 

("Salt-Cellars"). 

PERSONALITIES 

Do  not  attack  persons  but  expose  the 
vices.  MARTIAL. — Epig.  10,  33. 

Forgiving  all  things  personal, 

He  hated  only  wrong  to  man. 
J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Sumner,  st.  20. 

PERSUASION 

You  can  do  anything  with  children  if 
you  only  play  with  them.  BISMARCK. 

The  great  mind  knows  the  power  of  gen- 
tleness, 
Only  tries  force  because  persuasion  fails. 

BROWNING. — Prince  Hohenstiel- 
Schwangau. 

Adding  once  more  the  music  of  her  tongue 

To  the  sweet  speech  of  her  alluring  eyes. 

SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Orchestra,  st.  97. 

But  Dick  put  a  couple  of  balls  in  his  nob 
And  perwailed  on  him  to  stop. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  43. 
(Sam  Weller's  Song.) 

Plutarch  tells  us  that  Thucydides,  when 
Archidamus,  king  of  Sparta,  asked  him 
which  was  the  best  wrestler,  Pericles  or 
he, — replied,  "  When  I  throw  him,  he  says 
he  was  never  down,  and  he  persuades  the 
very  spectators  to  believe  him." 

EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

Truth  from  his  lips  prevailed  with  double 

swav, 
And  fools.,  who  came  to  scoff,  remained  to 

pray.    GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

By    winning    words    to    conquer    willing 

hearts, 

And  make  persuasion  do  the  work  of  fear. 
MILTON.— Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  231. 

There  are  two  levers  for  moving  men — 
interest  and  fear.  NAPOLEON. 


1  have  often  heard,  Socrates,  from 
Gorgias,  that  the  art  of  persuasion  far 
excels  all  other  arts.  For  it  would  make 
all  things  its  slaves  willingly  and  not  by 
violence,  and  so  is  of  all  arts  the  best. 
PLATO. — Philebus,  136. 

Men  are  more  eloquent  than  women  made, 

But  women  are  more  powerful  to  persuade. 

T.  RANDOLPH. — Amyntas. 

He  who  has  the  truth  at  his  heart  need 
never  fear  the  want  of  persuasion  on  his 
tongue. 

RUSKIN. — Stones  of  Venice,  c.  6,  99. 

Your  gentleness  shall  force, 
More  than  your  force  move  us  to  gentle- 
ness. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

Ay,  springes  to  catch  woodcocks.     I  do 

know 
When  the  blood  burns,  how  prodigal  the 

soul 
Lends  the  tongue  vows. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  1,3. 

O,  thou  hast  damnable  iteration  ;    and 
art,  indeed,  able  to  corrupt  a  saint. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i. 

This  is  the  only  witchcraft  I  have  used. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

O  for  a  falconer's  voice, 
To  lure  this  tassel-gentle  back  again  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 

Act  2,  2. 

There  is  no  tongue  that  moves,  none  none 

i'  the  world, 

So  soon  as  yours  could  win  me. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale.  Act  1,2. 

For  love  will  not  be  drawne,  but  must  be 
ledde.    SPENSER. — Colin  Clout,  I.  129. 

His  gentle  reason  so  persuasive  stole. 
That  the  charmed  hearer  thought  it 'was 
his  own. 

THOMSON. — On  Lord  Talbol. 

Good   manners   and    soft   words   have 
brought  many  a  difficult  thing  to  pass. 
SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — jEsop,  Pt.  i,  Act  4,  2 

Who  in  his  pocket  hath  no  money, 
In  his  mouth  he  must  have  honey. 
R.  WATKYNS. — Flamma  sine  Ftimo. 

PERVERSITY 

In  truth  he  was  a  strange  and  wayward 
wight.  BEATTIE.— The  Minstrel. 

Ah,  Genoese  !  men  perverse  in  every  way, 
With  every  foulness  stained,  why  from  the 

earth 
Are  ye  not  cancelled  ? 

DANTE.— Hell  (Gary's  lr.),  c  33,  149. 


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PESSIMISM 


Men  take  more  pains  to  lose  themselves 
than  would  be  requisite  to  keep  them  in 
the  right  road. 

K.  H.  DIGBV. — Broadstone  of  Honour 
(1822). 

Look  round  the  habitable  world  !  How  few 

Know   their  own  good,   or,   knowing   it, 

pursue.  DRYDEN. — Juvenal,  Sat.  10,  i. 

Fair  moon,  to  thee  I  sing, 
Bright  regent  of  the  heavens : 

Say,  why  is  everything 

Either  at  sixes  or  at  sevens  ? 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

Irrationally  held  truths  may  be  more 
harmful  than  reasoned  errors. 

T.  H.  HUXLEY. — Science  and  Culture. 

But  was  ever  Pride  contented, 
Or  would  Folly  e'er  be  taught  ? 

W.  S.  LANDOR. — Arab  to  his  Mistress. 

Fall'n  Cherub,  to  be  weak  is  miserable, 
Doing  or  suffering  :   but  of  this  be  sure, 
To  do  ought  good  never  will  be  our  task, 
But  ever  to  do  ill  our  sole  delight. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  157. 

If  then  his  providence 
Out  of  our  evil  seek  to  bring  forth  good, 
Our  labour  must  be  to  pervert  that  end, 
And  out  of  good  still  to  find  means  of  evil. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  162. 

Daphne  knows,  with  equal  ease, 
How  to  vex  and  how  to  please  ; 
But  the  folly  of  her  sex 
Makes  her  sole  delight  to  vex. 

SWIFT. — Daphne. 
PESSIMISM 

Ay  !   you're  in  love,  I  see,  with  difficulties 
And  miseries. 

ARISTOPHANES. — The  Birds  (Hoopoe  to 
Euelpides)  (Frere  tr.). 

Some  people  always  sigh  in  thanking  God 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  i. 

One  really  lives  nowhere  ;  one  does  but 
vegetate  and  wish  it  all  at  an  end.  [Air. 
Meadows.] 

MME.  D'ARBLAY. — Cecilia,  Bk.  7,  c.  9. 

Can  anybody  remember  when  the  times 
were  not  hard,  and  money  not  scarce  ? 

EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

Fools  !  who  fancy  Christ  mistaken  ; 

Man  a  tool  to  buy  and  sell ; 
Earth  a  failure,  God-forsaken, 

Ante-room  of  Hell. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — World's  Age. 

What  need  a  man  forestall  his  date  of 

grief, 
And   run   to  meet  what  he  would  most 

avoid  ?  MILTON. — Comus,  362. 


Polydore.     Nay  then, 
Let  us  embrace,  and  from  this  very  mo- 
ment 
Vow  an  eternal  misery  together. 

Monimia.     And   wilt   thou   be   a    very 

faithful  wretch, 

Never  grow  fond  of  cheerful  peace  again  ? 
Wilt  thou  with  me  study  to  be  unhappy, 
And  find  out  ways  how  to  increase  afflic- 
tion ? 

OTWAY.- — The  Orphan,  Act  4,  2.  Original 
Ed.  1685  (omitted  in  some  later  Editions). 

Weary  waiting  and  weary  striving, 
Glad  outsetting  and  sad  arriving ; 
What  is  it  worth  when  the  goal  is  won  ? 
All  things  must  end  that  have  begun. 

JOHN  H.  PAYNE. — Kyriette. 

Who  breathes  must  suffer,  and  who  thinks 

must  mourn, 

And  he  alone  is  blessed  who  ne'er  was  born. 
PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  3,  239. 

I  have  the  secret  of  extracting  sadness 
from  all  things,  instead  of  joy. 

RUSKIN. — Letter  to  his  Mother,  1867. 

That  human  b'fe  must  be  a  kind  of  mis- 
take is  clear  from  the  fact  that  man  is  a 
compound  of  needs,  which  are  difficult 
to  satisfy  ;  and  if  they  are  satisfied,  all  that 
he  attains  is  a  state  of  painlessness,  in 
which  he  can  only  give  himself  up  to  bore- 
dom. SCHOPENHAUER. — Emptiness  of 

Existence. 

I  was  not  always  a  man  of  woe. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  2,  12. 

He  grieves  more  than  he  needs  who 
grieves  before  he  needs. 

SENECA. — Ep  95. 

It  goes  so  heavily  with  my  disposition, 
that  this  goodly  frame,  the  earth,  seems  to 
me  a  sterile  promontory  ;  this  most  excel- 
lent canopy,  the  air,  look  you, — this  brave 
o'erhanging  firmament,  this  majestical 
roof  fretted  with  golden  fire, — why,  it 
appears  no  other  thing  to  me  but  a  foul 
and  pestilent  congregation  of  vapours. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Of  comfort  no  man  speak  ; 
Let's  talk  of  graves,  of  worms,  and  epi- 
taphs. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  2. 

Let's  choose  executors  and  talk  of  wills. 
SHA  KESPEA  RE. — Ib. 

"  Do  you  know  what  a  pessimist  is  ?  " 
— "  A  man  who  thinks  everybody  as  nasty 
as  himself,  and  bates  them  for  it." 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  5. 

I  shall  never  be  friends  again  with  roses. 
SWINBURNE.— Triumph  of  Ttmt. 


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PHILOSOPHY 


I  shall  hate  sweet  music  my  whole  life  long. 
SWINBURNE. — Triumph  of  Time. 

Welcome,  kindred  glooms  ! 
Congenial  horrors,  hail ! 

THOMSON. — Seasons,  Winter. 

Away  with  this  cowardly  and  vulgar 
talk  of  man  for  ever  degenerating,  of 
everything  exhausting  itself,  and  coming 
to  an  end  !  Nature  is  inexhaustible,  and 
indefatigable  toil  is  a  god  which  reju- 
venates her.  VOLTAIRE. — A.  M  *** 

Blessed  be  nothing. 

Prov.  quoted  by  Emerson  as  expressing  "  the 
transcendentalism  of  common  life." 

PETITIONS 

From  plots  and  treasons  Heaven  preserve 

my  years, 
But  save  me  most  from  my  petitioners  ! 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pi.  I,  985. 

Petition  me  no  petitions. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Thumb,  Act  i,  2. 

Petitions  not  sweetened 
With   gold   are  but  unsavoury ;    oft  re- 
fused ; 
Or,  if  received,  are  pocketed,  not  read. 

MASSINGER. — Emperor  of  the  East, 
Act  i,  2. 

A  short  petition  to  a  great  man  is  not 
only  a  suit  to  him  for  his  favour,  but  also 
a  panegyric  upon  his  parts. 

R.  SOUTH. — Sermon  16. 
PETTINESS 

The  most  disagreeable  two-legged  ani- 
mal I  know  is  a  little  great  man  ;  and  the 
next,  a  little  great  man's  factotum  and 
friend.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Thou  canst  not  mean  so  poorly  as  thou 
talk'st. 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  2,  3. 

These  little  things  are  great  to  little  men. 
GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

Small  things  become  a  small  man. 

HORACE. — Ep.,  Bk.  i. 

Those  who  apply  themselves  too  much 
to  little  things  usually  become  incapable 
of  great  things. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  41. 

In  men  this  blunder  still  you  find  : 
All  think  their  little  set  mankind. 

HANNAH  MORE. — Florio. 

The  snail,  say  the  Hindoos,  sees  nothing 
but  his  own  shell,  and  thinks  it  the  grand- 
est palace  in  the  universe. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Peter  Plymley's  Letters, 

No.  10. 


For  who  would  be  satirical 
Upon  a  thing  so  very  small  ? 

SWIFT. — Dr.  Delany's  Villa. 

PHILANTHROPY 

The  drying  up  a  single  tear  has  more 
Of  honest  fame,  than  shedding  seas  of  gore. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  8,  3. 

Thy  Godlike  crime  was  to  be  kind, 
To  render  with  thy  precepts  less 
The  sum  of  human  wretchedness. 

BYRON  . — Prometheus 

Humanely  glorious  !     Men  will  weep  for 

him, 

When  many  a  guilty  martial  fame  is  dim. 
CAMPBELL. — La  Pirouse. 

Our  noble  society  for  providing  the 
infant  negroes  in  the  West  Indies  with 
flannel  waistcoats  and  moral  pocket-hand- 
kerchiefs. DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  27. 

Their  chat  on  various  subjects  ran, 
But  most  what  each  had  done  for  man. 
GAY.— Fables,  Pt.  2,  13. 

Far  other  aims  his  heart  had  learned  to 

prize  ; 
More  bent  to  raise  the  wretched  than  to 

rise.      GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Whose  glory  was,  redressing  human  wrong. 
TENNYSON. — Idylls :    Dedication. 

PHILOSOPHY 

In  the  calm  lights  of  mild  philosophy. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i,  i. 

What  then  is  that  which  is  able  to  guide 
a  man  ?  One  thing  and  only  one, — philo- 
sophy. M.  AURELIUS. 

A  little  philosophy  inclineth  man's  mind 
to    atheism ;     but    depth    in    philosophy 
bringeth  men's  minds  about  to  religion. 
BACON. — Of  Atheism. 

All  good  moral  philosophy,  as  was  said, 
is  but  a  handmaid  to  religion. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

Well,  as  I  take  it,  all  philosophy 
Is  questionable  guessing,  but  the  sense 
A  man  grows  up  with  bears  the  stamp  of 
nature. 

R.  BRIDGES. — First  Part  of  Nero, 
Act  i,  i. 
But  as  I  said, 
I  won't  philosophise,  and  will  be  read. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  10,  28. 

It  ill  becomes  a  philosopher  to  be  cast 
down  in  mind.  CICERO. 

There  is  nothing  so  absurd  that  it  might 
not  have  been  spoken  by  some  one  of  the 
philosophers. 

CICERO. — De  Divinatione,  2,  58. 


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PHILOSOPHY 


It  is  neither  possible  or  necessary  for 

all  men,  nor  for  many,  to  be  philosophers. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Literaria,  ch.  12. 

To  them  the  sounding  jargon  of  the  schools 

Seems  what  it  is — a  cap  and  bells  for  fools. 

COWPER. — Truth,  368. 

He  [Plato]  contains  the  future,  as  he 
came  out  of  the  past. 

EMERSON. — Books. 

Philosophers  dwell  in  the  moon. 

FORD. — Lovers'  Melancholy,  Act  3,  3. 

Divine  philosophy,  by  whose  pure  light 
We  first  distinguish,  then  pursue  the  right. 
GIFFORD. — Juvenal,  13,  254. 

There  is  nothing  so  ridiculous  that  has 
not  at  some  time  been  said  by  some 
philosopher. 

GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World,  16 
(from  Cicero). 

This  same  philosophy  is  a  good  horse  in 

the  stable,  but  an  arrant  jade  on  a  journey. 

GOLDSMITH. — Good-Natured  Man,  Act  i. 

Brer  Rabbit  des  [just]  put  out  fer  home. 
Wen  he  git  dar,  wat  do  he  do  ?  Do  he  go 
off  in  a  cornder  by  hisse'f,  en  wipe  he 
weepin"  eye  ?  Dat  he  don't — dat  he  don't. 
He  des  tuck  'n  wait  he  chance. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  30. 

Do  not  all  charms  fly 
At  the  mere  touch  of  cold  philosophy  ? 
KEATS. — Lamia,  PL  2. 

Philosophy  will  clip  an  angel's  wings. 
KEATS.— Jb. 

Philosophy  triumphs  easily  over  ills  past 
and  ills  to  come  ;  present  ills  triumph  over 
philosophy. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  22. 

Experience  shows  that  the  knowledge 
of  morality,  by  mere  natural  light  (how 
agreeable  soever  it  be  to  it),  makes  but 
slow  progress  and  little  advance  in  the 
world. 

LOCKE. — Reasonableness  of  Christianity. 

But  above  all  'tis  pleasantest  to  get 
The  top  of  high  Philosophy,  and  sit 
On  the  calm,  peaceful,  flourishing  head  of 

it. 
Whence   we   may   view,   deep,   wondrous 

deep  below, 

How  poor  mistaken  mortals  wandering  go, 
Seeking  the  path  to  Happiness. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  2,  6 
(Creech  tr.). 

Thou,  parent  of  Philosophy,  hast  shown 
The  way  to  Truth  by  precepts  of  thy  own. 
LUCRETIUS. — 76.,  3,  9.     (Of  Epicurus). 


Thus  from  the  Laureat  fraternity  of 
Poets  riper  years  and  the  ceaseless  round 
of  study  and  reading  led  me  to  the  shady 
spaces  of  philosophy ;  but  chiefly  to  the 
divine  volumes  of  Plato. 

MILTON. — Apology  against  a  pamphlet 
called  Smectymnuus  (1642). 

How  charming  is  divine  philosophy  ! 
Not  harsh  and  crabbed,  as  dull  fools  sup- 
pose. 

But  musical  as  is  Apollo's  lute, 
And  a  perpetual  feast  of  nectared  sweets, 
Where  no  crude  surfeit  reigns. 

MILTON. — Comus,  476. 

To  ridicule  philosophy  is  to  be  truly  a 
philosopher. 

PASCAL. — Penstes,  Pt.  i,  16,  36. 

A  man  of  business  may  talk  of  philoso- 
phy ;  a  man  who  has  none  may  practise  it. 
POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

It  is  the  path  of  the  passions  which  has 
led  me  to  philosophy.  ROUSSEAU. 

Hast  any  philosophy  in  thee,  shepherd  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  2. 

For  there  was  never  yet  philosopher 
That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  i. 

Adversity's  sweet  milk,  philosophy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  3,  3. 

Hang  up  philosophy  ! 
Unless  philosophy  can  make  a  Juliet. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

To  suck  the  sweets  of  sweet  philosophy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  i,  i. 

Bishop  Berkeley  destroyed  this  world 
in  one  volume  octavo ;  and  nothing  re- 
mained after  his  time  but  mind  ;  which 
experienced  a  similar  fate  from  the  hand 
of  Mr.  Hume  in  1737- 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  Introductory  (1804). 

Philosophy  !   the  lumber  of  the  schools. 
SWIFT.— To  Sir  W.  Temple. 

What  though  the  radiance,  which  was  once 

so  bright, 
Be  now  for  ever  taken  from  my  sight, 

Though  nothing  can  bring  back  the  hour 
Of  splendour  in  the  grass,  of  glory  in  the 

flower ; 

We  will  grieve  not,  rather  find 
Strength  in  what  remains  behind ; 

In  the  faith  that  looks  through  death, 
In  years  that  bring  the  philosophic  mind. 
WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality. 


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'PIONEERS 


PHYSICIANS 

Nor  bring,  to  see  me  cease  to  live, 
Some  doctor  full  of  phrase  and  fame, 

To  shake  his  sapient  head,  and  give 
The  ill  he  cannot  cure  a  name. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — A  Wish. 

A  skilful  leech  is  better  far 

Than  half  a  hundred  men  of  war. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  PL  i,  c.  2. 

This  is  the  way  physicians  mend  or  end  us. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  10,  42. 

In  nothing  do  men  more  nearly  approach 
the  gods  than  in  giving  health  to  men. 

CICERO. — Pro  Ligario. 

When  ill,  indeed, 

E'en  dismissing  the  doctor  don't  always 
succeed. 

G.  COLMAN. — Lodgings  for  Single 
Gentlemen. 

Every  physician,  almost,  hath  his 
favourite  disease. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  2,  e.g. 

His  wise,  rare  smile  is  sweet  with  certain- 
ties. 

\V.  E.  HENLEY.— In  Hospital,  15. 

In  fact  he  did  not  find  M.D.'s 

Worth  one  D M. 

HOOD.— Jack  Hall. 

Murderers  are  mony  leches  (physicians). 
Lord  them  amende  ! 
LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman,  Passus  6. 

For  none  but  a  clever  dialectician 
Can  hope  to  become  a  great  physician  ; 
That  has  been  settled  long  ago  ; 
Logic  makes  an  important  part 
Of  the  mystery  of  the  healing  art. 

LONGFELLOW. — Golden  Legend,  6. 

God  and  the  Doctor  we  alike  adore, 
But  only  when  in  danger,  not  before  ; 
The  danger  o'er,  both  are  alike  requited : 
God  is  forgotten  and  the  Doctor  slighted. 
ROBT.  OWEN. — Epigram  (founded  on 
Quarles,  v.  "  Soldiers  "). 

A  feeble  body  weakens  the  mind.  Hence 
the  empire  of  medicine,  an  art  more  per- 
nicious to  men  than  all  the  ills  it  pretends 
to  cure.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Throw  physic  to  the  dogs,  I'll  none  of  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  3. 

Who  knows  bis  art  but  not  his  trade. 
SWIFT. — In  Sickness  (of  Dr.  Arbuthnot, 
who  attended  him  without  fee) . 

The  learned  leeches  in  despair  depart, 
And   shake    their   beads,    desponding   of 

their  art. 

VIRGIL.— Georgics,  Bk.  3  (Dryden  tr.). 


Honour  a  physician  with  the  honour  due 
unto  him.  Ecclesiasticus  xxxviii,  i. 

And  had  suffered  many  things  of  many 
physicians,  and  had  spent  all  that  she  had 
and  was  nothing  bettered,  but  rather  grew 
worse.  St.  Mark  v,  6. 

Physician,  heal  thyself. 

St.  Luke  iv,  23  (Arabic  prov.). 

Where  there  are  three  doctors  there  are 
two  atheists.  Mediaval  Latin  prov. 

If  the  doctor  cures,  the  sun  sees  it ;  if 
he  kills,  the  earth  hides  it. 

Proverb  (Scottish?). 

A  physician  is  a  man  who  pours  drugs, 
of  which  he  knows  little,  into  a  body  of 
which  he  knows  less.  Attrib.  to  Voltaire. 

PICTURES 

Everybody  who  has  the  least  sensibility 
or  imagination  derives  a  certain  pleasure 
from  pictures. 

MACAULAY. — On  R.  Montgomery's 
poems. 

A  room  hung  with  pictures  is  a  room 
hung  with  thoughts. 

SIR  JOSHUA  REYNOLDS. 

Dost  thou  love  pictures  ?    we  will  fetch 

thee  straight 

Adonis  painted  by  a  running  brook, 
And  Cytherca  all  in  sedges  hid. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Induction,  2. 

They  are  good  furniture  pictures,  un- 
worthy of  praise  and  undeserving  of  blame. 
RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  i,  Pt.  2,  sec.  5. 

PIONEERS 

Hail  to  the  courage  which  gave  voice  to 
its  creed,  ere  the  creed  won  consecration 
from  time  ! 

M.  ARNOLD. — Haworth  Churchyard 
(Written  of  Harriet  Martineau). 

We  were  the  first  that  ever  burst 
Into  that  silent  sea. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner. 

Sleep,  ye  shall  sleep,  but  within  you 
Dwelleth  the  gift  of  the  Lord  : 
Ye  shall  have  sons  for  reward 

And  your  seed  upon  earth  shall  continue. 
L.  HOUSMAN. — House-Builder. 

Then  to  side  with  Truth  is  noble  when  we 

share  her  wretched  crust, 
Ere  her  cause  bring  fame  and  profit,  and 

'tis  prosperous  to  be  just ; 
Then  it  is  the  brave  man  chooses,  while 

the  coward  turns  aside, 
Doubting  in  his  abject  spirit,  till  his  Lord 

is  crucified. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Present  Crisis, 


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PITY 


PLAGIARISM 


To  whatever  height  we  may  carry 
human  knowledge,  I  hope  we  shall  never 
forget  those  energetic  and  enterprising 
men  who  met  the  difficulty  in  its  rudest 
shape. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  3. 

Yon  are  our  predecessors,  but  the  ser- 
vant who  carries  the  torch  and  walks  in 
front  of  his  master,  ought  not  to  regard 
himself  as  superior  to  his  master. 

VOLTAIRE. — Christian  against  Six  Jews. 

If  I  had  not  lifted  up  the  stone,  you 
had  not  found  the  jewel.  Hebrew  prov. 

PITY 

Then  cherish  pity,  lest  you  drive  an 
angel  from  your  door. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Holy  Thursday. 

Humblest  of  herte,  hyest  of  reverence, 
Benigne.  flour,  coroune  of  vertues  alle. 

CHAUCER. — Complaint  unto  Pity. 

For  pitee  renneth  sone  in  gentil  herte. 

CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale. 

Here  pity  most  doth  show  herself  alive, 
When  she  is  dead. 

DANTE. — Hell  (Gary's  tr.),  c.  20,  26 

(Virgil's  reproach  to  Dante  on  his 

pitying  AmphiraUs). 

Pity  is  sworn  servant  unto  love  ; 
And  thus  be  sure,  wherever  it  begin 
To  make  the  way,  it  lets  the  master  in. 

S.  DANIEL. — Queen's  Arcadia. 

But  they  that  han't  pity,  why  I  pities  .they. 
C.  DIBDIN. — True  Courage. 

'Twas  but  a  kindred  sound  to  move, 
For  pity  melts  the  heart  to  love. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  5. 

Can  you  pretend  to  love, 
And  have  no  pity  ?     Love  and  that  are 
twins. 

DRYDEN. — Don  Sebastian,  Act  3,  i. 

Of  all  the  paths  that  lead  to  a  woman's 

love 
Pity's  the  straightest. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGFR. — Kniehtoj 
Malta,  Act  i,  i. 

Taught  by  the  power  that  pities  me, 
I  learn  to  pity  them. 

GOLDSMITH. — The  Hermit. 

He  that  woll  maister  be 
He  mot  [must]  be  servaunt  to  pite. 

GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  2. 

Love  gains  the  shrine  when  pity  opes  the 

door, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — New  Timon,  Pi.  3,  i. 


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I  have  no  longing  for  things  great  and  fair, 
Beauty  and  strength  and  grace  of  word 

or  deed  ; 
For  all  sweet  things  my  soul  has  ceased  to 

care  : 
Infinite  pity — that  is  all  its  need. 

J.  B.  B.  NICHOLS. — During  Music. 

"  It  is  a  hard  thing,"  said  Agesilaus,  "  to 
be  pitiful  and  wise  at  the  same  time." 

PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

A  thing  of  pity. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  5,  4. 

But  yet  the  pity  of  it,  lago ! — O,  lago, 
the  pity  of  it,  lago ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  i. 

Soft  pity  enters  at  an  iron  gate. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrfce,  st.  85. 

Pity  swells  the  tide  of  love. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 
PLACE 

Thou  cam'st  not  to  thy  place  by  accident ; 
It  is  the  very  place  God  meant  for  thee. 
ARCHBISHOP  TRENCH. — Sonnets,  No.  2. 

A  ruler  who  appoints  any  man  to  an 
office,  when  there  is  in  his  dominions 
another  man  better  qualified,  sins  against 
Clod  and  against  the  state.  Koran. 

PLACE- SEEKERS 

I  have  never  concealed  from  him  that 
in  order  to  serve  my  country  I  would 
accept  the  highest  positions. 

E.  GONDINET. — Ponttrisson  in 
"  La  Panache,"  Act  i. 

To  place  and  power  all  public  spirit  tends  ; 

In  place  and  power  all  public  spirit  ends. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies :  Corruption. 

But  bees,  on  flowers  alighting,  cease  their 

hum ; 

So,  settling  upon  places,  Whigs  grow  dumb. 
MOORE. — Ib. 
PLAGIARISM 

Why  should  the  world  be  so  severe 
On  every  small-wit  privateer  ? 
S.  BUTLER. — Upon  Plagiaries  (marginal 
emendation  of  opening  lines). 

Who,  to  patch  up  his  fame,  or  fill  his  purse, 
Still   pilfers   wretched   plans   and   makes 

them  worse  ; 

Like  gipsies,  lest  the  stolen  brat  be  known, 

Defacing  first,  then  claiming  for  his  own. 

CHURCHILL. — Apology,  v.  233. 

Perched  on  the  eagle's  towering  wing 
The  lowly  linnet  loves  to  sing. 

C.  CIBBER. — Birthday  Ode. 

They  will  not  let  my  play  run  and  yet 
they  steal  my  thunder. 

JOHN  DENNIS. — Attributed. 


PLEASING 


PLEASURE 


The  poet  who  borrows  nothing  from 
others  is  yet  to  be  born.  He  and  the 
Jews'  Messias  will  come  together. 

DRYDEN. — Dedic.  of  JEneid. 

When  a  poor  thief  appears  in  rich  gar- 
ments, we  immediately  know  they  are 
none  of  his  own. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Most   writers   steal    a    good    thing    when 
they  can.     B.  W.  PROCTER. — Diego,  4. 

Steal !  to  be  sure  they  may,  and  egad, 
serve  your  best  thoughts  as  gipsies  do 
stolen  children — disfigure  them  to  make 
'em  pass  for  their  own. 

SHERIDAN. — Critic,  Act  i,  i. 

It  is  scarcely  possible  for  anyone  to 
write  or  say  anything,  in  this  late  time 
of  the  world,  to  which,  in  the  literature 
of  the  world,  a  parallel  could  not  some- 
where be  found. 

TENNYSON. — Letter  (cited  in  Sir  Edwd. 
Cook's  "  More  Literary  Recollections  "). 

If  ye  had  not  plowed  with  my  heifer, 
ye  had  not  found  out  my  riddle. 

Judges  xiv,  18. 
PLEASING 

Too    much    desire    to     please    pleasure 
divorces. 
CHAPMAN. — Ovid's  Banquet  of  Sense. 

Confidence  in  pleasing  is  often  an  infal- 
lible method  of  displeasing. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  564. 

Who  seeks  to  please  all  men  each  way, 

And  not  himself  offend, 
He  may  begin  his  work  to-day 

But  God  knows  when  he'll  end. 

S.  ROWLANDS. — Epigrams. 

They  who  are  pleased  themselves  must 
always  please. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  i,  15. 

PLEASURE 

He  made  a  feast,  drank  fierce  and  fast, 
And  crowned  his  head  with  flowers — 
No  easier  nor  no  quicker  passed 
The  impracticable  hours. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Obermann  once  More. 

Very  sure  it  is, 

Pleasure  is  not  for  him  who  pleasure  serves. 
R.  BRIDGES. — Achilles  in  Scyros, 
I.  1700. 
Then  top  and  maintop  crowd  the  sail, 

Heave  Care  owre  side  ! 
And  large  before  Enjoyment's  gale 
Let's  tak'  the  tide. 

BURNS. — To  Jas.  Smith. 

Chords  that  vibrate  sweetest  pleasure 
Thrill  the  deepest  notes  of  woe. 

BURNS. — On  Sensibility. 


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Our  pains  are  real  things,  but  all 
Our  pleasures  but  fantastical. 

S.  BUTLER. — Satire. 

On  with  the  dance  ;  let  joy  be  unconfined  ; 
No  sleep  till  morn,   when   Youth  and 

Pleasure  meet 

To  chase  the  glowing  hours  with  flying 
feet. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  22. 

Pleasure's  a  sin,  and  sometimes  sin's  a 
pleasure. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  133. 

Let  us  have  wine  and  women,  mirth  and 

laughter, 
Sermons  and  soda-water  the  day  after. 

BYRON. — Ib..  c.  2,  178. 

Pleasure  (whene'er  she  sings  at  least) 's  a 
siren, 

That  lures,  to  flay  alive,  the  young  be- 
ginner. BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  36. 

Though  sages  may  pour  out  their  wisdom's 

treasure, 

There  is  no  sterner  moralist  than  Pleasure. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  65. 

There  is  not  a  little  generalship  and 
strategy  required  in  the  managing  and 
marshalling  of  our  pleasures. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Thus  grief  still  treads  upon  the  heels  of 

pleasure  ; 

Married  in  haste,  we  may  repent  at  leisure. 
CONGREVE. — Old  Bachelor,  Act  5,  3. 

Where  pleasure  is  adored, 
That  reeling   goddess  with   the   zoneless 

waist 
And  wandering  eyes,  still  leaning  on  the 

arm 
Of  Novelty,  her  fickle  frail  support. 

COWPER. — Garden,  51. 

Pleasure  is  labour  too,  and  tires  as  much. 
COWPER. — Hope,  20. 

No  blinder  bigot,  I  maintain  it  still, 
Than  he  who  must  have  pleasure,  come 
what  will.  COWPER. — Ib.,  595. 

And  pleasure  brings  as  surely  in  her  train, 

Remorse,  and  Sorrow,  and  vindictive  Pain. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  43. 

Mingle  your  cares  with  pleasures  now 
and  then.  DION. — Goto. 

Sweet  is  pleasure  after  pain. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  3. 

A  Book  of  Verses  underneath  the  Bough, 
A  Jug  of  Wine,  a  Loaf  of  Bread — and  Thou 

Beside  me  singing  in  the  Wilderness — 
Oh,  Wilderness  were  Paradise  enow  ! 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  12. 


PLEASURE 


All  pleasure  must  be  bought  at  the  price 
of  pain.  The  difference  between  false 
pleasure  and  true  is  just  this  :  for  the  true, 
the  price  is  paid  before  you  enjoy  it ;  for 
the  false,  after  you  enjoy  it. 

JOHN  FOSTER. 

A  life  of  pleasure  is  therefore  the  most 
unpleasing  life  in  the  world. 

GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World,  44. 

The  heart  distrusting  asks  if  this  be  joy. 
GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

In  gallant  trim  the  gilded  vessel  goes, 
Youth  on  the  prow,  and  Pleasure  at  the 
helm.  GRAY. — Bard. 

And  feign,  like  truth,  for  one  mad  day, 
That  Earth  is  Paradise. 

T.  HARDY. — To  Life. 

Men  may  scoff  and  men  may  pray, 

But  they  pay 
Every  pleasure  with  a  pain. 

W.  E.  HENLEY. — Ballade  of  Truisms. 

Pleasure  is  very  seldom  found  where  it 
is  sought.  JOHNSON. — Rambler,  No.  58. 

Life  must  be  filled  up,  and  the  man  who 
is  not  capable  of  intellectual  pleasures 
must  content  himself  with  such  as  his 
senses  can  afford. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

Rarity  enhances  pleasures. 

JUVENAL. — Sat.  n. 

Even  bees,  the  little  almsmen  of  spring- 
bowers, 

Know  there  is  richest  juice  in  poison- 
flowers.  KEATS. — Isabella. 

Hence,  vain  deluding  joys, 
The  brood  of  Folly,  without  father  bred. 
MILTON. — //  Penseroso. 

In  mirth,  that  after  no  repenting  draws. 
MILTON. — Sonnet. 

For    other    things    [than    study]    mild 

Heaven  a  time  ordains, 
And  disapproves  that  care,  though  wise  in 

show, 
That  with  superfluous  burden  loads  the 

day, 

And  when  God  sends  a  cheerful  hour, 
refrains.  MILTON. — Ib. 

Nothing  gives  pleasure  but  that  which 
gives  pain.  MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  3. 

Till  Florio  with  a  sigh  confessed 
The  simplest  pleasures  are  the  best. 

HANNAH  MORE. 

There  is  no  unalloyed  pleasure;  some 

tinge  of  anxiety  is  mixed  with  all  our  joys. 

OVID. — Metam.,  Bk.  7- 


PLEASURE 

There  are  two  things  to  be  sanctified — 
pains  and  pleasures. 

PASCAL. — Penstes,  Pt.  2,  17,  28. 

Wicked  men,  for  the  most  part,  delight 
in  false  pleasures,  but  good  men  in  the 
true  pleasures.  PLATO. — Philebus,  85. 

Offered  to  us  are  two  cups,  one  of 
pleasure,  filled,  as  it  were,  with  honey  ; 
the  other,  that  of  intellect,  simple  and 
healthful,  sober  and  wineless,  like  water. 
These  let  us  be  ready  to  blend  in  the  best 
manner  we  can.  PLATO. — Ib.,  145. 

Of  all  things  pleasure  is  the  greatest 
braggart ;  ...  for  pleasures  like  children 
possess  very  little  intelligence. 

PLATO. — Ib. ,  157. 

Pleasure,  or  wrong  or  rightly  understood, 
Our  greatest  evil  or  our  greatest  good. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  91. 

Behold  the  child,  by  Nature's  kindly  law. 
Pleased  with  a  rattle,  tickled  with  a  straw  : 
Some  livelier  plaything  gives  his  youth 

delight, 

A  little  louder,  but  as  empty  quite : 
Scarfs,  garters,  gold,  amuse  his  riper  stage, 
And  beads  and  prayer-books  are  the  toys 

of  age  : 
Pleased   with   this  bauble  still,   as   that 

before ; 
Till  tired  he  sleeps,  and  life's  poor  play  is 

o'er.  POPE. — Ib.,  Ep.  2,  275. 

Pleasures  the  sex,  as  children  birds,  pursue, 
Still  out  of  reach,  yet  never  out  of  view. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  2,  231. 

To  pleasure  such  as  leaves  no  sting  behind. 
ROGERS. — Human  Lijt. 

Exclusive  pleasures  are  the  death  of 
pleasure.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Think  you  these  are  the  gifts  of  For- 
tune ?  Trust  me  they  are  her  traps. 

SENECA. — Epistle  8  (Lodge's  tr.). 

No  profit  grows  where  is  no  pleasure 

ta'en.      SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  oj 

the  Shrew,  Act  i,  i. 

Learn  thou,  whate'er  the  motive  they  may 

call, 

That  Pleasure  is  the  aim,  and  Self  the 
spring  of  all. 

SOUTHEY. — Pilgrimage  to  Waterloo, 
Pt.  2,  c.i. 

Delight,  the  rootless  flower, 
And  love,  the  bloomless  bower  ; 
Delight  that  lives  an  hour, 
And  love  that  lives  a  day. 

SWINBURNE. — Before  Dawn. 

Know  that  to  really  enjoy  pleasures  you 
must  know  how  to  leave  them. 

VOLTAIRE. — Sur  I' Usage  de  la  Vit. 


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POETRY 


He  was  of  those 

Whom  Delight  ilics,  because  they  give  her 
chase.  SIR  W.  WATSON. — Byron. 

And  then  my  heart  with  pleasure  fills 
And  dances  with  the  daffodils. 

WORDSWORTH.- — /  wandered  lonely. 

That  sweet  taste  of  pleasure  unpursued. 
WORDSWORTH. — Old  Cumberland  Beggar. 

Sure  as  night  follows  day, 
Death  treads  in  pleasure's  footsteps  round 

the  world, 
When   pleasure   treads   the   paths   which 

reason  shuns, 

When,  against  reason,  riot  shuts  the  door. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 

A  man  of  pleasure  is  a  man  of  pains. 

YOUNG. — Ib.,  8. 

Pleasure,   we  both  agree,  is  man's  chief 

good  ; 

Or  only  contest  what  deserves  the  name. 
YOUNG. — Ib. 

Dogs,  birds,  arms,  and  amours  ;  for  one 
pleasure  a  thousand  pains.       French  prov 

PLENTY 

Each  extreme  to  equal  danger  tends, 
Plenty,    a?    well    as    want,    can    sep'rate 
friends. 

COWLEY. — Davideis,  Bk.  3,  205. 

I  like  the  sentiment  of  the  poor  woman, 
who,  coming  from  a  wretched  garret  in 
an  inland  manufacturing  town  for  the  first 
time  to  the  sea  shore,  ga?ing  at  the  ocean, 
said  "  she  was  glad  for  once  in  her  life  to 
see  something  which  there  was  enough  of." 
EMERSON. — Resources. 

To  scatter  plenty  o'er  a  smiling  land. 

GRAY. — Elegy. 
PLOTS 

Plots,  true  or  false,  are  necessary  things, 
To   raise    up    commonwealths,    and    ruin 
kings. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achilophel, 
Pt.  i,  83. 

I  have  't ;    it  is  engendered  ; — hell   and 

night 
Must  bring  this  monstrous  birth   to  the 

world's  light. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  1,3. 

God  is  the  best  layer  of  plots. 

Koran,  en.  8. 
POACHERS 

Much  given  to  all  unluckiness  in  stealing 
venison  and  rabbits. 

RICHD.  DAVIES  (vicar  of  Sapperton,  Glos.). 

— Notes  made  in  reference  to  Shakespeare, 

circa  1700. 


He  did  not  know  that  a  keeper  is  only 
a  poacher  turned  inside  out,  and  a  poacher 
a  keeper  turned  outside  ia. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Water  Babies,  ch.  i. 

We  live  by  plunder  and  delight  in  prey. 
VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  <j  (Dryden  tr.). 

POETRY 

I  think  nothing  which  is  a  phrase  or 
saying  in  common  talk,  should  be  admitted 
into  a  serious  poem. 

ADDISON. — Essay  on  the  Georgics. 

Poetry  is  the  devil's  wine. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. 

One  of  the  fathers  [St.  Augustine]  in 
great  severity  called  poesy  "  vinum  dajmo- 
uum  "  [the  wine  of  devils]. 

BACON. — Essays,  Truth. 

Reads  verse,  and  thinks  she  understands. 
BROWNING. — Dis  aliter  visum. 

Poetry,  which  has  been  defined  as  the 
harmonious  unison  of  man  with  nature. 
CARLYLE. — Early  German  Literature. 

Poetry,  therefore,  we  will  call  Musical 
Thought.  CARLYLE. — Heroes,  3. 

Good  sense  is  the  body  of  poetic  genius, 
fancy  its  drapery,  motion  its  life,  and 
imagination  the  soul  that  is  everywhere 
and  in  each,  and  forms  all  into  one  graceful 
and  intelligent  whole. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Literaria,  ch.  14. 

Prose  =  words  in  their  best  order;  poetry 
=  the  best  words  in  the  best  order. 

COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk. 

A  poet  does  not  work  by  square  or  line. 
COWPER. — Conversation.  704. 


For  all  these  pretty  knacks  that  you  com- 
pose, 

Alas,  what  are  they  but  poems  in  prose  ? 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — To  the  Five  Members. 

Why  then  we  should  drop  into  poetry. 
[Silas  Wegg.} 

DICKENS. — Mutual  Friend,  ch.  5. 

Poetry's  unnat'ral ;  no  man  ever  talked 
poetry  'cept  a  beadle  on  boxin'  day,  or 
Warren's  blackin'  or  Rowland's  oil,  or 
some  o'  them  low  fellows  [Weller  sen.] 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  33. 

In  poetry,  where  every  word  is  free, 
every  word  is  necessary.  Good  poetry 
could  not  have  been  otherwise  written  than 
it  is.  EMERSON. — Art. 

Charles  James  Fox  thought  "  Poetry  the 
great  refreshment  of  the  human  mind, — 
the  only  thing,  after  all ;  that  men  first 
found  out  that  they  had  minds  by  making 
and  tasting  poetry." 

EMERSON. — Poetry  and  Imagination. 


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POETRY 

Poetry  is  theconsolation  of  mortal  men. 
EMERSON. — Poetry  and  Imagination. 

Something  more  than  the  lilt  of  the  strain, 
Something  more  than  the  touch  of  the 

lute; 

For  the  voice  of  the  minstrel  is  vain 
If  the  heart  of  the  minstrel  is  mute. 

Lucius  H.  FOOTE. — Poetry. 

Poems   like    pictures   are :     some   charm 

when  nigh, 

Others  at  distance  more  delight  your  eye  ; 

That  gives  us  pleasure  for  a  single  view  ; 

And  this,  ten  times  repeated,  still  is  new. 

P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

Could  a  man  live  by  it,  it  were  not  un- 
pleasant employment  to  be  a  poet. 

GOLDSMITH. — Letter,  1759. 

Science  see;  signs  ;  poetry  the  thing 
signified. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth. 

Is  poetry,  perhaps,  a  disease  of  hu- 
manity, as  the  pearl  is  the  morbid  matter 
of  the  diseased  oyster  ? 

HEINE. — The  Romantic  School. 

Like  its  colleague,  the  famous  war-horse 
Bayard,  it  [the  Pegasus  of  Uhland]  pos- 
sesses all  possible  virtues,  and  only  one 
fault ;  it  is  dead.  HEINE. — Ib. 

A  verse  may  find  him  who  a  sermon  flies. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

In  a  good  poem  both  judgment  and 
fancy  are  required  ;  but  the  fancy  must 
be  more  eminent,  because  they  please  for 
the  extravagancy.  HOBBES. 

Give  me  a  theme  that's  great  and  new, 
Untouched  by  any  other  Muse. 

HORACE. — Odes,  Bk.  3,  25  (Francis  tr.) . 

Dreaming  on  nought  but  idle  poetry, 
That  fruitless  and  unprofitable  art, 
Good  unto  none  ;    but  least  to  the  pro- 
fessors.       BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man 
in  his  Humour,  Act  i,  i. 

In  rhyme,  fine  tinkling  rhyme  and  flow  and 

verse, 
With  now  and  then  some  sense. 

BEN  JONSON. — Fortunate  Isles,  vol.  6, 
p.  192. 

[In  Poetry]  to  Nature,  Exercise,  Imita- 
tion and  Study,  Art  must  be  added  to 
make  all  these  perfect.  ...  It  is  Art  only 
can  lead  him  [the  Poet]  to  perfection  and 
leave  him  there  in  possession. 

BEN  JONSON. — Discoveries  :  What  is  a 

Poet? 

Its   chief    aim    [i.e.    the    chief    aim   of 

Poetry]  is  to  recall,  to  renew,  and  bring 

vividly  before  us  pictures  of  absent  objects. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  i 

(E.  K.  Francis  tr.}. 


POETRY 

Poetry  is  the  handmaid  to  Imagination 
and  Fancy.  KEBLE. — Ib. 

Let  us  deem  the  glorious  art  of  Poetry 
a  kind  of  medicine  divinely  bestowed  upon 
man.  KEBLE. — Ib. 

Verse  has  more  power  to  soothe  than 
prose.  KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  6. 

Whether  sweetness  or  dignity  be  aimed 
at,  true  and  genuine  poetry  will  be  essen- 
tially distinguished  by  quietness  and  calm. 
KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  17. 

Poetry, — native  and  true  Poetry — is 
nothing  else  than  each  poet's  innermost 
feeling  issuing  in  rhythmic  language. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  22. 

The  essence  of  all  poetry  is  to  be  found, 
not  in  high-wrought  subtlety  of  thought, 
nor  in  pointed  cleverness  of  phrase,  but  in 
the  depths  of  the  heart  and  the  most 
sacred  feelings  of  the  men  who  write. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  28. 

The  mysteries  of  divine  Truth  supplied 
the  place  of  poetry  among  our  forefathers, 
while  now  the  present  generation  readily 
foregoes  that  higher  wisdom,  satisfied  as  it 
would  seem  with  that  poetry  which  is  but 
a  shadow  of  it.  KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  30. 

It  is  a  clear,  or  at  least  a  probable 
hypothesis,  that  .  .  .  poetry  was  provi- 
dentially destined  to  prepare  the  way  for 
Revealed  Truth  itself. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  40. 

As  civilization  advances,  poetry  almost 
necessarily  declines.  M.VCAULAY. — Milton. 

My  unpremedit  ited  verse. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  24. 

Rhyme  brings,  with  honied  tones,  an  ano- 
dyne to  pain. 
SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Rhyme  the  Consoler. 

There's  no  second-rate  in  poetry. 

J.  OLDHAM. — St.  Cecilia. 

Her  everlasting  word  survives 
The  doer  and  the  deed, 

When  graceful  genius  largely  gives 
From  wisdom's  deepest  fount  the  living 

meed. 
PINDAR. — Nentean  Odes,  4,  n  (Moore  tr.). 

Poetry  therefore  is  a  kind  of  populai 
speaking,  ...  a  rhetorical  method  of 
popular  speaking. 

PLATO.— Gorgias,  124  (Remark  attrib.  to 
Socrates)  (Gary  lr.). 

Hymns  to  the  gods  and  the  praises  of 
worthy  actions  are  the  only  sort  of  poetry 
to  be  admitted  to  our  state.  For  if  you 
were  to  admit  the  pleasurable  muse  also, 
in  songs  or  verses,  we  should  have  pleasure 
and  pain  reigning  in  our  state  instead  of 
law.  PLATO.— Republic,  Dk.  10,  8. 


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POETRY 


The  varying  verse,  the  full  resounding  line, 

The    long    majestic    march    and    energy 

divine.  POPE. — On  Dryden. 

But   lived  in   Settle's  numbers  one  day 
more.         POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  i,  90. 

So  sweetly  mawkish,  and  so  smoothly  dull ; 

Heady,  not  strong  ;    o'erflowing,  though 

not  full.  POPE — Ib.,  Bk.  3,  171. 

It  stands  on  record  that  in  Richard's  times 

A  man  was  hanged  for  very  honest  rhymes. 

POPE. — Referring  to  John  Ball. 

Oh  !   why  did  he  write  poetry, 
That  hereto  was  so  civil ; 

And  sell  his  soul  for  vanity, 
To  rhyming  and  the  devil  ? 

POPE. — Sandy's  Ghost. 

And  he  whose  fustian's  so  sublimely  bad, 
It  is  not  poetry,  but  prose  run  mad. 

POPE.— Prol.  to  Satires,  188. 

The  lines  are  weak,  another's  pleased  to 

say, 

Lord  Fanny  spins  a  thousand  such  a  day. 
POPE. — Satires,  Bk.  2,  Sat.  i,  5. 

In  poetry  there  is  always  fallacy,  and 
sometimes  fiction. 

SCOTT. — Bride  of  Lammermoor ,  ch.  21. 

The  unpremeditated  lay. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Intro. 

Small  thought  was  his,  in  after-time, 
E'er  to  be  hitched  into  a  rhyme. 

SCOTT  — Marmion,  c.  6,  Intro. 

The  truest  poetry  is  the  most  feigning  ; 
and  lovers  are  given  to  poetry 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  2. 

Is  this  a  prologue,  or  the  posy  of  a  ring  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Mincing  poetry, — 

'Tis  like  the  forced  gait  of  a  shuffling  nag. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

Assist    me,  some    extemporal    god    of 

rhyme,  for  I  am  sure  I  shall  turn  sonneteer. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 

Act  i,  2. 

I  was  not  born  under  a  rhyming  planet. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  2. 

Not  marble,  nor  the  gilded  monuments 
Of    princes,    shall   outlive    this    powerful 
rhyme.       SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  55. 

Much  is  the  force  of  heaven-bred  poesy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  3,  2. 

A  poem  is  the  very  image  of  life  ex- 
pressed in  its  eternal  truth. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 


Poetry  ever  communicates  all  the 
pleasure  which  men  are  capable  of  re- 
ceiving ;  it  is  ever  still  the  light  of  life ; 
the  source  of  whatever  of  beautiful  or 
generous  or  true  can  have  place  in  an  evil 
time.  SHELLEY. — Ib. 

All  high  poetry  is  infinite  ;  it  is  as  the 
first  acorn,  which  contained  all  oaks  po- 
tentially. SHELLEY. — Ib. 

A  great  poem  is  a  fountain  for  ever  over- 
flowing with  the  waters  of  wisdom  and 
delight.  SHELLEY. — Ib. 

The  most  glorious  poetry  that  has  ever 
been  communicated  to  the  world  is  prob- 
ably a  feeble  shadow  of  the  original  con- 
ceptions of  the  poet.  SHELLEY. — Ib. 

Poetry  is  the  record  of  the  best  and 
happiest  moments  of  the  happiest  and 
best  minds.  SHELLEY. — Ib. 

Most  wretched  men 
Are  cradled  into  poetry  by  wrong : 
They  learn  in  suffering  what  they  teach  in 
song.  SHELLEY. — Julian. 

Poetry  is  of  all  humane  learning  the 
most  ancient  and  of  most  fatherly  an- 
tiquity, as  from  whence  all  other  learnings 
have  taken  their  beginnings. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apologie  for  Poetrie. 

But  if  anything  be  already  said  in  the 
defence  of  sweet  Poetry,  all  concurreth  to 
the  maintaining  of  the  Heroical,  which  is 
not  only  a  kind,  but  the  best,  and  most 
accomplished  kind  of  Poetry. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY.— Ib. 

Certainly,  I  must  confess  mine  own 
barbarousness.  I  never  heard  the  old 
song  of  Percy  and  Douglas  that  I  found 
not  my  heart  moved  more  than  with  a 
trumpet.  SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Ib. 

For  indeed  Poetry  ever  setteth  virtue 
out  in  her  best  colours,  making  Fortune 
her  well-waiting  handmaid,  that  one  must 
needs  be  enamoured  of  her. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY^— Ib. 

You  cannot  hear  the  planet-like  music 
of  poetry.  SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Ib. 

A  poem,  round  and  perfect  as  a  star. 

ALEX.  SMITH. — Life  Drama,  Sc.  2. 

Realms  yet  unborn,  in  accents  now  un- 
known, 

Thy  song  shall  learn,  and  bless  it  for  their 
own.  C.  SPRAGUE. — Shakespeare  Ode. 

But  thought  and  faith  are  mightier  things 
than  time 

Can  wrong, 

Made  splendid  once  with  speech  or  made 
sublime 

With  song. 

SWINBURNE. — Interpreters. 


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With  scraps  of  thundrous  Epic  lilted  out. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  2,  353. 

And  quoted  odes,  and  jewels  five-words 

long, 
That  on   the   stretched   forefinger  of   all 

Time 
Sparkle  for  ever. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  z,  355. 

Old-fashioned  poetry,  but  choicely  good. 
I.  WALTON. — Compleat  Angler,  ch.  4. 

Your  metres  that  writhe,  your  rhythms 
that  sprawl. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Orgy  on  Parnassus. 

The  Lake-poetry  ...  is  a*  sound  and 
nae  sense. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  (Etlrick  Shepherd). 

Transitory  as  a  prize  poem. 

J.  WILSON. — Ib. 

Wisdom  married  to  immortal  verse. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  7. 

All  good  poetry  is  the  spontaneous  over- 
flow of  powerful  feelings. 

WORDSWORTH. — Pref.  to  Second  Ed.  of 
Lyrical  Ballads  ( 1 800) . 

Poetry  is  the  breath  and  finer  spirit  of 
all  knowledge  ;  it  is  the  impassioned  ex- 
pression which  is  in  the  countenance  of  all 
science.  WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

Poetry  is  the  first  and  last  of  all  know- 
ledge— it  is  as  immortal  as  the  heart  of 
man.  WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

POETS 

Beethoven,  Raphael,  cannot  reach 

The   charm   which   Homer,   Shakespeare, 

teach.  M.  ARNOLD. — 

Epilogue  to  Lessing's  Laocoon. 
Time  may  restore  us  in  his  course 
Goethe's  sage  mind  and  Byron's  force  ; 
But  where  will  Europe's  latter  hour 
Again  find  Wordsworth's  healing  power  ? 

M.  ARNOLD. — Memorial  Verses,  1850. 

Not  deep  the  poet  sees,  but  wide. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Resignation,  214. 

Such  a  price 

The  Gods  exact  for  song : 
To  become  what  we  sing. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Strayed  Reveller. 

O  World,  for  me  ne'er  care   to  .weave  a 

crown, 
Who  hold  your  smile  as  lightly  as  your 

frown  ! 

Yet  I  grow  sad  to  think  upon  my  songs, 
For  which  no  man,  nor  even  maiden,  longs. 
O  my  poor  flowers,  dead  in  the  lap  of 

spring  ! 

THOS.  ASHE.— Poems  (1885). 


POETS 

0  souls,  perplexed  by  hood  and  cowl, 
Fain  would  you  find  a  teacher : 

Consult  the  lark  and  not  the  owl, 
The  poet,  not  the  preacher. 
A.  AUSTIN. — The  Owl  and  the  Lark. 

Renowned  Spenser,  lie  a  thought  more  nigh 
To  learned  Chaucer  ;   and  rare  Beaumont. 

lie 

A  little  nearer  Spenser,  to  make  room 
For  Shakespeare  in  your  threefold,  four- 
fold tomb. 

W.  BASSE. — On  Shakespeare. 

Young  men,  ay  and  maids. 
Too  often  sow  their  wild  oats  in  tame  verse. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  i. 

For  poets  (bear  the  word), 
Half  poets  even,  are  still  whole  democrats. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib.,  Bk.  4. 

1  do  distrust  the  poet  who  discerns 
No  character  or  glory  in  his  times. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib.,  Bk.  5. 

And  poets  evermore  are  scant  of  gold. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib. 

Ah,  did  you  once  see  Shelley  plain, 
And  did  he  stop  and  speak  to  you, 

And  did  you  speak  to  him  again  ? 
How  strange  it  seems,  and  new  ! 

BROWNING. — Memorabilia. 

The  palfrey  pace  and  the  glittering  grace 
Of  Spenser's  magical  song. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Cloudland. 

I  am  nae  poet,  in  a  sense, 

But  just  a  rhymer,  like  by  chanco, 

And  hae  to  learning  no  pretence. 

But  what's  the  matter  ? 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  John  Lapraik. 

Gie  me  ae  spark  of  Nature's  fire  ! 
That's  a"  the  learning  I  desire  ; 
Then,  though  I  trudge  through  dub  an' 
mire — 

At  plough  or  cart, 
My  Muse,  though  hamely  in  attire, 
May  touch  the  heart. 

BURNS. — Ib. 

Poverty  is  the  muse's  patrimony. 

BURTON. — Anal,  of  M  elan.,  Pt.  i. 

But  those  that  write  hi  verse  still  make 
The  one  verse  for  the  other's  sake. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  e.  i. 

It  is  not  poetry  that  makes  men  poor, 
For  few  do  write  that  were  not  so  before. 
BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

When    poets    say,    "  I've    written    fifty 

rhymes," 

They  make  you  dread  that  they'll  recite 
them  too. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan  c.  i,  108. 


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POETS 


POETS 


He  lied  with  such  a  fervour  of  intention — 
There  was  no  doubt  he  earned  his  laureate 
pension. 

BYKON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  So. 

Milton's  the  prince  of  poets — so  we  say  ; 
A  little  heavy,  but  no  less  divine. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  3,  91. 

Let  such  forego  the  poet's  sacred  name, 
Who  rack  their  brains  for  lucre,  not  for 
fame.  BYRON. — English  Bards. 

The  man  who  weds  the  sacred  muse 
Disdains  all  mercenary  views. 

C.  CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost,  Bk.  3. 

No  man  was  ever  yet  a  great  poet  with- 
out being  at  the  same  time  a  profound 
philosopher. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Literaria,  ch.  15. 

There  is  a  pleasure  in  poetic  pains 
That  only  poets  know. 

COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

Whoso  picnics  on  Parnassus 

Need  not  look  for  cakes  and  ale. 
COTSFORD  DICK. — Comin'  thro'  the  Rhyme. 

He  will  not  canter,  walk,  or  trot, 
My  Pegasus  ;    I  spur,  1  beat 

In  vain  to-day.  .  .  . 
Alas  !    'tis  all  too  clear  I'm  not 

In  vein  to-day. 

AUSTIN  DOBSON. — Rondel,  "  In  Vain 
To-day." 

For  that  fine  madness  he  did  still  retain, 

Which    rightly    should    possess    a    poet's 

brain.       DRAYTON. — To  H.  Reynolds. 

A  poet  is  as  much  privileged  to  lie,  as 
an  ambassador,  for  the  honour  and  inter- 
est of  his  country. 

DRYDEN. — Dedic.  of  &neid. 

Nothing  is  to  be  called  a  fault  in  poetry 
(says  Aristotle)  but  what  is  against  the 
art.  Therefore  a  man  may  be  an  admir- 
able poet  without  being  an  exact  chron- 
ologer.  DRYDEN. — Ib. 

Three  poets  in  three  distant  ages  born, 
Greece,  Italy,  and  England,  did  adorn  ; 
The  first,  in  loftiness  of  thought  surpassed  ; 
The  next  in  majesty  ;   in  both  the  last. 
The  force  of  nature  could  no  further  go  ; 
To  make  a  third,  she  joined  the  other  two. 
DRYDEN. — Under  Milton's  Picture  (refer- 
riti»,  to  Hcmer,  Virgil,  and  Milton). 

There  was  never  poet  who  had  not  the 
heart  in  the  right  place. 

EMERSON. — Success. 

I  stept  into  Bedlame,  where  I  saw 
several  poore  miserable  creatures  in 
chaines  ;  one  of  them  was  mad  with 
making  verses. 

JOHN  EVKI.YN. — Diary,  April  21,  1657. 


'Tis  long  disputed  whether  poets  claim 
From  art  or  nature   their  best  right  to 

fame  ; 

But  art,  if  not  enriched  by  nature's  vein, 
And  a  rude  genius  of  uncultured  strain, 
Are  useless  both  ;   but  when  in  friendship 

joined 
A  mutual  succour  in  each  other  find. 

P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

What  are  our  poets,  take  them  as  they  fall, 
Good,  bad,  rich,  poor,  much  read,  not  read 

at  all? 
Them  and  their  works  in  the  same  class 

you'll  find — 

They  are  the  mere  wastepaper  of  mankind. 
B.  FRANKLIN. — Paper. 

Poets  have  morals  and  manners  of  their 
own. 
THOS.  HARDY. — Hand  of  Etkelberta,  ck.  2. 

The  biography  of  poets  must  be  sought 
in  their  works  ;  there  are  to  be  found  their 
most  confidential  confessions. 

HEINE. — Don  Quixote. 

Beggar  envies  beggar,  and  poet  poet. 
HESIOD. — Works  and  Days. 

Poets  are  prosy  in  their  common  talk, 
As  the  fast  trotters,   for  the  most  part, 

walk. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — The  Banker's  Dinner. 

I  sometimes  sit  beneath  a  tree 
And  read  my  own  sweet  songs. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — The  Last  Reader. 

He,  whose  thoughts  differing  not  in  shape, 

but  dress,     ' 

What  others  feel  more  fitly  can  express. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Metrical  Essay. 

Poetry   and   poverty  both   begin   with 

the  same  letter,  and  in  more  respects  than 

one  are  "  as  like  each  other  as  two  P's." 

HOOD. — Poems  by  a  Poor  Gentleman 

(1834). 

Neither  gods,  nor  men,  nor  the  book- 
shops allow  the  poets  the  favour  of  being 
mediocre.  HORACE. — De  Arte  Poetica. 

The  Muse  that  loves  the  woodland  and 

the  farm 
To    Virgil    lends    her    gayest,    tenderest 

charm. 
HORACE. — Sat.  i,  10,  43  (Coninqton  tr.). 

We  poets  are,  in  every  age  and  nation, 
A  most  absurd,  wrong-beaded  generation. 
SOAME  JENYNS. — Horace. 

They  swayed  about  upon  a  rocking-horse, 
And  thought  it  Pegasus. 

KEATS. — Sleep  and  Poetry. 

And  they  shall  be  accounted  poet-kings 
Who   simply   tell    the   most    heart-easin.T 
things.  \\i\is.— ] 


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POETS 


William  Wordsworth,  true  philosopher 
and  inspired  poet,  who,  by  the  special  gift 
and  calling  of  Almighty  God,  whether  he 
sang  of  man  or  of  nature,  failed  not  to 
lift  up  men's  hearts  to  holy  things. 

KEBLE. — Dedic.  oj  Lectures  on  Poetry 
1832-41  (E.  K.  Francis  tr'.)' 

The  authors  are  like  untrained  boys 
trying  to  sing  :  the  one  aim  of  each  is  to 
sing  as  loud  as  he  can.  Whether  they  are 
singing  sweetly  and  in  tune  they  neither 
know  nor  care.  KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  i. 

The  sentiment  itself  might  have  occurred 
to  many,  but  the  expression  in  song  to 
none  but  a  consummate  poet. 

J.  KEBLE.— 76.,  A'o.  2. 

We  feel  he  [Dcyden]  never  heartily  and 
sincerely  praised  any  human  being,  or  felt 
any  real  enthusiasm  for  any  subject  he 
took  up.  KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  5. 

As  fire  is  kindled  by  fire,  so  is  a  poet's 
mind  kindled  by  contact  with  a  brother 
poet.  KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  16. 

It  is  a  great  merit,  I  might  almost  call 
it  a  divine  gift,  when  any  poet  is  seen  to 
retain  throughout  life  traces  of  his  youth- 
ful impressions  and  feelings. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  26. 

Those  who,  from  their  very  heart,  either 
burst  into  poetry,  or  seek  the  Deity  in 
prayer,  must  needs  ever  cherish  with  their 
whole  spirit  the  vision  of  something  more 
beautiful,  greater  and  more  lovable,  than 
all  that  mortal  eye  can  see. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  No.  40. 

Ye  whose  hearts  are  beating  high 
With  the  pulse  of  Poesy, 
Heirs  of  more  than  mortal  race, 
Framed  by  heaven's  peculiar  grace, 
God's  own  work  to  do  on  earth.  ( 

KEBLE. — Palm  Sunday. 

The  bards  sublime, 
Whose  distant  footsteps  echo 
Through  the  corridors  of  Time. 

LONGFELLOW. — Day  is  Done. 

He  is  the  poet  of  the  dawn. 

LONGFELLOW. — (Sonnet,  Chaucer.) 

God  sent  his  Singers  upon  earth 
With  songs  of  sadness  and  of  mirth. 

LONGFELLOW. — Singers. 

Sithe  of  our  language  he  was  the  lodesterre. 
LYDGATE. — Falls  of  Princes  (Of  Chaucer). 

Sith  he  in  Englishmaking  was  the  best, 
Pray  unto  God  to  give  his  soul  good  rest. 
LYDGATE. — Ib. 

He  [Byron]  had  a  head  which  statuaries 

loved  to  copy,  and  a  foot  the  deformity  of 

which  the  beggars  in  the  street  mimicked. 

MACAULAV. — Byron. 


Perhaps  no  person  can  be  a  poet,  or 
even  enjoy  poetry,  without  a  certain  'un- 
soundness  of  mind. 

MACAULAY. — Milton . 

He  who  would  not  be  frustrate  of  his 
hope  to  write  well  hereafter  in  laudable 
things,  ought  himself  to  be  a  true  poem. 
MILTON. — Apology  for  Smectymnuus 

Such  sights  as  youthful  poets  dream, 
On  summer  eves  by  haunted  stream. 
MILTON. — L' 'Allegro,  129. 

He  knew 

Himself  to  sing,  and  build  the  lofty  rhyme- 
Mi  LTON. — Lycidas,  10. 

A  poet  soaring  in  the  high  season  of  his 
fancies,  with  his  garland  and  singing-robes 
about  him. 

MILTON. — The  Reason  of  Church 
Government,  Bk.  2,  Introd. 

Oh,  blame  not  the  bard  ! 
MOORE. — Irish  Melodies  :  0,  Blame  not. 

Poverty  !    thou  source  of  human  art, 
Thou  great  inspirer  of  the  poet's  song  ! 
EDWD.  MOORE. — Hymn  to  Poverty. 

The  idle  singer  of  an  empty  day. 

W.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise,  Intro. 

Lulled  by  the  singer  of  an  empty  day. 
W.  MORRIS.— Ib. 

The  true  poet  is  all  knowing  ;  he  is  an 
actual  world  in  miniature. 

NOVALIS. — (As  tr.  by  Carlyle.) 

To  his  own  self  not  always  just, 

Bound  in  the  bonds  that  all  men  share, — 

Confess  the  failings  as  we  must, 

The  lion's  mark  is  always  there  ! 

Nor  any  song  so  pure  so  great, 

Since  his,  who  closed  the  sightless  eyes, 

Our  Homer  of  the  war  in  Heaven, 

To  wake  in  his  own  Paradise. 

F.  T.  PA LG RAVE. — Wordsworth. 

Poetry  is   "  making,"  and   they  alone 
who    possess    creative    power    are    poets 
[i.e.  "  makers  "  or  "  creators  "1. 
PLATO. — Banquet,  30  (Diotima  to  Socrates). 

A  poet  cannot  compose  unless  he  be- 
comes inspired  and  is  out  of  bis  sober 
senses,  with  his  imagination  no  longer 
under  his  control.  .  .  .  On  this  account  a 
deity  deprives  poets  of  their  senses,  and 
employs  them  as  his  ministers  and  oracle- 
singers  and  divine  prophets. 

PLATO  (?). — Ion,  5. 

Poets  are  allowed  to  lie. 

PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. — Ep.,  Bk.  6. 

We  poets  are  (upon  a  poet's  word), 
Of  all  mankind  the  creatures  most  absurd. 
POPE.— Ep,  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  358. 


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Cursed  be  the  verse,  how  well  soe'er  it 

flow, 
That  tends  to  make  one  worthy  man  my 

foe.  POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires,  283. 

True  Poets  are  the  guardians  of  a  state, 
And,  when  they  fail,  portend  approaching 
fate. 

ROSCOMMON. — Essay  on  Translated 
Verse. 

Burns  of  all  poets  is  most  a  Man. 

ROSSETTI. — On  Burns. 

A  torturer  of  phrases  into  sonnets. 

SCOTT. — Auchindrane,  Act  3,  i. 

For  ne'er 

Was  flattery  lost  on  poet's  ear. 
A  simple  race,  they  waste  their  toil 
For  the  vain  tribute  of  a  smile. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  4,  35. 

Call  it  not  vain  : — they  do  not  err, 
Who  say  that  when  the  Poet  dies, 

Mute  Nature  mourns  her  worshipper 
And  celebrates  his  obsequies. 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  c.  5,  i. 

Profaned    the    God-given    strength,    and 
marred  the  lofty  line. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  i,  Intro. 

The  lunatic,  the  lover,  and  the  poet 
Are  of  imagination  all  compact 


The  poet's  eye,  in  a  fine  frenzy  rolling, 
Doth  glance  from  heaven  to  earth,  from 

earth  to  heaven, 

And,  as  imagination  bodies  forth 
The  forms  of  things  unknown,  the  poet's 

pen 
Turns  them  to  shapes,  and  gives  to  airy 

nothing 
A  local  habitation  and  a  name. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  5,  i. 

Poets  .  .  .  were  called,  in  the  earlier 
epochs  of  the  world,  legislators  or 
prophets.  A  poet  essentially  comprises 
and  unites  both  these  characters. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

The  poetry  of  Dante  may  be  considered 
as  the  bridge  thrown  over  the  stream  of 
time  which  unites  the  modern  and  ancient 
world.  SHELLEY. — Ib. 

Show  me  (said  Sarona]  one  wicked  man 
who  has  written  poetry,  and  I  will  show 
you  where  his  poetry  is  not  poetry ;  or 
rather  I  will  show  you  in  his  poetry  no 
poetry  at  all. 

Miss  SHEPPARD. — Counterparts,  vol.  i. 

Among  the  Romans  a  poet  was  called  a 
Votes,  which  is  as  much  a  Diviner,  Fore- 
seer,  or  Prophet. 
SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY, — Apologiefor  Poetrie. 


POETS 


One  may   be  a  Poet   without   versing 
and  a  versifier  without  Poetry. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — 76. 

Sir,  I  admit  your  general  rule 

That  every  poet  is  a  fool ; 

But  you  yourself  may  serve  to  show  it, 

That  every  fool  is  not  a  poet. 

SWIFT. — Epigram  from  the  French. 

Love  reads  out  first,  at  head  of  all  our 

choir, 

Villon,  our  sad  bad  glad  mad  brother's 
name. 

SWINBURNE. — Franfois  Villon. 

Prince  of  sweet  songs,  made  out  of  tears 

and  fire  ; 
A  harlot  was  thy  nurse,  a  God  thy  sire. 

SWINBURNE. — Ib. 

Shame  soiled  thy  song,  and  song  assoiled 

thy  shame. 
But  from  thy  feet  now  death  hath  washed 

the  mure.  SWINBURNE. — Ib. 

And  those  high  songs  of  thine 
That  stung  the  sense  like  wine, 
Or  fell  more  soft  than  snow  or  dew  by 

night ; 

Or  wailed  as  in  some  flooded  cave 
Sobs  the  strong  broken  spirit  of  a  wave. 
SWINBURNE. — To  Victor  Hugo. 

And  round  thee  with  the  breeze  of  song 
To  stir  a  little  dust  of  praise. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  75. 

The  passionate  heart  of  the  poet  is  whirled 
into  folly  and  vice. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  4,  7. 

Vex  not  thou  the  poet's  mind 

With  thy  shallow  wit ; 
Vex  not  thou  the  poet's  mind, 

For  thou  canst  not  fathom  it. 

TENNYSON. — The  Poet. 

And  Creteus,  whom  the  Muses  held  so 

dear : 
He  fought  with  courage  and  he  sang  the 

fight; 

Arms  were  his  business,  verses  his  delight. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  9  (Dryden  tr.) . 

It  is  the  great  poets  who  have  decided 
the  genius  of  languages. 
VOLTAIRE. — Discourse  to  French  Academy 

1746. 

Illustrious  acts  high  raptures  do  infuse, 
And  every  conqueror  creates  a  muse. 

WALLER. — Cromwell. 

Shelley,  the  hectic,  flamelike  rose  of  verse 
All  colour,  and  all  odour,  and  all  bloom. 
Steeped  in   the  moonlight,   glutted  with 

the  sun, 
But   somewhat   lacking   root   in   homely 

earth. 

SIR  W.  WATSON.— To  E.  Dowden. 


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The  poet's  fate  is  here  in  emblem  shown, 

He  asked  for  bread,  and  he  received  a 

stone. 

SAMUEL  WESLEY. — On  Butler's 
Monument. 

Poets  (so  unimpeached  tradition  says), 

The  sole  historians  were  of  ancient  days, 

Who  helped  their  heroes  Fame's  high  hill 

to  clamber. 

J.  WOLCOT. — The  Apple  Dumpling^ 

A  great  deal,  my  dear  liege,  depends 
On  having  clever  bards  for  friends. 
What    had    Achilles    been    without    his 

Homer  ? 
A  tailor,  woollen-draper,  or  a  comber  ! 

J.  WOLCOT. — Moral  Reflection. 

That  mighty  orb  of  song, 
The  divine  Milton. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  i. 

I  mourned  with  thousands,  but  as  one 
More  deeply  grieved,  for  he  was  gone 
Whose  light  I  hailed  when  first  it  shone, 

And  showed  my  youth 
How  Verse  may  build  a  princely  throne 

On  humble  truth. 

WORDSWORTH. — Memorials  of  a  Town  in 
Scotland,  2.        (Grave  of  Burns.) 

The  poets,  who  on  earth  have  made  us 

heirs 
Of  truth  and  pure  delight,  by  heavenly 

lays. 

WORDSWORTH. — Personal  Talk. 

I  thought  of  Chatterton,  the  marvellous 

boy, 

The  sleepless  soul,   that  perished  in  his 
pride. 

WORDSWORTH. — Resolution  and 
Independence. 

We  poets  in  our  youth  begin  in  gladness, 

But  thereof  come  in  the  end  despondency 

and  madness.        WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

A  cheerful  life  is  what  the  Muses  love  ; 
A  soaring  spirit  is  their  prime  delight. 
WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  No.  4. 

A   volant  Tribe  of   Bards  on   earth   are 

found,  .  .  . 

Dust  for  oblivion  !     To  the  solid  ground 
Ot  nature  trusts  the  mind  that  builds  for 

aye.          WORDSWORTH. — Ib.,  No.  34. 

In  his  breast  the  mighty  Poet  bore 
A  Patriot's  heart,  warm  with  undying  fire. 
WORDSWORTH. — Tour  in  Italy,  19. 

Those  who  err  follow  the  poets. 
Koran,  ch.  26.    (Referring  to  the  belief  that 
the  devils  prompt  the  poets  with  such  in- 
coherent scraps  of  the  angels'  converse  as 
they  can  hear  by  stealth.} 


POISON 

The  coward's  weapon,  poison. 
PHINEAS  FLETCHER. — Siceliaes,  Act  5,  3. 

The  wine  is  bright  at  the  goblet's  brim, 
Though  the  poison  lurk  beneath. 

D.  ROSSETTI. — King's  Tragedy. 

I  speak  from  experience, — poison  is 
drunk  out  of  gold. 

SENECA. — Thyesles,  Act  3,  453. 
POLICE 

When  constabulary  duty's  to  be  done, 
A  policeman's  lot  is  not  a  happy  one. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Pirates  of  Penzance. 

Policemen  are  soldiers  who  act  alone  ; 

soldiers  are  policemen  who  act  in  unison. 

HERBT.  SPENCER  — Social  S'atics. 

Pt.  3,  ch.  21,  8. 

Some  staid  guardian  of  the  public  peace. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  7. 

POLICY 

I  feel  all  the  pride  of  power  sink,  and  all 
presumption  in  the  wisdom  of  human  con- 
trivances melt  and  die  away  within  me. 
My  rigour  relents.  I  pardon  something  to 
the  spirit  of  liberty. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

And  Policy  regained  what  arms  had  lost. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  25. 

Incidents  ought  not  to  govern  policy^ 
but  policy,  incidents. 

NAPOLEON. — As  quoted  by  Emerson, 
"  Representative  Men." 

The  first  advice  I  have  to  give  the  party 
is  that  it  should  clean  its  slate. 

LORD  ROSEBERY. — Speech,  Dec.,  1901 . 

I  speak  against  my  present  profit,  but 
my  wish  hath  a  preferment  in  't. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  5,  4. 

Never  did  base  and  rotten  policy 

Colour    her    working    with    such    deadly 

wounds. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

Love  thyself  last :    cherish  those  hearts 

that  hate  thee  : 

Corruption  wins  not  more  than  honesty. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

Great  God  !    (said  I)  what  have  I  seen  ! 

On  what  poor  engines  move 
The  thoughts  of  monarchs  and  designs  of 

states, 
What  petty  motives  rule  their  fates  ! 

SWIFT.— To  Sir  W.  Temple. 

POLITENESS 

Sometimes  politeness  is  only  the  varnish 
of  falsehood. 
PIERRE  HYACINTHE  AZAIS  (1766-1845). 


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Politeness  is  to  goodness  what  words  are 

tO     thoughts.  JOUBERT. 

Politeness  has  been  well  denned  as 
benevolence  in  small  things. 

MACAULAY. — Boswell. 

Politeness  costs  nothing  and  gains 
everything. 

LADY  M.  WORTLEY  MONTAGU. — Letter. 

Politeness  to  those  we  do  not  respect  is 
no  more  a  breach  of  faith  than  "  your 
humble  Servant  "  at  the  bottom  of  a  chal- 
lenge ;  they  are  universally  understood  to 
be  things  of  course. 

J.  TRUSLER. — Principles  of 
Politeness. 

The  first  rule  of  education,  in  all  lands, 
is  never  to  say  anything  offensive  to  any- 
one. VOLTAIRE. — On  Satire,  1739. 

As  in  smooth  oil  the  razor  best  is  whet, 
So  wit  is  by  politeness  sharpest  set : 
Their  want  of  edge  from  their  offence  is 

seen  ; 

Both  pain  us  least  when  exquisitely  keen. 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  2. 

Politeness  is  excellent,  but  it  does  not 
pay  the  bill. 
Saying.  (C.  H.  Spurgeon,  "  Salt- Cellars.") 

POLITICAL  ECONOMY 

What  we  might  call,  by  way  of  eminence, 
the  dismal  science. 

CARLYLE. — Nigger  Question. 

Respectable  Professors  of  the  Dismal 
Science. 

CARLYLE. — The  Present  Time  (1850). 

To  apply,  in  all  their  unmitigated 
authority,  the  principles  of  abstract 
political  economy  to  the  people  and  cir- 
cumstances of  Ireland,  exactly  as  if  he 
had  been  proposing  to  legislate  for  the 
inhabitants  of  Saturn  or  Jupiter. 

GLADSTONE. — House  of  Commons, 
April  7,  1881. 

The  rich  have  become  richer,  and  the 

poor  have  become  poorer  ;   and  the  vessel 

of  the  state  is  driven  between  the  Scylla 

and  Charybdis  of  anarchy  and  despotism. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

POLITICIANS 

These  oracles  hit  my  fancy  !      Notwith- 
standing 

I'm  partly  doubtful  how  I  could  contrive 

To  manage  an  administration  altogether. 

ARISTOPHANES. — The  Knights  (The 

Sausage-Seller).  (Freretr.) 

Even  in  your  tender  years 

And  your  early  disposition 
You  betrayed  an  inward  sense 


Of  the  conscious  impudence, 

Which  constitutes  a  politician. 

ARISTOPHANES. — Ib. 

It  is  as  hard  and  severe  a  thing  to  be  a 
true  politician  as  to  be  truly  moral. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

A  Politician  who  screams  is  never  likely 
to  occupy  a  commanding  place  in  the 
House  of  Commons. 

A.  BIRRELL. — E.  Burke. 

Resolved  to  die  in  the  last  dyke  of 
prevarication. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings, 
May,  1789. 

The  quacks  of  government  (who  sate 
At  th'  unregarded  helm  of  State). 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3,  c.  z. 

Well  can  ye  mouth  fair  Freedom's  classic 

line, 

And  talk  of  Constitutions  o'er  your  wine. 
CAMPBELL. — Poland. 

But  all  your  vows  to  break  the  tyrant's 

yoke 

Expire  in  Bacchanalian  song  and  smoke. 
CAMPBELL. — Ib. 

An  upright  minister  asks,  what  recom- 
mends a  man  ;  a  corrupt  minister,  who. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Reflections,  No.  9. 

Patriots  are  grown  too  shrewd  to  be  ski- 
cere, 
And  we  too  wise  to  trust  them. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk,  500. 

I  lay  my  yoke  on  feeble  folk, 

And  march  across  the  neck  of  fools. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — The  Aristocrat. 

Though  political  troubles  are  hot, 
They  never  disturb  me  a  jot, 
With   language   discursive   and   methods 

inversive 
I  easily  settle  the  lot. 

E.  DE  STEIN. — (Russian  Bolshevist'* 
Statement.) 

For  politicians  neither  love  nor  hate. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pt.  i,  223. 

He  [Sir  Condy  Rackrent]  .  .  .  was  very 
ill  used  by  the  government  about  a  place 
that  was  promised  him  and  never  given, 
after  his  supporting  them  against  his  con- 
science very  honourably,  and  being  greatly 
abused  for  it,  which  hurt  him  greatly,  he 
having  the  name  of  a  great  patriot  in  the 
county  before. 
Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Castle  Rackrent,  ch.  2. 

Measures,  not  men,  have  always  been  my 
mark. 

GOLDSMITH. — Good-Natured  Man,  Act  2 

Here  lies  our  good  Edmund,  whose  genius 

was  such, 
We  scarcely  can  praise  it  or  blame  it  too 

much ; 


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Who,  born  for  the  universe,  narrowed  his 

mind, 
And  to  party  gave  up  what  was  meant  for 

mankind  ; 
Though    fraught   with    all   learning,    yet 

straining  his  throat, 
To  persuade  Tommy  Townshend  to  lend 

him  a  vote. 

GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

D'ye   think   that  statesmen's  kindnesses 

proceed 

From  any  principles  but  their  own  need  ? 
SIR  R.  HOWARD. — Vestal  Virgin. 

Learn'd  or  unlearn'd,  we  all  are  politicians. 
S.  JENYNS. — Horace. 

We're  the  original  friends  o'  the  nation, 
All  the  rest  air  a  paltry  an'  base  fabrica- 
tion. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  ist  Series, 

No.  5. 

It  ain't  by  princerples  nor  men 

My  preudunt  course  is  steadied  ; 

I  scent  wich  pays  the  best,  an'  then 
Go  into  it  baldheaded. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Ib.,  No.  6. 

Now  warn't  thet  a  system  wuth  pains  in 

presarvin', 
Where  the  people  found  jints  an'   their 

frien's  done  the  carvin'. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Ib.,  2nd  Series,  No. 5. 

We  have  hundreds  of  ministers,  who 
press  forward  into  office,  without  having 
ever  learned  that  art  which  is  necessary 
for  every  business,  the  art  of  thinking. 
H.  MACKENZIE. — Man  of  Feeling,  ch.  20. 

Some  lie  beneath  the  churchyard  stone, 
And  some  before  the  Speaker. 

W.  M.  PRAED. — School. 

Fools  who  think  to  make  themselves 
great  men  out  of  little  by  swaggering  in 
the  rear  of  a  party. 

SCOTT. — Diary,  Feb.,  1826. 

The  pate  of  a  politician,  .  .  .  one  that 
could  circumvent  God. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  -i. 

Turn  him  to  any  cause  of  policy, 
The  Gordian  knot  of  it  he  will  unloose, 
Familiar  as  his  garter. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  i,  i. 

To  a  member's  wife,  Nora,  nobody  is 
common,  provided  he's  on  the  register. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— Bull's  Otter  Island. 


On  the  other  hand  we  have  three  Social- 
Democrats  amongst  us.  They  are  not  on 
speaking  terms  ;  and  they  have  put  before 


us  three  distinct  and  incompatible  views  of 
Social-Democracy. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Who  makes  the  quartern  loaf  and  Lud- 
dites rise  ? 
Who  fills  the  butchers'  shops  with  large 

blue  flies  ? 

H.  AND  J.  SMITH.— Rejected  Addresses, 
No.  i,  Loyal  Effusion. 

Of  all  ingenious  instruments  of  despot- 
ism I  most  commend  a  popular  assembly, 
where  the  majority  are  paid  and  hired, 
and  a  few  bold  and  able  men,  by  their 
brave  speeches,  make  the  people  believe 
they  are  free. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Countess  Grey, 
Feb.  9,  1821. 

To  talk  of  not  acting  from  fear  is  mere 
parliamentary  cant.  From  what  motive 
but  fear.  I  should  be  glad  to  know,  have 
all  the  improvements  in  our  constitution 
proceeded  ? 

SYDNEY  SMITH.— Peter  Plymley's  Letters, 

No.  6. 

The  Statesman  tells  you,  with  a  sneer, 
His  fault  is  to  be  too  sincere ; 
And,  having  no  sinister  ends, 
Is  apt  to  disoblige  his  friends. 

SWIFT. — Beasts'  Confession. 

There  is  one  essential  point  wherein  a 
political  liar  differs  from  others  of  the 
faculty,  that  he  ought  to  have  but  a  short 
memory.  SWIFT. — Examiner,  No.  15. 

Families,  when  a  child  is  born, 
Want  it  to  be  intelligent. . 
I,  through  intelligence, 
Having  wrecked  my  whole  life, 
Only  hope  the  baby  will  prove 
Ignorant  and  stupid. 
Then  he  will  crown  a  tranquil  life 
By  becoming  a  Cabinet  Minister. 
SuTuNG-p'o. — (Chinese  poet,  nth  century. \ 
(Arthur  Waley's  translation.) 

Talk   on,   ye   quaint   haranguers   of   the 

crowd, 
Declaim  in  praise  of  peace,  when  danger 

calls, 
And  the  fierce  foes  in  arms  approach  the 

walls. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  n  (Dryden  tr.). 

Some    patriot    fools    to    popular    praise 

aspire, 
Of   public   speeches,    which   worse   fools 

admire. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  2  (Dryden  lr.). 

POLITICS 

I  have  lived  too  long  ...  to  be  of  any 
politics  save  gipsy  politics ;  and  it  is  well 
known  that  during  elections  the  children 
of  Roma  [gipsies]  side  with  both  parties 


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POLITICS 


POLLUTION 


so  long  as  the  event  is  doubtful,  promising 
success  to  each  ;  and  when  the  fight  is 
done  and  the  battle  won,  invariably  range 
themselves  in  the  ranks  of  the  victorious. 
BORROW. — Bible  in  Spain,  ch.  14. 

Politics  nil  me  with  doubt  and  dizziness. 


Altogether  they  puzzle  me  quite  ; 
They  all  seem  wrong  and  they  all  seem 
right.   R.  BUCHANAN. — Fine  Weather. 

A  race  that  binds 
Its     body    in    chains,    and    calls    them 

Liberty  ; 
And  calls  each  fresh  link  Progress. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Political  Mystics. 

Of  this  stamp  is  the  cant  of  "  Not  men 
but  measures  "  ;  a  sort  of  charm  by  which 
many  people  get  loose  from  every  honour- 
able engagement. 

BURKE. — Cause  of  Present  Discontents. 

All  the  politics  of  the  great 
Are  like  the  cunning  of  a  cheat. 
BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

In  politics  what  begins  in  fear  usually 
ends  in  folly. 

COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk,  Oct.  5, 1830. 

Patriotism,  Liberty,  Reform,  and  many 
other  good  things  have  got  a  bad  name  by 
keeping  bad  company ;  for  those  who 
have  iU  intentions  cannot  afford  to  work 
with  tools  that  have  ill  sounds. 

C.  C.  CotTON. — Lacon. 

The  age  of  virtuous  politics  is  past. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk,  498. 

Politics  we  bar  ; 

They  are  not  our  bent ; 
On  the  whole  we  are 

Not  intelligent. 
SIR  VV.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

I  always  admired  Mrs.  Crete's  saying 
that  politics  and  theology  were  the  only 
two  really  great  subjects. 

W.  E.  GLADSTONE. — Letter   1880 
(cf.  O.  W.  Holmes,  as  quoted  below). 

They  politics  like  ours  profess — 
The  greater  prey  upon  the  less. 

MATTHEW  GREEN. — Grotto. 

When  shall  the  softer,  saner  politics 
Whereof  we  dream,   have  play  in  each 
proud  land  ? 

THOS.  HARDY. — Departure,  n. 

With  what  a  genius  for  administration 
We  rearrange  the  rumbling  universe, 
And  map  the  course  of  man's  regeneration, 
Over  a  pipe  ! 
W.  E.  HENLEY. — Inter  Sodales. 


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Religion  and  government  appear  to  me 
the  two  subjects  which,  of  all  others, 
should  belong  to  the  common  talk  of 
people  who  enjoy  the  blessings  of  freedom. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Prof,  at  Breakfast  Table. 

He  that  goeth  about  to  persuade  a 
multitude  that  they  are  not  so  well 
governed  as  they  ought  to  be,  shall  never 
want  attentive  and  favourable  hearers. 

HOOKER. — Eccles.  Pol.,  i,  i. 

There  is  a  holy,  mistaken  zeal  in  politics, 
as  well  as  religion.  By  persuading  others 
we  convince  ourselves. 

JUNIUS. — Letter  35. 

In  political  discussion  heat  is  in  inverse 
proportion  to  knowledge. 

J.  G.  COTTON  MINCHIN. — Growth 
of  Freedom. 

Those  who  would  treat  politics  and 
morality  apart  will  never  understand  the 
one  or  the  other. 

LORD  MORLEY. — Rousseau. 

The  body  political,  like  the  human  body, 

begins  to  die  from  the  date  of  its  birth, 

and  carries  in  itself  the    causes    of    its 

destruction. 

ROUSSEAU. — Contrat  Social,  Bk.  3,  ch.  n. 

Not  to  th'  ensanguined  field  of  death  alone 
Is  Valour  limited  ;   she  sits  serene 
In  the  deliberate  council ;   sagely  scans 
The  source  of  action ;    weighs,  prevents, 
provides. 

SMOLLETT. — The  Regicide,  Act  i,  i. 

Those  two  amusements  for  all  fools  of 
eminence,  Politics  or  Poetry. 

STEELE. — Spectator,  vol.  i,  43. 

Politics  is  perhaps  the  only  profession 
for  which  no  preparation  is  thought 
necessary. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Yoshida-Torajiro. 

But  after  sage  monitions  from  his  friends, 
His  talents  to  employ  for  nobler  ends  ; 
To  better  judgments  willing  to  submit, 
He  turns  to  politics  his  dangerous  wit. 
SWIFT. — The  Author  upon  himself,  1713. 

In  politics  I  am  sure  it  is  even  a  Machia- 
vellian   holy    maxim,  "  That    some    men 
should  be  ruined  for  the  good  of  others." 
SWIFT. — On  English  Bubbles  ( 1 720) . 

My  pollertics,  like  my  religion,  being  of 
an  exceedin"  accommodatin'  character. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — The  Crisis. 

I   am  not  a  politician  and  my  other 
habits  are  good. 
ARTEMUS  WARD.— Fourth  of  July  Oration. 

POLLUTION 

The  light,  even  though  it  passes  through 
pollution,  is  unpolluted. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. — In  Joannem 


POMP 


POSIES 


He  that  toucheth  pitch  shall  be  defiled 
therewith.  Ecdesiasticus  xiii,  i. 

Dirty  water  does  not  wash  clean. 

Italian  prov. 
POMP 

Make  not  my  path  offensive  to  the  Gods 
By  spreading  it  with  carpets.  They  alone 
May  claim  that  honour ;  but  for  mortal 

men 

To  walk  on  fair  embroidery,  to  me 
Seems  nowise  without  peril.     So  I  bid  you 
To  honour  me  as  man,  and  not  as  God. 
/ESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  893   (Plumptre 

tr.). 

There's  sic  parade,  sic  pomp  and  art, 
The  joy  can  scarcely  reach  the  heart. 

BURNS. — Twa  Dogs. 

Vain  pomp  and  glory  of  this  world,  I  hate 

ye. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  2. 

The  pomps  and  vanity  of  this  wicked 
world.  Church  Catechism. 

POPULARITY 

He  more  had  pleased  us  had  he  pleased 
us  less.          ADDISON. — English  Poets. 

I  hate  the  vulgar  popular  cattle. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Fine  Weather. 

I  have  not  loved  the  world,  nor  the  world 

me  ; 
I  have  not  flattered  its  rank  breath,  nor 

bowed 
To  its  idolatries  a  patient  knee. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  113. 

What  are  the  rank  tongues 
Of   this  vile   herd,   grown  insolent   with 

feeding, 
That  I  should  prize  their  noisy  praise,  or 

dread 
Their  noisome  clamour  ? 

BYRON. — Sardanapalus,  Act  i,  2. 

Certes  the  commendacion  of  the  peple 
is  somtyme  ful  fals  and  ful  brotel  for  to 
trist  [very  brittle  to  trust  to]  ;  this  day 
they  preyse,  tomorwe  they  blame.  God 
woot  [God  knows]  desyr  to  have  com- 
mendacion of  the  peple  hath  caused  deeth 
to  many  a  bisy  [industrious]  man. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  28. 

Vain  men  will  speak  well  of  him  that 
does  ill. 
OLIVER  CROMWELL. — To  Richard  Mayor. 

Nor  is  the  people's  judgment  always  true  : 
The  most  may  err  as  grossly  as  the  few. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel,  Pt.  i, 

779- 

That  truth  once  known,  all  else  is  worth- 
less lumber ; 


The    greatest    pleasure    of    the    greatest 
number. 

(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — King  Arthur, 
Bk.  8,  70. 

Honour,  glory,  and  popular  praise, 
Rocks  whereon  greatest  men  have  oftest 

wrecked. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  227. 

The  multitude  is  always  in  the  wrong. 
EARL  OF  ROSCOMMON. — On  Translated 

Verse. 

I  thank  you  for  your  voices,  thank  you — 
Your  most  sweet  voices. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  2,  3. 

You  all  did  love  him  once,  not  without 

cause. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Cctsar,  Act  3,  2. 

That  empty  and  ugly  thing  called  popu- 
larity. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — To  a  Young  Gentleman. 

His  enemies,  for  want  of  charity, 
Said  he  affected  popularity. 

SWIFT. — Beasts'  Confession. 

God  will  not  love  thee  less,  because 
men  love  thee  more. 

M.  F.  TUPPER. — Of  Tolerance. 

PORTRAITS 

There  are  only  two  styles  of  portrait 
painting,  the  serious  and  the  smirk. 
[Miss  La  Creevy.] 

DICKENS. — Nickleby,  c.  10. 

I  am  all  for  a  little  flattery  in  portraits, 
— that  is  so  far  as,  I  think,  the  painter  or 
sculptor  should  try  at  something  more 
agreeable  than  anything  he  sees  sitting  to 
him.  E.  FITZGERALD. — Letter  to 

W.  H.  Thompson. 

Speak  of  me  as  I  am  ;  nothing  extenuate, 
Nor  set  down  aught  in  malice. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  2. 

Alas  !   how  little  can  a  moment  show 
Of  an  eye  where  feeling  plays 
In  ten  thousand  dewy  rays  ; 
A  face  o'er  which  a  thousand  shadows  go  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — The  Triad. 

POSIES 

So  let  our  love 
As  endless  prove ; 
And  pure  as  gold  for  ever. 

HERRICK. — Hesperides,  172. 

Is  this  a  prologue  or  the  posy  of  a  ring  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

I  still  rejoice 

In  my  first  choice. 

Love  Posies,  c.  1596. 


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POSITION 


POSSIBILITIES 


I  send  to  you  a  pair  of  Gloves  : 

If  you  love  me, 

Leave  out  the  G, 
And  make  a  pair  of  Loves. 

Cupid's  Posies  (1674),  No.  5. 

Love  itself  discloses  by  Gifts  with  Posies. 
Ib.,  No.  43. 

You  and  I  will  Lovers  die. 

Ib.,  No.  S4. 

I  wish  that  we  two  were  a  pair, 
As  these  happy  Gloves  here  are. 

Ib.,  No.  56. 

There  is  no  jewel  I  can  see 

Like  love  that's  set  in  constancy. 

Ib.,  A'o.  64. 
POSITION 

For  when  a  man  is  most  above, 
Him  nedeth  most  to  get  him  love. 

GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  3. 

Better   to   reign   in  Hell    than  serve  in 
Heaven. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  263. 

He  that  is  below  envieth  him  that  riseth, 
And  he  that  is  above,  him  that's  below 
depiseth. 
ANON. — "  Hullo  my  fancy  I  "  (c.  1600). 

Better  be  the  head  of  the  yeomanry 
than  the  tail  of  the  gentry. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
POSITIVENESS 

Where  men  of  judgment  creep  and  feel 

their  way, 
The  positive  pronounce  without  dismay. 

COWPER. — Conversation,  145. 

Positiveness  is  a  good  quality  for 
preachers  and  teachers. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts. 

I'm  positive  I'm  in  the  right ;  and  if 
you'll  keep  up  the  prerogative  of  a  woman 
you'll  likewise  be  positive  you  are  in  the 
right,  whenever  you  do  anything  you  have 
a  mind  to. 

SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — Provoked  Wife, 
Act  i,  i . 

It  is  only  the  charlatans  who  are  certain. 
We  know  nothing  of  first  principles.  .  .  . 
Doubt  is  not  a  very  agreeable  condition, 
but  assurance  is  a  ridiculous  one. 

VOLTAIRE. — To  the  Crown  Prince  of 
Prussia,  1766. 
POSSESSION 

The  thing  possessed  is  not  the  thing  it 
seems. 

S.  DANIEL. — Civil  Wars,  st.  104. 

The  pleasure  of  possessing, 
Surpasses  all  expressing, 
But  'tis  too  short  a  blessing, 
And  love  too  long  a  pain. 
DRYDEN. — Spanish  Friar,  Act  5,  i. 


Hungry  rooster  don't  cackle  w'en  he  fine 
a  wum. 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Plantation  Proverbs. 

Possession   means    to  sit    astride  of   the 

world, 

Instead  of  having  it  astride  of  you. 
KINGSLEV. — The  Saint's  Tragedy,  Act  i,  2. 

Laws  are  always  useful  to  those  who 
possess,  and  obnoxious  to  those  who  have 
nothing. 

ROUSSEAU. — Central  Social,  Bk.  i, 
ch.  9  (note). 
For  it  so  falls  out, 
That  what  we  have  we  prize  not  to  the 

worth, 
Whiles  we  enjoy  it ;  but  being  lacked  and 

lost, 
Why  then  we  rack  the  value. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  i. 

They  well  deserve  to  have 
That  know  the  strong'st  and  surest  way 
to  get. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  3. 

Farewell !    thou  art  too  dear  for  my  pos- 
sessing.      SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  87. 

Possession,  they  say,  is  eleven  parts  of 
the  law.  SWIFT. 

The    want    of     a    thing    is    perplexing 
enough,     but    the    possession     of     it    is 
intolerable. 
SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — Confederacy,  Act  i,  2. 

The  good  old  rule 
Sufficeth  them,  the  simple  plan 
That    they    should    take    who    have    the 
power, 

And  they  should  keep  who  can. 
WORDSWORTH. — Rob  Roy's  Grave. 

Who  has  but  one  lamb  makes  it  fat. 

French  prov. 

We  all  have  more  than  each  man  knows, 
Of  sins,  of  debts,  of  years,  and  foes. 

Said  to  be  derived  from  the  Persian. 

POSSIBILITIES 

Strong  is  the  soul,  and  wise  and  beautiful ; 
The  seeds  of  godlike  power/ are  in  us  still ; 
Gods  are  we,  bards,  saints,  heroes,  if  we 

will. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Written  in  Emerson's  Essays. 

Since  that  cannot  be  done  which  you 
wish,  wish  what  can  be  done. 

TERENCE. — Andria,  2. 

These  things  are  possible  because  they 
seem  to  be  possible. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid.  Bk.  5. 

May-be's  fly  na  at  this  time  o'  year. 
Scottish  prov.  (see  also  "Hypothesis  "). 


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POSTERITY 

POSTERITY 

The  seed  ye  sow,  another  reaps  ; 
The  wealth  ye  find,  another  keeps  ; 
The  robe  ye  weave,  another  wears  ; 
The  arms  ye  forge,  another  bears. 

SHELLEY. — Men  of  England. 

Let  no  man  write  my  epitaph  !     Let  my 

grave 

Be  uninscribed,  and  let  my  memory  rest 
Till  other  times  are  come,  and  other  men, 
Who  then  may  do  me  justice. 

SOUTHEY.— O»  R.  Emmet 

We  are  always  doing,  savs  he,  something 
for  Posterity,  but  I  would  fain  see  Pos- 
terity do  something  for  us. 

STEELE. — Spectator,  Vol.  8,  583. 

What  has  posterity  done  for  us, 
That  we,  lest  they  their  rights  should  lose, 
Should  trust  our  necks  to  gripe  of  noose  ? 
J.  TRUMBULL. — McFingal. 

POSTHUMOUS  FAME 

Seldom  comes  Glory  till  a  man  be  dead. 
HERRICK. — Glory. 

See  nations,  slowly  wise  and  meanly  just, 
To  buried  merit  raise  the  tardy  bust. 
JOHNSON. — Vanity  of  Human  Wishes. 

Ages  to  come  and  men  unborn 

Shall  bless  her  name  and  sigh  her  fate. 

PRIOR. — Ode  after  Queen  Mary's 

Death,  1795. 

Seven  wealthy  towns  contend  for  Homer 

dead, 

Through  which  the  living  Homer  begged 
his  bread.  THOS.  SEWARD  (?). 

Die  two  months  ago,  and  not  forgotten 
yet  ?  Then  there's  hope  a  great  man's 
memory  may  outlive  his  life  half  a  year  ; 
but,  by'r  lady,  he  must  build  churches 
then.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Those  glories  come  top  late 
That  on  our  ashes  wait. 
ANON. — Tr.  of  Martial,  Bk.  i,  26. 

POSTPONEMENT 

I  give  him  three  years  and  a  day  to  match 

my  Toledo, 
And  then  we'll  fight  like  dragons. 

MASSINGER. — The  Maid  of  Honour, 
Act  2,  2. 

Then  do  we  sin  against  our  own  estate, 
When  we  may  profit  meet,  and  come  too 
late. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Timon  of  Athens, 
Act  •),  I. 

That  we  would  do, 

We  should  do  when  we  would,  for  this 
"  would  "  changes, 


____^ POVERTY 

And  hath  abatements  and  delays  as  many 
As    there    are    tongues,    are   hands,    are 
accidents. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  7. 

By  the  street  of  By-and-By  one  comes 
to  the  house  of  Never. 

Span.  prov.  (Don  Quixote). 

POSTSCRIPTS 

I  knew  one  that  when  he  wrote  a  letter 
he  would  put  that  which  was  most  material 
in  the  postscript,  as  if  it  had  been  a  bye 
matter.  BACON. — Of  Cunning. 

Wit  in  the  letter  will  prate,  but  wisdom 
speaks  in  a  postscript. 
A.  H.  CLOUGH. — Bothie  of  Tober-na- 
Vuolich,  Pt.  9. 

His  sayings  are  generally  like  women's 
letters  :  all  the  pith  is  in  the  postscript. 
HAZLITT. — Boswell  Redivivus.    Cony. 
with  Northcote  (in  allusion  to  Lamb). 

POVERTY 

Poverty  is  the  discoverer  of  all  the  arts 
APOLLONIUS. — De  Magia. 

For  who  sings  commonly  so  merry  a  Noate 

As  he  that  cannot  chop  or  change  a  groate  ? 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Content  (1594). 

Poverty's  unconquerable  bar. 

BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  x. 

No  one  should  praise  poverty  but  he 
who  is  poor.  ST.  BERNARD. — Sermon. 

The  poor  man's  farthing  is  worth  more 
Than  all  the  gold  on  Afric's  shore. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

I  wish  my  deadly  foe  no  worse 
Than  want  of  friends  and  empty  purse. 
N.  BRETON. — Farewell  to  Town. 

The  labouring  people  are  only  poor 
because  they  are  numerous. 

BURKE. — Thoughts  on  Scarcity. 

And  what  poor  cot-folk  pit  their  painch  in, 
I  own  it's  past  my  comprehension. 

BURNS. — Two,  Dogs. 

Poverty  and  eccentricity  are  very  bad 
bedfellows.  H.  J.  BYRON. — "  Mirth." 

And  rustic  life  and  poverty 

Grew  beautiful  beneath  his  touch. 

CAMPBELL. — On  Burns. 

A  poor  fool  indeed  is  a  very  scandalous 
thing. 
MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — The  Wonder,  Act  i,  i. 

But  al  be  that  he  was  a  philpsophre,  £  * 

Yet  hadde  he  but  litel  gold  in  cofre.    •    ' 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 


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POVERTY 


POVERTY 


Thilke  that  tbou  clepest  [those  whom 
them  callest]  thy  thralles  been  [are]  goddes 
peple ;  for  humble  folk  been  Cristes 
freendes. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec,  65. 

Poverty,  the  reward  of  honest  fools. 
C.  CIBBER. — Richard  III.,  Act  2,  2. 

He  found  it  inconvenient  to  be  poor. 

COWPER. — Charity,  189. 

The  poor,  inured  to  drudgery  and  distress, 
Act  without  aim,  think  little,  and  feel  less, 
And  nowhere,  but  in  feigned  Arcadian 

scenes, 
Taste  happiness,  or  know  what  pleasure 

means.  COWPER. — Hope,  7. 

Want  is  a  bitter  and  a  hateful  good, 
Because  its  virtues  are  not  understood. 

DRYDEN. 

The  greatest  man  in  history  was  the 
poorest.  EMERSON. — Domestic  Life. 

Poverty  consists  in  feeling  poor. 

EMERSON. — Ib. 

There's  no  scandal  like  rags,  nor  any 
crime  so  shameful  as  poverty. 

FARQUHAR. — Beaux'  Stratagem,  Act  i,  i. 

Man  is  God's  image  :    but  a  poor  man  is 
Christ's  stamp  to  boot. 

GEO.  HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

The  poor  man  alone, 

When  he  hears  the  poor  moan, 

From  a  morsel  a  morsel  will  give, 

Welladay  ! 
T.  HOLCROFT. — Gaffer  Gray. 

For  all  the  poor  that  are, 
And  all  the  strangers,  are  the  care  of  Jove. 
HOMER. — Odyssey,  6,  207  (Cowper  tr.). 

She  had  an  idea  from  the  very  sound 
That  people  with  naught  were  naughty. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Oh,  God,  that  bread  should  be  so  dear 
And  flesh  and  blood  so  cheap  ! 

HOOD. — Song  of  the  Shirt. 

All  crimes  are  safe  but  hated  poverty. 
JOHNSON. — London . 

This  mournful  truth  is  everywhere  con- 
fessed, 
Slow  rises  worth  by  poverty  depressed. 

JOHNSON. — Ib. 

A  man  guilty  of  poverty  easily  believes 
himself  suspected. 

JOHNSON. — Rambler,  No.  26. 

Few,  save  the  poor,  feel  for  the  poor. 

L.  E.  LANDON. — The  Poor. 

Poverty  makes  some  humble,  but  more 
malignant. 
LORD  LYTTON. — Eugene  Aram,  Bk.  i,  c.  7. 


The  Lady  Poverty  was  fair, 
But  she  has  lost  her  looks  of  late, 
With  change  of  times  and  change  of  air. 
Ah,  slattern,  she  neglects  her  hair, 
Her  gown,  her  shoes.     She  keeps  no  state 
As  once,  when  her  pure  feet  were  bare. 
ALICE  MEYNELL. — The  Lady  Poverty. 

Rattle  his  bones  over  the  stones, 
He's  only  a  pauper  whom  nobody  owns. 
T.  NOEL. — Pauper's  Drive. 

Poverty  is  a  thorough  instructress  in 
all  the  arts.  PLAUTUS. — Stichus. 

No  wonder  that  his  soul  was  sad, 
When  not  one  penny  piece  he  had. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Johnny. 

No  one  lives  so  poor  as  he  is  born. 

SENECA. — Quare  bonis. 

A  needy,  hollow-eyed,  sharp-looking 

wretch  ; 

A  living  dead  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Comedy  of  Errors,  Act  5,  i. 

I  am  poor  as  Job,  my  lord,  but  not  so 

patient.   SHAKESPEARE. — King  Henry  IV., 

Pt.  2,  Act  i,  2. 

I  am  the  friend  of  the  unfriended  poor. 
SHELLEY. — To  Cambria. 

No  society  can  surely  be  nourishing  and 
happy,  of  which  the  far  greater  part  of 
the  members  are  poor  and  miserable. 

ADAM  SMITH. — Wealth  of  Nations, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  8. 

Poverty  is  no  disgrace  to  a  man,  but  it 
is  confoundedly  inconvenient. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

'Tis  infamous,  I  grant  it,  to  be  poor. 

SMOLLETT. — Advice,  2. 

Oh,  holy  is  the  patience  of  the  poor ! 

F.  TENNYSON. — Alcceus,  3,  61. 

Our  hoard  is  little,  but  our  hearts  are  great. 
TENNYSON. — Marriage  of  Geraint. 

These  two  parties  still  divide  the  world 
Of  those  that  want,  and  those  that  have  ; 

and  still 
The  same  old  sore  breaks  out  from  age  to 

age, 
With  much  the  same  result. 

TENNYSON. — Walking  to  the  Mail. 

Poverty  is  a  hateful  boon,  mother  of 
health,  remover  of  cares,  restorer  of  wis- 
dom, a  possession  without  loss. 

VINCENT  OF  BEAUVAIS. — Speculum  His- 
toriale,  Bk.  10,  c.  71  (an  older  saying). 

The  poor  is  never  free  ;  he  serves  in 
every  land.  VOLTAIRE. — Les  Gulbres. 

Whene'er  I  take  my  walks  abroad, 
How  many  poor  I  see  ! 

I.  WATTS. — Praise  for  Mercies. 


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The  keen,  the  wholesome  air  of  poverty. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  i. 


Splendid  poverty. 
YOUNG. — . 


•Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  i. 

For  the  poor  ye  have  always  with  you. 
St.  Johnxii,  8  (R.V.). 

The  rich  and  poor  meet  together :  the 
Lord  is  the  maker  of  them  all. 

Proverbs  xxii,  2. 

Never  turn  thy  face  from  any  poor  man. 
Tobit  iv  (Prayer  Book  Version). 

God  help  the  poor  :    the  rich  can  make 

shift.  Motto  in  Dekker's  "  Worke  for 

Armourers  "  (1609). 

Poverty  is  the  sixth  sense.  Prov. 

Poverty  is  no  sin,  but  twice  as  bad. 

Russian  prov. 
POWER 

It  is  a  strange  desire,  to  seek  power  and 
lose  liberty.  BACON. — Of  Great  Place. 

As  wealth  is  power,  so  all  power  will 
infallibly  draw  wealth  to  itself  by  some 
means  or  other.  BURKE. — Speech  (1780). 

Power    gradually    extirpates    from    the 
mind  every  humane  and  gentle  virtue. 
BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

God  is  generally  for  the  big  battalions 
against  the  little  ones. 

BUSSY-RABUTIK. — Letter,  Oct.  18,  1677. 

The  depositary  of  power  is  always  un- 
popular. 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  4,  ch.  13. 

Little  he  loved,  but  power  the  most  of  all, 
And  that  he  seemed  to  scorn,  as  one  who 

knew 

By  what  foul  paths  men  choose  to  crawl 
thereto. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Legend  of  Brittany, 
st.  17. 

The  more  the  state  expands,  the  more 
liberty  diminishes. 

ROUSSEAU. — Control  Social,  Bk.  3,  ch.  i. 

The  Monarch  drank,  that  happy  hour, 
The  sweetest,  holiest  draught  of  Power. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  6,  28. 

No  pent-up  Utica  contracts  your  powers, 
But    the    whole    boundless    continent    is 
yours. 

J.  M.  SEWALL. — Epilogue  to  Goto. 

Power,  like  a  desolating  pestilence, 
Pollutes  whate'er  it  touches. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mob. 
PRACTICE 

Constant  practice  often  excels  even  talent. 
CICERO. — Pro  Cornelia  Balbo,  20, 


Practice  is  the  best  master. 

CICERO. — Pro  Rabirio  Postumo,  4. 

Practice  is  everything. 

PERIANDER  OF  CORINTH  (c.  B.C.  550). 

An  ounce  of  practice  is  worth  a  pound 
of  preaching.  Prov. 

PRAISE 

It  was  his  noble  mind  that  moved  mee 
To  write  his  praise,   and  eeke  his  acts 

commend. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Complaint  of  Poetrie 
(1598). 

Good,  strong,  thick,  stupefying  incense- 
smoke. 

BROWNING. — The  Bishop  orders 
his  Tomb. 

Praise  is  deeper  than  the  lips. 

BROWNING. — Hervi  Riel. 

On  earth  I  confess  an  itch  for  the  praise 
of  fools — that's  Vanity. 

BROWNING. — Solomon  and  Balkis. 

For  praise,  that's  due,  does  give  no  more 
To  worth  than  what  it  had  before  ; 
But  to  commend  without  desert 
Requires  a  mastery  of  art, 
That  sets  a  gloss  on  what's  amiss, 
And  writes  what  should  be,  not  what  is. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

But  Shakespeare  also  says,  'tis  very  silly 

"  To  gild  refined  gold,  or  paint  the  lily." 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  76. 

Some  man  preyseth  his  neighbour  by  a 
wikke  entente  [evil  intention]  ;  for  he 
maketh  alwey  a  wikked  knotte  [difficulty] 
at  the  last  ende.  Alwey  he  maketh  a 
"  but  "  at  the  last  ende. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  30. 

Praises  of   the   unworthy   are   felt   by 

ardent  minds  as  robberies  of  the  deserving. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Literaria,  ch.  3. 

Nothing  so  soon  the  drooping  spirits  can 

raise 
As  praises  from  the  men  whom  all  men 

praise.  COWLEY. — Ode. 

Oh  spare  your  idol !    think  him  human 

still; 
Charms  he  may  have,  but  he  has  frailties 

too  ; 
Dote  not  too  much,  nor  spoil  what  ye 

admire.     COWPER. — Time  Piece,  496. 

Daubed  with  undiscerning  praise. 

COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 

Say  not  that  she  did  well  or  ill, 
Only,  "  She  did  her  best." 
DINAH  M.  CRAIK. — Poems  (1852) 


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Praise  is  devotion  fit  for  mighty  minds, 
The  differing  world's  agreeing  sacrifice. 
SIR  VV.  D'AvENANT. — See  Oxford  Book 
of  English  Verse. 

Contemn  the  danger  and  the  praise  pursue. 

DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Meleager  and 

Atalanta. 

For  he  who  sings  thy  praise  secures  his 
own.       DRYDEN. — Virgil,  Pastoral  6. 

Of  praise  a  mere  glutton,  he  swallowed 

what  came, 
And  the  puff  of  a  dunce  he  mistook  it  for 

fame.  GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Who  peppered  the  highest  was  surest  to 
please.  GOLDSMITH. — Ib. 

Sweet  is  the  scene  where  genial  friendship 

plays 

The  pleasing  game  of  interchanging  praise. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — After  Dinner  Poem. 

Be  silent,  Praise, 
Blind  guide  with  siren  voice,  and  blinding 

That  hear  thy  call. 
KEBLE. — Wednes.  before  Easter. 

As  a  rule  we  only  praise  in  order  to  be 
praised. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  146. 

There  are  some  censures  which  praise, 
and  some  praises  which  condemn. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  148. 

The  refusal  of  praise  is  really  the  wish 
to  be  praised  twice. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  149. 

When  affection  only  speaks, 
Truth  is  not  always  there. 

MIDDLETON. — Old  Law,  Act  4,  2. 

And  hearts  that  once  beat  high  for  praise 
Now  feel  that  pulse  no  more. 

MOORE. — The  Harp  that  Once. 

To  those  who  know  thee  not,  no  words 

can  paint ; 
And  those  who  know  thee  know  all  words 

are  faint. 

HANNAH  MOORE. — Sensibility. 

Praise,  the  fine  diet  which  we're  apt  to 

love, 
If  given  to  excess  doth  hurtful  prove. 

J.  OLDHAM. — To  a  Friend. 

Do  you  wish  people  to  speak  well  of 
you  ?     Don't  yourself. 

PASCAL. — Pensees,  Pt.  i,  9,  59. 

The  bad,  when  praised,  become  still  worse. 
PHILOSTRATUS  (Greek). 


This  feeling  of  self-importance  [from 
the  praise  of  the  public  orator]  remains 
with  me  for  more  than  three  days.  In 
fact  so  much  do  the  speech  and  tone  of 
the  orator  ring  in  my  ears  and  sink  in  my 
heart,  that  even  on  the  fourth  or  fifth  day 
I  can  hardly  pull  myself  together  or 
realise  where  on  earth  I  am.  For  a  while 
I  fancy  myself  in  the  isles  of  the  blessed. 
So  clever  are  our  orators  ! 

PLATO. — Menexenus,  2  (Spoken  by 
Socrates  in  ridicule  of  the  Grecian 
public  orators). 

What  would  have  been  very  honourable 
if  another  had  related  it,  becomes  nothing 
if  the  doer  narrates  it  himself. 

PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. — Bk.  i,  Ep.  8. 

Those  who  are  greedy  of  praise  prove 
that  they  are  poor  in  merit. 

PLUTARCH. — As  quoted  by  La  Harpe. 

When  a  sophister  was  declaiming  the 

praises   of   Hercules,    Antalcidas    asked : 

"  Who  ever  said  anything  against  him  ?  " 

PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

Avoid  extremes  ;    and  shun  the  fault  of 

such 

Who  still  are  pleased  too  little  or  too  much. 
POPE. — Criticism,  384. 

I  see  no  reason  that  because  one  man 

is  eminent,  therefore  another  has  a  right 

to  be  impertinent  and  throw  praises  in 

his  face.        POPE. — The  Guardian,  No.  4 

(March  16,   1713). 

Fame  impatient  of  extremes,  decays 
Not  more  by  envy  than  excess  of  praise. 
POPE. — Temple  of  Fame,  44. 

Drive  from  my  breast  that  wretched  lust 

of  praise, 

Unblemished  let  me  live,  or  die'unknown  ; 
Oh  grant  an  honest  fame,  or  grant  me 

none  !  POPE. — Ib.,  522. 

Praise  is  like  ambergris  ;  a  little  whiff 
of  it,  and  by  snatches,  is  very  agreeable, 
but  when  a  man  holds  a  whole  lump  of  it 
to  his  nose,  it  is  a  stink  and  strikes  you 
down. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Praise  undeserved  is  scandal  in  disguise. 

POPE. — (Said  to  be  quoted  from  an  anon. 

poem  in  T onsen's  Miscellanies,  1709.) 

When  all  the  world  conspires  to  praise  her 
The  woman's  deaf  and  does  not  hear. 

POPE. — To  a  Lady  at  Court. 

Praise  cannot  wound  his  generous  spirit 
now.  ROGERS. — Pleasures  of  Memory. 

When  one  is  flagging,  a  little  praise  is 
a  cordial  after  all.  .  .  .  To-day  I  have 
already  written  four  pages  with  confi- 


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dence.     Thus  does  flattery  or  praise  oil 
the  wheels.      SCOTT. — Diary,  Feb.,  1826. 

Praising  what  is  lost 
Makes  the  remembrance  dear. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  5,  3. 

I   will  praise  any   man  that  will   praise 
me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  2,  6. 

Well   said !    That   was   laid   on   with    a 

trowel. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  i,  2. 

I  come  to  bury  Caesar,  not  to  praise  him. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  3,  2. 

This  comes  too  near  the  praising  of  myself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  3,  4. 

Who  is  Sylvia  ?     What  is  she 
That  all  our  swains  commend  her  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona, 

Act  4,  i. 

Our  praises  are  our  wages. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  i,  2. 

Such  is  the  mode  of  these  censorious  days, 
The  art  is  lost  of  knowing  how  to  praise. 
J.  SHEFFIELD  (DUKE  OF  BUCKINGHAM- 
SHIRE).— On  Mr.  Hobbes. 

We  are  not  content  with  praise  unless 
we  deserve  it,  nor  are  we  content  with 
deserving  it  unless  we  obtain  it. 

ADAM  SMITH. 

Among  the  smaller  duties  of  life  I  hardly 
know  any  one  more  important  than  that 
of  not  praising  where  praise  is  not  due. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  9. 

Praise  is  the  best  diet  for  us,  after  all. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 

So  double  was  his  paines,  so  double  be  his 

praise. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  2,  c.  2,  25. 

And  what  is  most  commended  at  this  time, 
Succeeding  ages  may  account  a  crime. 

EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Darius. 

Your  panegyrics  here  provide  ; 
You  cannot  err  on  flattery's  side. 

SWIFT. — On  Poetry. 

The  poor  encomium,  so  thinly  spread, 
Lampoons  the  injured  ashes  of  the  dead  ; 
Though  for  the  orator  'tis  said  withal, 
He  meant  to  praise  him,  if  he  meant  at  all. 
SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

That  worst  class  of  enemies,  those  who 
praise  you.  TACITUS. — Agric.  41. 

The  art  of  praising  is  the  beginning  of 
the  art  of  pleasing. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Pucelle. 


Who  praises  everything  is  only  a 
flatterer.  He  only  knows  now  to  praise 
who  praises  with  restraint. 

VOLTAIRE. — Temple  du  Gout. 
Prelim.  Letter. 

Why,  praise  is  satire  in  these  sinful  days. 
P.  WHITEHEAD. — Manners. 

I  had  been  nourished  by  the  sickly  food 
Of  popular  applause.     I  now  perceived 
That  we  are  praised,  only  as  men  in  us 
Do  recognise  some  image  of  themselves, 
An  abject  counterpart  of  what  they  are, 
Or  the  empty  thing  that  they  would  wish 
to  be. 

WORDSWORTH. — Borderers,  Act  4. 

With  faint  praises  one  another  damn. 
WYCHERLEY. — Plain  Dealer  (1674),  Pro/. 

The  love  of  praise,  howe'er  concealed  by 

art, 
Reigns,  more  or  less,  and  glows,  in  every 

heart. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  i. 

When  most  the  world  applauds  you,  most 

beware  ; 

'Tis  often  less  a  blessing  than  a  snare. 
Distrust  mankind  ;    with  your  own  heart 

confer  ; 

And  dread  even  there  to  find  a  flatterer. 
YOUNG.— Ib.,  Sat.  6. 

Woe  unto  you,  when  all  men  shall  speak 
well  of  you  !  St.  Luke  vi,  26. 

Ye  who  would  in  aught  excel, 
Regard  this  simple  maxim  well : 
A  wise  man's  censure  may  appal, 
But  a  fool's  praise  is  worse  than  all. 
ANON. — Tr.  of  Yriarte,  L'Oso  y  la  Mona. 

Who  praiseth  St.  Peter  doth  not  blame 
St.  Paul.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

PRAYER 

Long  tarries  destiny, 
But  comes  to  those  who  pray. 

AESCHYLUS. — Choephoree,  462 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

He  who  labours,  prays. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. 

He  who  prays  and  also  works,  lifts  his 
heart  to  God  with  his  hands. 

ST.  BERNARD. — Ad  sororem. 

Pray  and  work,  said  the  medieval  saint. 
Pray  as  though  nothing  were  to  be  done 
by  work  ;  work  as  though  nothing  were 
to  be  gained  by  prayer. 

T.  H.  BRIDGES. — Essays  and  Addresses, 
Pt.  i,  i. 

At  my  devotion  I  love  to  use  the  civility 
of  my  knee,  my  hat,  and  hand. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici, 
Pt.  i.  3- 


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Sleep  is  in  fine  so  like  death,  I  dare  not 
trust  it  without  my  prayers. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici, 
Pt.  2,  sec.  12. 

A  child  may  say  amen 
To  a  bishop's  prayer,  and  feel  the  way  it 

goes. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  2. 

They  never  sought  in  vain  that  sought 
the  Lord  aright. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

I  would  not  exchange  the  prayer  of  the 
deceased  [Mrs.  John  Sheppard]  in  my 
behalf  for  the  united  glory  of  Homer, 
Caesar,  and  Napoleon,  could  such  be  accu- 
mulated upon  a  living  head. 

BYRON. — Letter  to  John  Sheppard  of 
Frame  (No.  469  in  Moore's  "  Life 
of  Byron  "). 

He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best 
All  things  both  great  and  small ; 
For  the  dear  God  who  loveth  us, 
He  made  and  loveth  all. 

^COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner. 

And  Satan  trembles  when  he  sees 
The  weakest  saint  upon  his  knees. 

COWPER. — Hymn. 

I'm  heard  when  answered,  soon  or  late, 
And  heard  when  I  no  answer  get ; 
Yea,  kindly  answered  when  refused, 
And  treated  well  when  harshly  used. 

R.  ERSKINE. 

Who  their  ill-tasted,  home-brewed  prayer 
To  the  State's  mellow  forms  prefer. 

MATTHEW  GREEN. — ^Spleen,  306. 

And  help  us  this,  and  every  day, 
To  live  more  nearly  as  we  pray. 

KEBLE. — Morning. 

If  by  prayer 

Incessant  I  could  hope  to  change  the  will 
Of  him  who  all  things  can,  I  would  not 

cease 

To  weary  him  with  my  assiduous  cries  ; 
But  prayer  against  his  absolute  decree 
No  more   avails   than  breath  against  the 
wind. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  n,  307. 

Prayer  is  the  soul's  sincere  desire, 
Uttered  or  unexpressed ; 

The  motion  of  a  hidden  fire 

That  trembles  in  the  breast. 
JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Praying  always. 

Dp  you  wish  to  find  out  the  really 
sublime  ?  Repeat  the  Lord's  Prayer. 

NAPOLEON. 

The  prayer  to  pray  is  the  one  that  you 
can  answer  yourself.  EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

Nymph,  in  thy  orisons 
Be  all  my  sins  remembered. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 


VVords  without  thoughts  never  to  heaven 
go.         SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  3. 

Only  righteous  prayers  are  heard  by  the 
gods.  TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  3. 

More  things  are  wrought  by  prayer 
Than  this  world  dreams  of. 

TENNYSON. — Passing  of  Arthur. 

Battering  the  gates  of  heaven  with  storms 
of  prayer. 

TENNYSON. — Simeon  Stylites. 

Work,  as  though  work  alone  thine  end 

could  gain  ; 
But  pray  to  God  as  though  all  work  were 

vain. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Tr.  Euripides. 

Cease  to  hope  that  the  gods'  decrees 
are  to  be  changed  by  prayer. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid. 

The  sure  relief  of  prayer. 

WORDSWORTH. — During  a  Storm. 

In  every  storm  that  either  frowns  or  falls, 

What  an  asylum  has  the  soul  in  prayer  ! 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  9. 

Pray  regularly  morning  and  evening, 
and  in  the  early  part  of  the  evening,  for 
good  works  drive  away  evils. 

Koran,  ch.  n. 

Prayer  should  be  the  key  of  the  day 
and  the  lock  of  the  night.  Prov. 

PREACHERS  AND  PREACHING 

The  pig-of-lead-like  pressure 
Of  the  preaching  man's  immense  stupidity. 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  Canto  3. 

Who  prove  their  doctrine  orthodox 
By  apostolic  blows  and  knocks. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  I,  i,  199. 

Though  language  forms  the  preacher, 
'Tis  "  good  works  "  make  the  man. 
ELIZA  COOK. — Good  Works. 

Mean  you  to  prophesy  or  but  to  preach  ? 
COWPER. — Table  Talk,  478. 

Reading  what  they  never  wrote, 
Just  fifteen  minutes,  huddle  up  their  work, 
And  with  a  well-bred  whisper  close  the 
scene. 

COWPER. — The  Time  Piece,  411. 

Heard  at  conventicle,  where  worthy  men, 
Misled  by  custom,  strain  celestial  theme. 
Through  the  pressed  nostril. 

COWPER. — Ib.,  437. 

How  oft,  when  Paul  has  served  us  with  a 

text, 
Has  Epictetus,  Plato,  Tully,  preached  ! 

COWPER. — Ib.,  539. 


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PRECISENESS 


For  public  preaching  indeed  is  the  gift 
of  the  Spirit,  working  as  best  seems  to  his 
secret  will. 

MILTON. — Church  Government,  ch.  i. 

Truth  and  the  text  he  labours  to  display, 
Till  both  are  quite  interpreted  away. 

CHRISTOPHER  PITT. — On  Preaching. 

To  rest  the  cushion  and  soft  dean  invite, 
Who  never  mentions  hell  to  ears  polite. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  4. 

Preachers  say,  Do  as  I  say,  not  as  I  do. 
SELDEN. — Preaching. 

Do  not,  as  some  ungracious  pastors  do, 
Show  me  the  steep  and  thorny  path  to 

Heaven, 

Whilst,  like  a  puffed  and  reckless  libertine 
Himself   the   primrose   path   of   dalliance 

treads, 
And  recks  not  his  own  rede. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

And  coughing  drowns  the  parson's  saw. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 

Act  5,  2. 

Preaching  is  a  good  calling  but  a  bad 
trade. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — John  Ploughman. 

Don't  go  to  hear  Dr.  Smoothaway.  He 
preaches  down  at  St.  Judas's  church,  and 
a  brother  of  his  is  minister  at  the  Modern 
Thought  chapel. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON.—"  Salt-Cellars." 

"  Parson,"  said  I,  "  you  pitch  the  pipe  too 
low."       TENNYSON. — Edwin  Morris. 

With  mild  heat  of  holy  oratory. 

TENNYSON. — Idylls  of  the  King: 
Geraint  and  Enid,  867. 

Thou  art  no  Sabbath-drawler  of  old  saws, 

Distilled     from     some     worm  -  cankered 

homily.        TENNYSON. — To  J.  M.  K. 

Ah  me  !  the  doctor  who  preaches  is  only 
taller  than  most  of  us  by  the  height  of  the 
pulpit. 

THACKERAY. — Adventures  oj  Philip. 

Preach  not  because  you  have  to  say 
something,  but  because  you  have  some- 
thing to  say. 

ARCHBP.  WHATELY. — Apophthegms. 

A  sermon  should  never  exceed  twenty- 
five  minutes. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  15  (1827). 

And  from  the  pulpit  zealously  maintained 
The  cause  of  Christ  and  civil  liberty 
As  one,  and  moving  to  one  glorious  end. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  2. 


And  hark  !   how  blithe  the  throstle  sings  ! 

He  too  is  no  mean  preacher  : 
Come  forth  into  the  light  of  things  ; 

Let  Nature  be  your  Teacher. 

WORDSWORTH. — Tables  Turned,  4. 

The  foolishness  of  preaching. 

i  Corinthians  i,  21. 

A  dreigh  (dry)  drink   is   better  than  a 
dreigh  sermon.  Scottish  prov. 

He  who  is  short  of  grace  thinks  sermons 
long.  Given  as  a  saying  by  C.H.  Spurgeon. 

PRECEDENT 

Set  it  down  to  thyself,  as  well  to  create 
good  precedents  as  to  follow  them. 

BACON. — Of  Great  Place. 

To  follow  foolish  precedents,  and  wink 
With   both   our  eyes,   is  easier   than   to 
think.        COWPER. — Tirocinium,  255. 

A  precedent  embalms  a  principle. 

DISRAELI. — Speech,  1848. 

All  the  sentences  of  precedent  judges 
that  have   ever  been  cannot  all  together 
make  a  law  contrary  to  natural  equity. 
HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  26. 

One    precedent    creates    another.      They 
soon  accumulate  and  become  law. 

JUNIUS. — Dedication. 

'Twill  be  recorded  for  a  precedent ; 
And  many  an  error,  by  the  same  example, 
Will  rush  into  the  state. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  4,  i. 

Is  not  Precedent  indeed  a  King  of  men  ? 
SWINBURNE. — Word  from  the  Psalmist. 

PRECISENESS 

Her  taste  exact 
For  faultless  fact 
Amounts  to  a  disease. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

The  devil  turned  precisian  ! 
MAS  SINGER. — New  Way  to  pay  Old  Debts, 

Act  i,  i. 

How  absolute  the  knave  is !  we  must 
speak  by  the  card,  or  equivocation  will 
undo  us. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  i. 

In  such  a  time  as  this,  it  is  not  meet 
That  every  nice  offence  should  bear  his 

comment. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ctesar,  Act  4,  3. 

Let  him  look  to  his  bond  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  i. 

Ye  tithe  mint  and  anise  and  cummin, 
and  have  left  undone  the  weightier  matters 
of  the  law,  judgement,  and  mercy,  and 
faith.  St.  Matthew  xxiii,  23  (R.V.). 


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PRECOCITY 


PREJUDICE 


The  letter  killeth,  but  the  spirit  maketh 
alive.  2  Corinthians  iii,  6. 

PRECOCITY 

Precocious  youth  is  a  sign  of  premature 
death.  PLINY. — 7,  51. 

I  never  knew  so  young  a  body  with  so 
old  a  head. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  4,  i. 

So  wise,  so  young,  they  say,  do  ne'er  live 

long. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  3,  i. 

Soon  tod  [toothed],  soon  with  God. 

Northern  saying. 

PREFACES 

I  had  long  seen  the  uselessness  of  all 
prefaces,  for  the  more  pains  a  writer  takes 
to  render  his  views  clear,  the  more  occasion 
he  gives  for  embarrassment. 

GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  13. 

I  have  somewhere  read  or  heard  that 
the  Preface  before  a  book,  like  the  portico 
before  a  house,  should  be  contrived  so  as 
to  catch,  but  not  detain  the  attention  of 
those  who  desire  admission  to  the  family 
within. 

MRS.  PIOZZI. — Pref.  to  Anecdotes  of 
S.  Johnson,  LL.D. 

Nor  will  I  tire  thy  patience  with  a  train 
Of  preface,  or  what  ancient  poets  feign. 
VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  2  (Dryden  tr.). 

It  is  a  foolish  thing  to  make  a  long 
prologue,  and  to  be  short  in  the  story 
itself.  2  Maccabees  ii,  32. 

PREFERMENT 

The  parson  knows  enough  who  knows  a 
Duke.        COWPER. — Tirocinium,  403. 

Plough-hoss  don't  squeal  en  kick  w'en 
dey  puts  n'er  [another]  boss  in  he  place. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  47. 

Desert  may  make  a  sergeant  to  a  colonel, 

And  it  may  hinder  him  from  rising  higher. 

MASSINGER. — The  Maid  of  Honour, 

Act  3,  i. 

A  ruler  who  appoints  any  man  to  an 
office,  when  there  is  in  his  dominions 
another  man  better  qualified  for  it,  sins 
against  God  and  against  the  State. 

Koran.  Cited  by  J.  S.  Mill,  Liberty,  ch.  2. 

PREJUDICE 

Mother  is  far  too  clever  to  understand 
anything  she  does  not  like. 

ARNOLD  BENNETT. — The  Title. 


But  his  eddication  to  his  ruination  had 

not  been  over  nice, 
And  his  stupid  skull  was  choking  full  of 

vulgar  prejudice. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Phil  Blood's  Leap. 

All  kinds  of  vulgar  prejudice 

I  pray  you  set  aside. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Trial  by  Jury. 

To  be  prejudiced  is  always  to  be  weak  ; 
yet  there  are  prejudices  so  near  to  laudable 
that  they  have  been  often  praised  and  are 
always  pardoned. 

JOHNSON. — Taxation  no  Tyranny. 

I  am,  in  plainer  words,  a  bundle  of 
prejudices — made  up  of  likings  and  dis- 
likings.  LAMB. — Imperfect  Sympathies. 

Every  man  should  let  alone  other's 
prejudices  and  examine  his  own.  LOCKE. 

Remember  when  the  judgment's  weak, 
the  prejudice  is  strong. 

K.  O'HARA.— Midas. 

All  seems  infected  that  the  infected  spy, 
As  all  looks  yellow  to  the  jaundiced  eye. 
POPE. — Criticism,  558. 

All  manners  take  a  tincture  from  our  own, 
Or  some  discoloured  through  our  passions 

shown, 

Or  fancy's  beam  enlarges,  multiplies, 
Contracts,  inverts,  and  gives  ten  thousand 

dyes. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  i,  33. 

If  ever  from  an  English  heart, 
O  here  let  prejudice  depart ! 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  Introd. 

Some  men  there  are,  love  not  a  gaping  pig, 

Some,  that  are  mad  if  they  behold  a  cat. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  4,  i. 

We  all  decry  prejudice,  yet  are  all 
prejudiced. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics, 

Pt.  2,  Ch.   17,  2. 

Are  you  going  to  hang  him  anyhow — 
and  try  him  afterwards  ? 
MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  at  Home,  ch.  5. 

Custom  and  indolence  combine  together 
to  keep  ignorance  in  possession. 

VOLTAIRE. — Chinese  Letters. 

Prejudices  are  the  reasoning  of  fools. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Loi  naturelle. 

Prejudice  gets  into  the  pulpit  first ; 
reason  does  not  arrive  until  later  on. 
That  is  the  ordinary  march  of  the  human 
mind.  VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

Passion  and  prejudice  govern  the  world  ; 
only  under  the  name  of  reason. 
J.WESLEY. — Letter  to  /.  Benson,  Oct.,  1770. 


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PREMATURENESS 


PRESUMPTION 


PREMATURENESS 

You  are  like  the  eels  of  Melun  ;  you 
cry  out  before  you  are  skinned. 

RABELAIS.— Gargantua  (1534). 

It's  time  enough  to  make  my  bed  when 
I'm  gaun  to  lie  doun.  Scottish  prov. 

PREPARATION 

Forewarned,  forearmed  ;  to  be  prepared 
is  half  the  victory. 

CERVANTES. — Don  Quixote,  II.,  17. 

When  any  great  design  thou  dost  intend, 

Think  on  the  means,  the  manner,  and  the 

end.   SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Prudence,  186. 

Every  one  with  one  of  his  hands  wrought 
in  the  work,  and  with  the  other  hand  held 
a  weapon.  Nehemiah  iv,  17. 

Light  your  lamp  before  it  becomes  dark. 
Arabic  prov. 

A  beard  well  lathered  is  half  shaved. 

Italian  prov. 
PRESENCE  OF  MIND 

Presence  of  mind  and  courage  in  distress 

Are  more  than  armies  to  procure  success. 

D.RYDEN. — Aurengzebe,  Act  2. 

PRESENT,  THE 

The  present  moment  is  our  ain, 

The  neist  we  never  saw. 
BEATTIE. — Stanza  added  to  "  There's  nae 
luck  about  the  house." 

Every  age, 
Through   being   beheld    too   close,    is    ill 

discerned. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  5. 

Every  age 
Appears  to  souls  who  live  in  it  (ask 

Carlyle) 
Most  unheroic.     E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib. 

Shakespeare  says,  we  are  creatures  that 
look  before  and  after.  The  more  surprising 
that  we  do  not  look  round  a  little  and  see 
what  is  passing  under  our  very  eyes. 

CARLYLE. — Sartor  Resartus,  Bk.  i,  i. 

The  present  is  the  living  sum-total  of 
the  whole  past. 

CARLYLE  — Essays,  Characteristics. 

To-morrow  do  thy  worst,  for  I  have 
lived  to-day, 

DRYDEN. — Tr.  of  Horace. 

Take  time,  while  time  doth  serve  ;    'tis 
time  to-day, 

For  secret  dangers  will  attend  delay. 

Do  what  thou  canst ;   to-day  hath  eagle's 
wings : 

For    who    can     tell     what    change    to- 
morrow brings  ? 

J.  G.  LOCKHART. — His  Epitaph. 


Consult  the  dead  upon  the  things  that 

were, 

But  the  living  only  on  things  that  are. 
LONGFELLOW. — Golden  Legend,  Pt.  i. 

Trust  no  future,  howe'er  pleasant ; 

Let  the  dead  Past  bury  its  dead  ; 
Act,  act  in  the  living  Present, 

Heart  within  and  God  o'erhead. 

LONGFELLOW. — Psalm  of  Life. 

These  most  brisk  and  giddy-paced  times. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  4. 

For  we  are  Ancients  of  the  earth, 
And  in  the  morning  of  the  times. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

In  what  alone  is  ours,  the  living  NOW. 

WORDSWORTH. — Tour  in  Italy. 

Live  to-day,  forgetting  the  anxieties  of 
the  past.  Epicurean  Maxim. 

Can   ye  not   discern   the  signs  of   the 
times  ?  St.  Matthew  xvi,  3 . 

Give  me  to-day  and  take  to-morrow. 
Greek  prov.,  condemned  by  St.  Chrysostom. 

PRESS,  THE 

Flee    fro    the    prees*    and    dwelle  with 
sothefastnesse. 

CHAUCER. — Ballad  of  Good  Counsel. 

Did  Charity  prevail,  the  press  would  prove 
A  vehicle  of  virtue,  truth,  and  love. 

COWPER. — Charity,  624. 

Newspapers    always    excite    curiosity. 
No  one  ever  lays  one  down  without  a  feel- 
ing of  disappointment. 
LAMB. — Essays  of  Elia ;  Detached  Thoughts. 

Four  hostile  newspapers  are  more  to 
be  feared  than  a  thousand  bayonets. 

NAPOLEON. 
Turn    to    the    press — its    teeming   sheets 

survey, 

Big  with  the  wonders  of  each  passing  day  ; 
Births,   deaths,   and  weddings,   forgeries, 

fires,  and  wrecks. 

Harangues    and    hailstones,    brawls    and 
broken  necks. 

CHARLES  SPRAGUE. — Curiosity. 

They   said    the    Press   was    the   Arky- 
mediaii  Leaver  which  moved  the  world. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — The  Press. 

PRESUMPTION 

Presumptuous   hope,   that   fain   would 

stretch 

To  heaven's  high  throne  her  daring  view, 
Is  but  the  winged  steed  that  threw 
Bellerophon,  what  time  his  frenzied  pride 
Aspired    to   tread    the   eternal   domes 

above, 

And  sit  among  the  peers  of  Jove. 
PINDAR. — Isthmian  Odes,  6,  60  (Moore  tr.) 

•"  Prees  "— crowd :  it  has   been  humorously 
taken  to  mean  "press." 


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PRETENTIOUSNESS 


PRIDE 


In  pride,  in  reasoning  pride  cur  error  lies  ; 
All  quit  their  sphere,  and  rush  into  the 
skies. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  123. 

A  twalpenny  cat  may  look  at  a  king. 

Scottish  prov. 
PRETENTIOUSNESS 

His  wit  invites  you  by  his  looks  to  come, 

But  when  you  knock  it  never  is  at  home. 

COWPER. — Conversation,  303. 

Musical  as  the  chime  of  tinkling  rills, 
Weak    to    perform,    though    mighty    to 
pretend. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  14. 

He  made  me  mad 
To  see  him  shine  so  brisk,  and  smell  so 

sweet, 

And  talk  so  like  a  waiting-gentlewoman, 
Of  guns,  and  drums,  and  wounds. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

Glendower.     I    can  call  spirits  from   the 

vasty  deep. 
Hotspur.     Why,  so  can  I,  and  so  can  any 

man, 
But  will  they  come  when  you  do  call  for 

them? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

PREVARICATION 

Resolved  to  die  in  the  last  dyke  of  pre- 
varication. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 
(May  7,  1789). 

I  love  not  a  sophisticated  truth  with  an 
alloy  of  lie  in  it. 

DRYDEN. — Assignation,  Act  5,  4. 

O  pardon  me,  my  lord  ;   it  oft  falls  out, 
To  have  what  we  would  have,  we  speak 

not  what  we  mean. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  2,  4. 

A  lie  which  is  half  a  truth  is  ever  the 
blackest  of  lies. 

TENNYSON. — The  Grandmother. 

"  Almost  "  and  "  very  nigh  " 
Save  the  teller  many  a  lie. 

Old  Saying. 
PREY 

Hobbes  clearly  proves  that  every  creature 
Lives  in  a  state  of  war  by  nature ; 
The  greater  for  the  smaller  watch, 
But  seldom  meddle  with  their  match. 

SWIFT. — On  Poetry. 

For  wheresoever  the  carcase  is,  there  will 
the  eagles  be  gathered  together. 

St.  Matthew  xxiv,  28. 
PRIDE 

No  mere  mortal  has  a  right 
To  carry  that  exalted  air  ; 
Best  people  are  not  angels  quite. 
BROWNING. — Pippa  Passes,  9,  36. 


The  fient  a  pride,  nae  pride  had  he, 
Nor  sauce,  nor  state,  that  I  could  see, 
Mair  than  an  honest  ploughman. 

BURNS. — On  meeting  Lord  Daer. 

But  his  heart  was  swollen  and  turned  aside 
By  deep,  interminable  pride. 

BYRON. — Siege  of  Corinth,  st.  21. 

The  proud  will  sooner  lose  than  ask  their 
way. 

C.  CHURCHILL. — The  Farewell,  380. 

The  addition  of  pride  contaminates  the 
best  manners.  CLAUDIUS. 

The  proud  are  always  most  provoked  by 
pride.      COWPER. — Conversation,  160. 

For  Lucifer,  with  them  that  felle, 
Bare  pride  with  him  into  helle  ; 
There  was  pride  of  too  great  cost, 
When  he  for  pride  hath  heaven  lost. 

GOWER. — Con/.  Amantis,  Bk.  i. 

Pride  is  the  cause  of  alle  wo. 

GOWER. — Ib.,  i,  3006. 

A  pride  there  is  of  rank, — a  pride  of  birth, 
A  pride  of  learning,  and  a  pride  of  purse, 
A  London  pride, — in  short,  there  be  on 

earth 
A  host  of  prides  some  better  and  some 

worse  ; 

But  of  all  prides,  since  Lucifer's  attaint, 
The  proudest  swells  a  self-elected  saint. 

HOOD. — Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

Hating   that   solemn   vice   of   greatness, 
pride.     BEN  JONSON. — Lady  Bedford. 

Oh  why  should  the  spirit  of  mortal  be 

proud  ? 
Like  a  swift-fleeting  meteor,  a  fast-flying 

cloud, 
A  flash  of  the  lightning,  a  break  of  the 

wave, 

He  passes  from  life  to  his  rest  in  the  grave. 
WM.  KNOX. — Said  to  have  been  the 
favourite  poem  of  A  braham  Lincoln. 

Of  all  the  garbs  I  ever  saw  Pride  put 
on,  that  of  her  humility  is  to  me  the  most 
disgusting. 

H.  MACKENZIE. — Man  of  Feeling,  ch.  33. 

Pride,  the  never-failing  vice  of  fools. 

POPE. — Criticism,  204. 

We  are  sometimes  apt  to  wonder  to  see 
those  people  proud  who  have  done  the 
meanest  things  ;  whereas  a  consciousness 
of  having  done  poor  things,  and  a  shame 
of  hearing  of  them,  often  make  the  com- 
position we  call  pride. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Pride  is   at   the   bottom   of   all   great 

mistakes.     RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  4, 

Pt.  5,  sec.  22. 


400 


PRIMROSES 


PRISONS 


But  sure  he's  proud  ;   and  yet  his  pride 

becomes  him. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  5 

'Tis  pride  that  pulls  the  country  down. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Othello  (quoted  from  old 

ballad),  Act  2,  3. 

Two  curs  shall  tame  each  other  ;    pride 

alone 
Must  tarre  the  mastiffs  on. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  I,  3. 

Some  glory  in  their  birth,  some  in  their 

skill, 
Some  in  their  wealth,  some  in  their  body's 

force.          SHAKESPEARE. — $n*<»*t  01. 

Was  never  in  this  world  ought  worthy 

tride, 
Without  some  spark  of  such  self-pleasing 

pride.    SPENSER. — Amoretti,  Sonnet  5. 

But  if  they  all  should  be  denied, 
Then  you're  too  proud  to  own  your  pride. 
ANN  and  JANE  TAYLOR. — To  find  out 
Pride. 

There  was  as  great  a  sin  in  His  eyes  as 
that  of  the  poor  erring  woman, — it  was 
the  sin  of  pride. 

THACKERAY. — Our  Batch  of  Novels  for 
Christmas,  1837. 

Curst  pride,  that  creeps  securely  in, 
And  swells  a  haughty  worm. 

I.  WATTS. — Sincere  Praise. 

Pride, 

Howe'er  disguised  in  its  own  majesty, 
Is  littleness. 
WORDSWORTH. — Lines  left  upon  a  Seat. 

When  pride  cometh,  then  cometh  shame. 
Proverbs  xi,  2, 

Pride  goeth  before  destruction,  and  an 
haughty  spirit  before  a  fall. 

Proverbs  xvi,  18. 

PRIMROSES 

A  primrose  by  a  river's  brim 
A  yellow  primrose  was  to  him, 
And  it  was  nothing  more. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Pt.  i. 

PRINCES 

He  may  not,  as  unvalued  persons  do, 
Carve    for    himself ;     for    on    his    choice 

depends 
The  safety  and  the  health  of  the  whole 

state. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

For  princes  are  the  glass,  the  school,  the 


Where  subjects'  eyes  do  learn,  do  read, 
do  look. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  St.  88. 

2  A  401 


A  prince,  born  for  the  good  of  other  men  : 

Whose  god-like  office  is  to  draw  the  sword 

Against  oppression,  and  set  free  mankind. 

T.  SOUTHERN. — -Oroonoko,  Act  3,  3. 

PRINCIPLE 

I  don't  believe  in  princerple, 

But  oh,  I  du  in  interest. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  No.  6. 

It  was  against  my  principles,  but  I  find 
that  principles  have  no  real  force  except 
when  one  is  well  fed. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Adam's  Diary. 

PRINTING 

'Tis  pleasant  sure  to  see  one's  name  in 

print ; 
A  book's  a  book,  although  there's  nothing 

in't.          BYRON. — English  Bards,  51. 

He  that  cometh  in  print  because  he 
would  be  known,  is  like  the  fool  that 
cometh.  into  the  market  because  he  would 
be  seen.  LYLY. — Euphues. 

Thou  hast  most  traitorously  corrupted 
the  youth  of  the  realm  in  erecting  a 
grammar  school ;  and  whereas,  before, 
our  forefathers  had  no  other  books  but 
the  score  and  the  tally,  thou  hast  caused 
printing  to  be  used ;  and,  contrary  to  the 
King,  his  crown  and  dignity,  thou  hast 
built  a  paper-mill. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2, 
Act  4,  7- 

I  love  a  ballad  in  print,  a'  life  ;  for  then 
we  are  sure  they  are  true. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

The  art  which  is  the  conserver  of  all  arts 
(i.e.  printing).  Old  Motto. 

PRISONS 

Stone  walls  do  not  a  prison  make, 

Nor  iron  bars  a  cage  ; 
Minds  innocent  and  quiet  take 

That  for  an  hermitage. 

LOVELACE. — To  Althea. 

As  he  passed  through  Cold  Bath  fields,  he 

looked 

At  a  solitary  cell ; 
And  he  was  well  pleased,  for  it  gave  hirn^ 

a  hint 
For  improving  the  prisons  in  Hell. 

SOUTHEY. — Devil's  Walk 

I  know  not  whether  Laws  be  right 
Or  whether  Laws  be  wrong ; 

All  that  we  know,  who  be  in  gaol. 
Is  that  the  wall  is  strong ; 

And  that  each  day  is  like  a  year, 
A  year  whose  days  are  long. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol. 


PRIVILEGE 


PROCRASTINATION 


The  vilest  deeds  like  poison-weeds 

Bloom  well  in  prison-air  ; 
It  is  only  what  is  good  in  Man 

That  wastes  and  withers  there : 
Pale  Anguish  keeps  the  heavy  gate, 

And  the  Warder  is  Despair." 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol. 

Nightingales  will  not  sing  in  a  cage. 

Prov. 
PRIVILEGE 

By  non-usage  all  privileges  are  lost,  say 
the  clerks.  RABELAIS. — Pantagruel  (1533). 

Privilege  does  not  avail  against  the 
commonwealth.  Law  Maxim. 

Privilege  is,  as  it  were,  a  private  law. 

Law  Maxim. 
PROBABILITY 

But  to  Us  probability  is  the  very  guide 
of  life.  BISHOP  BUTLER. — Analogy,  Intro. 

Fate  laughs  at  probabilities, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Eugene  Aram,  c.  10. 

Arguments  which  draw  their  demonstra- 
tions from  probabilities  are  idle ;  and 
unless  one  is  on  one's  guard  against  them 
they  are  very  deceptive. 

PLATO. — Phczdo,  94  (Cary  tr.). 

Almost  all  human  life  turns  on  proba- 
bilities. VOLTAIRE. — On  Probabilities. 

PROBLEMS 

There's  somewhat  in  this  world  amiss 
Shall  be  unriddled  by  and  by. 

TENNYSON. — Miller's  Daughter. 

No  question  is  ever  settled 

Until  it  is  settled  right. 
ELLA  W.  WILCOX. — Settle  the  Question. 

Those  obstinate  questionings 
Of  sense  and  outward  things, 
Fallings  from  us,  vanishings  ; 
Blank  misgivings  of  a  creature 
Moving  about  in  worlds  not  realised. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  9. 

PROCRASTINATION 

By  and  by  never  comes. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. — Con/.  Bk.  8. 

The  rule  is,  jam  to-morrow  and  jam 
yesterday — but  never  jam  to-day. 

L.  CARROLL. — Alice  through  the  Looking 

Glass. 

Ther  is  an  old  proverbe,  quod  she  [Dame 
Prudence]  seith  :  that  the  gpodnesse  that 
thou  mayst  do  this  day,  do  it ;  and  abyd 
nat  ne  delaye  it  nat  til  to-morwe. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus. 

Defer  not  till  to-morrow  to  be  wise  ; 
To-morrow's  sun  to  thee  may  never  rise. 
£ONGREVE. — Letter  to  Cobham. 


Five  minutes  !  Zounds  !  I  have  been 
five  minutes  too  late  all  my  lifetime. 

MRS.  H.  COWLEY. — Belle's  Stratagemt 
Act  i,  i  [Saville], 

Begin,  be  bold,  and  venture  to  be  wise  ; 
He  who  defers  this  work  from  day  to  day, 
Doth  on  a  river's  bank  expecting  stay, 
Till  the  whole  stream,  which  stopped  him, 

should  be  gone, 

That  runs,  and  as  it  runs,  for  ever  will 
run  on.  COWLEY. — Tr.  of  Horace. 

It's  but  little  good  you'll  do,  a-watering 
the  last  year's  crop. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Adam  Bede,  ch.  18. 

And  evermore  he  said,  "  To-morowe." 
GOWER. — Con/.  Amantis.  Bk.  4,  9. 

How  soon  "  not  now  "  becomes  "  never." 
LUTHER  (?). 

Who  is  not  prepared  to-day  will  be  less 
so  to-morrow.  OVID. — Rem.  Amor. 

He  that  procrastinates  in  an  affair 
courts  destruction. 

PLUTARCH. — Consol.  to  Apollonius. 

My  name  is  Might-have-been  ; 
I  am  also  called  No-more,  Too-late,  Fare- 
well. ROSSETTI. — Sonnet  07. 

Nay  dally  not  with  tune,  the  wise  man's 

treasure, 
Though  fools  are  lavish  on't — the  fatal 

Fisher 

Hooks  souls,  while  we  waste  moments. 
SCOTT  (?). — Monastery  (Heading  to  ch.  8, 

,       with  words  "  Old  Play  "  attached). 

'Tis  wisdom's  use    ' 
Still  to  delay  what  we  dare  not  refuse 

SCOTT. — Harold,  c.  4,  n. 

Better  late  than  never,  but  better  never 
late. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — Version  of  old  prov. 

Still  last  to  come  where  thou  art  wanted 
most.  WORDSWORTH. — To  Sleep. 

Be  wise  to-day  ;  'tis  madness  to  defer. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i 

Procrastination  is  the  thief  of  time. 

YOUNG. — Ib. 

At  thirty  man  suspects  himself  a  fool ; 
Knows  it  at  forty,  and  reforms  his  plan  ; 
At  fifty  chides  his  infamous  delay, 
Pushes  his  prudent  purpose  to  resolve  ; 
In  all  the  magnanimity  of  thought 
Resolves,  and  re-resolves  ;    then  dies  the 
same.  YOUNG. — Ib. 

When  I  have  a  convenient  season,  I  will 
call  for  thee.  Acts  xxiv,  25. 

I  expect  to  pass  through  this  world  but 
once.  Any  good  therefore  that  I  can  do, 
or  any  kindness  that  I  can  show  to  any 


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PRODIGALS 


PROGRESS 


fellow  creature,  let  me  do  it  now.  Let 
me  not  defer  or  neglect  it,  for  I  shall  not 
pass  this  way  again. 

Attrib.  by  WM.  C.  GANNETT  (in  slightly 
different  form),  in  "  Blessed  be 
Drudgery,"  to  "  the  old  Quaker."  All 
efforts  to  discover  the  authorship  have 
been  unavailing. 

Procrastination  is  the  hinge  of  business. 

Lawyers'  Motto. 

Be  always  in  time  ; 
Too  late  is  a  crime. 

Old  Saying. 

"  To  morrow  "  is  the  day  on  which  idle 
men  work.  Prov. 

PRODIGALS  AND  PROFLIGACY 

Let  friends  of  prodigals  say  what  they  will, 
Spendthrifts  at  home,  abroad  are  spend- 
thrifts still. 

CHURCHILL. — The  Candidate. 

H'has  been  a  dragon  in  his  days. 
FLETCHER. — Chances,  Act  3,  4  (1625). 

Only  a  herald,  who  that  way  doth  pass 
Finds  his  cracked  name  at  length  in  the 
church  glass. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

A  system  in  which  the  two  great  com- 
mandments were,  to  hate  your  neighbour, 
and  to  love  your  neighbour's  wife. 

MACAULAY. — Moore's  Byron. 

With  cards  and  dice  and  dress  and  friends, 

My  savings  are  complete  ; 
I  light  the  candle  at  both  ends, 

And  thus  make  both  ends  meet. 

ANON. 

PROFANITY 

Bad  language  or  abuse      , 

I  never,  never  use, 
Whatever  the  emergency ; 

Though  "  Bother  it !  "   I  may 

Occasionally  say, 
I  never  use  a  big,  big  D. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

But  the  cheap  swearer,  through  his  open 

sluice, 
Lets  his  soul  run  for  nought,   as  little 

fearing ; 

Were  I  an  Epicure,  I  could  bate  swearing. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Seeing  would  certainly  have  led  to  D — ing. 
HOOD. — Legend  of  Navarre. 

"  Our  armies  swore  terribly  in  Flanders," 
cried  my  Uncle  Toby,  "  but  nothing  to 
this."  STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  Vol.  z, 

ch.  n. 

The  Accusing  Spirit,  which  flew  up  to 
Heaven's  chancery  with  the  oath,  blushed 
as  he  gave  it  in  ;  and  the  Recording  Angel, 


as  he  wrote  it  down,  dropped  a  tear  upon 
the  word,  and  blotted  it  out  for  ever. 

STERNE. — lb.,  Vol.  6,  ch.  8. 
PROFIT 

No    profit    grows    where    is   no  pleasure 

ta'en.         SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of 

the  Shrew,  Act  I,  i. 

Better  it  is  to  have  more  of  profit  and 
less  honour.  Melusine  (Eng.  tr.  c.  1500). 

No  one  was  ever  ruined  by  taking  a 
profit.  Stock  Exchange  Saying. 

It  is  a  wicked  thing  to  make  dearth  one's 
garner.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

PROFUNDITY 

What  a  very  singularly  deep  young  man. 
This  deep  young  man  must  be  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Patience. 

Always,  when  a  proposition  is  incon- 
ceivable, we  must  suspend  our  judgment. 
PASCAL. — Pensies,  Pt.  i,  2. 
PROGRESS 

WhDe   the   eagle   of  Thought   rides   the 

tempest  in  scorn, 
Who  cares  if  the  lightning  is  burning  the 

corn  ? 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Rhapsody  on  Life's 
Progress. 
Progress  is 

The  law  of  life  ;    man  is  not  man  as  yet. 
BROWNING. — Paracelsus,  Pt.  5. 

Nothing  in  progression  can  rest  on  its 
original  plan.  We  might  as  well  think  of 
rocking  a  grown  man  in  the  cradle  of  an 
infant. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Sheriffs  of  Bristol. 

The  march  of  the  human  mind  is  slow. 
BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

We  see  in  the  intellectual  movements  of 
our  tunes  the  tendency  to  expansion,  to 
universality  ;  and  this  must  continue. 

W.  E.  CHANNING,  D.D. — The  Present  Age. 

Progress  is  the  development  of  order. 

AUGUSTE    COMTE. 

So  slow 

The  growth  of  what  is  excellent,  so  hard 

To  attain  perfection  in  this  nether  world. 

COWPER. — Task,  83. 

Everything  bears  within  itself  an  im- 
pulse to  strive  after  a  higher  degree  of 
divinity,  and  that  is  the  great  law  of 
progress  throughout  all  nature. 

HEINE. — The  Romantic  School. 

The  progress  of  mankind  is  like  the  in- 
coming of  the  tide,  which  for  any  given 
moment  is  almost  as  much  of  a  retreat  as 
an  advance,  but  still  the  tide  moves  on. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  4. 


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PROGRESS 


PROLIXITY 


Impossibilities  recede  as  experience  ad- 
vances ;  and  men  walk  over  many  well- 
tilled  fields  which,  in  the  childhood  of 
their  thought,  were  deserts  or  morasses, 
peopled  with  fabulous  animals,  the  ends 
of  the  earth. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Slavery,  ch.  6. 

All  things,  going  upwards  or  downwards, 
are  in  a  perpetual  flux. 

HERACLITUS. — Cited  by  Plato, 
"  Philebus,"  92. 

The  history  of  England  is  emphatically 
the  history  of  progress. 

MACAULAY.— On  Mackintosh's 
Hist,  of  Revolution. 
We're  driven  back  for  our  next  fray 

A  newer  strength  to  borrow ; 
And  where  the  vanguard  camps  to-day, 
The  rear  shall  rest  to-morrow. 

G.  MASSEY. — 'Tis  weary  watching. 

Virtue,  if  not  in  action,  is  a  vice  ; 
And  when  we  move    not   forward,  we 
go  backward. 

MASSINGER. — The  Maid  of  Honour, 
Act  i,  i. 

A  people,  it  appears,  may  be  progressive 
for  a  certain  length  of  time  and  then  stop. 
When  does  it  stop  ?  When  it  ceases  to 
possess  individuality. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  3. 

One  must  draw  back  in  order  to  leap 
further. 
MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  i,  ch.  38.  A  French prov. 

Push  on,  keep  moving. 

C.  MORTON. — Cure  for  Heart-Ache 
(Young  Rapid). 

The  work  of  the  world  must  still  be  done, 

And  minds  are  many  though  truth  be  one. 

SIR  H.  J.  NEWBOLT. — The  Echo. 

The  long  succession  of  the  generations 
of  mankind  should  be  regarded  as  a  single 
man,  ever  living  and  ever  learning. 

PASCAL. — TraiU  sur  la  Vide.     Pref. 

And  still  to-morrow's  wiser  than  to-day. 
We  think  our  fathers  fools,  so  wise  we 

grow  ; 

Our  wiser  sons,  no  doubt,  will  think  us  so. 
POPE. — Criticism,  437. 

Not  to  go  back,  is  somewhat  to  advance, 
Aud  men  must  walk  at  least  before  they 
dance. 

POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  53. 

Progress,  therefore,  is  not  an  accident/ 
but  a  necessity.  ...  It  is  part  of  nature. 
H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  Pt.  i,  c.  2. 

Ring  out  the  darkness  of  the  land, 
Ring  in  the  Christ  that  is  to  be. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  106. 


Forward,  forward,  let  us  range, 
Let  the  great  world  spin  for  ever  down  the 
ringing  grooves  of  change. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Through  the  shadow  of  the  globe  we  sweep 

into  the  younger  day  ; 
Better  fifty  years  of  Europe  than  a  cycle 

of  Cathay.  TENNYSON. — Ib. 

Falsehoods  which  we  spurn  to-day 
Were  the  truths  of  long  ago. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. — Calef  in  Boston. 

Progress  is  the  realisation  of  Utopias. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Soul  of  Man  under 
Socialism. 

In  the  unreasoning  progress  of  the  world 
A  wiser  spirit  is  at  work  for  us, 
A  better  eye  than  ours. 

WORDSWORTH. — Postscript   (to   Preface) 

(1835). 

Of  old  things  all  are  over  old, 
Of  good  things  none  are  good  enough  ; 
We'll  show  them  we  can  help  to  frame 
A  world  of  other  stuff. 

WORDSWORTH. — Rob  Roy's  Grave. 

Nature  revolves  but  man  advances. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  6. 

Follow  me  ;  and  let  the  dead  bury  their 
dead.  St.  Matthew  viii,  22. 

PROHIBITION 

Forbede  us  thing  and  that  desyren  we. 
CHAUCER. — Wife  of  Bath,  Prol.,  519. 

Forbidden  wares  sell  twice  as  dear. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Natura  Naturata. 

If  all  the  world 
Should,  in  a  pet  of  temperance,  feed  on 

pulse, 
Drink  the  clear  stream,  and  nothing  wear 

but  frieze, 
The  All-giver  would  be  unthank'd,  would 

be  unprais'd  ; 

Not  half  his  riches  known,and  yet  despis'd; 
And  we  should  serve  him  as  a  grudging 

master, 

As  a  penurious  niggard  of  his  wealth  ; 
And  live  like  Nature's  bastards,  not  her 

sons.  MILTON. — Comus,  720. 

Dost  thou  think  because  thou  art  virtu- 
ous there  shall  be  no  more  cakes  and  ale  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  3. 

PROLIXITY 

There  is  nothing  in  Nature  so  irksome 
as  general  discourses. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  Vol.  z,  267. 

And  long  petitions  spoil  the  cause  they 
plead.         CAMPBELL. — Pilgrim  of  Glencoe. 

And  drags  at  each  remove  a  lengthening 
chain.  GOLDSMITH. — Traveller, 


404 


PROMISES 

One  half  will  never  be  believed, 
The  other  never  read. 

POPE. — Epigram . 

Why  then  a  final  note  prolong, 
Or  lengthen  out  a  closing  song  ? 

SCOTT  . — Marntio  n . 

What,  will   the   line   stretch    out   to  the 
crack  of  doom  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4,  i. 

Fond  to  begin,  but  still  to  finish  loth. 
JAS.  THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence, 
c.  2,  si.  4. 

Woe  to  the  author  who  wishes  always 
to  instruct !  The  secret  of  boring  is  the 
attempt  to  say  everything. 

VOLTAIRE. — Discours,  6. 

PROMISES 

Boldness  is  an  ill  keeper  of  promise. 

BACON. — Essays,  Boldness. 

If  we've  promised  them  aught,  let  us  keep 
our  promise. 

BROWNING. — Pied  Piper. 

Shake  your  rattle,  here  it  is, 
Listen  to  its  merry  noise  ; 

And  when  you  are  tired  of  this, 
I  will  bring  you  other  toys. 

Miss  M.  L.  DUNCAN. — Rhymes. 

A  vow  you  make 
You  must  not  break  ; 
If  you  think  you  may,  it's  a  great  mistake. 
SIR  \V.  S.  GILBERT. — Princess  Ida. 

Promise  is  a  promise,  dough  you  make 
it  in  de  dark  er  de  moon. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  39. 

Promise,  large  promise,  is  the  soul  of 
an  advertisement. 

JOHNSON. — Idler,  No.  40. 

He  that  raises  false  hopes  to  serve  a 
present  purpose,  only  makes  a  way  for 
disappointment  and  discontent. 

JOHNSON. — The  Patriot. 

Great  men 
Till  they  have  gained  their  ends,  are  giants 

in 
Their  promises,  but  those  obtained,  weak 

pigmies 
In  their  performance. 

MASSINGER. — Great  Duke,  Act  2,  3 

Make  a  point  of  promising ;    for  wh.i 
harm  can  it  do  to  promise  ?     Anyone  can 
be  rich  in  promises. 

OVID. — Ars  Amat.,  Bk.  i. 

And  so  obliging  that  he  ne'er  obliged. 

POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires. 

He  began  to  promise  seas  and  mountains. 
SALLUST. — Catilina. 


PROPERTY 

Thy  promises  are  like  Adonis'  gardens, 
That  one  day  bloomed,  and  fruitful  were 
the  next. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  i,  6. 

He  was  ever  precise  in  promise-keeping. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  /or  Measure, 
Act  i,  2. 

You  put  me  off  with  limber  vows. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  I,  2. 

I  was  promised  on  a  time 
To  have  reason  for  my  rhyme  ; 
From  that  time  unto  this  season. 
I  received  nor  rhyme  nor  reason. 
SPENSER. — Lines  on  his  Pension. 

A  boy  at  a  crossing  begged  a  copper  of 
a  gentleman  who  said  he  would  give  him 
something  as  he  came  back.  The  boy 
replied  :  "  Your  honour  would  be  sur- 
prised if  you  knew  the  money  I  have  lost 
by  giving  credit  in  that  way." 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

Promising  mountains  of  gold. 

TERENCE. — Pkormio. 

Better  is  it  that  thou  shouldest  not  vow, 

than  that  thou  shouldest  vow  and  not  pay. 

Ecclesiastes  v,  5. 

O  true  believers,  perform  your  contracts. 
Koran,  ch.  5. 

A  long  tongue  is  a  sign  of  a  short  hand. 
Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 
Promising  is  not  giving,  but  it  contents 
fools.  Prov.  (Portuguese) 

Promises  make  debts  and  debts  make 
promises.  Prov. 

PRONUNCIATION 

"  Fine  ear  for  the  haspirate  " — that's 
what  my  darter  Maria  'ave  and  what  I. 
for  one,  'ave  not." 

H.  G.  HUTCHINSON. — Fine  Ear  for  the 
Haspirate.  Punch  (Jan.  29,  1919). 

Speak  the  speech,  I  pray  you,  as  I  pro- 
nounced it  to  you,  trippingly  on  the 
tongue ;  but  if  you  mouth  it,  as  many 
of  our  players  do,  I  had  as  lief  the  town  • 
crier  spoke  my  lines. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

PROPERTY 

The  essential,  unalterable  right,  in 
nature,  engrafted  into  the  British  consti- 
tution, as  a  fundamental  law,  and  ever 
held  sacred  and  irrevocable  by  the  subjects 
within  the  realm,  that  what  a  man  has 
honestly  acquired  is  absolutely  his  own, 
which  he  may  freely  give,  but  cannot  be 
taken  from  him  without  his  consent. 

SAMUEL  ADAMS. — Massachusetts. 
Circular  Letter,  1768. 


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PROPERTY 


PROPHETS 


The  magic  of  property  turns  sand  to 
gold.  JEREMY  BENTHAM. — Saying. 

That  gentleman  who  sells  an  acre  of 
land  sells  a  pound  of  credit.  For  gentility 
is  nothing  else  but  ancient  riches.  So  that 
if  the  foundation  shall  at  any  tune  sink, 
the  building  must  need  follow 

WM.  CECIL  (LORD  BURGHLEY). — 
Precepts  to  his  son. 

Fye  on  possessioun, 
But  if  a  man  be  vertuous  withal. 

CHAUCER. — Franklin's  Tale. 

Property  has  its  duties  as  well  as  its 
rights. 

MARQUIS  OF  NORMANBY  (CONSTANTINE 
H.  PHIPPS). — Letter  when  Lord-Lieu- 
tenant of  Ireland  (1835-9).  (Others 
had  a  share  in  composing  this  letter.) 

Property  is  robbery. 
PROUDHON. — Principle  of  Right,  ch.  i. 

I  have  found  that  empire  and  liberty 
being  two  incompatible  words,  I  cannot 
be  master  of  a  cottage  except  by  ceasing 
to  be  master  of  myself. 

ROUSSEAU. — Entile,  Bk.  5. 

The  demon  of  property  infects  every- 
thing it  touches.  The  rich  man  wishes  to 
be  master  everywhere,  and  is  never  at 
ease  where  he  is  not  master. 

ROUSSEAU. — 16. 

An  ill-favoured  thing,  sir,  but  mine  own. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  5,  4. 
Saw  from  his  windows  nothing  save  his 
own. 

TENNYSON. — Aylmer's  Field,  22. 

"  Liberty  and  Property  "  is  the  English 
motto.  It  is  worth  more  than  "  St.  George 
and  my  right,"  "  St.  Denys  et  Montjoie." 
It  is  the  motto  of  Nature. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dictionnaire  Philosophique 
(Proprittt). 

The  first  thing  the  student  has  to  do  is 
to  get  rid  of  the  idea  of  absolute  ownership. 
Such  an  idea  is  quite  unknown  to  the 
English  law. 

JOSHUA  WILLIAMS. — Real  Property  (1845), 
Pt.  i,  ch.  i. 

The  magic  of  property  turns  sand  into 
gold. 

ARTHUR  YOUNG. — Travels  in  France 

(v.  supra,  Jeremy  Bentham). 

Woe    unto    them    that    join    house    to 

house,  that  lay  field  to  field,  till  there  be 

no  place  !  Isaiah  v,  8. 

He  that  buys  a  house  ready  wrought, 
Hath  many  a  pin  and  nail  for  nought. 

Old  Saying. 

There  are  but  two  families  in  the  world, 
the  Haves  and  the  Have-nots. 

Spanish  prov. 


PROPHETS  AND  PROPHECY 

Cato  used  to  say  that  he  wondered  one 
soothsayer  did  not  laugh  when  he  saw 
another.  CICERO. — De  Divinatione,  2,  24. 

You  can  scarcely  answer  a  prophet  ; 
you  can  only  disbelieve  him. 

COWPER. — Of  Pitt's  predictions  as 
to  Ireland  (1800). 

Sweet  is  the  harp  of  prophecy  ;  too  sweet 
Not  to  be  wronged  by  a  mere  mortal  touch. 
COWPER. — Winter  Walk  at  Noon,  747. 

Or  Prophecy,  which  dreams  a  lie, 
That  fools  believe,  and  knaves  apply. 

MATTHEW  GREEN. — Grotto,  97. 

Till  old  experience  do  attain 

To  something  like  prophetic  strain. 

MILTON. — II  Penseroso,  173: 

It  cannot  be  made,  it  shall  not  be  made, 

it  will  not  be  made  ;   but  if  it  were  made 

there  would  be  a  war  between  France  and 

England  for  the  possession  of  Egypt. 

LORD  PALMERSTON. — Speech,   1851,  re- 

ferrine:  to  the  Suez  Canal  (an  example  of 

an  indiscreet  and  unfulfilled  prophecy) . 

Out  of  our  reach  the  gods  have  laid 
Of  time  to  come  th'  event, 

And  laugh  to  see  the  fools  afraid 
Of  what  the  knaves  invent. 

SIR  C.  SEDLEY. — Lycophron. 

The   poet   beholds   the   future   in   the 
present,  and  his  thoughts  are  the  germs  of 
the  flower  and  the  fruit  of  latest  time. 
SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

I  prophesied  that,  though  I  never  told 
anybody. 

H.  AND  J.  SMITH. — Rejected  Addresses. 

If  it  rains  to-day  it  will  keep  on  till  it 
leaves  off. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — Given  as  an  example  of 
"  safe  prophecy." 

Some  great  misfortune  to  portend, 
No  enemy  can  match  a  friend. 

SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

He'd  rather  choose  that  I  should  die 
Than  his  predictions  prove  a  lie. 

SWIFT. — Ib. 

You  know  I  always  feared  the  worst, 
And  often  told  you  so  at  first. 

SWIFT. — Ib. 

Cassandra  cried,  and  cursed  the  unhappy 

hour  ; 
Foretold   our  fate  :     but,   by   the   gods' 

decree, 

All  heard  and  none  believed  the  prophecy. 
VIRGIL. — &neid,  Bk.  2  (Dryden\. 

Is  Saul  also  among  the  prophets  ? 

i  Samuel  xix,  24. 


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PROVERBS 


The  prophets  prophesy  falsely,  and  the 
priests  bear  rule  by  their  means  ;  and  my 
people  love  to  have  it  so  :  and  what  will 
ye  do  in  the  end  thereof  ? 

Jeremiah  v,  31. 

Beware  of  false  prophets,  which  come 
to  you  in  sheep's  clothing,  but  inwardly 
they  are  ravening  wolves. 

St.  Matthew  vii,  15. 

A  prophet  is  not  without  honour,  save 

in  his  own  country,  and  in  his  own  house. 

St.  Matthew  xiii,  57.     (See  Mark  vi,  4  ; 

Luke  iv,  24  ;  John  iv,  44.) 

PROPORTION 

How  sour  sweet  music  is. 
When  time  is  broke,  and  no  proportion 

kept ! 
So  is  it  in  the  music  of  men's  lives. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Richard  II.,  Act  5,  5. 

Often  our  self-love  extinguishes  our 
good  sense.  Often  we  are  like  the  frogs 
of  Homer,  who  besought  with  loud  cries 
the  proud  god  of  war  and  the  god  of  hell 
and  Bellona  and  Pallas  and  the  lightnings 
of  heaven,  to  avenge  them  on  the  rats. 

VOLTAIRE. — Satire,  Vanity. 
PROSAIC,  THE 

O  why  do  you  walk  through  the  fields  in 

gloves, 

Missing  so  much  and  so  much  ? 
O  fat  white  woman  whom  nobody  loves, 
Why  do  you  walk  through  the  fields  hi 
gloves  ? 

FRANCES  CORNFORD. — To  a  Lady 
seen  from  the  Train. 
The  soft  blue  sky  did  never  melt 
Into  his  heart, — he  never  felt 
The  witchery  of  the  soft  blue  sky. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Pt.  i. 

PROSPERITY 

And  you  shall  find  the  greatest  enemy 
A  man  can  have  is  his  prosperity. 

S.  DANIEL. — Philotas. 

Greater  virtues  are  necessary  in  bearing 
good  fortune  than  bad. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  25. 

A  Sultan  consulted  Solomon  on  the 
proper  inscription  for  a  signet  ring,  re- 
quiring that  the  maxim  should  be  at  once 
proper  for  moderating  the  presumption  of 
prosperity  and  tempering  the  pressure  of 
adversity.  The  apophthegm  supplied  by 
the  Jewish  sage  was  comprehended  in  the 
uords,  "And  this  also  shall  pass  away." 
SCOTT. — Letter  to  Byron,  1813. 

Welcome  the  sour  cup  of  prosperity  ! 
Affliction  may  one  day  smile  again  ;  and 
Until  then,  sit  down  Sorrow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 


Now  is  the  winter  of  our  discontent 
Made  glorious  summer  by  this  sun  of  York 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  i. 

Now  that  I  no  longer  need, 
I  can  get  full  many  a  feed. 
Given  as  a  saying  in  C.  H.  Spurgeon's 
"  Salt-Cellars." 

The  ungodly  .  .  .  flourishing  like  a  green 
bay  tree.  Church  Psalter  xxxvu,  36. 

PROTESTANTISM 

All  Protestantism,  even  the  most  cold 
and  passive,  is  a  sort  of  dissent.  But  the 
religion  most  prevalent  in  our  northern 
colonies  is  a  refinement  on  the  principle 
of  resistance  ;  it  is  the  dissidence  of  dis- 
sent, and  the  Protestantism  of  the  Pro- 
testant religion. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

A  real  Protestant  is  a  person  who  has 
examined  the  evidences  of  religion  for 
himself,  and  who  accepts  them  because, 
after  examination,  he  is  satisfied  of  their 
genuineness  and  sufficiency. 

J.  A.  HAMMERTON. — Modern  Frenchmen. 

Protestantism  was  very  successful  in 
bringing  about  that  purity  of  morals  and 
that  strictness  in  fulfilment  of  duty,  which 
is  generally  called  morality. 

HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy. 

People  who  hold  such  absolute  opinions 
Should  stay  at  home  in  Protestant  domin- 
ions.   "       HOOD. — Ode  to  Rae  Wilson. 

PROTESTATION 

The  lady  doth  protest  too  much,  methinks. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet.  Act  3,  a. 

PROVERBS 

There  are  no  proverbial  sayings  which 
are  not  true.  CERVANTES. — Don  Quixote. 

Proverbs  are  snort  sentences,  drawn 
from  long  experience.  CERVANTES. — Ib. 

A  man  of  fashion  never  has  recourse  to 
proverbs  and  vulgar  aphorisms. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

A  most  remarkably  lone-headed  flow- 
ing-bearded, and  patriarchal  proverb. 

DICKENS. — M.  Chutzlewit,  ch.  13. 

Like  all  the  world  he  doth  repeat  himself, 

Making  an  adage  stuff  the  holes  of  thought. 

"  MICHAEL  FIELD  " — Colirrhoe  (1884). 

fA  proverb  is]  much  matter  decocted 
into  few  words.  FULLER. — Worthies. 

Even  the  best  proverb  .  .  .  can  be  mis- 
applied. ...  Its  wisdom  lies  in  the  ear  of 
the  hearer. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  ii. 


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PRUDENCE 


The  People's  Voice  the  voice  of  God  we 

call; 
And  what  are  proverbs  but  the  People's 

Voice  ? 
J.  HOWELL. — Before  a  Volume  of  Proverbs. 

An  old  saying,  sanctioned  by  time, 
becomes  like  an  ordinance. 

PL  AUTUS  . — P&nulus 

The  wit  of  one  man,  the  wisdom  of 
many.  LORD  J.  RUSSELL  (1850) 

The  justice, 

In  fair  round  belly,  with  good  capon  lined. 
With  eyes  severe,  and  beard  of  formal  cut, 
Full  of  wise  saws  and  modern  instances. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

The  proverb  is  something  musty. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Patch  grief  with  proverbs. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  i. 

He  gave  good  heed,  and  sought  out,  and 
set  in  order  many  proverbs. 

Ecclesiastes  xii,  9. 

Wise  sayings,  dark  sentences,  and  para- 
bles, and  certain  particular  antient  godly 
stories  of  men  that  pleased  God. 

Ecclesiasticus.     (Prologue  attributed  by 
some  to  Athanasius.) 

Wei  short  in  wordes  and  wel  lang  in 
witte. 

Mediceval  definition  of  Lord's  Prayer. 

PROVIDENCE 

And  yet  the  will  of  Zeus  is  hard  to  scan  ; 

Through  all  it  brightly  gleams, 
E'en  in  the  darkness  and  the  gloom  of 
chance 

For  us  poor  mortals  wrapt. 
./ESCHYLUS. — Suppliants,  86  (Plumptretr.). 

Seated  on  holiest  throne, 
Thence,  though  we  know  not  how, 
He  works  His  perfect  will. 
AESCHYLUS. — lb.,  no  (Plumptre  tr.). 

Whatever  may  happen  to  thee,  it  was 
prepared  for  thee  from  all  eternity. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. 

Irony  is  the  foundation  of  the  character 
of  Providence.  BALZAC. — Eugtnic  Grandet. 

But  Heaven  that  brings  out  good  from 

evil, 
And  loves  to  disappoint  the  Devil. 

COLERIDGE. — Job's  Luck. 

God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way 
His  wonders  to  perform. 

COWPER. — Hymn. 

Behind  a  frowning  providence 
He  hides  a  smiling  face. 

COWPER. — Ib. 


There's  a  sweet  little  cherub  that  sits  up 

aloft 
To  keep  watch  for  the  life  of  poor  Jack. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Poor  Jack. 

However  great  the  uncertainty  and 
variety  which  appear  to  exist  in  this  world, 
one  observes  nevertheless  a  certain  secret 
inter-connection  (enchainement)  and  an 
order  ruled  at  all  times  by  Providence, 
which  causes  each  thing  to  proceed  in  its 
rank  and  follow  the  course  of  its  destiny. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  555.  (This 
maxim,  suppressed  in  the  2nd  Edition,  is 
the  only  one  in  which  "  Providence  "  is  men- 
tioned, and  is  said  to  have  been  "  a  concession 
to  the  ideas  of  the  time.") 

All  nature  is  but  art,  unknown  to  thee  ; 
All  chance,   direction  which  thou    canst 

not  see  ; 

All  discord,  harmony  not  understood  ; 
All  partial  evil,  universal  good  ; 
And,  spite  of  pride,  in  erring  reason's  spite, 
One  truth  is  clear,  whatever  is  is  right. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  289. 

Man's  world  is  Pain  and  Terror  ; 

He  found  it  pure  and  fair, 
And  wove  in  nets  of  sorrow 

The  golden  summer  air. 
Black,  hideous,  cold  and  dreary, 

Man's  curse,  not  God's  is  there. 

A.  A.  PROCTER. — Two  Worlds. 

There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough-hew  them  how  we  will. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

There's  a  providence  in  the  fall  of  a 
sparrow.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

But  He,   that  hath   the  steerage  of  my 

course, 

Direct  my  sail. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  i,  4. 

A  greater  Power  than  we  can  contradict 
Hath  thwarted  our  intents. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  3. 

God  gives  every  bird  its  food  but  does 
not  cast  it  into  the  nest.  Swedish  prov. 

PRUDENCE 

Prudence  is  of  no  service  unless  it  be 
prompt. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6. 

Prudence  is  but  conceit 
Hoodwinked  by  ignorance. 
GEO.  ELIOT. — Spanish  Gipsy,  Bk.  2. 

One  virtue  he  had  in  perfection,  which 
was  prudence — often  the  only  one  that  is 
left  us  at  seventy-two. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield,  ch.  2. 

A  sad  wise  valour  is  the  brave  complexion. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 


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PUBLIC  SERVICE 


Prudence  is  the  first  thing  to  desert  the 
wretched.  OVID. — Ep.  de.  Pont.,  4. 

Have  more  than  thou  showest, 
Speak  less  than  thou  knowest, 
Lend  less  than  thou  owest. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  i,  4. 

I  like,  my  dear  Lord,  the  road  you  are 
travelling,  but  I  don't  like  the  pace  you 
are  driving  ;  too  similar  to  that  of  the 
son  of  Nimshi.  I  always  feel  myself 
inclined  to  cry  out,  Gently,  John — gently 
down  hill.  Put  on  the  drag. 

S.  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lord  John  Russell. 

But  wise  and  wary  was  that  noble  pere. 

SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i, 

c.  6,  7. 

Think  not  that  Prudence  dwells  in  dark 

abodes ; 

She  scans  the  future  with  the  eye  of  gods. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets  to  Liberty  and 

Order,  n. 

If  you  are  prudent,  do  not  thrust  your 
hand  into  the  fire. 

Latin  prov.,  quoted  by  St.  Jerome. 

No  divinity  is  absent  if  Prudence  is 
present. 

Latin  prov.  (see  JUVENAL,  Sat.  10,  365). 

PRUDERY 

"  I  am  afraid,"  replied  Elinor,  "  that 
the  pleasantness  of  an  employment  does 
not  always  evince  its  propriety." 

JANE  AUSTEN. — Sense  and  Sensibility, 

ch.  13. 

This  noble  soul, 
Worth  thousand  prudish  clods  of  barren 

clay, 

Who   mope   for   heaven   because   earth's 
grapes  are  sour. 
C.  KINGSLEY. — Saints'  Tragedy,  Act  2. 

Prudery  is  the  hypocrisy  of  modesty. 
BARON  NICOLAS  MASSIAS  (1764-1848). 

Always  ding-dinging  Dame  Grundy  into 
my  ears — What  will  Mrs.  Grundy  say  ?  or, 
What  will  Mrs.  Grundy  think  ? 

T.  MORTON. — Speed  the  Plough. 

Prudery  hi  a  woman,  where  it  outlives 
youth  and  beauty,  reminds  me  of  a  scare- 
crow that  has  been  left  forgotten  in  the 
fields,  after  the  harvest  is  over. 

PETIT-SENN. — (French.) 

What  is  prudery  ?    'tis  a  beldam, 
Seen  with  wit  and  beauty  seldom. 

POPE. — To  Mrs.  Howe. 

Unbecoming  things  are  unsafe  things. 

TACITUS. — Hist.,  Bk.  i. 


PUBLIC  OPINION 

The  coquetry  of  public  opinion,  which 

has  her  caprices,  and  must  have  her  way. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Thos.  Burgh  (1779). 

The  individual  is  foolish  ;  the  multitude, 
for  the  moment  is  foolish,  when  they  act 
without  deliberation  ;  but  the  species  is 
wise,  and,  when  time  is  given  to  it,  as  a 
species  it  always  acts  right. 

BURKE. — Speech  in  the  House  of 
Commons  (May  7,  1783). 

The  Public  is  an  old  woman.  Let  her 
maunder  and  mumble. 

CARLYLE. — Journal. 

The  public  !  why  the  public's  nothing 
better  than  a  great  baby. 

T.  CHALMERS. — Letter. 

When  the  people  have  no  other  tyrant, 
their  own  public  opinion  becomes  one. 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Ernest  Maltravers, 

Bk.  6. 

The  Pythoness  [of  Delphi],  when  con- 
sulted by  Cicero  as  to  how  he  could  best 
attain  glory,  replied,  "  By  making  your 
own  genius,  and  not  the  opinion  of  the 
people,  the  guide  of  your  life." 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Cicero. 

PUBLIC  SERVICE 

For  if  ye,  with  kindly  welcome, 
Honour  these  as  kind  protectors, 
Then  shall  ye  be  famed  as  keeping, 
Just  and  upright  in  all  dealings, 
Land  and  city  evermore. 

AESCHYLUS. — Eumenides,  990 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

That  grounded  maxim, 
So  rife  and  celebrated  in  the  mouths 
Of  wisest  men,  that  to  the  public  good 
Private  respects  must  yield. 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  865. 

If  you  do  anything  well,  gratitude  is 
lighter  than  a  feather ;  if  you  have  done 
anything  wrong,  the  people's  wrath  is 
heavy  as  lead.  PLAUTUS. — Paenulus. 

Forced  into  vktue  thus,  by  self-defence, 
Ev'n  kings  learned  justice  and  benevo- 
lence : 

Self-love  forsook  the  path  it  first  pursued, 

And  found  the  private  in  the  public  good. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  3,  279. 

He  husbands  best  his  life  that  freely  gives 
It  for  the  public  good :   he  rightly  lives 
That  nobly  dies. 

QUARLES. — Esther,  sec.  15. 

The  noblest  motive  is  the  public  good. 
STEELE. — Spectator,  vol.  3,  200. 


409 


PUBLICITY 


PUNISHMENT 


PUBLICITY 

In  full,  fair  tide  let  information  flow ; 
That  evil  is  half-cured  whose  cause  we 
know. 

CHURCHILL. — Gotham,  Bk.  3,  652. 

Youk'n  hide  de  fier,  but  w'at  you  gwine 
do  wid  de  smoke  ? 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Plantation  Proverbs. 

It  [the  publication  of  his  name  in  con- 
nection with  the  solution  of  an  important 
problem]  would  perhaps  increase  my 
acquaintance,  the  thing  which  I  chiefly 
study  to  decline. 

SIR  I.  NEWTON. — Letter  to  Collins. 

This  thing  was  not  done  in  a  corner. 

Acts  xxvi,  26. 
PUNCTUALITY 

"  Punctuality,"  said  Louis  XIV.,  "  is 
the  politeness  of  kings."  It  is  also  the 
duty  of  gentlemen  and  the  necessity  of 
men  of  business.  S.  SMILES. — Self-Help. 

He  was  always  late  on  principle,  his 
principle  being  that  punctuality  is  the 
thief  of  time. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Dorian  Gray. 

PUNCTUATION 

Old  laws  have  not  been  suffered  to  be 
pointed, 

To  leave  the  sense  at  large  the  more  dis- 
jointed, 

And   furnish   lawyers,   with   the   greater 
ease, 

To  turn  and  wind  them  any  way  they 
please. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

PUNISHMENT 

All  punishment  is  mischief.  All  pun- 
ishment in  itself  is  evil.  ...  It  ought  only 
to  be  admitted  in  as  far  as  it  promises  to 
exclude  some  greater  evil. 

JEREMY  BENTHAM. — Morals  and 
Legislation,  ch.  15,  sec.  i. 

Hanging  is  too  good  for  him,  said  Mr. 
Cruelty. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  i. 

"  I  wol  bete  thee,"  quod  [quoth]  the 
maister,  "  for  thy  correction."  "  For- 
sooth," quod  the  childe,  "  ye  oughten  firste 
correcte  yourself  that  have  lost  al  your 
pacience  for  the  gilt  of  a  child."  "  For- 
sooth," quod  the  maister  al  wepinge, 
"  thou  seyst  sooth  [truth]  ;  have  thou  the 
yerde  [rod],  my  dere  sone,  and  correct  me 
for  myn  impatience." 

CHAUCER. — Boethius. 

Anger  is  to  be  very  specially  avoided  in 
inflicting  punishment. 

CICERO. — De  Officiis. 


The  hope  of  not  being  punished  is  the 
greatest  incitement  to  sin. 

CICERO. — Pro  Milone. 

Lo,  when   two   dogs   are  fighting   in   the 

streets. 
With  a  third  dog  one  of  the  two  dogs 

meets  ; 

With  angry  teeth  he  bites  him  to  the  bone, 
And  this  dog  smarts  for  what  that  dog 

has  done. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Thumb,  Act  i,  6. 

He  that  will  not  use  the  rod  on  his 
child,  his  child  shall  be  used  as  a  rod  on 
him.  FULLER. — The  Good  Parent. 

My  object  all  sublime 
I  shall  achieve  in  time — 
To  make  the  punishment  fit  the  crime. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Mikado. 

Something  lingering  with  boiling  oil  in 

it.  ...  something  humorous  but  lingering. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ib. 

0  heaven,  that  such  companions  thou'dst 

unfold, 

And  put  in  every  honest  hand  a  whip, 
To  lash  the  rascals  naked  through   the 

world, 
Even  from  the  east  to  the  west ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  i. 

1  would  have  him  nine  years  a  killing. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

I  will  kill  thee, 
And  love  thee  after. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

There  needeth  not   the  hell  that  bigots 

frame 

To  punish  those  who  err :    earth  in  itself 
Contains  at  once  the  evil  and  the  cure  ; 
And  all-sufficing  Nature  can  chastise 
Those  who  transgress  her  law, — she  only 

knows 

How  justly  to  proportion  to  the  fault 
The  punishment  it  merits. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab,  3. 

Every  unpunished  delinquency  has  a 
family  of  delinquencies. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Sociology. 

Every  great  example  of  punishment  has 
something  unequal  in  it,  which  is  compen- 
sated, so  much  as  it  is  to  the  disadvantage 
of  individuals,  by  its  public  usefulness. 

TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  14,  44. 

The  stroke  of  the  whip  maketh  marks 
in  the  flesh  ;  but  the  stroke  of  the  tongue 
breaketh  bones.  Ecclesiasticus  xxviii,  17. 

If  you  want  a  reason  for  whipping  a 
dog,  say  that  he  ate  the  frying-pan. 

Prov. 


410 


PUNNING 


PUSILLANIMITY 


Who  spares  the  wicked  does  an  injury 
to  the  good.  Ancient  Greek  prov, 

PUNNING 

The  seeds  of  punning  are  in  the  minds 
of  all  men  . . .  though  they  may  be  subdued 
by  reason,  reflection,  and  good  sense. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  61. 

But  still  a  pun  I  do  detest, 
"Tis  such  a  paltry,  humbug  jest ; 
They  who've  least  wit  can  make  them  best. 
W.  COMBE. — Syntax  in  Search  of  the 
Picturesque,  c.  26. 

Any  man  who  could  make  such  an 
execrable  pun  would  pick  a  pocket. 

JOHN  DENNIS. — Attributed. 

A  pun  is  a  noble  thing  per  se.  O  never 
bring  it  in  as  an  accessory  !  ...  It  fills 
the  mind  ;  it  is  as  perfect  as  a  sonnet  ; 
better.  LAMB. — Letter. 

How  every  fool  can  play  upon  the  word  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  3,  5. 

I  am  thankful  that  my  name  is 
obnoxious  to  no  pun. 

SHENSTONE. — Egotisms . 

Punning  grows  upon  everybody,  and 
punning  is  the  wit  of  words.  .  .  .  The  wit 
of  language  is  so  miserably  inferior  to  the 
wit  of  ideas  that  it  is  very  deservedly 
driven  out  of  good  company. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  10. 
PURITANISM 

Religion,  harsh,  intolerant,  austere, 
Parent  of  manners,  like  herself,  severe. 

COWPER. — Table  Talk,  611  (of 
Cromwellian  Puritanism) . 

The    Puritan    hated    bearbaiting,    not 

because  it  gave  pain  to    the    bear,    but 

because  it  gave  pleasure  to  the  spectators. 

MACAULAY. — Hist,  of  England,  ch.  2. 

They  need  their  pious  exercises  less 
Than  schooling  in  the  Pleasures. 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — A  Certain  People. 

The  bigots  of  the  iron  time 

Had  called  his  harmless  art  a  crime. 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Intro. 

Those  sombre  puritans  (rigoristes)  who 
imagine  themselves  good  when  they  are 
only  dismal  (tristes). 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Dtpositaire. 
PURITY 

The  purest  soul  that  e'er  was  sent 
Into  a  clayey  tenement. 
T.  CAREW. — On  Lady  Mary  Villiers. 

He  who  puts  off  impurity  thereby  puts 
on  purity. 

EMERSON. — Address,  July  15,  1838. 


Blest  are  the  pure  in  heart, 
For  they  shall  see  our  God. 

KE  BLE. — Purification. 

Still  to  the  lowly  soul 
He  doth  himself  impart, 
And  for  His  cradle  and  His  throne 
Chooseth  the  pure  in  heart. 

KEBLE. — Ib. 

Wearing  the  white  flower  of  a  blameless 
life.     TENNYSON. — Idylls,  Dedication. 

Unto  the  pure  all  things  are  pure. 

2  Timothy  i,  15. 

PURSUITS 

Remember  that  the  true  worth  of  a 
man  is  to  be  measured  by  the  objects  he 
pursues.  MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  7,  3. 

There  is  a  passion  for  hunting  something, 
deeply  implanted  in  the  human  breast. 

DICKENS. — Oliver  Twist,  ch.  10. 

PUSILLANIMITY 

Nothing  is  so  rash  as  fear  ;    and  the 
counsels  of  pusillanimity  very  rarely  put 
off,  whilst  they  are  always  sure  to  aggra- 
vate, the  evils  from  which  they  would  fly. 
BURKE. — Letters  on  a  Regicide  Peace. 

I  envy  no  mortal  though  ever  so  great, 
Nor  scorn  I  a  wretch  for  his  lowly  estate  ; 
But  what  I  abhor  and  esteem  as  a  curse 
Is  poorness  of  Spirit,  not  poorness  of  Purse. 

HENRY  CAREY. — Reply  to  the  Libelling 

Gentry. 

Thus  Beliat,  with  words  clothed  in  reason's 

garb, 

Counselled  ignoble  ease  and  peaceful  sloth, 
Not  peace. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  226. 

Refusing  to  accept  as  great  a  share 
Of  hazard  as  of  honour. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  2,  452. 

He  that  trusts  to  you, 
Where  he  should  find  you  lions,  finds  you 

hares  ; 
Where  foxes,  geese. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  i,  i. 

But  I  am  pigeon-livered,  and  lack  gall 
To  make  oppression  bitter. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Most  forcible  Feeble. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Act  3,  2. 

The  fault,  dear  Brutus,  is  not  in  our  stars, 

But  in  ourselves,  that  we  are  underlings. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  2. 

What  'twas  weak  to  do. 
'Tis  weaker  to  lament,  once  being  done. 
SHELLEY. — Cenci,  Act  5,  3. 


411 


QUACKERY 

Great  empires  are  not  maintained  by 
cowardice.     TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  15,  i. 

Poor  John  was  a  gallant  captain, 
In  battles  much  delighting  ; 

He  fled  full  soon 

On  the  first  of  June — 
But  he  bade  the  rest  keep  fighting. 

Anti-Jacobin,  May  14,  1790. 


QUACKERY 

An  impudent  mountebank  who  sold 
pills,  which,  as  he  told  the  country  people, 
were  very  good  against  an  earthquake. 

ADDISON. — Taller,  No.  240. 

Quackery  gives  birth  to  nothing  ;  gives 
death  to  all  things. 

CARLYLE. — Heroes,  i 

There's  equal  quackery  in  a'  things  alike' 
JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  (Ettrick  Shepherd)- 

QUARRELS 

Ay  me  !    what  perils  do  environ 

The  man  that  meddles  with  cold  iron. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

Where   there   is   strife   'twixt   man   and 

wife,  'tis  hell ; 

And  mutual  love  may  be  compared  to 
heaven. 

JOSHUA  COOKE. — How  a  man  may 
choose,  Act  i. 

Who  ever  knew  an  honest  brute 
At  law  his  neighbour  persecute  ? 

GOLDSMITH. — Logicians  Refuted. 

Potter  quarrels  with  potter,  poet  with 
poet,  and  beggar  with  beggar. 

HESIOD. — Nights  and  Days,  5,  25. 

I  called  for  quarter,  but  alas  ! 
It  was  not  Quarter-Day. 

HOOD. — A  Waterloo  Ballad,  1834. 

Quarrels  would  not  last  long  if  the 
wrong  were  only  on  one  side. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  496. 

Only  a  goose  would  ever  make  attempt 
To  settle  a  dispute  when  foxes  fight. 
C.  G.  LELAND. — Ballad  of  the  Foxes,  6. 

Alas  !    how  light  a  cause  may  move 
Dissension  between  hearts  that  love  ! 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

What  dire  offence  from  amorous  causes 

springs  ! 
What  mighty  contests  rise   from   trivial 

things  ! 

POJE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  i,  i. 


QUEENS 


Beware 

Of  entrance  to  a  quarrel ;    but,  being  in, 
Bear't  that  th'  opposed  may  beware  of 
thee. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

Thy  head  is  as  full  of  quarrels  as  an  egg 
is  full  of  meat 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  3,  i 
A  plague  o'  both  your  houses. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 
A    woman    moved    is    like    a    fountain 

troubled, 

Muddy,     ill-seeming,     thick,     bereft     of 

beauty.  SHAKESPEARE. — Taming 

of  the  Shrew,  Act  5,  2. 

The  quarrel  is  a  very  pretty  quarrel  as 

it   stands  ;    we   should   only  spoil  it  by 

trying  to  explain  it. 

SHERIDAN. — Rivals,  Act  4,  3. 

But  what  they  fought  each  other  for 
I  could  not  well  make  out. 

SOUTHEY. — Battle  of  Blenheim. 

It  is  the  little  rift  within  the  lute, 
That  by  and  by  will  make  the  music  mute, 
And  ever  widening,  slowly  silence  all. 

TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien. 

And  blessings  on  the  falling  out 
That  all  the  more  endears, 

When  we  fall  out  with  those  we  love, 
And  kiss  again  with  tears. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  2,  Song. 

And  musing  on  the  little  lives  of  men, 
And  how   they  mar   this   little  by  their 
feuds.  TENNYSON. — Sea  Dreams. 

Let  dogs  delight  to  bark  and  bite, 
For  God  hath  made  them  so  ; 

Let  bears  and  lions  growl  and  fight, 
For  'tis  their  nature  too. 

I.  WATTS. — Against  Quarrelling. 

Birds  in  their  little  nests  agree, 

And  'tis  a  shameful  sight 
When  children  of  one  family 

Fall  out,  and  chide,  and  fight. 

I.  WATTS. — Love. 

I  labour  for  peace,  but  when  I  speak 
unto  them  thereof,  they  make  them  ready 
to  battle. 
Psalter  (Book  of  Common  Prayer),  120,  6. 

Quarrel  and  strife  make  short  life. 

Swedish  prov. 

When    two    quarrel    both    are    in    the 
wrong.  Prov. 

QUEENS 

But  she  was  lucky,  and  luck's  all.     Your 

queens 
Are  generally  prosperous  in  reigning. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  to,  47. 


QUESTIONS 


QUOTATIONS 


Queens  must  be  ridiculous  when  they 
would  appear  as  women.     The  softer  at- 
tractions of  sex  vanish  on  the  throne. 
THOS.   WARTON. — Hist,  of  En%.  Poetry 
(1774-81).       (A    fallacy — apropos    of 
Queen   Elizabeth — since   disproved   on 
many  occasions.) 

QUESTIONS 

Perchance    my     too     much     questioning 

offends. 
DANTE. — Purgatorio,  c.  18,  6.    (Gary  tr.). 

"  A  man  may  ask  a  question,  so  he  may," 
returned  Kedgwick,  strongly  implying  that 
another  man  might  not  answer  a  question, 
so  he  mightn't. 

DICKENS. — Chuzzlewit,  ch.  22. 

"  Anybody  may  ask,"  said  Mr.  Trum- 
bull ;    "  anybody  may  interrogate  ;    any- 
one   may   give    their   remarks    an   inter- 
rogative turn." 
GEO.  ELIOT. — Middlemarch,  Bk.  3,  ch.  32. 

The  greatest  men 

May  ask  a  foolish  question,  now  and  then. 
JOHN  WOLCOT. — Apple  Dumpling. 

What  sent  the  messengers  to  hell 
Was  asking  what  they  knew  full  well. 

Scottish  prov. 

QUIET 

Ah,  Quiet,  all  things  feel  thy  balm  ! 
Those  blue  hills  too,  this  river's  flow, 
Were  restless  once,  but  long  ago. 
Tamed  is  their  turbulent  youthful  glow  ; 
Their  joy  is  in  their  calm. 

M.  ARNOLD. — On  the  Rhine. 

But  quiet,  to  quick  bosoms,  is  a  hell. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  42. 

Anythin'  for  a  quiet  life,  as  the  man 
said  wen  he  took  the  sitivation  at  the 
lighthouse.  DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  37. 

Sometimes  quiet  is  disquieting. 

SENECA. — Ep.  56. 

Passionless  bride,  divine  Tranquillity. 
TENNYSON. — Lucretius. 

And  that  ye  study  to  be  quiet,  and  to 
do  your  own  business. 

Thessalonians  iv,  n. 

In  quietness  and  in  confidence  shall  be 
your  strength.  Isaiah  xxx,'  15. 

QUOTATIONS 

They  serve  to  be  recited  upon  occasion 
of  themselves.  They  serve,  if  you  take 
out  the  kernel  of  them  and  make  them 
your  own. 

BACON. — Apophthegms,  Preface. 


Bright  passages  that  strike  your  mind, 
And  which  perhaps  you  may  have  reason 
To  think  of  at  another  season. 

J.  BYROM. — Miscellaneous  Poems. 

With  just  enough  of  learning  to  misquote. 
BYRON. — English  Bards,  66. 

The  art  of  quotation  requires  more 
delicacy  in  the  practice  than  those  con- 
ceive who  can  see  nothing  more  in  a 
quotation  than  an  extract. 

I.  D'IsRAELi. — Curiosities  of  Literature. 

The  wisdom  of  the  wise,  and  the  experi- 
ence of  ages,  may  be  preserved  by  quota- 
tions. I.  D'ISRAELI. Ib. 

Next  to  the  originator  of  a  good  sen- 
tence is  the  first  quoter  of  it.  Many  will 
read  the  book  before  one  thinks  of  quoting 
a  passage. 

EMERSON. — Quotation  and  Originality. 

Nothing  gives  an  author  so  much 
pleasure  as  to  find  his  works  respectfully 
quoted  by  other  learned  authors. 

B.  FRANKLIN. — Pennsylvania  Almanac, 

1758. 

Pointed  axioms  and  acute  replies  fly 
loose  about  the  world,  and  are  assigned 
successively  to  those  whom  it  may  be  the 
fashion  to  celebrate. 

JOHNSON. — Life  of  Waller. 

He  that  has  but  ever  so  little  examined 
the  citations  of  writers  cannot  doubt  how 
little  credit  the  quotations  deserve,  where 
the  originals  are  wanting ;  and,  con- 
sequently, how  much  less  quotations  of 
quotations  can  be  relied  on. 

LOCKE. — Human  Understanding,  Bk.  4. 

One  might  say  of  me  that  I  have  only 
made  here  a  collection  of  other  people's 
flowers,  with  nothing  of  my  own  but  the 
cord  to  bind  them.  MONTAIGNE. — Bk.  3. 

Always  verify  your  references. 

DR.  ROUTH  (1847). 

The  little  honesty  existing  among 
authors  is  to  be  seen  in  the  outrageous  way 
in  which  they  misquote  from  the  writings 
of  others. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

A  forward  critic  often  dupes  us 
With  sham  quotations  peri  hupsos  ; 
And  if  we  have  not  read  Louginus, 
Will  magisterially  outshine  us. 
Then,  lest  with  Greek  he  over-run  ye, 
Procure  the  book  for  love  or  money, 
Translated  from  Boileau's  translation, 
And  quote  quotation  on  quotation. 

SWIFT, — On  Poetry. 

Some  for  renown  on  scraps  of  learning  dote. 
And  think  they  grow  immortal  as  they 
quote. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fains,  Sal.  i. 


RAILLERY 


RANCOUR 


R 

RAILLERY 

Raillery  is  a  poison  which  if  undiluted 
kills  friendship  and  excites  hatred,  but 
which  qualified  by  a  mixture  of  wit  and 
the  flattery  of  praise,  produces  friendship 
or  preserves  it. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  646. 

Raillery  is  a  discourse  in  favour  of  one's 
wit,  against  one's  good  nature. 

MONTESQUIEU. 

You  know  how  to  scoff  without  abusing, 
and  have  the  charming  gilt  of  never 
irritating  though  always  contradicting. 

VOLTAIRE. — Fite  de  BelUbat. 

RAILWAYS 

"  I  con-sider,"  said  Mr.  Weller,  "  that 
the  rail  is  unconstitootional  and  an  inwaser 
o'  privileges." 

DICKENS. — Master  Humphrey's  Clock. 

Facility  of  communication  begets  "com- 
munity of  interests,"  which  is  the  only 
treaty  that  is  not  a  "  scrap  of  paper." 
LORD  FISHER. — Letter  to  Times,  Oct.  21, 
1910.     (In  support  of  more  railways, 
steamers,  and  channel  tubes.) 

The  iron  roads  ...  of  England  .  .  .  con- 
tracting all  its  various  life,  its  rocky  arms 
and  rural  heart,  into  a  narrow,  finite,  cal- 
culating metropolis  of  manufactures. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  2,  sec.  i, 
en.  i,  7  (1846). 

Going  by  railroad  I  do  not  consider  as 
travelling  at  all ;  it  is  merely  being  "sent" 
to  a  place,  and  very  little  different  from 
becoming  a  parcel. 

RUSKIN. — Ib.,  vol.  3,  pt.  4,  ch.  17,  24- 

Your  railroad,  when  you  come  to  under- 
stand it,  is  only  a  device  for  making  the 
world  smaller.  RUSKIN. — Ib.,  sec.  35. 

It  [the  railway  station]  is  the  very 
temple  of  discomfort,  and  the  only  charity 
that  the  builder  can  extend  to  us  is  to 
show  us,  plainly  as  may  be,  how  soonest 
to  escape  from  it. 

RUSKIN. — Seven  Lamps,  ch.  4,  21. 

Steam  is  a  tyrant. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  No.  36 
(Nov.  1834). 

Collisions  four  or  five  she  bore, 

The  signals  were  in  vain  ; 
Grown  old  and  rusted,  her  biler  busted 

And  smashed  the  excursion  train. 
Her  end  was  pieces. 

Mock  epitaph  on  a  locomotive,  c.  1860. 


RAIN 

How  beautiful  is  the  rain  ! 
After  the  dust  and  heat, 

In  the  broad  and  fiery  street, 
In  the  narrow  lane, 
How  beautiful  is  the  rain  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — Rain  in  Summer. 

Rain,  rain,  glistening  rain  ! 
Bidding  us  to  hope  again. 

F.  ROBERTSON. — Rain,  st.  2. 

The  gentle  rain  from  heaven. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  4,  i . 

For  the  rain  it  raineth  every  day. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  5,  i. 

Since  I  was  man, 
Such  sheets  of  fire,  such  bursts  of  horrid 

thunder, 
Such  groans  of  roaring  wind  and  rain,  I 

never 
Remember  to  have  heard. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  2. 

Rain,  rain,  rattlestanes, 
Duma  rain  on  me, 
But  rain  on  Johnnie  Groat's  house, 
Far  owre  the  sea. 

Scottish  saying. 
RAINBOW 

Triumphal  arch,  that  fill'st  the  sky 
When  storms  prepare  to  part, 

I  ask  not  proud  Philosophy 
To  teach  me  what  thou  art. 

CAMPBELL. — To  the  Rainbow. 

My  heart  leaps  up  when  I  behold 

A  rainbow  in  the  sky. 
WORDSWORTH. — My  Heart  Leaps  Up. 

The  rainbow  in  the  morning 
Is  the  shepherd's  warning 

To  carry  his  coat  on  his  back. 
The  rainbow  at  night 
Is  the  shepherd's  delight, 

For  then  no  coat  will  he  lack. 
Old  Rhyme. 
RALLYING  CRY 

Charge,  Chester,  charge  !    On,  Stanley,  on ! 
Were  the  last  words  of  Marmion. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  32. 

O  for  a  blast  of  that  dread  horn 
On  Fontarabian  echoes  borne  ! 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  33. 
RANCOUR 

Pryde  ...  ay  bloweth  and  encreaseth 
the  fyr  [of  anger]  by  chydinge  and  wicked 
words.  Then  standeth  Envye,  and  hold- 
eth  the  hote  ken  [hot  iron]  upon  the  herte 
of  man  with  a  peire  of  long  tonges  of  long 
rancour. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  33. 

Pray,    goody,    please    to    moderate    the 
rancour  of  your  tongue. 

K.  O'HARA.— Midas. 


414 


RANK 


READING 


Rancour  will  out. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2, 
Act  i,   i. 
Anon  is  there  then 

Such  rancour  in  the  harts  of  mightie  men  ? 
SPENSER. — Muiopotmos. 

To  revile  your  family,  your  church, 
your  trade,  your  country,  is  a  very  un- 
savoury thing. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 
RANK 

I  could  sit  at  rich  men's  tables, — though 

the  courtesies  that  raised  me, 
Still  suggested  clear  between  us  the  pale 
spectrum  of  the  salt. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Lady  Geraldine's 
Courtship. 
Princes  and  lords  are  but  the  breath  of 

kings, 

"An  honest  man's   the  noblest  work  of 
God." 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

The  rank  is  but  the  guinea  stamp ; 
The  man's  the  gowd  for  a'  that ! 
BURNS. — Is  there,  for  Honest  Poverty  ? 

A  king  can  mak'    a  belted  knight, 
A  marquis,  duke,  and  a*  that ; 

But  an  honest  man's  aboon  his  might, 
Guid  faith  he  mauna  fa'  that. 

BURNS. — Ib. 

Also  I  prey  yow  to  forgive  it  me 

Al  I  have  not  set  folk  in  their  degree. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol.,  743. 

Spurn    not    the    nobly    born    with    love 
affected  : 

Nor  treat  with  virtuous  scorn  the  well- 
connected  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

Rank  is  a  great  beautifier. 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Lady  of  Lyons, 
Act  21. 

Through  tattered  clothes  small  vices  do 

appear  ; 
Robes  and  furred  gowns  hide  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  4,  6. . 

Let  the  nobility  be  free  from  vice,  and 
an  example  to  others. 

The  Twelve  Tables  at  Rome. 

RANT 

It  out-herods  Herod  :    pray  you,  avoid  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Nay,  an  thou  'It  mouth, 
I'll  rant  as  well  as  thou. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  i. 

RASHNESS 

He  has  no  bearing  on  the  prudent  side. 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  548. 


And  though  he  stumbles  in  a  full  career 
Yet  rashness  is  a  better  fault  than  fear. 

DRYDEN. — Tyrannic  Love,  Prol. 

She  opened  ;   but  to  shut 
Excelled  her  power. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  z,  883. 

And  who  would  run,   that's  moderately 

wise, 
A  certain  danger,  for  a  doubtful  prize  ? 

J.  POMFRET. — Love  triumphant  over 
Reason,  85. 

For  fools  rush  in  where  angels  fear   to 
tread.  POPE. — Criticism,  625. 

It  is  too  rash,  too  unadvised,  too  sudden. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  2. 

At  last  she  spyde  at  that  rowme's  upper 

end 

Another  yron  dore,  on  which  was  writ, 
Be  not  too  bold. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  3,  c.  ir,  54. 

RATS 

Anything  like  the  sound  of  a  rat 
Makes  my  heart  go  pit-a-pat ! 

BROWNING. — Pied  Piper. 

Now,  muse,  let's  sing  of  rats. 

JAS.  GRAINGER. — Lines  (expunged)  in 
"  The  Sugar  Cane." 
REACTION 

It  is  not  in  the  storm,  nor  in  the  strife 
We  feel  benumbed,  and  wish  to  be  no 

more, 

But  in  the  after-silence  on  the  shore, 
When  aU  is  lost,  except  a  little  life. 
BYRON. — On  hearing  Lady  Byron  was  ill. 

Repeal  the  Union  ?     Restore  the  Hept- 
archy !        CANNING. — Speech  in  the  House 
of  Commons,  Feb.  3,  1812. 

One  always  returns  to  one's  first  love. 
ETIENNE. — Joconde,  Act  3. 

All  that  is  human  must  retrograde  if  it 
does  not  advance. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  c.  71. 

At  length  the  morn  and  cold  indifference 
came. 
N.  Ro WE.—  Fair  Penitent,  Act  i,  i. 

READINESS 

Now's  the  day,  and  now's  the  hour  ; 
See  the  front  o*  battle  lour. 

BURNS. — Bruce* 's  Address. 

Abra  was  ready  ere  I  called  her  name, 
And,  though  I  called  another,  Abra  came. 
PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  2,  364. 

READING 

Preserve  proportion  in  your  reading. 

THOS.  ARNOLD. 


415 


REALISM 


REASON 


I  wis,  all  their  sport  in  the  park  is  but 
a  shadow  to  that  pleasure  that  I  find  in 
Plato.  Alas,  good  folk  !  they  never  felt 
what  true  pleasure  meant. 
R.  ASCHAM. — Scholemaster,  Bk.  i  (Remark 
of  Lady  Jane  Grey). 

Read  not  to  contradict  and  confute  ; 
nor  to  believe  and  take  for  granted  ;  nor 
to  find  talk  and  discourse  ;  but  to  weigh 
and  consider.  BACON. — Of  Studies. 

Hobbes  used  to  say  "  that  if  he  had 

read   as  many  books   as  other  men,   he 

should  have  been  as  ignorant  as  they," 

clearly  implying  that  reading  is  sometimes 

an  ingenious  device  for  avoiding  thought. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 

Bk.  z,  ch.  i. 

If  I  were  to  pray  for  a  taste  which 
should  stand  me  in  stead  under  every 
variety  of  circumstances,  and  be  a  source 
of  happiness  and  cheerfulness  to  me 
through  life,  and  a  shield  against  its  ills, 
it  would  be  a  taste  for  reading. 

SIR  J.  HERSCHEL. — Address  to  subscribers 
to  Windsor  Public  Library  (1833). 

To  read  in  every  spare  moment,  and 
to  read  constantly,  is  more  paralysing  to 
the  mind  than  continual  manual  work, 
which  at  least  allows  a  man  to  follow  his 
own  thoughts. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Reading. 

Reading  is  thinking  with  some  one  else's 
head  instead  of  one's  own. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Thinking  for  Oneself. 

It  [reading  a  book  mentioned]  is  like 
washing  bushels  of  sand  for  a  grain  of 
gold.  It  passes  the  time,  however. 

SCOTT. — Diary,  Feb.,  1826. 

Reading  is  to  the  mind  what  exercise 
is  to  the  body.  STEELE. — Toiler,  147. 

Always  read  and  think  aloud. 

TOLSTOY. — Maxim  in  Diary. 

Learn  to  read  slow  :   all  other  graces 
Will  follow  in  their  proper  places. 

W.  WALKER. — '-Art  of  Reading. 

REALISM 

Stark-naked  thought  is  in  request  enough. 
BROWNING. — Transcendentalism. 

Without  or  with  offence  to  friend  or  foes, 
I  sketch  your  world  exactly  as  it  goes. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  8,  89. 

But  now  I'm  going  to  be  immoral ;    now 
1  mean  to  show  things  really  as  they  are, 
Not  as  they  ought  to  be 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  12,  40. 


Paint  me  as  I  am.  If  you  leave  out 
the  scars  and  the  wrinkles,  I  will  pay  you 
not  a  shilling. 

OLIVER  CROMWELL. — Remark  to  Lely,  the 

Painter. 
Make  bare  the  poor  dead  secrets  of  his 

heart, 
Strip  the  stark-naked  soul   that  all  may 

peer, 

Spy,   smirk,  sniff,   snap,   snort,   snivel, 
snarl,  and  sneer. 

SWINBURNE. — In  Sepulchretis,  2. 

REALITY 

God  Himself  is  the  best  Poet, 
And  the  Real  is  His  song. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — The  Dead  Pan. 

For  present  joys  are  more  to  flesh  and 

blood 

Than  a  dull  prospect  of  a  distant  good. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  Panther,  Pt.  3,  364. 

For  the  soul  is  dead  that  slumbers, 
And  things  are  not  what  they  seem. 

LONGFELLOW. — Psalm  of  Life. 

Not  in  Utopia,  subterranean  fields, 

Or   some  secreted  island,  Heaven  knows 

where  ! 

But  in  the  very  world,  which  is  the  world 
Of  all  of  us, — the  place  where  in  the  end 
We  find  our  happiness,  or  not  at  all. 

WORDSWORTH. — Lines  nr.  Tintern 
Abbey  (1798). 

Hips  and  haws  are  very  good  meat, 
But  bread  and  butter  is  better  to  eat. 

Scottish  saying. 

REASON  AND  REASONING 

Whoever  acts  without  reason  may  do  a 
great  deal  of  harm  without  knowing  it. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Edward  III. 

If  the  truth  must  be  told,  reason  is 
often  the  worst  of  all  our  ills. 

BOILEAU. — Sat.  4,  114. 

Every  man's  own  reason  is   his   best 
OEdipus.  SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio 

Medici,  Pt.  i,  sec.  6. 
For  every  why  he  had  a  wherefore. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Reason  is  a  mirror  given  us  by  heaven. 

It  becomes  tarnished  ;    we  must  wipe  it. 

To  correct  other  men  we  must  correct 

ourselves.  CONFUCIUS. — Maxim  (according 

to  Voltaire). 

Reason,  the  power 

To  guess  at  right  and  wrong,  the  twinkling 

lamp 
Of  wandering  life,  that  winks  and  wakes 

by  turns, 

Fooling  the  follower,  betwixt  shade  and 

shining.  QONGREVE. — Mourning 

Bride,  Act  3,  i. 


416 


REASON 


RECKLESSNESS 


He  that  will  not  reason  is  a  bigot ;  he 
that  cannot  reason  is  a  fool ;  and  he  that 
dares  not  reason  is  a  slave. 

SIR  WM.  DRUMMOND. 

Never  mind  the  why  and  wherefore. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

Atter  w'ile  he  [Brer  Rabbit]  'low  ter 
hisself,  "  Hit  look  lak  sparrer-grass,  hit 
feel  like  sparrer-grass,  hit  tas'e  like 
sparrer-grass,  en  I  bless  ef  'taint  sparrer- 
grass."  J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  ch.  27. 

We  may  take  Fancy  for  a  companion, 
but  must  follow  Reason  as  our  guide. 

JOHNSON. — Letter,   1774- 

Endued 

With  sanctity  of  reason. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  7,  507. 

There  is  light  enough  for  those  who  wish 
to  see,  and  darkness  enough  for  those  who 
have  the  opposite  disposition. 

PASCAL. — Pensees,  Part  2,  13,  2. 

The  heart  has  reasons  of  which  reason 
has  no  knowledge.  PASCAL. — Ib.,  2,  17. 

Let  us  beware  [said  Socrates]  .  .  .  that 
we  do  not  become  haters  of  reasoning. 
.  .  .  For  no  greater  evil  can  happen  to 
anyone  than  to  hate  reasoning. 

PLATO.— Phcedo,  88  (Gary  tr.^i. 

Reason's  the  rightful  empress  of  the  soul. 

J.  POM  FRET. — Love  triumphant  over 

Reason,  400. 

Two  things  are  equally  unaccountable 
to  reason  and  not  the  object  of  reason — 
the  wisdom  of  God  and  the  madness  of 
man. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Reason,  an  ignis  fatuus  of  the  mind. 

EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — Satire. 

If  you  wish  to  master  all  things,  let 
reason  be  your  master.  SENECA. — Ep.  37. 

Sure  he,  that  made  us  with  such  large 

discourse, 

Looking  before  and  after,  gave  us  not 
That  capability  and  godlike  reason 
To  fust  in  us  unused. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  4. 

By  slow  degrees  his  reason  drove  away 
The   mists  of  passion   and  resumed   her 
sway.  VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  12 

(Dry den  tr.)  (of  Turnus). 

Beware  of  reliance  on  your  own  feeble 
reason.  God  has  made  you  to  love  Him, 
not  to  understand  Him. 

VOLTAIRE. — Henriade. 

If  you  will  not  hear  Reason,  she  will 
surely  rap  your  knuckles.  Poor  Richard. 

2  B 


At  best  thou'rt  but  a  glimmering  light, 
Which  serves  not  to  direct  our  way ; 
But,  like  the  moon,  confounds  our  sight, 
And  only  shows  it  is  not  day. 

(From  "  Miscellany  Poems  and  Trans- 
lations by  Oxford  Hands."    Printed 
1685.) 
REBELLION 

Kings  will  be  tyrants  from  policy  when 
subjects  are  rebels  from  principle. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  Rev.  in  France. 

The  Devil  was  the  first  o'  th'  name 
From  whom  the  race  of  rebels  came. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

My  chief,  in  his  wine-cups,  forgave  twelve 

men, 
And  of  these  a  dozen  rebelled  again. 

AUBREY  DE  VERE. — From  The  Bard 
Ethell,  st.  10. 

Rebels  in  Cork  are  patriots  at  Madrid. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Rebellion  !   foul  dishonouring  word 

Whose  wrongful  blight  so  oft  has  stained 
The  holiest  cause  that  tongue  or  sword 

Of  mortal  ever  lost  or  gained. 
How  many  a  spirit,  born  to  bless, 

Hath  sunk  beneath  that  withering  name, 
Whom  but  a  day's,  an  hour's  success, 

Had  wafted  to  eternal  fame. 

MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

In    civil   strife   nothing   is   safer   than 
speed.  TACITUS. — Hist.,  Bk.  i. 

Rebel  in  all  but  opportunity, 
Traitor  in  all  but  daring  to  rebel. 
LORD  DE  TABLEY. — Soldier  of  Fortune, 

Act  i. 
REBUKE 

Open  rebuke  is  better  than  secret  love 
["  than  love  that  is  hidden  " — R.V.]. 

Proverbs  xxvii,  5. 

Rebuke  should  have  a  grain  more  of  salt 
than  of  sugar.  Prov. 

RECIPROCITY 

As  I  am  true  to  thee  and  thine, 
Do  thou  be  true  to  me  and  mine  ! 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel, 
c.  5,  26. 

I  ne'er  could  any  lustre  see 
In  eyes  that  would  not  look  on  me  ; 
I  ne'er  saw  nectar  on  a  lip 
But  where  my  own  did  hope  to  sip. 

SHERIDAN. — Duenna,  Act  i,  3. 

And  if  you'll  blow  to  me  a  kiss, 
I'll  blow  a  kiss  to  you. 
H.  AND  J.  SMITH. —  Rejected  Addresses. 

RECKLESSNESS 

He  was  a  care-defying  blade 
As  ever  Bacchus  listed. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 


417 


RECKONING 


RECTITUDE 


Earth  shakes  beneath  them,  and  heaven 

roars  above ; 
But  nothing  scares  them  from  the  course 

they  love. 

COWPER.— Table  Talk,  359. 

He  has  no  hope  who  never  had  a  fear. 

COWPER. — Truth,  299. 

More  childish  valorous  than  manly  wise. 

MARLOWE. — Tamburlaine,  Pt.  2, 

Act  4,  i. 

Every  drunken  skipper  trusts  to  Provi- 
dence. But  one  of  the  way's  of  Providence 
with  drunken  skippers  is  to  run  them  on 
the  rocks. 

G  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House, 
Act  3. 

But  how  can  he  expect  that  others  should 
Build  for  him,  sow  for  him,  and  at  his  call 
Love  him,  who  for  himself  will  take  no 
heed  at  all  ? 

WORDSWORTH. — Resolution  and 
Independence. 

The  driving  is  like  the  driving  of  Jehu 

the  son  of  Nimshi ;  for  he  driveth  furiously. 

2  Kings  ix,  20. 

He  that  leaves  certainty  for  chance, 
When  fools  pipe,  he  may  dance. 

Old  Saying. 

RECKONING 

So  comes  a  reck'ning  when  the  banquet's 

o'er, 
The  dreadful  reck'ning,  and  men  smile  no 

more.  GAY. — What  d'ye  call  't  ? 

At  the  Captain's  mess,  in  the  Banquet- 
hall, 

Sat  feasting  the  officers,  one  and  all — 
Like  a  sabre-blow,  like  the  swing  of  a  sail, 
One  raised  his  glass,  held  high  to  hail, 
Sharp  snapped  like  the  stroke  of  a  rud- 
der's play, 

Spoke  three  words  only  :   "To  the  day  ! 
ERNEST  LISSAUER  (German,  b    1882). — 
Hassgesung   gegen   England   (Song   of 
Hate  against  England),  (1914)- 

The   feast   is  good   until    the   reckoning 

comes.   QUARLES. — Feast  for  Worms, 

sec.  6,  med.  6. 

I  am  ill  at  reckoning  ;  it  fitteth  the 
spirit  of  a  tapster. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour  s  Lost, 
Act  i,  2. 

RECONCILIATION 

Reconciliation  with  our  enemies  is  only 
a  desire  to  improve  our  own  condition, 
a  weariness  of  combat,  and  a  fear  of  some 
unpleasant  outcome. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  82. 

Yet  winds  to  seas 

Are  reconciled  at  length,  and  sea  to  shore. 
MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  961. 


Remember   thy   end,    and   let   enmity 
cease.  Ecclesiasticus  xxviii,  6. 

Cold  broth  hot  again,  that  loved  I  never  ; 
Old  love  renewed  again,  that  loved  I  ever. 
Old  Saying. 
RECORDS 

Vain  was  the  chief's,  the  sage's  pride  ; 
They  had  no  poet,  and  they  died. 

POPE. — Tr.  of  Horace. 

Report  me  and  my  cause  aright. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

Horatio,  what  a  wounded  name. 
Things  standing  thus  unknown  shall  live 

behind  me  ! 

If  thou  didst  ever  hold  me  in  thy  heart, 
Absent  thee  from  felicity  a  while, 
And  in  this  harsh  world  draw  thy  breath 

in  pain, 
To  tell  my  story.          SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Men's   evil  manners  live  in  brass  ;    their 

virtues 

We  write  in  water. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

RECREATION 

What  Cato  advises  most  certainly  wise  is, 
Not  always  to  labour  but  sometimes  to 

play, 
To  mingle  sweet  pleasure  with  search  after 

treasure, 

Indulging  at  night  for  the  toils  of  the 
day.  H.  CAREY. — Cato's  Advice. 

My  brain  is  dull,  my  sight  is  foul, 
I  cannot  write  a  verse  or  read ; 
Then  Pallas,  take  away  thine  Owl 
And  let  us  have  a  Lark  instead. 

Hoor>. — To  Minerva. 
RECRIMINATION 

This  [reviling]  is  a  ful  grisly  [horrible] 
sin,  as  Crist  seith  in  the  gospel. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  42. 

Now  I  hold  it  is  not  decent  for  a  scientific 

gent 
To  say  another  is  an  ass — at  least,  to  all 

intent ; 
Nor  should  the  individual,  who  happens  to 

be  meant 
Reply  by  heaving  rocks  at  him  to  any 

great  extent 

BRET  HARTE. — Society  upon  the 
Stanislaus. 
RECTITUDE 

Would  you  never  be  sad  ?  Live  rightly ! 
ISIDORUS. — 8,  13. 

And  so  wherever  Time  shall  speak  your 

fame, 
Truth  will  nail  high  this  writ  above  your 

name  : 
He  kept  his  soul  unspotted  of  the  mire 


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REFLECTION 

Wherein  so  many  smirch  their  souls  for 

hire. 

However  fortune  wavered,  still  all  men 
Revered  the  austere  honour  of  his  pen. 
God  made  him  of  unpurchasable  stuff  : 
Say  this  at  last,  and  this  will  be  enough  I 
EDWIN  MARKHAM. — To  Wm.  Winter. 

REFLECTION 

A  sadder  and  a  wiser  man 
He  rose  the  morrow  morn. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner. 

The  wildest  scorner  of  his  Maker's  laws 
Finds  in  a  sober  moment  tune  to  pause. 

COWPER. — Tirocinium,  55. 

With  thy  heart  commune  and  be  still. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6,  si.  33. 

Consideration,  like  an  angel,  came, 
And  whipped  the  offending  Adam  out  of 
him. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V .,  Act  i,  i. 

REFORM  AND  REFORMATION 

This  world  has  been  harsh  and  strange  ; 
Something    is   wrong :     there   needeth    a 
change. 

BROWNING. — Holy-Cross  Day. 

To  innovate  is  not  to  reform. 
BURKE. — Letter  to  a  Noble  Lord  (1796). 

All  reform  except  a  moral  one  will  prove 
unavailing. 

CARLYLE. — Essays  :  Corn  Law  Rhymes. 

Every  reform,  however  necessary,  will 
by  weak  minds  be  carried  to  an  excess 
which  will  itself  need  reforming. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Liter  aria,  ch.  i. 

Is  not  every  man  sometimes  a  radical  in 
politics  ?  Men  are  conservative  when 
they  are  least  vigorous,  or  when  they  are 
most  luxurious.  They  are  conservatives 
after  dinner. 

EMERSON. — New  England  Reformers. 

Moderate  reformers  always  hate  those 
who  go  beyond  them. 

FROUDE. — Erasmus.   Lecture  20. 

I've  given  up  all  my  wild  proceedings, 
My  taste  for  a  wandering  life  is  waning  ; 

Now  I'm  a  dab  at  penny  readings  ; 
They're  not  remarkably  entertaining. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

I  hope  that  we  have  reformed  that  in- 
differently. SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet, 

Act  3,  2. 

Repent  what's   past ;   avoid   what  is  to 
come.     SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  4. 

Presume  not  that  I  am  the  thing  I  was. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2, 

Act  5,  3- 


REFUSAL 

Every  generation  needs  regeneration. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

To  ride  abroad,  redressing  human  wrongs. 
TE  N  N  YSO  N  .—Guinevere 

Ring  out  the  want,  the  care,  the  sin. 
The  faithless  coldness  of  the  times. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  106. 

Ring  out  old  shapes  of  foul  disease  ; 
Ring  out  the  narrowing  lust  of  gold  ; 
Ring  out  the  thousand  wars  of  old, 
Ring  in  the  thousand  years  of  peace. 

TENNYSON. — Ib. 
Ah  for  a  man  to  arise  in  me, 
That  the  man  I  am  may  cease  to  be  ! 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  10. 

Press  bravely  onward  !     Not  in  vain 
Your  generous  trust  in  human-kind  ; 

The  good  which  bloodshed  could  not  gain 
Your  peaceful  zeal  shall  find. 

WHITTIER. — To  the  Reformers  of  England. 

Alas  !   with  most  who  weigh  futurity 
Against  time  present,  passion  holds  the 

scales  : 

Hence  equal  ignorance  of  both  prevails, 
And  nations  sink  ;    or,  struggling  to  be 

free, 
Are  doomed  to  flounder  on,  like  wounded 

whales 
Tossed  on  the  bosom  of  a  stormy  sea. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets  to  Liberty 
and  Order,  12. 
REFORMATION,  THE 

Thus  this  brook  hath  conveyed  his 
(Wickliffe's)  ashes  into  Avon  ;  Avon  into 
Severn ;  Severn  into  the  narrow  seas ; 
they  into  the  main  ocean.  And  thus  the 
ashes  of  Wickliffe  are  the  emblem  of  his 
doctrine,  which  now  is  dispersed  all  the 
world  over. 

FULLER. — Church  History,  Sec.  2, 

Bk.  4. 

When  love  could  teach  a  monarch  to  be 

wise, 

And  gospel-light  first  dawned  from  Bul- 
len's  eyes.  GRAY. — Education. 

The  solitary  monk  that  shook  the  world. 
ROBT.  MONTGOMERY. — Luther. 

Ere  yet,  in  scorn  of  Peter's  pence, 
And  numbered  bead,  and  shrift, 

Bluff  Harry  broke  into  the  spence 
And  turned  the  cowls  adrift. 

TENNYSON. — The  Talking  Oak. 

Paternoster  built  churches,  and  Our 
Father  pulls  them  down.  Prov.  (Ray) . 

REFUSAL 

Then  do  not  strike  him  dead  with  a  denial. 
ADDISON. — Cato   Act  3,  a. 


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RELATIONS 


/  give  thee   sixpence  ?     I    will  see   thee 
damned  first. 

G.  CANNING. — Knife  Grinder. 

But  the  snail  replied,  "  Too  far,  too  far  !  " 

and  gave  a  look  askance — 
Said  he  thanked  the  whiting  kindly,  but 

he  would  not  join  the  dance. 
C.  L.  DODGSON. — Alice  in  Wonderland, 

c.  n. 

You  would  be  entreated,  and  say 
"  Nolo,  nolo,  nolo,"  three  times,  like  any 
bishop,  when  your  mouth  waters  at  the 
diocese.  DRYDEN. — Limberham,  Act  3. 

The  swain  did  woo  ;   she  was  nice  ; 
Following  fashion,  nayed  him  twice. 

GREENE. — Shepherd's  Ode 
(Ciceronis  Amor}. 

When  late  I  attempted  your  pity  to  move, 
Why  seemed  you  so  deaf  to  my  prayers  ? 
Perhaps  it  was  right  to  dissemble  your 

love, 
But — why  did  you  kick  me  downstairs  ? 

J.  P.  KEMBLK.* — The  Panel,  Act  i,  i. 

Not  Hebrew,  Arabic,  Syriac,  Coptic,  nor 

even  the  Chinese  language,  seems  half  so 

difficult  to  me  as  the  language  of  refusal 

SHENSTONE. — Egotisms. 

But  they  wavered  not  long,  for  conscience 

was  strong, 

And  they  thought  they  might  get  more, 
And  they  refused  the  gold,  but  not 
So  rudely  as  before. 

SOUTHEY. — Surgeon's  Warning. 

Above  all  things  we  advise  young  people 

to  learn  to  say  "  No."     It  will  save  them 

from  a  thousand  ills  if  they  can  clearly  and 

distinctly  pronounce  that  monosyllable. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

A  reason  for  refusing  is  never  wanting 
to  an  avaricious  man.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 
From  such  a  sharp  and  waspish  word  as 

"  No  " 
To  pluck  the  sting. 

HENRY  TAYLOR. — Philip  van  Artevelde, 
i,  2  (1834). 

Have  you  not  heard  it  said  full  oft, 
A  woman's  nay  doth  stand  for  nought  ? 
Passionate  Pilgrim,  No.  17  (Adapted  from 
Thos.  Weelkes's  "Madrigals,"  1597). 

Cut  off  the  head  and  tail  and  throw  the 
rest  away.  Prov.  (Ray). 

REGRET 

Perhaps  if  we  had  never  met, 

I  had  been  spared  this  vain  regret, 

This  endless  striving  to  forget. 

LADY  CURRIE. — Song. 

*  In  Kemble's  adaptation  of  Bickerstaffe's 
comedy  "The  Panel"  (1778),  but  not  in  the 
original  (1770).  Given  in  "Annual  Register," 
1783,  App.,  p.  201,  among  "Miscellaneous  Poems," 
without  author's  name. 


Weep  no  more,  nor  sigh  nor  groan, 
Sorrow  calls  no  time  that's  gone : 
Violets  plucked  the  sweetest  rain 
Makes  not  fresh  nor  grow  again. 

FLETCHER  (?).- -Queen  of  Corinth, 
Act  3,  i  (probably  an  addition). 

Oh  days  and  years  departed, 
Vain  hopes,  vain  fears  that  smarted, 
I  turn  to  you,  sad-hearted — 
I  turn  to  you  in  tears  ! 
Your  daily  sun  shone  brightly, 
Your  happy  dreams  came  nightly, 
Flowers  bloomed  and  birds  sang  lightly 
Through  all  your  hopes  and  fears. 

A.  L.  GORDON. — Ashtaroth 
(Agatha's  Song). 

In    all    our    lamentations    and    regrets 
pleasures  have  been  mixed  up  with  pains. 
PLATO. — Philebus,  105. 
REJOICING 

Men  met  each  other  with  erected  look, 
The  steps  were  higher  that  they  took  ; 
Friends  to  congratulate  their  friends  made 

haste, 

And  long  inveterate  foes  saluted  as  they 
passed. 
DRYDEN. — Threnodia  Augustalis,  st.  4. 

'Tis  sometimes  natural  to  be  glad, 
And  no  man  can  be  always  sad, 
Unless  he  wills  to  have  it  so. 

JEAN  INGELOW. — Scholar  and 
Carpenter,  39. 

And  the  flags  were  all  a-flutter, 
And  the  bells  were  all  a-chime. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — San  Stefano. 

True  joy  is  a  serious  matter. 

SENECA. — Ep.  23,  4. 

As  when  a  mighty  people  rejoice 

With  shawms  and  with  cymbals  and  harps 

of  gold, 

And  the  tumult  of  their  acclaim  is  rolled 
Through  the  open  gates  of  the  city  afar, 
To  the  shepherd  who  watcheth  the  evening 

star.   TENNYSON. — The  Dying  Swan. 

Beauty  for  ashes,  the  oil  of  joy  for 
mourning,  the  garment  of  praise  for  the 
spirit  of  heaviness.  Isaiah  Ixi,  3. 

RELAPSE 

Alas,  from  what  high  hope  to  what  relapse 
Unlocked  for,  are  we  fallen  ! 

MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  z,  30. 

RELATIONS 

It  is  a  melancholy  truth,  that  even  great 
men  have  their  poor  relations. 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  28. 

A  Poor  Relation  is  the  most  irrelevant 
thing  in  nature.  .  .  .  He  is  known  by  his 
knock — a  rap,  between  familiarity  and 
respect. 

LAMB. — Last  Essays,  Poor  Relations, 


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A  little  more  than  kin,  and  less  than  kind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

O  my  prophetic  soul !   mine  uncle  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  i,  5. 

A  man  canna  'bear  a'  his  ain  kin  aboot 
on  his  back.  Scottish  prov. 

RELAXATION 

There  is  one  piece  of  advice,  in  a  life  of 
study,  which  I  think  no  one  will  object  to  ; 
and  that  is  every  now  and  then  to  be 
completely  idle, — to  do  nothing  at  all. 
Indeed  this  part  of  a  life  of  study  is 
commonly  considered  so  decidedly  superior 
to  the  rest  that  it  has  almost  obtained  an 
exclusive  preference. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  19. 

Up,  up  !   my  friend,  and  quit  your  books, 
Or  surely  you'll  grow  double  : 

Up,  up  !   my  friend,  and  clear  your  looks, 
Why  all  this  toil  and  trouble  ? 
WORDSWORTH. — Tables  Turned,  st.  i. 

RELIGION 

He  is  to  be  feared  who  fears  the  gods. 

/ESCHYLUS. — Septem  Duces. 

For  rigorous  teachers  seized  my  youth, 
And  purged  its  faith  and  trimmed  its  fire, 
Showed  me  the  high  white  star  of  Truth, 
There  bade  me  gaze  and  there  aspire. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Grande  Chartreuse. 

Children    of   men !     the    Unseen    Power, 

whose  eye 

For  ever  doth  accompany  mankind, 
Hath  looked  on  no  religion  scornfully, 
That  man  did  ever  find. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Progress. 

A  religion  that  is  jealous  of  the  variety 
of  learning,  discourse,  opinions,  and  sects, 
as  misdoubting  it  may  shake  the  founda- 
tions, or  that  cherisheth  devotion  upon 
simplicity  and  ignorance,  as  ascribing  or- 
dinary effects  to  the  immediate  working  of 
God,  is  adverse  to  knowledge. 

BACON. — Valerius  Terminus,  25. 

The  religions  of  all  nations  are  derived 
from  each  nation's  different  reception  of 
the  poetic  genius,  which  is  everywhere 
called  the  spirit  of  prophecy. 

WM.  BLAKE. — There  is  no  Natural 
Religion. 

As  all  men  are  alike  (though  infinitely 
various),  so  all  religions,  and  as  all  similars 
have  one  source.  WM.  BLAKE. — Ib. 

Nothing  is  so  fatal  to  religion  as  indif- 
ference, which  is,  at  least,  half  infidelity. 
BURKE. — Letter  to  Wm.  Smith 
(1795). 


Man  is  by  his  constitution  a  religious 

animal.        BURKE. — Reflections  on  French 

Revolution. 

And  still  be  doing,  never  done  ; 
As  if  Religion  were  intended 
For  nothing  else  but  to  be  mended. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Why  should  not  piety  be  made, 
As  well  as  equity,  a  trade  ? 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

The  fair  humanities  of  old  religion. 

COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini,  Act  2  5. 

Men  will  wrangle  for  religion  ;  write  for 
it ;  fight  for  it ;  die  for  it ;  anything  but 
— live  for  it.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Religion  harsh,  intolerant,  austere, 
Parent  of  manners,  like  herself,  severe. 

COWPER. — Table  Talk,  6n. 

For  my  salvation  must  its  doom  receive, 
Not  from  what  others,  but  what  I  believe. 
DRYDEN. — Religio  Laid,  304. 

Men  are  better  than  their  theology. 

EMERSON. — Compensation. 

You  say,  there  is  no  religion  now.  'Tis 
like  saying,  in  rainy  weather,  there  is  no 
sun,  when  at  that  moment  we  are  witness- 
ing one  of  his  superlative  effects. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life  :  Worship. 

There  is  no  age  which  religion  does  not 
become.  ERASMUS. — Fam.  Coll. 

'Tis  a  strange  thing,  Sam,  that  among 

us   people  can't   agree   the   whole  week, 

because  they  go  different  ways  on  Sundays. 

G.  FARQUHAR. — Letter,  Oct.,  1700. 

Religion  is  religion  and  business  is 
business,  and  you  will  succeed  in  neither 
if  you  do  not  keep  them  properly  apart. 
...  I  have  never  neglected  either,  though 
if  I  had  introduced  religion  into  my  busi- 
ness relations,  and  business  capacity  into 
my  religious  life,  I  should  have  been 
neither  the  rich  man  nor  the  accredited 
churchwarden  that  I  am. 
ELLENTHORNEYCROFT  FOWLER. — (Opinion 
of  a  Lawyer.) 

The  ecclesiastical  writers,  who,  in  the 
heat  of  religious  faction,  are  apt  to  des- 
pise the  profane  virtues  of  sincerity  and 
moderation. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  26. 

Man,  without  religion,  is  the  creature  of 
circumstances. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth,  Vol.  i. 

From  the  moment  that  religion  seeks 
assistance  from  philosophy  her  downfall 
is  inevitable.  She  strives  to  defend  her- 
self and  always  talks  herself  deeper  into 
ruin.  Religion,  like  other  absolutisms, 
may  not  justify  herself. 

HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy 


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A  daw's  not  reckoned  a  religious  bird, 
Because  it  keeps  a-cawing  from  a  steeple. 
HOOD. — Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

A  sparing  and  infrequent  worshipper  of 
the  gods,  whilst  I  wander  absorbed  in 
raving  philosophy,  now  I  am  compelled  to 
turn  sail,  and  follow  once  more  the  course 
I  had  abandoned. 

HORACE. — Odes,  Bk.  i,  34. 

What  excellent  fools 
Religion  makes  of  men  ! 
BEN  JONSON.' — Scjanus,  Act  5. 

Next  to  a  sound  rule  of  faith,  there  is 
nothing  of  so  much  consequence  as  a  sober 
standard  of  feeling  in  matters  of  practical 
religion.  KEBLE. — Christian  Year,  Pref. 

Men  of  loftiest  piety  are  reserved  and 
reverent  as  regards  holy  things  .  .  .  and 
only  in  the  narrow  circle  of  intimate 
friends  ever  speak  of  God's  forgiveness  or 
their  hopes  of  heaven. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  5 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

To  what  extent  will  not  men  let  them- 
selves be  carried  away  in   the  cause  of 
religion,  of  which  they  are  so  little  con- 
vinced, and  which  they  practise  so  badly  ? 
LA  BRUYERE. 

Religion  is  the  elder  sister  of  Philosophy. 
W.  S.  LANDOR. — David  Hume. 

Perhaps  those  simple  souls  might  teach, 

Lessons  as  high  as  we  could  set  them, 
And  if  they're  striving  heaven  to  reach 
Their  own  strange  road — by  all  means 

let  them  ! 

R.  MONCKTON  MILNES  (Lord  HOUGHTON). 
— Easter  in  Florence. 

To  prayer,  repentance,  and  obedience  due- 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  191. 

I  find  no  quality  so  easy  to  counterfeit 
as  religious  devotion,  if  one  does  not  con- 
form one's  manners  and  life  to  it. 

MONTAIGNE. — Essays,  Bk.  3,  2. 

There  is  no  greater  disagreement  than 
one  about  religion. 

MONTANUS. — In  Micah. 

A  man  who  discovers  the  proofs  of  the 
Christian  religion  is  like  an  heir  who  finds 
the  title-deeds  of  his  house.  Will  he  de- 
clare that  they  are  false,  and  will  he 
neglect  to  examine  them  ? 

PASCAL. — Penstes,  Pt.  2,  17,  20. 

To  have  deceived  yourself  in  believing  the 
Christian  religion  would  not  involve  any 
great  loss.  But  what  a  calamity  to  have 
deceived  yourself  in  believing  it  false  ! 

PASCAL. — Ib.,  Pt.  2.  17,  36. 


The  humble,  meek,  merciful,  just,  pious 
and  devout  souls,  are  everywhere  of  one 
religion  ;  and  when  death  has  taken  off 
the  mask  they  will  know  one  another. 

PENN. — Some  Fruits  of  Solitude. 

\Vithout  Thy  presence,  wealth  are  bags  of 

cares  ; 

Wisdom,  but  folly  ;  joy,  disquiet,  sadness  ; 
Friendship    is    treason    and    delights    are 

snares  ; 
Pleasure's  but  pain  and  mirth  but  pleasing 

madness. 

QUARLES. — Emblems,  Bk.  5,  6. 

And  hated  all  for  love  of  Jesus  Christ. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Portrait. 

Forgetfulness  of  all  religion  leads  to  the 
forgetfulness  of  the  duties  of  man. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Never  let  us  confuse  the  ceremonial  of 
religion  with  religion.  The  worship  God 
demands  is  that  of  the  heart,  and  this 
worship,  when  it  is  sincere,  is  always 
uniform.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

All  false  religion  combats  nature. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

I  believe  in  religion  all  that  I  can  under- 
stand, and  respect  the  rest  without  reject- 
ing it.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

A  knave's  religion  is  always  the  rotten- 
est  thing  about  him. 

RUSKIN. — Letter  V.,  1867. 

I  grew  more  sure  that  the  peace  of  God 
rested  on  all  the  dutiful  and  kindly  hearts 
of  the  laborious  poor  ;  and  that  the  only 
constant  form  of  pure  religion  was  in  useful 
work,  faithful  love,  and  stintless  charity. 
RUSKIN. — Praterita,  3,  7. 

Religion  is  like  someone  taking  a  blind 

person's  hand  and  leading  him,  because 

he  cannot  see  for  himself.     All  the  blind 

person  wants  is  to  attain  his  destination  ; 

not  to  see  everything  as  he  passes  along. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Demopheles  in 

Dialogue  on  "  Religion." 

Religions  are  like  glow-worms  ;  before 
they  can  give  light  it  must  be  dark.  A 
certain  degree  of  ignorance  is  necessary 
in  every  religion — the  only  element  in 
which  it  can  exist. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Philalethes  in 
Dialogue  on  "  Religion." 

Religion,  like  Janus,  or  rather  like  the 
Brahman  god  of  death,  Yama,  has  two 
faces,  one  very  kindly  and  one  very  sullen. 
Each  of  us  has  his  eyes  fixed  on  one  only. 
SCHOPENHAUER. — Dialogue  on  "  Religion  " 
(Demopheles). 


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His  worst  fault  is  that  he  is  given  to 
prayer  ;  he  is  something  peevish  that  way ; 
but  nobody  but  has  his  fault ;  but  let  that 
pass.  SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives, 

Act  i,  4. 

For  the  life  to  come,  I  sleep  out  the 
thought  of  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  2. 

There  is  only  one  religion,  though  there 
are  a  hundred  versions  of  it. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Philanderer. 

Your  northern  religions,  harsh  and  bit- 
ter as  your  skies. 

J.  H.  SHORTHOUSE. — John  Inglesant, 
Vol.  2,  ch.  6. 

The  luxury  of  false  religion  is  to  be 
unhappy. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  F.  Horner, 

Nov.  25,  1816. 

In  the  days  of  my  youth  I  remembered 

my  God, 
And  he  hath  not  forgotten  my  age. 

SOUTHEY.— Old  Man's  Comforts. 

Fear  first  made  gods  in  the  world. 

STATIUS. — Thebais,  3. 

Ask  not,  my  frighted  sons,  from  whence  I 

came, 

But  mark  me  well :   Religion  is  my  name  ; 
An  angel  once,  but  now  a  fury  grown, 
Too  often  talked  of  but  too  little  known. 
SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

We  have  just  enough  religion  to  make 
us  hate,  but  not  enough  to  make  us  love 
one  another. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Leave  thou  thy  sister,  when  she  prays, 
Her  early  Heaven,  her  happy  views  ; 
Nor  thou  with  shadowed  hint  confuse 

A  life  that  leads  melodious  days. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  st.  33. 

In  religion  it  is  as  in  gaming.  "  One 
begins  by  being  dupe,  and  ends  by  being 
rogue."  VOLTAIRE. — Dialogues,  No.  26. 

England  is  the  land  of  sects.  An 
Englishman,  as  a  free  man,  goes  to  heaven 
by  the  road  which  pleases  him. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

If  there  were  only  one  religion  in  Eng- 
land, its  despotism  would  be  a  cause 
for  alarm.  If  there  were  only  two,  they 
would  cut  each  other's  throats.  But  as 
there  are  thirty,  they  live  at  peace  and 
are  happy.  VOLTAIRE. — Ib. 

We  are  all  of  the  same  religion  without 
knowing  it. 
VOLTAIRE. — Sermon  by  "  Josias  Rossetle." 


Lord,  I  ascribe  it  to  thy  grace, 

And  not  to  chance,  as  others  do, 
That  I  was  born  of  Christian  race, 
And  not  a  Heathen  or  a  Jew. 

I.  WATTS. 

He  worshipped  as  his  fathers  did, 
And  kept  the  faith  of  childish  days, 
And  howsoe'er  he  strayed  or  slid, 
He  loved  the  good  old  ways. 

WHITTIER. — My  Namesake. 

i(  The  Earl  [Shaftesbury]  said  at  last,  .  .  . 
"  Men  of  sense  are  really  but  of  one 
religion."  Upon  which  says  the  lady,  of 
a  sudden,  "  Pray,  my  lord,  what  religion 
is  that  which  men  of  sense  agree  in  ?  " 
"  Madam,"  says  the  earl,  "  men  of  sense 
never  tell  it." 

Note  by  Speaker  Onslow,  to  Burnet's 
notice  of  Lord  Shaftesbury,  "  History 
of  his  own  Times,"  Vol.  i. 

The  devil  divides  the  world  between 
atheism  and  superstition. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

Old  churches  have  dark  windows. 

Prov.  quoted  by  Goethe. 

Let  there  be  no  violence  in  religion. 

Koran,  en.  2. 
REMEDIES 

No  men  despise  physic  so  much  as 
physicians,  because  no  men  so  thoroughly 
understand  how  little  it  can  perform. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

I  touch  on  these  things  unwillingly, 
even  as  wounds,  but  wounds  cannot  be 
cured  unless  handled  and  dressed. 

LIVY. — Bk.  28,  ch.  27,  Speech  of  Scipio. 

It  was  a  sign  of  health  that  he  was 
willing  to  be  cured. 

SENECA. — Hippolytus. 

By  medicine  life  may  be  prolonged,  yet 

death 
Will  seize  the  doctor  too. 

SHAKESPEARE. — -Cymbeline,  Act  5,  5. 

The  time  is  out  of  joint ;  O  cursed  spite. 
That  ever  I  was  born  to  set  it  right  I 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

Diseases,  desperate  grown, 
By  desperate  appliance  are  relieved, 
Or  not  at  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  3. 

The  labour  we  delight  in  physics  pain. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  3. 

We  have  scotched  the  snake,  not  killed 
it.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

O  mickle  is  the  powerful  grace  that  lies 
In  herbs,  plants,  stones,  and  their  true 

qualities. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  3. 


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REMEMBRANCE 


REMEMBRANCE 


Remedies  are  slower  than  illnesses. 

TACITUS. — A  gricola. 

In  his  remedies  he  was  more  grievous 
than  the  offences  had  been. 

TACITUS.— Annals,  Bk.  3. 

Is  there  no  balm  in  Gilead  ;  is  there  no 
physician  there?  Jeremiah  v,  31. 

God  heals,  and  the  physician  has  the 
thanks.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

It  is  a  step  towards  health  to  know  what 
the  complaint  is. 

Latin  prov.  quoted  by  Erasmus. 

This,  with  a  jerk,  will  do  your  work, 
And  cure  you  o'er  and  o'er  ; 

Read,  judge  and  try,  and  if  you  die, 
Never  believe  me  more. 

Quoted   by   SWIFT  (?),    under  the  name, 
"A.  Tripe,  M.D.,"  as  "  that  celebrated 
observation  of  one  of  our  learned  pre- 
decessors." 

REMEMBRANCE 

Soon  you  will  have  forgotten  all ;  soon 
all  will  have  forgotten  you. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — 7,  21. 

Oh  !   scenes  in  strong  remembrance  set, 
Scenes  never,  never  to  return  ! 

BURNS. — Lament.  • 

Still  o'er  these  scenes  my  memory  wakes 
And  fondly  broods  with  miser  care  ! 

Time  but  the  impression  stronger  makes, 

As  streams  their  channels  deeper  wear. 

BURNS. — To  Mary  in  Heaven. 

To  that  loved  land,  where'er  he  goes, 
His  tenderest  thoughts  are  cast ; 

And  dearer  still,  through  absence,  grows 
The  memory  of  the  past. 

REV.  J.  DRUMMOND  BURNS. 

To  live  in  hearts  we  leave  behind 
Is  not  to  die. 

CAMPBELL. — Hallowed  Ground. 

Good  fortune  that  is  past  does  not 
vanish  from  our  memories  ;  evil  fortune 
we  should  not  remember. 

CICERO. — De  Finibus,  Bk.  2,  32. 

The  remembrance  of  past  labours  is 
agreeable.  CICERO. — Ib.,  185. 

The  strongest  plume  hi  wisdom's  pinion 
Is  the  memory  of  past  folly. 

COLERIDGE  — To  an  Unfortunate 
Woman. 

Sweet  is  the  remembrance  of  troubles 
when  you  are  in  safety. 

EURIPIDES. — Andromache. 


'Tis  but  a  little  faded  flower, 

But  oh,  how  fondly  dear  ! 
'Twill  bring  me  back  one  golden  hour 

Through  many  a  weary  year. 

ELLEN  C.  HOWARTH. — 'Tis  but  a  littlt 
faded  flower. 
Ah  tell  me  not  that  memory 

Sheds  gladness  o'er  the  past ; 
What  is  recalled  by  faded  flowers 

Save  that  they  did  not  last  ? 

L.  E.  LANDON. — Despondency. 

To  live  with  them  is  far  less  sweet 
Than  to  remember  thee. 

MOORE. — /  saw  thy  form. 

Fond  memory  brings  the  light 
Of  other  days  around  me. 

MOORE. — Oft  in  the  stilly  night. 

Lulled  in  the  countless  chambers  of  the 

brain, 
Our  thoughts  are  linked  by  many  a  hidden 

chain. 

ROGERS. — Pleasures  of  Memory,  Pt.  i. 

The  hours  I  spent  with  thee,  dear  heart, 

Are  as  a  string  of  pearls  to  me  ; 
I  count  them  over,  every  one  apart, 
My  rosary. 
R.  C.  ROGERS. — The  Rosary 

Remember  me  when  I  am  gone  away, 
Gone  far  away  into  the  silent  land. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Remember. 

And  if  thou  wilt,  remember, 

And  if  thou  wilt,  forget. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — When  I  am  dead. 

Reminiscences    make    one    feel    so    de- 
liciously  aged  and  sad. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  14. 

Music,  when  soft  voices  die, 
Vibrates  in  the  memory  ; 
Odours,  when  sweet  violets  sicken, 
Live  within  the  sense  they  quicken. 
SHELLEY. — Poems  in  1821.    To . 

In  the  years  fled 
Lips  that  are  dead 
Sang  me  that  song. 
MRS.  R.  A.  M.  STEVENSON. 

I  shall  remember  while  the  light  is  yet, 
And  in  the  night-tune  I  will  not  forget. 

SWINBURNE. — Erotion. 

The  sweet  remembrance  of  the  just 
Shall  flourish  when  he  sleeps  in  dust. 

TATE  AND  BRADY. — Ps.  112. 

But  the  tender  grace  of  a  day  that  is  dead 
Will  never  come  back  to  me. 

TENNYSON. — Break,  break. 

Tears,  idle  tears,  I  know  not  what  they 

mean, 
Tears    from    the    depth   of   some    divine 

despair 


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REMORSE 

Rise  iu  the  heart,  and  gather  in  the  eyes, 
la  looking  on  the  happy  Autumn  fields, 
And  thinking  of  the  days  that  are  no  more. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  6,  21. 

Kindnesses  are  easily  forgotten ;  but 
injuries  ? — what  worthy  man  does  not 
keep  those  in  mind  ? 

THACKERAY. — Lovel  the  Widower. 

Some  day  it  may  be  a  pleasure  even  to 
remember  these  things. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.   i. 

What    are    mony   o'    the    pleasures    o' 

memory,  sirs,  but  the  pains  o'  the  past 

spiri:ualeezed  ?      JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes, 

31  (Ettrick  Shepherd). 

What  so  fair 

As  blameless  pleasure,  not  without  some 

tears, 

Reviewed  through  Love's  transparent  veil 

of  years  ?         WORDSWORTH. — Ep.  to 

Sir  G.  Beaumont   (Sequel). 

O  joy  !    that  in  our  embers 
Is  something  that  doth  live  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  9. 
Who  loves  well  is  slow  to  forget. 

Old  French  maxim,  quoted  by  Chaucer, 
Parlement  of  Foules,  679. 
REMORSE 

Remorse,  the  fatal  egg  by  Pleasure  laid. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  239. 

Remorse  does  but  add  to  the  evil  which 

bred  it,  when  it  promotes  not  penitence 

but  despair.       SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in 

Council,  Bk.  i,  ch.  3. 

High  minds,  of  native  pride  and  force, 
Most  deeply  feel  thy  pangs,  Remorse  ! 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  2,   13. 

Consider  it  not  so  deeply. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  2. 

Surely  there  was  a  tune  I  might  have  trod 
The  sunlit  heights,  and  from  life's  disso- 
nance 

Struck  one  clear  note  to  reach  the  ears  of 
God.  OSCAR  WILDE.— Helas  1 

REMOTENESS 

Remote,  unfriended,   melancholy,  slow. 
GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

Remote  from  towns  he  ran  his  godly  race, 
Nor  e'er  had  changed  nor  wished  to  change 
his  place. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

As  far  removed  from  God  and  light  of 

heaven, 
As  from  the  centre  thrice  to  th*  utmost 

pole. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  73. 


_____ RENT 

Far  from  the  sweet  society  of  ineu. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  21,  394. 

A  maid  whom  there  were  none  to  praise, 
And  very  few  to  love. 

WORDSWORTH. — She  dwelt  among  the 
untrodden  wavs. 
RENEGADES 

Thus  my  first  benefactor  I  o'erthrew  ; 
And  how  should  I  be  to  a  second  true  ? 

DEFOE. — True-born  Englishman : 
Britannia,  224. 

Still  violent,  whatever  cause  he  took, 
But  most  against  the  party  he  forsook. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 
Pt.  2,  364. 
RENEWAL 

The  mother,  wi*  her  needle  and  her  shears, 
Gars  auld  claes  look  amaist  as  weel's  the 
new. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

So  sinks  the  day-star  in  the  ocean  bed, 
And  yet  anon  repairs  his  drooping  head, 
And  tricks  his  beams,  and  with  new 

spangled  ore 

Flames  in  the  forehead  of  the  morning  sky. 
MILTON. — Lycidas,  166. 

RENOWN 

Renown's  all  hit  or  miss  ; 
There's  fortune  even  in  fame,  we  must 
allow.  BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  7, 

st.  33- 

And  all  the  fair  examples  of  renown 
Out  of  distress  and  misery  are  grown. 
S.  DANIEL. — On  the  Earl  of  Southampton. 

Many  brave  men  lived  before  Agamem- 
non, but  for  want  of  a  divine  poet  they 
are  lost  in  the  distant  night,  unmourned 
and  unknown.  HORACE.-— Odes,  4,  9. 

Thus  fame  shall  be  achieved,  renown  on 

earth, 
And  what  most  merits  fame  in  silence  hid. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  n,  698. 

Wins  for  the  work  the  brave  man's  crown, 

The  lofty  lucre  of  renown, 
His  nation's  pride,  the  world's  delight. 
PINDAR. — Isthmian  Odes,  i,  62  (Moore  tr.). 

Speak  no  more  of  his  renown, 
Lay  your  earthly  fancies  down, 
And  in  the  vast  cathedral  leave  him  ; 
God  accept  him,  Christ  receive  him. 
TENNYSON. — On  the  Death  of  Wellington. 

RENT 

The  years  of  sorrow  and  want  and  toil, 
And  the  murdering  rent  for  the  bit  of  soil. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — O'Afurtogh. 

The  grand  agrarian  alchemy,  light  rent. 
BYRON. — Age  of  Bronte,  st.  14. 


4*5 


REPENTANCE 


REPROACH 


Year  after  year  they  voted  cent,  per  cent., 
Blood,  sweat,  and  tear-wrung  millions — 
why  ?  for  rent  ! 

BYRON. — Age  of  Bronze. 

Their  good,  ill,  health,  wealth,  joy,  or  dis- 
content, 

Being,  end,  aim,  religion — rent,  rent,  rent. 
BYRON. — Ib. 

REPENTANCE 

The  proper  process  of  unsinning  sin 
Is  to  begin  well  doing. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  4,  285. 

The  weak  alone  repent. 

BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  2,  10. 

Repentance  is  the  virtue  of  weak  minds. 
DRYDEX. — Indian  Emperor,  Act  3,  i. 

Repentance  is  but  want  of  power  to  sin. 

DRYDEN. — Palamon,  Bk.  3,  813. 

I  ne'er  repented  anything  yet  in  my  life, 
And  scorn  to  begin  now. 

JOHN  FLETCHER. — Queen  of  Corinth, 
Act  4,  i. 

Death-bed  repentance  seldom  reaches  to 
restitution.  JUNIUS. — Dedication. 

Our  repentance  is  not  so  much  regret 
for  the  ill  we  have  done  as  fear  of  that 
which  may  come  to  us. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  180. 

Without  any  snivelling  signs  of  contri- 
tion or  repentance. 

GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — Dialogues  of 

the  Dead. 

How  shall  I  lose  the  sin,  yet  keep  the 

sense, 

And   love   the   offender,    yet   detest   the 
offence  ?  POPE. — Eloisa,  189. 

He  who  repents  having  sinned  is  almost 
innocent.  SENECA. — Agamemnon. 

Try  what  repentance  can ;    what  can  it 

not? 

Yet  what  can  it,  when  one  can  not  repent  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  3. 

Repentance  for  past  crimes  is  just  and 

easy ; 
But  Sin  no  more's  a  task  too  hard  for 

mortals. 
SIR  J.  VANBRUGH. — The  Relapse,  Act  5,  4. 

Bring  forth  therefore  fruits  worthy  of 
repentance.  St.  Luke  iii,  8. 

Repentance  is  good,  but  innocence  better. 

Prov. 

REPETITION 

That  is  never  said  too  often  which  is 
never  learnt  sufficiently.  SENECA. 


Repetition  is  the  soul  of  journalism. 
Maxim  attrib.  to  Thos.  Barnes,  editor  oc 
"  The  Times,"  1817-1841. 
REPLY 

At  length  the  fateful  answer  came. 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  4,  6. 

But  answer  made  it  none. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

REPORT 

Such  difference  is  there  in  an  oft-told  tale  ; 

But  Truth,  by  its  own  sinews,  will  prevail. 

DRYDEN. — Religio  Laid,  348. 

He's  gone,  and  who  knows  how  he  may 

report 
Thy  words  by  adding  fuel  to  the  flame- 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  1350. 

When  I  did  well,  I  heard  it  never ; 
When  I  did  ill,  I  heard  it  ever. 

Old  Saying. 
REPOSE 

When  you  cannot  find  your  repose  in 
yourself,  it  is  useless  to  look  for  it  else- 
where. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  513. 

Repose  is  the  especial  and  separating 
characteristic  of  the  eternal  mind  and 
power. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Vol.  2, 
sec.  i,  ch.  3,  i. 

No  work  of  art  can  be  great  without  it 
[repose].  RUSKIN. — Ib.,  sec.  2,  ch.  3,  5. 

The  best  of  men  have  ever  loved  repose. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  i,  17. 

The  universal  instinct  of  repose, 
The  longing  for  confirmed  tranquillity, 
Inward  and  outward,  humble  yet  sublime  ; 
The  life  where  hope  and  memory  are  as  one. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,   Bk.    3    (the 
fourth  line  is  described  by  Ruskin  as 
"  the  beautiful  line  which  describes  a 
perfectly  happy  life"). 

REPROACH  AND  REPROOF 

Reproach  cuts  deeper  than  the  keenest 

sword 
And  cleaves  my  heart. 

CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  4,  i. 

Those  best  can   bear   reproof  who   merit 
praise.  POPE. — Criticism,  583. 

A  countenance  more 
In  sorrow  than  in  anger. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

I  will  speak  daggers  to  her,  but  use  none. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

I  must  be  cruel,  only  to  be  kind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  4. 


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REPUBLICS 

Thou  stick'st  a  dagger  into  me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,   i. 

Speak  not  of  my  debts  unless  you  mean 
to  pay  them.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

REPUBLICS 

The  Republican  form  of  government  is 
the  highest  form  of  government ;  but  be- 
cause of  this  it  requires  the  highest  type 
of  human  nature — a  type  nowhere  at 
present  existing. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — The  Americans. 

REPUDIATION 

Thou  canst  not  say  I  did  it :   never  shake 
Thy  gory  locks  at  me. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

Let  him  be  Anathema. 

i  Corinthians  xvi,  22. 
REPUTATION 

For  my  name  and  memory  I  leave  it 
to  men's  charitable,  speeches,  and  to 
foreign  nations,  and  the  next  ages. 

BACON. — Witt. 

It  is  a  maxim  with  me  that  no  man  was 
ever  written  out  of  reputation  but  by  him- 
self. BENTLEY. — Monk's  "  Life." 

Every  man  ought  to  do  his  diligence  and 
his  business  to  get  him  a  good  name. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus,  sec.  77. 

Glasses  that  are  cracked  are  soon 
broken.  Such  is  man's  good  name,  once 
tainted  with  just  reproach.  BISHOP  HALL. 

How  many  people  live  on  the  reputation 

of  the  reputation  they  might  have  made  ! 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Autocrat,  ch.  3. 

I  am  now  past  the  craggy  paths  of 
study,  and  come  to  the  flowery  plains  of 
honour  and  reputation. 

BEN  JONSON. — Volpone,  Act  2,  2. 

If  I  can  preserve  my  good  name  I  shall 
be  rich  enough.  PLAUTUS. — Moslellaria. 

I  would  thou  and  I  knew  where  a  com- 
modity of  good  names  were  to  be  bought  ! 
SHAKESPEARE.—  Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

Reputation,  reputation,  reputation  !  O, 
I  have  lost  my  reputation  !  I  have  lost 
the  immortal  part  of  myself,  and  what 
remains  is  bestial. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Good  name  in  man  or  woman,  dear  my 

lord, 
Is  the  immediate  jewel  of  their  souls. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  3. 

Who  steals  my  purse,  steals  trash  ;    'tis 

something,  nothing ; 
Twas  mine,  'tis  his,  and  has  been  slave 

to  thousands  ; 


RESEARCH 

But  he  that  filches  from  me  my  good  name 
Robs  me  of  that  which  not  enriches  him 
And  makes  me  poor  indeed. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3.  3. 

The  purest  treasure  mortal  times  afford 
Is  spotless  reputation  ;   that  away, 
Men  are  but  gilded  loam  or  painted  clay. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  i. 

Gain  accompanied  by  ill  report  may  be 
called  loss.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

To  an  upright  man  a  good  reputation 
is  the  greatest  inheritance.  Ib. 

No  one  ever  loses  credit  excepting  he 
who  has  it  not.  Ib 

A  good  report 

Makes  men  live  long,  although  their  life  be 

short.      R.  WATKYNS. — Flamma  sine 

Fumo  :  A  Good  Report. 

Who  swerves  from  innocence,  who  makes 

divorce 

Of  that  serene  companion,  a  good  name, 
Recovers  not  his  loss  ;    but  walks  with 

shame, 

With    doubt,  with  fear,  and   haply  with 
remorse. 

WORDSWORTH. — River  Duddon,  30. 

A  good  name  is  better  than  precious 
ointment.  Ecclesiastes  vii,  i. 

It  is  not  as  thy  mother  says,  but  as  thy 
neighbours  say.  Hebrew  prov. 

RESEARCH 

Those   hateful   persons   called   Original 

Researchers.  SIR  J.  M.  BARRIE. — My 

Lady  Nicotine,  ch.  14. 

As  none  by  travelling  over  known  lands 
can  find  out  the  unknown,  so  from  already 
acquired  knowledge  man  could  not  acquire 
more. 
WM.  BLAKE. — There  is  no  Natural  Religion. 

That  like  an  intellectual  magnet  stone 
Drew  truth  from  judgments  simpler  than 
his  own. 

CAMPBELL. — Pilgrim  of  Glencoe. 

Under  every  deep  a  lower  depth  opens. 
EMERSON. — Circles. 

We  are  all  richer  for  the  measurement 
of  a  degree  of  latitude  on  the  earth's 
surface. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life:  Wealth. 

Nothing's  so  hard  but  search  will  find  it 
out.  HERRICK. — (From  Terence.) 

From  such-like  thoughts  I  mighty  pleasure 

find, 

And  silently  admire  thy  strength  of  Mind  ; 
By  whose  one  single  force,  to  curious  eyes, 
All  naked  and  exposed  whole  Nature  lies. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  3,  28 
(Creech  tr.). 


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RESEMBLANCE 


RESOURCEFULNESS 


The  universe  is  full  of  magical  things 
patiently  waiting  for  our  wits  to  grow 
sharper. 

EDEN  PIIILPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

Science  moves  but  slowly,  slowly,  creeping 
on  from  point  to  point. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

The  intellectual  power,  through  words  and 

things, 

Went  sounding  on,  a  dim  and  perilous  way. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  3. 

Be  mine  to  follow  with  no  timid  step 
Where  knowledge  leads  me  ;    it  shall  be 

my  pride 

That    I    have   dared   to   tread   this   holy 
ground. 

WORDSWORTH. — Postscript  (to  Preface) 

(1835). 
RESEMBLANCE 

Who  drives  fat   oxen   should  himself  be 
fat.  JOHNSON. — Parody. 

For  one  of  us  was  born  a  twin  ; 
And  not  a  soul  knew  which. 

H.  S.  LEIGH. — Twins. 
Very  like  a  whale. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 


Lik< 


-but  oh,  how  different ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Mountain  Echo. 


RESENTMENTS 

Resentment  gratifies  him  who  intended 
an  injury,  and  pains  him  unjustly  who  did 
not  intend  it. 

JOHNSON. — Boswell's  "  Life." 

What  a  fool 
An  injury  may  make  of  a  staid  man  ! 

KEATS. — Otho,  Act  3,  i. 

Men  are  grateful  in  the  same  degree  as 
they  are  resentful. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Nature  seemed  to  have  done  with  her 
resentments  in  him  : — he  showed  none. 
STERNE. — Sent.  Journey  :  The  Monk. 

RESIGNATION 

I  needs  must  bear 

My  destiny  as  best  I  may,  knowing  well 
The  might  resistless  of  Necessity. 

AESCHYLUS. — Prometheus,  103 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

Thy  will  be  done,  though  in  my  own 

undoing.  SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Relixio 

Medici,  Pt.  3,  ser.  15. 

Not  as  we  wanted  it, 
But  as  God  granted  it. 
SIR  A.  T.  QUILLER  COUCH. — To  Bearers. 


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Just  as  a  bird,  that  flies  about 

And  beats  itself  against  the  cage, 
Finding  at  last  no  passage  out, 
It  sits  and  sings    and  so  o'ercomes  its 
rage. 

COWLEY. — Friendship  in  Absence. 

That  which  cannot  be  repaired  is  not  to 
be  regretted.      JOHNSON. — Rasselas,  ch.  4. 

Let  us  be  patient !  These  severe  afflictions 

Not  from  the  ground  arise, 
But  oftentimes  celestial  benedictions 
Assume  this  dark  disguise. 

LONGFELLOW. — By  the  Fireside, 
Resignation. 

Come  wealth  or  want,  come  good  or  £11, 
Let  young  and  old  accept  their  part, 

And  bow  before  the  awful  Will, 
And  bear  it  with  an  honest  heart. 

THACKERAY. 

RESOLUTION 

Tender-handed  stroke  a  nettle, 

And  it  stings  you  for  your  pains ; 
Grasp  it  like  a  man  of  mettle 

And  it  soft  as  silk  remains. 
'Tis  the  same  with  common  natures  ; 

Use  'em  kindly,  they  rebel ; 
But  be  rough  as  nutmeg-graters, 

And  the  rogues  obey  you  well. 

AARON  HILL. — On  a  Window. 

My  resolution's  placed,  and  I  have  nothing 
Of  woman  in  me  :  no%v  from  head  to  foot 
I  am  marble-constant. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  5,  2. 

The  native  hue  of  resolution 
Is   sicklied    o'er   with    the    pale    cast    of 

thought ; 

And  enterprises  of  great  pith  and  moment, 
With  this  regard,  their  currents  turn  awry, 
And  lose  the  name  of  action. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

We  said  on  that  first  day,  we  said  and  swore 

That  self  should  be  "no  more, 
That  we  were  risen,  that  we  would  wholly 

be 

For  love  and  liberty  ; 
And  in  the  exhilaration  of  that  oath 

We  cast  off  spite  and  sloth, 
And  laboured  for  an  hour,  till  we  began, 

Man  after  piteous  man, 
To  lose  the  splendour,  to  forget  the  dream. 
EDWD.  SHANKS. — Meditation  in  June, 

1917. 
Set  thy  sails  warily, 

Tempests  will  come  ; 
Steer  thy  course  steadily  ; 
Christian,  steer  home  ! 
MRS.  SOUTHEY  (nee  BOWLES). — 
Mariner's  Hymn. 

RESOURCEFULNESS 

'Tis  good  in  every  case,  you  know, 
To  have  two  strings  unto  our  bow. 
CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost,  Bk.  4,  1282. 


RESPECTABILITY 

Presence  of  mind  and  courage  in  distress 

Are  more  than  armies  to  procure  success. 

DRYDEN. — Aurengzebe,  Act  2. 

The  mouse  that  always  trusts  to  one  poor 

hole, 
Can  never  be  a  mouse  of  any  soul. 

POPE. — Wife  of  Bath,  Prologue,  298. 

RESPECTABILITY 

Since  when  was  genius  found  respectable  ? 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  6. 

The  devil's  most  devilish  when  respectable. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib.t  Bk.  7. 

The  honest  witness  who  said,  "  I  always 
thought  him  a  respectable  man  ;  he  kept 
his  gig,"  would  probably  not  have  ad- 
mitted in  direct  terms  that  every  man  who 
keeps  a  gig  must  be  respectable. 

DE  MORGAN. — Formal  Logic, 
ch.  20. 

And  wheresoever  he  appeared, 
Full  twenty  times  was  Peter  feared 
For  once  he  was  respected. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Pt.  i,  3. 

Respect  yourself,  or  no  one  else  will. 
Prov.   Founded  on  Greek  precept  of  the 
Pythagoreans. 
RESPITE 

A  short  delay  is  all  I  ask  him  now — 
A  pause  of  grief,  an  interval  of  woe. 
VIRGIL. — &neid,  Bk.  4  (Dry den  tr.). 

RESPONSIBILITY 

He  who  has  been  wont  to  pronounce 
so  fluently  upon  the  defects  of  another's 
rule  and  management,  finds,  when  in  power 
himself,  what  a  different  thing  it  is  to  act 
and  to  talk.  His  rash  and  heated  judg- 
ment is  all  at  once  sobered  by  the  weight 
of  responsibility. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  2. 

Whenever  I  met  with  a  boy  particularly 
mischievous,  I  made  him  a  monitor.  I 
never  knew  this  to  fail. 

J    LANCASTER. — As  quoted  by  Sydney 
Smith,  Lecture  No.  22  (1805). 

The  plea  of  ignorance  will  never  take 
away  our  responsibilities. 

RUSKIN. — Lectures  on  Architecture  and 
Painting. 

I  differ  from  my  king  in  this  alone — 
He  hath  ten  thousand  masters  ;    I  have 

one. 
Paraphr.  of  Euripides  (D.  W.  THOMPSON). 

REST 

The  end  and  the  reward  of  toil  is  rest. 
BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  2,  16. 


REST 

Of  all  the  thoughts  of  God  that  are 
Borne  inward  into  souls  afar, 
Along  the  Psalmist's  music  deep, 
Now  tell  me  if  that  any  is, 
For  gift  or  grace  surpassing  this, — 
"  He  giveth  His  beloved  sleep  "  ? 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Sleep. 

O  earth,  so  full  of  dreary  noises  ! 
O  men,  with  wailing  in  your  voices ! 
O  delved  gold,  the  wailers  heap  ! 
O  strife,  O  curse,  that  o'er  it  fall ! 
God  strikes  a  silence  through  you  all, 
And  giveth  His  beloved  sleep. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib. 

Rest  comes  at  length,  though  life  be  long 

and  dreary  ; 
The  day  must  dawn  and  darksome  night 

be  passed.         F.  W.  FABER. — Hymn. 

His  listless  length  at  noontide  would  he 

stretch, 
And  pore  upon  the  brook  that  babbles 

by. 
GRAY. — Elegy  in  a  Country  Churchyard. 

We  wish  him  health  :   he  sighs  for  rest, 
And  Heaven  accepts  the  prayer. 

KEBLE. — Restoration. 

Once  long  ago,  as  you,  with  hollow  pursuit 

of  fame, 
We  filled  all  the  shaking  world  with  the 

sound  of  our  name  ; 
But  now  we  are  glad  to  rest,  our  battles 

and  boasting  done, 
Glad  just  to  sow  and  sing  and  reap  in  our 

share  of  the  sun. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — The  Little  Peoples. 

Come  rest  in  this  bosom,  my  own  stricken 

deer, 
Though  the  herd  have  fled  from  thee,  thy 

love  is  still  here. 

MOORE. — Come  rest  in  this  bosom. 

Weariness 

Can  snore  upon  the  flint,  when  resty  sloth 
Finds  the  down  pillow  hard. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  6. 

Rest,  rest,  perturbed  spirit. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

So  may  he  rest !     His  faults  lie  gently  on 

him  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

Some  respite  to  its  turbulence  unresting 

ocean  knows  ; 
Whatever  moves,  or  toils,  or  grieves,  hath 

its  appointed  sleep. 

SHELLEY. — Stantas,  1814. 

Sleepe  after  toyle,  port  after  stormie  seas, 
Ease  after  warre,  death  after  life,  does 

greatly  please. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  I,  c.  9,  40. 


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RETICENCE 


If  rest  is  sweet  at  shut  of  day 

For  tired  hands  and  tired  feet, 
How  sweet  at  last  to  rest  for  aye, 

If  rest  is  sweet. 
ARTHUR  SYMONS. — Roundel  of  Rest. 

And   after   toilsome   days   a    soft  repose 
at  night. 
VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  2  (Dryden  tr.). 

Repose  is  a  good  thing,  but  boredom  is 
its  brother.  VOLTAIRE. 

What  hadst  thou  that  could  make  such 

large  amends 
For  all  thou  hadst  not,  and  thy  peers 

possessed, 
Motion  and  fire,  swift  means  to  radiant 

ends  ? 
Thou  hadst,  for  weary  feet,  the  gift  of 

rest. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Wordsworth's  Grave. 

To  tired  limbs  and  over-busy  thoughts 
Inviting  sleep  and  soft  forgetfulness. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4- 

O  that  I  had  wings  like  a  dove,  for  then 
would  I  flee  away,  and  be  at  rest. 

Church  Psalter,  Ps.  cv,  6. 

They  rest  from  their  labours. 

Common  Prayer,  Burial  Service. 

RESTLESSNESS 

Thus  every  man  is  troubled  with  unrest, 
From   rich    to   poor,    from   high    to   low 

degree. 
R.  BARNFIELD. — Shepherd's  Complaint. 

He  who  dwells  everywhere,  never  dwells 
anywhere.    MARTIAL. — Epig.,  Bk.  7,  72,  6. 

So,  when  a  raging  fever  burns, 
We  shift  from  side  to  side  by  turns  ; 
And  'tis  a  poor  relief  we  gain, 
To  change  the  place,  but  keep  the  pain. 
ISAAC  WATTS. — Hymns,  Bk.  2,  146. 

RESTRAINT 

Restraint  from  ill  is  freedom  to  the  wise  ; 
But  Englishmen  do  all  restraint  despise. 

DEFOE. — True-Born  Englishman, 

k  Pt.    2,    206. 

But    now    I    am    cabined,    cribbed,   con- 
fined, bound  in. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

There  are  four   things  that  keep  us  all 

from  having  our  own  way  : 
Money,     Fortune,     Mrs.     Grundy,     and 
Policeman  A. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Paraphr.  oj 
Euripides. 
RESULTS 

O  fate  of  fools  !   officious  in  contriving  ; 
In  executing  puzzled,  lame,  and  lost. 
CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  5,  i. 


It  is  the  end  that  crowns  us,  not  the 
fight.         HERRICK. — Hesperides,  309. 

The  mountains  are  in  labour  ;  a  ridicu- 
lous mouse  is  produced. 

HORACE.— De  Arte  Poetica. 

The  mountain  was  in  labour,  and  Jove 

was  afraid,  but  it  brought  forth  a  mouse. 

TACHOS,   KING   OF   EGYPT. — Quoted  by 

Athenceus.    Deipn.,  14,  7. 

The  Fates  are  just :    they  give  us  but  our 

own  ; 

Nemesis   ripens    what    our    hands    have 

sown.          WHITTIER. — To  a  Southern 

Statesman,  1864, 

And  he  looked  that  it  should  bring  forth 
grapes,  and  it  brought  forth  wild  grapes. 
Isaiah  v,  2. 

He  who  sows  thorns  will  not  gather 
grapes  with  them.  Arabic  proverb. 

One  ploughs,  another  sews  ; 
Who  will  reap  no-one  knows. 

Old  Saving. 
RETALIATION 

For  time  at  last  sets  all  things  even — 
And  if  we  do  but  watch  the  hour, 
There  never  yet  was  human  power 
Which  could  evade,  if  unforgiven, 
The  patient  search  and  vigil  long 
Of  him  who  treasures  up  a  wrong. 

BYRON. — Mazeppa,  st,  10. 

Nor  should  the  individual,  who  happens 

to  be  meant. 
Reply  by  heaving  rocks  at  him  to  any 

great  extent. 
BRET  HARTE. — Society  upon  the  Stanislaus. 

Wisdom  has  taught  us  to  be  calm  and 

meek, 
To  take  one  blow,   and   turn   the  other 

cheek  : 

It  is  not  written  what  a  man  shall  do, 
If  the  rude  caitiff  smite  the  other  too. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Non-Rtsistance. 

"  Now  we  are  even,"  quoth  Stephen, 
when  he  gave  his  wife  six  blows  for  one. 

SWIFT. — Letter,  Jan.  20,  1711. 

RETICENCE 

Oh  !    no  !    we  never  mention  her, 
Her  name  is  never  heard  ; 

My  lips  are  now  forbid  to  speak 
That  once  familiar  word. 

T.  H.  BAYLY. — Song. 

All  things  to  all  men  only  fools  will  tell  ; 

Truth  profits  none  but  those  that  use  it 

well.       J.  S.  BLACKIE. — Wise  Men  of 

Greece. 

The  first  of  virtues  is  to  restrain  the 
tongue  ;  he  is  nearest  God  who  knows  the 
rule  of  silence.  DION.  CATO. — Dist.,i,$. 


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RETICENCE 


RETIREMENT 


My  son,  keep  wel  thy  tonge  and  keep  thy 
friend.  CHAUCER. — Manciple's  Tale, 

The  first  vertu,   sone,  if  them  wolt  lere 

[learn], 
Is  to  restreyne  and  kepd  wel  thy  tonge. 

CHAUCER. — Ib. 

Be  wary,  and  slow  to  give  your  Confi- 
dence. This  is  the  backbone  of  the  mind's 
strength. 

EPICHARMUS. — Ahreus  de  Dialecto 
Dorica,  119. 

He  [Klopstock]  had  another  peculiarity 
of  men  of  the  world — namely,  not  readily 
to  speak  on  subjects  upon  wh-.ch  he  was 
particularly  desired  and  expected  to  dis- 
course. GOETHE. — Antob.,  Bk.  15. 

No  never  say  nothin'  without  you're  com- 
pelled tu, 

An'  then  don't  say  nothin'  thet  you  can 

be  held  tu.     j.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow 

Papers,  2nd  Series,  No.  5. 

'Aia;  [F.-M.  Sir  Douelas  Haig]  'e  don't 
say  much  ;  'e  don't,  so  to  say,  say  nothin' ; 
but  what  'e  don't  say  don't  mean  nothin', 
not  'art.  But  when  'e  do  .say  something 
— my  Gawd  ! 

E.  V.  LUCAS. — Boswell  of  Baghdad. 

O  have  a  care  of  natures  that  are  mute  ! 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  35. 

Slave   is   the   open   mouth   beneath    the 
closed. 
GEO.  MEREDIT.H. — Sage  Enamoured,  4. 

Nature  has  given  every  man  two  ears 

and  but  one  tongue,  as  a  s?cret  intimation 

that  he  ought  to  speak  less  than  he  hears. 

PLUTARCH. — Of  Hearing  (quoted  as 

a  saying). 

Simonides  said  that  it  never  repented 
him  that  he  had  held  his  tongue,  but  often 
that  he  had  spoken. 

PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

Forbear  to  mention  what  thou  canst 
not  praise.  PRIOR. — Carmen  Seculare,  106. 

Give  every  man  thine  ear,  but  few  thy 

voice  ; 
Take  each  man's  censure,  but  reserve  thy 

judgment. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

But  ye,  keep  ye  on  earth 
Your  lips  from  over-speech ; 
Loud    words    and    longing    are    so    little 

worth, 

And  the  end  is  hard  to  reach  : 
For  silence  after  grievous  things  is  good, 
And  reverence,  and  the  fe?     that  makes 

men  whole, 
And  shame,  and  righteous  government  of 

blood. 
And  lordship  of  the  soul. 

SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 


Fear  oftentimes  restraineth  words, 
But  makes  not  thought  to  cease  ; 

And  he  speaks  best  that  hath  the  skill 
When  for  to  hold  his  peace. 
THOS.  LORD  VAUX. — A  Contented  Mind. 

And  I  oft  have  heard  defended, 
Little  said  is  soonest  mended. 
G.  WITHER.— Shepherd's  Hunting. 

This  modest  charm  of  not  too  much, 
Part  seen,  imagined  part. 

WORDSWORTH. — To  May. 

God  is  in  heaven,  and  thou  upon  earth  : 
therefore  let  thy  words  be  few. 

Ecclesiastes  v,  a. 

Open  not  thine  heart  to  every  man. 

Ecclesiasticus  viii,  19. 

A  man  that   hideth   his  foolishness  is 

better  than  a  man  that  hideth  his  wisdom. 

Ecclesiasticus  xli,  15. 

Even  a  fool,  when  he  holdeth  his  peace, 
is  counted  wise.  Proverbs  xvii,  28. 

There's  twa  things  in  my  mind  and  that's 
the  least  of  them.  Scottish  prov. 


RETIREMENT 

For  he  that  lives  retired  in  mind  and  spirit 
Is  still  in  Paradise. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Nice 
Valour,  Act  5,  a 

A  quiet  life,  which  was  not  life  at  all. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  i. 

May  I   a  small  house  and  large  garden 

have ! 
And  a  few  friends,  and  many  books,  both 

true.  COWLEY. — The  Prophet. 

A  mind  released 

From  anxious  thoughts  how  wealth  may 
be  increased. 

COWPER. — Retirement,  139. 

The  disencumbered  Atlas  of  the  state. 
COWPER. — Ib.,  394. 

Oh  for  a  lodge  in  some  vast  wilderness, 
Some  boundless  contiguity  of  shade  ! 

COWPER. — Time  Piece,  i. 

Where  from  all  rude  resort  he  happily  doth 
dwell. 

DRAYTON. — Polyolbion,  Song  13. 

They  saw  the  happiness  of  a  private  life, 
but  they  deferred  it.  ...  Put  them  to  the 
necessity  of  a  present  choice  and  they  pre- 
ferred continuance  in  power ;  like  the 
wretch  who  called  Death  to  his  assistance, 
but  refused  him  when  he  came. 

DRYDEN. — Dedication  to  Georgia. 


43' 


RETIREMENT 


RETREAT 


A  foundation  of  good  sense  and  a  cul- 
tivation of  learning  are  required  to  give 
a  seasoning  to  retirement  and  make  us 
taste  the  blessing. 

DRYDEN. — Dedication  to  Georgics. 

How  blessed  is  he  who  leads  a  country  life, 
Unvexed  with  anxious  cares,  and  void  of 

strife  ! 
Who,  studying  peace,  and  shunning  civil 

rage, 
Enjoyed  his  youth,  and  now  enjoys  his 

age.  DRYDEN. — To  J.  Dryden. 

How  blest  is  he  who  crowns  in  shades  like 

these 
A  youth  of  labour  with  an  age  of  ease. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Far   from   the   madding   crowd's   ignoble 

strife  ; 

Their  sober  wishes  never  learned  to  stray  ; 
Along  the  cool  sequestered  vale  of  life 
They  kept   the  noiseless  tenour  of  their 

way.  GRAY. — Elegy. 

There  bounteous  Nature  makes  supplies 

for  ease  ; 

There  minds  enjoy  an  undisturbed  peace 
LUCRETIUS. — 3,  18  (Creech  tr.). 

Not,  like  a  cloistered  drone,  to  read  and 

doze, 

In  undeserving,  undeserved  repose. 
GEO.  LORD  LYTTELTON. — To  Dr.  Ayscough. 

For  solitude  sometimes  is  best  society, 
And  short  retirement  urges  sweet  return. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  249. 

His  life, 

Private,  unactive,  calm,  contemplative. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  80. 

How  happy  is  the  blameless  Vestal's  lot  ! 

The  world  forgetting,  by  the  world  forgot. 

POPE. — Eloisa,  207. 

Happy  the  man  whose  wish  and  care 
A  few  paternal  acres  bound, 

Content  to  breathe  his  native  air 
In  his  own  ground. 

POPE. — Solitude. 

Farewell !     Othello's  occupation's  gone. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

Thus  in  a  sea  of  folly  tossed, 
My  choicest  hours  of  life  are  lost, 
Yet  always  wishing  to  retreat — 
O,  could  I  see  my  country  seat ! 
There,  leaning  near  a  gentle  brook, 
Sleep,  or  peruse  some  ancient  book  ; 
And  there  in  sweet  oblivion  drown 
Those   cares   that  haunt   the   court   and 
town.  SWIFT. — Imit.  of  Horace, 

Sat.,  Bk.  2.  6. 

I  built  my  soul  a  lordly  pleasure-house, 
Wherein  at  ease  for  aye  to  dwell. 

TENNYSON. — Palace  of  Art. 


How  dull  it  is  to  pause,  to  make  an  end, 
To  rust  unburnished,  not  to  shine  in  use  ! 
TENNYSON.  —  Ulysses. 

The  best  of  men  have  ever  loved  repose  ; 
They  hate  to  mingle  in  the  filthy  fray. 

THOMSON.  —  Castle  of  Indolence, 
c.  i,  st.  17. 

Nor  pompous  cares  nor  palaces  he  knew, 
But  wisely  from  the  infectious  world  with- 
drew. 

VIRGIL.  —  JEneid,  Bk.  12  (Dryden  tr.) 
(of  Mencetes,  the  fisherman]  . 

One  must  cultivate  letters  or  one's  garden. 

VOLTAIRE.  —  Letter  to  D'Alembert, 

July  14,  1773. 

It  is  good  at  last  to  live  for  one's  self, 
and  to  know  how  to  leave  the  world  which 
leaves  us.  VOLTAIRE.  —  To  Mme.  Denis. 

He  is  retired  as  noontide  dew, 
Or  fountain  in  a  noonday  grove  ; 
And  you  must  love  him,  ere  to  you 
He  will  seem  worthy  of  your  love. 

WORDSWORTH.  —  A  Poet's  Epitaph. 

To  you 

The  remnant  of  his  days  at  least  was  true  ; 
You  whom,  though  long  deserted,  he  loved 

best  ; 

You,  —  muses,    books,   fields,    liberty   and 
rest! 
WORDSWORTH.  —  Liberty  (of  Cowley). 

And  thou  henceforth  wilt  have  a  good 

man's  calm, 
A  great  man's  happiness.     Thy  zeal  shall 

find 
Repose  at  length,  firm  friend  of  human 

kind  ! 

WORDSWORTH.  —  Poems  to  National  Indep., 
Pt.  2,  3  (to  Thos.  Clarkson). 

Where  good  men,  disappointed  in  the  quest 
Of  wealth  and  power  and  honours,  long  for 

rest  ; 
Or  having  known  the  splendours  of  suc- 

cess, 

Sigh  for  the  obscurities  of  happiness. 
WORDSWORTH.  —  Evening  Voluntaries,  10. 

RETREAT 

Our  backward  march, 
After  our  wars  unhurt,  unsuffering  led 
Our  prospering  armies  home. 

.  —  Persa,  868  (Plumptre  tr.). 


In  all  the  trade  of  war  no  feat 
Is  nobler  than  a  brave  retreat  ; 
For  those  that  run  away  and  fly, 
Take  place  at  least  o*  the  enemy. 

BUTLER.  —  Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

For  those  that  fly  may  fight  again, 
Which  he  can  never  do  that's  slain. 

BUTLER.  —  Ib.,  Pt.  3,  c.  3. 


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RETRIBUTION 


RETURN 


He  who  fights  and  runs  away 
May  live  to  fight  another  day  ; 
But  he  who  is  in  battle  slain 
Can  never  rise  to  fight  again. 

GOLDSMITH. — Art  of  Poetry. 

We're  driven  back  for  our  next  fray 

A  newer  strength  to  borrow, 
And  where  the  vanguard  camps  to-day, 

The  rear  shall  rest  to-morrow. 

GERALD  MASSEY. — Son/:. 

He  that  fights  and  runs  away, 
May  turn  and  fight  another  day ; 
But  he  that  is  in  battle  slain 
Will  never  rise  to  fight  again. 

ANON. — As   quoted  in  Ray's   Hist, 
of  the  Rebellion  (1752). 

The  man  who  flies  shall  fight  again. 

Greek.     Attrib.  to  Demosthenes. 

RETRIBUTION 

They  therefore,  having  wrought 
Deeds  evil,   now   are  suffering,   and  will 

suffer 

Evil  not  less  ;  and  not  as  yet  is  seen 
E'en  the  bare  groundwork  of  the  ills,  but 

still 
They  grow  up  to  completeness. 

AESCHYLUS. — Perscf,  817  (Plumptre  tr.). 

Take  courage,  then  ; 
In  their  own  time,  and  at  the  appointed 

day, 

Whoever  slights  the  Gods  shall  pay  for  it. 

AESCHYLUS. — Suppliants,  732 

(Plumptre  tr.). 

Long    trains   of   ill   may   pass   unheeded, 

dumb, 
But  vengeance  is  behind  and  justice  is  to 

come.     CAMPBELL. — Spanish  Patriots. 

Justice  conquers  evermore, 
Justice  after  as  before, — 
And  he  who  battles  on  her  side, 
God,  though  he  were  ten  times  slain, 
Crowns  him  victor  glorified. 

EMERSON. — Voluntaries,  No.  4. 

The  man  recovered  of  the  bite, 
The  dog  it  was  that  died. 

GOLDSMITH. — Mad  Do?. 

And  well  he  merited  the  death  he  foun'l ; 
So  perish  all  who  shall  like  him  otfend  ! 
HOMER. — Odvssey,  Bk.  i,  44  (Cowper  tr.) 
(Pallas,  of  the  death  of  &ztsthus). 

For  agony  and  spoil 

Of  nations  beat  to  dust, 

For  poisoned  air  and  tortured  soil 
And  cold,  commanded  lust, 

And  every  secret  woe 

The  shuddering  waters  saw — 

Willed  and  fulfilled  by  high  and  low- 
Let  them  relearn  the  Law. 

RUDYARD  KIPLING. — Justice 
(Oct.  24,  1918). 

2  c  433 


Though  the  mills  of  God  grind  slowly,  yet 
they  grind  exceeding  small ; 

Though  with  patience  he  stands  waiting, 
with  exactness  grinds  be  all. 

LONGFELLOW. — Fr.  the  German. 

The  gods  are  just,  and  of  our  pleasant  vices 
Make  instruments  to  plague  us.* 

SHAKESPEARE. — A'l/ig  Lear,  Act  5,  3. 

And  though  the  villain  'scape  awhile,  he 

feels 
Slow  vengeance,  like  a  bloodhound,  at  his 

heels.  SWIFT. — Horace,  Bk.  3,  2. 

And  though  circuitous  and  obscure 
The  feet  of  Nemesis  how  sure ! 

SIR  W.  WATSON.— Europe  at  the 
Play,  33. 

The  gathering  blacknes*  of  the  frown  of 
God. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Turk  in  Armenia- 

For  they  have  sown  the  wind,  and  thev 
shall  reap  the  whirlwind.  Hosea  viii,  7. 

The  good  you  will  do  by  your  death  will 
somewhat  balance  the  evils  of  your  life. 

ANON. — Pref.  to  "  Killing  no  Murder," 
addressed  to  Cromwell. 
RETROSPECT 

Ah  !   happy  years  !   once  more  who  would 
not  be  a  boy  ? 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  23. 

What  peaceful  hours  I  once  enjoyed ! 

How  sweet  their  memory  still ! 
But  they  have  left  an  aching  void. 
The  world  can  never  filL 

COWPER. — Hymn. 
The  present  scene,  the  future  lot, 
His  toils,  his  wants,  were  all  forgot. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Intro. 

When    to    the    sessions    of    sweet    silent 

thought 

I  summon  up  remembrance  of  things  past, 
I  sigh  the  lack  of  many  a  thing  I  sought. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  30. 

As  one 

Who  sits  and  gazes  on  a  faded  fire, 
When  all  the  goodlier  guests  are  passed 
away. 
TENNYSON. — Last  Tournament,  158. 

O,  that  our  lives,  which  flee  so  fast, 
In  purity  were  such, 
That  not  an  image  of  the  past 
Should  fear  that  pencil's  touch. 

WORDSWORTH. — Memory . 
RETURN 

Will  you  no  come  back  again  ? 
Will  you  no  come  back  again  ? 
Better  lo'ed  you'll  never  be, 
And  will  you  no  come  back  again  ? 

ANON. — Jacobite  Song. 

•"Scourge"  instead  of  "  plague"  in  the  quarto 
editions. 


RE-UNION 


REVENGE 


And  now  will  I  to  home  and  household 

hearth 
Move  on,  and  first  give  thanks  unto  the 

Gods, 

Who  led  me  forth  and  brought  me  back 

again.          /ESCHYI.US.—  Agamemnon, 

851  (Plumptre  tr.). 

The  men  will  cheer,  the  boys  will  shout, 
The  ladies  they  will  all  turn  out, 
And  we'll  all  feel  gay  when  Johnny  comes 
marching  home.  ANON. — Song. 

RE-UNION 

O  thou  soul  of  my  soul !     I  shall  clasp 

thee  again, 
And  with  God  be  the  rest. 

BROWNING. — Prospice. 

And  doth  not  a  meeting  like  this  make 

amends 
For  all  the  long  years  I've  been  wandering 

away  ?  MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

And  with  the  morn  those  angel  faces  smile, 
Which  I  have  loved  long  since  and  lost 
awhile. 

CARD.  NEWMAN. — Pillar  of  Cloud. 

When  shall  we  three  meet  again, 
In  thunder,  lightning,  or  in  rain  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  i. 

REVELRY 

There  was  a  sound  of  revelry  by  night. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  21. 

So  no  more  we'll  go  a  roving 
So  late  into  the  night. 

BYRON. — Song. 

He  loved  bet  [better]  the  taverne  than  the 
shop.         CHAUCER. — Cook's  Tale.  12. 

Midnight  Shout  and  Revelry, 
Tipsy  Dance,  and  Jollity. 

MILTON. — Comus,  103. 

And  when  night 
Darkens  the  streets,  then  wander  forth 

the  sons 

Of  Belial,  flown  with  insolence  and  wine. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  500. 

Fly  not  yet ;    'tis  just  the  hour 
When  pleasure,  like  the  midnight  flower, 
That  scorns  the  eye  of  vulgar  light, 
Begins  to  bloom  for  sons  of  night, 
And  maids  who  love  the  moon. 

MOORE. — Fly  not  yet. 

What  were  revel  without  wine  ? 

What  were  wine  without  a  song  ? 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Ulysses,  Act  3,  2. 

REVENGE 

The  best  way  of  revenge  is  to  avoid 
the  injury. 
.MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  6,  6. 


Revenge  is  a  kind  of  wild  justice. 

BACON. — Revenge. 

A  man  that  studieth  revenge  keeps  his 
own  wounds  green.  BACON. — Ib. 

No  animal  revenge, 

No  brute-like  punishment  of  bad  by  worse. 
BROWNING. — Luria. 

Sweet  is  revenge — especially  to  women. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  124. 

And  their  revenge  is  as  the  tiger's  spring, 
Deadly  and  quick  and  crushing. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  2,  199. 

Feeble  spirits  only  vaunt 
Of  revenge,  the  poorest  pride. 

CAMPION. — Wise  Men. 

At  last  a  time  for  just  revenge  is  given  ; 
Revenge,  the  darling  attribute  of  heaven  ! 
DRYDEN. — Spanish  Friar,  Act  4,  2. 

Revenge  proves  its  own  executioner. 

FORD. — Broken  Heart,  Act  4,  i. 

Revenge  is  profitable,  gratitude  is  ex- 
pensive. GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall, 

ch.  u. 

Revenge,  that  thirsty  dropsy  of  our  souls, 
Which  makes  us  covet  that  which  hurts 
us  most. 
MASSINGER. — Very  Woman,  Act  4,  2. 

Now  Vengeance  has  a  brood  of  eggs, 
But  Patience  must  be  hen. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Archduchess  Anne, 

St.   12. 

Which,  if  not  victory,  is  yet  revenge. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  105. 

Revenge,  at  first,  though  sweet — 
Bitter  ere  long,  back  on  itself  recoils. 
MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  g,  179. 

It  is  not  right  to  return  an  injury  or  to 
do  evil  to  any  man,  however  one  may 
have  suffered  from  him. 

PLATO. — Crito,  10  (Gary  tr.). 

Where  there  is  much  pride  or  self-con- 
ceit there  will  be  a  great  desire  for  revenge. 
SCHOPENHAUER. — Psychological 
Observations. 

Vengeance,  deep-brooding  o'er  the  slain, 
Had  locked  the  source  of  softer  woe  ; 
And  burning  pride,  and  high  disdain 
Forbade  the  rising  tear  to  flow. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  i,  9. 

Revenge  is  a  confession  of  pain. 

SENECA. — De  Ira. 

If  it  will  feed  nothing  else,  it  will  feed 
my  revenge. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  i. 


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REVERENCE 

O  that  the  slave  had  forty  thousand  lives  ! 

One  is  too  poor,  too  weak  for  my  revenge. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

Revenge  is  the  naked  idol  of  the  worship 
of  a  barbarous  age. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

Thank  God  that  I  have  lived  to  see  the 

time 
When  the  great  truth  begins  at  last  to 

find 
An  utterance  from  the  deep  heart  of 

mankind, 

Earnest   and   clear,    that   all   Revenge  is 

Crime.  WHITTIER. — Lines  on  the 

Abolition  of  the  Gallows,  4,   i. 

It  costs  more  to  revenge  injuries  than 

to  bear  them. 

BISHOP  THOS.  WILSON. — Maxims. 

REVERENCE 

Where'er    we    tread    'tis    haunted    holy 
ground. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  88. 

Kneeling  ne'er  spoilt  silk  stocking  ;    quit 

thy  state : 
All  equal  are  within  the  church's  gate. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

We  English  have  many  false  ideas  about 
reverence :  we  should  be  shocked,  for 
instance,  to  see  a  market-woman  come 
into  church  with  a  basket  of  eggs  on  her 
arm.  RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  3, 

Pt.  4,  C.   IO,  22. 

Though  mean  and  mighty,  rotting 
Together,  have  one  dust ;  yet  reverence 
(That  angel  of  the  world)  doth  make 

distinction 
Of  place  'tween  high  and  low. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  4,  2. 

Let  knowledge  grow  from  more  to  more, 
But  more  of  reverence  in  us  dwell ; 
That  mind  and  soul,  according  well, 

May  make  one  music  as  before. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  Intro. 

All  seem  to  feel  the  spirit  of  the  place, 

And   by    the   general   reverence   God   is 
praised. 

Profane    Despoilers !     stand    ye   not   re- 
proved, 

While  thus  these  simple-hearted  men  are 
moved  ? 
WORDSWORTH. — Miscell.  Sonnets,  48. 

REVERSES 

Nay,  list  to  me,  and  be  not  over-grieved. 
Ye  have  not  been  defeated,  but  the  cause 
Came  fairly  to  a  tie.     No  shame  to  thee  ! 
/ESCHYLUS. — Eumenides,  704  (Plumptre 
tr.)  (Minerva  to  the  Furies,  on  the  equal 
division  of  the  Gods  respecting  the  pun- 
ishment of  Orestes). 


REVOLT 

The  fairest  day  must  set  in  night ; 

Summer  in  winter  ends  ; 
So  anguish  still  succeeds  delight, 

And  grief  our  joy  attends. 

G.  LILLO. — Song  from  "  Sylvia." 

Though  fall'n  on  evil  days, 
On    evil    days    though    fall'n.    and    evil 
tongues. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  7,  25. 

Some    natural    tears    they   dropped,    but 

wiped  them  soon  : 
The  world  was  all  before  them,  where  to 

choose 
Their  place  of  rest,  and  Providence  their 

guide.         MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  12,  645. 

In  his  own  palace  forced  to  ask  his  bread. 
Scorned  by  those  slaves  his  former  boun- 
ties fed.  POPE. — Argus. 

The  way  was  long,  the  wind  was  cold, 
The  Minstrel  was  infirm  and  old ; 
His  withered  cheek  and  tresses  grey 
Seemed  to  have  known  a  better  day. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Intro. 

To   what   base   uses   we   may   return, 
Horatio  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  i. 

The  third  day  comes  a  frost,   a  killing 

frost  ; 
And — when   he   thinks,   good  easy  man, 

full  surely 

His  greatness  is  a  ripening, — nips  his  root, 
And  then  he  falls  as  I  do. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  3,  a. 

But  yesterday,  the  word  of  Cs>sar  might 
Have  stood  against  the  world  ;   now,  lies 

he  there, 

And  none  so  poor  to  do  him  reverence. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ceesar,  Act  3,  2. 

Though  his  bark  cannot  be  lost, 
Yet  it  shall  be  tempest-tossed. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

Take  up  this  mangled  matter  at  the  best. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3 

I  see  my  glory,  like  a  shooting  star, 
Fall  to  the  base  earth  from  the  firmament. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  4. 

All  my  merry  jigs  are  quite  forgot. 
Attrib.  to  'SHAKESPEARE. — Passionate 
Pilgrim,  .\o.  16. 

And  from  the  top  of  all  my  trust 
Mishap  hath  thrown  me  in  the  dust. 
Tottel's  Collection  (1557)  (attrib.  to 
John  Harrington). 
REVOLT 

Man  is  the  genuine  offspring  of  revolt. 
COWPER. — Hope. 


435 


REVOLUTION 


REWARDS 


We'll  cry  both  arts  and  learning  down, 
And  hey  !    then  up  go  we  ! 

QUARLES. — Shepherd's  Oracles. 

Ye  gods,  it  doth  amaze  me, 
A  man  of  such  a  feeble  temper  should 
So  get  the  start  of  this  majestic  world, 
And  bear  the  palm  alone. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  2. 

What  rights  are  his  that  dare  not  strike 
for  them  ? 
TENNYSON. — Last  Tournament,  527. 

REVOLUTION 

Every  revolution  contains  in  it  some- 
thing of  evil. 
BURKE. — Appeal  from  New  to  Old  Whigs. 

The  first  step  to  empire  is  revolution, 
by  which  power  is  conferred. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings 
(Feb.  16,  1788). 

Hope     ushers     in     a     Revolution, — as 

earthquakes     are     preceded     by     bright 

weather.       CARLYLE. — French  Revolution, 

Pt.  i,  Bk.  2,  ch.  i. 

They  rose  in  dark  and  evil  days 

To  right  their  native  land  ; 
They  kindled  here  a  living  blaze 
That  nothing  shall  withstand. 
J.  K.  INGRAM. — Memory  of  the  Dead. 

Who  fears  to  speak  of  Ninety-Eight, 
Who  blushes  at  the  name  ? 

When  cowards  mock  the  patriot's  fate, 
Who  hangs  his  head  for  shame  ? 

J.  K.  INGRAM. — Song. 

It  is  not  a  revolt ;   it  is  a  revolution. 
Due  DE  LIANCOURT. — To  Louis  XVI. 
(July,  1789). 

Revolutions  are  not  made  with  rose- 
water,        (ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Parisians. 

One  sharp,  stern  struggle,  and  the  slaves 
of  centuries  are  free. 

G.  MASSE y.— Patriot,  I.  58. 

Licence  they  mean  when  they  cry  Liberty  ; 
For  who  loves  that,  must  first  be  wise  and 
good. 

MILTON. — On  the  Detraction,  etc. 

The  children  born  of  thee  are  sword  and 

fire, 
Red  ruin,  and  the  breaking  up  of  laws. 

TENNYSON. — Guinevere. 

Revolutions  were  always  rapid. 

VOLTAI  RE  .  — Irene. 

Alas  !  of  fearful  things 
'Tis  the  most  fearful  when  the  people's  eye 
Abuse  hath  cleared  from  vain  imaginings, 
And  taught  the  general  voice  to  prophesy 
Of  Justice  armed,  and  Pride  to  be  laid  low. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  18. 


And  the  more  faithful  were  compelled  to 

exclaim, 

As  Brutus  did  to  Virtue,  "  Liberty, 
I  worshipped  thee  and  find  thee  but  a 
Shade." 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  3 
(referring  to  the  French  Revolution). 

REWARDS 

'Tis  an  old  lesson  ;  Time  approves  it  true, 
And  those  who  know  it  best  deplore  it 

most ; 

When  all  is  won  that  all  desire  to  woo, 
The  paltry  prize  is  hardly  worth  the 
cost. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  35. 

The  "  wages  "  of  every  noble  work  do 
yet  lie  in  Heaven  or  else  nowhere. 

CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present,  Bk.  3,  12. 

That  is  the  ende  why  men  should  do 

good  works.     For  hi  the  accomplissinge  of 

great  good  works  lyeth  the  great  guerdoun. 

CHAUCER.— Parson's  Tale,  sec.  61. 

The   consciousness    of   having    done    a 

splendid  action  is  itself  a  sufficient  reward. 

CICERO. — Phil.,  2. 

For  blessings  ever  wait  on  virtuous  deeds, 

And  though  a  late  a  sure  reward  succeeds. 

CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride,  Act  5,  3. 

What  is  vulgar,  and  the  essence  of  all 
vulgarity,  but  the  avarice  of  reward  ? 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life  : 
Worship. 

The  reward  of  a  thing  well  done  is  to 
have  done  it. 

EMERSON. — New  England  Reformers. 

Since  all  must  life  resign, 
Those  sweet  rewards,   which   decorate 

the  brave, 
'Tis  folly  to  decline, 
And  steal  inglorious  to  the  silent  grave. 
JOHNSON. — Lines  added  to  an  Ode. 

The  thirst  for  fame  is  greater  than  that 
for  virtue  ;  for  who  would  embrace  virtue 
if  you  removed  her  rewards  ? 

JUVENAL. — Sat.,  10,  140. 

Ladies,  whose  bright  eyes 
Rain  influence,  and  judge  the  prize 
Of  wit  or  arms. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  121. 

Not  easily  will  you  find  one  man  in  many 
thousands  who  considers  that  virtue  is  its 
own  reward.  OVID. — Ep.  ex  Pont. 

No  pain,  no  palm ;  no  thorns,  no 
throne  ;  no  gall,  no  glory  ;  no  cross,  no 
crown.  WM.  PENN. — No  Cross,  No  Crown. 

Solid  pudding  against  empty  praise. 

POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.  i,  54. 


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RHETORIC 

The  champion  then  before  ^Eneas  came, 

Proud  of  his  prize,  but  prouder  of  his  fame. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Rk.  5  (Dry den  tr.). 

Be  thou  faithful  unto  death,  and  I  will 
give  thee  the  crown  of  life. 

Revelation  ii,  10  (R.V.). 

When  the  Captain  corned  for  to  hear  on  "t, 
He  werry  much  applauded  her  for  what 

she'd  done, 

And  quickly  made  her  first  lieutenant 
Of  the  gallant  Thunder-Bomb. 

Popular  Song.     Billy  Taylor  (c.  1824). 

RHETORIC 

Truth  needs  not  the  foil  of  rhetoric. 

MIDDLETON. — Family  of  Love, 
Act  5,  3- 

Enjoy  your  dear  wit  and  gay  rhetoric. 
That  hath  so  well  been  taught  her  dazzling 
fence.  MILTON. — Comus,  790. 

These  flowers  of  speech  would  be  all 
very  well  in  a  court  of  justice  ;  but  in  such 
a  conference  as  this  why  should  you  vainly 
deck  yourself  with  empty  words  ? 

PLATO. — Laches,  26. 

Flowers  of  rhetoric,  in  sermons  and 
serious  discourses,  are  like  the  blue  and 
red  flowers  in  corn,  pleasing  to  those  who 
come  only  for  amusement,  but  prejudicial 
to  him  who  would  reap  the  profit. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Touch.     Truly,   I  would  the  gods  had 
made  thee  poetical. — Aud.     I  do  not  know 
what  poetical  is  :    is  it  honest  in  deed  and 
word  ?     Is  it  a  true  thing  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3.  3. 

I  have  always  looked  upon  it  as  a  high 
point  of  indiscretion  in  monster-mongers 
and  other  retailers  of  strange  sights,  to 
hang  out  a  fair  larce  picture  over  the  door, 
drawn  after  the  lite,  with  a  most  eloquent 
description  underneath.  This  has  saved 
me  many  a  threepence,  for  my  curiosity 
was  fully  satisfied. 

SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub. 

RHINE 

The  wide  and  winding  Rhine 
Whose  breast  of  waters  broadly  swells 

Between  the  banks  which  bear  the  vine, 
And  hills  all  rich  with  blossom'd  trees, 

And  fields  which  promise  corn  and  wine, 
And  scatter'd  cities  crowning  these, 
Whose  far  white  walls  along  them  shine. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  55. 

The  river  Rhine,  it  Ss  well  known, 
Doth  wash  your  city  of  Cologne  ; 
Rut  tell  me,  Nymphs,  what  power  divine 
Shall  henceforth  wash  the  river  Rhine  ? 

COLERIDGE. — Colorne. 


RIDICULE 

RHYME 

For  rhyme  the  rudder  is  of  verses, 
With  which,  like  ships,  they  steer  their 
courses. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  PI.  i,  c.  i. 

May  he  be  damned  who  first  found  out 

that  course 
To  imprison  and  confine  his  thoughts  in 

verse  ; 

To  hang  so  dull  a  clog  upon  his  wit, 
And  make  his  reason  to  his  rhyme  submit. 
BUTLER. — On  Rhyme  (tr.  from  Botleau). 

He  who  can  write  well  in  rhyme  may 
write  better  in  blank  verse.  Rhyme  is 
certainly  a  constraint  even  to  the  best 
poets  and  those  who  make  it  with  most 
ease.  DRYDEN. — Dedic.  oj  JEneid. 

What  it  {rhyme]  adds  to  sweetness  it 
takes  away  from  sense.  DRYDEN. — Ib. 

The  troublesom  and  modern  bondage 
of  Rimeing. 

MILTON. — Pref.  to  Paradise  Lost  (1669). 

Rime  being  no  necessary  adjunct  or  true 
ornament  of  Poem  or  good  Verse,  in  longer 
works  especially,  but  the  invention  of  a 
barbarous  age,  to  set  off  wretched  matter 
and  lame  Meeter. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost  (Preface). 

He  that  writes  in  rhymes  dances  in 
fetters.  PRIOR. — Pref.  to  Solomon. 

I  had  rather  be  a  kitten  and  cry  mew, 
Than  one  of  these  same  metre  ballad- 
mongers. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

RIDICULE  AND  THE  RIDICULOUS 

Nothing  can  confound 
A  wise  man  more  than  laughter  from  a 
dunce. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  16,  st.  88. 

On  the  day  of  resurrection,  those  who 
have  indulged  in  ridicule  will  be  called  to 
the  door  of  Paradise  and  have  it  shut  in 
their  faces.  EMERSON.— Social  A ims. 

What  provokes  your  risibility,  sir  ? 
Have  I  said  anything  that  you  under- 
stand ?  Then  I  ask  the  pardon  of  the 
rest  of  the  company. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Rd.  Cumberland. 

From  the  sublime  there  is  a  descent 
little  by  little  to  the  ridiculous. 

LONGINVS. — (Greek) . 

From  the  sublime  to  the  ridiculous  there 
is  only  one  step. 

NAPOLEON.— Saving  (attributed). 


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RIGHT 


RIVALRY 


When  we  laugh  at  what  is  ridiculous  in 
our  friends,  by  mixing  delight  with  envy 
we  mingle  pleasure  and  pain.  For  envy 
was  long  ago  recognized  as  a  pain  to  the 
soul,  and  laughter  as  a  pleasure. 

PLATO. — Philebus,  112. 

All  fools  have  still  an  itching  to  deride, 
And  still  would  be  upon  the  laughing  side. 
I-'OPE. — Criticism,  33. 

The  triumph  of  the  mockers  is  of  short 
duration.  Truth  endures,  and  their  sense- 
less laughter  vanishes. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emilc. 

There  are  very  few  who  would  not 
rather  be  hated  than  be  laughed  at. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  II. 

I    think    there    are    not    many    things 
cheaper  than  supposing  and  laughing. 
SWIFT. — Sermon  :   On  Sleeping  in  Church. 

As  my  method  of  reforming 
Is  by  laughing,  not  by  storming. 
Would  you  have  me  change  my  style, 
On  your  faults  no  longer  smile, 
But,  to  patch  up  all  your  quarrels, 
Quote  you  texts  from  Plutarch's  Morals  ? 
SWIFT. — To  a  Lady. 

For  still  the  world  prevailed,  and  its  dread 

laugh, 
Which  scarce  the  firm  philosopher  can 

scorn. 
THOMSON. — Seasons:  Autumn,  233. 

I  have  always  made  one  prayer  to  God, 
a  very  short  one.  Here  it  is  .  "  My  God, 
make  our  enemies  very  ridiculous  !  "  God 
has  granted  it  to  me. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  M.  Damilaville, 
May  1 6,  1767. 
RIGHT 

Be  sure  you  are  right.     Then  go  ahead. 
DAVID  CROCKETT. 
You  may  undo 

Injustice  by  injustice,  but  the  right 
Can  be  established  only  by  the  right. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Self's  the  Man,  Act  3. 

For  aye  Valerius  loathed  the  wrong 
And  aye  upheld  the  right. 

MACAULAY. — Battle  of  Lake 
Regtllus,  .<;<.  18. 

England,  on  thy  knees  to-night, 
Pray  that  God  defend  the  right. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Vigil. 

We  find  justice  itself  to  be  the  best 
reward  for  the  soul ;  and  that  it  ought  to 
do  what  is  just,  whether  or  not  it  have 
Gyges'  ring  [which  rendered  him  invisible 
and  enabled  him  to  kill  the  king  of  Lydia 
and  marry  the  queen]. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  10,  12. 


If  angels  fight, 

Weak  men  must  fall  ;    for  heaven  still 
guards  the  right. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  2. 

RIGHTEOUSNESS 

Have    all    men  hostile    rather  than    the 

Gods.          AESCHYLUS. — Choephora,  901 

(Plumptre  tr.) . 

The  rigid  righteous  is  a  fool, 
The  rigid  wise  another. 

BURNS. — To  the  Unco  Guid. 

What  is  all  righteousness  that  men  devise  ? 

What,  but  a  sordid  bargain  for  the  skies  ? 

COWPER. — Truth,  75. 

"  Oh  let  me  die  his  death,"   all  Nature 

cries. 
"  Then  live  his  life." — All  Nature  falters 

there.       YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 

I  have  been  young,  and  now  am  old  ; 
and  yet  saw   I  never  the  righteous  for- 
saken, nor  his  seed  begging  their  bread. 
Psalter  (Book  of  Common  Prayer),  37,  25. 

RIGHTS 

"  Natural  rights  "  is  simple,  nonsense  ; 
"  natural  and  imprescriptible  rights,"  rhe- 
torical nonsense, — nonsense  upon  stilts. 
J.  BENTHAM. — Anarchical  Fallacies 
(c.  1791). 

There   is   an    Unconquerable   in   man, 
when  he  stands  on  his  Rights  of  Man. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  3, 
Bk.  5,  ch.  7. 
RITUAL 

Folly  revived,  refurbished  sophistries, 
And  pullulating  rites,  externe  and  vain. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Westminster  Abbey. 

For  me,  I  neither  know  nor  care 
Whether  a  parson  ought  to  wear 

A  black  dress  or  a  white  dress  ; 
I  have  a  trouble  of  my  own, 
A  wife  who  preaches  in  a  gown 
And  lectures  in  a  night-dress. 

GEO.  ROSE. 
RIVALRY 

Fool  that  I  was  !    upon  my  eagle's  wings 
I  bore  this  wren,   till  I  was  tired  with 

soaring, 
And  now  he  mounts  above  me. 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  2,  i. 

Bombastes.     So  have  I  heard  on  Afric's 

burning  shore 

A  hungry  lion  give  a  grievous  roar ; 
The  grievous  roar  echoed  along  the  shore. 
King.     So  have  I  heard  on  Afric's  burning 

shore 

Another  lion  give  a  grievous  roar, 
And  the  first  lion  thought  the  last  a  bore  ! 
W.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastes. 


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RIVERS 

Two  stars  keep  not  their  motion  in  one 

sphere. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  5,  4. 

RIVERS 

And  the  thronged  river  toiling  to  the  main. 

HARTLEY  COLERIDGE. — To  a  Friend. 

Sonnet. 

Like  thee,  noble  river,  like  thee, 
Let  our  lives  in  beginning  and  ending, 
Fair  in  their  gathering  be, 
And  great  in  the  time  of  their  spending. 
ISA  (CRAIG)  KNOX. — Thames. 

Rivers  are  roads  which  march,  and  carry 
you  where  you  wish  to  go. 

PASCAL.—  Pensees,  Pt.  i,  10,  38. 

I  chatter,  chatter  as  I  flow 

To  join  the  brimming  river, 
For  men  may  come  and  men  may  go, 
But  I  go  on  for  ever. 

TENNYSON. — The  Brook. 
ROADS 

This  road  is  not  passable. 

Not  even  jackassable. 

Attnb.to  JESSE  DOUGLASS  (£.1840). 

Had  you  seen  these  roads  before  they  were 

made, 
You'd  lift  up  your  eyes  and  bless  General 

Wade. 
"  Inscription  on  a  British  Signpost," 

according  to   Miss   Edgeworth,   Essay 

on  Irish  Bulls,  ch.  5. 

The  rule  of  the  road  Is  a  paradox  quite, 

Both  in  riding  and  driving  along  ; 
If  you  keep  to  the  left,  you  are  sure  to  be 

right, 

If  you  keep  to  the  right  you  are  wrong  ; 
But  in  walking  the  streets  'tis  a  different 

case, 

To  the  right  it  is  right  you  should  bear, 
Whereas  to  the  left  should  be  left  enough 

space 

For  those  whom  you  chance  to  meet 
there.  Old  Rhyme. 

ROBIN 

Art  thou  the  bird  whom  Man  loves  best, 

The  pious  bird  with  the  scarlet  breast, 

Our  little  English  Robin  ? 

The  bird,  who  by  some  name  or  other  • 
All  men  who  know  thee  call  their  brother. 
WORDSWORTH. — The  Redbreast  chasing 
the  Butterfly. 

ROCKS 

The  rocky  summits,  split  and  rent, 
Formed  turret,  dome,  or  battlement, 
Or  seemed  fantastically  set 
With  cupola  or  minaret. 

SCOTT. — Lady  oj  the  Lake,  u. 


___ ROGUES 

ROGUES 

"  Ye're  a  vera  clever  chiel,  man,  but  ye 
wad  be  nane  the  waur  o'  a  hanging." 
LORD    BRAXFIELD. — "  To    an    eloquent 
culprit  at  the  bar  "  (according  to  Sir 
W.  Scott). 

For  one  rogue  still  suspects  another, 
Well  knowing,  by  unerring  rules, 
Knaves  starve  not  in  the  land  of  fools. 
CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost,  Bk.  2,  293. 

A  rogue  is  a  roundabout  fool. 

COLERIDGE.— Table  Talk. 

Such  was  the  power  of  habit  over  these 
iilustrious  persons  that  Mr.  Wild  could 
not  keep  his  hands  out  of  the  Count's 
pockets,  though  he  knew  they  were 
empty  :  nor  could  the  Count  abstain  from 
palming  avcard.  though  he  was  well  aware 
Mr.  WUd  had  no  money  to  pay  him. 

FIELDING. — Jonathan  Wild. 

I'll  never  assume  that  a  rogue  or  a  thief 
Is  a  gentleman  worthy  implicit  belief. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — loianthe. 

We  men  of  intrigues  observe  more  rigor- 
ous faith  to  one  another  than  honest  folk 
do.  [Labranche.]  LE  SAGE. — Crispin. 

Yes,  sir,  we  [Labranche  and  Crispin]  are 
so  mortified  at  not  having  succeeded  in 
our  scheme,  that  we  renounce  all  roguery 
in  future.  LE  SAGE. — Ib. 

Are  there  any  people  in  the  world  except 
robbers  ?  No,  my  friend,  all  men  love  to 
appropriate  the  belongings  of  other  men. 
It  is  a  universal  sentiment;  only  the  method 
of  carrying  it  into  effect  varies. 

LE  SAGE.— Gil  Bias,  Bk.  i,  ch.  5. 

We  attack  no  one,  we  assassinate  no 
one  ;  we  only  seek  to  live  at  the  expense 
of  others.  And  if  stealing  is  an  unjust 
action,  well  the  necessity  for  it  corrects  its 
injustice.  [Don  Raphael.]  LE  SAGE. — Ib., 
Bk.  4,  ch.  ii. 

A  more  praeternotorious  rogue  than  him- 
self.     MASSINGER  (or  FL>  TCHER  :). — Fair 
Maid  oj  the  Inn,  Act  4. 

Honest  men 

Are  the  soft  easy  cushions  on  which  knaves 
Repose  and  fatten. 

OTWAY. — Venice  Preserved,  Act  i,  i. 

When  rich  villains  have  need  of  poor  ones, 

Poor  ones  may  make  what  price  they  wilL 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure. 

Act  3,  3. 

Masters,  it  is  proved  already  that  you 
are  little  better  than  false  knaves  ;   and  it 
will  go  near  to  be  thought  so  presently. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  2. 


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ROMANCE 


ROMISH  CHURCH 


Say  what  you  like,  the  rogue  is  more 
often  than  not  only  a  fool. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire. 

ROMANCE 

And  both  were    young,  and    one    was 
beautiful. 

BYRON. — The  Dream,  st.  2. 

Romances   paint   at   full   length   people's 

wooings, 

But  only  give  a  bust  of  marriages  ; 
For  no  one  cares  for  matrimonial  cooings, 
There's  nothing  wrong  in  a  connubial  kiss. 
Think  you,  if  Laura  had  been  Petrarch's 

wife, 

He  would  have  written  sonnets  all  his  life  ? 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  8. 

For  feeble  is  Love's  world,  his  home,  his 

birthplace  ; 
Delightedly    dwells    he    'mong    fays    and 

talismans 

And  spirits  ;    and  delightedly  believes 
Divinities,  being  himself  divine. 
S.  T.  COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini,  Act  2,  5. 

Whether  the  charmer  sinner  it  or  saint  it ; 
If  folly  grow  romantic,  I  must  paint  it. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  z,  15. 

If  all  the  world  and  love  were  young, 
And  truth  in  every  shepherd's  tongue, 
These  pretty  pleasures  might  me  move 
To  live  with  thee,  and  be  thy  love. 
SIR  W.  RALEGH. — The  Nymph's  Reply, 

Tradition  wears  a  snowy  beard,  romance 
is  always  young. 

WHITTIER. — Mary  Garvin. 

The  worst  of  having  a  romance  is  that 
it  leaves  you  so  unromantic. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Dorian  Gray,  ch.  i. 

Lady  Nancy  she  died  out  of  pure,  pure 

grief, 

Lord    Level    he    died    out    of    sorrow, 
sorrow.  Lord  Lovel  (Old  Ballad) . 

ROME 

Everyone,  soon  or  late,  comes  round  by 

Rome.  BROWNING. — Ring  and 

the  Book,  5,  296. 

The]Niobe  of  nations  !    there  she  stands, 

Childless  and  crownless,  in  her  voiceless 

woe.   BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  79. 

While  stands  the  Coliseum,   Rome  shall 

stand  ; 

When  falls  the  Coliseum,  Rome  shall  fall ; 
And  when  Rome  falls — the  World. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  145. 
Rome  shall  perish — write  that  word — 

In  the  blood  that  she  has  spilt ; 
Perish,  hopeless  and  abhorred, 
Deep  in  ruin  as  in  guilt. 

COWPER. — Boadicea. 


See  the  wild  waste  of  all-devouring  years  • 
How  Rome  her  own  sad  Sepulchre  appears, 
With  nodding  arches,  broken  temples 

spread  ! 
The  very  Tombs  now  vanish'd  like  their 

dead. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  to  Addison. 

The  city  which  thou  seest  no  other  deem 

Than  great  and  glorious  Rome,  Queen  of 
the  Earth 

So  far  renowned,  and  with  the  spoils  en- 
riched 

Of  nations. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  4,  44. 

Go  thou  to  Rome,  at  once  the  Paradise, 
The  grave,  the  city,  and  the  wilderness. 

SHELLEY. — Adonais,  st.  49. 

Rome  is  no  more  :  but  if  the  shade  of  Rome 
May  of  the  body  yield  a  seeming  sight, 
It's  like  a  corse  drawn  forth  out  of  the 

tomb 
By  magic  skill  out  of  eternal  night. 

SPENSER. — Ruins  of  Rome,  5. 

The  eternal  city  [Rome]. 

So  called  by  Tibullus,  ist  century. 

ROMISH  CHURCH 

The  church  of  Rome, 
Mixing  two  governments  that  ill  assort, 
Hath  missed  her  footing,  fallen  into  the 

mire, 

And  there  herself  and  burden  much  denied 
DANTE. — Purgatory,  c.  16,  129  (Gary  tr.). 

A  little  skill  in  antiquity  inclines  a  man 
to  Popery  ;  but  depth  in  that  study  brings 
him  about  again  to  our  religion. 

FULLER. — True  Church  Antiquary. 

If  a  man  consider  the  original  of  this 
great  ecclesiastical  dominion,  he  will  easily 
perceive,  that  the  Papacy  is  no  other  than 
the  Ghost  of  the  deceased  Roman  Empire, 
sitting  crowned  upon  the  grave  thereof  : 
for  so  did  the  Papacy  start  up  on  a  sudden 
out  of  the  ruins  of  that  heathen  power. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  47. 

She  [The  Roman  Catholic  Church]  may 
still  exist  in  undiminished  vigour,  when 
some  traveller  from  New  Zealand  shall, 
in  the  midst  of  a  vast  solitude,  take  his 
stand  on  a  broken  arch  of  London  Bridge 
to  sketch  the  ruins  of  St.  Paul's. 

MACAULAY. — Essay  on  Ranke's  History 
of  the  Popes. 

The  command  to  uncover  the  depths 
of  one's  heart  to  one  individual  only  is 
one  of  the  chief  causes  which  have  led  a 
great  part  of  Europe  to  revolt  against  the 
Church.  PASCAL. — Pensees,  Pt.  i,  5,  8. 

The  [Catholic]  Church  has  three  sorts 
of  enemies  :  the  Jews,  who  have  never 


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ROSES 

been  of  her  body  ;  the  heretics,  who  have 
withdrawn  from  it ;  the  evil  Christians 
who  tear  her  from  within. 

PASCAL. — Pensees,  Pt.  2,  16,  9. 

Most  of  the  players,  who  had  very  little 
faith  before,  were  now  desirous  of  having 
as  much  as  they  could,  and  therefore  em- 
braced the  Roman  Catholic  religion. 
SWIFT. — True  and  Faithful  Narrative  (of 
panic  caused  by  expectation  oj  the  Day 
oj  Judgment). 

ROSES 

She  wore  a  wreath  of  roses, 
The  night  that  first  we  met. 

T.  H.  BAYLY. — Song. 

Earth  hath  no  princelier  flowers 
Than  roses  white  and  roses  red. 

CAMPION. — Now  hath  Flora. 

Let  princes  princely  flowers  defend  ! 

Roses,  the  garden's  pride 
Are  flowers  for  love  and  flowers  for  kings. 
CAMPION. — Ib. 

Look    to   the   blowing    Rose    about   us — 

"  So, 
Laughing,"  she  says,  "  into  the  world  I 

blow, 

At  once  the  silken  tassel  of  my  Purse 
Tear,    and    its   Treasure   on    the   Garden 

throw."    FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  14. 

Roses,  their  sharp  spines  being  gone, 
Not  royal  in  their  smells  alone, 

But  in  their  hue. 

JOHN  FLETCHER  (and  SHAKESPEARE  ?). — 
Two  Noble  Kinsmen,  Act  i,  i. 

Sweet  rose,  whose  hue  angrie  and  brave 
Bids  the  rash  gazer  wipe  his  eye  : 
Thy  root  is  ever  in  its  grave, 

And  thou  must  die. 
HERBERT. — The  Temple,  63  (Vertue). 

Then  in  that  Parly,  all  those  flowers 
Voted  the  Rose  the  Queen  of  flowers. 
HERRICK. — Hesperides,  1 1 . 

You  may  break,  you  may  shatter  the  vase, 

if  you  will, 
But  the  scent  of  the  roses  will  hang  round 

it  still.  MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Ah  see,  who  so  faire  thing  doest  faine  to 

see, 

In  springing  flowre  the  image  of  thy  day  ; 
Ah  see  the  Virgin  Rose,  how  sweetly  shee 
Doth  first  peepe  forth  with  bashfull 

modestee, 

That  fairer  seemes  the  lesse  ye  see  her  may; 
So  see  soone  after,  how  more  bold  and  free 
Her  bared  bosome  she  doth  broad  display ; 
Soe  see  soone  after,  how  she  fades  and  falies 

away. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  2,  12,  74 


ROYALTY 

Go,  lovely  Rose  ! 

Tell  her  that  wastes  her  time  and  me, 
That  now  she  knows 

When  I  resemble  her  to  thee 

How  sweet  and  fair  she  seems  to  be. 

WALLER. — Go,  Lovely  Rose. 
Yet  though  thou  fade, 
From  thy  dead  leaves  let  fragrance  rise  ; 

And  teach  the  maid 
That  Goodness  Time's  rude  hand  defies, 
That  Virtue  lives  when  Beauty  dies. 

H.  K.  WHITE.— Additional  Stanta  to 
the  foregoing. 

Both  roses  flourish,  red  and  white  ; 
In  love  and  sisterly  delight ; 
The  two  that  were  at  strife  are  blended, 
And  all  old  troubles  now  are  ended. 

WORDSWORTH. — Song  at  Feast  of 
Brougham  Castle. 
ROUTINE 

Night  and  day  !   night  and  day  1 
Sound  the  song  the  hours  rehearse  ! 

Work  and  play  !    work  and  play  ! 
The  order  of  the  universe. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — Piper,  play. 

We  all  of  us  live  too  much  in  a  circle. 

DISRAELI. — Sybil,  Bk.  3,  c.  7. 

ROYAL  ACADEMY 

A  Royal  Academy  is  a  kind  of  hospital 
and  infirmary  for  the  obliquities  of  tastr 
and  ingenuity — a  receptacle  where  enthu- 
siasm and  originality  stop  and  stagnate. 
WM.  HAZLITT.— Table  Talk  : 
On  Corporate  Bodies. 
An  institution  like  this  has  often  been 
recommended  upon  considerations  merely 
mercantile ;    but  an  Academy,   founded 
upon  such  principles,  can  never  effect  even 
its  own  narrow  purposes.     If  it  has  an 
origin  no   higher,  no    taste  can    ever  be 
formed  in  manufactures  ;  but  if  the  higher 
Arts  of  Design  flourish,  these  inferior  ends 
will  be  answered  of  course. 

SIR  JOSHUA  REYNOLDS. — Discourse  at 
Opening  of  the  Royal  Academy. 

Paint  and  the  men  of  canvas  fire  my  lays, 
Who  show  their  work  for  profit  and  for 

praise  ; 
Whose   pockets   know   most   comfortable 

fillings, 

Gaining  two  thousand  pounds  a  year,  by 
shillings. 

J.  WOLCOT. — Odes  to  the  Royal 
Academicians,  1792.     Pref.  to  Ode  i. 
ROYALTY 

Princes   are   like    to   heavenly   bodies, 

which   cause   good   or   evil   times ;     and 

which  have  much  veneration  but  no  rest. 

BACON. — Of  Empire. 

Kings    are    naturally    lovers    of    low 
company. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Economical  Reform 


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RUIN  AND  RUINS 


RULERS 


A  crown,  what  is  it  ? 
Is  it  to  bear  the  miseries  of  a  people, 
To  hear  their  murmurs,  feel  their  discon- 
tents, 

And  sink  beneath  a  load  of  splendid  care  ? 
HANNAH  MORE. — Daniel. 

Uneasy  lies  the  head  that  wears  a  crown. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  i. 

For  law  and  gospel  both  determine 
All  virtues  lodge  in  royal  ermine. 

SWIFT. — On  Poetry. 

O  poor  and  short  lived  glory  and  renown  ! 
O  false  unenvied  pleasures  of  a  crown  ! 
So  soon  are  all  thy  shining  honours  fled, 
Traduced  while  living,  and  defamed  when 
dead.  SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

RUIN  AND  RUINS 

Stern  Ruin's  ploughshare  drives,  elate, 
Full  on  thy  bloom. 

BURNS. — To  a  Mountain  Daisy. 

Ruins  yet  beauteous  in  decay. 

BURNS. — Lincluden  Abbey. 

And  chiefless  castles,  breathing  stern  fare- 
wells. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  46. 

The  castled  crag  of  Drachenfels 
Frowns  o'er  the  wide  and  winding  Rhine. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  st.  55. 

A  ruin — yet  what  ruin !    from  its  mass 
Walls,     palaces,     half-cities,    have    been 
reared.         BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  4,  st.  143. 

Ruin  seize  thee,  ruthless  king  ! 
Confusion  on  thy  banners  wait ! 

GRAY. — Bard. 

The  ruin  of  a  neighbour  pleases  both 
his  friends  and  his  enemies. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  600. 

And  princely  counsel  in  his  face  yet  shone, 
Majestic,  though  in  ruin. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  304. 

With  ruin  upon  ruin,  rout  on  rout, 
Confusion  worse  confounded. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  995. 

I  do  love  these  ancient  ruins. 
We  never  tread  upon  them  but  we  set 
Our  foot  upon  some  reverend  history 
WEBSTER. — Duchess  of  Mafy,  Act  5,  3. 

To  chant  thy  birth  thqu  hast 
No  meaner  poet  than"  the  whistling  blast, 
And  Desolation  is  thy  patron  saint. 

WORDSWORTH. — River  Duddon,  2. 

Lovely  in  death  the  beauteous  ruin  lay. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

Stars  rush,  and  final  Ruin  fiercely  drives 
Her  ploughshare  o'er  Creation. 

YOUNG. — Ib.,  9. 


RULERS 

Still  sways  their  souls  with  that  command- 
ing art 

That  dazzles,  leads,  yet  chills  the  vulgar 
heart.  BYRON. — Corsair,  i,  8. 

He  ruled  them — man  may  rule  the  worst. 
By  ever  daring  to  be  first. 

BYRON. — Siege  of  Cufinth,  st.  12. 

Pride  in  their  port,  defiance  in  their  eye, 
I  see  the  lords  of  human  kind  pass  by. 

GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

We  must  not  all  be  kings.    The  rule  is 

most  irregular 
Where  many  rule. 

HOMER. — Iliad,  Bk.  2,  204 
(Chapman  tr.). 

Seems  it  to  thee  a  burden  to  be  feared 
By  men  above  all  others  ?     Trust  me,  no. 
There  is  no  ill  in  royalty.     The  man, 
So  stationed,  waits  not  long  ere  he  obtain 
Riches  and  honour. 

HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  i,  391 
(Cowper  tr.). 

For  one  restraint,  lords  of  the  world 
besides. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  32. 

Better  to  reign  in  hell  than  serve  in 
heaven.  MILTON. — Ib.,  263. 

A  crown 

Golden  in  show,  is  but  a  wreath  of  thorns, 
Brings  dangers,  troubles,  cares,  and  sleep- 
less nights. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  458. 

They  who  grasp  the  world, 
The  Kingdom,  and  the  power,  and  the 

glory, 

Must  pay  with  deepest  misery  of  spirit, 
Atoning  unto  God  for  a  brief  brightness. 
STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Herod,  Act  3. 

It  is  folly  for  you  to  be  sulky  towards 
him  whose  power  is  superior  to  yours. 

PLAUTUS. — Casina,  Act  2,  4,  4. 

Was  never  subject  longed  to  be  a  king, 

As  I  do  long  and  wish  to  be  a  subject. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2, 

Act  4,  9. 

Why,  man,  he  doth  bestride  the  narrow 

world 

Like  a  Colossus  ;    and  we  petty  men 
Walk  under  his  huge  legs,  and  peep  about 
To  find  ourselves  dishonourable  graves. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  2. 

Most  potent,  grave,  and  reverend  signiors, 

My  very  noble  and  approved  good  masters. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

The  ruling  passion  is  the  passion  for 
ruling.          TACITUS. — Annals   Bk.  15,  53, 


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RUMOUR 


RURAL  LIFE 


Ah,  God,  for  a  man  with  heart,  head,  hand, 
Like  some  of  the  simple  great  ones  gone 
For  ever  and  ever  by 
One  still  strong  man  in  a  blatant  land, 
Whatever  they  call  him,  what  care  I  ? 
Aristocrat,  democrat,  autocrat — one 
Who  can  rule,  and  dare  not  lie. 

TENNYSON. — Maud,  Pt.  i,  10,  5. 

We  shall  exult  if  they  who  rule  the  land 
Be  men  who  hold  its  many  blessings  dear, 
Wise,  upright,  valiant ;  not  a  servile  band, 
Who  are  to  judge  of  danger  which  they 

fear, 

And  honour  which  they  do  not  understand. 
WORDSWORTH. — A'ov.,  1806. 

'Tis  not  in  battles  that  from  youth  we 

train 

The  Governor  who  must  be  wise  and  good. 
WORDSWORTH. — Sonnet,  1801. 

Now  there  arose  up  a  new  king  over 
Egypt,  which  knew  not  Joseph. 

Exodus  i,  8. 

Not  afraid  to  speak  evil  of  dignities. 

2  St.  Peter  ii,  10. 

He  shall  rule  them  with  a  rod  of  iron. 

Revelation  ii,  27,  and  xix,  15. 

The  emperor  rules  the  empire,  but  the 
empress  rules  the  emperor.  Prov. 

RUMOUR 

The  crowd  values  few  things  according 
to  truth,  but  many  according  to  report. 
CICERO. — Pro.  Q.  Roscio  Com.,  10,  29. 

Let  the  ear  despise  nothing,  nor  believe 
anything  forthwith.      PH^BDRUS. — Fables. 

I  believe  there  is  nothing  among  man- 
kind swifter  than  rumour. 

PLAUTUS. — Fragm. 

Heraclitus  said  that  a  fool  is  startled 
and  shaken  by  everything  he  hears. 

PLUTARCH. — Of  Hearing. 

In  hearing,  as  in  war,  there  are  many 
false  alarms.  PLUTARCH. — Ib. 

If  my  gossip  report  be  an  honest  woman 
of  her  word. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  i. 

A  thing  devised  by  the  enemy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3. 

Fancies  too  weak  for  boys,  too  green  and 

idle 
For  girls  of  nine  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  3,  2. 

What  some  invent  the  rest  enlarge. 
SWIFT. — Journal  of  a  Modern  Lady. 


The  rolling  fictions  grow  in  strength  and 

size, 

Each  author  adding  to  the  former  lies. 
SWIFT. — Tr.  of  Ovid.   (Examiner 
No.  15.) 

In  calamity  any  rumour  is  listened  to. 
PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

"  They  say  so  "  is  half  a  lie.  Prov. 

Truth  is  in  the  mouths  of  the  people. 
Saying  cited  by  Ibsen  in  "  Lady  Inzer  of 
Ostraat,"    Act    i     (1854).     (Founded    on 
jEschylus.) 
RURAL  LIFE 

In  the  country,  in  a  long  time,  for  want 
of  good  conversation,  one's  understanding 
and  invention  contract  a  moss  on  them, 
like  an  old  paling  in  an  orchard. 

JOHN  AUBREY. — Minutes  of  Lives. 
Nor  rural  sights  alone,  but  rural  sounds 
Exhilarate  the  spirit  and  restore 
Tne  tone  of  languid  nature. 

COWPER. — Task,  The  Sofa,  I.  181. 
No  more  my  song  shall  please  the  rural 

crew  : 

Adieu,  my  tuneful  pipe,  and  all  the  world, 
adieu  !  DRYDEN. — Virgil,  Pastoral,  i. 

In  my  time  the  follies  of  the  town  crept 
slowly  among  us,  but  now  they  travel 
faster  than  a  stage-coach. 

GOLDSMITH. — She  Stoops  to  Conquer, 
Act  i. 

I  began  to  think  if  there  were  no  such 
place  as  London  it  really  would  be  very 
desirable  to  live  in  the  country. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  3. 

The  fondness  for  rural  life  among  the 
higher  classes  of  the  English  has  had  a 
great  and  salutary  effect  upon  the  national 
character.  I  do  not  know  a  finer  race  of 
men  than  the  English  gentlemen. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. — Sketch  Book 
(c.  1820). 

It  is  the  country  which  makes  the  land  ; 
it  is  the  country-people  who  make  the 
nation.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Hast  any  philosophy  in  thee,  shepherd  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It, 

Act  3,  2. 

I  have  no  relish  for  the  country ;  it  is 
a  kind  of  healthy  grave.  I  am  afraid  you 
are  not  exempt  from  the  delusions  of 
flowers,  green  turf,  and  birds  ;  they  all 
afford  slight  gratification,  but  not  worth 
an  hour  of  rational  conversation. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to 
Miss  G.  Harcourt,  1838. 

You  may  laugh,  dear  G.,  but  after  all 
the  country  is  most  dreadful !  The  real 
use  of  it  is  to  find  food  tor  cities. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to 
Mrs.  MeyneU,  Dec.,  1841. 


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RURAL  LIFE 


SACRIFICE 


I  do  all  I  can  to  love  the  country,  and 
endeavour  to  believe  those  poetical  lies 
which  I  read  in  Rogers  and  others  on 
the  subject :  which  said  deviations  from 
truth  were,  by  Rogers,  all  written  in 
St.  James's  Place. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lady  Holland, 
Jan.  3,  1841. 

The  moan  of  doves  in  immemorial  elms, 
And  murmuring  of  innumerable  bees. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  7,  206. 

When  one  thinks  of  country  houses  and 
country  walks,  one  wonders  that  any  man 
is  left  unmarried. 

THACKERAY. — Pendennis. 

Drinks  the   pure  pleasures  of   the    rural 
life        THOMPSON. — Autumn,  I.  1236. 

O  you  poor  folk  in  cities, 
A  thousand  thousand  pities  ! 
Heaping  the  fairy  gold  that  withers  and 

dies  : 

One  field  in  the  June  weather 
Is  worth  all  the  gold  ye  gather, 
One  field  in  June  weather — one  Paradise. 
K.  TYNAN. — June  Song. 

But  easy  quiet,  a  secure  retreat, 

A  harmless  life  that  knows  not  how  to 

cheat, 
With  home-bred  plenty,   the  rich  owner 

bless, 
And  rural  pleasures  crown  his  happiness. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,  Bk.  2  (Dry den  tr.). 

My  next  desire  is,  void  of  care  and  strife, 
To  lead  a  soft,  secure,  inglorious  life — 
A  country  cottage  near  a  crystal  flood, 
A  winding  valley  and  a  lofty  wood. 

VIRGIL. — Ib. 

Unvexed  with  quarrels,  undisturbed  with 

noise, 
The    country    king    his    peaceful    realm 

enjoys.  VIRGIL. — Ib. 

Would  you  know  why  I  like  London  so 
much  ?  Why,  if  the  world  must  consist 
of  so  many  fools  as  it  does,  I  choose  to 
take  them  in  the  gross,  and  not  made  in 
separate  pills,  as  they  are  prepared  in 
the  country.  HORACE  WALPOLE. — Letter. 

Anybody  can  be  good  in  the  country. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Dorian  Gray,  ch.  13. 

The  common  growth  of  Mother  Earth 
Suffices  me — her  tears,  her  mirth, 
Her  humblest  mirth  and  tears. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Prol. 

Country  folk  are  best  when  weeping 
and  worst  when  rejoicing. 

Quoted  as  a  Latin  saying  by  Gabriel 
Harvey,  c.  1600. 

It  were  better  to  hear  the  lark  sing  than 
the  mouse  cheep. 
Scottish  prov.  of  the  Douglases  (Scott's 

"  Fair  Maid  of  Perth  "). 


SACRAMENT 

He  was  the  Word  that  spake  it ; 
He  took  the  bread  and  brake  it ; 
And  what  that  Word  did  make  it, 
I  do  believe  and  take  it. 

J.  DONNE. — The  Sacrament. 
SACRIFICE 

But  whether  on  the  scaffold  high, 

Or  in  the  battle's  van, 
The  fittest  place  where  man  can  die 

Is  where  he  dies  for  man. 

M.  J.  BARRY. — Dublin  Nation. 

Blow  out,  you  bugles,  over  the  rich  Dead  ! 
There's  none  of  these  so  lonelv  and  poor 

of  old. 
But,  dying,  has  made  us  rarer  gifts  than 

gold. 
These  laid  the  world  away  :  poured  out 

the  red 
Sweet  wine  of  youth  ;    gave  up  the  years 

to  be 
Of  work   and  joy,   and   that  unhoped 

serene 
That  men  call  age,  and  those  who  would 

have  been 

Their  sons,  they  gave  their  immortality. 
RUPERT  BROOKE. — The  Dead  (1914). 

If  I  should  die,  think  only  this  of  me  : 
That  there's  some  corner  of  a  foreign 

field, 
That  is  for  ever  England. 

RUPERT  BROOKE. — The  Soldier. 

They  never  fail  who  die 
In  a  great  cause. 

BYRON. — Marino  Faliero,  Act  2,  2. 

There  is  a  victory  in  dying  well 
For  Freedom — and  ye  have  not  died  in 
vain.      CAMPBELL. — Spanish  Patriots. 

Was  anything  real  ever  gained  without 
sacrifice  of  some  kind  ? 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  i. 

O  willing  hearts  turned  quick  to  clay, 
Glad  lovers  holding  death  in  scorn, 
Out  of  the  lives  ye  cast  away 
The  coming  race  is  born. 

L.  HOUSMAN. — Settlers. 

To  every  man  upon  this  earth 
Death  cometh  soon  or  late ; 

And  how  can  man  die  better 
Than  facing  fearful  odds, 

For  the  ashes  of  his  fathers, 
And  the  temples  of  his  Gods  ? 

MACAULAY. — Horatius,  st.  27. 

He  died  the  noblest  death  a  man  may  die, 
Fighting  for  God  and  Right  and  Liberty ; 
And  such  a  death  is  Immortality. 

J.  OXENHAM, 


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SADNESS 


SAILORS 


Ask  me  not  whether  he  were  friend  or  foe 

That  lies  beneath, 
Nor  whether  in  a  worthy  fight  or  no 

He  came  to  death. 

Pass  on,  and  leave  such  reckonings  un- 
moved. 

Remembering  now 
Here  lieth  one  who  gave  for  that  he  loved 

A  greater  gift  than  thou. 

MARGARET  POSTDATE. 

High  sacrifice,  and  labour  without  pause, 
Even  to  the  death  : — else  wherefore  should 

the  eye 
Of  man  converse  with  immortality. 

WORDSWORTH. — Feelings  of  the 
Tyrolese  (No.  14). 
SADNESS 

Beauty  and  sadness  always  go  together. 
Nature   thought   beauty   too   rich   to  go 

forth 
Upon  the  earth  without  a  meet  alloy. 

GEO.  MACDONALD. — Within  and 
Without. 

In  sooth  I  know  not  why  I  am  so  sad. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  i. 

A  merry  heart  goes  all  the  day, 
Your  sad  tires  in  a  mile-a. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Fancy,  who  leads  the  pastimes  of  the  glad, 
Full  oft  is  pleased  a  wayward  dart   to 

throw, 

Sending  sad  shadows  after  things  not  sad, 
Peopling  the  harmless  fields  with  signs  of 

woe. 

WORDSWORTH. — Morning  Exercise. 

'Tis  impious  in  a  good  man  to  be  sad. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 

SAFETY 

Oh  !    are    they    safe  ? — we    ask    not    of 
success.         BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  5. 

Those  who  would  give  up  essential 
liberty  to  purchase  a  little  temporary 
safety  deserve  neither  liberty  nor  safety. 

B.  FRANKLIN. 

The  strongest  tower  has  not  the  highest 

wall. 
Think  well  of  this,  when  you  sit  safe  at 

home.  W.  MORRIS. — Earthly 

Paradise:  Cupid  and  Psyche,  896. 

Out  of  this  nettle,  danger,  we  pluck  this 
flower,  safety. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  3,  2. 
SAILORS 

Those  who  go  to  sea  are  only  four  inches 
from  death.  ANACHARSIS  (Greek). 

And  then  he  hitched  his  trousers  up,  as  is, 
I'm  told,  their  us?- 


It's  very  odd  that  sailor-men  should  wear 
those  things  so  loose. 

R.  H.  BARHAM. — Misadventures  at 

Margate. 

England  his  heart,  his  corpse  the  waters 

have, 

And  that  which  raised  his  fame  became  his 
grave. 

R.  BARNFIELD.— Epitaph  on  Drake 

The  waters  were  his  winding-sheet,   the 

sea  was  made  his  tomb, 
Yet  for  his  fame  the  Ocean  sea  was  not 

sufficient  room. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — On  Hawkins. 

What  furie  or  malicious  hagge 
Hath  now  let  Loose  the  Aeolian  bag  ? 
The  waves  swell  high,  the  surges  reare 
As  though  each  man  a  Jonas  were. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE.— Tempest  at  Sea. 

The  joys  and  sorrows  sailors  find, 
Cooped  in  their  winged  sea-girt  citadel. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  28. 

He  loves  to  talk  with  mariners 
That  come  from  a  far  countree. 
COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  7 

I  never  was  on  the  dull   tame  shore, 
But  I  loved  the  great  sea  more  and  more. 
BARRY  CORNWALL. — The  Sea. 

For  if  bold  tars  are  Fortune's  sport, 
Still  are  they  Fortune's  care. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Blind  Sailor. 

And  the  sign  of  a  true-hearted  sailor 
Is  to  give  and  to  take  a  good  joke. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Jack  at  the  Windlass. 

In  every  mess  I  find  a  friend. 
In  every  port  a  wife. 
C.  DIBDIN. — Jack  in  his  Element. 

And  did  you  not  hear  of  a  jolly  young 

waterman, 
Who  at  Blackfriars  Bridge  used  for  to 

ply? 
He  feathered  his  oars  with  much  skill  and 

dexterity, 

Winning  each  heart  and  delighting  each 
eye. 
C.  DIBDIN. — Jolly  Young  Waterman. 

For  they  say  there's  a  Providence  sits  up 

aloft 

To  keep  watch  for  the  life  of  poor  Jack. 
C.  DIBDIN. — Poor  Jack. 

Faithful,  below,  he  did  his  duty, 
But  now  he's  gone  aloft. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Tom  Bowling. 

The  wonder  is  always  new  that  any  sane 
man  can  be  a  sailor. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits, 
2,  Voyage  to  England. 


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SAINTS 


But  his  little  daughter  whispered 
As  she  took  his  icy  hand, 

"  Isn't  God  upon  the  ocean, 

Just  the  same  as  on  the  land  ?  " 
JAMES  T.  FIELDS.— The  Tempest. 

For  who  are  so  free  as  the  sons  of  the 
waves  ? 

DAVID  GARRICK. — Hearts  of  Oak. 

Sailors  should  never  be  shy. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

I  am  never  known  to  quail 
At  the  fury  of  a  gale, 
And  I'm  never,  never  sick  at  sea. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— Ib. 

Did  you  voyage  all  unspoken,  small  and 

lonely  ? 
Or  with  fame,  the  happy  portion  of  the 

few  ? 
So  you  win  the  Golden  Harbour  in  the 

old  way, 
There's  the  old  sea  welcome  waiting  there 

for  you. 
CAPT.  RONALD  HOPWOOD,  R.N.  (1916). 

'E's  a  kind  of  a  giddy  harumfrodite — 
soldier  an'  sailor  too  ! 

KIPLING. — Soldier  and  Sailor. 

Every  man  thinks  meanly  of  himself  for 
not  having  been  a  soldier,  or  not  having 
been  at  sea.  JOHNSON. — Remark,  1778. 

When  men  come  to  like  a  sea  life  they 
are  not  fit  to  live  on  land. 

JOHNSON. — Remark. 

Down,  down  beneath  the  deep, 
That  oft  in  triumph  bore  him, 
He  sleeps  a  sound  and  peaceful  sleep, 
With  the  salt  waves  dashing  o'er  him. 

H.  F.  LYTE. — Sailor's  Grave. 

Sleep  on,  sleep  on,  thou  mighty  dead  ! 
A  glorious  tomb  they've  found  thee  ; 
The  broad  blue  sky  above  thee  spread, 
The  boundless  ocean  round  thee. 

H.  F.  LYTE.— Jb. 

There  were  gentlemen  and  there  were 
seamen  in  the  navy  of  Charles  the  Second. 
But  the  seamen  were  not  gentlemen  ;  and 
the  gentlemen  were  not  seamen. 

MACAULAY. — Hist,  of  Eng.,  c.  3. 

I  must  go  down  to  the  seas  again,  to  the 

vagrant  gipsy  life, 
To  the  gull's  way  and  the  whale's  way, 

where  the  wind's  like  a  whetted  knife ; 
And  all   I   ask  is  a  merry  yarn  from  a 

laughing  fellow  rover, 
And  quiet  sleep  and  a  sweet  dream  when 

the  long  trick's  over. 

JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Sea  Fever. 


0  Mother,  think  on  us  who  think  on 
thee  ! 

Earth-home,   birth-home,   with   love   re- 
member yet 
The  sons  in  exile  on  the  eternal  sea. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Outward  Bound. 
Ye  gentlemen  of  England, 

Who  live  at  home  at  ease, 
Ah,  little  do  you  think  upon 

The  dangers  of  the  seas  ! 
MARTIN  PARKER. — Gentlemen  of  England. 
A  strong  nor'-wester's  blowing,  Bill. 
Hark  !   don't  ye  hear  it  roar  now  ? 
Lord  help  'em,  how  I  pities  them 

Unhappy  folk  on  shore  now  ! 
WM.  PITT  (d.  1840). — Sailor's  Confession. 
Ships  are  but  boards,  sailors  but  men  ; 
there  be  land  rats  and  water  rats. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  3. 

1  make  good  the  old  saying,  we  sailors 
get  money  like  horses,  and  spend  it  like 
asses.    SMOLLETT. — Peregrine  Pickle,  ch.  2. 
A  purer  passion,  a  lordlier  leisure, 

A  peace  more  happy  than  lives  on  land, 
Fulfils  with  pulse  of  diviner  pleasure 
The   dreaming  head   and   the  steering 
hand. 

SWINBURNE. — Summer's  Dream. 
The  anger  of  the  sea  is  on  your  lips, 
The  laughter  of  the  sea  is  in  your  eye. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Sonnet.  To  Lord  Fisher 
(Jan.  12,  1920). 
For  his  heart  is  like  the  sea, 
Ever  open,  brave,  and  free. 
F.  E.  WEATHERLEY. — They  all  love  Jack. 

Why,  Jack's  the  king  of  all, 
For  they  all  love  Jack. 

F.  E.  WEATHERLEY. — Ib. 
Rocked  in  the  cradle  of  the  deep, 
I  calmly  rest  and  soundly  sleep. 
EMMA  HART  WILLARD. — Rocked  in  the 
Cradle  of  the  Deep. 

He  goes  a  great  voyage  that  goes  to  the 
bottom  of  the  sea.  Prov. 

ST.  SWITHIN 

O,  here,  St.  Swithin's,  the  fifteenth  day 
[of  July],  "  variable  weather,  for  the  most 
part  rain."  Good  ! — "  for  the  most  part 
rain."  Why  it  should  rain  forty  days 
after,  now,  more  or  less ;  it  was  a  rule 
held  afore  I  was  able  to  hold  a  plough. 

BEN  JONSON. — Every  man  out  of  his 
Humour,  Act  i,  3. 

St.  Swithin's  Day,  if  thou  dost  rain, 
For  forty  days  it  will  remain  ; 
St.  Swithin's  day,  if  thou  be  fair, 
For  forty  days  'twill  rain  nae  mair. 

Old  Adage. 
SAINTS 

Many  are  worshipped  at  the  altar  who 
are  burning  in  the  fire.  ST.  AUGUSTINE. 


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SARCASM 


SATIRE 


The  scripture  has  lighted  up  excellent 
examples  of  holiness  in  the  lives  of  the 
saints  upon  earth,  for  our  direction  and 
imitation. 

WM.  BATES,  D.D. — Sermons  (published 

1700). 

There  are  many  (questionless)  canonised 
on  earth,  that  shall  never  be  Saints  in 
Heaven. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  i, 

sec.  26. 

Saints,  to  do  us  good, 
Must  be  in  heaven. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  6,  176. 

But  this  she  knows,  in  joys  and  woes, 
That  saints  will  aid  if  men  will  call ; 
For  the  blue  sky  bends  over  all. 

COLERIDGE. — Ckristabel  : 
Conclusion  to  Pt.  i. 

A  painter  of  saints  must  be  a  saint 
himself. 

RUSKIN. — Note  (1882)  to  Revised  Ed.  of 
Modern  Painters,  Vol.  2,  sec.  3,  ch.  3 

Be  my  soul  with  such  saints,  whatever 
their  creed  and  communion  ! 

GEO.  TYRRELL. — Of  the  wider 
"  Communion  of  Saints." 
SARCASM 

And  that  sarcastic  levity  of  tongue, 
The  stinging  of  a  heart  the  world  hath 
stung.  BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  5. 

Sarcasm,  I  now  see  to  be,  in  general,  the 
language  of  the  devil. 

CARLYLE. — Sartor,  Bk.  2,  ch.  4. 

A  great  master  of  gibes  and  flouts  and 
jeers.  DISRAELI. — Speech,  1874. 

Do  not  let  us  separate  from  each  other 
with  sarcasms. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Dialogue  on  Religion. 

Surely  there  must  be  some  meaning 
beneath  all  this  terrible  irony. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Major  Barbara 

A  true  sarcasm  is  like  a  sword-stick, — 
it  appears  at  first  sight  to  be  much  more 
innocent  than  it  really  is,  till  all  of  .a 
sudden  there  leaps  something  out  of  it — 
sharp,  and  deadly,  and  incisive — which 
makes  you  tremble  and  recoil. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  10. 
N.B. — This  is  wrote  sarkastikul. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — A  Visit  to 
Brigham  Young. 
SATIETY 

And  she  became  a  bore  intense 
Unto  her  lovesick  boy. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Trial  by  Jury. 


It's  curious,  that  falling  off  in  things, 
Just  when  one's  taste  is  keenest. 

R.  MONCKTON    MlLNES    (I.ORD 

HOUGHTON)  .— -Gone. 

The  torment  of  all-things-compassed,  the 

plague  of  naught-to-desire. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Dream  of  Man,  105. 

All  sun  makes  the  desert.      Arab.  prov. 

That  which  is  sweet  if  it  be  often 
repeated  is  no  longer  sweet.  Greek  prov. 

SATIRE 

Satire  is  a  greater  enemy  to  friendship 
than  is  anger.  HENRY  ATTWELL. 

He  that  hath  a  satirical  vein,  as  he 
maketh  others  afraid  of  his  wit,  so  he  had 
need  be  afraid  of  others'  memory. 

BACON. — Of  Discourse. 

The    ordinary    and    over-worn    trade    of 

jesting 
At  lords,  and  courtiers,  and  citizens. 

F.  BEAUMONT. — Woman  Hater,  Prol. 
(1607). 

I'll  publish,  right  or  wrong. 
Fools  are  my  theme,  let  satire  be  my  song. 
BYRON. — English  Bards,  5. 

When  satire  flies  abroad  on  falsehood's 

wing, 

Short  is  her  life,  and  impotent  her  sting ; 
But  when  to  truth  allied,  the  wound  she 

gives 

Sinks  deep,  and  to  remotest  ages  lives. 
CHURCHILL. — The  Author,  217. 

Satire  is  always  virtue's  friend. 

CHURCHILL. — The  Ghost,  Bk.  3,  936. 

When  scandal  has  new  minted  an  old  lie, 
Or  taxed  invention  for  a  fresh  supply, 
'Tis  called  a  satire. 

COWPER. — Charity,  513. 

Crack  the  satiric  thong. 

COWPER. — The  Carder. 

Satire  has  always  shone  among  the  rest, 
And  is  the  boldest  way,  if  not  the  best, 
To  tell  men  freely  of  their  foulest  faults 
To  laugh  at  their  vain  deeds  and  vainer 
thoughts.      DRYDEN. — On  Satire,  n. 

It  is  difficult  not  to  write  satire. 

JUVENAL. — Satire,  i. 

Satire  should,  like  a  polished  razor  keen, 
Wound  with  a  touch  that's  scarcely  felt 
or  seen. 

LADY  M.  W.  MONTAGU. — To  Pope. 

And  pointed  satire  runs  him  through  and 
through. 

J.  OLDHAM. — Upon  a  Printer. 

Formed  to  delight  at  once  and  lash  the 
age.  POPE. — On  Gay. 


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SCENERY 


Satire's  my  weapon,  but  I'm  too  discreet 
To  run  amuck,  and  tilt  at  all  I  meet. 

POPE. — Satires  of  Horace,  Bk-  z,  69. 

The  flash  of  that  satiric  rage, 
Which,  bursting  on  the  early  stage, 
Branded  the  vices  of  the  age, 
And  broke  the  keys  of  Rome. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  4,  7. 

Satire  is  a  sort  of  glass  wherein  beholders 
do  generally  discover  every  face  but  their 
own.  SWIFT. — Battle  of  the  Books. 

Men  are  pleased  enough  if  you  expose 
follies  in  general,  always  provided  you 
indicate  no  one  in  particular.  Each  one 
applies  to  his  neighbour  the  satire  which 
belongs  to  himself,  and  so  all  men  laugh 
at  the  expense  of  each  other. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dialogues,  No.  9. 

SAVAGES 

Ere  the  base  laws  of  servitude  began, 
When  wild  in  woods  the  noble  savage  ran. 
DRYDEN. — Conquest  of  Granada,  Act  i,  i. 

Hunting  their  sport,  and  plundering  was 
their  trade. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid.  Bk.  7  (Dryden  tr.). 

SCANDAL 

We  had  among  us,  not  so  much  a  spy, 
As  a  recording  chief-inquisitor. 

BROWNING. — How  it  Strikes  a 
Contemporary. 

The  mair  they  talk  I'm  kenned  the  better  ; 
E'en  let  them  clash  ! 
BURNS  — Welcome  to  his  Illegitimate 
Child. 

Dead  scandals  form  good  subjects  for  dis- 
section.  BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  31. 

And  dye  conjecture  with  a  darker  hue. 
BYRON. — Lara,  2,  6. 

In  scandal,  as  in  robbery,  the  receiver 
is  always  thought  as  bad  as  the  thief. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

Flavia,  most  tender  of  her  own  good  name, 
Is  rather  careless  of  her  sister's  fame. 

COWPER. — Charity,  453. 

Love  and  scandal  are  the  best  sweeten- 
er; of  tea. 

FIELDING. — Love  in  Several  Masques, 
Act  4,  2. 

'Tis  the  talk  and  not  the  intrigue  that's 
the  crime. 

LORD  LANSDOWNE. — She  Gallants. 

Her  tea  she  sweetens,  as  she  sips,  with 
scandal. 

ROGERS. — Written  to  be  spoken  by 
Mrs.  Siddons. 


For   greatest   scandal   waits   on   greatest 
state. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  st.  144. 

No  scandal  about  Queen  Elizabeth,  I 
hope  ?  SHERIDAN. — Critic,  Act  2,  i. 

Scandal's  the  sweetener  of  a  female  feast. 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  6. 

Tattlers  also  and  busybodies,  speaking 
things  which  they  ought  not. 

i  Timothy  v,  13. 
SCENERY 

I  say  the  world  is  lovely 
And  that  loveliness  is  enough. 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Artist  and  Model. 

The  mountains  look  on  Marathon, 
And  Marathon  looks  on  the  sea. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  86. 

To  disparage  scenery  as  quite  flat  is,  of 
course,  like  disparaging  a  swan  as  quite 
white,  or  an  Italian  sky  as  quite  blue. 
G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — R.  Browning,  ch.  6. 

The  great  charm,  however,  of  English 
scenery  is  the  moral  feeling  that  seems  to 
pervade  it.  It  is  associated  with  the  ideas 
of  order,  of  quiet,  of  sober  well-estab- 
lished principles,  of  hoary  usage  and 
reverend  custom.  Everything  seems  to 
be  the  growth  of  ages. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. — Sketch  Book 
(c.  1820). 

Which  of  us  is  not  sometimes  affected 
almost  to  despair  by  the  splendid  vision  of 
earth  and  sky,  when,  wherever  a  man 
casts  his  gaze,  the  lights  and  shadows  of 
hill,  wood,  and  shore  all  appear  charmingly 
intermingled  .  .  .  and  nevertheless  he  feels 
himself  unequal  to  true  admiration  or 
appreciation  ? 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  31 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

As  I  have  grown  older,  the  aspects  of 
nature  conducive  to  human  life  have 
become  hourly  more  dear  to  me  ;  and  I 
had  rather  now  see  a  brown  harvest  field 
than  the  brightest  Aurora  Borealis. 

RUSKIN. — Note  (1882)  to  Revised  Ed.  of 
Modern  Painters  (referring  to  his 
youthful  predilection  for  wild  and 
mountainous  scenery). 

First  of  earthly  singers,  the  sun-loved  rill. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Phoebus  with  Admetus, 

st.  3. 

There  also  is  the  Muse  not  loth  to  range, 
Watching  the  twilight  smoke  of  cot  or 

grange, 
Skyward  ascending  from  a  woody  dell. 

Soft  is  the  music  that  would  charm  for 

ever  ; 
The  flower  of  sweetest  smell  is  shy  and 

lowly. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  No.  9. 


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SCHOOLS 


SCENT 

There  the  sweet  smells  that  do  perfume 

the  air, 

Arising  from  the  infinite  repair 
Of  odoriferous  buds  and  herbs  of  price, 
(As  if  it  were  another  Paradise) 
So  please  the  smelling  sense,  that  you  are 

fain 
Where  last  you  walk'd  to  turn  and  walk 

again. 

WM.  BROWNE. — Britannia's  Pastorals. 

In  Koln,  a  town  of  monks  and  bones, 
And  pavements  fanged  with  murderous 

stones, 

And  rags,  and  hags,  and  hideous  wenches, 
I  counted  two  and  seventy  stenches, 
All  well  denned,  and  several  stinks. 

COLERIDGE. — Cologne. 

Who,  that  has  reason,  and  his  smell, 
Would  not  among  roses  and  jasmine  dwell, 
Rather  than  all  his  spirits  choke 
With  exhalations  of  dirt  and  smoke  ? 

COWLEV. — Of  Gardens. 

Sweet  scents 
Are    the   swift   vehicles   of   still   sweeter 

thoughts, 

And  nurse  and  pillow  the  dull  memory 
That  would  let  drop  without  them  her  best 

stores. 
W.  SAVAGE  LANDOR. — A  Fiesolan  Idyl. 

A  woman  smells  well  when  she  smells  of 
nothing.  PLAUTUS. — Mostellaria. 

A  very  ancient  and  fish-like  smell. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  2,  2. 

SCEPTICISM 

It's  just  the  proper  way  to  baulk 
These  troublesome  fellows — liars,  one  and 

all, 
Are  not  these  sceptics  ?     Well,  to  baffle 

them, 

No  use  in  being  squeamish  :    lie  yourself. 
BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

O  Incredulity !    the  wit  of  fools, 
That  slovenly  will  spit  on  all  things  fair. 
CHAPMAN. — De  Guiana,  82. 

It  is  the  pert  superficial  thinker  who  is 
generally  strongest  in  every  kind  of  un- 
belief. SIR  HUMPHRY  DAVY. — Salmonia. 

If  he  does  really  think  that  there  is  no 
distinction  between  virtue  and  vice,  why, 
sir,  when  he  leaves  our  houses  let  us  count 
our  spoons. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  to  Boswell,  1763. 

We  talk  of  a  credulous  vulgar,  without 
always  recollecting  that  there  is  a  vulgar 
incredulity,  which,  in  historical  matters 
as  well  as  in  those  of  religion,  finds  it 
easier  to  doubt  than  to  examine. 

SCOTT. — Fair  Maid  of  Perth. 


Whilst  the  sceptic  destroys  gross  super- 
stitions, let  him  spare  to  deface,  as  some 
of  the  French  writers  have  defaced,  the 
eternal  truths  charactered  upon  the 
imaginations  of  men. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

SCEPTRE 

A  sceptre,  snatched  with  an  unruly  hand, 
Must   be   as   boisterously   maintained    as 

gained. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  3,  4. 

His  sceptre  shows  the  force  of  temporal 

power, 

The  attribute  to  awe  and  majesty, 
Wherein  doth  sit  the  dread  and  fear  of 

kings. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

SCHOLARSHIP 

Besides,  'tis  known  he  could  speak  Greek 
As  naturally  as  pigs  squeak. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pi.  i,  c.  i. 

The  world's  great  man  have  not  com- 
monly been  great  scholars,  nor  its  great 
scholars  great  men. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Autocrat. 

Mark  what  ills  the  scholar's  life  assail, 

Toil,  envy,  want,  the  patron,  and  the  gaol. 

JOHNSON. — Vanity  of  Human  Wishes. 

The  scholar  and  the  world  !    The  endless 

strife, 

The  discord  in  the  harmonies  of  life  ! 
The  love  of  learning,  the  sequestered  nooks, 
And  all  the  sweet  serenity  of  books  ; 
The  market-place,  the  eager  love  of  gain, 
Whose  aim  is  vanity,  and  whose  end  is  pain. 
LONGFELLOW. — Moriiuri 
Salutamus. 

He  was  a  scholar,  and  a  ripe  and  good  one  ; 
Exceeding    wise,    fair-spoken,    and    per- 
suading. 
SHAKESPEARE  — Henry  VIII.,  Act  4,  2. 

SCHOOLS  AND  SCHOOLBOYS 

The  schoolboy  spot 

We  ne'er  forget,  though  there  we  are  for- 
got.      BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  130. 

Would  you  your  son  should  be  a  sot  or 

dunce, 
Lascivious,   headstrong,   or  all   these   at 

once  ; 
That  in  good  time,  the  stripling's  finished 

taste 

For  loose  expense  and  fashionable  waste 
Should  prove  your  ruin,  and  his  own  at 

last, 
Train  him  in  public  with  a  mob  of  boys. 

COWPER. — Tirocinium,  201. 

The  useful  is  exploded.    The  definition 
of  a  public  school  is  "a  school  which 


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excludes   all   that   could   fit   a   man   for 
standing  behind  a  counter." 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  12, 
Universities  (1833), 
The  microcosm  of  a  public  school. 
DISRAELI. — Vivian  Grey,  Bk.  i,  ch,  2. 

All  the  Latin  at  that  school  might  be 
comprised  in  one  line,  "Arma  virumque 
cano," — an  arm,  a  man,  and  a  cane. 

HOOD. — Health  of  the  Dominie,  1834. 

The  fiend  hath  much  to  do  that  keeps  a 

school, 

Or  is  the  father  of  a  family ; 
Or  governs  but  a  country  academy. 

BEN  JONSON. — Sad  Shepherd. 

Twelve  years  ago  I  was  a  boy, 

A  happy  boy,  at  Drury's. 
W.  M.  PRAED. — School  and  Schoolfellows, 

St.   I. 

At  home  a  boy  learns  only  what  is  taught 
to  him ;  at  school  he  learns  also  from  what 
is  taught  to  others.  QUINTILIAN. 

Public  school  education  in  England  is 
the  best  which  I  have  ever  seen,  and  it  is 
abominable.  TALLEYRAND. — Saying. 

As  cruel  as  a  schoolboy. 
TENNYSON. — Walking  to  the  Mail. 

What  money  is  better  bestowed  than 
that  of  a  schoolboy's  tip  ? 

THACKERAY. — Newcomes,  Bk.  i,  ch.  16. 

Boys  who  learn  nothing  else  at  our 
public  schools  learn  at  least  good  manners, 
— or  what  we  consider  to  be  such. 

THACKERAY. — Ib. 

We  fought  with  amazing  emulation  for 
the  last  place  in  the  class. 

THACKERAY. — A  Gambler's  Death. 

SCIENCE 

To  refuse  the  conduct  of  the  light  of 
nature  (lumiras  naturalis)  is  not  merely 
foolish  but  f  ven  impious. 

ST.  AUGUSTINE. — De  Trinitate,  Bk.  4, 
ch.  6  (quoted  by  Hooker,  Eccles.  Pol., 
3,  9,  i)- 

By  the  glare  of  false  Science  betrayed, 

That  leads  to  bewilder,   and  dazzles  to 

blind.  BEATTIE. — The  Hermit. 

Geology,  ethnology,  what  not  ? — 
(Greek  endings,  each  the  little  passing  bell 
That  signifies  some  faith's  about  to  die.) 
BROWNING. — Bishop  Blougram. 

Oh  !  star-eyed  Science,  hast  thou  wan- 
dered there, 

To  waft  us  home  the  message  of  despair  ? 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  2. 

Science  in  England,  in  America,  is 
jea'-ous  of  theory,  hates  the  name  of 
moral  purpose.  There's  a  revenge  for 


this  inhumanity.     What  manner  of  man 
does  science  make  ? 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life.  Beauty. 

All  science  has  one  aim,  namely,  to  find 
a  theory  of  nature. 

EMERSON. — Nature.   Introd. 

Science  is  a  first-rate  piece  of  furniture 
for  a  man's  upper-chamber,  if  he  has 
common-sense  on  the  ground  floor. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Poet  at  Breakfast 
Table,  ch.  5. 

As    children    gathering    pebbles    on    the 

shore. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  330. 

Science  is  nothing  else  but  perception. 
PLATO. — The&tetus,  46  (Remark  ascribed  to 
ThecEtetus,  and  commended,  but  with 
reservations,  by  Socrates). 
Science  is  true  judgment  in  conjunction 
with  reason. 
PLATO. — Ib.,  141  (approved  by  Socrates). 

Yet  holds  the  eel  of  icience  by  the  tail. 
POPE. — Dunciad,  Bk.   i,  280 

The  learned  is  happy  nature  to  explore  ; 
The  fool  is  happy  that  he  knows  no  more. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  261. 

Nature  and  nature's  laws  lay  hid  in  night  ; 

God  said,  "  Let  Newton  be  !  "  and  all  was 

light.  POPE. — On  Sir  I.  Newton. 

Forced  by  reflective  reason,  I  confess 
That  human  science  is  uncertain  guess. 
PRIOR. — Solomon,  Bk.  i,  739. 

Science   is   the   great    antidote   to    the 
poison  of  enthusiasm  and  superstition. 
ADAM  SMITH. — Wealth  of  Nations,  Bk.  5 

Only  when  genius  is  married  to  science, 
can  the  highest  results  be  attained. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Education. 

Science  is  organized  knowledge. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Ib. 

Science  moves  but  slowly,  slowly,  creep- 
ing on  from  point  to  point. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

All  the  ancients  who  have  reasoned  on 
physical  science  without  having  the  torch 
of  practical  experiment  to  guide  them,  have 
been  only  like  blind  people  explaining  the 
nature  of  colours  to  other  blind  people. 

VOLTAIRE. — Physique,  Pref. 

True  is  it  Nature  hides 
Her  treasures  less  and  less.     Man  now  pre- 
sides 
In  power,  where  once  he  trembled  in  his 

weakness  ; 

Science  advances  with  gigantic  strides  ; 
But  are  we  aught  enriched  in  love  and 

meekness  ? 
WORDSWORTH. — Miscell,  Sonnets,  Pt.  3, 41. 


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SCOFFERS 

Morality  was  held  a  standing  jest, 
And  faith  a  necessary  fraud  at  best. 
CHURCHILL. — Gotham,  Bk.  2. 

Truth  from  his  lips  prevailed  with  double 

sway, 
And  fools,  who  came  to  scoff,  remained  to 

pray.     GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

They  ["  shallow  and  cynical  critics  "] 
are  men  who  not  merely  jest  themselves, 
but  worse  than  that,  declare  that  everyone 
treats  everything  as  a  jest ;  they  cannot 
conceive  the  possibility  of  serious  treat- 
ment of  any  subject. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  17 
(E.  K.  Francis,  tr.). 
Scoffing  cometh  not  of  wisdom. 
SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apology  for  Poetry. 
Objections  stated. 
He  never  mocks, 

For  mockery  is  the  fume  of  little  hearts. 
TENNYSON. — Guinevere. 

SCOLDING 

Trust  me,  dear,  good  humour  can  prevail. 
When  airs,  and  nights,  and  screams,  and 
scolding  fail. 

POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  c.  5,  29. 

For  she  had  a  tongue  with  a  tang. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  2,  I. 

Thus  I  find  it,  by  experiment, 
Scolding  moves  you  less  than  merriment. 
SWIFT. — To  a  Lady. 
SCORN 

Of  all  the  griefs  that  harass  the  distressed 
Sure  the  most  bitter  is  a  scornful  jest. 

JOHNSON. — London. 

Teach  not  thy  lip  such  scorn  ;   for  it  was 

made 

For  kissing,  lady,  not  for  such  contempt. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  2. 

O,  what  a  deal  of  scorn  looks  beautiful 
In  the  contempt  and  anger  of  her  lip  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  i. 

SCOTLAND 

Nowhere  beats  the  heart  so  kindly 
As  beneath  the  tartan  plaid. 

W.  E.  AYTOUN. — Chas.  Edward. 

Scots,  wha  hae  wi'  Wallace  bled, 
Scots,  wham  Bruce  has  often  led. 

BURNS. — Bruce' s  Address. 

From  scenes  like  this  old  Scotia's  grandeur 

springs 
That  makes  her  loved  at  home,  revered 

abroad. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

A  land  of  meanness,  sophistry  and  lust. 
BYRON. — English  Bards. 


The  Scots  are  steadfast — not  their  clime. 
CAMPBELL. — Pilgrim  of  Glencoe. 

Treacherous  Scotland, to  nointerest  true. 
DRYDEN. — Death  of  Cromwell,  St.  17. 

Much  may  be  made  of  a  Scotchman,  if 
he  be  caught  young. 

JOHNSON. — Remark. 

The  noblest  prospect  which  a  Scotch- 
man ever  sees  is  the  high  road  which  leads 
him  to  England.  JOHNSON. — Ib. 

I  have  been  trying  all  my  life  to  like 
Scotchmen,  and  am  obliged  to  desist  from 
the  experiment  in  despair. 

LAMB. — Imperfect  Sympathies. 

In  all  my  travels  I  never  met  with  any 
one  Scotchman  but  what  was  a  man 
of  sense.  I  believe  everybody  of  that 
country,  that  has  any,  leaves  it  as  fast  as 
he  can.  F  LOCKIER. — Scotchmen. 

Mutton  old  and  claret  good  were  Cale- 
donia's forte, 

Before  the  Southron  taxed  her  drink  and 
poisoned  her  with  port. 

LORD  NEAVES. — Beef  and 
Potatoes. 

O  Caledonia  !   stern  and  wild, 
Meet  nurse  for  a  poetic  child  ! 
Land  of  brown  heath  and  shaggy  wood, 
Land  of  the  mountain  and  the  flood, 
Land  of  my  sires  ! 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  6,  st.  2. 

Stands  Scotland  where  it  did  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4,  3. 

I  look  upon  Switzerland  as  an  inferior 
sort  of  Scotland. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Lord  Holland, 

1815. 

Scotland,  that  knuckle-end  of  England, 

that  land  of  Calvin,  oatcakes  and  sulphur. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Sayings. 

Edinburgh  is  a  hot-bed  of  genius. 

SMOLLETT. — Humphrey  Clinker. 

From  the  lone  shieling  of  the  misty  island 
Mountains  divide  us,  and  a  waste  of  seas  ; 
Yet  still  the  blood  is  warm,  the  heart  is 

Highland, 

And  we  in  dreams  behold  the  Hebrides. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes  Ambrosiatue 
(1827).    (Lines  by  Wilson  or  possibly 
by  Lock  hart.) 

Minds  like  ours,  my  dear  James,  must 
always  be  above  national  prejudices,  and 
in  all  companies  it  gives  me  true  pleasure 
to  declare  that,  as  a  people,  the  English  are 
very  little  indeed  inferior  to  the  Scotch 

JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,  9. 


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Scotsmen  tak  a'  they  can  get,  and  a  little 
more  if  they  can. 

Quoted  as  a  saying  by  Lord  Advocate 

Maitland,  House  of  Commons, 

March  6,  1888. 

A  Scotsman  is  one  who  keeps  the  Sabbath 
and  every  other  darned  thing  he  can  lay 
his  hands  on.  American  saying. 

A  Scotsman  is  aye  wise  ahint  the  hand, 
(i.e.  after  the  event). 

Scottish  prov.  (Scott,  Fortunes  of  Nigel). 

The  Scot  will  not  fight  till  he  sees  his  own 
blood. 

North  of  England  prov.  (Scott. — Ib.). 

If  the  Scot  likes  a  small  pot,  he  pays  a 
sure  penny.  Scottish  prov. 

A  Scotsman,  a  cow,  and  a  Newcastle 
grindstone  travel  a'  the  world  ower.  Ib. 

The  Englishman  greets  (weeps), 

The  Irishman  sleeps, 

But  the  Scotsman  gangs  till  he  gets  it. 

Scottish  saying. 

The  Scotsman  is  never  at  home  but  when 
he's  abroad.  Ib. 

The  Scots  wear  short  patience  and  long 
daggers.  Ib- 

The  Scotch  are  a  nation  of  gentlemen. 

Saying  of  George  IV.  (according  to 
Sir  W.Scott). 
A  crook  in  the  Forth 
Is  worth  an  earldom  in  North. 
Scottish  prov.   (referring  to  the  fertility  oj 
land  on  the  banks  of  the  Forth) . 

SCRUPULOUSNESS 

Too  fond  of  the  right  to  pursue  the  ex- 
pedient. GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

Yet  do  I  fear  thy  nature  ; 

It  is  too  full  o'  the  milk  of  human  kindness 

To  catch  the  nearest  way. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  4. 

Thou  wouldst  be  great ; 
Art  not  without  ambition  ;  but  without 
The  illness  should  attend  it.     What  thou 

wouldst  highly 
That  wouldst  thou  holily  ;    wouldst  not 

play  false, 
And  yet  wouldst  wrongly  win. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  i,  5. 

Though  in  the  trade  of  war  I  have  slain 

men, 

Yet  do  I  hold  it  very  stuff  o'  the  conscience 
To  do  no  contrived  murder.  I  lack  iniquity 
Sometime  to  do  me  service. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  2. 

SCULPTURE 

The  conscious  stone  to  beauty  grew. 

EMERSON. — The  Problem. 


Sculptures  are  far  closer  akin  to  Poetry 
than  paintings  are. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  z 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 
And  the  cold  marble  leapt  to  life  a  god. 

H.  H.  MILMAN. — Apollo  Belvedere. 

There  is  no  instance  of  fine  sculpture 
being  produced  by  a  nation  either  torpid, 
weak,  or  in  decadence. 

RUSKIN. — A  r air a  Pentelici,  1870. 

From  many  a  garnished  niche  around 
Stern  saints  and  tortured  martyrs  frowned. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  6,  29. 

SEA 

Now  the  great  winds  shoreward  blow, 
Now  the  salt  tides  seaward  flow  ; 
Now  the  white  wild  horses  play, 
Champ  and  chafe  and  toss  in  the  spray. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Forsaken  Merman. 

The  unplumbed,  salt,  estranging  sea. 

M.  ARNOLD. — To  Marguerite. 

Old  ocean's  grey  and  melancholy  waste. 
W.  C.  BRYANT. — Thanatopsis,  43. 

Once  more  upon  the  waters  !    yet  one* 

more  ! 
And  the  waves  bound  beneath  me  as  a 

steed 
That  knows  his  rider. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  2. 

The  hell  of  waters,  where  they  howl  and 

hiss, 
And  boil  in  endless  torture. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  4,  69. 

He  sinks  into  thy  depths  with  bubbling 

groan, 
Without  a  grave,   unknelled,   uncoffined, 

and  unknown.    BYRON. — Ib..  st.  179. 

Time   writes  no  wrinkle  on   thine   azure 

brow  ; 
Such    as    creation's    dawn    beheld,    thou 

rollest  now.          BYRON. — Ib.,  st.  182. 

Thou  glorious  mirror,  where  the  Almighty's 

form 
Glasses  itself  in  tempests. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  183. 

Dark,  heaving  ;  — boundless,  endless,  and 

sublime — 
The  image  of  eternity.   BYRON. — Ib.,  183. 

O'er  the  glad  waters  of  the  dark  blue  sea, 
Our  thoughts  as  boundless,  and  our  souls 

as  free, 
Far  as  the  breeze  can  bear,   the  billows 

foam. 

Survey  our  empire,  and  behold  our  home  ! 
BYRON. — Corsair,  i,  i. 


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Oh,  who  can  tell,  save  he  whose  heart  hath 

tried, 
And  danced  in  triumph  o'er  the  waters 

wide, 
The  exulting  sense — the  pulse's  maddening 

play, 
That  thrills  the  wanderer  of  that  trackless 

way?  BYRON. — Corsair,  i,  i. 

Twas  twilight,  and  the  sunless  day  went 

down 
Over  the  waste  of  waters. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  z,  49. 

"  Oh  !   darkly,  deeply,  beautifully  blue," 
As  some  one  somewhere  sings  about  the  sea. 
BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  4,  no.  (cf.  Southey,  infra). 

Water,  water,  everywhere, 
Nor  any  drop  to  drink. 
COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  2. 

Alone,  alone,  all,  all  alone, 
Alone  on  a  wide,  wide  sea  ! 

COLERIDGE. — Ib.,  Ft.  4 

The  sea  !   the  sea  !   the  open  sea  ! 
The  blue,  the  fresh,  the  ever  free  ! 

BARRY  CORNWALL. — The  Sea. 

I'm  on  the  sea  !   I'm  on  the  sea  ! 

I  am  where  I  would  ever  be, 

With  the  blue  above,  and  the  blue  below, 

And  silence  wheresoe'er  I  go. 

BARRY  CORNWALL. — Ib. 

That  great  fishpond,  the  sea. 

DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Pt.  i, 
Act  i,  2  (1604). 

Women  and  cowards  on  the  land  may  lie, 
The  sea's  a  tomb   that's  proper  for  the 
brave. 
DRYDEN. — Annus  Mirabilis,  st.  101. 

Sea,  full  of  food,  the  nourisher  of  kinds, 
Purger  of  earth  and  medicine  of  men. 

EMERSON. — Sea-Shore. 

I  once  heard  one  blue-jacket  say  to 
another  the  reason  he  believed  in  the  Bible 
was  that  in  heaven  there  is  "  no  more 
sea."  LORD  FISHER. — Memories. 

Old  Indefatigable, 
Time's  right  hand  man,  the  sea. 

W.  E.  HENLEY.— Jo  J.  A.  C. 

The  bounding  pinnace  played  a  game 
Of  dreary  pitch  and  toss  ; 
A  game  that,  on  the  good  dry  land, 
Is  apt  to  bring  a  loss  ! 

HOOD.— Sea  Spell. 

The  many-twinkling  smile  of  ocean. 
KEBLE. — Christian  Year,  2  Sun.  after  Trin. 

I  must  go  down  to  the  seas  again,  to  the 

lonely  sea  and  the  sky, 
And  all  I  ask  is  a  tall  ship  and  a  star  tc 

steer  her  by : 


SEA 

And  the  wheel's  kick  and  the  wind's  song 
and  the  white  sail's  shaking, 

And  a  grey  mist  on  the  sea's  face,  and  a 
grey  dawn  breaking. 

JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Sea  Fever 

O  bitter  sea,  tumultuous  sea  ! 
Full  many  an  ill  is  wrought  by  thee. 

W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  4,  109 

For  the  Island's  sons  the  word  still  runs, 
"  The  King  and  the  King's  Highway." 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — King's  Highway. 

The  sea  indeed  is  assuredly  common  to 
PLAUTUS.— Rudens,  Act  4. 

And    seas  but    join    the    regions    they 
divide.     POPE. — Windsor  Forest,  400. 

I  love  the  sea  :  she  is  my  fellow-creature 
QUARLES. — Emblems. 

The  sea  hath  no  king  but  God  alone. 

ROSSETTI. — White  Ship. 

What  dreadful  noise  of  water  in  mine  ears  ! 
What  sights  of  ugly  death  within  mine  eyes ! 
Methought  I  saw  a  thousand  fearful 

wrecks  ; 

A  thousand  men  that  fishes  gnawed  upon  ; 
Wedges  of  gold,  great  anchors,  heaps  of 

pearl, 

Inestimable  stones,  unvalued  jewels, 
All  scattered  in  the  bottom  of  the  sea  ; 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  HI.,  Act  I,  4 

Nothing  of  him  that  doth  fade 
But  doth  suffer  a  sea  change 
Into  something  rich  and  strange. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2 

Thetis,  bright  image  of  eternity. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus. 

Day  after  day,  day  after  day  the  same — 
A  weary  waste  of  waters. 

SOUTHEY. — Madoc,  sec.  4. 

Blue,  darkly,  deeply,  beautifully  blue 

SOUTHEY. — Ib.,  sec.  5. 

Beneath  thy  spell,  O  radiant  summer  sea, 
Lulled  by  thy  voice,  rocked  on  thy  shining 

breast, 
Fanned  by  thy  soft  breath,  by  thy  touch 

caressed, 

Let  all  thy  treacheries  forgotten  be. 
SUSAN  MARR  SPALDING. — The  Sea's  Spell. 

I  will  go  back  to  the  great  sweet  mother, 
Mother  and  lover  of  men,  the  sea. 

SWINBURNE. — Triumph  of  Time. 

E'en  utmost  Thule  shall  thy  power  obey  ; 
And  Neptune  shall  resign  the  fasces  of  the 

sea. 

VIRGIL. — Georgics,   Bk.  i  (Dryden  tr.). 

Others  may  use  the  ocean  as  their  road  ; 
Only  the  English  make  it  their  abode. 

WALLER. — Miscellanies 


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SEA-SICKNESS 


SECRECY 


Sea,  that  breakest  for  ever,  that  breakest 
and  never  art  broken. 

SIR  W.  WATSON.— To  the  Sea. 

'Tis  the  broad  and  mighty  sea 
That  has  made  us  strong  and  free, 
And  will  keep  us  what  we  are. 

F.  E.  WEATHERLEY. — The  Sea. 

Calm  and  peaceful  shall  we  sleep, 
Rocked  in  the  cradle  of  the  deep. 
EMMA  WILLARD. — Cradle  of  the  Deep. 

Two  Voices  are  there  :   one  is  of  the  Sea, 
One   of   the   Mountains, — each   a  mighty 

voice  : 

In  both  from  age  to  age  thou  didst  rejoice  ; 
They  were  thy  chosen  music,  Liberty  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Indep.,  Pt.  i,  12. 
SEA-SICKNESS 

The  best  of  remedies  is  a  beef-steak 
Against  sea-sickness. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  2,  13$ 

I  lay  along  the  deck,  wrapped  in  a  cloak 

.  .  .  and  reflected  that  as  I  had  so  little  life 

to  lose,  it  was  of  little  consequence  whether 

I  was  drowned,  or  died,  like  a  resident 

clergyman,  from  indigestion. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Mrs.  Holland, 

Oct.  6,  1835. 

We  all  like  to  see  people  sea-sick  when 
we  are  not  ourselves. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  Abroad,  ch.  3. 

SEASONS 

Summer  is  more  wooing  and  seductive, 
more  versatile  and  human,  appeals  to  the 
affections  and  the  sentiments,  and  fosters 
inquiry  and  the  art  impulse.  Winter  is  of 
a  more  heroic  cast,  and  addresses  the  in- 
tellect. 

JOHN  BURROUGHS. — The  Snow  Walkers. 

O,  Winter  !   Put  away  thy  snowy  pride  ; 
O,  Spring  !    Neglect  the  cowslip  and  the 

bell ; 
O,  Summer  !   Throw  thy  pears  and  plums 

aside ; 
O,  Autumn  !    Bid  the  grape  with  poison 

swell.  CHATTERTON. — February. 

Oh,  Nature  !    All  thy  seasons  please  the 

eye 
Of  him  who  sees  a  Deity  in  all. 

JAS.  GRAHAME. — The  Birds  of  Scotland. 

The  Seasons  four, — 
Green-kirtled  Spring,  flush  Summer,  golden 

store 

In  Autumn's  sickle,  Winter  frosty  hoar, 
Join  dance  with  shadowy  Hours. 

KEATS. — Endymion,  Bk.  4^ 

All  seasons,   and  their  change,  all  please 
alike. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  640. 


The  lusty  spring  smells  well,  but  droop- 
ing autumn  tastes  well. 

WEBSTER. — Duchess  of  Malfi,  Act  2,  2. 

To  every  thing  there  is  a  season,  and  a 
time  to  every  purpose  under  the  heaven  : 
A  time  to  be  born,  and  a  time  to  die. 

Ecclesiastes  iii,  r,  2. 
SEAWEED 

Call  us  not  weeds — we  are  flowers  of  the 
sea.    MRS.  AVELINE. — Tales  and  Fables. 

There  arose 
Tall  stems,   that,   rooted  in   the   depths 

below, 

Swing  idly  with  the  motions  of  the  sea  ; 
And  here  were  shrubberies  in  whose  mazy 

screen 
The  creatures  of  the  deep  made  haunt. 

WM.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — Sella. 

The  world  below  the  brine, 
Forests  at   the    bottom  of   the  sea,   the 

branches  and  the  leaves, 
Sea  lettuce,  vast  lichens,  strange  flowers 

and  seeds.  WALT  WHITMAN. 

SECLUSION 

Secret  and  self-contained  and  solitary  as 
an  oyster.  DICKENS. — Christmas  Carol. 

Worth  concealed  differs  little  from 
buried  indolence. 

HORACE. — Odes,  Bk.  4,  9. 

Far   from   gay   cities,  and    the   ways  of 
men.  POPE.— Odyssey,  14,  410. 

By  being  seldom  seen,  I  could  not  stir, 
But,  like  a  comet,  I  was  wondered  at. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  3,  2. 
SECRECY 

There's  a  secret  in  his  breast, 
Which  will  never  let  him  rest. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Tristram,  Pt.  i. 

These  matters  are  always  a  secret  till  it 

is  found  out  that  everybody  knows  them. 

JANE  AUSTEN. — Emma,  ch.  53. 

None  are  so  fond  of  secrets  as  those  who 
do  not  mean  to  keep  them. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon,  No.  40. 

Some  fools  there  are  who  prate  of  love 

platonic, 

Just  like  the  secret  famed  of  tribe  masonic  ; 
A  secret  of  such  note  that  those  who  win  it 
Find  for  their  pains  that  there  is  nothing 

in  it. 

W.  H.  IRELAND. — Modern  Ship  of  Fools. 
Of  Fools  in  Love. 

But  still  remember  that  a  prince's  secrets 
Are  balm  concealed  ;    but  poison  if  dis- 
covered. 
MASSINGER. — Duke  of  Milan,  Act  i,  3. 


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SECTS 


SELF 


A  free  tongued  woman, 
And  very  excellent  at  telling  secrets. 

MASSINGER. — Old  Law,  Act  4,  2. 

Silence  is  the  soul  of  war  ; 
Deliberate  counsel  must  prepare 
The  mighty  work,  which  valour  must  com- 
plete. PRIOR. — Ode  in  Imit.  of  Horace 
(1692),  /.  34. 

If  you  have  hitherto  concealed  this  sight, 
Let  it  be  tenable  in  your  silence  still ; 
And  whatsoever  else  shall  hap  to-night, 
Give  it  an  understanding,  but  no  tongue. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

Above  all,  be  always  master  of  your  own 
secrets.  Who  tells  another's  secret  ought 
to  be  regarded  as  a  traitor ;  who  tells  his 
own  passes  here  for  a  fool. 

VOLTAIRE. — L'Indiscret. 

Wisdom  sometimes  walks  in  clouted 
shoes.  Prov. 

If  you  cannot  keep  your  own  counsel 
how  can  you  expect  another  person  to 
keep  it  ? 

Latin  prov.,  Martinus  Dumiensis,  De 
Moribus,  see  Chaucer,  "  Melibeus,"  sec.  20. 

SECTS 

There  was  never  law,  or  sect,  or  opinion 
did  so  much  magnify  goodness,  as  the 
Christian  religion  doth. 

BACON. — Essays  ;  Of  Goodness. 

And  though  thou'rt  of  a  different  church, 
I  will  not  leave  thee  in  the  lurch. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pi.  i,  c.  3. 

Religion  spawned  a  various  rout 
Of  petulant  capricious  sects, 
The  maggot  of  corrupted  texts, 
That  first  run  all  religion  down, 
And  after  every  swarm  its  own. 

BUTLER. — Ib.,  Pt.  3,  c.  2. 

All  the  sects  are  different,  because  they 

come  from  men  ;    morality  is  everywhere 

the  same,  because  it  comes  from  God. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dictionnaire  Philosophique 

(Thiisme) . 

Every  sect  seems  to  me  the  rallying- 
place  of  error.  Tell  me,  are  there  any 
sects  in  geometry  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — L'lngtnu. 

In  Christianity  alone  there  are  more  than 
two  hundred  different  sects,  all  crying  : 
"  Mortals,  buy  of  me  ;  I  am  the  only  one 
which  deals  in  the  truth  ;  all  the  others 
are  impostors." 
VOLTAIRE. — Theists'  Profession  of  Faith. 

SECURITY 

And  you  all  know,  security 
Is  mortal's  chiefest  enemy. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  5. 


But  yet  I'll  make  assurance  double  sure, 
And  take  a  bond  of  fate. 

SHAKESPEARE. — 76.,  Act  4,  i. 
SEDITION 

The  ancient  politicians  in  popular  es- 
tates were  wont  to  compare  the  people 
to  the  sea,  and  the  orators  to  the  winds, 
because,  as  the  sea  would  of  itself  be  calm 
and  quiet  if  the  winds  did  not  move  and 
trouble  it,  so  the  people  would  be  peaceable 
and  tractable  if  the  seditious  orators  did 
not  set  them  in  working  and  agitation. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

The  surest  way  to  prevent  seditions,  if 
the  times  do  bear  it,  is  to  take  away  the 
matter  of  them. 

BACON. — Essays,  Seditions. 

The  vile  vulgar,  ever  discontent, 
Their   growing  fears  in  secret  murmurs 

vent ; 
Still   prone   to  change,   though  still   the 

slaves  of  state, 
And  sure  the  monarch  whom  they  have, 

to  hate. 

POPE. — Statius's  Thebais,  Bk.  i. 
SELF 

Deliver  me  from  the  evil  man,  even  from 
myself.  ST.  AUGUSTINE. 

The  arch-flatterer,  with  whom  all  the 
petty  flatterers  have  intelligence,  is  a  man's 
self.  BACON. — Of  Love. 

Because,  however  sad  the  truth  may  seem, 
Sludge  is  of  all-importance  to  himself. 

BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

Lord  of  himself ; — that  heritage  of  woe. 
BYRON. — Lara,  c.  i,  st.  a. 

Ful  ofte  tyme  I  rede  [very  often  I 
counsel],  thet  no  man  truste  in  his  owene 
perfeccioun,  but  [unless]  he  be  stronger 
than  Sampson,  and  holier  than  Daniel, 
and  wyser  than  Solomon. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  83. 

As  for  the  largest-hearted  of  us,  what 
is  the  word  we  write  most  often  in  our 
cheque-books  ? — "  Self." 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — A  Shadow  Passes. 

Whate'er  the  passion,  knowledge,  fame,  or 

pelf, 
Not  one  will  change  his  neighbour  with 

himself. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  3,  261. 

As  I  walked  by  myself,  I  said  to  myself, 
And  myself  said  again  to  me  : 

"  Look  to  thyself,  take  care  of  thyself. 
For  nobody  cares  for  thee." 

Old  Saying. 

Self's  allers  (always)  at  borne. 

Suffolk  prov. 

Self  is  the  man.         German  proa. 


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SELF-CONTROL 


SELF-CONDEMNATION 

Meantime  I  seek  no  sympathies,  nor  need  ; 
The  thorns  which  I  have  reaped  are  of  the 

tree 
I   planted, — they  have   torn  me, — and   I 

bleed  ; 
I   should  have  known  what  fruit  would 

spring  from  such  a  seed. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  10. 

There  is  no  future  pang 
Can  deal  that  justice  on  the  self-condemned 
He  deals  on  his  own  soul. 

BYROX. — Manfred,  Act  3,  i. 

Absolved  from  guilt,  but  never   self-for- 
given. CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

Good  to  the  poor,  to  kindred  dear, 
To  servants  kind,  to  friendship  clear, 
To  nothing  but  herself  severe. 

T.  CAREW. — On  Maria  Wentworth. 

Better  to  stand  ten  thousand  sneers 
than  one  abiding  pang,  such  as  time  could 
not  abolish,  of  bitter  self-reproach. 

DE  QUINCEY. — Confessions. 

Trust  me,  no  tortures  which  the  poets  feign 
Can  match  the  fierce,  the  unutterable  pain, 
He  feels,  who  night  and  day,  devoid  of 

rest, 
Carries  his  own  accuser  in  his  breast. 

W.  GIFFORD. — Juvenal,  13,  267. 

If  there  be 
Among  the  auditors,  one  whose  conscience 

tells  him 

He  is  of  the  same  mould, — We  cannot  help 
it. 
MASSINGER. — Roman  Actor,  Act  i,  3. 

Gentle  to  others,  to  himself  severe. 

ROGERS. — Pleasures  of  Memory. 

Leave  her  to  Heaven, 
And  to  those  thorns  that  in  her  bosom 

lodge, 
To  prick  and  sting  her. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

I  had  most  need  of  blessing,  and  "  Amen  " 
Stuck  in  my  throat. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  2. 

My  conscience  hath    a    thousand  several 

tongues, 

And  every  tongue  brings  in  a  several  tale, 

And  every  tale  condemns  me  for  a  villain. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3. 

Each  one  thinks  his  lot  the  worst :  but 
he  is  mistaken.  If  he  thought  himself  the 
worst  of  the  lot  he  might  be  right. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

And  I  said,  It  is  mine  own  infirmity. 

Church  Psalter  Ixxvii,  10. 


SELF- CONSCIOUSNESS 

Self-contemplation  is  infallibly  the 
symptom  of  disease,  be  it  or  be  it  not  the 
cure.  CARLYLE. — Characteristics. 

Mr.  Phunky,  blushing  into  the  very 
whites  of  his  eyes,  tried  to  look  as  if  he 
didn't  know  that  everybody  was  gazing  at 
him  :  a  thing  which  no  man  ever  succeeded 
in  doing  yet,  or,  in  all  reasonable  prob- 
ability, ever  will. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  34 

I  believe  they  talked  of  me,  for  they 
laughed  consumedly. 
FARQUHAR. — Beaux1  Stratagem,  Act  3,  i. 

At  night,  to  his  own  sharp  fancies  a  prey, 
He  lies  like  a  hedgehog  rolled  up  the  wrong 

way. 
Tormenting  himself  with  his  prickles. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

SELF-CONTROL 

Prudent,  cautious  self-control 
Is  wisdom's  root. 

BURNS. — -A  Bard's  Epitaph. 

Two  principles  in  human  nature  reign  : 
Self-love  to  urge  and  reason  to  restrain. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  53. 

And    mistress    of    herself,   though    china 
fall.          POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  2. 

A  man  that  fortune's  buffets  and  rewards 
Hath  ta'en  with  equal  thanks  ;  and  blessed 

are  those, 
Whose  blood  and  judgment  are  so  well 

commingled, 
That  they  are  not  a  pipe  for  Fortune's 

finger 
To  sound  what  stop  she  please. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 

Give  me  that  man 
That  is  not  passion's  slave,  and  I  will  wear 

him 

In  my  heart's  core,  ay,  in  my  heart  of  heart. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

My  pulse,  as  yours,  doth  temperately  keep 

time, 
And  makes  as  healthful  music. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  4. 

Man,  who  man  would  be, 
Must  rule  the  empire  of  himself  ;  in  it 
Must  be  supreme. 

SHELLEY. — Political  Greatness. 

In  vain  he  seeketh  others  to  suppresse 
That   hath   not   learnd   himselfe   first    to 

subdew. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  6,c.  i,  41. 


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SELF-DECEPTION 


SELF-LOVE 


SELF-DECEPTION 

This  trade  of  mine — I  don't  know,  can't 

be  sure 
But  there  was  something  in  it.  tricks  and 

all! 

Really,  I  want  to  light  up  my  own  mind. 
BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

If  a  man  proves  too  clearly  and  con- 
vincingly to  himself .  .  .  that  a  tiger  is  an 
optical  illusion — well,  he  will  find  out  he 
is  wrong.  The  tiger  will  himself  intervene 
in  the  discussion,  in  a  manner  which  will 
be  in  every  sense  conclusive. 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — (April,  1917). 

Yet  still  we  hug  the  dear  deceit. 

N.  COTTON. — Visions  in  Verse. 

First   wish  to  be   imposed  on,  and  then 
are.    COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  290. 

All  other  swindlers  upon  earth  are  nothing 
to  the  self-swindlers,  and  with  such  pre- 
tences did  I  cheat  myself. 

DICKENS. — Great  Expectations,  ch.  28. 

With   how   much   ease   believe   we  what 
we  wish  ! 

DRYDEN. — All  for  Love,  Act  4,  i. 

The  easiest  person  to  deceive  is  one's 
own  self,  (ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Disowned. 

Our  years,  our  debts,  and  our  enemies 

are  always  more  numerous  than  we  believe. 

CHAS.  NODIER  (1783-1844). 

Till  their  own  dreams  at  length  deceive 

'em, 
And  oft,  repeating,  they  believe  "em. 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  3,  13. 

Made  such  a  sinner  of  his  memory, 
To  credit  his  own  lie. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2. 

SELF-DESTRUCTION 

So  the  struck  eagle,  stretched  upon  the 

plain, 
No  more  through  rolling  clouds  to  soar 

again, 

Viewed  his  own  feather  on  the  fatal  dart, 
And  winged  the  shaft  that  quivered  in  his 

heart ; 

Keen  were  his  pangs,  but  keener  far  to  feel 
He  nursed  the  pinion  which  impelled  the 

steel.       BYRON. — English  Bards,  824. 

So  fond  are  mortal  men 
Fallen  into  wrath  divine, 
As  their  own  ruin  on  themselves  to  invite. 
MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  1684. 

SELF-HELP 

Each  person  is  the  founder 
Of  his  own  fortune,  good  or  bad. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Love's 
Pilgrimage,  Act  i,  i. 


The  dog  that  trots  about  finds  a  bone. 

BORROW. — Bible  in  Spain,  ch.  47 

(Cited  as  a  gipsy  saying) 

Unless  above  himself  he  can 
Erect  himself,  how  poor  a  thing  is  man  ! 
S.  DANIEL. — To  Lady  Cumberland. 

Our  own  felicity  we  make  or  find. 

GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

What   merit   to  be  dropped  on  fortune's 

hill? 
The  honour  is  to  mount  it. 

J.  S.  KNOWLES. — Hunchback,  Act  i,  i. 

Accuse  not  Nature  ;    she  hath  done  her 

part ; 

Do  thou  but  thine,  and  be  not  diffident 
Of  wisdom. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  561. 

Every  man  is  the  author  of    his  own 
fortune.  SALLUST. — De  Republica. 

He  lives  to  build,  not  boast,  a  generous 

race  ; 
No  tenth  transmitter  of  a  foolish  face. 

R.  SAVAGE. — Bastard,  i 

Our  remedies  oft  in  ourselves  do  lie. 
Which  we  ascribe  to  Heaven. 

SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  i,  i. 

You  must  scratch  your  own  head  with 
your  own  nails.  Arabic  prov. 

Give  orders,  and  do  it,  and  you  will  be 
free  from  anxiety.  Portuguese  prov. 

Pray  to  God,  sailor,  but  pull  to  the  shore. 

Prov. 

In  smooth  water,   God  help  me  !    In 
rough  water  I  will  help  myself.  Prov. 

Pray  devoutly,  but  hammer  stoutly. 

Prov. 
SELF-KNOWLEDGE 

Oh  wad  some  power  the  gif  tie  gie  us 
To  see  oursels  as  others  see  us  ! 
It  wad  frae  mony  a  blunder  free  us 
And  foolish  notion. 

BURNS. — To  a  Louse. 

The  first  step  to  self-knowledge  is  self- 
distrust.      J   C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth. 

Self-reverence,  self-knowledge,  self-con- 
trol, 

These  three  alone  lead  life  to  sovereign 
power.  TENNYSON. — CEnone. 


Know  thyself. 


Solon. 


The  eye  that  sees  all  things  else  sees  not 
itself. 


SELF-LOVE  (AMOUR  PROPRE) 

Self-love  is  the  greatest  of  all  flatterers. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD.  —  Maxim  3. 


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SELF-RELIANCE 


SELFISHNESS 


View  yourselves 

In  the  deceiving  mirror  of  self-love. 
MASSINGER. — Parliament  of  Love,  Act  i,  5. 

The  only  passion  natural  to  man  is  self- 
love  or  '*  amour-propre "  taken  in  an 
extended  sense. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Self-love  (amour  propre)  makes  more 
libertines  than  love. 

ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 


Self-love,  my  liege,  is  not  so  vile  a  sin 
As  self- neglecting. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  2,  4. 

0  villainous  !    I  have  looked  upon  the 
world  for  four  times  seven  years  ;    and 
since  I  could  distinguish  betwixt  a  benefit 
and  an  injury,  I  never  found  man  that  knew 
how  to  love  himself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

SELF-RELIANCE 

Resolve  to  be  thy  self  ;  and  know  that  he, 
Who  finds  himself,  loses  his  misery  ! 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Self -Dependence, 

When    is    a    man    strong,  until   he  feels 
alone  ? 
BROWNING. — Colombe's  Birthday,  Act  3. 

The  basis  of  good  manners  is  self-reliance. 
EMERSON. — Behaviour. 

There  is  no  dependence  that  can  be  sure 
but  a  dependence  upon  one's  self. 

GAY. — Letter,  1729. 

I  am  the  master  of  my  fate  : 

I  am  the  captain  of  my  soul. 

W.  E.  HENLEY. — Echoes. 

What  weapons  has  the  lion  but  himself  ? 
KEATS. — King  Stephen,  Scene  3. 

And  all  your   fortune  lies  beneath   your 
hat.  J.  OLDHAM. — To  a  Friend. 

1  am  myself  my  own  commander. 

PLAUTUS. — Mercator. 

Men  at  some  time  are  masters  of   their 

fates. 
SHAKESPEARE  — Julius  Ctesar,  Act  i,  2. 

Then  where  is  truth  if  there  be  no  self- 
trust  ?      SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  23. 

I  believe  he  [Lord  John  Russell]  would 
perform  the  operation  for  the  stone,  build 
St.  Peter's,  or  assume,  with  or  without  ten 
minutes'  notice,  the  command  of  the 
Channel  Fleet.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter. 


An  ounce  o*  a  man's  wit  is  worth  ten  o' 
ither  folk's.  Scottish  prov. 


SELF-RESPECT 

The  reverence  of  a  man's  self  is,  next 
religion,  the  chiefest  bridle  of  all  vices. 
BACON. — New  Atlantis. 

Oft-times  nothing  profits  more 
Than  self  esteem,  grounded  on  just  and 
right. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  571. 

There  is  also  a  certain  delight  in  having 
pleased  one's  self.  OVID. — Medic.  Faciei. 

It  is  rare  that  anyone  reverences  him- 
self enough.  QUTNTILIAN. — 107. 

This  above  all, — To  thine  own  self  be  true. 
And  it  must  follow,  as  the  night  the  day, 
Thou  canst  not  then  be  false  to  any  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

It  is  easy — terribly  easy — to  shake  a 
man's  faith  in  himself.  To  take  advantage 
of  that  to  break  a  man's  spirit  is  devil's 
work.  G.  B.  SHAW. — Candida. 

If  it  be  a  duty  to  respect  other  men's 
claims,  so  also  it  is  a  duty  to  maintain  our 
own.  H.  SPENCER. — Social  Statics,  Pt.  3. 

SELFISHNESS 

It  is  the  nature  of  extreme  self -lovers,  as 
they  will  set  a  house  on  fire  an  it  were 
but  to  roast  their  eggs. 

BACON. — Of  Wisdom  for  a  Man's  Self. 

There's  lang-tochered  Nancy 

Maist  fetches  his  fancy — 

But  the  laddie's  dear  seT  he  lo'es  dearest 

of  .a'. 

BURNS. — There's  a  Youth  in  this  City. 

The  Golden  Calf  of  self-love. 

CARLYLE. — Burns. 

And  therefore    at  the  Kinges  court,  my 

brother, 
Each  man  for  himself,  ther  is  non  other. 

CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  323. 

He  asks  what  most  in  life  is  worth  his  care, 
Looks  in  the  glass,  and  finds  the  answer 

there. 

COTSFORD  DICK. — Ways  of  the  World 
(1896).  New  Narcissus. 

Selfishness  is  the  greatest  curse  of  the 
human  race.  GLADSTONE. — Speech,  1890. 

Selfishness,  Love's  cousin. 

KEATS. — Isabella. 

Self-interest  sets  in  motion  all  sorts  of 

virtues  and  vices.      LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD, 

Maxim  253. 

He'd   been    true    to   one   party — an'  thet 

is  himself. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  Series  3. 


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SENILITY 

You've  got  to  choose  in  this  world  be- 
tween being  selfish  and  being  a  fool. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. 

I  never  knew  any  man  in  my  life  who 
could  not  bear  another's  misfortunes  per- 
fectly like  a  Christian. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

No  man  is  born  unto  himself  alone  ; 
Who  lives  unto  himself,  he  lives  to  none. 
QUARLES. — Esther. 

Despite  those  titles,  power,  and  pelf, 
The  wretch  concentred  all  in  self 
Living,  shall  forfeit  fair  renown, 
And,  doubly-dying,  shall  go  down 
To  the  vile  dust  from  whence  he  sprung, 
Unwept,  unhonoured,  and  unsung. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  6,  i . 

Twin-sister  of  religion,  selfishness. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab,  c.  5. 

'Tis  myself,  quoth  h-j,  I  must  mind  most ; 
So  the  Devil  may  take  the  hindmost. 

SOUTHEY. — March  to  Moscow,  c.  8. 

Himself  unto  himself  he  sold  ; 
Upon  himself  himself  did  feed, 
Quiet,  dispassionate,  and  cold. 

TENNYSON. — A  Character. 

We  all  wish  things  to  go  better  with  our- 
selves than  with  someone  else. 

TERENCE. — Andria,  2,  5,  16. 

There's  plenty  of  boys  that  will  come 
hankering  and  gruvvelling  around  when 
you've  got  an  apple,  and  beg  the  core  off 
you  ;  but  when  they've  got  one,  and  you 
beg  for  the  core,  and  remind  them  how 
you  give  them  a  core  one  time,  they  make 
a  mouth  at  you,  and  say  thank  you  "most 
to  death,  but  there  ain't  a-going  to  be  no 
core. 
MARK  TWAIN. — Tom  Sawyer  Abroad,  c.  i. 

All  the  passions  become  extinguished 
with  age,  except  self-love,  which  never 
dies.  VOLTAIRE. — Stances  ou  Quatrains. 

The  selfish  heart  deserves  the  pain  it  feels. 
YOUNG. — NiglU  Thoughts,  i. 

Self  is  the  man.  German  prov. 

SENILITY 

Lord  Tyrawley  and  I  have  been  dead 
these  two  years,  but  we  don't  choose  to 
have  it  known. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — (Saving — 
according  to  Boswell.) 

Old  Age,  a  second  child,  by  nature  curst 
With  more  and  greater  evils  than  the  first, 
Weak,  sickly,  full  of  pains :  in  every 

breath 

Railing  at  life,  and  yet  afraid  of  death. 
CHURCHILL. — Gotham. 


SENSES 

I  would  rather  be  dead  than  live  dead. 

CURIUS  DKNTATUS. — (According  to 

Seneca.) 

1  have  not  that  alacrity  of  spirit 
Nor  cneer  of  mind,  that  I  was  wont  to  have. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3. 

SENSATIONALISM 

In  darkness  and  in  storm  he  took  delight. 
BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel. 

'Tis  strange  but  true  ;   for  truth  is  always 

strange  ; 
Stranger  than  fiction. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan.  15,  101. 

And  Katerfelto,  with  his  hair  on  end, 
At  his  own  wonders,  wondering  for  his 
bread.        COWPER. — Winter  Evening. 

Something  will  come  of  this.  I  hope  it 
mayn't  be  human  gore. 

DICKENS. — Barnaby  Rudge,  ch.  4. 

"  I  wants  to  make  your  flesh  creep," 
replied  the  boy. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  8. 

Let  not  Medea,  with  unnatural  rage, 
Slaughter  her  mangled  infants  on  the  stage. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

The  imitative  poet  [i.e.  the  dramatist 
and  epic  poet]  establishes  a  bad  republic 
in  the  soul  of  each  individual,  gratifying 
the  foolish  part  of  it. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  10,  ^  (Davis  tr.), 

She  [Agatha  Wylie]  looked  in  again  to 
say  in  a  low  voice  :  "  Prepare  for  some- 
thing thrilling.  I  feel  just  in  the  humour 
to  say  the  most  awful  things." 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  4. 

SENSE 

Take  care  of  the  sense  and  the  sounds 
will  take  care  of  themselves. 

C.  L.  DODGSON. — Alice  in  Wonderland. 

It  is  hard  to  talk  sense,  but  harder  to 
find  listeners  if  you  do. 

Given  as  a  saying  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon. 

A'  complain  o*  want  o'  siller ;  nane  o" 
want  o'  sense.  Scottish  prov. 

SENSES,  THE 

And  taste  and  touch  and  sight  and  sound 
and  smell, 

That  sing  and  dance  round  Reason's  fine- 
wrought  throne, 

Shall  flee  away  and  leave  him  all  forlorn. 
WM.  BLAKE.— Edward  III. 

Sight  has  to  do  with  the  understanding  ; 
hearing  with  reason  ;  smell  with  memory. 
Touch  and  taste  are  realistic  and  depend 
on  contact ;  they  have  no  ideal  side. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — Psychological 
Observations. 


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SERMONS 


SENSITIVENESS 

Xor  peace  nor  ease  the  heart  can  know, 

Which,  like  the  needle  true, 
Turns  at  the  touch  of  joy  or  woe, 

But,  turning,  trembles  too. 
MRS.  GREVILLK. — Prayer  for  Indifference. 

O  Julie  !  what  a  fatal  gift  from  heaven 
is  a  sensitive  soul !  He  who  has  received 
it  must  expect  to  have  nothing  but  suffer- 
ing and  sorrow  on  this  earth. 

ROUSSEAU. — Julie. 

He  that  has  a  muckle  nose  thinks  ilka 
ane  speaks  o't.  Scottish  prov. 

SENSUALITY 

Bred  only  and  completed  to  the  taste 

Of  lustful  appetence,  to  sing,  to  dance, 
To  dress,  and  troll  the  tongue,  and  roll  the 
eye. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  n,  618. 

SENTIMENT  AND  SENTIMENTALISM 

There    are    some    feelings    time   cannot 
benumb. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  19. 

The  barrenest  of  all  mortals  is  the  senti- 
mentalist. CARLYLE. — Characteristics. 

Is  not  Sentimentalism  twin-sister  to 
Cant,  if  not  one  and  the  same  with  it  ? 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution. 

Words  that  weep  and  tears  that  speak. 
COWLEY. — The  Prophet. 

Sentiment  cannot  be  defined  ;  it  would 
always  be  more  clear  than  any  definition. 
But  it  serves  to  define  all  the  phenomena 
of  soul  and  body. 

DE  RIVAROL. — Of  Language,  sec.  2. 

"  There  are  strings,"  said  Mr.  Tappertit, 
"...  in  the  human  heart  that  had  better 
not  be  wibrated." 

DICKENS. — Barnaby  Rudge,  c.  22. 

Blest  if  I  don't  think  he's  got  a  main  in 
his  head,  as  is  always  turned  on. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  c.  16. 

The  understanding's  copper  coin 
Counts  not  with  the  gold  of  love. 
HAFIZ. — As  given  by  Emerson,  Essay 
on  Persian  Poetry. 

The  mind  is  always  the  dupe  of  the  heart. 
LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  102. 

The  heart  has  reasons  of  which  reason 
has  no  knowledge. 

PASCAL. — Pensies,  2,  17,  5. 

What's  Hecuba  to  him  or  he  to  Hecuba, 
That  he  should  wee.p  for  her  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 


I  never  was  a  good  son  or  a  good  brother 
or  a  good  patriot,  in  the  sense  of  thinking 
that  my  mother  and  my  sister  and  my 
native  country  were  better  than  other 
people's,  because  I  happened  to  belong  to 
them. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  6. 

SERENITY 

A  quiet  conscience  makes  one  so  serene  ! 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  st.  83. 

Serene,  yet  warm  ;   humane,  yet  firm  his 

mind  ; 

As  little  touched  as  any  man's  with  bad. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,  65. 

SERIOUSNESS 

An  event  has  happened  on  which  it  is 
difficult  to  speak,  and  impossible  to  keep 
silence. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings, 
May  5,  1789. 

There  is  something  in  the  heart  of  every- 
thing, if  we  can  reach  it,  that  we  shall  not 
be  inclined  to  laugh  at. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  vol.  2, 
Pt.  3,  ch.  3,  8. 
SERMONS 

For  the  preacher's  merit  or  demerit, 

It  were  to  be  wished  that  the  flaws  were 

fewer, 

In  the  earthen  vessel,  holding  treasure, 
But  the  main  thing  is,  does  it  hold  good 

measure  ? 

Heaven  soon  sets  right  all  other  matters. 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve. 

I  shook  the  sermon  out  of  my  mind. 

BUNYAN. — Grace  Abounding. 

Politics  and  the  pulpit  are  terms  that 
have  little  agreement.  No  sound  ought 
to  be  heard  in  the  church  but  the  healing 
voice  of  Christian  charity. 

BURKE. — Reflections  on  the  Revolution . 

And  pulpit,  drum  ecclesiastic, 

Was  beat  with  fist  instead  of  a  stick. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Our  old  Divines  will  hereafter  be  con- 
sidered our  classics.  EDWD.  FITZGERALD. 

One  may  prefer  fresh  eggs,  though  laid 
by  a  fowl  of  the  meanest  understanding, 
but  why  fresh  sermons  ? 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such. 
Looking  Backward. 

We  have  no  official  knowledge  of  hell. 
That  the  poor  souls  who  dwell  there  are 
condemned  to  read  all  day  long,  the  dreary 
sermons  preached  here  on  earth  I  refuse 
to  believe.  It  is  a  calumny.  Even  in 
hell  it  has  not  come  to  that.  HEINE. 


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SERVICE 


J  udge  not  the  preacher  ;    for  he  is  thy 

judge : 
If  thou  mistake  him,  thou  conceiv'st  him 

not. 
God    calleth    preaching    folly.      Do    not 

grudge 

To  pick  out  treasures  from  an  earthen  pot. 
The  worst  speaks  something  good  :    if  all 

want  sense, 
God  takes  a  text  and  preaches  patience. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

The  parson  exceeds  not  an  hour  in  preach- 
ing, because  all  ages  have  thought  that  a 
competency. 

HERBERT. — Priest  to  the  Temple,  c.  7. 

The  excellence  of  this  text  is  that  it  will 
suit  any  sermon  ;   and  of  this  sermon  that 
it  will  suit  any  text, 
STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  6,  ch.  n. 

By  our  pastor  perplexed, 

How  shall  we  determine  ? 
"  Watch  and  pray,"  says  the  text ; 

"  Go  to  sleep,"  says  the  sermon. 
ANON. — Found  in  a  Commonplace  Book, 

c.  1820. 

Funeral  sermon,  lying  sermon. 

German  prov. 

SERVANTS 

So  many  servants,  so  many  enemies. 

CATO. — (Quoted  by  Seneca.) 

Murmure  eek  [murmuring  also]  is  ofte 
amonges  servants  that  grucchen  [grudge] 
when  their  sovereyns  [masters]  bidden 
them  do  lawful  things,  whiche  words  men 
clepen  [call]  the  develes  Paternoster. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  30. 

In  all  the  necessaries  of  life  there  is  not 
a  greater  plague  than  servants. 

C.  CIBBER. — She  Would  and  She  Would 
Not,  Act  i,  i. 

We  ought  not  to  treat  living  creatures 
like  shoes  or  household  belongings,  which 
when  worn  with  use  we  throw  away. 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Cato. 

Great  folk's  servants  are  aye  more  saucy 
than  themselves. 

SIR  W.  SCOTT. — Heart  of  Midlothian. 

Lucky  is  the  man  whose  servants  speak 
well  of  him.  THACKERAY. — Newcomes. 

SERVICE 

All  service  ranks  the  same  with  God — 
With  God,  whose  puppets,  best  and  worst 
Are  we  :    there  is  no  last  nor  first. 

BROWNING. — Pippa  Passes,  Pt.  4. 

There  never  was  a  bad  man  that  had 
ability  for  good  service. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  Hastings, 
Feb.,  1788. 


Serve  and  thou  shall  be  served.  If  you 
love  and  serve  men,  you  cannot,  by  any 
hiding  or  stratagem,  escape  the  remunera- 
tion. EMERSON. — Sovereignty  of  Ethics. 

A  servant  with  this  clause 

Makes  drudgery  divine  ; 
Who  sweeps  a  room,  as  for  thy  laws, 

Makes  that  and  th'action  fine. 

HERBERT. — Elixir. 
In  all  the  faith  my  innocence  could  give 

me, 
In  the  best  language  my  true  tongue  could 

tell  me, 
And  all  the  broken  sighs  my  sick  heart 

lend  me, 
I  sued,  and  served  ;    long  did  I  love  this 

lady, 
Long  was  my  travail,  long  my  trade  to  win 

her, 
With  all  the  duty  of  my  soul  I  served  her. 

MASSINGER. — Very  Woman,  Act  4,  3. 

Servant  of  God,  well  done  !  Well  hast  thou 
fought 

The  better    fight  who  singly  hast  main- 
tained 

Against  revolted  multitudes  the  cause 

Of  truth. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  6,  29. 

God  doth  not  need 
Either   man's   work   or  his  own  gifts ; 

who  best 
Bear  his  mild  yoke,  they  serve  him  best. 

His  state 

Is  kingly  ;  thousands  at  his  bidding  speed 
And  post  o'er  land  and  ocean  without 

rest ; 

They  also  serve  who  only  stand  and  wait. 
MILTON. — Sonnet. 

To  keep  the  house  unharmed 
Their  fathers  built  so  fair, 
Deeming  endurance  armed 
Better  than  brute  despair, 
They  found  the  secret  of  the  word  that  saith 
"  Service  is  sweet,  for  all  true  life  is  death." 
SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Farewell  (1910). 

Scanty  goods  have  I  to  give, 
Scanty  skill  to  woo  ; 

But  I  have  a  will  to  work, 

And  a  heart  for  you. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Maiden  Song. 

Had  I  but  served  my  God  with  half  the 

zeal 

[  served  my  king,  he  would  not  in  mine  age 
Have  left  me  naked  to  mine  enemies. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  Vlll.,  Act  3,  2 

I  have  done  the  state  some  service,  and 
they  know't. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  2. 

All    spirits     are    enslaved     which    serve 
things  evil. 

SHELLEY. — Promctlieus,  Act  2,  4. 


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SEX 


When  God  is  to  be  served,  the  cost  we 

weigh 

In  anxious  balance,  grudging  the  expense. 
ARCHBP.  TRENCH. — Sonnet. 

Small    service    is    true    service    while  it 

lasts.       WORDSWORTH. — In  a  Child's 

Album  (1834). 

The  Daisy,  by  the  shadow  that  it  casts, 
Protects  the  lingering  dew-drop  from  the 
sun.  WORDSWORTH. — Ib. 

God  for  his  service  needeth  not  proud  work 

of  human  skill ; 
They  please  him  best  who  labour  most  in 

peace  to  do  his  will. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poet's  Dream. 

SERVILITY 

By  being    commonplace   and  cringing 
one  gets  everything. 

BEAUMARCHAIS. — Barbier  de  Stville, 
Act  3,  7. 

I  live  by  pulling  off  the  hat. 
MATTHEW  GREEN. — Barclay's  Apology. 

No   slavery  is   more   disgraceful   than 
voluntary  slavery.          SENECA. — Ep.  47. 

A  servile  race,  in  folly  nursed, 

Who  truckle  most  when  treated  worst. 

SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift, 
(Alluding  to  Ireland). 

Where  might  is  the  right  is  ; 

Long  purses  make  strong  swords. 
Let  weakness  learn  meekness  : 

God  save  the  House  of  Lords  ! 
SWINBURNE. — Word  for  the  Country. 

Rough  to  common  men, 
But  honeying  at  the  whisper  of  a  lord. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  Prol.,  114. 

Grin  when  he  laughs  that  beareth  all  the 

sway ; 
Frown  when  he  frowns,  and  groan  when 

he  is  pale. 
SIR  T.  WYATT.— The  Courtier's  Life. 

SERVITUDE 

Servitude  that  hugs  her  chain. 

GRAY. — Ode  for  Music. 

Slavery  chains  a  few  ;  more  chain  them- 
selves to  slavery.          SENECA. — Epist.  22. 

SEVERITY 

He  knows  not  how  to  wink  at  human 

frailty, 
Or  pardon  weakness  that  he  never  felt. 

ADDISON. — Goto,  Act  5,  4. 

Be  not  austere  ! 

Outward  austerity,  as  oft  as  not, 
Is  but  the  friar's  serge,  'neath  which  there 

lurks 
More  taste  for  sack  than  sack-cloth. 

A.  AUSTIN. — Savonarola,  Act  i,  i. 


Severity  breedeth  fear,  but  roughness 
breedeth  hate.  BACON. — Of  Great  Place. 

He's  just,  your  cousin,  ay,  abhorrently  ; 
He'd  wash  his  hands  in  blood,   to  keep 

them  clean. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  9. 

The  rigid  righteous  is  a  fool, 
The  rigid  wise  anither. 

BURNS. — To  the  Unco  Guid. 

Laws  that  are  too  severe  are  tempta- 
tions to  plunder  on  the  part  of  the  criminal, 
and  to  perjury  on  the  part  of  the  prose- 
cutor. C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Thwackum  was  for  doing  justice,  and 
leaving  mercy  to  Heaven. 

FIELDING. — Tom  Jones,  Bk.  3,  c.  10. 

A  man  severe  he  was,  and  stern  to  view, 

I  knew  him  well,  and  every  truant  knew. 

GOLDSMITH. — Deserted,  Village. 

Yet  he  was  kind,  or  if  severe  in  aught, 
The  love  he  bore  to  learning  was  at  fault. 
GOLDSMITH. — Ib. 

An  unforgiving  eye  and  a  damned  dis- 
inheriting countenance. 
SHERIDAN. — School  for  Scandal,  Act  4,  i. 

The  vow  that  binds  too  strictly  snaps  itself. 
TENNYSON. — Last  Tournament. 


SEX 

Their  tricks  and  craft  hae  put  me  daft, 

They've  ta'en  me  in  and  a'  that, 
But  clear  your  decks,  and  — Here's  the 

sex  ! 
I  like  the  jads  for  a'  that. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

As  the  man  beholds  the  woman, 

As  the  woman  sees  the  man, 
Curiously  they  note  each  other, 

As  each  other  only  can. 
Never  can  the  man  divest  her 

Of  that  wondrous  charm  of  sex  ; 
Ever  must  she,  dreaming  of  him 

That  same  mystic  charm  annex. 

BARRY  CORNWALL. — Sexes. 

For  contemplation  he  and  valour  formed  ; 
For   softness   she    and   sweet    attractive 

grace; 
He  for  God  only,  she  for  God  in  him. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  297. 

Each  sex  has  what  the  other  has  not  ; 
each  completes  the  other,  and  is  completed 
by  the  other  They  are  in  nothing  alike, 
and  the  happiness  and  perfection  of  both 
depends  on  each  asking  and  receiving  from 
the  other  what  the  other  only  can  give. 

RUSKIN. — Sesame  and  Lilies. 


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SHAKESPEARE 


Either  sex  alone 

Is  half  itself,  and  in  true  marriage  lies 
Noi  equal  nor  unequal. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  7,  283. 

She  [Catherine  de  Modicis]  possessed  the 
faults  of  her  sex  and  few  of  its  virtues. 

VOLTAIRE. — Henriade.,  c.  2. 
SHADOWS 

Strange  to  relate  ;    but  wonderfully  true, 

That  even  shadows  have  their  shadows. 

too.         CHURCHILL. — Rosciad,  v.  411. 

By  the  Apostle  Paul,  shadows  to-night 
Have  struck  more  terror  to  the  soul  of 

Richard, 
Than  can  the  substance  of  ten  thousand 

soldiers. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3. 

SHAKESPEARE 

Others  abide  our  question.  Thou  art  free. 
We  ask  and  ask :  thou  smilest  and  art  still, 
Out-topping  knowledge. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Shakespeare. 

O  eyes  sublime 

With  tears  and  laughter  for  all  time. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  9. 

A  thousand  poets  pried  at  life, 
And  only  one  amid  the  strife 
Rose  to  be  Shakespeare. 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  16. 

Our  "  myriad-minded  "  Shakespeare. 
COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Lit. 

Subtract  from  many  modern  poets  all 
that  may  be  found  in  Shakespeare,  and 
trash  will  remain. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon.    Reflections, 
568. 

Heaven  that  but  once  was  prodigal  before, 
To  Shakespeare  gave  as  much  ;   she  could 
not  give  him  more. 

DRY  DEN. — To  Congreve. 

But  Shakespeare's  magic  could  not  copied 

be; 

Within  that  circle  none  dare  walk  but  he. 
DRYDEN. — Prologue. 

I  know  the  signs  of  an  immortal  man — 
Nature's  chief  darling  and  illustrious  mate. 
HOOD. — Midsummer  Fairies. 

Soul  of  the  age  ! 
The  applause,  delight,  and  wonder  of  our 

stage  ! 
My  Shakespeare,  rise  !    I   will  not  lodge 

thee  by 

Chaucer  or  Spenser,  or  bid  Beaumont  lie 
A  little  further  off,  to  make  thee  room  ; 
Thou  art  a  monument,  without  a  tomb. 
BEN  JONSON, — To  the  Memory  oj 
Shakespeare. 


He  was  not  for  an  age,  but  for  all  time. 
BEN  JONSON. — lb. 

I  loved  the  man,  and  doe  honour  his 
memory,  on  this  side  idolatry,  as  much  as 
any.  Hee  was  indeed  honest,  and  of  an 
open  and  free  nature  ;  had  an  excellent 
phantsie  ;  brave  notions  and  gentle  ex- 
pressions ;  wherein  he  flowed  with  that 
facility  that  sometimes  it  was  necessary 
he  should  be  stopped. 

BEN  JONSON. — Timber  (c.  1630  ?) 

We  may  quote  him  [Shakespeare]  .  . 
as  a  splendid  example  of  that  consistent 
inconsistency  which  .  .  .  sometimes  charac- 
terises Primary  Poets. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  5 
(E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

We  accord  to  Shakespeare  as  of  pre- 
eminent right,  the  high  commendation  of 
holding  nothing  that  is  human  alien  to 
himself,  seeing  that  he  was  able  to  enter 
into  the  mind,  the  character,  the  very 
features  of  all  classes  of  men  in  all  parts  of 
the  world.  In  this  respect  he  may  be 
compared  to  Nature  herself. 

KEBLE. — Ib.,  28. 

Or  sweetest  Shakespeare,  Fancy's  child, 
Warble  his  native  wood-notes  wild. 

MILTON. — L'Allegro,  I.  133. 

Dear  Son  of  Memory,  great  heir  of  Fame, 
What  need'st  thou  such  weak  witness  of 

thy  name  ? 

Thou  in  our  wonder  and  astonishment 
Hast  built  thyself  a  live -long  monument. 
MILTON. — On  Shakespeare. 

What    needs    my    Shakespeare    for    his 

honoured  bones 
The  labour  of  an  age  in  pildd  stones  ? 

MILTON. — Ib. 

And  one  wild  Shakespeare,  following 
Nature's  lights, 

Is  worth  whole  planets  filled  with  Stagy- 
rites.  MOORK. — The  Sceptic. 

He  seems  to  have  known  the  world  by 
intuition,  to  have  looked  through  nature 
at  one  glance. 

PopE.—Pref.  to  Shakespeare. 

There  is  no  getting  round  the  fact  that 
Shakespeare  was  an  aristocrat  and  what 
we  should  nowadays  call  a  bit  of  a  snob. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Public  Opinion,  Dec.  29, 

1905. 

It  is  our  misfortune  that  the  sordid 
misery  and  hopeless  horror  of  his  [Shake- 
speare's] view  of  man's  destiny  is  still  so 
appropriate  to  English  society  that  we 
even  to-day  regard  him  as  not  for  an  age, 
but  for  all  time. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— Unsocial  Socialist. 
Appendix. 


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SHALLOWNESS 


SHIPS 


She*,  with  ^Eschylean   music  on  her  lips 

that  laughed  back  fear, 
In  the  face  of  Time's  grey  godhead  shook 

the  splendour  of  her  spear. 

SWINBURNE. — Athens,  an  Ode. 

The  trivial  and  immoral  works  of  Shake- 
speare and  his  imitators,  aiming  merely  at 
the  recreation  and  amusement  of  the  spec- 
tators, cannot  possibly  represent  the 
teaching  of  life. 

TOLSTOY. — Shakespeare  and  the  Drama. 

The  sooner  people  free  themselves  from 
the  false  glorification  of  Shakespeare,  the 
better  it  will  be.  TOLSTOY. — Ib. 

Shakespeare  is  the  Corneille  of  London, 
and  a  great  clown  to  boot,  and  more  often 
resembling  Gilles  than  Corneille  But  he 
has  some  admirable  passages. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  M.  de  Cideville. 
Nov.  3,  1735- 

Shakespeare  is  hardly  to  be  compared 
with  Moliere  either  in  respect  of  art  or  of 
insight  into  manners. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letter  to  M.  de  Champfort, 
Sept.,  1769. 

Shakespeare  is  a  barbarian,  with  occa- 
sional sparks  of  genius  which  shine  in  a 
horrible  night. 

VOLTAIRE. — Prefatory  Letter  to  Irene 
(1778). 
SHALLOWNESS 

Many  affecting  wit  beyond  their  power 
Have  got  to  be  a  dear  fool  for  an  hour. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Some  people  will  never  learn  anything, 
for  this  reason,  because  they  understand 
everything  too  soon. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

The  art  of  being  deep-learned  and  shai 
low-read.  SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub 

SHAME 

We  are  ashamed  of  not  being  shameless. 
ST.  AUGUSTINE. — Con/.  Bk.  2. 

Men  the  most  infamous  are  fond  of  fame, 
And  those  who  fear  not  guilt,  yet  start  at 
shame. 

CHURCHILL. — The  Author,  233. 

Shame  leaves  us  by  degrees. 

S.  DANIEL. — Complaint  of  Rosamond, 
st.  64. 

I  hold  him  to  be  dead  in  whom  shame 
is  dead.  PLAUTUS. 

Such  an  act, 

That  blurs  the  grace  and  blush  of  modesty. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 


*  I.e.    Elizabethan  England. 


No  more  ashamed  of  doing  wrong, 
We  are  ashamed  of  feeling  right, 
Ashamed  of  any  feeling  strong, 

And  of  all  shame  ashamed  quite. 
WALTER  C.  SMITH. — Olrig  Grange,  Bk.  5. 

He  is  without  the  sense  of  shame  or 
glory,  as  some  men  are  without  the  sense 
of  smelling  :  and  therefore  a  good  name 
to  him  is  no  more  than  a  precious  oint- 
ment would  be  to  these. 

SWIFT. — Character  of  Lord  Wharton. 

Shame,  that  stings  sharpest  of  the  worms 
in  hell. 

SWINBURNE. — Marino  Faliero. 

Man  is  a  beast   when   shame   stands   off 
from  him. 
SWINBURNE. — Phcedra  :  Hippolytus. 

There  is  a  shame  which  is  glory  and 
grace.  Ecclesiasticus  iv,  21. 

SHAVING 

Men  for  their  sins 

Have  shaving  too  entailed  upon  their  chins. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  14,  23. 

Fresh  as  a  bridegroom  ;   and  his  chin  new 

reaped, 

Showed   like   a   stubble-land   at   harvest 
home. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  i,  3. 

The  barber's  man  hath  been  seen  with 
him,  and  the  old  ornament  of  his  cheek 
hath  already  stuffed  tennis  balls. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  2. 

SHELLS 

From  within  were  heard 
Murmurings    whereby    the    monitor    ex- 
pressed 
Mysterious  union  with  its  native  sea. 

WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  4. 

SHEPHERDS 

My  name  is  Norval :    on  the  Grampian 

hills 

My  father  feeds  his  flocks  ;  a  frugal  swain, 
Whose  constant  cares  were  to  increase  his 

store. 

J.  HOME. — Douglas,  Act  2,  i. 

And  every  shepherd  tells  his  tale 
Under  the  hawthorn  in  the  dale. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  67. 
SHIPS 

What  is  a  ship  but  a  prison  ? 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy, 
Pt.  2,  sec.  3,  4. 

This  quiet  sail  is  as  a  noiseless  wing. 
To  waft  me  from  distraction. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  85. 


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SILENCE 


She  walks  the  waters  like  a  thing  of  life, 
And  seems  to  dare  the  elements  to  strife. 
BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  st.  3. 

My  boat  is  on  the  shore 
And  my  bark  is  on  the  sea. 

BYRON. — To  T.  Moore. 

A  wet  sheet  and  a  flowing  sea, 

A  wind  that  follows  fast. 
And  fills  the  white  and  rustling  sail, 

And  bends  the  gallant  mast. 

A.  CUNNINGHAM. — A  Wet  Sheet. 

The  most  advanced  nations  are  always 
those  who  navigate  the  most. 

EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

Civilization. 

Fair  laughs  the  Morn  and  soft  the  Zephyr 

blows, 

While  proudly  riding  o'er  the  azure  realm, 
In  gallant  trim  the  gilded  vessel  goes. 

GRAY. — Bard,  c.  2. 

No  man  will  be  a  sailor  who  has  con- 
trivance enough  to  get  himself  into  a  jail : 
for  being  in  a  ship  is  being  in  jail  with  the 
chance  of  being  drowned.  ...  A  man  in  a 
jail  has  more  room,  better  food,  and  com- 
monly better  company. 

JOHNSON. — Remark,  1759. 

The  Liner  she's  a  lady. 

KIPLING. — Seven  Seas. 

The  gift  of  being  near  ships,  of  seeing  each 
day 

A  city  of  ships  with  great  ships  under  weigh  ; 

The  great  street  paved  with  water,  filled 
with  shipping, 

And  all  the  world's  flags  flying  and  sea- 
gulls dipping. 

JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Biography. 

Those  proud  ones  swaying  home, 
With  mainyards  backed  and  bows  a  cream 

of  foam, 

Those  bows  so  lovely-curving,  cut  so  fine 
Those  coulters  of  the  many-bubbled  brine, 
As  once,  long  since,  when  all  the  docks 

were  filled 
With  that  sea  beauty  man  has  ceased  to 

build.          JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Ships. 

It  was  that  fatal  and  perfidious  bark, 
Built  in  th'eclipse,  and  rigged  with  curses 

dark, 

That  sunk  so  low  that  sacred  head  of  thine. 
MILTON. — Lycidas,  zoo. 

That  mysterious  forest  below  London 
Bridge. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  5,  c.  g. 

The  Goodwins,  I  think  they  call  the 
place  ;  a  very  dangerous  flat  and  fatal, 
where  the  carcases  of  many  a  tall  ship  lie 
buried,  as  they  say. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  3,  i. 


An   ocean   steamer   is   the   next   worst 
I    thing  to  the  Palace  of  Truth. 
|  G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  18. 

Build  few  and  build  fast, 
Each  one  better  than  the  last. 
Naval  Maxim  quoted  by  Lord  Fisher, 
"  Records,"  Nov.  25,  1919. 
SHOEMAKERS 

Ye  tuneful  cobblers  !  still  your  notes  pro- 
long, 

Compose  at  once  a  slipper  and  a  song ; 
So  shall  the  fair  your  handiwork  peruse, 
Your  sonnets  sure  shall  please — perhaps 
your  shoes. 

BYRON. — English  Bards  and  Scotch 
Reviewers. 

A  man  cannot  make  a  pair  of  shoes 

rightly  unless  he  do  it  in  a  devout  manner. 

CARLYLE. — To  T.  Erskine. 

I  am  indeed,  sir,  a  surgeon  to  old  shoes  ; 
when  they  are  in  great  danger  I  re-cover 
them. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  i,  i. 

SHOUTING 

A  shout  that  tore  hell's  concave,  and  be- 
yond 

Frightened   the  reign  of  Chaos  and  old 
Night. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  542. 

SIGHING 

Not  suche1  sorrowful  sights  as  men  make 
For  wo,  or  elles  when  that  folk  ben  sick£, 
But  easy  sights,  such  as  been  to  like1. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus. 

Where's  the  use  of  sighing  ? 

Sorrow  as  you  may, 
Time  is  always  flying — 
Flying  ! — and  defying 

Men  to  say  him  nay. 
Where's  the  use  of  sighing  ? 

W.  E.  HENLEY.—  Villanelle. 

Words  may  be  false  and  full  of  art ; 
Sighs  are  the  natural  language  of  the  heart. 
T.  SHADWELL. — Psyche. 

And   easy  sighs,  such  as  tolk   drawe  in 

love. 
EARL  OF  SURREY. — Prisoner  in  Windsor. 

Or  sighed  and  looked  unutterable  things. 
THOMSON. — Seasons  :  Summer. 

SILENCE 

I  feel  as  if  an  ox  had  trodden  on  my 
tongue. 

^ESCHYLUS  (Greek  prov.  expression  Jot 
constrained  silence). 

Her  talents  were  of  the  more  silent  class. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  6,  49. 


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SILENCE 


SIMILES 


No  speech  ever  uttered  or  utterable  is 
worth  comparison  with  silence. 

CARLYLE. — Lecture  (1838). 

Speech  is  of  time,  silence  is  of  eternity. 
CARLYLE. — Sartor  Resartus,  Bk.  33,  ch.  3. 

Like  the  harmony  of  the  spheres  that 
is  to  be  admired  and  never  heard. 

DRYDEN. — Sir  Martin  Mar-all,  Act  6. 

Silence  is  become  his  mother-tongue. 
GOLDSMITH. — Good-Natured  Man,  Act  2. 

There  is  the  silent  criticism  of  silence, 
worth  all  the  rest. 

SIR  A   HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  2. 

We  returned  home  not  sorry  to  be  mostly 
silent  as  we  went,  and  glad  that  our  friend- 
ship was  so  assured  that  we  could  be  silent 
without  the  slightest  danger  of  offence. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Ib. 

And  Silence  like  a  poultice  comes 
To  heal  the  blows  of  sound. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Music  Grinders. 

Alas  for  those  who  never  sing, 
But  die  with  all  their  music  in  them. 

O   W.  HOLMES. — The  Voiceless. 

Adam,  whiles  he  spak  nat,  had   paradys 

at  wille. 
LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman,  Passus  14. 

O  have  a  care  of  natures  that  are  mute  ! 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  35. 

Demaratus,  when  asked  whether  he  held 
his  tongue  because  he  was  a  fool  or  for  want 
of  words,  replied,  "  A  fool  cannot  hold  his 
tongue." 

PLUTARCH. — Laconic  Apophthegms. 

A  prating  barber  asked  Archelaus  how 
he  would  be  trimmed.  He  answered, 
"  In  silence."  PLUTARCH. — Morals,  Bk.  i. 

Silence,  says  Euripides,  is  an  answer  to 
a  wise  man.  PLUTARCH. — Ib. 

When  Dido  found  vEneas  would  not  come, 

She  mourned  in  silence,  and  was  Dido  dumb. 

PORSON. — Facetiez. 

Silence  in  love  bewrays  more  woe 
Than  words,  though  ne'er  so  witty  ; 

A  beggar  that  is  dumb,  you  know, 
May  challenge  double  pity. 

SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Silent  Lover. 

The  rest  is  silence. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

O  my  Antonio,  I  do  know  of  these, 
That  therefore  only  are  reputed. wise, 
For  saying  nothing. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  i. 


Silence  is  the  perfected  herald  of  joy ; 
I  were  but  little  happy,  if  I  could  say  how 
much. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  i. 

They  froze  into  silence. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  2,  2. 

Much  I  fear 

Lest  from  such  silence  evil  deeds  burst  out. 
SOPHOCLES. — (Edipus,  1095 

(Plumptre  tr.). 
Why  creep'st  thou  off  in  silence  ?   Know'st 

thou  not 

That    silence   but    admits    the    accuser's 
charge.     SOPHOCLES. — Trachinice,  826 
(Plumptre  tr.). 
For  words  divide  and  rend, 
But  silence  is  most  noble  till  the  end. 
SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 

Xenocrates  said  that  he  had  often  re- 
pented speaking,  but  never  of  holding  his 
tongue.  VALERIUS  MAXIMUS. — Bk.  7. 

What  ?  Do  you  also  possess  the  art  of 
holding  your  tongue  ?  Ah,  you  have  all 
the  talents  for  pleasing. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Prude. 

Not   a   drum  was   heard,   not   a   funeral 

note.        WOLFE. — Burial  of  Sir  John 

Moore. 

The  silence  that  is  in  the  starry  sky, 
The  sleep  that  is  among  the  lonely  hills. 
WORDSWORTH. — Song  at  the  Feast  of 
Brougham  Castle. 

I  kept  silence,  yea  even  from  good  words; 
but  it  was  pain  and  grief  to  me. 

Church  Psalter  xxxix,  3, 

A  wise  old  owl  lived  in  an  oak  ; 
The  more  he  saw  the  less  he  spoke  ; 
The  less  he  spoke  the  more  he  heard  : 
•  Why  can't  we  all  be  like  that  bird  ? 

ANON. — (American  ?) 

Silence  is  a  friend  that  will  never  betray. 
Attrib.  to  Confucius. 
SIMILES 

Indeed  reasons  are  the  pillars  of  the 
fabric  of  a  sermon,  but  similitudes  are  the 
windows,  which  give  the  best  lights. 

FULLER. — Holy  State. 

Poetry  lends  Religion  her  wealth  of 
symbols  and  similes :  Religion  restores 
these  again  to  Poetry,  clothed  with  so 
splendid  a  radiance  that  they  appear  to 
be  no  longer  merely  symbols,  but  to  par- 
take (I  might  almost  say)  of  the  nature  of 
sacraments. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  40. 

(E.  K.  Francis  tr.) 

Similes  are  like  songs  in  love  ; 

They  much  describe  ;  they  nothing  prove. 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  3,  314. 


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SIMPLE  LIFE 


SIN 


Thou  hast  the  most  unsavoury  similes. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pi.  i,  Act  r,  2. 

Oft  on  the  dappled  turf  at  ease 
I  sit  and  play  with  similes. 
WORDSWORTH. — To  the  Daisy  (1805). 

SIMPLE  LIFE 

His  drink,  the  running  stream  ;    his  cup, 

the  bare 
Of  his  palm  closed  ;  his  bed,  the  hard,  cold 

ground. 
T.  SACKVILLE — Mirrour  for  Magistrates. 

Plain  living  and  high  thinking  are  no  more ; 
The  homely  beauty  of  the  good  old  cause 
Is  gone  ;  our  peace,  our  fearful  innocence, 
And  pure  religion,  breathing  household 
law's. 

WORDSWORTH. — In  London,  1802. 

SIMPLICITY 

When  the  rich  learned  Pharisee 
Came  to  consult  Him  secretly, 
Upon  his  heart  with  iron  pen 
He  wrote,  "  Ye  must  be  born  again." 

WM.  BLAKE. — The  Everlasting 
Gospel. 

Though  Devotion  needs  not  Art, 
Sometimes  of  the  poor  the  rich  may  borrow. 
CAMPION. — Tune  thy  Music  to  thy 
Heart. 

Nothing  is  more  simple  than  greatness  ; 
indeed,  to  be  simple  is  to  be  great. 

EMERSON. — Literary  Ethics. 

For  such  a  child  I  blesse  God,  in  whose 
bosom  he  is.  May  1  and  mine  become  as 
this  little  child.  EVELYN. — Diary,  1658. 

The  greatest  thoughts  are  the  simplest ; 
and  so  are  the  greatest  men. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth. 

Such  sweet  neglect  more  taketh  me 
Than  all  th'  adulteries  of  art ; 
They  strike  mine  eyes,  but  not  my  heart. 
BEN  JONSON. — Epicane,  Act  i. 

Give  true  hearts  but  earth  and  sky, 
And  some  flowers  to  bloom  and  die, — 
Homely  scenes  and  simple  views 
Lowly  thoughts  may  best  infuse. 

KEBLE. — ist  Sun.  after  Epiph. 

Lo,   the  poor  Indian  !    whose  untutored 

mind 
Sees  God  in  clouds   or  hears  him  in  the 

wind; 
His  soul  proud  science  never  taught  to 

stray 

Far  as  the  solar  walk  or  milky  way  ; 
Yet  simple  nature  to  his  hope  has  given 
Behind  the  cloud-topped  hill,  an  humbler 

heaven. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  99. 


Of  manners  gentle,  of  affections  mild  ; 
In  wit,  a  man  ;   simplicity,  a  child. 

POPE. — On  Gay. 

Unlearn'd,  he  knew  no  schoolman's  subtle 

art, 

No  language  but  the  language  of  the  heart. 
POPE. — Pro/,  to  Satires. 

The  law  of  simplicity  and  naiveness 
holds  good  in  all  fine  art,  for  it  is  com- 
patible with  what  is  most  sublime. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

You  speak  like  a  green  girl, 
Unsifted  in  such  perilous  circumstance. 

SHAKESPEARE.— Hamlet.  Act  i,  3. 
I  swear  to  thee  .  .  . 
By  the  simplicity  of  Venus'  doves. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Mid.  Night's  Dream, 
Act  i,  i. 

Never  anything  can  be  amiss 
When  simpleness  and  duty  tender  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  i. 

But  this  good  Sir  did  follow  the  plaine  word, 

Ne  medled  with  their  controversies  vaine. 

SPENSER. — Mother  Hubberd,  I.  390. 

A  simple  maiden  in  her  flower 

Is  worth  a  hundred  coats-of-anns. 
TENNYSON. — Clara  Vere  de  Vere. 

Often  ornateness 
Goes  with  greatness ; 
Oftener  felicity 
Comes  of  simplicity. 
SIR  W.  WATSON.— Art  Maxims. 

Innocence  is  strong, 
And  an  entire  simplicity  of  mind 
A  thing  most  sacred  in  the  eyes  of  Heaven. 
WORDSWORTH. — Excursion,  Bk.  6. 

The  moving  accident  is  not  my  trade  ; 

To  freeze  the  blood  I  have  no  ready  arts  : 
"Tis  my  delight,  alone  in  summer  shade, 

To  pipe  a  simple  song  for  thinking  hearts. 
WORDSWORTH. — Hart-leap  Well,  Pt.  2,  st.  i . 

Days  undefiled  by  luxury  or  sloth, 

Finn  self-denial,  manners  grave  and  staid, 

Rights    equal,     laws    with     cheerfulness 

obeyed, 
Words  that  require  no  sanction  from  an 

oath, 
And  simple  honesty  a  common  growth. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets  to  Liberty,  9. 

SIN 

Pleasure's   a  sin   and  sometimes  sin's  a 
pleasure.    BYRON. — Don  Juan,  i,  133. 

But,  sad  as  angels  for  the  good  man's  sin, 
Weep  to  record,  and  blush  to  give  it  in. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  2. 

The  proverb  seith  that  for  to  do  sinne 
is  mannish,  but  certes  for  to  persevere  longe 
in  sinne  is  work  of  the  devil. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus,  sec.  29. 


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SINCERITY 


SINGERS  AND  SINGING 


Little  sins  make  room  for  great,  and  one 
brings  in  all. 

T.  EDWARDS. — Gangrene  of  Heresy. 

Oh,  Thou,  who  Man  of  baser  Earth  didst 

make, 

And  ev'n  with  Paradise  devise  the  Snake  ; 
For  all  the  Sin  wherewith  the  Face  of 

Man 

Is    blackened — Man's    forgiveness    give — 
and  take  ! 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  81. 

The  sin 

Is  in  itself  excusable  ;  to  be  taken 
Is  a  crime. 

JOHN  FLETCHER. — Lover's  Progress, 

Act  4,  i. 

Unto  each   man  comes  a  day  when  his 

favourite  sins  all  forsake  him, 
And  he  complacently  thinks  he  has  for- 
saken his  sins. 

JOHN  HAY. — Pike  County  Ballads, 
Distich  ii. 

Man  may  securely  sin,  but  safely  never. 
BEN  JONSON. — Forest  (from  Seneca). 

Even  the  inclination  to  sin  brings  its 
•penalties.  JUVENAL. — Sat.  13. 

'Twas  but  one  little  drop  of  sin 
We  saw  this  morning  enter  in, 
And    lo    !       at    eventide    the   world   was 
drowned.  K.EBi.'E.—Sexagesima. 

Each  man  shall  bear  his  own  sin  without 
doubt.     W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  17,  122. 

He  who  does  not  forbid  sin,  when  he 
can,  encourages  it.        SENECA. — Troades. 

The  chief  and  greatest  punishment  of 
sinners  is  the  fact  of  having  sinned. 

SENECA. — Ep.  97. 

From  scalp  to  sole  one  slough  and  crust 
of  sin.     TENNYSON. — Simeon  Stylites. 

Hate  me  or  pity  me,  as  you  will, 

The  Lord  will  have  mercy  on  sinners 

still; 

And  I,  who  am  chiefest,  say  to  all, 
Watch  and  pray,  lest  ye  also  fall. 

WHITTIER. — John  Underhill,  st.  19. 

He  does  not  win  who  plays  with  sin 
In  the  secret  House  of  Shame. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Ballad  of  Reading  Gaol. 

Love  covereth  a  multitude  of  sins. 

i  St.  Peter  iv.,  8  (R.V.). 

SINCERITY 

The  sincere  alone  can  recognise  sincerity. 
CARLYLE. — Heroes. 

Let  all  thy  converse  be  sincere. 

BISHOP  KEN. — Morning. 


A  little  sincerity  is  a  dangerous  thing, 
and  a  great  deal  of  it  is  absolutely  fatal. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions. 

Men  who  would  blush  at  being  thought 
sincere.    YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

Kythe  (appear)  in  your  ain  colours,  that 
folks   may   ken   you.  Scottish  prov. 

That  which  cometh  from  the  heart  will 
go  to  the  heart.  Prov. 

SINGERS  AND  SINGING 

Come,  sing  now,  sing  ;  for  I  know  you  sing 

well ; 
I  see  you  have  a  singing  face. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Wild 
Goose  Chase,  Act  2,  2. 

And  her  voice  was  the  warble  of  a  bird, 
So  soft,  so  sweet,  so  delicately  clear. 
The  sort  of  sound  we  echo  with  a  tear. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  151. 

Let  the  singing  singers, 
With  vocal  voices,  most  vociferous, 
In  sweet  vociferation,  out-vociferise 
Ev'n  sound  itself. 
H.  CAREY. — Chrononhotonthologos,  i,  i. 

Lamekes'  sone  [son]  Tubal, 
That  fond  [found]  at  first  the  art  of  songe  ; 
For,  as  his  brothers  hamers  ronge  [rung] 
Upon  his  anvelt  up  and  doun, 
Therof  he  took  the  first6  soun. 

CHAUCER. — Book  of  the  Duchesse,  1162. 

With  this  one  vice  all  songsters  are  poss- 
essed ; 

Sing  they  can  never  at  a  friend's  request, 
Yet  chant  it  forth,  unasked,  from  morn  to 
night. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Sat.,  Bk.  i,  3. 

Verse   sweetens    toil,    however   rude    the 

sound  ; 
She  feels  no  biting  pang  the  while  she 

sings  ; 

Nor,  as  she  turns  the  giddy  wheel  around, 

Revolves  the  sad  vicissitudes  of  things. 

R.  GIFFORD. — Contemplation. 

(Dr.  J  ohnson  altered  the  second  line  to  "  All  at 

her  work  the  village  maiden  sings.") 

W'en  he  [Brer  Rabbit]  chuned  up  fer  ter 

sing  he  make  dem  yuther  creeters  hoi'  der 

breff.        J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 

Remus,  ch.  3. 

I  would  both  sing  thy  praise  and  praise 
thy  singing. 

HUGH  HOLLAND. — To  G.  Farnaby. 

The   melting   voice    through   mazes   run- 
ning, 

Untwisting  all  the  chains  that  tie 
The  hidden  soul  of  harmony. 

MILTON. — L' Allegro,  143. 


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SINGULARITY 


SLAUGHTER 


Who,  as  they  sung,  would  take  the  prisoned 

soul, 
And  lap  it  in  Elysium. 

MILTON. — Comus,  256. 

She  sang  the  tears  into  his  eyes, 

The  heart  out  of  his  breast. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — Maiden-Song. 

My  soul  is  an  enchanted  boat, 
Which,  like  a  sleeping  swan,  doth  float 
Upon  the  silver  waves  of  thy  sweet  singing. 
SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  2,  5. 

And  singing  still  dost  soar,  and  soaring 
ever   singest.         SHELLEY. — Skylark. 

Knitting  and  withal  singing,  and  it 
seemed  that  her  voice  comforted  her  hands 
to  work.  SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Arcadia,  Bk.  i. 

God  giveth  speech  to  all,  song  to  the  few. 

WALTER  C.  SMITH. — Olrig  Grange, 

Bk.  15. 

I  do  but  sing  because  I  must, 
And  pipe  just  as  the  linnets  sing. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  21. 

I  can't  sing.  As  a  singist  I  am  not  a 
success.  I  am  saddest  when  I  sing.  So 
are  those  who  hear  me.  They  are  sadder 
even  than  I  am. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — Lecture. 

SINGULARITY 

Each  the  known  track  of  sage  philosophy 
Deserts,  and  has  a  byway  of  his  own  ; 
So  much  the  restless  eagerness  to  shine, 
And  love  of  singularity,  prevail. 

DANTE. — Paradise,  c.  29,  89 
(H.  F.  Gary  tr.). 
The  trick  of  singularity. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  2,  5. 

Woe  to  every  mortal,  and  especially  in 
these  days,  who  affects  singularity  in  order 
to  be  a  personage.  VOLTAIRE. — Vanity. 

SISTERS 

My  sister  !   my  sweet  sister  !   if  a  name 
Dearer  and  purer  were,  it  should  be  thine. 
BYRON. — To  Augusta. 

For  there  is  no  friend  like  a  sister, 
In  calm  or  stormy  weather. 
CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI.— Goblin  Market. 

SKATING 

Skating  is  a  chilly  pleasure,  and  there- 
fore no  sin. 

HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy. 

SKITTLES 

He's  up  to  these  grand  games,  but  one 
of  these  days  I'll  loore  him  on  to  skittles, 
and  astonish  him. 

H.  J.  BYRON. — Our  Boys. 


SLANDER 

Skilled  by  a  touch   to  deepen  scandal's 

tints, 

With  all  the  kind  mendacity  of  hints, 
While  mingling  truth  with  falsehood,  sneers 

with  smiles, 

A  thread  of  candour  with  a  web  of  wiles, 
A  plain  blunt  show  of  briefly-spoken  seem- 
ing 

To  hide  her  bloodless  heart's  soul-hardened 
scheming.  BYRON. — A  Sketch. 

Slander,  the  foulest  whelp  of  sin. 

R.  POLLOK. — Course  of  Time. 

Slander, 
Whose  edge  is  sharper  than  the  sword  ; 

Whose  tongue 
Out-venoms  all  the  worms  of  Nile. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbelinc,  Act  3,  4. 

Done  to  death  by  slanderous  tongues. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  3. 

I  will  be  hanged  if  some  eternal  villain, 

Some  busy  and  insinuating  rogue, 

Some  cogging,  cozening  slave,  to  get  some 

office, 
Have  not  devised  this  slander. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  2. 

Slander, 

Whose  sting  is  sharper  than  the  sword's. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  2,  3. 

So  thou  be  good,  slander  doth  but  approve 
Thy  worth  the  greater. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnets,  No.  70. 

Who  spake  no  slander,  no,  nor  listened 
to  it.  TENNYSON. — Idylls :  Dedication. 

Defaming  and  defacing,  till  she  left 
Not  even  Launcelot  brave,  nor  Galahad 
clean. 

TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien. 

SLANG 

All  slang  is  metaphor,  and  all  metaphor 
is  poetry. 

G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — The  Defendant. 

Rabble-charming  words,  which  carry  so 
much  wild-fire  with  them. 

SOUTH. — (Quoted  on  Title-page  of  "  The 
Slang  Dictionary.") 

SLAUGHTER 

The  thundering  guns  are  heard  on  every 

side. 

The  wounded  coveys,  reeling,  scatter  wide  ; 
The    feathered    field-mates,     bound    by 

Nature's  tie, 
Sires,  mothers,  children,  in  one  carnage 

lie.  BURNS. — Brigs  of  Ayr. 

Unholy  is  the  voice 

Of    loud    thanksgiving    over    slaughtered 
men.  COWPER.— Odyssey. 


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SLAVERY 


SLEEP 


Pity  it  is  to  slay  the  meanest  thing. 

HOOD. — Midsummer  Fairies. 

How  now  !    a  rat ! 
Dead  for  a  ducat,  dead. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  4. 

SLAVERY 

Born  slaves,  bred  slaves, 
Branded  in  the  blood  and  bone  slaves. 

BROWNING. — Soul's  Tragedy,  Act  i. 

Slavery  they  can  have  anywhere ;  it  is 
a  weed  that  grows  in  every  soil. 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Conciliation. 

I  would  not  have  a  slave  to  till  my  ground, 
To  carry  me,  to  fan  me  while  I  sleep, 
And   tremble  when   I   wake,   for   all   the 

wealth 
That  sinews  bought  and  sold  have  ever 

earned.        COWPER. — Time  Piece,  29. 

For  whom  Jove  dooms  to  servitude,  he 

takes 

At  once  the  half  of  that  man's  worth  away. 
HOMER. — Odyssev,  17,  322  (Cowpertr). 

"  Disguise  thyself  as  thou  wilt,  still, 
Slavery,"  said  1, — "  still  thou  art  a  bitter 
draught."  STERNE. — Sent.  Journey. 

SLEEP 

Death    without    dying — living,    but    not 
Life. 

SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Light  of  the  World, 
Bk.  4. 
Sleep  is  sweet  to  the  labouring  man. 

BUNYAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress. 

Death,  so  called,  is  a  thing  which  makes 

men  weep, 
And  yet  a  third  of  life  is  passed  in  sleep. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  14,  3. 

Oh  Sleep  !  it  is  a  gentle  thing, 
Beloved  from  pole  to  pole. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner, 
Pt.5- 

Care-charmer  Sleep,  son  of  the  sable  night, 

Brother  to  Death,  in  silent  darkness  born. 

S.  DANIEL. — To  Delia  (1592). 

Indifferent  host  to  shepherds  and  to  kings, 
Sole  comforter  of  minds  with  grief  op- 
pressed.       W.  DRUMMOND. — Sonnet. 

Care-charming  Sleep,  thou  easer  of  all  woes, 
Brother  to  Death. 

JOHN  FLETCHER. — Valentinian, 
Act  5,  2  (c.  1615). 

But  sleep  stole  on  me  unawares, 

Even  on  me  at  last, 
Though  drop  by  drop  the  minutes  faint 

Like  hours  at  midnight  passed. 
HARRIET  E.  HAMILTON-KING. — Ballads 
oj  the  North,  No.  i,  First  of  June. 


What  blessed  ignorance  equals  this, 
To  sleep — and  not  to  know  it  ? 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

The  cares  that  infest  the  day 
Shall  fold  their  tents,  like  the  Arabs, 
And  as  silently  steal  away. 

LONGFELLOW. — Day  is  done. 

O  sleep  !  O  gentle  sleep  ! 
Nature's  soft  nurse,  how  have  I  frighted 

thee, 
That  thou  no  more  wilt  weigh  mine  eyelids 

down, 
And  steep  my  senses  in  forgetfulness  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2, 

Act  3,  i. 

Methought  I  heard  a  voice  cry,  "  Sleep  no 

more  ! 

Macbeth    does    murder    sleep," — the    in- 
nocent sleep  : 
Sleep  that  knits  up  the  ravelled  sleave  of 

care, 
The  death  of  each  day's  life,  sore  labour's 

bath, 
Balm  of  hurt  minds,  great  Nature's  second 

course, 
Chief  nourisher  in  life's  feast. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  2. 

And  sleep  that  sometimes  shuts  up  sorrow's 
eye. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer    Night's 
Dream,  Act  3,  2 
It  argues  a  distempered  head 
So  soon  to  bid  good-morrow  to  thy  bed  : 
Care  keeps  his  watch  in  every  old  man's 

eye, 

And,  where  care  lodges,  sleep  will  never  lie. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 

Act  2,  3. 

Come  Sleep,  O  Sleep  !   the  certain  knot  of 

peace, 

The  baiting  place  of  wit,  the  balm  of  woe, 
The   poor   man's   wealth,    the   prisoner's 

release, 

The  indifferent   judge  between   the  high 
and  low.    SIR  P,  SIDNEY. — Astrophel. 

Thou  hast  been  called,  O  Sleep  !  the  friend 

of  Woe, 

But  'tis  the  happy  who  have  called  thee  so. 
SOUTHEY. — Curse  of  Kehama. 

"  God's  blessing,"  said  Sancho  Panza, 
"  be  upon  the  man  who  first  invented  this 
self-same  thing  called  sleep ;    it  covers  a 
man  all  over  like  a  cloak." 
STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  4  ch.  15. 

How  sweet,  though  lifeless,  yet  with  life 

to  lie! 

And,  without  dying,  O  how  sweet  to  die  ! 
DR.  WOLCOT.— On  Sleep. 

Perverse,  self-willed  to  own  and  to  disown, 
Mere  slave  of  them  who  never  for  thee 
prayed, 


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SLOTH 

Still  last  to  come  where  thou  art  wanted 

most. 
WORDSWORTH. — Sonnet  No.  13,  To  Sleep. 

Without  thee  what  is  all  the  morning's 

wealth  ? 
Come,   blessed  barrier  between  day  and 

day, 
Dear  mother  of  fresh  thoughts  and  joyous 

health  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Sonnet  No.  14,  To  Sleep. 

Tired     Nature's    sweet     restorer,    balmy 
sleep.         YOUNG. — Night  ThouglUs,  i. 

For  so  he  giveth  unto  his  beloved  sleep. 
Psalm  cxxvii,  2  (R.V.). 
Wakeful  youth,  drowsy  age, — 
Two  things  which  death  presage. 

Tr.  of  French  prov. 

To  sleep  seven  hours  is  enough  for  either 
a  young  man  or  an  old  one. 

Health  Precepts  of  University  of  Salerno. 

A  morning's  sleep  is  worth  a  fauld  o* 
sheep  to  a  hudderin'  dudderin'  daw. 

Scottish    prov.,  stated  by  James  Kelly 
(1721)   to  be  "a   reflection   upon   lazy 
sleepy  drabs,  who  prefer  nothing  to  soak- 
ing in  their  beds  in  the  morning." 

Nature  requires  five,  custom  takes  seven, 

Laziness     takes     nine,     and     wickedness 

eleven.  Old  Saying. 

SLOTH 

Then  cometh  Sompnolence,  that  is 
sluggy  slombringe,  which  maketh  a  man 
be  hevy  and  dull,  in  body  and  in  soule  ; 
and  thus  sinne  cometh  of  Slouthe. 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tale,  sec.  58. 

Sloth  is  a  foe  unto  all  virtuous  deeds. 
A.  MUNDAY. — Sloth. 

Go  to  the  ant,  thou  sluggard,  consider 
her  ways,  and  be  wise.  Proverbs  vi,  6. 

Drowsiness  shall  clothe  a  man  with  rags. 
Proverbs  xxiii,  21. 
SLOW  AND  SURE 

Youer  might  peart,  Brer  Fox,  yit  some- 
how er  nudder  you  ain't  bin  a-keepin'  up 
wid  ole  Slickum  Slow-come. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 
ch.  38  ("  Brer  Tarry  pin  "). 

Said  Tweed  to  Till,  "  What  gars  ye  rin  sae 

still  ?  " 

Said  Till  to  Tweed,  "  Though  ye  rin  with 
speed 

And  I  rin  slaw, 
For  ae  mon  that  ye  droon, 

I  droon  twa." 

Old  Rhyme.  The  river  Till,  a  deep  and  slug- 
gish stream,  flows  through  part  of  North- 
umberland and  joins  the  Tweed  between 
Nor  ham  and  Coldstream. 


SNORING 

SMATTERERS 

All  smatterers  are  more  brisk  and  pert 
Than  those  that  understand  an  art. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

His  mind  is  furnished  as  hotels  are,  with 

everything   for   occasional   and    transient 

use.         GEO.  ELIOT.— Theophrastus  Such  : 

A  Too  Deferential  Man. 

It  is  just  being  particular  which  makes 
the  difference  between  the  scholar  and  the 
sciolist.  OUIDA.— W anda,  ch.  23. 

SMILES 

Eternal  smiles  his  emptiness  betray, 
As  shallow  streams  run  dimpling  all  the 
way.         POPE.— Prol.  to  Satires,  315. 

One    may  smile,    and    smile,  and    be    a 
villain. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

Send  me  hence  ten  thousand  miles 
From  a  face  that  always  smiles. 

SWIFT. — Daphne. 
SNEERING 

Sapping  a  solemn  creed  with  solemn  sneer. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  107. 

There  was  a  laughing  devil  in  his  sneer 
BYRON. — Corsair,  c.  i,  9. 

Better  to  stand  ten  thousand  sneers  than 
one  abiding  pang,  such  as  time  could  not 
abolish,  of  bitter  self-reproach. 

DE  QUINCEY. — Opium  Eater. 

Who  can  refute  a  sneer  ? 

W  PALEY. — Moral  Philosophy. 
SNOBS 

Of  vanities  and  fopperies,  to  brag  of 
gentility  is  the  greatest. 

BURTON. — Anat.  of  M elan.,  Pt.  2, 
sec.  3,  2. 

It  is  impossible  in  our  condition  of 
Society,  not  to  be  sometimes  a  snob. 

THACKERAY. — Book  of  Snobs. 

You  must  not  judge  hastily  or  vulgarly 
of  Snobs.  To  do  so  shows  that  you  are 
yourself  a  Snob.  THACKERAY. — Ib. 

He  who  meanly  admires  mean  things  is 
a  Snob.  THACKERAY. — Ib. 

SNORING 

I  heard  the  cabin  snoring 
With  universal  nose. 

THACKERAY. — White  Squall. 

There  ain't  no  way  to  find  out  why  a 
snorer  can't  hear  himself  snore. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Tom  Sawyer  Abroad , 
ch.  10. 


SOCIABILITY 


SOCIETY 


SOCIABILITY 

In   all   thy   humours,    whether   grave    or 

mellow, 
Thou'rt   such   a   touchy,    testy,    pleasant 

fellow, 
Hast  so  much  wit  and  mirth  and  spleen 

about  thee, 
There  is  no  living  with  thee  or  without 

thee.      ADDISON. — Trans,  of  Martial. 

The  social  hours,  swift-winged,  unnoticed 
fleet. 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

For  thus  the  royal  mandate  ran, 
When  first  the  human  race  began, 
The  social,  friendly,  honest  man, 

Whate'er  he  be, 
'Tis  he  fulfils  great  Nature's  plan, 

And  none  but  he  ! 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  J.  Lapraik. 

He  had  twa  fauts,  or  maybe  three, 

Yet  what  remead  ? 
Ae  honest  social  man  want  we  : 

Tarn  Samson's  dead  ' 

BURNS. — Tarn  Samson's  Elegy. 

What  is  the  odds  so  long  as  the  fire  of 
souls  is  kindled  at  the  taper  of  conwivi- 
ality,  and  the  wing  of  friendship  never 
moults  a  feather  ?  [Dick  Swiveller.] 

DICKENS. — Old  Curiosity  Shop,  ch.  2. 

A  fresshe,  a  free,  a  frendly  man. 
GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  5. 

Society  is  no  comfort 
To  one  not  sociable. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  4,  2. 

As  merry 
As  first,  good  company,  good  wine,  good 

welcome, 
Can  make  good  people. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Act  i,  4. 

That  I  have  lived  on  good  terms  with 
so  many  good  people  gives  me  more  plea- 
sure than  any  other  reflection. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Countess 
Grey,  1830. 
Little  we  fear 
Weather  without, 
Sheltered  about 
The  Mahogany  Tree. 
THACKERAY. — The  Mahogany  Tree. 

Certes,  he  was  a  most  engaging  wight, 

Of  social  glee,    and  wit  humane  though 

keen, 

Turning  the  night  to  day,  and  day  to  night. 

THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence, 

c.  i,  63. 

It's  my  earnest  desire  to  see  a*  the  haill 
warld  shakin  hauns. 

JOHN  WILSON.— Nodes,  34  (Ettrick 
Shepherd). 


Harmonious  thoughts,  a  soul  by  truth  re- 
fined 
Entire  affection  for  all  human  kind. 

WORDSWORTH. — Evening  Walk. 

Iron  sharpeneth  iron  ;  so  a  man  sharp- 
eneth  the  countenance  of  his  friend. 

Proverbs  xxvii,  17. 

Better  is  a  dinner  of  herbs  where  love  is, 
than  a  stalled  ox  and  hatred  therewith. 

Proverbs  xv,  17. 

And  he  loved  keeping  companie. 

Old  Ballad.   Heir  of  Linne. 

SOCIALISM 

It  is  known  that  the  bad  workmen,  who 
form  the  majority  of  the  operatives  in 
many  branches  of  industry,  are  decidedly 
of  opinion  that  bad  workmen  ought  to 
receive  the  same  wage  as  good,  and  that 
no  one  ought  to  be  allowed,  through  piece- 
work or  otherwise,  to  earn  by  superior 
skill  or  industry  more  than  others  without 
it.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  4. 

In  economics  all  roads  lead  to  Socialism, 
though  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  so  far,  the 
economist  does  not  recognise  his  destin- 
ation. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  15. 

SOCIETY 

Man  seeketh  in  society  comfort,  use, 
and  protection. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

Man  was  formed  for  society. 
SIR  W.  BLACKSTONE. — Of  the  Nature  of 

Laws. 

Solomon  of  saloons, 
And  philosophic  diner-out. 

BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

Society  is  now  one  polished  horde, 
Formed  of  two  mighty  tribes,  the  Bores 
and  Bored. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  13,  95. 

She  that  asks 
Her  dear  five  hundred  friends. 

COWPER. — Time  Piece,  652. 

The  people  are  to  be  taken  in  very  small 
doses.  If  solitude  is  proud,  so  is  society 
vulgar.  EMERSON. — Society  and  Solitude. 

Society  in  large  towns  is  babyish,  and 
wealth  is  made  a  toy. 

EMERSON. — Wealth. 

Crowds  without  company,  and  dissi- 
pation without  pleasure. 

GIBBON. — Memoir,  i,  p.  116. 

Hearts  just  as  pure  and  fair, 
May  beat  in  Belgrave  Square, 
As  in  the  lowly  air 

Of  Seven  Dials. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 


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Billing.  Society  is  like  a  ship ;  every 
man  must  help  in  the  steering. 

Horsier  (ship's  captain).  That  may  be 
all  right  on  shore,  but  at  sea  it  would  not 
do  at  all.  IBSEN. — An  Enemy  of  Society. 

The  greatest  natural  genius  cannot  sub- 
sist on  its  own  stock.  He  who  resolves 
never  to  ransack  any  mind  but  his  own 
will  be  soon  reduced  from  mere  barrenness 
to  the  poorest  of  all  imitations — he  will  be 
obliged  to  imitate  himself  and  to  repeat 
what  he  has  before  repeated. 

SIR  J.  REYNOLDS. — Lecture. 

Of  all  animals  man  is  the  least  suited  to 
live  in  flocks.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

The  Social  Contract  then  is  the  basis  of 
all  civil  society,  and  it  is  in  the  nature  of 
this  that  we  must  seek  the  nature  of  the 
society  it  forms.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

I  am  a  woman  of  the  world,  Hector  ; 
and  I  assure  you  that  if  you  will  only  take 
the  trouble  to  do  the  perfectly  correct 
thing,  and  to  say  the  perfectly  correct 
thing,  you  can  do  just  what  you  like. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House,  Act  i. 

Society  is  the  best  preservative  of  that 
equal  and  happy  temper  which  is  so  neces- 
sary to  self-satisfaction  and  enjoyment. 
Men  of  retirement  and  speculation  .  .  . 
seldom  possess  that  equality  of  temper. 

ADAM  SMITH. 

The  society  exists  for  the  benefit  of  its 
members  ;  not  the  members  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  society. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Ethics. 

Only  longed, 
All  else  was  well,  for  she-society. 

TENNYSON. — Princess. 

Society  has  this  good  at  least,  that  it 
lessens  our  conceit  by  teaching  us  our  in- 
significance, and  making  us  acquainted 
with  our  betters. 

THACKERAY. — Virginians. 

She  loves  that  round 
Of  treadmill  ceremonies,  mimic  talks, 
We  make  our  women's  lives — 
Good  heavens,  what  work 
To  set  the  creatures  to,  whom  we  declare 
God  purposed  for  companions  to  us  men — 
Companions  to  each  other  only  now, 
Their  business  but  to  waste  each  other's 
time. 

AUGUSTA  WEBSTER. — Portraits  (1870) 
i,  Tired. 

Gerald.  I  suppose  Society  is  wonder- 
fully delightful.  Lord  Illingworth.  To  be 
in  it  is  merely  a  bore.  But  to  be  out  of  it 
is  simply  a  tragedy. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Woman  of  No  Importance, 

Act  3. 


Nor  greetings  where  no  kindness  is,  nor  all 
The  dreary  intercourse  of  daily  life. 

WORDSWORTH. — Tintern  Abbey. 

SOLDIERS 

He  has  no  grave,  no  dirge,  no  mourning 

crowd, 

He  has  no  pall  save  the  low-drifting  cloud, 
But  Glory  covers  him  as  with  a  shroud. 

F.  W.  D.  BENDALL. — Missing  (1918). 

If  I  should  die,  think  only  this  of  me : 
That  there's  some  corner  of  a  foreign  field 
That  is  for  ever  England. 

RUPERT  BROOKE. 

Glory  is  the  sodger's  prize, 
The  sodger's  wealth  is  honour. 

BURNS. — Song. 

Such  great  achievements  cannot  fail 
To  cast  salt  on  a  woman's  tail. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pi.  2,  c.  i . 

And  dim  was  that  eye,  once  expressively 

beaming, 

That  melted  in  love,  and  kindled  in  war. 
CAMPBELL. — Wounded  Hussar. 

I  never  knew  a  warrior  yet,  but  thee, 
From  wine,  tobacco,  debts,  dice,  oaths,  so 
free.  T.  CARLTON. — To  Capt.  J.  Smith. 

Counsel  dwells  not  under  the  plumed  hat. 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution,  Pt.  i, 

Bk.  5,  ch.  4. 

And  thus  the  soldier,  armed  with  resolu- 
tion. 

Told  his  soft   tale,   and   was   a   thriving 

wooer.  GIBBER. — Richard  III. 

(adapted).  Act  2,  i. 

A  modern  general  has  said  that  the  best 
troops  would  be  as  follows  : — an  Irishman 
half  drunk,  a  Scotchman  half  starved,  and 
an  Englishman  with  his  belly  full. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

In  the  name  of  soldiership  and  sense. 

COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

For  a  soldier  I  listed,  to  grow  great  in  fame, 
And  be  shot  at  for  sixpence  a  day. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Charity. 

Drinking  is  the  soldier's  pleasure. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast. 

He's  a  successful  warrior 
And  has  the  soldiers'  hearts. 
DRYDEN. — Spanish  Friar,  Act  i,  i. 

There  are  many  soldiers  and  few  brave 
men.  J.  ESPRIT. — Fausset*  des  vertus. 

Captains  are  casual  things. 
JOHN  FLETCHER. — Rule  a  Wife,  Act  3. 

An  army,  like  a  serpent,  goes  upon  its 
belly. 

FREDERICK  THE  GREAT.— Attributed. 


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Cowards  in  scarlet  pass  for  men  of  war. 
G.  GRANVILLE  (LORD  LANSDOWNE). — 
She  Gallants,  Act  5,  i. 

What  of  the  faith  and  fire  within  us, 

Men  who  march  away 
Ere  the  barncocks  say, 

Night  is  growing  gray  ? 
THOS.  HARDY. — Song  of  the  Soldiers. 

He  seen  his  duty,  a  dead-sure  thing — 
And  wend  for  it  thar  and  then  ; 

And  Christ  ain't  a-going  to  be  too  hard 
On  a  man  that  died  for  men. 

JOHN  HAY. — Jim  Bludso. 

The  love  that  loves  a  scarlet  coat 
Should  be  more  uniform. 

HOOD. — Nelly  Gray. 

They  taught  him  how  to  turn  his  toes 
And  stand  as  stiff  as  starch  ; 

I  thought  that  it  was  love  and  May, 
But  it  was  love  and  March. 

HOOD. — Waterloo  Ballad,  1834. 

Let  those  that  have  no  homes  at  all, 
Go  battle  for  a  long  one. 

HOOD. — The  Volunteer. 

Every  man  thinks  meanly  of  himself  for 
not  having  been  a  soldier,  or  not  having 
been  at  sea.  JOHNSON. — Remark.  1778. 

Soldiers  relish  a  speaker  delivering  him- 
self a  little  unreservedly :  they  delight  in 
the  freedom,  not  to  say  the  audacity,  in 
which  lyric  poets,  more  than  any  others, 
indulge.  KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry, 

,No.  25  (E.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

The  'eathen  in  his  blindness  bows  down  to 
wood  an"  stone ; 

'E  don't  obey  no  orders  unless  they  is  'is 
own  ; 

The  'eathen  in  his  blindness  must  end 
where  'e  began, 

But  the  backbone  of  the  Army  is  the  non- 
commissioned man  ! 

KIPLING.— The  'Eathen. 

O  !  it's  Tommy  this,  an'  Tommy  that,  an' 

"  Tommy,  go  away  "  ; 
But   it's    "  Thank   you,    Mister   Atkins," 

when  the  band  begins  to  play. 

KIPLING. — Tommy. 

Then  it's  Tommy  this,  an'  Tommy  that, 
an*  "  Tommy,  'ow's  yer  soul  ?  " 

But  it's  "  thin  red  line  of  'eroes,"  when 
the  drum  begins  to  roll. 

KIPLING. — Ib. 

We  aren't  no  thin  red  'eroes,  an'  we  aren't 
no  blackguards  too, 

But  single  men  in  barricks,  most  remark- 
able like  you ; 

An'  if  sometimes  our  conduck  isn't  all  your 
fancy  paints, 

Why,  single  men  in  barricks  don't  grow 
into  plaster  saints.  KIPLING. — Ib. 


A  keen-edged  sword,  a  soldier's  heart 
Is  greater  than  a  poet's  art, 
And  greater  than  a  poet's  fame 
A  little  grave  that  has  no  name. 

FRANCIS  LEDWIDGE. 

Bad  luck  to  this  marching, 
Pipe-claying  and  starching, 

How  neat  one  must  be  to  be  killed  by  the 
French  ! 

C.  J.  LEVER. — Bad  Luck  to  this  Marching. 

The  talents  of  the  soldier  and  the  ruler 
are  not  the  same.  LIVY. — Bk.  25. 

Ninepunce  a  day  fer  killin'  folks  comes 
kind  o"  low  fer  murder. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2. 

A  thousand  leagues  of  ocean,  a  company 

of  kings, 
You  came  across  the  watching  world  to 

show  how  heroes  die. 
When  the  splendour  of  your  story 
Builds  the  halo  of  its  glory, 
'Twill  belt  the  earth  like  Saturn's  rings 

And  diadem  the  sky. 
"  M.R.C.S." — In  "  Anzac  "  (On  Colonial 
Soldiers)  (1919). 

Our  swords  shall  play  the  orator  for  us. 
MARLOWE. — Tamburlaine. 

No  soldier  can  fight  unless  he  is  properly 
fed  on  beef  and  beer. 

DUKE  OF  MARLBOROUGH. — Attributed. 

Every  French  soldier  carries  in  his  knap- 
sack the  baton  of  a  field-marshal. 

NAPOLEON. 

The  worse  the  man,  the  better  the 
soldier.  Jf  soldiers  are  not  corrupt  they 
ought  to  be  made  so.  NAPOLEON  . 

How  happy's  the  soldier  who  lives  on  his 

pay, 
And  spends  half-a-crown  out  of  sixpence 

a  day ! 

J.  O'KEEFE. — The  Poor  Soldier. 

Truly,  it  does  appear,  on  some  accounts, 
to  be  very  nearly  a  beautiful  thing  to  fall 
in  battle.  For  such  a  person,  though  poor, 
has  a  fine  and  gorgeous  public  funeral,  and 
though  of  no  mark,  is  praised  by  men  of 
cleverness,  not  praising  at  random,  for 
then:  beautiful  speeches  have  been  pre- 
pared a  long  while  beforehand. 

PLATO. — Menexenus  2  (said  by  Socrates 
in  satire). 

Our  God  and  soldier  we  alike  adore, 
When  at  the  brink  of  ruin,  not  before  ; 
After  deliverance  both  alike  requited, 
Our    God    forgotten,    and    our    soldiers 
slighted.  QUARLES. — Epigram 


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Soldier,  rest !  thy  warfare  o'er, 

Sleep  the  sleep  that  knows  not  breaking 

Dream  of  battled  fields  no  more, 
Days  of  danger,  nights  of  waking  ! 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  z,  31. 

His  square -turned  joints  and  strength  of 

limb 

Showed  him  no  carpet-knight  so  trim, 
But  in  close  fight  a  champion  grim, 
In  camps,  a  leader  sage. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  i,  5. 

Yet,  trained  in  camps,  he  knew  the  art 
To  win  the  soldiers'  hardy  heart  : 
They  love  a  captain  to  obey, 
Boisterous  as  March,  yet  fresh  as  May  ; 
With  open  hand,  and  brow  as  free, 
Lover  of  wine  and  minstrelsy. 

SCOTT, — Ib.,  c.  3,  4. 

Fell  as  he  was  in  act  and  mind, 
He  left  no  bolder  heart  behind  : 
Then  give  him,  for  a  soldier  meet, 
A  soldier's  cloak  for  winding  sheet. 

SCOTT. — Rokeby,  c.  6,  33. 

The  chief  bond  of  military  service  is 
superstition,  and  the  love  of  banners. 

SENECA. — Ep.  95. 

To  the  wars,  my  boy,  to  the  wars  ! 
He  wears  his  honour  in  a  box  unseen, 
That  hugs  his  kicksy-wicksy  here  at  home. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  2,  3. 

A  soldier, 
Full  of  strange  oaths,  and  bearded  like  the 

Pard, 

Seeking  the  bubble  reputation 
Even  in  the  cannon's  mouth. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

O  farewell,  honest  soldier  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  I,  z. 

If  I  be  not  ashamed  of  my  soldiers,  I  am 
a  soused  gurnet. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Act  4,  2. 

Food  for  powder,  food  for  powder ; 
they'll  fill  a  pit  as  well  as  better. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  2. 

Why  then  the  world's  mine  oyster, 
which  I  with  sword  will  open. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  2,  2. 

He  was  wont  to  speak  plain,  and  to  the 
purpose,  like  an  honest  man  and  a  soldier  ; 
and  now  he  is  turned  orthographer. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3. 

Rude  am  I  in  my  speech, 
And  little  blessed  with  the  soft  phrase  of 
peace. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

He  speaks  home,  madam ;  you  may 
relish  him  more  in  the  soldier  than  in  the 
scholar.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  z. 


And  let  me  the  canakin  clink  I 

A  soldier's  a  man, 

A  life's  but  a  span  ; 
Why,  then,  let  a  soldier  drink. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  3. 

And  then  dreams  he  of  cutting  foreign 

throats, 

Of  breaches,  ambuscadoes,  Spanish  blades, 
Of  healths  five  fathom  deep. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  z,  4. 

And  little  of  this  great  world  can  I  speak, 
More  than  pertains  to  feats  of  broil  and 

battle  ; 

And  therefore  little  shall  I  grace  my  cause, 
In  speaking  for  myself. 

SHAKESPEARE. — 76.,  Act  2. 

I  never  expect  a  soldier  to  think. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Devil's  Disciple,  Act  3. 

The  British  soldier  can  stand  up  to  any- 
thing— except  the  British  War  Office. 

G.  B.  SHAW.— 76. 

The  soldier  is  an  anachronism  of  which 
we  must  get  rid. 
G.  B.  SHAW.—/.  Bull's  Other  Island.  Pref. 

When  the  military  man  approaches,  the 
world  locks  up  its  spoons  and  packs  off  its 
womankind. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Man  and  Superman. 

Dost  thou  not  know  the  fate  of  soldiers  ? 
They're  but  ambition's  tools,  to  cut  a  way 
To  her  unlawful  ends  :  and  when  they're 

worn, 
Hacked,     hewn    with    constant    service, 

thrown  aside 
To  rust  in  peace  and  rot  in  hospitals. 

T.  SOUTHERN. — Loyal  Brothers. 

True,  quoth  my  Uncle  Toby,  thou  didst 
very  right  as  a  soldier — but  certainly  very 
wrong  as  a  man. 

STERNE. — Tristram  Shandy,  vol.  6,  8. 

"  A  soldier,"  cried  my  Uncle  Toby,  in- 
terrupting the  Corporal.  "  is  no  more  exempt 
from  saying  a  foolish  thing,  Trim,  than 
a  man  of  letters."  "  But  not  so  often,  an* 
please  your  Honour,"  replied  the  Corporal. 
STERNE. — 76.,  vol.  7,  ch.  19. 

Sidney,  lord  of  the  stainless  sword. 

SWINBURNE. — Astrophel,  '+,  4. 

All  in  the  Valley  of  Death 
Rode  the  Six  Hundred. 
TENNYSON. — Charge  o)  the  Light  Brigade. 

Home  they  brought  her  warrior  dead. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  6.  Song. 

I  wonder  is  it  because  men  are  cowards 
in  heart  that  they  admire  bravery  so  much, 
and  place  military  valour  so  far  beyond 
svery  other  quality  for  reward  and  wor- 
ship ?  THACKERAY.— Vanity  Fatr. 


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SOLEMNITY 


SOLITUDE 


He  lay  like  a  warrior  taking  his  rest, 
With  his  martial  cloak  around  him. 

WOLFE. — Burial  of  Sir  J.  Moore. 

Does  this  become  a  soldier,  this  become 

Whom  armies  followed,  and  a  people  loved? 

YOUNG. — The  Revenge  (Zanga). 

Tell  them,  O  guns,  that  we  have  heard 

their  call, 
That  we  have  sworn,  and  will  not  turn 

aside, 

That  we  will  onward  till  we  win  or  fall. 
That  we  will  keep  the  faith  for  which 
they  died.  ANON. — 1918. 

O  little  Force  that  in  your  agony 

Stood  fast  while  England  girt  her  armour 

on, 
Held  high  our  honour  in  your  wounded 

hands, 
Carried    our    honour    safe    with    bleeding 

feet— 

We  have  110  glory  great  enough  for  you, 
The  very  soul  of  Britain  keeps  your  day. 
ANON. — Published  in  a  London 
Newspaper,  1917 

A  man  is  known  by  the  Company  he  joins. 
Bad  communication  trenches  corrupt  good 

manners. 

Never  look  a  gift  gun  in  the  mouth. 
A  drop  of  oil  in  time  saves  time. 
One  swallow  doesn't  make  a  rum  issue. 
Where  there's  a  war  there's  a  way. 

Army  proverbs  (1917). 

Persons  maimed  in  the  wars  should  be 
maintained  at  the  public  charge. 

One  of  the  laws  of  Solon  (according  to 
Plutarch) 

The  man-at-arms  is  the  only  man. 
Old  Norse  saying,  as  cited  by  Ibsen,   in 
"Lady  Inger  of  Ostraat,"  Act  i   (1854). 

The  more  we  work,  the  more  we  may, 
It  makes  no  difference  to  our  pay. 
"  We  are  the  Royal  Sappers,"  War  Song 

(c.  1915)- 
An  old  soldier,  an  old  fool. 

French  prcv 

Old  soldiers  never  die  ; 
They  fade  away ! 

Popular  Song,  1919. 

Whoever  fighteth  for  the  religion  of  God, 
whether  he  be  slain  or  be  victorious,  we 
will  surely  give  him  a  great  reward. 

Koran,  ch.  4. 
SOLEMNITY 

We  are  growing  serious,  and  let  me  tell 

you  that's  the  very  next  step  to  being  dull. 

ADDISON. — The  Drummer,  Act  4. 

Levity  is  often  less  foolish,  and  gravity 
less  wise,  than  each  of  them  appears. 

C.  C.  COLTON.—  Lacon 


Hence,  avaunt  ('tis  holy  ground), 
Comus  and  his  midnight  crew  ! 

GRAY. — Ode  for  Music. 

Thou  say'st  an  undisputed  thing 
In  such  a  solemn  way. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — To  an  Insect. 

The  perpetual  gravity  of  small  minds, 
which  is  only  the  mask  of  mediocrity. 

VOLTAIRE. — Discourse   to    French 
Academy,  1746. 
The  gravest  fish  is  an  oyster, 

The  gravest  bird  is  an  owl, 
The  gravest  beast  is  an  ass, 
An'  the  gravest  man's  a  fule. 

Old  Scottish  rhyme. 

SOLITUDE 

'Midst  the  crowd,  the  hum,  the  shock  of 
men, 

To  hear,  to  see,  to  feel,  and  to  possess, 

And  roam  along,  the  world's  tired  denizen, 

With  none  who  bless  us,  none  whom  we 
can  bless  : 

Minions  of  splendour  shrinking  from  dis- 
tress ! 

None  that,  with  kindred  consciousness 
endued, 

If  we  were  not,  would  seem  to  smile  the 
less, 

Of  all  that  nattered,  followed,  sought, 
and  sued, 

This  is  to  be  alone  ;  this,  this  is  solitude  ! 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  st.  26. 

In  solitude,  where  we  are  least  alone. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  90. 

My  life  must  linger  on  alone. 

BYRON. — Parisina. 

The  wise  seyth,  Woe  to  him  that  is  allone, 

Fore,  and  he  falle,  he  hath  noon  help  to  rise. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus,  Bk.  i,  694. 

So  lonely  'twas  that  God  himself 
Scarce  seemed  there  to  be. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner, 
Pt.?. 

O  solitude  !   where  are  the  charms 
That  sages  have  seen  in  thy  face  ?  % 
COWPER. — Alex.  Selkirk. 

I  praise  the  Frenchman — his  remark  was 
shrewd, — 

"  How  sweet,  how  passing  sweet  is  soli- 
tude ! 

But  grant  me  still  a  friend  in  my  retreat, 

Whom  I  may  whisper — Solitude  is  sweet." 
COWPER. — Retirement. 

Woe  be  to  him  that  lust  to  be  alone 
For  if  he  falle,  helpe  hath  he  none. 

THOS.  HOCCLEVE. — De  Regimine. 

If  you  are  idle,  be  not  solitary  ;   if  you 
are  solitary,  be  not  idle. 

JOHNSON. — Letter,  1779. 


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SONG 


SONG 


The  solitary  mortal  is  certainly  lux- 
urious, probably  superstitious,  and  possibly 
mad.  The  mind  stagnates  for  want  of 
employment,  grows  morbid,  and  is  ex- 
tinguished like  a  candle  in  foul  air. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

In  solitude 

What  happiness  ?     Who  can  enjoy  alone, 

Or  all  enjoying,  what  contentment  find  ? 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  8,  364. 

Solitude  sometimes  is  best  society. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  249. 

Overbearing  austerity  is  always  the 
companion  of  solitude. 

PLATO. — (According  to  Plutarch). 

Thus  let  me  live,  unseen,  unknown, 
Thus  unlamented  let  me  die  ; 
Steal  from  the  world,  and  not  a  stone 
Tell  where  I  lie. 

POPE. — Ode  on  Solitude. 

But  there  are  moments  which  he  calls  his 

own  : 

Then  never  less  alone  than  when  alone. 
ROGERS. — Human  Lije. 

I  never  found  the  companion  that  was 
so  companionable  as  solitude. 

H.  D.  THOREAU. — Solitude. 

Other  people  are  quite  dreadful.  The 
only  possible  society  is  oneself. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Ideal  Husband. 

Impulses  of  deeper  birth 
Have  come  to  him  in  solitude. 
WORDSWORTH. — A  Poet's  Epitaph. 

O  lost  to  virtue,  lost  to  manly  thought, 
Lost  to  the  noble  sallies  of  the  soul, 
Who  think  it  solitude  to  be  alone  ! 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

But  woe  unto  him  that  is  alone  when  be 
falleth.  Ecclesiastes  iv,  10. 

SONG  AND  SONGS 

That  which  is  not  worth  saying  is  sung. 
BEAUMARCHAIS. — Barbier  de  Seville-. 

In  Highland  sang, 

Was  made  lang  syne — Lord  knows  how 
lang.  BURNS. — Twa  Dogs 

I  knew  a  very  wise  man  so  much  of  Sir 
Christopher's  [Musgrave's]  sentiment,  that 
he  believed  if  a  man  were  permitted  to 
make  all  the  ballads,  he  need  not  care  who 
should  make  the  laws  of  a  nation. 

ANDREW  FLETCHER  (1703). 


Good  people  all,  of  every  sort, 
Give  ear  unto  my  song  ; 


And  if  you  find  it  wondrous  short, 
It  cannot  hold  you  long. 
GOLDSMITH. — Elegy  on  the  Death  of  a 
Mad  Dog. 

For  doth  not  Song 
To  the  whole  world  belong  ? 
Is  it  not  given  where  tears  can  fall, 
Wherever  hearts  can  melt,  or  blushes  grow, 
Or  mirth  and  sadness  mingle  as  they  flow, 
A  heritage  to  all  ? 

ISA  (CRAIG)   KNOX. — Ode  on  the 
Centenary  of  Burns. 

Why  "  words  for  music  "  are  almost 

invariably  trash  now,  though  the  words  of 

Elizabethan   songs   are   better   than   any 

music,  is  a  gloomy  and  difficult  question. 

A.  LANG. — Essay  on  T.  H.  Bayly. 

Songs  have  immunity  from  death. 

OVID. — Amores. 

What   will  a  child   learn   sooner   than   a 
song  ?  POPE. — Satires. 

Odds  life  !    must  one  swear  to  the  truth 
of  a  song  ?        PRIOR. — Better  Answer. 

If  unmelodious  was  the  song. 
It  was  a  hearty  note  and  strong. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  6.     Intro. 

More  solid  things  do  not  show  the  com- 
plexion of  the  times  so  well  as  Ballads 
and  Libels  [pamphlets]. 

SIR  J.  SELDEN. — Libels. 

The  world  was  very  guilty  of  such  a 
ballad  some  three  ages  since  ;  but  I  think 
now  'tis  not  to  be  found. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  2. 

Note  this  before  my  notes, 
There's  not  a  note  of  mine  that's  worth 
the  noting.- 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3; 

And  stretched  metre  of  an  antique  song. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  17. 

Our  sweetest   songs   are   those   that  tell 
of  saddest  thought. 

SHELLEY. — Skylark. 

Was  there  ever  such  stupid  trash  as 
these  humorous  songs  ?  If  there  is  any- 
thing on  earth  makes  me  melancholy  it  is 
a  humorous  song. 

j^jjfc  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Miss  G. 
Harcourt,  March  29,  1843. 

The  whole  world  sings  my  song,  and  I 

alone 
Am  silent :  yet  through  tears  I  sometimes 

say, 

"  To  which  of  us  doth  greater  joy  belong  ?  " 
He  hath  his  love  ;  but  I, — I  have  my  song. 
SUSAN  MARR  SPALDING. — A  Song's  Worth. 


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SORROW 


A  song  is,  as  it  were,  a  little  image  in 
enamel,  that  requires  all  the  nice  touches 
of  the  pencil,  a  gloss  and  a  smoothness, 
with  those  delicate  finishing  strokes, 
which  would  be  superfluous  and  thrown 
away  upon  larger  figures. 

STEELE. — The  Guardian,  No.  16 
(March  30,  1713)- 

Songs  with  a  lilt  of  words,  that  seem 
To  sing  themselves.    R.  L.  STEVENSON. 

Your  song 

Tastes  sharp  of  sea  and  the  sea's  bitterness. 
SWINBURNE. — Ckastelard,  Act  i,  i. 

They  sang  of  love,  and  not  of  fame  ; 

Forgot  was  Britain's  glory  ; 
Each  heart  recalled  a  different  name, 

But  all  sang  Annie  Lawrie. 
BAYARD  TAYLOF. — Songs  of  the  Camp. 

Short  swallow-flights  of  song,  that  dip 
Their  wings  in  tears,  and  skim  away. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  48. 

Soft  words,  with  nothing  in  them,  make 
a  song.        WALLER.— To  Mr.  Creech. 

Empires  dissolve,  and  peoples  disappear ; 

Song  passes  not  away. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Lacrima  Musarum,  112. 

Old    songs,    the    precious    music    of    the 

heart ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Feelings  of  the  Tyrolese. 

When  droops  the  boldest,  when  hope  flies. 
When  hearts  are  coldest,  dead  songs  rise  ; 
Young  voices  sound  still,  bright  thoughts 

thrive, 
Friends  pass  around  still,  so  songs  live. 

Harrow  School  Song. 
SONNETS 

Happy  the  feeling  from  the  bosom  thrown, 
In  perfect  shape,  (whose  beauty  Time 

shall  spare 
Though  a  breath  made  it),  like  a  bubble 

blown 

For  summer  pastime  into  wanton  air. 
WORDSWORTH. — Miscell.  Sonnets. 
Dedication. 

Scorn  not  the  sonnet.    Critic,  you  have 

frowned, 
Mindless  of  its  just  honours  ;    with  this 

key 
Shakespeare  unlocked  his  heart. 

WORDSWORTH. — Scorn  not  the  Sonnet. 

SONS 

He  was  not  all  a  father's  heart  could  wish  ; 
But  oh,  he  was  my  son  !  — my  only  son. 
My  child. 

JOANNA  BAILLIE. — Orra,  Act  3,  2. 

That  unfeathered  two-legged  thing,  a  son. 
DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  A chitophel,  i,  170. 
O  wonderful  son,  that  can  so  astonish 
a  mother  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  3,  2. 


Forget  not,  nor  think  shame ;  I  was  thy 
son. 

Time  was  I  did  not  shame  thee  ;  and  time 
was 

I  thought  to  live  and  make  thee  honour- 
able. SWINBURNE. — Meleager. 

This   is   not   the   son   of  Achilles,   but 
Achilles  himself. 

Greek  prov.     (Plutarch :  Life  of 
Alcibiades.) 
SOPHISTRY 

The  barren  optimistic  sophistries 
Of  comfortable  moles. 
M.  ARNOLD. — To  a  Republican  Friend. 

As  creeping  ivy  clings  to  wood  and  stone, 
And  hides  the  ruin  that  it  feeds  upon, 
So  sophistry  cleaves  close  to  and  protects 
Sin's  rotten  trunk,  concealing  its  defects. 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  285. 

Dark-browed  sophist,  come  not  anear, 
All  the  place  is  holy  ground. 

TENNYSON. — The  Poet. 

SORROW 

Sorrow  preys  upon 

Its  solitude,  and  nothing  more  diverts  it 
From  its  sad  visions  of  the  other  world 
Than  calling  it  at  moments  back  to  this. 
BYRON. — The  Two  Foscari,  Act  4,  i. 

But  sorrow  returned  with  the  dawning  of 

morn, 
And  the  voice  in  my  dreaming  ear  melted 

away.     CAMPBELL. — Soldier's  Dream. 

There  is  no  grief  which  length  of  time 
does  not  diminish  and  soften. 

CICERO. — See  De  Fin.,  Bk.  1,12,  40. 

Some  ease  it  is  hid  sorrows  to  declare. 
F.  DAVISON. — A  Complaint. 

To  each  his  sufferings  ;   all  are  men 
Condemned  alike  to  groan  ; 

The  tender  for  another's  pain, 
Th"  unfeeling  for  his  own. 

GRAY. — Eton  College. 

What  sorrow  was,  thou  bad'st  her  know, 
And  from  her  own,  she  learned  to  melt  at 
others'  woe. 

GRAY. — Hymn  to  Adversity. 

A  solitary  sorrow  best  befits 
Thy  lips,  and  antheming  a  lonely  grief. 
KEATS. — Hyperion,  Bk.  3,  5. 

For  sorrow,  long-indulged  and  slow, 
Is  to  Humanity  a  foe. 
J.  LANGHORNE. — Hymn  to  Humanity,  st.  2. 

Who  ne'er  his  bread  in  sorrow  ate, 

Who  ne'er  the  mournful  midnight  hours 

Weeping  upon  his  bed  has  sate, 

He  knows  you  not,  ye  Heavenly  Powers; 
LONGFELLOW. — From  Goethe'. 


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SOUL 


SOUL 


Earth  has  no  sorrow  that  Heaven  can- 
not heal.          MOORE. — Sacred  Songs. 

Much  then  I  learned,  and  much  can  show, 
Of  human  guilt  and  human  woe, 
Yet  ne'er  have,  in  my  wanderings,  known 
A  wretch  whose  sorrows  matched  my  own. 
SCOTT. — Rokeby,  c.  4,  .•><.  23. 

When  sorrows  come,  they  come  not  single 

spies, 
But  in  battalions. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  5. 

One  woe  doth  tread  upon  another's  heel, 
So  fast  they  follow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — lb.,  Act  4,  7. 

I  have  a  silent  sorrow  here, 
A  grief  I'll  ne'er  impart. 

SHERIDAN. — Stranger. 

When  sorrow  sleepeth,  wake  it  not, 
But  let  it  slumber  on. 

M.  A.  STODART. — Song. 

Never  morning  wore 
To  evening,  but  some  heart  did  break. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  Pt.  6,  2. 

This  is  truth  the  poet  sings, 
That  a  sorrow's  crown  of  sorrow  is  remem- 
bering happier  things. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Past  sorrows,  let  us  moderately  lament 

them : 
For  those  to  come,  seek  wisely  to  prevent 

them.     WEBSTER. — Duchess  of  Malfi. 

But  each  heart  keeps  its  sorrow  for  its  own, 
Nor  bares  its  wound  to  the  chill  general 

gaze  ; 

Men  laugh  together — if  they  weep  alone  : 
But  sorrow  walks  in  all  the  wide  world's 
ways. 

AUGUSTA  WEESTER. — A  Woman  Sold, 
3.    To  and  Fro. 

Where    there    is    sorrow,    there    is    holy 
ground. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — De  Profundis. 

A  deep  distress  hath  humanised  my  soul. 
WORDSWORTH. — Elegiac  Stanzas  1805. 

A  man  of  sorrows,  and  acquainted  with 
grief.  Isaiah  liii,  3. 

Sorrow  is  good  for  nothing  but  sin. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
SOUL 

Wander  at  will, 
Day  after  day, — 
Wander  away, 
Wandering  still — 
Soul  that  canst  soar  ! 
Body  may  slumber : 
Body  shall  cumber 
Soul-flight  no  more. 
BROWNING. — La  Saisiax,  Prologue. 


But  I  have  lived,  and  have  not  lived  in 

vain  : 
My  mind  may  lose  its  force,  my  blood  its 

fire, 
And  my  frame  perish  even  in  conquering 

pain  ; 
But  there  is  that  within  me  which  shall 

tire 
Torture  and  Time,  and  breathe  when  I 

expire ; 
Something  unearthly,  which  they  deem 

not  of. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4.  137. 

Soul  is  the  Man  !    For  who  will  so 
The  body  name  ? 
CAMPION. — Are  you  what  your  fair 
looks  express  ? 

There   is   in   souls   a   sympathy    with 

sounds, 
And  as  the  mind  is  pitched  the  ear  is 

pleased 
With  melting  airs  or  martial,  brisk  or 

grave.          COWPER. — Task,  Bk.  6,  i. 

But  as  Noah's  pigeon,  which  returned  no 

more, 
Did  show  she  footing  found,  for  all  the 

flood, 
So   when   good   souls,   departed   through 

death's  door, 
Come  not  again,  it  shows  their  dwelling 

good. 

SIR  J.  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum. 

Of  that  ineffable  substance  which  we 
rail  Spirit  he  that  thinks  most  will  say 
least.  EMERSON. — Spirit. 

The  soul's  a  sort  of  sentimental  wife, 
That  prays  and  whimpers  of  the  higher 

life. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — Decadent  to  his  Soul. 

Hands  of  invisible  spirits  touch  the  strings 
Of  that  mysterious  instrument,  the  soul, 
And  play  the  prelude  of  our  fate. 
LONGFELLOW. — Spanish  Student,  Act  i,  i. 

The  soul  on  earth  is  an  immortal  guest, 
Compelled  to  starve  at  an  unreal  feast. 
HANNAH  MORE. — King  Hackiah,  125. 

If  we  are  ever  to  know  anything  purely 
we  must  be  separated  from  the  body  and 
contemplate  the  things  themselves  by  the 
mere  soul. 

PLATO. — Pheedo,  30  (Gary  tr.). 

Vital  spark  of  heavenly  flame  ! 
Quit,  on  quit  this  mortal  frame. 
POPE. — The  Dying  Christian  to  his  Soul. 

Stab  at  thee  he  that  will, 
No  stab  the  soul  can  kill. 

SIR  W.  RALEGH. — The  Lie. 


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SPEECH 


If  I  had  no  other  proof  of  the  imma- 
teriality of  the  soul,  than  the  triumph  of 
the  wicked  and  the  oppression  of  justice 
in  this  world,  that  alone  would  prevent 
my  doubting  it.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Ah,  no  !  it  is  not  dead,  ne  can  it  die, 
But  lives  for  aie,  in  blissful  Paradise  : 
Where  like  a  new-borne  babe  it  soft  doth 

lie, 

In  bed  of  lilies  wrapped  in  tender  wise  ; 
And  compast  all  about  with  roses  sweet, 
And  daintie  violets  from  head  to  feet. 

SPENSER. — Clorinda,  st.  12. 

So  every  spirit,  as  it  is  most  pure, 

And  hath  in  it  the  more  of  heavenly  light, 

So  it  the  fairer  bodie  doth  procure 

To  habit  in,  and  it  more  fairely  dight, 

With  chearefull  grace  and  amiable  sight ; 

For  of  the  spule  the  bodie  forme  doth  take, 

For  soule  is  forme,  and  doth  the  bodie 

make. 
SPENSER. — Hymn  in  Honour  of  Beauty. 

Who  tells  me  he  denies  his  soul's  immortal, 

Whate'er  his  boast,  has  told  me  he's  a 

knave.          YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts, 

7,  1168. 

SOUNDS 

O,  it  came  o'er  my  ear  like  the  sweet  south, 
That  breathes  upon  a  bank  of  violets, 
Stealing  and  giving  odour. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  i,  i. 

Low,  sweet,  faint  sounds,  like  the  fare- 
well of  ghosts. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  2,  i. 

Sounds  overflow  the  listener's  brain, 
So  sweet,  that  joy  is  almost  pain. 

SHELLEY. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 
SOUTH 

Otell  her, Swallow,  thou  that  knowest  each, 
That  bright  and  fierce  and  fickle  is  the 

South, 

And  dark  and  true  and  tender  is  the  North. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  78. 

SOVEREIGNTY 

What  all  your  sex  desire  is  Sovereignty. 
DRYDEN. — Wife  of  Bath's  Tale,  279. 

We  were  not   born  to  sue,  but  to  com- 
mand. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  i. 

SPAIN 

Not  all  the  blood  at  Talavera  shed, 
Not  all  the  marvels  of  Barossa's  fight, 
Not  Albuera  lavish  of  the  dead, 
Have  won  for  Spain  her  well-asserted  right. 
When  shall  her  olive-branch  be  free  from 

blight  ? 

When  shall  she  breathe  her  from  the  blush- 
ing toil  ? 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  go. 


The  land  of  war  and  crimes. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  16. 

Her  soil  has  felt  the  foot-prints,  and  her 

clime 

Been  winnowed  by  the  wings  of  Liberty. 
CAMPBELL. — Stanzas  to  the  Memory  of  the 
Spanish  Patriots. 

Who  has  not  seen  Seville  has  seen 
nothing. 

Spanish  prov.  (quoted  by  Le  Sage,  Gil  Bias, 
Bk.  10,  ch.  10). 

SPECULATION 

The  region  of  speculation  is  the  region 
of  opinion,  and  a  hazy,  lazy,  delightful 
region  it  is ;  good  to  talk  in,  good  to 
smoke  in,  peopled  with  pleasant  fancies 
and  charming  ideas. 

A.  BIRRELL. — Obiter  Dicta :  Truth 
Hunting. 

No  man  should  so  act  as  to  make  a  gain 
out  of  another  man's  ignorance. 

CICERO. — De  Officiis. 

In  my  school-days,  when  I  had  lost  one 
shaft, 

I  shot  his  fellow  of  the  self -same  flight 

The  self-same  way,  with  more  advised 
watch, 

To  find  the  other  forth  ;  and  by  adven- 
turing both 

I  oft  found  both. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.  of  Venice,  Act  i,  i. 

You  must  lose  a  fly  to  catch  a  trout. 

Prov. 

SPEECH 

And  with  your  speech  let  mood  not  over- 
bold, 
Nor  vain  nor  wanton,  shine  from  modest 

brow 
And  calm  clear  eye  :    and  be  not  prompt 

to  speak 
Not  full  of  words. 

^ESCHYLUS. — Suppliants,  197 
(Plumptretr.). 

Speak  always  according  to  your  con- 
science, but  do  it  in  terms  of  good  nature 
and  modesty  and  sincerity. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  8.  5. 

There  is  no  man  but  speaketh  more 
honestly  than  he  can  do  or  think. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

Discretion  of  speech  is  more  than  elo- 
quence. BACON. — Of  Discourse. 

Now  I'll  say  something  to  remember. 
BROWNING. — Soul's  Tragedy,  Act  i. 

He  said 

Little  but  to  the  purpose  ;  and  his  manner 

Flung   hovering   graces   o'er   him   like    a 

banner.       BYRON. — Don  Juan,  9,  83. 


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SPEECH 


Thing  that  is  seyd  is  seyd,  and  forth  it 
gooth  [goeth]. 

CHAUCER.  —Manciple's  Tale,  251. 

I  am  a  womman,  needes  most  [must]  I 

speke, 
Or  elles  swelle  til  myn  herte  breke. 

CHAUCER. — Marchantes  Tale,  1061. 

Never  hear  the  sweet  music  of  speech. 
COWPER. — Alex.  Selkirk. 

When  malefactors  come  to  die 
They  claim  uncommon  liberty  : 
Freedom  of  speech  gives  no  distaste  ; 
They  let  them  talk  at  large,  because  they 
talk  their  last. 

DEFOE. — Elegy  on  the  Author. 

This  indeed  is  what  speech  is  for — to 
make  the  statement ;  and  all  that  is  called 
eloquence  seems  to  me  of  little  use,  for  the 
most  part,  to  those  who  have  it,  but  ines- 
timable to  such  as  have  something  to  say. 
EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

Not  able  to  speak,  but  unable  to  hold 
his  tongue. 

EPICHARMUS. — (Greek  :  as  quoted  by 
Aulus  Gellius). 

The  true  use  of  speech  is  not  so  much 

to  express  our  wants  as  to  conceal  them. 

GOLDSMITH. — The  Bee,  No.  3 

(Adapted  from  a  French  saying.; 

And,   when   you  stick   on   conversationV 

burrs, 
Don't    strew    your    pathway    with    those 

dreadful  urs. 

O.  VV.  HOLMES. — Rhymed  Lesson. 

The  mixture  of  those  things  by  speech, 
which  by  nature  are  divided,  is  the  mother 
of  all  error. 

HOOKER. — Eccles.  Pol.,  3,  3,  i. 

You  may  blot  what  is  written,  but  the 
spoken  word  can  never  be  recalled. 

HORACE. — De  Art.  Poet. 

Men  will  be  ever  to  their  errors  blind, 
Where  woman's  not  allowed  to  speak  her 
mind. 

JOHNSON. — Epilogue  to  Irene. 

That  large  utterance  of  the  early  Gods. 
KEATS. — Hyperion,  Bh.  i,  50. 

Trust    on    the    dede    and    not    in    gaye 

speechys. 
LYDGATE. — Seer  eta  Secretorum  (c.  1400). 

The  magic  of  the  tongue  is  the  most 
dangerous  of  all  spells, 
(ist)  LORD  LYTTON. — Eugene  Aram,  ch.  7. 

Men  are  never  so  likely  to  settle  a  ques- 
tion rightly  as  when  they  discuss  it  freely. 
MACAULAY. — Southey's  Colloquies. 


"  But  how  divine  is  utterance  !  "  she 

said,  "  as  we  to  the  brutes,  poets  are  to  us." 

GEO.  MEREDITH. — Diana,  ch.  16. 

If  you  your  lips  would  keep  from  slips, 
Five  things  observe  with  care  : 

To  whom  you  speak,  of  whom  you  speak, 
And  how,  and  when,  and  where. 
W.  E.  NORRIS.— Thirlby  Hall.     Modern 
version  of  old  lines  (see  "  Talk,"  p.  500). 

Speak  properly  and  in  as  few  words  as 
you  can,  but  always  plainly ;  for  the  end 
of  speech  is  not  ostentation  but  to  be 
understood.  PENN. — Fruits  of  Solitude. 

Bias  being  desired  by  Amasis  to  send 
him  the  best  and  the  worst  part  of  the 
sacrificial  offering  sent  the  tongue,  because 
the  greatest  blessings  and  the  worst  curses 
are  derived  to  us  thereby. 

PLUTARCH. — Of  Hearing. 

And  the  lady  shall  speak  her  mind  freely, 
or  the  blank  verse  shall  halt  for  it. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

He  gave  man  speech,  and  speech  created 

thought, 
Which  is  the  measure  of  the  universe. 

SHELLEY. — Prometheus,  Act  2,  4. 

I  a'n't  dead,  but  I'm  speechless. 
SMOLLETT. — Count  Fathom,  ch.  42. 

The  first  duty  of  a  man  is  to  speak  ;  that 
is  his  chief  business  in  this  world. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Memories. 

But  oft   the  words  come  forth  awrie  of 
him  that  loveth  well. 
EARL  OF  SURREY. — Fickle  Affections. 

Peace  and  be  wise ;    no  gods  love  idle 
speech.  SWINBURNE. — Atalanta. 

Let  your  speech  be  alway  with  grace, 
seasoned  with  salt.  Colossians  iv,  6. 

The  stroke  of  the  tongue  breaketh  the 
bones.  Many  have  fallen  by  the  edge  of 
the  sword  ;  but  not  so  many  as  have  fallen 
by  the  tongue.  Ecclcsiasticus  xxvili,  17, 18. 

The  tongue  can  no  man  tame ;  it  is  an 
unruly  evil,  full  of  deadly  poison. 

St.  James  iii,  8 

Let  him  now  speak,  or  else  hereafter  for 
ever  hold  his  peace. 

Common  Prayer :    Marriage  Service. 

Some  things  that  you  have  said  are  true, 
And  some  things  you  have  said  are  new  ; 
But  what  are  true,  alas  !  they  are  not 

new, 

And  what  are  new,  they  are,  alas !  not  true. 

ANON. 

The  ear  tires  sooner  than  the  tongue. 

Prov. 


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SPEED 


SPORT 


SPEED 

Back  to  thy  punishment 
False  fugitive,  and  to  thy  speed  add  wings. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  699. 

Out-fly    the   nimble    sail,  and    leave    the 
;,  ,     lagging  wind.  POPE. — Odyssey,  n,  74. 

The  spirit  of    the    time   shall    teach    me 
speed. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  4,  2. 

I'll  put  a  girdle  round  about  the  earth 
In  forty  minutes. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  2,  2. 
SPELLING 

"  Do  you  spell  it  with  a '  V '  or  a  '  W  ?" 
inquired  the  judge.  "  That  depends  upon 
the  taste  and  fancy  of  the  speller,  my 
Lord,"  replied  Sam. 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  34. 

They  spell  it  Vinci,  and  pronounce  it 
Vinchy ;  foreigners  always  spell  better 
than  they  pronounce. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Innocents  Abroad,  ch.  9. 

SPIDERS 

Much  like  a  subtle  spider  which  doth  sit 
In  middle  of  her  web,  which  spreadeth 

wide  ; 

If  aught  do  touch  the  utmost  thread  of  it. 
She  feels  it  instantly  on  every  side. 

SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Immortality  of  the 

Soul. 

"  Will  you  walk  into  my  parlour  ?  "  said 
the  spider  to  the  fly. 
MARY  Ho  WITT. — The  Spider  and  the 

Fly. 

The  spider's  touch,  how  exquisitely  fine  ! 

Feels  at  each  thread  and  lives  along  the 

line.      POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  i,  217. 

SPIES 

His  was  the  subtle  look  and  sly, 
That,  spying  all,  seems  nought  to  spy. 
SCOTT. — Rokeby,  5,  16. 

The  great  thing  in  life  is  to  be  simple  ; 
and  the  perfectly  simple  thing  is  to  look 
through  key-holes. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Great  Catherine,  Sc.  i. 

SPIRITS 

It  is  easier  to  call  up  an  evil  spirit  than 
to  allay  it. 

ERASMUS. — (Quoted  as  an  old  saying  in 
Conv.  Poet.). 

The  spirit  world  around  this  world  of  sense 
Floats  like  an  atmosphere,  and  every- 
where 
Wafts  through   these  earthly  mists  and 

vapours  dense 
A  vital  breath  of  more  ethereal  air. 

LONGFELLOW. — Haunted  Houses. 


For  spirits,  when  they  please, 
Can  either  sex  assume,  or  both  ;  so  soft 
And  uncompounded  is  their  essence  pure. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  423. 

Millions  of  spiritual  creatures  walk   the 

earth 
Unseen,  both  when  we  wake  and  when  we 

sleep.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  4,  677. 

Thus  all  things  are  but  altered  ;  nothing 

dies  : 
And  here  and  there  the  unbodied  spirit 

flies, 

By  Time,  or  Force,  or  Sickness  dispossessed, 

And  lodges,  where  it  lights,  in  man  or  beast. 

OVID. — Mctam.,  Bk.  15  (Dryden  tr.). 

Know  then,  unnumbered  spirits  round  thee 

fly, 

The  light  Militia  of  the  lower  sky. 

POPE. — Rape  of  the  Lock,  i,  41. 

SPITEFULNESS 

And  are  you — since  the  world  began, 
All  women  are — a  little  spiteful  ? 

W.  M.  PRAED. — Portrait  of  a  Lady. 

SPLEEN 

The   spleen   is   seldom   felt   where   Flora 

reigns ; 

The  lowering  eye,  the  petulance,  the  frown, 
And  sullen  sadness,  that  o'ershade,  distort, 
And  mar  the  face  of  beauty,  when  no  cause 
For  such  immeasurable  woe  appears  ; 
These  Flora  banishes,  and  gives  the  fair 
Sweet  smiles,  and  bloom  less  transient 

than  her  own. 

COWPER. — The  Task,  Bk.  i,  455. 

Spleen,  which  only  seizes  on  the  lazy, 
the  luxurious,  and  the  rich. 

SWIFT. — Honyhnhnms. 

SPORT  AND  SPORTSMEN 

They  [the  English]  are  the  most  voracious 
people  of  prey  that  ever  existed.  Every 
season  turns  out  the  aristocracy  into  the 
country  to  shoot  and  fish. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  4,  Race. 

It  is  a  proverb  in  England  that  it  is  safer 
to  shoot  a  man  than  a  hare. 

EMERSON. — Ib. 

Wild  animals  never  kill  for  sport.  Man 
is  the  only  one  to  whom  the  torture  and 
death  of  his  fellow  creatures  is  amusing  in 
itself.  FROUDE. — Oceana. 

No  game  was  ever  yet  worth  a  rap 

For  a  rational  man  to  play, 
Into  which  no  accident,  no  mishap, 

Could  possibly  find  a  way. 

A.  L.  GORDON. — Weary  Wayfarer. 


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STARS 


Then  ye  returned  to  your  trinkets  ;    then 

ye  contented  your  souls 
With  the  flannelled  fools  at  the  wicket  or 

the  muddied  oafs  at  the  goals. 

KIPLING. — Islanders. 

Great  manliness  and  love  of  sports, 
A  grave,  wise  thoughtfulness  and  truth, 
A  merry  fun  outlasting  youth, 
A  courage  terrible  to  see, 
And  mercy  for  his  enemy. 

J.  MASEFIELD. — Reynard  the  Fox. 

The   voice   of   the  schoolboy  rallies   the 

ranks : 

"  Play  up,  play  up  !  and  play  the  game  !  " 
SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Vita  Lampada. 

A  mighty  spearsman  and  a  seaman  wise, 
A  hunter,  and  at  need  a  lord  of  lies. 

STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — Ulysses,  Prol. 
(Of  Ulysses). 

A  rider  unequalled — a  sportsman  complete, 
A  rum  one  to  follow,  a  bad  one  to  beat. 
G.  J.  WHYTE-.MELVILLE. — Hunting  Song. 

Without  danger  the  game  grows  cold. 
Latin  Maxim,  quoted  in  Cliapman's  "  All 
Fools  "  (1605). 
SPRING 

Sunlight  runs  a  race  with  rain, 
All  the  world  grows  young  again. 
MATHILDE  BLIND. — Street-Children's 
Dance. 

In  fact,  'tis  the  season  of  billing  and  cooing, 
Amorous  flying  and  fond  pursuing. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Fine  Weather  on  the 
Digentia,  i,  st.  i. 
Now  Nature  hangs  her  mantle  green 

On  every  blooming  tree, 
And  spreads  her  sheets  o'  daisies  white 

Out  o'er  the  grassy  lea. 
BURNS. — Lament  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots. 

Now  spring  begins  her  smiling  round, 
Lavish  to  paint  the  enamelled  ground. 
WM.  HAMILTON  (1704-1754)- — Ode  to 
Airs.  A.  R. 

I  come,  I  come,  ye  have  called  me  long, 
I  come  o'er  the  mountains  with  light  and 
song.          HEMANS. — Voice  of  Spring. 

Sweet  spring,  full  of  sweet  days  and  roses, 
A  box  where  sweets  compacted  lie. 

HERBERT. — Virtue. 

Slayer  of  the  winter,  art  thou  here  again  ? 
W.  MORRIS. — March. 

There  are  as  many  Springs  as  there  are 

years, 
And  glad  or  sad,  we  love  this  dear  old 

earth. 
LOUISE  C.  MOULTON. — The  Birds  and  I. 

But  Spring  counts  no  seed  and  gleans 

no   treasure  .  .  .  Summer  kisses  her  tired 

eyes,  and  takes  her  crown  and  sceptre. 

EDEN  PHILLPOTTS. — Girl  and  the  Faun. 


Why,  then   comes   in    the   sweet   o"  the 

year. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  2. 

When  proud-pied  April,  dressed  in  all  his 

trim, 

Hath  put  a  spirit  of  youth  in  everything. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  98. 

The  soote  [sweet]  season,  that  bud  and 
bloom  forth  brings. 

EARL  OF  SURREY. — Spring. 

In  hawthorn  time  the  heart  grows  light. 
SWINBURNE. — Tale  of  Balen. 

la    the    Spring    a   young    man's    fancy 
lightly  turns  to  thoughts  of  love. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

Come,  gentle  Sprinj  !   ethereal  mildness, 
come  !  THOMSON. — Seasons. 

For  lo,  the  winter  is  past,  the  rain  is  over 
and  gone ;  the  flowers  appear  on  the  earth  ; 
the  time  of  the  singing  of  birds  is  come, 
and  the  voice  of  the  turtle  is  heard  in  our 
land.  Song  of  Solomon  ii,  n  and  12. 

Spring  has  come  when  you  can  put  your 
foot  on  three  daisies  at  once.  Old  Saying. 

SQUIRES 

For  what  were  all  these  country  patriots 

born  ? 
To  hunt,  and  vote,  and  raise  the  price  of 

corn?        BYRON. — Age  of  Bronte,  14. 

Yet  was  he  but  a  squire  of  low  degree. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  4,  c.  7, 
st.  15. 

Sir  Aylmer  Aylmer,  that  almighty  man, 
The  county  God. 

TENNYSON. — Aylmer's  Field,  13. 

These  old  pheasant-lords, 
These   partridge-breeders  of  a   thousand 

years, 
Who  had  mildewed  in  their   thousands 

doing  nothing 
Since  Egbert.  TENNYSON. — lb.,  382. 

STABILITY 

If  this  fail, 

The  pillared  firmament  is  rottenness, 
And  earth's  base  built  on  stubble. 

MILTON. — Comus,  597. 

But  this  is  fixed 

As  are  the  roots  of  earth  and  base  of  all. 
TENNYSON. — Princess,  5,  256. 

STARS 

Ah  !  the  lamps  numberless, 
The  mystical  jewels  of  God, 
The  luminous,  wonderful, 

Beautiful  Lights  of  the  Veil ! 
R.  BUCHANAN. — Book  of  Orm. 


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STATESMEN 


And    the   sentinel   stars   set   their  watch 
in  the  sky. 

CAMPBELL. — Soldier's  Dream. 

Its  roof  star-pictured  Nature's  ceiling, 
Where  trancing  the  rapt  spirit's  feeling, 
And  God  Himself  to  man  revealing, 

The  harmonious  spheres 
Make  music,  though  unheard  their  pealing 

By  mortal  ears.  CAMPBELL. — Ib. 

Soothing  the  home-bound  navy's  peaceful 

way, 

And  rocking  e'en  the  fisher's  little  bark 
As  gently  as  a  mother  rocks  her  child. 

CAMPBELL. — View  from  St.  Leonards. 

When  I  gazed  into  those  stars,  have  they 
not  looked  down  on  me  with  pity  from 
their  serene  spaces,  like  eyes  glistening 
with  heavenly  tears  over  the  little  lot  of 
man  ? 

CARLYLE. — Sartor  Resartus,  Bk.  2,  ch.  8. 

The  stars  that  have  most  glory  have  no 
rest.  S.  DANIEL. — Civil  War. 

Blossomed   the  lovely  stars,    the   forget- 
me-nots  of  the  angels. 
LONGFELLOW. — Evangeline,  Ft.  i,  c  3. 

So  may  we  read,  and  little  find  them  cold  : 
Not  frosty  lamps  illumining  dead  space, 
Not  distant  aliens,  not  senseless  Powers. 
The  fire  is  in  them  whereof  we  are  born  ; 
The  music  of  their  motion  may  be  ours. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Meditation  under  Stars. 

Observe  how  system  into  system  runs, 
What  other  planets  circle  other  suns, 
What  varied  being  peoples  every  star. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  25. 

Thus  some,  who  have  the  stars  surveyed, 

Are  ignorantly  led 
To  think  those  glorious  lamps  were  made 

To  light  Tom  Fool  to  bed. 
NICHOLAS  ROWE. — On  a  Fine  Woman. 

This  majestical  roof  fretted  with  golden 
fire.  SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Look  how  the  floor  of  heaven 
Is  thick  inlaid  with  pa  tines  of  bright  gold  ; 
There's  not  the  smallest  orb  which  thou 

behold'st 

But  in  his  motion  like  an  angel  sings, 
Still  quiring  to  the  young-eyed  cherubins ; 
Such  harmony  is  in  immortal  souls  ; 
But  whilst  this  muddy  vesture  of  decay 
Doth  Crossly  close  it  in,  we  cannot  hear  it. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
"Act  5,  i. 

In  this  interminable  wilderness 

Of  worlds,  at  whose  immensity 

Even  soaring  fancy  staggers. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab. 


Twinkle,  twinkle,  little  star  ! 
How  I  wonder  what  you  are, 
Up  above  the  world  so  high, 
Like  a  diamond  in  the  sky. 

JANE  TAYLOR. — The  Star. 

You  meaner  beauties  of  the  night, 

That  poorly  satisfy  our  eyes 
More  by  your  number  than  your  light — 
You  common  people  of  the  skies  ! 
What  are  you  when  the  sun  shall  rise  ? 
SIR  H.  WOTTON. — To  the  Queen  of 
Bohemia. 
Eternity  is  written  in  the  skies. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  9. 

An  undevout  astronomer  is  mad. 

YOUNG. — Ib. 
STATESMEN 

Good  statesmen,  who  pulled  ruin  on  the 

state, 
Good  patriots,  who  for  a  theory  risked  a 

cause, 

Now  may  the  good  God  pardon  all  good 

men  ! 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  4. 

Refined  policy  has  ever  been  the  parent 
of  confusion,  and  ever  will  be  so. 

BURKE. — Speech  (1775). 

Individuals  pass  like  shadows  ;   but  the 
commonwealth  is  fixed  and  stable. 

BURKE. — Speech  (1780). 

His  strength  lay  in  his  knowledge  of 
England. 

BISHOP  BURNET. — History  of  his  own 
Times  (1713)  (Of  Lord  Shaftesbury) . 

I  prefer  prudence  which  is  not  eloquent, 
to  folly  which  is  talkative. 

CICERO. — De  Oratore. 

He  [Burke]  was  a  scientific  statesman  ; 

and  therefore  a  seer.     For  every  principle 

contains  in  itself  the  germs  of  a  prophecy. 

COLERIDGE. — Biog.  Liter  aria,  ch.  10. 

The  disencumbered  Atlas  of  the  state. 

COWPER. — Retirement,  394. 

The  lawyer  has  spoiled  the  statesman 
[of  Brougham], 

DISRAELI. — Young  Duke,  Bk.  5,  ch.  6. 

Art  thou  a  statesman, 
And  canst  not  be  a  hypocrite  ?    Impos- 
sible ! 
Do  not  distrust  thy  virtues  ! 

DRYDEN. — Don  Sebastian,  Act  2,  i. 

He  who  rules 

Must  humour  full   as   much   as  he  com- 
mands; 

Must  let  men  vow  impossibilities  ; 
Grant  folly's  prayers  that  hinder  folly's 

wish, 
And  serve  the  ends  of  wisdom. 

GEO   ELIOT. — Spanish  Gipsy,  Bk.  4. 


484 


STATESMEN 


STATURE 


What  constitutes  a  state  ? 

Not  high-raised  battlements  or  laboured 

mound, 

Thick  wall  or  moated  gate. 
No  :   men,  high-minded  men, 
Men,  who  their  duties  know, 
But  know  their  rights,  and  knowing,  dan 

maintain, 
These  constitute  a  State. 

SIR  W.  JONES. — Ode  in  Imitation  oi 
Alctzus. 

Is  this  the  wisdom  of  a  great  minister, 
or  is  it  the  ominous  vibration  of  a  pen- 
dulum ?  JUNIUS.— Letter  12. 

The  immense  and  brooding  spirit  still 
Shall  quicken  and  control. 

Living  he  was  the  land,  and  dead 
His  soul  shall  be  her  soul. 

KIPLING. — C.  J.  Rhodes. 

It  may  be  better  to  be  a  John  Knox  than 
an  Alcibiades  [brilliant  and  debauched], 
but  it  is  better  to  be  a  Pericles  [an  en- 
lightened statesman]  than  either. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  3. 

In  his  rising  seemed 

A  pillar  of  state  :    deep  on  his  front  en- 
graven 
Deliberation  sat  and  public  care. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  301. 

A  statesman's  heart  should  always  be 
in  his  head.  NAPOLEON. 

One  that  is  happy  in  bis  height ; 
And  one  that,  in  a  nation's  night, 
Hath  solitary  certitude  of  light. 

STEPHEN  PHILLIPS. — A  Man. 

A  brave  man  struggling  in  the  storms  of 

fate, 
And  greatly  falling,  with  a  falling  state. 

POPE. — Prologue  to  Goto. 

Notwithstanding  the  common  com- 
plaint of  the  knavery  of  men  in  power,  I 
have  known  no  great  ministers  or  men  of 
parts  and  business  so  wicked  as  their  in- 
feriors. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

The  greatest  things  and  the  most  praise- 
worthy that  can  be  done  for  the  public 
good  are  not  what  require  great  parts,  but 
great  honesty.  POPE. — Ib. 

'Tis  true  the  people  understood 
That  all  he  did  was  for  their  good  ; 
Their  kind  affections  he  has  tried  ; 
No  love  is  lost  on  either  side. 

SWIFT. — Beasts'  Confession. 

Flimnap,  the  treasurer,  is  allowed  to  cut 
a  caper  on  the  straight  rope  at  least  an 
inch  higher  than  any  other  lord  in  the  em- 
pire. I  have  seen  him  do  the  summerset 
several  times  together. 

SWIFT. — Voyage  to  Lillipv!. 


Who  makes  by  force  his  merit  known, 
And  lives  to  clutch  the  golden  keys, 
To  mould  a  mighty  state's  decrees. 

And  shape  the  whisper  of  the  throne. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  64. 

The  pillar  of  a  people's  hope, 
The  centre  of  a  world's  desire. 

TENNYSON. — Ib. 

And  statesmen  at  her  council  met 
Who  knew  the  seasons  when  to  take 
Occasion  by  the  hand,  and  make 

The  bounds  of  freedom  wider  yet. 

TENNYSON. — To  the  Queen. 

O  true  yoke-fellow  of  Time, 
Duty's  intrepid  liegeman  !    See,  the  palm 
Is  won,  and  by  all  Nations  shall  be  worn  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  3 . 
STATISTICS 

A  judicious  man  looks  at  Statistics,  not 
to  get  knowledge  but  to  save  himself  from 
having  ignorance  foisted  on  him. 

CARLYLE. — Chartism,  2. 

Nature  hates  calculators. 

EMERSON. — Experience. 

You  may  prove  anything  by  figures. 
Quoted  by  Carlyle  as  the  saying  of  "  a 
witty  statesman." 
STATUARY 

Neither  can  I,  from  my  present  know- 
ledge, fix  upon  an  ancient  statue  which 
expresses  by  the  countenance  any  one 
elevated  character  of  soul,  or  any  single 
enthusiastic  self  -  abandoning  affection, 
much  less  any  such  majesty  of  feeling  as 
might  mark  the  features  for  supernatural. 

RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  Pt.  3,  ch.  5, 

19.     (On  the  "  pernicious  element  "  in 

Greek  art.) 

I  know  not  of  anything  in  the  range  of 
art  more  unspiritual  than  the  Apollo 
Belvedere.  RUSKIN. — 76.,  ch.  5,  20  (Note). 

STATURE 

Her  stature  tall — I  hate  a  dumpy  woman. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  6x. 

Often  the  cockloft  is  empty  in  those 

which  Nature  hath  built  many  stories  high. 

FULLER. — A  ndronicus. 

She  was  a  dumpy  woman,  though 
Her  family  was  high. 

HOOD. — John  Trot. 

In  small  proportion  we  just  beauties  see, 
And  in  short  measures  life  may  perfect  be. 
BEN  JONSON. — Good  Life,  Long  Life. 

The  shortest  ladies  love  the  longest  men. 

MASSINGER  (?)  or  FLETCHER. — Love's 

Cure,  Act  3. 


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STEAM 


STOUTNESS 


A  daughter  of  the  gods,  divinely  tall, 
And  most  divinely  fair. 
TENNYSON. — Dream  of  Fair  Women. 

Thou  art  long,  and  lank,  and  brown, 
As  is  the  ribbed  sea-sand. 

WORDSWORTH. — Lines  added  to  the 
Ancient  Mariner. 
STEAM 

Soon  shall  thy  arm,  unconquered  steam. 

afar 
Drag  the  slow  barge,  or  drive  the  rapid 

car  ; 

Or  on  wide  waving  wings  expanded  bear 
The  flying  chariot  through  the  field  of  air. 
ERASMUS  DARWIN. — Botanic  Garden. 

Steam  is  a  tyrant. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes. 

STEDFASTNESS 

Thy  mind,  thy  mind,  thy  brave,  thy  manly 

mind, 
(That,  like  a  rock,  stands  all  the  storrAs  of 

fortune, 

And  beats  "em  roaring  back,  they  cannot 
reach  thee). 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Double 
Marriage,  Act  2. 

STEP-MOTHERS    AND    STEP- 
FATHERS 

Lost  in  the  children  of  the  present  spouse, 

They  slight  the  pledges  of  the  former  vows. 

POPE. — Odyssey,  15,  25. 

Stepmothers  mostly  are  a  cruel  race, 
And  like  the  spiked  aloe  plant,  they  bear 
A  rose  of  love  once  in  a  hundred  years. 
F.  TENNYSON. — King  Athamas,  Pt.  i, 

3,  45- 

Be  a  stepmother  kindly  as  she  will, 
There's  in  her  love  some  hint  of  winter's 
chill. 
D.  W.  THOMPSON. — From  Euripides. 

STEWARDSHIP 

We  are  Goddes  stewardes  all,  noughte  of 
our  owne  we  bear. 

CHATTERTON. — Balade  of  Chariiie. 

That  old  hereditary  bore, 
The  steward.  ROGERS. — Italy. 

STOCK  EXCHANGE 

If  to  the  Stock  Exchange  you  speed, 

To  try  with  bulls  and  bears  your  luck, 
'Tis  odds  you  soon  from  gold  are  freed 

And  waddle  forth  a  limping  duck. 
W.  H.  IRELAND. — Modern  Ship  of  Fools  : 
Of  Gambling  Fools  (1807). 

Exchange  is  no  robbery  ; 
But  on  it  there  is  jobbery. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON.— "Salt-Cellars." 


STONEHENGE 

111  did  those  mighty  men  to  trust  thee  with 

their  story ; 
That  hast  forgot  their  names  who  reared 

thee  for  their  glory. 

DRAYTON. — Polyolbion,  Song  3. 

STORIES 

I  am  always  at  a  loss  to  know  how  much 
to  believe  of  my  own  stories. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. — Tales  of  a 
Traveller,  Pref. 

One  of  the  signs  of  mediocrity  of  mind 
is  the  habit  of  always  telling  stories. 

LA  BRUYERE. 

Faith  !  he  must  make  his  stories  shorter 
Or  change  his  comrades  once  a  quarter. 

SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

STORM 

O  pilot !   'tis  a  fearful  night, 
There's  danger  on  the  deep. 

T.  H.  BAYLY.— The  Pilot. 

The  sky  is  changed  ! — and  such  a  change ! 

O  night, 
And  storm,  and  darkness,  ye  are  wondrous 

strong, 

Yet  lovely  in  your  strength,  as  is  the  light 
Of  a  dark  eye  in  woman  !  Far  along, 
From   peak    to   peak    the   rattling   crags 

among, 
Leaps  the  live  thunder  ! 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  92. 

Without  was  Nature's  elemental  din. 

CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

We  often  see,  against  some  storm, 
A  silence  in  the  heavens,  the  wrack  stand 

still, 
The  bold  winds  speechless,  and  the  orb 

below 
As  hush  as  death. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Blow,  winds,  and  crack  your  cheeks !  rage ! 

blow  ! 

You  cataracts  and  hurricanoes,  spout 
Till  you  have  drenched  our  steeples  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  Lear,  Act  3,  2. 

STOUTNESS 

Stouter  than  I  used  to  be. 
Still  more  corpulent  grow  I ; 

There  will  be  too  much  of  me 
In  the  coming  by-and-by. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — lolanthe. 

I    see    no    objection    to    stoutness — in 
moderation.          SIR  W.  S.  'GILBERT. — Ib. 

If  you  hear  of  sixteen  or  eighteen  pounds 
of  human  flesh,  they  belong  to  me.     I  look 
as  if  a  curate  had  been  taken  out  of  me. 
SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  Oct.  21,  1844. 


486 


STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS 


STUARTS 


When   Munckley   walks   the   streets    the 

paviors  cry 
"  God    bless   you,    Sir !  "    and   lay    their 

rammers  by. 

ANON. — Of  Dr.  Nicholas  Munckley. 

STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS 

Never  believe  anything  to  be  for  your 
interest  which  obliges  you  to  break  your 
word,  sacrifice  your  modesty,  hate,  sus- 
pect, or  curse  any  person,  or  which  in- 
clines you  to  any  practice  which  will  not 
bear  the  light. 

MARCUS  AURF.LIUS. — Meditations, 
Bk.  3,  7- 

Plain-dealing  is  a  jewel. 
WYCHKRLEY. — Country  Wife,  Act  4,  3. 

Come  give  us  your  plain-dealing  fellows, 

Who  never  from  honesty  shrink, 
Not  thinking  of  all  they  should  tell  us, 
But  telling  us  all  that  they  think. 

Broderers'  Song. 

True,  straight,  open,  he  had  nothing 
about  him  of  dissimulation  or  pretence. 
Words  used  of  a  Pope  of  Rome.  (The 
original  Latin  form  is,  "  Verus,  integer, 
apertus,  nil  habuit  ficti,  nil  simulati.") 

STRATAGEMS 

Where  the  lion's  skin  falls  short,  eke  it 
out  with  the  fox's. 

LYSANDER. — (According  to  Plutarch.) 

By  indirection  find  directions  out. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  i. 

Your  bait  of  falsehood  takes  this  carp  of 
truth.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Sweet  innocent,  the  mother  cried, 

And  started  from  her  nook, 
That  horrid  fly  is  put  to  hide 
The  sharpness  of  the  hook. 
ANN  AND  JANE  TAYLOR. — The  Little 

Fish. 

On  others  practise  thy  Ligurian  arts  : 
Thin  stratagems  and  tricks  of  little  hearts 
Are  lost  on  me. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  n  (Dryden  tr.) 
(Camilla  to  A  unus) . 
STRAWBERRIES 

Really,  these  strawberries  are  ex-straw- 
berry fine. 

H.  J.  BYRON. — Burlesque  (c.  1880). 

Doubtless  God  could  have  made  a  better 
berry  [than  the  strawberry],  but  doubt- 
less God  never  did. 

Attrib.  in  this  form,  by  Izaak  Walton, 
to  "  Dr.  Boteler." 
STRENGTH 

Languor  is  not  in  your  heart, 
Weakness  is  not  in  your  word, 
Weariness  not  on  your  brow. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Rugby  Chapel. 


O  fall'n  at  length  that  tower  of  strength 
Which  stood  foursquare  to  all  the  winds 
that  blew. 

TENNYSON. — On  Wellington. 

An  antique  stone  he  saw,  the  common 

bound 
Of    neighbouring    fields,    and    barrier    of 

the  ground — 
So  vast  that  twelve  strong  men  of  modern 

days 
The  enormous  weight  from  earth  could 

hardly  raise. 

He  heaved  it  at  a  lift,  and  poised  on  high, 
Ran  staggering  on  against  the  enemy. 

VIROIL. — &neid,  Bk.  12  (Drvden  tr.) 
(OfTurnus). 
STRIFE 

When  civil  dudgeon  first  grew  high, 
And  men  fell  out,  they  knew  not  why. 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  I. 

Know  that  relentless  strife 
Remains  by  sea  and  land 
The  holiest  law  of  life. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — War  Song. 

Achilles'  wrath,  to  Greece  the  direful  spring 

Of  woes  unnumbered,  heavenly  goddess, 

sing!  POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  i,  i. 

To  strive  with  an  equal  is  a  doubtful 
thing,  with  a  superior,  a  mad  thing,  with 
an  inferior,  a  vulgar  thing. 

SENECA. — De  Ira. 

And  where  two  raging  fires  do  meet  to- 
gether, 

They  do  consume  the  thing  that  feeds  their 
fury. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 
Act  2,  i. 

In  tumults  and  dissensions  the  worst 
man  gets  the  most  power  ;  peace  and  quiet 
bring  out  the  good  qualities  of  men. 

TACITUS.— Hisi.,  Bk.  4- 
STRUGGLE 

Only  streams  which  fettered  be 
Fret  their  way  at  last  to  sea. 

L.  HOUSMAN. — Bonds. 

When  Greeks  joined  Greeks,  then  was 
the  tug  of  war. 

N.  LEE. — Rival  Queens,  Act  4,  2. 

STUARTS 

If  ever  men  had  fidelity,  'twas  they  [the 
Stuarts]  ;  if  ever  men  squandered  oppor- 
tunity, 1twas  they  ;  and,  of  all  the  enemies 
they  had,  they  themselves  were  the  most 
fatal.  THACKERAY. — Esmond,  Bk.  2,  ch.  4. 

Like  almost  all  the  Stuarts,  James  II. 
was  a  mixture  of  greatness  and  feebleness, 
and  did  too  much  and  too  little. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 


487 


STUDY 


STUDY 


STUDY 

But  so  many  books  thou  readest, 
But  so  many  schemes  thou  breedest, 
But  so  many  wishes  feedest 

That  thy  poor  head  almost  turns. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Second  Best. 

Reading  maketh  a  full  man  ;  conference 

a  ready  man  ;   and  writing  an  exact  man. 

BACON.— Of  Studies. 

Studies  serve  for  delight,  for  ornament, 
and  for  ability.  BACON. — Essays,  Studies. 

To  spend  too  much  time  in  studies  is 
sloth.  BACON. — Ib. 

Oh,  what  a  noble  heart  was  here  undone, 

When  science'  self  destroyed  her  favourite 

son  !  BYRON. — English  Bards. 

'Twas  thine  own  genius  gave  the  final  blow, 

And  helped  to  plant  the  wound  that  laid 

thee  low.  BYRON. — Ib. 

With    curious    art    the   brain,    too   finely 

wrought, 
Preys   on   herself,    and   is   destroyed    by 

thought.       CHURCHILL. — To  Hogarth. 

Through  seas  of  knowledge  we  our  course 

advance, 

Discovering  still  new  worlds  of  ignorance. 
SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Progress  of  Learning, 

195- 

Some  people  study  all  their  life  ;  at  then- 
death  they  have  learnt  everything  except 
to  think.      FRANCOIS  URBAIN  DOMERGUE 
(1745-1810). 
There  is  no  satiety  in  study. 

ERASMUS. — Fam.  Coll. 

Learning  by  study  must  be  won  ; 
'Twas  ne'er  entailed  from  son  to  son. 
GAY.— Fables,  Ft.  2,  n. 

If  you  decide  for  the  intellectual  life, 
you  will  incur  a  definite  loss  to  set  against 
your  gain.  .  . .  Severed  from  the  vanities 
of  the  Illusory,  you  will  live  with  the 
realities  of  knowledge  as  one  who  has 
quitted  the  painted  scenery  of  the  theatre 
to  listen  by  the  eternal  ocean,  or  gaze  at 
the  granite  hills. 

P.  G.  HAMERTON. — The  Intellectual  Life, 

9,  4- 

Much  study  had  made  him  very  lean, 
And  pale,  and  leaden  eyed. 

HOOD. — Eugene  Aram. 

What  is  twice  read  is  commonly  better 
remembered  than  what  is  transcribed. 

JOHNSON. — Rambler,  74. 

Knowledge  is  of  two  kinds.  We  know 
a  subject  ourselves,  or  we  know  where  we 
can  find  information  upon  it. 

JOHNSON. — Remark,  1775. 


Reading  furnishes  the  mind  only  with 
materials  of  knowledge ;  it  is  thinking 
makes  what  we  read  ours.  JOHN  LOCKE. 

Keep  your  consciences  clear,  your  curi- 
osity fresh,  and  embrace  every  opportunity 
of  cultivating  your  minds. 
HUGH  MILLER. — The  Old  Red  Sandstone. 

Alas  !    what  boots  it  with  incessant  care 
To  tend    the   homely  slighted  shepherd's 

trade, 

And  strictly  meditate  the  thankless  Muse  ? 
Were  it  not  better  done  as  others  use, 
To  sport  with  Amaryllis  in  the  shade, 
Or  with  the  tangles  of  Neaera's  hair  ? 

MILTON. — Lycidas,  64. 

To  scorn  delights,  and  live  laborious 
days.  MILTON. — Ib.,  72. 

Deeper,  deeper  let  us  toil 
In  the  mines  of  knowledge. 
JAS.  MONTGOMERY. — Aspirations. 

For  sure  no  minutes  bring  us  more  content 

Than  those  in  pleasing,  useful  studies  spent. 

J.  POMFRET. — The  Choice. 

One  science  only  will  one  genius  fit ; 
So  vast  is  art,  so  narrow  human  wit. 

POPE. — Criticism,  60. 

We  spend  pur  midday  sweat,  our  mid- 
night oil ; 

We  tire  the  night  in  thought,  the  day  in 
toil.  QUARLES. — Emblems,  Bk.  2,  2. 

Books  bear  him  up  awhile,  and  make  him 

try 

To  swim  with  bladders  of  philosophy. 
EARL  OF  ROCHESTER. — Satire  against 
Mankind,  20. 

Study  is  like  the  heaven's  glorious  sun, 
That  will  not  be  deep-searched  by  saucy 

looks, 

Small  have  continual  plodders  ever  won 
Save  base  authority  from  others'  books. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 

I  thus  neglecting  worldly  ends,  all  dedi- 
cated 

To  closeness  and  the  bettering  of  my  mind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2. 

There  is  nothing  so  horrible  as  languid 
study  . . .  The  only  way  to  read  with  any 
efficacy  is  to  read  so  heartily  that  dinner 
time  comes  two  hours  before  you  expected 
it.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  19. 

When  a  man's  knowledge  is  not  in  order, 
the  more  of  it  he  has  the  greater  will  be 
his  confusion. 

HERBT.  SPENCER. — Sociology. 

But  thanks  to  my  friends  for  their  care  in 

my  breeding, 
Who  taught  me  betimes  to  love  working 

and  reading.       I.  WATTS. — Sluggard. 


488 


STUPIDITY 


SUBMARINES 


Time  not  given  to  study  is  time  lost. 

Latin.     The  motto  of  Budceus. 

STUPIDITY 

Now  your  rater  and  debater 
Is  baulked  by  a  mere  spectator 
Who  simply  stares  and  listens. 

BROWNING. — Of  Pacchiarotto. 

Such  as  take  lodgings  in  a  head 
That's  to  be  let  unfurnished. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

There  is  a  Stupidest  of  London  men, 
actually  resident,  with  bed  and  board  of 
some  kind,  in  London. 

CARLYLE. — On  Biography. 

Oh  that  he  were  here  to  write  me  down 
an  ass  ! — but,  masters,  remember  that  I 
am  an  ass  ;  though  it  be  not  written  down, 
yet  forget  not  that  I  am  an  ass. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  4,  2. 

There  is  no  sin  but  stupidity. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions. 

STYLE  (LITERARY) 

Of  all  those  arts  in  which  the  wise  excel, 
Nature's  chief  masterpiece  is  writing  well. 
DUKE  OF  BUCKINGHAM  (JOHN- 
SHEFFIELD). — Essay  on  Poetry,  i. 

Facts  are  external  to  a  man.  Style  is 
the  man  himself. 

COMTE  DE  BUFFON. — Remarqucs,  1753. 

May  I  not  write  in  such  a  style  as  this  ? 
In  such  a  method,  too,  and  yet  not  miss 
My  end — thy  good  ? 

BUN  VAN. — Pilgrim's  Progress,  Pt.  i, 

How  strong  an  influence  works  in  well- 
placed  words  ! 
CHAPMAN. — Gentleman  Usher,  Act  4,  2. 

Telle  us  som  mery  thing  of  aventures ; — 
Your    termes,    your    colours,    and    your 

figures, 
Kepe  hem  in  stoor  [keep  them  in  store] 

til  so  be  ye  endyte 
Heigh  style,  as  whan  that  men  to  kinges 

wryte.     CHAUCER. — Clerk's  Prol.,  15. 

Intense  study  of  the  Bible  will  keep  any 

writer  from  being  vulgar  in  point  of  style. 

COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk. 

Whoever  wishes  to  attain  an  English 
style,  familiar  but  not  coarse,  and  elegant 
but  not  ostentatious,  must  give  his  days 
and  nights  to  the  volumes  of  Addison. 

JOHNSON. — Life  of  Addison. 

A  good  writer  does  not  write  as  people 
write,  but  as  he  writes.  MONTESQUIEU. 

Who  that  heard  [Agatho's]  persuasion 

could  fail  to  be  impressed  by  the  beauty 

of  the  nouns  and  the  verbs. 

PLATO. — Banquet  24.     (Remark  of  Socrates 

satirising  a  mere  rhetorician  or  stylist.) 


True  ease  in  writing  comes  from  art,  not 

chance, 
As  those  move  easiest  who  have  learned  to 

dance.  POPE. — Criticism,  362. 

'  Tis  not  enough  no  harshness  gives  offence  ; 

The  sound  must  seem  an  echo  to  the  sense. 

POPE.— Ib.,  364. 

_  Style  is  merely  the  silhouette  of  thought. 
To  write  in  a  vague  or  bad  style  means  a 
stupid  or  confused  mind. 

SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

I  do  not  much  dislike  the  matter,  but 
The  manner  of  his  speech. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  2.  2. 

Base    is    the    style    and  matter    meane 
withall.    SPENSER. — Mother  Hubberd. 

Proper  words  in  proper  places. 

SWIFT. — Definition  of  a  Good  Style. 

What  is  easy  to  read  has  been  difficult 
to  write.  ...  A  limpid  style  is  invariably 
the  result  of  hard  labour. 

G.  M.  TREVELYAN. — Clio,  A  Muse. 

Would  you  repeat  that  again,  sir,  for 
it  soun's  sae  sonorous  that  the  words 
droon  the  ideas  ? 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  27. 

SUBLIME,  THE 

The  beautiful  is  the  most  useful  in  art ; 
but  the  sublime  in  art  is  the  most  helpful 
to  morals,  for  it  elevates  the  mind. 

JOUBERT. — Penste,  326. 

As  for  the  sublime,  it  is,  even  among  the 
greatest  geniuses,  only  the  most  elevated 
that  can  reach  it. 

LA  BRUYERE. — Characters. 

The  sublime  and  the  ridiculous  are  so 
often  nearly  related  that  it  is  difficult  to 
class  them  separately.  One  step  above 
the  sublime  makes  the  ridiculous,  and  one 
step  above  the  ridiculous  makes  the  sublime 
again.  TOM  PAINE. — Age  of  Reason. 


SUBMARINES 

Hence  .  . .  the  remark  of  the  highly- 
trained  sailorman  in  these  latitudes  [the 
northern  ice  regions],  who,  on  being  told 
by  his  superior  officer  in  the  execution  of 
his  duty  to  go  to  Hell,  did  insubordinately 
and  enviously  reply,  "  D'you  think  I'd  be 
here  if  I  could  ?  "  whereby  he  caused  the 
entire  personnel,  beginning  with  the  com- 
mander, to  say  "  Amen,"  or  words  to  that 
effect.  KIPLING. — Tales  of  "  The  Trade  " 

(1916). 


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SUBMISSION 


SUCCESS 


Their  feats,  their  fortunes  and  their  fames 
Are  hidden  from  their  nearest  kin  ; 

No  eager  public  backs  or  blames, 

No  journal  prints  the  yarns  they  spin  ; 

Unheard  they  work,  unseen  they  win, 
That  is  the  custom  of  "  The  Trade." 

KIPLING. — Tales  of  "  The  Trade," 

i  (1916).    "  No  one  knows  how  the  title 

of  '  The  Trade '  came  to  be  applied  to 

the  Submarine  Service." 

SUBMISSION 

Ay,  do  despise  me.      I'm  the  prouder 
for  it ;  I  likes  to  be  despised. 

I.  BICKERSTAFFE. — Hypocrite. 

Thy  will  be  done,  though  in  my  own 
undoing. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  2,  15. 

Soft !  Ask  no  questions  !  Give  no  vent  to 

thought ! 

Such  is  the  custom  of  the  Powers  divine. 
HOMER. — Odyssey,  Bk.  7,  200.  (Cowper  tr.). 

Yet  I  argue  not 
Against  Heaven's  hand  or  will,  nor  bate 

a  jot 
Of  heart  or  hope :    but  still  bear  up  and 

steer 
Right  onward.  MILTON. — Sonnet. 

0  calm,  dishonourable,  vile  submission  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  3,  i. 

One  by  whom 

All  effort  seems  forgotten  ;  one  to  whom 
Long  patience  hath  such  mild  composure 

given, 
That  patience  now  doth  seem  a  thing  of 

which 
He  hath  no  need. 

WORDSWORTH. — Animal  Tranquillity. 

Ills  that  God  blesses  are  my  good  ; 

All  unblest  good  is  ill ; 
And  all  is  right  that  seems  most  wrong, 

If  it  be  God's  dear  will. 
Quoted  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon  as  "  a  fine  distich 

which  deserves  to  be  made  proverbial." 

Jouk  [duck]   and  let  the  jaw  [storm] 
gae  o'er. 

Allan  Ramsay's  Scottish  Proverbs  (1737). 

Better  bow  to  my  faes  than  beg  frae  my 
friends.  Scottish  prov. 

SUBSERVIENCE 

Oh,  let  us  love  our  occupations, 
Bless  the  squire  and  his  relations, 
Live  upon  our  daily  rations, 
And  always  know  our  proper  stations. 

DICKENS. — Chimes. 

1  am  now  no'more  than  a  mere  lodger  in 
my  own  house. 

GOLDSMITH.— Good- Natured  Man,  Act  i. 


I  am  his  Highness's  dog  at  Kew  ; 
Pray  tell  me,  sir,  whose  dog  are  you  ? 

POPE. — Epigram. 

As  for  you,  modern  peoples,  you  have 
no  slaves ;  but  you  are  slaves.  You  pay 
for  their  liberty  with  your  own.  You 
have  boasted  much  of  this  choice  ;  I  find 
in  it  more  cowardice  than  humanity. 
ROUSSEAU. — Contrat  Social,  Bk.  3,  ch.  15. 

It  needs  more  skill  than  I  can  tell 
To  play  the  second  fiddle  well. 

C.  H.  SPURGEOX. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

SUCCESS 

"Tis  not  in  mortals  to  command  success, 
But    we'll    do    more,    Sempronius,    we'll 
deserve  it.    ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  i,  2. 

Fame  in  excess  is  but  a  perilous  thing ; 

I  praise  the  good  success 
That  rouses  not  God's  wrath. 

^ESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  466 
(Plumptre  tr.) . 

Success  is  full  of  promise  till  men  get  it  ; 
then  it  is  a  last  year's  nest,  from  which  the 
bird  has  flown.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

God  will  estimate 
Success  some  day. 
BROWNING. — Prince  Hohenstiel- 
Schwangau. 

If  this  be  then  success,  'tis  dismaller 
Than  any  failure. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  5. 

The  only  infallible  criterion  of  wisdom 
to  vulgar  judgments — success. 

BURKE. — Letter  to  Member  of  National 
Assembly  (1791). 
Success,  the  mark  no  mortal  wit, 
Or  surest  hand,  can  always  hit. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Well,  if  I  don't  succeed,  I  have  succeeded, 
And  that's  enough. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  12,  17. 

But  try  the  Caesar,  or  the  Catiline, 
By  the  true  touchstone  of  desert — success. 
BYRON. — Marino  Faliero. 

He  builded  better  than  he  knew. 

EMERSON. — The  Problem. 

Still  to  new  heights  his  restless  wishes 

tower, 
Claim  leads  to  claim,  and  power  advances 

power ; 

Till  conquest  unresisted  ceased  to  please, 
And  rights  submitted  left  him  none   to 

seize.  JOHNSON. — London. 

Fate    holds    the    strings,    and    men    like 

children  move 

But  as  they're  led  :  Success  is  from  above. 
LORD  LANSDOWNE. — Heroic  Love. 


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SUCCESSORS 


SUICIDE 


Surer  to  prosper  than  prosperity 
Could  have  assured  us. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  39. 

Success  has  brought  many  to  destruc- 
tion. PH.EDRUS. — Fables,  Bk.  3. 

A  hit,  a  very  palpable  hit. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

In  the  race 

He  equalled  all  the  promise  of  his  form 
In  those  his  rounds,  and  so  with  noblest 

prize 

Of  conquest  left  the  ground. 
SOPHOCLES. — Electra,  687  (Plumptre  tr,). 

SUCCESSORS 

And  Tom  the  second  reigns  like  Tom 
the  first.  DRYDEN. — To  Congreve. 

Not  Amurath  an  Amurath  succeeds, 
But  Harry,  Harry. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  2. 

SUFFERING 

Justice  turns  the  scale 
For  those  to  whom  through  pain 
At  last  comes  wisdom's  gain. 

AESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  239 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

Knowledge  by  suffering  entereth, 
And  life  is  perfected  by  death. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Vision  of  Poets. 

The  best  of  men 
That  e'er  wore  earth  about  him,  was  a 

sufferer  ; 
A   soft,  meek,  patient,  humble,  tranquil 

spirit, 

The  first  true  gentleman  that  ever  breathed. 
DEKKER. — Honest  Whore,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  i. 

Measure  thy  life  by  loss  instead  of  gain  ; 
Not   by  the   wine   drunk,   but   the  wine 

poured  forth ; 
For    love's    strength    standeth    in    love's 

sacrifice, 

And  whoso  suffers  most  hath  most  to  give. 

HARRIET  ELEANOR  HAMILTON-KING. — 

The  Disciples. 

But  if  Himself  He  come  to  thee,  and  stand, 
Pallid    and   royal,    saying    "  Drink   with 

Me," 

Wilt  thou  refuse  ?   Nay,  not  for  Paradise  ! 
The  pale  brow  will  compel  thee,  the  pure 

hands 

Will  minister  unto  thee. 
HARRIET  ELEANOR  HAMILTON-KING. — Ib. 

Our  present  joys  are  sweeter  for  past  pain ; 

To  Love  and  Heaven  by  suffering  we  attain. 

LORD  LANSDOWNE. — British  Enchanters, 

Act  5,  2. 

What  deaths  we  suffer  ere  we  die  ! 
J.  LOGAN. — On  the  Death  of  a  Young  Lady. 


There  is  nothing  the  body  suffers  that 
the  soul  may  not  profit  by. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Diana  of  the  Crossways. 

Can  it  be,  O  Christ  in  heaven,  that  the 

holiest  suffer  most, 
That  the  strongest  wander  furthest,  and 

more  hopelessly  are  lost  ? 
SARAH  WILLIAMS. — Twilight  Hours* 

SUFFICIENCY 

"  Little  to  do  ;  and  plenty  to  get,  I  sup- 
pose ?  "  said  Sergeant  Buzfuz,  with  jocu- 
larity. "  Oh,  quite  enough  to  get,  sir.  as 
the  soldier  said  ven  they  ordered  him 
three  hundred  and  fifty  lashes,"  replied 
Sam.  DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  34. 

No,  'tis  not  so  deep  as  a  well,  nor  so  wide 
as  a  church  door  ;  but  'tis  enough  ;  'twill 
serve. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  3,  i . 

Enough's  as  good  as  a  feast 
To  one  that's  not  a  beast. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
SUICIDE 

Self-destruction  is  the  effect  of  cowardice 
in  the  highest  extreme. 

DEFOE. — Hist,  of  Projects. 

One  more  unfortunate, 

Weary  of  breath, 
Rashly  importunate, 

Gone  to  her  death  ! 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs.  ' 

Yet  we  should  not, 
Howe'er  besieged,  deliver  up  our  fort 
Of  life,  till  it  be  forced. 

MASSINGER. — Guardian,  Act  2,  4. 

If  you  like  not  hanging,  drown  yourself  ; 
Take  some  course  for  your  reputation. 
MASSINGER. — New  Way  to  pay  Old  Debts, 

Act  2,  i. 

When  all   the  blandishments  of  life  are 

gone, 
The  coward  sneaks  to  death  ;    the  brave 

live  on. 

G.  SEWELL. — Suicide  (fr.  Martial). 

Against  self -slaughter 
There  is  a  prohibition  so  divine, 
That  cravens  my  weak  hand. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  4- 

When  you  have  demonstrated,  in  verse 
or  otherwise,  why  so  many  men  cut  their 
throats  in  this  best  of  all  possible  worlds, 
I  shall  be  greatly  obliged  to  you. 

VOLTAIRE.— -To  Martin  Kahle  (c.  175^)- 

Lese  base  the  fear  of  death  than  fear  of  life. 
O  Britain,  infamous  for  suicide  ! 

YOUNG.— Night  Thoughts,  5. 


4QJ 


SUITORS 


SUNDAY 


SUITORS 

Suit  lightly  won  and  short-lived  pain, 
For  monarchs  seldom  sue  in  vain. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  5,  9. 

Full  little  knowest   thou,   that  hast  not 

tride, 
What  hell  it  is,  in  suing  long  to  bide. 

SPENSER. — Mother  Hubberd. 

SUMMER 

All  the  live  murmur  of  a  summer's  day. 
M.  ARNOLD.— Scholar  Gipsy. 

Summer  is  gone  on  swallow's  wings. 

HOOD. — Departure  of  Summer. 

Worshippe,  ye  that  lovers  bene,  this  May  .' 

For  of  your  bliss  the  calends  are  begun  ; 

And  sing  with  us,  "  Away  !  winter,  away  ! 

Come,  summer,  come,  the  sweet  season 

and  sun !  " 

JAMES  I.  (of  Scotland). — King's  Quair, 

st.  15. 

Summer,  as  my  friend  Coleridge  wag- 
gishly remarks,  has  set  in  with  its  usual 
severity.  LAMB. — (Letter,  1826.) 

On  the  bat's  back  I  do  fly 
After  summer,  merrily. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  5,  i. 

Then  came  the  jolly  Summer,  being  dight 
In  a  thin  silken  cassock,  coloured  green, 
That  was  unlinSd  all,  to  be  more  light. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  7.  c.  7, 

st.  89. 

In  linden-time  the  heart  is  high, 
For  pride  of  summer  passing  by 
With  lordly  laughter  in  her  eye. 

SWINBURNE. — Tale  of  Balen. 

Summer  looks  out  from  her  brazen  tower, 
Through  the  flashing  bars  of  July. 

FRANCIS  THOMPSON. — A  Corymbus  for 
Autumn. 

From  brightening  fields  of  ether  fair  dis- 
closed, 

Child  of  the  Sun,  refulgent  Summer  comes, 

In    pride    of    youth,    and    felt    through 
nature's  depth  : 

He  comes  attended  by  the  sultry  hours 

And  ever-fanning  breezes. 

THOMSON. — The  Seasons  :  Summer,  i. 

That  muddy  and  mizzly  misnomer 
summer.  JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,  25. 

A  dry  summer  ne'er  made  a  dear  peck. 
Scottish  prov. 

Summer  is  y-comen  in  ; 
Loude  sing  cuckoo  ! 

Song  (i$th  Century). 
SUNDAY 

Sunday  clears  away  the  rust  of  the  whole 
week.  ADDISON. — Spectator,  vol.  2,  112. 


And  beer  undrawn,  and  beards  unmown, 

display 

Your  holy  reverence  for  the  Sabbath-day. 
BYRON. — English  Bards  and  Scotch 
Reviewers,  636. 
Of  all  the  days  that's  in  the  week, 

I  dearly  love  but  one  day  ; 
And  that's  the  day  that  comes  betwixt 
A  Saturday  and  Monday. 

H.  CAREY. — Sally. 

O  Italy  ! — thy  sabbaths  will  be  soon 
Our  sabbaths. 

COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  152. 

Hail,   Sabbath !     thee    I    hail,   the    poor 
man's  friend. 

JAS.  GRAHAME. — Sabbath. 

O  day  most  calm,  most  bright, 
The  fruit  of  this,  the  next  world's  bud  ; 
Th'endorsement  of  supreme  delight, 
Writ  by  a  friend,  and  with  his  blood. 

HERBERT. — Sunday. 

The  other  days  and  thou 
Make  up  one  man ;  whose  face  thou  art, 
Knocking  at  heaven  with  thy  brow  : 
The  worky-days  are  the  back-part ; 
The  burden  of  the  week  lies  there. 

HERBERT. — Ib. 

The  Sundays  of  man's  life 
Threaded  together  on  Time's  string, 
Make  bracelets  to  adorn  the  wife 
Of  the  eternal  glorious  King. 
On  Sunday  heaven's  gate  stands  ope, 
Blessings  are  plentiful  and  rife, 
More  plentiful  than  hope. 

HERBERT. — Ib. 

Yes,  child  of  suffering,  thou  mayst  well  be 

sure 
He  who  ordained  the  Sabbath  loves  the 

poor. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Rhymed  Lesson. 

Who  backs  his  rigid  Sabbath,  so  to  speak, 

Against  the  wicked  remnant  of  the  week. 

HOOD. — Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

The  only  ground,  therefore,  on  which 
restrictions  on  Sunday  amusements  can  be 
defended,  must  be  that  they  are  religiously 
wrong  ;  a  motive  of  legislation  which  can 
never  be  too  earnestly  protested  against. 
J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  4. 

But  at  least  to  begin  the  week  well, 
Let  us  all  be  unhappy  on  Sunday. 
LORD  NEAVES. — Songs  and  Verses   (1868 
ed.) :  Let  us  all  be  unhappy  on  Sunday. 

Whose  sore  task 

Does  not  divide  the  Sunday  from  the  week. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  i. 

Go  thou  and  seek  the  House  of  Prayer  ! 
I  to  the  woodlands  wend,  and  there, 
In  lovely  Nature  see  the  God  of  Love. 

SOUTHEY. — Sunday  Morning. 


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SUN-DIALS 


SUPERIORITY 


A  Sabbath  well  spent  brings  a  week  of  con- 
tent, 

And  health  for  the  toils  of  the  morrow  ; 
But  a  Sabbath  profaned,  whate'er  may  be 

gained, 
Is  a  certain  forerunner  of  sorrow. 

Known  as  "  Sir  Matthew  Male's  Golden 
Maxim." 
SUN-DIALS 

Milverton  had  put  up  a  sundial  in  the 
centre  of  the  lawn,  with  the  motto,  "  Horas 
non  numero  nisi  serenas,"  which,  I  remem- 
ber, gave  occasion  to  Ellesmere  to  say  that 
for  men  the  dial  was  either  totally  useless 
or  utterly  false. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  i. 
SUNRISE 

And  like  a  lobster  boiled,  the  morn 
From  black  to  red  began  to  turn. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  c.  2 

The  heavenly-harnessed  team 
Begins  his  golden  progress  in  the  East. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  3,  i. 

Yonder  comes  the  powerful  king  of  day 
Rejoicing  in  the  East.  The  lessening  cloud, 
The  kindling  azure,  and  the  mountain's 

brow, 

Illumed  with  fluid  gold,  his  near  approach 
Betoken  glad. 

THOMSON. — The  Seasons  :   Summer,  81. 

SUNSET 

Call  for  the  grandest  of  all  earthly  spec- 
tacles, what  is  that  ?  It  is  the  sun  going  to 
his  rest.  DE  QUINCEY. — Opium  Eater. 

The  gilded  car  of  day 
His  glowing  axle  doth  allay 

In  the  steep  Atlantic  stream. 

Mi  LTO  N  . — Comus . 

The  weary  sun  hath  made  a  golden  set, 
And,  by  the  bright  track  of  his  fiery  car, 
Gives  token  of  a  goodly  day  to-morrow. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  5,  3 

Sunsets  are  quite  old-fashioned.     They 
belong  to  the  time  when  Turner  was  the 
last  note  in  art.     To  admire  them  is  a  dis- 
tinct sign  of  provincialism  of  temperament. 
OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions :    Decay  of 

Lying. 

How  pleasant,  as  the  sun  declines,  to  view 
The  spacious  landscape  change  in  form 
and  hue  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Evening  Walk. 

Objects  all  for  the  eye 
Of  silent  rapture  !   But  we  felt  the  while 
We  should  forget  them ;    they  are  of  the 

sky 

And  from  our  earthly  memory  fade  away.   . 
WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  n.   I 


SUPERFICIALITY 

With  too  much  quickness  ever  to  be  taught; 
With  too  much  thinking  to  have  common 
thought. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  2,  97. 

Like  a  Corsehill  shop,  a'  in  the  window. 

Scottish  prov. 
SUPERFLUITIES 

All  our  wants,  beyond  those  which  a  very 
moderate  income  will  supply,  are  purely 
imaginary. 

LORD  BOLINGBROKE. — Letter,  1719. 

Embarrassment  of  riches. 

D'ALLAINVAL. 

To  gild  refined  gold,  to  paint  the  lily, 
To  throw  a  perfume  on  the  violet, 
To  smooth  the  ice,  or  add  another  hue 
Unto  the  rainbow,  or  with  taper  light 
To  seek  the  beauteous  eye  of  heaven  to 

garnish, 
Is  wasteful  and  ridiculous  excess. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  4,  2. 

So  geographers,  in  Afric  maps, 
With  savage  pictures  fill  their  gaps, 
And  o'er  unhabitable  downs 
Place  elephants  for  want  of  towns. 

SWIFT.— On  Poetry. 

The  superfluous,  a  highly  necessary 
thing.  VOLTAIRE. — Le  Mondain,  22. 

A'  owers  are  ill,  but  ower  the  water  and 

ower  the  hill.  Scottish  prov. 

(See  "  All  owres  "  under  "  Excess.") 

It's  needless  pouring  water  on  a  drowned 
mouse.  Scottish  prov. 

SUPERIORITY 

And  yet  thou  art  the  nobler  of  us  two : 
What  dare  I  dream  of,  that  thou  canst  not 

do, 
Outstripping  my  ten  small  steps  with  thy 

stride?         BROWNING. — Any  Wife  to 
any  Husband,  148. 

Never  seem  wiser  or  more  learned  than 
your  company. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advue  to  his  Son. 

Behold,   this  is  the  world  !     Everyone 

thinks  himself  a  little  above  his  neighbour. 

LE  SAGE. — Gil  Bias,  Bk.  5,  ch.  i. 

Painful  pre-eminence  !   yourself  to  view 
Above  life's  weakness,  and  its  comforts  too. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  267. 

I  know  nothing  more  inept  than  that 
expression,  "  I  told  you  so." 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

And  all  the  courses  of  my  life  do  show 
I  am  not  in  the  roll  of  common  men. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV..  Pt.  i,  Act  3.  I. 


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SUPERNATURAL 


SUPERSTITION 


I  hold  you  as  a  thing  ensky'd  and  sainted. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 

Act  i,  5. 

As  in  a  theatre,  the  eyes  of  men, 
After  a  well-graced  actor  leaves  the  stage, 
Are  idly  bent  on  him  that  enters  next, 
Thinking  his  prattle  to  be  tedious. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  5,  2. 

How  blessed  are  we  that  are  not  simple 

men, 
Yet  nature  might  have  made  me  as  these 

are, 

Therefore,  I'll  not  disdain. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Others  may  be  all  very  well ;    but  we 

live  at  Nonsuch  House,  in  the  parish  of 

Nonpareil.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. — 

"Salt-Cellars." 

SUPERNATURAL,  THE 

Some  have  mistaken  blocks  and  posts 
For  spectres,  apparitions,  ghosts, 
With  saucer-eyes  and  horns  ;   and  some 
Have  heard  the  devil  beat  a  drum. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  i,  129. 

No  doubt  the  bravest  cowers 
When  he  can't  tell  what  'tis  that  doth 

appal. 

How  odd  a  single  hobgoblin's  nonentity 
Should  cause  more  fear  than  a  whole  host's 
identity ! 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  16,  st.  120. 

Millions  of  spiritual  creatures  walk  the 

earth 
Unseen,  both  when  we  wake,  and  when  we 

sleep. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  I.  678. 

There  is  something  in  this  more  than 
natural,  if  philosophy  could  find  it  out. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

And  often  times  to  win  us  to  our  harm, 
The  instruments  of  darkness  tell  us  truths, 
Win  us  with  honest  trifles,  to  betray  us 
In  deepest  consequence. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

Look  how   the  world's  poor  people  are 

amazed 

At  apparitions,  signs,  and  prodigies. 
SHAKESPEAKE. — Venus  and,  Adonis,  st.  155. 

SUPERSTITION 

There  is  a  superstition  in  avoiding  super- 
stition. BACON. — Of  Superstition. 

Superstition   is    the   religion   of   feeble 
minds. 
BURKE. — Thoughts  on  French  Revolution. 

Shallow  men  believe  in  luck. 

EMERSON. — Worship. 

Superstition  is  the  poetry  of  life. 

GOETHE. 


Superstition  is  godless  religion,  devout 
impiety. 

BISHOP  HALL. — Of  the  Superstitious. 

All  power  of  fancy  over  reason  is  a  de- 
gree of  insanity.  JOHNSON. — Rasselas. 

Superstition  is  the  only  religion  of  which 
base  souls  are  capable. 

JOUBERT. — Pensie,  27. 

No  itch  is  more  infectious  than  super- 
stition. JOVIAN. — Pont.  Ant.  Dial. 

Long  time  men  lay  oppressed  with  slavish 

fear  ; 
Religion's  tyranny  did  domineer. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  i,  63 
(Creech  tr.). 

The  greatest  burden  in  the  world  is 
superstition,  not  only  of  ceremonies  in  the 
church,  but  of  imaginary  and  scarecrow 
sins  at  home. 

MILTON. — Doctrine  and  Discipline  of 
Divorce. 

Force  first  made  conquest,  and  that  con- 
quest law, 

Till  Superstition  taught  the  tyrant  awe, 
Then  shared  the  tyranny,  then  lent  it  aid, 
And  gods  of  conquerors,  slaves  of  subjects 
made. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  3,  /.  245. 

Superstition  is  the  spleen  of  the  soul. 
POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Giant  error,  darkly  grand, 
Grasped  the  globe  with  iron  hand. 
ROGERS. — Ode  to  Superstition,  2,  i 

For  not  to  rank  or  sex  confined 
Is  this  vain  ague  of  the  mind. 

SCOTT. — Rokeby,  c.  2,  n. 

Superstition  obeys  vanity  just  like  a 
father. 

SOCRATES. — (A ccording'to  Stobceus) . 

How  foolishly  and  miserably  super- 
stitious all  we  women  are  ! 

TERENCE. — Heaut.,  Act  4. 

It  was  necessary  for  me  (Hermogides, 
prince  of  Argos)  to  succumb  before  super- 
stitions, which  are,  much  more  than  we, 
the  kings  of  the  nations. 

VOLTAIRE. — Eryphile,  Act  3,  x. 

Superstitious  people  in  society  are  like 
cowards  in  an  army.  They  are  possessed 
by  panic  and  they  produce  it. 

VOLTAIRE. — Letters  on  the  English. 

Superstition  is  to  religion  what  astrology 
is  to  astronomy,  the  very  foolish  daughter 
of  a  very  wise  mother. 

VOLTAIRE. — On  Tolerance. 

When  was  there  ever  religion  without 
superstition,  worship  without  idolatry  ? 
JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  26 


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SUPERVISION 


SUSPICION 


In  all  things  I  perceive  that  ye  are  some- 
what superstitious.  Acts  xvii,  22  (R.V.). 

SUPERVISION 

Where  the  rye  of  the  master  has  been 
most  continually,  there  the  fruit  will  ripen 
most  profusely.  COLUMELLA. — Bk.  3. 

One  eye  of  the  master  doth  more  than 
both  his  hands.  Prov. 

SUPPER 

Women  should  talk  an  hour 
After  supper.     'Tis  their  exercise. 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Philaster, 

Act  2. 

And  men  sit  down  to  that  nourishment 
which  is  called  supper. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i 
SUPPRESSION 

All  which,  though  I  most  potently  be- 
lieve, yet  I  hold  it  hot  honesty  to  have  it 
thus  set  down. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Bondage  is  hoarse,   and  may  not  speak 

aloud  ; 
Else  would  I  tear  the  cave  where  Echo 

lies. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2,  2. 

SUPREMACY 

Divine  right  of  kings  means  the  divine 

right  of  anyone  who  can  get  uppermost. 

HERBT.  SPENCER.— Social  Statics. 

SURETYSHIP 

He  that  is  surety  for  a  stranger  shall 
smart  for  it.  Proverbs  xi,  15. 

SURGERY 

For  want  of  timely  care 
Millions  have  died  of  medicable  wounds. 
ARMSTRONG. — Art  of  Preserving 
Health,  Bk.  3. 

Whatever  part  of  a  human  being  could 
be  cut  out,  without  necessarily  killing  him, 
they  cut  out ;  and  he  often  died  (un- 
necessarily of  course)  in  consequence.  From 
such  trifles  as  uvulas  and  tonsils,  they 
[the  doctors  and  surgeons]  went  on  to 
ovaries  and  appendices,  until  at  last  no 
one's  inside  was  safe. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House :  Pref., 
Hypochondria. 

A  good  surgeon  must  have  an  eagle's 
eye,  a  lion's  heart,  and  a  lady's  hand. 

Italian  prov. 
SURNAMES 

For  as  those  surnames  are  esteemed  the 

best 

That  signify  in  all  things  else  the  least, 
So  men  pass  fairest  in  the  world's  opinion. 


That  have  the  least  of  truth  and  reason 
in  'em. 

BUTLER. — Upon  the  Abuse  of  Human 
Learning. 

Fate  tried  to  conceal  him  by  naming  him 
Smith.       O.  W.  HOLMES.— The  Boys. 

SURPRISE 

Life  is  a  series  of  surprises. 

EMERSON. — Circles. 

It  is  the  part  of  a  fool  to  say,  "  I  should 
not  have  thought  it."  SCIPIO  AFRICANUS. 

Can  such  things  be, 

And  overcome  us  like  a  summer's  cloud, 
Without  our  special  wonder  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  3,  4. 

Why  is  this  thus  ?    What  is  the  reason 
of  this  thusness  ? 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — Moses,  the  Sassy. 

Where  we  least  think,  there  goeth  the 
hare  away.  Prov.  (Ray). 

SURVIVAL 

One  rose  of  the  wilderness  left  on  its  stalk 
To  mark  where  a  garden  had  been. 
CAMPBELL. — Lines  on  Visiting  Argyleshire. 

Some  they  have  died,  and  some  they 

have  left  me, 

And  some  are  taken  from  me  ;  all  are  de- 
parted ; 
All,  all  are  gone,  the  old  familiar  faces. 

LAMB. — The  Old  Familiar  Faces. 

'Tis  the  last  rose  of  summer 

Left  blooming  alone  ; 
All  her  lovely  companions 

Are  faded  and  gone. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

I  feel  like  one 
Who  treads  alone 
Some  banquet-hall  deserted, 
Whose  lights  are  fled, 
Whose  garlands  dead, 
And  all  but  he  departed. 

MOORE. — Song. 

All  of  me  that  remains  appears  in  sight ; 
I  live,  if  living  be  to  loathe  the  light. 

VIRGIL.— Mneid,  Bk.  3  (Dryden  tr.). 

SUSPICION 

Old  age  is  more  suspicious  than  the  free 
And  valiant  heart  of  youth,  or  manhood's 

firm 
Unclouded  reason.   M.  ARNOLD. — Metope. 

Over-suspicion  is  a  kind  of  public  mad- 
ness.  BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  i,  Bk.  6, 45. 

And  when  his  first  suspicions  dimly  stole. 

Rebuked  them  bark  like  phantoms  from 

his  soul.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 


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SUSPICION 


SWEARING 


It  was  a  maxim  with  Foxey — our 
revered  father,  gentlemen — "  Always  sus- 
pect everybody."  [Sampson  Brass.} 

DICKENS. — Barnaby  Rudge,  ch.  66. 

"  Bother  Mrs.  Harris  !  "  said  Betsy 
Prig.  "  I  don't  believe  there's  no  sich 
a  person  !  " 

DICKENS. — Martin  Chuzzlewit,  ch.  49. 

Suspicion  will  make  fools  of  nations  as 
of  citizens. 

EMERSON. — English  Traits,  7  : 
Truth. 

Men  do  not  suspect  faults  which  they 
do  not  commit.  JOHNSON. — Letter,  1755. 

It  is  more  shameful  to  mistrust  your 
friends  than  to  be  deceived  by  them. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  84. 

Suspicion's  but  at  best  a  coward's  virtue. 
T.  OTWAY. — Venice  Preserved,  Act  3,  i. 

Julius  Caesar  divorced  his  wife  Pompeia, 
but  declared  at  the  trial  that  he  knew 
nothing  of  what  was  alleged  against  her 
and  Clodius.  When  asked  why,  in  that 
case,  he  had  divorced  her,  he  replied  : 
"  Because  I  must  have  the  chastity  of  my 
wife  clear  even  of  suspicion." 

PLUTARCH. — Life  of  Julius  Casar. 

All  seems  infected  that  the  infected  spy, 
As  all  looks  yellow  to  a  jaundiced  eye. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  568. 

Man's  of  a  jealous  and  mistaking  kind. 
POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  7,  394. 

See  what  a  ready  tongue  suspicion  hath  ! 
SHAKESPEARE.— Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2,  Act  i,  i. 

Who  finds  the  heifer  dead,  and  bleeding 

fresh, 

And  sees  fast  by  a  butcher  with  an  axe, 
But  will  suspect  'twas  he  that  made  the 

slaughter  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  2,  Act  3,  2. 

Suspicion  always  haunts  the  guilty  mind  ; 
The  thief  doth  fear  each  bush  an  officer. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  3, 
Act  5,  6. 

But,  O,  what  damnfcd  minutes  tells  he  o'er, 
Who  dotes,    yet   doubts ;    suspects,    yet 
fondly  loves. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 

All  men  of  poor  condition  are  somehow 
or  other  suspicious  and  ready  to  take 
offence.  TERENCE. — Adelphi,  4. 

Some  might  suspect  the  nymph  not  over- 
good — 

Nor  would  they  be  mistaken,  if  they  should. 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  6. 

The  virtue  of  a  coward  is  suspicion. 

Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 


SWANS 

There's  a  double  beauty  whenever  a  swan 

Swims  on  a  lake  with  her  double  thereon. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

The  swan,  with  arche'd  neck 
Between  her  white  wings  mantling  proudly, 

rows 
Her  state  with  oary  feet. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  7,  I.  438. 

All  the  water  in  the  ocean 
Can  never  turn  the  swan's  black  legs  to 

white, 

Although  she  lave  them  hourly. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  Andron.,  Act  4,  2 
The  silver  swanne  doth  sing  before  her 

dying  day 
As  shee  that  feeles  the  deepe  delight  that 

is  in  death. 

SPENSER. — Shep.  Cal.,  October  (Glosse). 
The  eye  that  marks  the  gliding  creatures 

sees 
How    graceful   pride   can   be,    and   how 

majestic  ease. 

WORDSWORTH. — Evening  Walk. 
SWEARING 

Gret  swering  is  a  thing  abhominable, 
And  false  swering  is  yet  more  reprovable. 
The  heighe  god  forbad  swering  at  al, 
Witnesse  on  Mathewe  ;   but  in  special 
Of  swering  seith  the  holy  Jeremye, 
"  Thou  shalt  seye  sooth  thyn  othes,  and 

nat  lye. 
And  swere  in  dome,  and  eke  in  rightwis- 

nesse  "  ; 
But  ydel  swering  is  a  cursednesse. 

CHAUCER. — Pardoner's  Tale,  631.* 

Since  we  are  civilized  Englishmen,  let 
us  not  be  naked  savages  in  our  talk. 

FULLER. — Holy  and  Profane  State. 

Take  not  His  name,  who  made  thy  mouth, 

in  vain  ; 
It  gets  thee  nothing,  and  has  no  excuse. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

When  a  gentleman  is  disposed  to  s\year, 
it  is  not  for  any  bystanders  to  curtail  his 
oaths. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  2,  i. 

It  [swearing]  is  not  so  easy  an  acquire- 
ment as  a  few  ignorant  pretenders  may 
imagine.  A  footman  may  swear,  but  he 
cannot  swear  like  a  lord.  He  can  swear 
as  often ;  but  can  he  swear  with  equal 
delicacy,  propriety,  and  judgment  ? 

SWIFT. — Intro,  to  Polite  Conversation. 

Some  of  his  words  were  not  Sunday 
School  words. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Tramp  Abroad. 


"  Witnesse  on  Mathewe" — ''Take  the  evidence 
of  Matthew"  (v.  36).  The  other  reference  is  to 
Jeremiah  iv.  2,  and  means:  "Thou  shalt  speak 
truly  thine  oaths,  and  not  lie,  and  swear  in  judg- 
ment and  also  in  righteousness." 


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SWEETNESS 


SYMPATHY 


Her  grace  she  turned  her  round  about, 
And  like  a  royall  queene  she  swore. 

Old  Ballad.     Rising  in  the  North. 

SWEETNESS 

To  pile  up  honey  upon  sugar,  and  sugar 
upon  honey,  to  an  interminable  tedious 
sweetness.  LAMB. — On  Ears. 

Sweets  to  the  sweet :    farewell  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  I. 

SWIMMING 

He  could,  perhaps,  have  passed  the  Helles- 
pont 

As  once  (a  feat  on  which  ourselves  we 
prided) 

Leander,  Mr.  Ekenhead,  and  I  did. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  105. 

This  is  the  purest  exercise  of  health, 

The  kind  refresher  of  the  summer  heats  ; 

Nor,  when  cold  Winter  keens  the  brighten- 
ing flood 

Would  I,  weak-shivering,    linger   on    the 

brink.  THOMSON. — The  Seasons : 

Summer. 

SWITZERLAND 

All  Switzerland  is,  so  to  speak,  only  one 
large  town,  whose  wide  and  long  streets, 
more  so  than  that  of  Saint-Antoine,  are 
sown  with  forests,  divided  by  mountains, 
and  whose  rare  and  isolated  houses  are 
joined  only  by  "  English  gardens." 

ROUSSEAU. — Rtveries  d'un  Promeneur 
solitaire,  7. 
SYLLOGISMS 

Syllogisms  do  breed,  or  rather  are,  all 
the  variety  of  man's  life.  They  are  the 
steps  by  which  we  walk  in  all  our  busi- 
nesses. Man,  as  he  is  man,  doth  nothing 
else  but  weave  such  chains. 

SIR  KENELM  DIGBY. — Of  Bodies  and 
Souls  (1644). 

Syllogism  at  best  is  but  the  art  of  fen- 
cing with  the  little  knowledge  we  have, 
without  making  any  addition  to  it. 

LOCKE. — Essay  4,  17. 
SYMPATHY 

Those  who  want  friends  to  open  them- 
selves unto,  are  cannibals  of  their  own 
hearts.  BACON. — Of  Friendship. 

Sweet  the  help 
Of  one  we  have  helped. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  7. 

Needs  there  groan  a  world  in  anguish, 
Just  to  teach  us  sympathy  ? 

BROWNING. — La  Saisiaz. 

The  learned  eye  is  still  the  loving  one. 

BROWNING. — Red  Cotton  Nightcap 
Country. 

All  who  joy  would  win 
Must  share  It — Happiness  was  born  a  tsvin. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  172. 


For  'tis  some  ease  our  sorrows  to  reveal, 
If  they  to  whom  we  shall  impart  our  woes, 
Seem  but  to  feel  a  part  of  what  we  feel, 
And  meet  us  with  a  sigh,  but  at  the  close. 
S.  DANIEL. — Cleopatra,  Act  4,  i. 

Everything  is  my  cousin. 

EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

A  fellow-feeling  makes  us  wondrous  kind. 
GARRICK. — Prologue,  1776. 

The  sigh  that  rends  thy  constant  heart, 
Shall  break  thy  Edwin's  too. 

GOLDSMITH. — The  Hermit. 

So  sorrow  is  cheered  by  being  poured 
From  one  vessel  into  another. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmanseg%. 

Our  hearts,  our  hopes,  are  all  with  thee, 
Our  hearts,  our  hopes,  our  prayers,  our 

tears, 

Our  faith,  triumphant  o'er  our  fears. 
Are  all  with  thee, — are  all  with  thee  ! 

LONGFELLOW. — Building  of  the  Ship. 

No  one  is  so  accurs'd  by  fate, 
No  one  so  utterly  desolate, 
But  some  heart,  though  unknown, 
Responds  unto  his  own. 

LONGFELLOW. — Endymion. 

Two  souls  with  but  a  single  thought, 
Two  hearts  that  beat  as  one. 
MARIA  A.  LOVELL. — Tr.  from  German. 

The  sad  relief 

That  misery  loves — the  fellowship  of  grief . 
J.  MONTGOMERY. — West  Indies,  Pt.  3. 

Yet,  taught  by  time,  my  heart  has  learned 

to  glow 

For  others'  good,  and  melt  at  others'  woe. 
POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  18,  279. 

It  is  man's  weakness  which  makes  him 
sociable  ;  it  is  our  common  miseries  which 
draw  our  hearts  to  humanity. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

It  is  the  secret  sympathy, 

The  silver  link,  the  silken  tie, 

Which  heart  to  heart,  and  mind  to  mind, 

In  body  and  in  soul  can  bind. 

SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  5,  13. 

She  loved  me  for  the  dangers  I  had  passed, 
And  I  loved  her  that  she  did  pity  them. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

He  oft  finds  med'cine  who  his  griefe  im- 
parts. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  c.  a,  34. 

Feel  for  others — in  your  pocket. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

How  patiently  you  hear  him  groan  ! 
How  glad  the  case  is  not  your  own  ! 
SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift . 


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TABLE-TALK 


TALES 


For  nothing  human  foreign  was  to  him. 

THOMSON. — On  Lord   Talbot    (tr.   of 

Terence's  "  Hwnani  nihil  a  me  alienum 

puto  "). 
Ever  in  the  New  rejoicing, 

Kindly  beckoning  back  the  Old, 
Turning,  with  the  gift  of  Midas, 
All  things  into  gold. 

WHITTIER. — To 

Yet  tears  to  human  suffering  are  due. 

WORDSWORTH. — Laodamia. 

A  sorrow  shared  is  but  half  a  trouble, 
But  a  joy  that's  shared  is  a  joy  made 
double.  Old  Saying. 


TABLE-TALK 

But  still  his  tongue  ran  on,  the  less 
Of  weight  it  bore,  with  greater  ease  ; 
And  with  its  everlasting  clack 
Set  all  men's  ears  upon  the  rack. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  PL  3,  c.  2,  443. 

Talk  often,  but  never  long  ;  in  that  case, 
if  you  do  not  please,  at  least  you  are  sure 
not  to  tire  your  hearers. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Letters  to  His  Son 
(Oct.  19,  1748). 
A  table-talker  rich  in  sense, 
And  witty  without  wit's  pretence. 

C.  MATHER. — Tr.  of  Epitaph. 

A  good  talker,  even  more  than  a  good 
orator,  implies  a  good  audience. 

LESLIE  STEPHEN. — Samuel  Johnson 
(Eng.  Men  of  Letters),  ch.  3. 

TALENTS 

What  we  acquire  by  pains  and  art 

Is  only  due  to  our  own  desert ; 

While  all   the  endowments  she  [Nature] 

confers 
Are  not  so  much  our  own  as  hers. 

BUTLER. — Upon  Plagiaries. 

That  one  talent  which  is  death  to  hide. 
MILTON. — Sonnet. 

Now  this  is  how  I  define  talent :  it  is 
a  gift  God  has  given  us  in  secret,  which 
we  reveal  without  knowing  it. 

MONTESQUIEU. 

Let  the  pathway  be  open  to  talent. 

NAPOLEON. 

Talent  is  talent  and  mind  is  mind,  in  all 
its  branches  .  .  .  We  must  despise  no  sort 
of  talent ;  they  all  have  their  separate 
duties  and  uses  ;  all,  the  happiness  of  man 
for  their  object :  they  all  improve,  exalt, 
and  gladden  life. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  19. 


Creatures  of  every  kind  but  ours 
Well  comprehend  their  natural  powers, 
While  we,  whom  reason  ought  to  sway, 
Mistake  our  talents  every  day. 

SWIFT. — Beasts'  Confession. 

A  sinful  soul  possessed  of  many  gifts, 
A  spacious  garden  full  of  flowering  weeds. 
TENNYSON. — To 


Talents  angel-bright, 

If  wanting  worth,  are  shining  instruments 
In  false  ambition's  hand,  to  finish  faults 
Illustrious,  and  give  infamy  renown. 

YovxG.—Night  Thoughts,  6,  273. 

TALES 

Tell  me  the  tales  that  to  me  were  so  dear, 
Long,  long  ago,  long,  long  ago. 

T.  H.  BAYLY. — Long  Ago. 

Various     and     strange     was     the     long- 
winded  tale. 

BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  44. 

'Tis  old  to  you 

As  the  story  of  Adam  and  Eve,  and  pos- 
sibly quite  as  true. 

BROWNING. — Ivan  Ivdnovitch,  16. 

The  Souter  told  his  queerest  stories, 
The  landlord's  laugh  was  ready  chorus. 

BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

Of  all  tales  'tis  the  saddest — and  more  sad, 
Because  it  makes  us  smile. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  13,  9  (Of  "  Don 
Quixote"). 

Story !   God  bless  you !  I  have  none  to  tell, 
sir.          G.  CANNING. — Knife  Grinder. 

Whoso  shal  telle  a  tale  after  a  man, 
He  moot  reherce,  as  ny  as  ever  he  caa, 
Everich  a  word,  if  it  be  in  his  charge, 
Al  speke  he  never  so  rudeliche  and  large  ; 
Or  elles  he  moot  telle  his  tale  untrewe, 
Or  feyne  thing,  or  finde  wordes  newe. 

CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

Let  every  felawe  telle  his  tale  aboute. 

CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale. 

Sey    forth    thy    tale,  and   tarie   nat    the 
tyme.       CHAUCER. — Reeve's  Prologue. 

A  tale  should  be  judicious,  clear,  succinct, 
The  language  plain,  the  incidents  well 

linked  ; 

Tell  not  as  old  what  everybody  knows 
And,  new  or  old,  still  hasten  to  a  close. 

COWPER. — Conversation,  235. 

"  I'll  tell  you  an  excellent  story  " — an 

exordium  ever  to  be  avoided  by  all  prudent 

wits.    Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Essay  on  Irish 

Bulls,  ch.  5. 

"  I'm  bad  ez  de  chillun  'bout  dem  ole 
tales "  [said  Aunt  Tempy],  "  kase  I  kin 
des  [just]  set  up  yer  [here]  un  lissen  at  urn 


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TALES 

de  whole  blessid  night,  en  a  good  part  er 
de  day.     Yass,  Lord  !  " 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  27. 

"  I  'clar'  ter  goodness,  honey,"  he 
[Uncle  Remus]  exclaimed,  "  ef  you  hoi's 
on  ter  yo'  pra'rs  lak  you  does  ter  deze  yer 
tales,  youer  doin'  mighty  well." 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Ib.,  ch.  47. 

But  stories  and  sayings  they  will  well 
remember. 

HERBERT. — Priest  to  the  Temple,  ch.  7. 

And  what  so  tedious  as  a  twice-told  tale  ? 
•  POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  12,  522. 

And  all  who  told  it  added  something  new, 

And  all  who  heard  it,  made  enlargements 

too.         POPE. — Temple  of  Fame,  470. 

Examples  draw  when  precept  fails, 
And  sermons  are  less  read  than  tales. 

PRIOR. — Turtle  and  Sparrow. 

I  cannot  tell  how  the  truth  may  be  ; 
I  tell  the  tale  as  'twas  said  to  me. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  2,  22. 

I  love  such  holy  ramblers  ;  still 
They  know  to  charm  a  weary  hill 

With  song,  romance,  or  lay  ; 
Some  jovial  tale,  or  glee,  or  jest, 
Some  lying  legend  at  the  least, 

They  bring  to  cheer  the  way. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  i,  25. 

'Tis  an  old  tale,  and  often  told. 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  c.  2,  27. 

And  so,  from  hour  to  hour,  we  ripe  and 

ripe 
And  then  from  hour  to  hour,  we  rot  and 

rot; 

And  thereby  hangs  a  tale. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

Delivers  in  such  apt  and  gracious  words, 
That  aged  ears  play  truant  at  his  tales, 
And  younger  hearings  are  quite  ravished  ; 
So  sweet  and  voluble  is  his  discourse. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 

Act  2,  i. 

I  ran  it  through,  even  from  my  boyish 

days 
To  the  very  moment  that  he  bade  me  tell 

it.     SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

An  honest  tale  speeds  best,  being  plainly 

told. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  4,  4. 

Your  tale,  sir,  would  cure  deafness. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2. 

A  sad  tale's  best  for  winter  ; 
I  have  one  of  sprites  and  goblins. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  2,  i. 


TALK 

Come  listen  to  my  mournful  tale, 
Ye  tender  hearts  and  lovers  dear  ; 

Not  will  you  scorn  to  heave  a  sigh, 
Nor  need  you  blush  to  shed  a  tear. 

SHENSTONE.— Jemmy  Dawson. 

For  seldom  shall  she  hear  a  tale, 
So  sad,  so  tender,  and  so  true. 

SHENSTONE. — Ib. 

With  a  tale,  forsooth,  he  cometh  unto 
you,  with  a  tale  which  holdeth  children 
from  play,  and  old  men  from  the  chimney- 
corner. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apology  for  Poetry. 

So  it  is  in  man  (most  of  which  are 
childish  in  the  best  things,  till  they  be 
cradled  in  their  graves),  glad  they  will  be 
to  hear  the  tales  of  Hercules,  Achilles, 
Cyrus,  and  /Eneas.  SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Ib. 

"  Now  tell  us  what  'twas  all  about," 

Young  Peterkin  he  cries  ; 
And  little  Wilhelmine  looks  up 

With  wonder-waiting  eyes. 

SOUTHEY. — Battle  of  Blenheim. 

Such  wondrous  tales  as  childhood  loves 
to  hear.         SOUTHEY. — Joan  of  Arc^ 

The  first  law  of  story-telling — "  Every 
man  is  bound  to  leave  a  story  better  thaw 
he  found  it." 

MRS.  HUMPHRY  WARD. — Robert  Elsmere, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  3. 

It's  a  gey  lee-like  story,  but  it's  as  sure 
as  death. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes  (Ettrick  Shepherd). 

O  Reader  !  had  you  in  your  mind 
Such  stores  as  silent  thought  can  bring, 
O  gentle  Reader  !  you  would  find 
A  tale  in  every  thing. 

WORDSWORTH. — Simon  Lee. 

And  their  words  seemed  to  them  as  idle 
tales.  St.  Luke  xxiv,  1 1 . 

If  it  is  not  true,  it  is  very  well  invented. 
Italian  prov.  found  in  Doni's  "  Mar  mi  " 

(1552). 
TALK 

Those  who  talk  much  never  say  any- 
thing. BOILEAU. 

The  mair  they  talk  I'm  kenned  the  better, 
E'en  let  them  clash  ! 

BURNS. — To  his  Illegitimate  Child. 

Talk  that  does  not  end  in  any  kind  of 
action  is  better  suppressed  altogether. 

CARLYLE. — Address  (1866). 

Avoid  argument  with  the  verbose  '• 
power  of  speech  is  given  to  all ;  wisdom  of 
mind  to  few.  CATO. 


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TALK 


TARDINESS 


O  lady  !   we  shall  never  know  the  truth, — 
What  man,  what  love,  what  God  is, — till 

we  cease 

To  talk  of  them, — which  all  do  in  the  grave. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Smith,  Act  3. 

But  fools  to  talking  ever  prone, 
Are  sure  to  make  their  follies  known. 

GAY. — Fables,  44. 

Though  I'm  anything  but  clever. 
I  could  talk  like  that  for  ever. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT.— H.M.S.  Pinafore. 

To  talk  without  effort  is,  after  all,  the 
great  charm  of  talking. 

J.  C.  HARE. — Guesses  at  Truth. 

"  I'll  do  de  talkin',"  sez  Brer  Rabbit, 
sezee,  "  'en  you  kin  set  back  and  say  yea," 
sezee. 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus, 

ch.  19. 

The  most  fluent  talkers  or  most  plaus- 
ible reasoners  are  not  always  the  justest 
thinkers.  W.  HAZLITT.— On  Prejudice. 

The  worst  of  Warburton  is  that  he  has 
a  rage  for  saying  something  when  there  is 
nothing  to  be  said.  JOHNSON. — Remark. 

We  talk  little  when  vanity  does  not 
make  us  talk. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  137. 

Then  he  will  talk — good  gods,  how  he  will 
talk !  N.  LEE. — Rival  Queens,  Act  i,  i. 

I  am  a  maker  of  war  and  not  a  maker  of 
phrases. 

LONGFELLOW. — Courtship  of  Miles 
Standish,  2. 

But  as  they  hedn't  no  gret  things  to  say, 
An'  sed  'em  often,  I  come  right  away. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2nd  Ser.,  2. 

Woord  is  but  wynd ;    leave  woord   and 
take  the  dede.  J.  LYDGATE. — Secreta. 

With  patient  inattention  hear  him  prate. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Bellerophon,  st.  4. 

Say-all-you-know   shall   go   with   clouted 

head, 
Say-nought-at-all  is  beaten. 

W.  MORRIS. — The  Lovers  of  Gudrun. 

Strange  the  difference  of  men's  talk  ! 

S.  PEPYS. — Diary,  1660. 

And  boasting  youth,   and  narrative  old 
age.  POPE. — Eloisa. 

And  'tis  remarkable  that  they 
Talk  most  who  have  the  least  to  say. 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  2,  345. 

They  never  taste  who  always  drink  ; 
They  always  talk  who  never  think. 
PRIOR. — On  a  Passage  in  the  Scaligera. 


Man  says  what  he  knows  ;  woman  says 
what  will  please.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

This  bald,  unjointed  chat  of  his. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

Let  it  serve  for  table  talk. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.  of  Venice,  Act  3,  5. 

For  the  watch  to  babble  and  talk,  is 
most  tolerable  and  not  to  be  endured. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  3,  3. 

A  good  old  man,  sir,  he  will  be  talking  ; 
as  they  say,  "  When  the  age  is  in,  the  wit 
is  out."  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  5. 

Mere  prattle  without  practice 
Is  all  his  scholarship. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  i 

A  gentleman,  nurse,  that  loves  to  hear 
himself  talk,   and  will  speak  more  in  a 
minute  than  he  will  stand  to  in  a  month. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  2, 4. 

A  fool  and  his  words  are  soon  parted. 

SHENSTONE. — On  Reserve. 

How  can  his  fluent  tongue  and  thought 

keep  touch, 
Who  thinks  too  little  but  who  talks  too 

much  ?         SWIFT. — Swan  Tripe  Club. 

Two  great  talkers  will  not  travel  far 
together.    Quoted  by  Borrow  ("  Lavengro  ") 
as  a  Spanish  prov. 
Yf  that  thow  wolte  speke  aryght, 

Syx  thynggys  thow  moste  (must)   ob- 
serve then  : 

What  thow  spekyst,  and  of  what  wyght, 
Whare,  to  wham,  whye  and  whenne. 
MS.  Trin.  Coll.,  Cambridge  (c.  1530) 
(see  p.  481,  Norris). 

Glib  i'  the  tongue  is  aye  glaiket  (foolish 
or  trifling)  at  the  heart.  Scottish  prov. 

TARDINESS 

'Tis  cruel  to  prolong  a  pain  and  to  defer 
a  joy.  SIR  C.  SEDLEY. — Song. 

The  favour  which  sticks  too  long  in  the 
hands  of  the  donor  is  not  thankfully  re- 
ceived. SENECA. — De  Beneficiis. 

To  be  slow  in  granting  a  favour  is  to 
show  unwillingness  ;  even  to  be  slow  in 
desiring  to  grant  it  is  evidence  of  unwilling- 
ness. SENECA. 

Why,  one  that  rode  to  his  execution,  man, 
Could  never  go  so  slow. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  3,  2. 

When  the  dog  comes,  a  stone  cannot  be 
found  ;  when  the  stone  is  found,  the  dog 
does  not  come.  Prov.  (Telegu). 


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TASTE 


TAXATION 


TASTE 

Good  native  Taste,  though  rude,  is  seldom 

wrong, 

Be  it  in  music,  painting,  or  in  song  : 
But  this,  as  well  as  other  faculties, 
Improves  with  age  and  ripens  by  degrees. 
ARMSTRONG. — Taste,  26. 

Wealth     had    done    wonders — taste    not 
much.       BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  5,  94. 

The  wild  vicissitudes  of  taste. 

JOHNSON. — Prologue. 

How  many  a  thing  which  we  cast  to  the 

ground 

When  others  pick  it  up  becomes  a  gem  ! 
GEO;  MEREDITH. — Modern  Love,  st.  4.1. 

A  person's  taste  is  as  much  his  own 

peculiar  concern  as  his  opinion  or  his  purse. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  4. 

Talk  as  you  will  of  taste,  my  friend,  you'll 

find 
Two  of  a  face,  as  soon  as  of  a  mind. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays. 

Perfect  taste  is  the  faculty  of  receiving 
the  greatest  possible  pleasure  from  these 
material  sources  which  are  attractive  to 
our  moral  nature  in  its  purity  and  per- 
fection. 

RUSKIN. — Mod.  Painters,  Pt.  i,  Sec.  i, 
ch  6,  §2. 

I  have  always  suspected  public  taste  to 
ba  a  mongrel  product,  out  of  affectation 
by  dogmatism. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Virginibus,  Pt.  i. 

Because  you  and  I  are  epicures  or  dainty 
feeders,  it  does  not  follow  that  Hodge  is 
miserable  with  his  homely  meal  of  bread 
and  bacon. 

THACKERAY. — The  Virginians. 

Simple  was  the  noble  architecture  [of  the 
Temple  of  Taste].  Each  ornament,  fixed 
in  its  place,  seemed  there  of  necessity. 
Art  hid  itself  under  the  air  of  nature.  The 
eye  satisfied  embraced  the  structure,  never 
surprised  and  always  enchanted. 

VOLTAIRE. — Temple  du  Gout. 

The  ear  to  no  grave  harmonies  inclined, 
The  witless  thirst  for  false  wit's  worthless 

lees, 

The  laugh  mistimed  in  tragic  presences, 
The  eye  to  all  majestic  meanings  blind. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — Sonnet. 

The  word  Taste  has  been  stretched  to 
the  sense  which  it  bears  in  modern  Europe 
by  habits  of  self-conceit,  inducing  that  in- 
version in  the  order  of  things  whereby  a 
passive  faculty  is  made  paramount  among 
the  faculties  conversant  with  the  fine  arts. 
WORDSWORTH. — Essay,  supplementary 
to  Pref.  to  Poems. 


TAXATION 

No  people  overcharged  with  tribute  is 
fit  for  empire. 

BACON. — Essays :    Of  Expense. 

To  tax  and  to  please,  no  more  than  to 
love  and  be  wise,  is  not  given  to  men. 
BURKE. — Speech  on  American  Taxation. 

What  is't  to  us  if  taxes  rise  or  fall  ? 
Thanks  to  our  fortune,  we  pay  none  at  all. 
CHURCHILL. — Apology. 

"  It  was  as  true,"  said  Mr.  Barkis,  "  as 

taxes  is.    And  nothing's  truer  than  them." 

DICKENS. — David  Copperfield,  ch.  21. 

Was  it  Napoleon  who  said  that  he  found 
vices  very  good  patriots  ? — "  he  got  five 
millions  from  the  love  of  brandy,  and  he 
should  be  glad  to  know  which  of  the  virtues 
could  pay  him  as  much." 

EMERSON. — Civilization. 

Of  all  debts  men  are  least  willing  to  pay 
the  taxes.  What  a  satire  this  on  Govern- 
ment !  EMERSON. — Politics. 

Taxes  are  indeed  very  heavy  . .  .  We 
are  taxed  twice  as  much  by  pur  idleness, 
three  times  as  much  by  our  pride,  and  four 
times  as  much  by  our  folly. 

B.  FRANKLIN. — Way  to  Wealth. 

All  men  are  by  nature  provided  of  no- 
table multiplying  glasses, — that  is  their 
passions  and  self-love,  through  which 
every  little  payment  appeareth  a  great 
grievance  ;  but  are  destitute  of  those  pros- 
pective glasses, — namely  moral  and  civil 
science — to  see  afar  off  the  miseries  that 
hang  over  them  and  cannot,  without  such 
payments,  be  avoided. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  18. 

Taxes  milks  dry,  but,   neighbour,   you'll 

allow 

Thet  havin'  things  onsettled  kills  the  cow. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2nd 

Ser.,  2. 

Men  who  prefer  any  load  of  infamy, 
however  great,  to  any  pressure  of  taxa- 
tion, however  light. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Petition  to  the  House 
of  Congress  at  Washington. 

Folly  taxes  us  four  times  as  much  as 
Parliament. 

C.   H.   SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 
(V.  supra,  Franklin.) 

The  peace  of  nations  cannot  be  secured 
without  arms,  nor  arms  without  pay,  nor 
pay  without  taxes. 

TACITUS. — Hist.,  Bk.  4 

What  the  church  leaves,  the  exchequer 
takes.  Spanish  prov 


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TEA 


TEA 

Tea,   thou  soft,   them  sober,  sage  and 
venerable  liquid  ! 
C.  GIBBER. — Lady's  Last  Stake,  Act  i,  I. 

The  bubbling  and  loud-hissing  urn 
Throws  up  a  steamy  column,  and  the  cups 
That  cheer  but  not  inebriate  wait  on  each.* 
COWPER. — The  Task  :   Winter  Evening. 

This  here  old  lady  next  to  me  is 
a  drowndin'  herself  in  tea.  .  . .  There's  a 
young  'ooman  on  the  next  form  but  two 
as  has  drunk  nine  breakfast  cups  and  a 
half ;  and  she's  a  swellin'  wisibly  before 
my  wery  eyes.  [Samuel  Wetter,  sen.] 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  33. 

My  constant  drink  is  tea,  or  a  little  wine 
and  water ;  'tis  prescribed  by  the  phy- 
sicians for  a  remedy  against  the  spleen. 

FARQUHAR. — Beaux'  Stratagem,  3. 

Thank  God  for  tea  !  What  would  the 
world  do  without  tea  !  How  did  it  exist  ? 
I  am  glad  I  was  not  born  before  tea  ! 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Memoir. 

Indeed,  Madam,  your  ladyship  is  very 

sparing  of  your  tea :    I  protest  the  last  I 

took  was  no  more  than  water  bewitched. 

SWIFT. — Polite  Conversations,  i. 

When  a  body  has  had  an  early  denner, 

what  a  glorious  meal's  the  "  Fowre-oors  "  ! 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  27. 

TEACHING 

'Tis   the   taught    already  that  profits  by 
teaching. 

BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve. 

And   gladly   wolde   he   lerne  and   gladly 
teche.     CHAUCER. — Cant.  Tales,  Prol. 

We  loved  the  doctrine  for   the  teacher's 
sake. 

DEFOE. — Character  of  Dr.  Annesley 
(c.  1700). 

We   love   the   precept   for   the  teacher's 

sake  FARQUHAR. — 

Constant  Couple,  Act  5,  3  (1700). 

Men  must  be  taught  as  if  you  taught  them 

not, 
And  things  unknown  proposed  as  things 

forgot. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  574. 

Long  is  the  way  (to  learning)  by  rules  ; 
short  and  effective  by  examples. 

SENECA. — Ep.  6. 

*  Probably  founded  on  a  passage  in  Bishop 
Berkeley's  Siris  Cpubd.  20  years  previously),  in 
which  he  says  that  tar- water  is  so  "  proportioned 
to  the  human  constitution,  as  to  warm  without 
heating,  to  cheer  but  not  inebriate" 


TEARS 

It  is  a  good  divine  that  follows  bis  own 

instructions ;    I  can  easier  teach  twenty 

what  were  good  to  be  done,  than  to  be  one 

of  the  twenty  to  follow  mine  own  teachings. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.  of  Venice, 

Act  i,  2. 

TEARS 

There  are  worse  plagues  on  earth  than 
tears.  M.  ARNOLD. — A  Wish. 

For  where   Teares   cannot,   nothing   can 
prevaile.  R.  BARNFIELD. — 

Affectionate  Shepheard  (1594) 
A  lady's  tears  are  silent  orators. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Love's 
Cure,  Act  3,  3. 

For  a  tear  is  an  intellectual  thing, 
And  a  sigh  is  the  sword  of  an  angel-king. 
BLAKE. — Grey  Monk. 

Every  tear  from  every  eye 
Becomes  a  babe  in  eternity. 

BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

Oh  !    too  convincing — dangerously  dear — 
In  woman's  eye  the  unanswerable  tear  ! 

BYRON. — Corsair,  2,  15. 
What  lost  a  world,  and  bade  a  hero  fly  ? 
The  timid  tear  in  Cleopatra's  eye. 

BYRON.— Ib. 

He  bids  me  dry  the  last,  the  first, 
The  only  tears  that  ever  burst 
From  Outalissi's  soul. 


For  Beauty's  tears  are  lovelier  than  her 
smile. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  i. 

Nothing  dries  quicker  than  a  tear. 

CICERO. — Ad  Herennium. 

And  the  tear  that  is  wiped  with  a  little 

address, 
May  be  followed  perhaps  by  a  smile. 

COWPER.- — The  Rose. 

He  doubted,  but  God  said  "  Even  so ; 
Nothing  is  lost  that's  wrought  with  tears." 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Ballad  of  Heaven. 

What  argufies  snivelling  and  piping  your 
eye  ?  C.  DIBDIN. — Poor  Jack. 

They  [the  critics]  make  .(Eneas  little 
better  than  a  kind  of  St.  Swithin-hero, 
always  raining. 

DRYDEN. — Dedic.  of  JEneid.. 

Had  I,  my  father,  the  persuasive  voice 
Of  Orpheus,  and  his  skill  to  charm  the 

rocks 
To  follow   me,   and   soothe   whome'er   I 

please 
With  winning  words,  I  would  make  trial 

of  it ; 

But  I  have  nothing  to  present  thee  now 
Save  tears,  my  only  eloquence. 

EURIPIDES. — Iphigenia  in  Aul.,  1222 
(R.  Potter  tr.). 


502 


TEARS 


TEDIOUSNESS 


Oh,  would  I  were  dead  now, 
Or  up  in  my  bed  now, 
To  cover  ray  head  now 
And  have  a  good  cry  ! 

HOOD. — Table  of  Errata. 

For  men  must  work,  and  women  must 

weep 
And  the  sooner  it's  over,  the  sooner  to 

sleep.     C.  KINGSLEY. — Three  Fishers. 

It  is  only  to  the  happy  that  tears  are 
a  luxury.  MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh. 

Sometimes    tears   have    the    weight    of 
words.  OVID. — Ep.  ex  Pont. 

\Veep  no  more,  lady,  weep  no  more  ; 

Thy  sorrow  is  in  vain, 
For  violets  plucked  the  sweetest  showers 

\Vill  ne'er  make  grow  again. 
BISHOP  PERCY. — Friar  of  Orders  Grey. 

The  tribute  of  a  tear  is  all  I  crave, 
And  the  possession  of  a  peaceful  grave. 
POPE. — Odyssey,  n,  89. 

When  the  big  lip  and  watery  eye 
Tell  me  the  rising  storm  is  nigh. 

PRIOR. — The  Lady's  Looking  Glass. 

That  very  law  which  moulds  a  tear, 
And  bids  it  trickle  from  its  source, 
That  law  preserves  the  earth  a  sphere, 
And  guides  the  planets  in  their  course. 

ROGERS. — On  a  Tear. 

But  woe  awaits  a  country  when 
She  sees  the  tears  of  bearded  men. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  5,  16. 

All  things  are  cause  for  either  laughter 
or  tears.         SENECA. — De  Ira,  Bk.  2,  10. 

The  big  round  tears 
Coursed  one  another  down  his  innocent 

nose, 

In  piteous  chase. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  i. 

Like  Niobe,  all  tears. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

Too    much    of    water    hadst    thou,    poor 

Ophelia, 

And  therefore  I  forbid  my  tears  ;   but  yet 
It  is  our  trick,  nature  her  custom  holds, 
Let  shame  say  what  it  will. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  7. 

And  all  my  mother  came  into  mine  eyes, 
And  gave  me  up  to  tears. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  4,  6. 

If  you  have  tears,  prepare  to  shed  them 

now. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Casar,  Act  3,  2. 

These  foolish  drops  do  somewhat  drown 
my  manly  spirit. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  2,  3. 


O  father,  what  a  hell  of  witchcraft  lies 

In  the  small  orb  of  one  particular  tear  ! 

SHAKESPEARE  (?). — Lover's  Complaint, 

st.  42. 

I  loved  thee  for  the   tear   thou   couldst 
not  hide.       TENNYSON. — Bridesmaid. 

Tears,  idle  tears,  I  know  not  what  they 

mean, 
Tears  from   the   depths  of  some   divine 

despair 
Rise  hi  the  heart,  and  gather  hi  the  eyes. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  21. 

One  small  pretended  tear,  which,  with 
much  dismal  rubbing  of  the  eye,  she  could 
scarcely  squeeze  out  by  force. 

TERENCE. — Eunuchus,  i. 

You    cannot    cleanse     your   heart   with 
tears. 

ARCHBP.  TRENCH. — Justin  Martyr. 

Why  these  weeps  ? 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — Lecture. 

Grief  is  the  unhappy  charter  of  our  sex  : 
The  gods  who  gave  us  readier  tears  to  shed, 
Gave  us  more  cause  to  shed  them. 

W.  WHITEHEAD. — Creusa. 

And  what  are  sighs  and  tears  but  wind  and 

water, 

That  show  the  leakiness  of  mortal  nature  ? 

J.  WOLCOT. — Instructions  to  a  late 

celebrated  Laureate. 

Yet  tears  to  human  suffering  are  due ; 
And    mortal    hopes,   defeated    and   o'er- 

thrown, 
Are  mourned  by  man,  and  not  by  man 

alone.        WORDSWORTH. — Laodamia. 

Scorn  the  proud  man  that  is  ashamed  to 
weep.       YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 

Our  funeral  tears   from  different  causes 
rise.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  5. 

Men  given  to  tears  are  good  men. 

Greek  prov. 
TEDIOUSNESS 

Like  some  poor  nigh-related  guest, 
That  may  not  rudely  be  dismissed  ; 
He  hath  outstayed  his  welcome  while, 
And  tells  the  jest  without  the  smile. 

COLERIDGE. — Youth  and  Age. 

If  in  dull  length  your  moral  is  expressed, 
The  tedious  wisdom  overflows  the  breast. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

Sometimes   even   the   excellent  Homer 
grows  drowsy.       HORACE. — De  Arte  Poet. 

A  man  whose  eloquence  has  power 
To  clear  the  fullest  house  in  half  an  hour. 
SOAME  JENYNS. — Horace. 

These  tedious  old  fools  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 


503 


TEETH 


TEMPTATION 


O,  he's  as  tedious 
As  a  tired  horse,  a  railing  wife  ; 
Worse  than  a  smoky  house  : — I  had  rather 

live 
With  cheese  and  garlic  in  a  windmill. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  3,  i. 

Life  is  as  tedious  as  a  twice-told  tale, 
Vexing  the  dull  ear  of  a  drowsy  man. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  3,  4. 

Faith  !  he  must  make  his  stories  shorter, 
Or  change  his  comrades  once  a  quarter. 
SWIFT.— On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

TEETH 

Some   asked   how   pearls   did   grow,   and 

where  ? 

Then  spoke  I  to  my  Girl 
To  part  her  lips,  and  showed  them  there 
The  quarrelets  of  Pearl. 

HERRICK. — Rock  of  Rubies. 

The  best  of  friends  fall  out,  and  so 
His  teeth  had  done  some  years  ago. 

HOOD. — True  Story. 

For  her  teeth,  where,  there  is  one  of  ivory, 
its  neighbour  is  pure  ebony,  black  and 
white  alternately,  just  like  the  keys  of  a 
harpsichord. 

SHERIDAN. — The  Duenna,  Act  2,  3. 

Those  cherries  fairly  do  enclose 
Of  orient  pearl  a  double  row, 
Which,  when  her  lovely  laughter  shows, 
They  look  like  rosebuds  filled  with  snow. 
Elizabethan  Song  (set  to  music  by 
Richard  Alison). 
TEMPER 

You  know  a  saying  attributed  to  the 
Bishop  of about  temper.  No  ?  Some- 
body, I  suppose,  was  excusing  something 
on  the  score  of  temper,  to  which  the  Bishop 
replied,  "  Temper  is  nine-tenths  of  Chris- 
tianity." 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  7. 

Your  spirits  kindle  to  a  flame, 
Moved  with  the  lightest  touch  of  blame  ; 
And  when  a  friend  in  kindness  tries 
To  show  you  where  your  error  lies, 
Conviction  does  but  more  incense  ; 
Perverseness  is  your  whole  defence. 

SWIFT. — To  Stella,  1720. 

TEMPERAMENT 

We  boil  at  different  degrees. 

EMERSON. — Eloquence. 

In  every  imaginable  thing,  that  which 
I  cannot  do  with  pleasure  soon  becomes 
to  me  impossible  to  do. 

ROUSSEAU. — Rtvcries    d'un    Promeneur 
solitaire,  6. 

These  flashes  on  the  surface  are  not  he  ; 
He  has  a  solid  base  of  temperament. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  4,  234. 


TEMPERANCE 

Temperance  is  a  bridle  of  gold. 

BURTON. — Anatomy  of  Melancholy, 
Pt.  2,  sec.  2,  i,  2. 

Temp'rate  in  every  place — abroad,  at  home, 
Thence  will  applause,  and  hence  will  profit 

come  ; 
And  health  from  either. 

CRABBE. — The  Borough,  Letter  17. 

Be  not  a  beast  in  courtesy,  but  stay, 
Stay  at  the  third  cup,  or  forego  the  place. 
Wine  above  all  things  doth  God's  stamp 
deface.         HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Drink   not   the   third   glass,   which   thou 

canst  not  tame, 
When  once  it  is  within  thee. 

GEO.  HERBERT. — Ib. 

Abstinence  is  as  easy  to  me  as  temper- 
ance would  be  difficult. 

JOHNSON. — Johnsoniana  (H.  More). 

She  [Nature],  good  cateress, 
Means  her  provision  only  to  the  good, 
That  live  according  to  her  sober  laws, 
And  holy  dictate  of  spare  Temperance. 
MILTON. — Comus,  I.  764. 

"  Know  thyself  "  and  "  Be  temperate  " 
are  the  same  thing,  as  the  writings  assert, 
and  as  I  [Critias]  maintain. 

PLATO. — Charmides,  27. 

Temperance  and  labour  are  the  two  true 
physicians  of  man.  ROUSSEAU. 

Let's  teach  ourselves  that  honourable  stop, 
Not  to  outsport  discretion. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Temperance  is  reason's  girdle  and  pas- 
sion's bridle.  JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

He   knew   no   beverage   but    the  flowing 
stream.  THOMSON. — Castle  of 

Indolence,  c.  2,  7. 
TEMPORISING 

The  foul  sluggard's  comfort :  "  It  will 
last  my  time." 

CARLYLE. — Cagliostro. 

Unskilful  he  to  fawn  or  seek  for  power, 
By   doctrines   fashioned    to   the    varying 
hour.     GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Some    blamed    him,    some    believed    him 

good — 

The  truth  lay  doubtless  'twixt  the  two, — 
He  reconciled  as  best  he  could 
Old  faith  and  fancies  new. 

WHITTIER. — My  Namesake. 
TEMPTATION 

A  dear-loved  lad,  convenience  snug, 
A  treacherous  inclination — 

But  let  me  whisper  i'  your  lug, 
Ye're  aiblin>  nae  temptation. 

s. — To  the  Unco  Guid. 


504 


TERROR 


THEOLOGY 


The  devil  tempts  us  not,  'tis  we  tempt  him, 
Beckoning  his  skill  with  opportunity. 

GEO.  ELIOT. 

'Gainst  the  logic  of  the  devil 
Human  logic  strives  in  vain. 

A.  L.  GORDON. — Ashtaroth. 

For  he  who  tempts,  though  in  vain,  at 

least  asperses 
The  tempted  with  dishonour  foul. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  9,  296. 

So  glozed  the  Tempter. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  549. 

The  veriest  hermit  in  the  nation 
May  yield,  God  knows,  to  strong  tempta- 
tion. POPE. — Imit.  of  Horace, 
Bk.  2,  Sat.  6,  I.  181. 
'Tis  one  thing  to  be  tempted,  Escalus, 
Another  thing  to  fall. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  2,  i. 

The   tempter  or   the   tempted,  who  sins 
most  ?    SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

Ay  me,  how  many  perils  doe  enfold 

The  righteous  man,  to  make  him  daily 

fall, 
Were  not  that  heavenly  grace  doth  him 

uphold, 
And  stedfast  Truth  acquite  him  out  of 

all! 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  i,  c.  8,  i. 

When  a  man  is  tempted  to  do  a  tempting 
thing,  he  can  find  a  hundred  ingenious 
reasons  for  gratifying  his  liking. 

THACKERAY. — Pendennis. 

The  gates  of  hell  are  open  night  and  day  ; 

Smooth  the  descent,  and  easy  is  the  way. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  6  (Dry den  tr.). 

The  only  way  to  get  rid  of  a  temptation 
is  to  yield  to  it. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Dorian  Gray. 
TERROR 

No  divine  terror  will  ever  be  found  in  the 
work  of  the  man  who  wastes  a  colossal 
strength  in  elaborating  toys  ;  for  the  first 
lesson  that  terror  is  sent  to  teach  us  is,  the 
value  of  the  human  soul,  and  the  shortness 
of  mortal  time. 

RUSKIN. — Stones  of  Venice,  ch.  3. 

He  that  only  rules  by  terror 
Doeth  grievous  wrong. 

TENNYSON. — The  Captain. 

For  all  things  are  less  dreadful  than  they 
seem. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  i. 

THANKSGIVING 

For  these  things  it  is  meet  to  give  the  Gods 
Thank-offerings  long-enduring. 

/ESCHYLUS. — Agamemnon,  821 
(Plumptretr.). 


Such  thanks 
As  fits  a  king's  remembrance. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Beggar  that  I  am,  I  am  poor  even  in 
thanks.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

And  though   I   ebb  in  worth  I'll  flow  in 
thanks.  JOHN  TAYLOR. — Merry- 

Wherry-Ferry  Voyage. 
I  doubt  whether  that  practice  of  piety, 
...  to  be  thankful  because  we  are  better  off 
than  somebody  else,   be  a  very  rational 
religious  exercise. 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  ch.  66. 

But  whether  we  have  less  or  more, 
Alway  thank  we  God  therefor. 

Sir  Cleyes  (i$th  Century). 
THEATRES 

The  stage  I  choose,  a  subject  fair  and  free 
'Tis  yours — 'tis  mine — 'tis  public  property. 
All  common  exhibitions  open  lie, 
For  praise  or  censure,  to  the  common  eye. 
CHURCHILL. — Apology. 

Like  hungry  guests  a  sitting  audience  looks ; 

Plays  are  like  suppers  ;  poets  are  the  cooks. 

PETER  MOTTEUX. — Prol.  to  Farquhar's 

"  Inconstant." 

To  wake  the  soul  by  tender  strokes  of  art, 
To  raise  the  genius  and  to  mend  the  heart, 
To  make  mankind  in  conscious  virtue  bold, 
Live  o'er  each  scene,  and  be  what  they  be- 
hold ; 

For  this  the  tragic  muse  first  trod  the  stage, 

Commanding  tears  to  stream  through  every 

age.     POPE. — Prol.  to  Addison's  Goto. 

I  have  heard 

That  guilty  creatures  sitting  at  a  play 
Have,  by  the  very  cunning  of  the  scene, 
Been  struck  so  to  the  soul  that  presently 
They  have  proclaimed  their  malefactions. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

Some  come  to  take  their  ease, 
And  sleep  an  act  or  two. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VIII.,  Epilogue. 

In  a  theatre  the  eyes  of  men, 
After  a  well-grac'd  actor  leaves  the  stage, 
Are  idly  bent  on  him  that  enters  next. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  5,  2. 

THEOLOGY 

Myself  when  young  did  eagerly  frequent 
Doctor  and  Saint,  and  heard  great  Argu- 
ment, 

About  it  and  about :    but  evermore 
Came  out  by  the  same  door  wherein  I  went. 
E.  FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  27. 

The  various  modes  of  worship  which 
prevailed  in  the  Roman  world  were  all  con- 
sidered by  the  people  as  equally  true  ;  by 
the  philosopher  as  equally  false  ;  and  by 
the  magistrate  as  equally  useful. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall. 


SOS 


THEORY 


THOUGHT 


I  always  admired  Mrs.  Grote's  saying 
that  politics  and  theology  were  the  only 
two  really  great  subjects. 

GLADSTONE. — Letter,  1880.     (Cf. 
0.  W.  Holmes,  as  quoted  below.) 

Religion    and    government    appear    to 

me  the  two  subjects  which,  of  all  others, 

should   belong   to   the   common   talk   of 

people  who  enjoy  the  blessings  of  freedom. 

O.  W.  HOLMES.— Prof,  at  Breakfast  Table. 

The  saying  of  the  priest  of  Apollo  to  the 
Bishop  of  Magnum  Bonum,  "  You  have 
your  theology,  and  let  me  have  my- 
thology." HOOD. — The  Rope  Dancer,  1834. 

Ac  [but]  theologie  hath  teened  [grieved] 

me  ten  score  tymes  ; 
The  more  I  muse  thereon,  the  mystiloker 

[mistier]  it  seineth, 

And  the  deeper  I  devyne,  the  derker  me 
thynketh  it. 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman, 
Passus  12,  129. 

By  what  fatality  does  it  happen  that  so 
many  theologians  are,  of  all  men  of  letters, 
the  most  hardy  calumniators,  if  indeed 
one  may  give  the  title  of  men  of  letters  to 
these  fanatics  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — Pyrrhonism  of  History. 

Carried  about  with  every  wind  of  doc- 
trine. Ephesians  iv,  14. 

There  are  no  wild  beasts  in  England 
except  in  the  Theological  Gardens. 
Schoolgirl's  essay,  quoted  in  Chancery  Court, 
Nov.  13,  1917. 
THEORY 

Good  patriots,  who  for  a   theory  risked 

a  cause. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  4. 

A  thing  may  look  specious  in  theory,  and 
yet  be  ruinous  in  practice  ;  a  thing  may 
look  evil  in  theory,  and  yet  be  hi  practice 
excellent.  BURKE. — Impeachment  of 

Hastings  (Feb.  19,  1788). 
'Tis  mighty  easy,  o'er  a  glass  of  wine, 
On  vain  refinements  vainly  to  refine, 
To  laugh  at  poverty  in  plenty's  reign, 
To  boast  of  apathy  when  out  of  pain. 

CHURCHILL. — The  Farewell. 

O  fate  of  fools  !  officious  in  contriving  ; 
In  executing  puzzled,  lame  and  lost. 

CONGREVE. — Mourning  Bride, 
Act  5,  i. 

The  frigid  theories  of  a  generalising  age. 
DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  9,  c.  7. 

Some  man  for  lakke  of  occupacioun 
Musethe    ferther    than    his    witte    may 

strecche, 

And  all  thurghe  the  fiend6's  insfigacioun 
Dampnable  erroure  holdethe. 

T.  HOCCLEVE. — La  male  regie. 


Every  conjecture  we  can  form  with 
regard  to  the  works  of  God,  has  as  little 
probability  as  the  conjectures  of  a  child 
with  regard  to  the  works  of  a  man. 

DR.  REID. — Intellectual  Powers,  vol.  i. 

If  to  do  were  as  easy  as  to  know  what 

were  good  to  do,  chapels  had  been  churches, 

and  poor  men's  cottages  princes'  palaces. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.  of  Venice, 

Act  i,  2. 

She  was  crammed  with  theories   out  of 
books. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  Conclusion. 

THIRST 

The  panting  thirst,  which  scorches  in  the 

breath 

Of  those  that  die  the  soldier's  fiery  death, 
In  vain  impels  the  burning  mouth  to  crave 
One  drop — the  last — to  cool  it  for  the 

grave.         BYRON. — Lara,  c.  2,  st.  16. 

Hunger  is  bitter,  but  the  worst 

Of  human  pangs,  the  most  accursed 

Of  Want's  fell  scorpions,  is  Thirst. 

ELIZA  COOK. — Melaia. 

THOROUGHNESS 

Only,  do  finish  something  ! 

BROWNING. — Sordello,  Bk.  3. 

What   is  worth    doing  at  all  is  worth 

doing  well.       EARL  OF  CHESTERFIELD. — 

Letter  to  his  Son. 

Not  from  a  vain  or  shallow  thought 
His  awful  Jove  young  Phidias  brought. 
EMERSON. — The  Problem. 

Build  to-day,  then,  strong  and  sure, 
With  a  firm  and  ample  base  ; 

And  ascending  and  secure 

Shall  to-morrow  find  its  place. 

LONGFELLOW. — Builders. 

In  the  elder  days  of  Art 

Builders  wrought  with  greatest  care 
Each  minute  and  unseen  part, 

For  the  Gods  see  everywhere. 

LONGFELLOW. — Ib. 

And  whatsoever  ye  do,  do  it  heartily,  as 
to  the  Lord,  and  not  unto  men. 

Colossians  iii,  23. 
THOUGHT 

The  kings  of  modern  thought  are  dumb. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Grande  Chartreuse,  st.  20. 

Who  can  mistake  great  thoughts  ? 

P.  J.  BAILEY. — Festus. 

And  many  a  thought  did  I  build  up  on 

thought, 
As  the  wild  bee  hangs  cell  to  cell. 

BROWNING. — Pauline. 

Ah     thought     which    saddens    while    it 
soothes  !   BROWNING. — Pictor  Ignotus. 


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Thought  is  the  soul  of  act. 

BROWNING.  —  Sordello,  Bk.  5. 

Thou  wert  a  beautiful  thought,  and  softly 
bodied  forth. 

BYRON.  —  Childe  Harold,  c,  4,  st.  115. 

To  live  is  to  think. 

CICERO.  —  Tusc.  Quasi.,  5. 

Why  should  I  disparage  my  parts  by 
thinking  what  to  say  ?  None  but  dull 
rogues  think.  CONGREVE.  —  Double  Dealer. 

Thought  is  deeper  than  all  speech, 
Feeling  deeper  than  all  thought  ; 
Souls  to  souls  can  never  teach 

What  unto  themselves  was  taught. 
C.  P.  CRANCH.  —  Stanza  from  an  Early 
Poem. 

I  think,  therefore  I  am. 
DESCARTES.  —  Principles  of  Philosophy. 

Beware  when  the  great  God  lets  loose 
a  thinker  on  this  planet. 

EMERSON.  —  Circles. 

Thought  is  the  seed  of  action. 

EMERSON.  —  Society  and  Solitude. 

Evil  is  wrought  by  want  of  thought, 
As  well  as  want  of  heart. 

HOOD.  —  Lady's  Dream. 

If  young  hearts  were  not  so  clever, 
Oh,  they  would  be  young  for  ever. 
Think  no  more  !  'Tis  only  thinking 

Lays  lads  underground. 
A.  E.  HOUSMAN.  —  A  Shropshire  Lad, 
49,  2. 

Truth  gains  more  even  by  the  errors  of 
one  who,  with  due  study  and  preparation, 
thinks  for  himself,  than  by  the  true 
opinions  of  those  who  only  hold  them 
because  they  do  not  suffer  themselves  to 
think.  J.  S.  MILL.  —  Liberty,  ch.  2. 

If  I  have  done  the  public  any  service, 
it  is  due  to  patient  thought. 
SIR  I.  NEWTON.  —  Remark  to  Dr.  Bentley. 

Let  every  man  examine  his  thought, 
and  he  will  find  it  always  occupied  with 
the  past  and  the  future.  We  scarcely  give 
any  thought  to  the  present. 

PASCAL.— 


What  thin  partitions  sense  from  thought 
divide  ! 

POPE.  —  Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  i,  226. 

It  is  very  difficult  to  think  nobly  when 
one  thinks  only  to  get  a  living. 

ROUSSEAU.  —  Confessions,  2,  g. 

Man  does  not  easily  begin  to  think,  but 
when  once  he  has  begun  he  does  not  leave 
off.  ROUSSEAU.  —  Emile. 

Reverie  is  a  recreation  to  me  and  an 
amusement  ;  reflection  tires  me  and  sad- 
dens me.  Thinking  has  always  been  to 


me   an  occupation   painful   and   without 
charm. 

ROUSSEAU. — RSveries  d'un  Promencur 
solitaire,  7. 

With  thoughts  beyond  the  reaches  of  our 
souls. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  4. 

He    thinks    too    much :     such    men    are 

dangerous. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ccesar,  Act  i,  2. 

And  the  imperial  votaress  passed  on 
In  maiden  meditation,  fancy  free. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  2,  2. 

They  are  never  alone  that  are  accom- 
panied with  noble  thoughts. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Arcadia. 

Thinking  is  but  an  idle  waste  of  thought, 
And  naught  is  everything,  and  everything 
is  naught. 
H.  AND  J.  SMITH. — Rejected  Addresses. 

I  have  asked  several  men  what  passes 
in  their  minds  when  they  are  thinking  ; 
and  I  never  could  find  any  man  who  could 
think  for  two  minutes  together. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  19. 

How  few  think  justly  of  the  thinking  few  ! 

How  many  never  think,  who  think  they  do. 

JANE  TAYLOR. — Stanzas. 

And   Thought    leapt    out    to   wed    with 

Thought 

Ere  Thought  could  wed  itself  with  Speech. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  23. 

No  one  is  punished  for  his  thoughts. 

ULPIAN. — Ad  Edictum. 

And  yet,  as  angels  in  some  brighter  dreams 

Call  to  the  soul  when  man  doth  sleep, 
So  some  strange  thoughts  transcend  our 

wonted  themes, 
And  into  glory  peep. 

H.  VAUGHAN. — Retreat. 

Thoughts  too  deep  to  be  expressed, 
And  too  strong  to  be  suppressed. 
G.  WITHER. — Mistress  of  Philarele. 

In  that  sweet  mood  when  pleasant  thoughts 
Bring  sad  thoughts  to  the  mind. 

WORDSWORTH. — In  Early  Spring. 

O  reader  !   had  you  in  your  mind 
Such  stores  as  silent  thought  can  bring, 
O  gentle  reader  !   you  would  find 
A  tale  in  everything. 

WORDSWORTH. — Simon  Lee. 

Thought,  busy  thought !   too  busy  for  my 
peace  !      YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i. 

It  was  an  holy  and  good  thought. 

2  Maccabees  xii,  45. 


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THREATS 

if  it  is  not  right  to  hurt,  it  is  neither 
right  nor  wise  to  menace. 

BURKE  — Speech  (1773) 

Get   out   of   my  sight   or  I'll  knock  you 
clown        \V.  B.  RHODES. — Bombastes. 

There  is  no  terror,  Cassius,  in  your  threats  ; 
For  1  am  armed  so  strong  in  honesty 
That  they  pass  by  me  as  the  idle  wind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Cczsar,  Act  4,  3. 

By  gar,  de  herring  is  no  dead,  so  as  1 
will  kill  him  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merry  Wives,  Act  2,  3. 

THREE,  NUMBER 

The  third  of  all  things,  they  say,  is  very 
critical. 

FARQUHAR. — Constant  Couple,  Act  3. 

Three  merry  boys,  three  merry  boys, 
And  three  merry  boys  are  we. 

FLETCHER  AND  BEAUMONT. — Rollo, 
Act  3,  2  (Chorus). 
Three  is  the  most  perfect  number. 

Mcdiaval  Latin  prov. 

Of  all  the  numbers  arithmeticall 

The  number  three  is  held  for  principall. 

"  Times  Whistle  "  (c.  1614). 
THRIFT 

No  one  is  aware  of  the  advantage  of 
frugality  but  those  who  have  tried  it. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Letters  to  his  Son. 

Men  do  not  realise  how  great  a  revenue 
thrift  is.  CICERO. — Paradoxa. 

Annual  income  twenty  pounds,  annual 
expenditure  nineteen  nineteen  six,  result 
happiness  ;  annual  income  twenty  pounds, 
annual  expenditure  twenty  pound  ought 
and  six,  result  misery. 

DICKENS. — David  Copperfield,  ch.  12. 

If  we  take  a  farthing  from  a  thousand 

pounds,  it  will  be  a  thousand  pounds  no 

longer.  GOLDSMITH. — 

Citizen  of  the  World,  No.  27. 

Without  frugality  none  can  be  rich,  and 
with  it  very  few  would  be  poor. 

JOHNSON. — Rambler. 

It  is  saving,  not  getting,  that  is  the 
mother  of  riches. 

SIR  W.  SCOTT. — Diary,  April,  1829. 

Thrift  is  too  late  at  the  bottom  of  the 
purse.  SENECA. — Ep.  i. 

There  is  more  art  in  saving  than  in 
gaining.  German  Prov. 

Who  heeds  not  a  penny 
Shall  never  have  any. 

Old  Saying. 


A'   the  wives  o'   Corncairn, 
Drilling  up  their  harn  yarn, 
They  hae  corn,  they  hae  kye  [cattle], 
They  hae  webs  o'  claith  forbye. 

Scottish  saying. 
THRIFTLESSNESS 

But  poverty,  with  most  who  whimper  forth 
Their  long  complaints,  is  self-inflicted  woe  ; 
The  effect  of  laziness,  or  sottish  waste. 

COWPER. — Winter  Evening,  429. 

Good  at  a  fight,  but  better  at  a  play, 
Godlike  hi  giving,  but  the  devil  to  pay. 
MOORE. — On  Sheridan's  Hand. 
TIDES 

Nae  man  can  tether  time  or  tide. 

BURNS. — Tarn  O'Shanter. 

"  People  can't  die,  along  the  coast," 
said  Mr.  Peggotty,  "  except  when  the 
tide's  pretty  nigh  out.  They  can't  be 
born,  unless  it's  pretty  nigh  in — not 
properly  born,  till  flood.  He's  a-going  out 
with  the  tide." 

DICKENS. — Copperfield,  ch.  30. 

"  What  is  the  cause  of  tides,  Pummel  ?  " 
"  Well,  sir,  nobody  rightly  knows.  Many 
gives  their  opinion,  but  if  I  was  to  give 
mine,  it  'ud  be  different." 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such  : 

Watchdog  of  Knowledge. 

A*  made  a  finer  end  and  went  away  an 

it  had  been  any  christom  child  ;   a'  parted 

even  just  between  twelve  and  one,  even  at 

the  turning  o'  the  tide. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V .,  Act  2,  3. 

TIME 

Time 

With  the  ceaseless  stroke  of  his  wings 
Brushed  off  the  bloom  from  their  soul. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD. — Youth  of  Man. 

Time  is  the  greatest  innovator. 

BACON. — Of  Innovation. 

Time,  the  author  of  authors,  and  so  of 
full  authority. 

BACON. — Instauratio,  Pt.  2,  Bk.  i,  84. 

What  Horace  says  is, 
"  Eheu  fugaces 

Anni  labuntur,  Postume,   Postume," 
Years  glide  away  and  are  lost  to  me,  lost 
to  me.         R.  H.  BARHAM. — Epigram. 

Time's  noblest  offspring  is  his  last. 
BISHOP  BERKELEY. — Planting  Arts  and 
Learning  in  America. 
Here  my  master  bids  me  stand, 
And  mark  the  time  with  faithful  hand  ; 
What  is  his  will  is  my  delight, 
To  tell  the  hours  by  day,  by  night. 
Master,  be  wise,  and  learn  of  me 
To  serve  thy  God  as  I  serve  thee. 

REV.  J.  BERRIDGE. — Lines  Placed  on 
his  Clock. 


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Time  may  rage  but  rage  in  vain. 
WM.  BLAKE. — For  a  Picture  of  the  Last 
Judgment. 
Time  was  made  for  slaves. 

J.  B.  BUCKSTONE. — Bitty  Taylor. 

The  grand  instructor,  Time. 

BURKE. — Letter  (1795). 

The  silent  touches  of  Time. 

BURKE. — Letter. 

Oh  Time  !   the  beautifier  of  the  dead, 
Adorner  of  the  ruin,  comforter 
And  only  healer  when  the  heart  hath  bled — 
Time  !   the  corrector  where  our  judgments 
err.    BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4, 130. 

The  poorest  day  that  passes  over  us  is 
the  conflux  of  two  eternities. 

CARLYLE. — Signs  of  the  Times. 

For  los  of  catel  may  recovered  be, 
But  los  of  tyme  shendeth   [ruineth]   us, 
quod  he. 
CHAUCER. — Man  of  Law's  Prologue. 

Wei  may  that  man  that  no  good  work 
ne  dooth,  sing  thilke  [that  same]  newe 
Frenshe  song :  "  lay  tout  perdu  mon 
temps  et  mon  labour." 

CHAUCER. — Parson's  Tals,  sec.  n 

Time  y-lost  may  not  recovered  be. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus  and  Cressid. 

Time  consecrates, 

And    what    is    grey    with    age    becomes 
religion.       COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini. 

Touch  us  gently,  gentle  Time. 

BARRY  CORNWALL. — The  Sea. 

For  who  knows   most,  him  loss  of  time 

most  grieves. 
DANTE. — Purgatory,  c.  3,  /.  77  (Gary  tr.). 

Mere  by-blows  are  the  world  and  we, 
And  time,  within  eternity, 
A  sheer  anachronism. 
J.  DAVIDSON. — Queen  Elizabeth's  Day. 

Time  goes,  you  say  ?    Ah,  no  ! 
Alas,  Time  stays  ;  we  go. 

AUSTIN  DOBSON. — After  Ronsard. 

The  surest  poison  is  time. 

EMERSON. — Old  Age. 

A  poor  Indian  chief  .  .  .  made  a  wiser 
reply  than  any  philosopher,  to  someone 
complaining  that  he  had  not  enough  time. 
"  Well,"  said  Red  Jacket,  "  I  suppose  you 
have  all  there  is." 

EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

Oh  threats  of  Hell  and  Hopes  of  Paradise  ! 
One  thing  at  least  is  certain — This  life 

flies  ; 

One  thing  is  certain,  and  the  rest  is  Lies  ; 
The  Flower  that  once  has  blown  for  ever 

dies.    FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  63. 


Dost    thpu    love    life  ?     Then    do    not 

squander  time,  for  that  is  the  stuff  life  is 

made  of.  B.  FRANKLIN. — 

Pennsylvania  Almanack,  1758. 

Money  is  like  time — lose  none  and  you 
will  have  plenty. 

PIERRE  GASTON  (Due    DE    L^vis)  (1764- 

1830) . — Maxims. 

The  noiseless  foot  of  Time  steals  swiftly 

by, 

And  ere  we  dream  of  manhood,  age  is  nigh. 
W.  GIFFORD. — Juvenal,  Sat.  9,  182. 

Men  may  recover  loss  of  good, 
But  so  wise  man  yet  never  stood 
Which  say  recover  time  ilore  [lost]. 

GOWER. — Cow/.  Amantis. 

Fear  not  that  I  shall  mar  so  fair  an  harvest 
By  putting  in  my  sickle  ere  'tis  ripe. 

J.  HOME. — Douglas,  Act  3,  i. 

Seven  hours  to  law,  to  soothing  slumber 

seven, 

Ten  to  the  world  allot,  and  all  to  heaven. 
SIR    W.  JONES. — Lines  in  Substitution 
for  the  old  Latin  Version. 

O,  for  an  engine  to  keep  back  all  clocks  ! 
BEN  JONSON. — New  Inn,  Act  4,  4. 

Our  to-days  and  yesterdays 

Are  the  blocks  with  which  we  build. 

LONGFELLOW. — Builders. 

Art  is  long  and  Time  is  fleeting, 

And  our  hearts,  though  stout  and  brave, 

Still,  like  muffled  drums,  are  beating 
Funeral  marches  to  the  grave. 

LONGFELLOW. — Psalm  of  Life. 

From  morn 
To  noon  he  fell,  from  noon  to  dewy  eve. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  742. 

When  Time  who  steals  our  years  away, 

Shall  steal  our  pleasures  too, 
The  memory  of  the  past  will  stay 

And  half  our  joys  renew. 

MOORE. — Song. 

Time  hath  a  taming  hand. 

CARD.  NEWMAN. — Persecution. 

The  greatest  of  all  sacrifices,  which  is 
the  sacrifice  of  time. 

PLUTARCH. — Quoted  from  Antiphon. 

Instruct  the  planets  in  what  orbs  to  run  ; 
Correct  old  time  and  regulate  the  sun. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Alan,  Ep.  2,  21. 

Time    conquers    all,    and    we    must   time 
obey.      POPE. — Pastorals,  Winter,  88. 

Years    following    years    steal    something 

every  day  ; 

At  last  they  steal  us  from  ourselves  away. 
POPE. — Satires,  Bk.  2,  Ep.  2,  73. 


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Now  Time  has  fled — the  world  is  strange, 
Something  there  is  of  pain  and  change  ; 
My  books  lie  closed  upon  my  shelf  ; 
I  miss  the  old  heart  in  myself. 

A.  A.  PROCTER. — A  Student. 

Even  such  is  Time,  that  takes  on  trust 
Our  youth,  our  joys,  our  all  we  have, 
And  pays  us  but  with  age  and  dust. 
SIR  W.  RALEGH. — Written  the  night 
bejore  his  Death. 

"  Knowest    thou   not    me  ?  "    the    Deep 
Voice  cried  ; 

"  So  long  enjoyed,  so  oft  misused — 
Alternate,  in  thy  fickle  pride, 

Desired,  neglected,  and  accused  ? 
Before  my  breath,  like  blazing  flax, 

Man  and  his  marvels  pass  away  ; 
And  changing  empires  wane  and  wax, 

Are    founded,    flourish,    and    decay." 
(Time.)  SCOTT. — Antiquary. 

Happy  is  he  who  has  well  employed  his 
time,  however  brief  it  may  have  been. 

SENECA. 

What  reason  has  been  unable  to  effect, 
lapse  of  time  has  often  cured. 

SENECA. — Agamemnon. 

The  inaudible  and  noiseless  foot  of  time. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  5,  3. 

And  then  he  drew  a  dial  from  his  poke, 
And,  looking  on  it  with  lack-lustre  eye, 
Says  very  wisely,  "  It  is  ten  o'clock. 
Thus  may  we  see,"  quoth  he,  "  how  the 
world  wags."  SHAKESPEARE. — 

As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

The  lazy  foot  of  time. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

Spite  of  cormorant  devouring  Time. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 

In  the  dark  backward  and  abysm  of  time. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  i,  2. 

And  thus  the  whirligig  of  time  brings  in 
his  revenges. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  5,  i. 

Time  is  the  nurse  and  breeder  of  all  good. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 

Verona,  Act  3,  i. 

Time's  glory  is  to  calm  contending  kings, 
To  unmask  falsehood,  and  bring  truth  to 
light. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  st.  135. 

Time  is  a  gentle  deity. 

SOPHOCLES. — Electro. 

Too  late  I  stayed — forgive  the  crime  ; 

Unheeded  flew  the  hours  : 
How  noiseless  falls  the  foot  of  Time 

That  only  treads  on  flowers  ! 
W.  R.  SPENCER. — To  Lady  A.  Hamilton. 


What  a  foolish  thing  is  time  !  Arid  how 
foolish  is  man,  who  would  be  as  angry  if 
time  stopped,  as  if  it  passed  ! 

SWIFT. — To  Vanessa,  Aug.  7,  1722. 

He  put  this  engine  [a  watch  1  to  our  ears, 
which  made  an  incessant  noise  like  that  of 
a  water-mill :  and  we  conjecture  it  is 
either  some  unknown  animal,  or  the  god 
that  he  worships,  but  we  are  more  inclined 
to  the  latter  opinion. 

SWIFT. — Voyage  to  Lilliput. 

The  forward-flowing  tide  of  time. 
TENNYSON. — Recollections  of  Arabian 
Nights . 

What  greater  crime 
Than  loss  of  time  ? 
T.  TUSSER. — January's  Abstract. 

The  unimaginable  touch  of  time. 

WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets, 
Pt.  3,  34- 
Time  elaborately  thrown  away. 

YOUNG. — Last  Day. 

The  bell  strikes  one.     We  take  no  note  of 

time 
But  from  its  loss. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  i. 

And   what   its   worth,*  ask   death  beds  ; 
they  can  tell.  YOUNG. — Ib.,  2. 

Time  wasted  is  existence,  used,  is  life. 
YOUNG. — Ib. 

We  push  time  from  us  and  we  wish  him 
back.  YOUNG. — Ib. 

O  how  omnipotent  is  Time  ! 

YOUNG. — Ib. 

Time  is  the  soul  of  the  business. 

Law  Maxim. 

Keep  a  thing  seven  years  and  you'll  find 
a  use  for  it.  Scottish  prov. 

Mak'  up  for  lost  time,  as  the  piper  o' 
Sligo  did  when  he  ate  a  haill  side  o' 
mutton. 

Scottish  prov.  (Scott's  "  Woodstock  ") 

TIME-SERVERS 

He  was  a  man  who  had  seen  many  changes, 

And  always  changed  as  true  as  any  needle. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  80. 

I  mean  a  kin'  o'  hangin'  roun'  an'  settin' 

on  a  fence, 

Till  Prov'dunce  pinted  how  to  jump  an' 
save  the  most  expense. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  2nd 
Ser.,  No.  3. 

Thou  ever  strong  upon  the  stronger  side  ! 
Thou  Fortune's  champion,  that  dost  never 
fight 


•  A  moment. 


510 


TIMIDITY 


TITLES 


But  when  her  humorous  ladyship  is  by, 
To  teach  thee  safety  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  3,  i. 

That,  sir,  which  serves  and  seeks  for  gain 

And  follows  but  for  form, 

Will  pack,  when  it  begins  to  rain, 

And  leave  thee  in  the  storm. 

SHAKESPEARE. — King  Lear,  Act  2,  4. 

Men   shut   their   doors   against   a  setting 
sun.     SHAKESPEARE. — Timon,  Act  i,  2- 

More  people  admire  the  rising  than  the 
setting  sun. 

SYLLA  — (According  to  Francis  Bacon.) 

Waverings  of  every  vane  with  every  wind, 
And   wordy   trucklings   to   the   transient 

hour, 

And  fierce  or  careless  looseners  of  the  faith. 
TENNYSON. — To  the  Queen,  49. 

TIMIDITY 

The  schoolboy  with  his  satchel  in  his  hand, 
Whistling  aloud  to  keep  his  courage  up. 
BLAIR. — The  Grave. 

Wee  sleekit,  cowrin',  tim'rous  beestie ! 
Oh.  what  a  panic's  in  thy  breastie. 

BURNS. — To  a  Mouse. 

Fear  and  Guilt 
Are  the  same  things,  and  when  our  actions 

are  not, 
Our  fears  are,  crimes. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — The  Sophy. 

Still  as  they  run  they  look  behind, 

They  hear  a  voice  in  every  wind, 

And  snatch  a  fearful  joy. 

GRAY. — Eton  College. 

When  the  sun  sets,  shadows,  that  showed 

at  noon 

But  small,  appear  most  long  and  terrible. 
N.  LEE. — (Edipus. 

The  less  there  is  of  fear,  so  much  the 
less  generally  is  there  of  danger. 

LIVY. — 22,  5. 

Be  not  afraid  of  every  stranger ; 
Start  not  aside  at  every  danger. 

G.  PEELE.— Old  Wives'  Tale. 

He    who   asks    faint-heartedly    teaches 
how  to  refuse.  SENECA. — Hippolytus. 

That    which    in    mean    men    we    entitle 

patience, 
Is  pale  cold  cowardice  in  noble  breasts. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  i,  2. 

Full  of  pale  fancies  and  chimapras  huso. 
THOMSON. — Seasons,  Autumn. 

One    of    the    ereatest    misfortunes    of 
honest  folk  is  that  they  are  cowards. 

VOLTAIRE. 


Happy   occasions   oft   by  self-mistrust 
Are  forfeited  :    but  infamy  doth  kill. 
WORDSWORTH  — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  No.  17. 

Woe  be  to  fearful  hearts,  and  faint  hands 
and  the  sinner  that  goeth  two  ways  :  Woe 
unto  him  that,  is  faint-hearted. 

Ecclesiasticus  ii,  12,  13. 

The  slothful  man  saith,  There  is  a  lion 
in  the  way  •  a  lion  is  in  the  streets. 

Proverbs  xxvi,  13. 

Who  fears  to  suffer,  suffers  from  fear. 

Prov. 

He  that  counts  all  costs  will  never  put 
plough  in  the  earth.  Scottish  prov.  (Ray.) 

TITHES 

Tithes,  which  sure  are  Discord's  torches. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  16,  60. 

Restore  to  God  his  due  in  tithe  and  time, 

A  tithe  purloined  cankers  the  whole  estate. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch,  st.  65. 

'Tis  ridiculous  to  say  the  Tythes  are 
God's  part,  and  therefore  the  Clergy  must 
have  them.  Why,  so  they  are  if  the  lay- 
man has  them.  SELDEN. — Table  Talk. 

TITLES 

Somebody  has  said  that  the  King  may 
make  a  nobleman,  but  he  cannot  make  a 
gentleman.  BURKE. — Letter  to  W.  Smith. 

He  shrunk  into  insignificancy  and  an 

earldom.  EARL  OF  CHESTERFIELD. — 

Character  oj  Pulteney. 

Oh,  fond  attempt  to  give  a  deathless  lot 
To  names  ignoble,  born  to  be  forgot ! 
COWPER. — On  observing  some  names  Oj 
little  note. 

Nature's  first  great  title — mind. 

GEO.  CROLY. — Pericler 

It  was  not  the  custom  in  England  to 
confer  titles  on  men  distinguished  by 
peaceful  services,  however  good  and  great"; 
unless  occasionally,  when  they  consisted 
of  the  accumulation  of,  some  very  large 
amount  of  money. 

DICKENS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  35. 

Proud  o'  the  title,  as  the  Living  Skel- 
lington  said  ven  they  showed  him. 

DICKENS. — Pickivick,  ch.  15. 

Another  stride  that  has  been  taken  [in 
England!  appears  in  the  perishing  of 
heraldry.  Whilst  the  privileges  of  the 
nobility  are  passing  to  the  middle  class, 
the  badge  is  discredited,  and  the  titles  of 
lordship  are  getting  musty  and  cumber 
some.  I  wonder  that  sensible  men  have 
not  been  already  impatient  of  them. 
EMERSON. — English  Traits,  n  :  Aristocracy 


TOASTS 


TOBACCO 


A  studious  decliner  of  honours  and 
titles.  EVELYN. — Diary,  Intro. 

It  is  patent  to  the  mob, 
That  my  being  made  a  nob. 
Was  effected  by  a  job. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Trial  by  Jury. 

There's  as  much  vanity  in  "  Plain 
John  "  as  in  "  John,  Viscount." 

LORD  MORLEY. — Recollections  (1917). 

High  though  his  titles,  proud  his  name, 
Boundless  his  wealth  as  wish  can  claim, 
Despite  those  titles,  power,  and  pelf, 
The  wretch,  concentred  all  in  self, 
Living,  shall  forfeit  fair  renown, 
And,  doubly  dying,  shall  go  down 
To  the  vile  dust  from  whence  he  sprung, 
Unwept,  unhonoured,  and  unsung. 

SCOTT. — Lav  of  the  Lust  Minstrel,  c.  6, 

st.  6. 

For  never  title  yet  so  mean  could  prove. 
But  theie  was  eke  a  mind  which  did  that 

title  love. 

SHENSTONE. — Schoolmistress. 

Titles  are  abolished  ;  and  the  American 
Republic  swarms  with  men  claiming  and 
bearing  them.  THACKERAY. — On  Ribbons. 

Those  transparent  swindles — transmis- 
sible nobility  and  kingship. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Yankee  at  Court  of 

King  Arthur,  ch.  28. 

I  weigh  the  man,  not  his  title  ;  'tis  not 

the   King's  stamp  can   make   the   metal 

heavier  or  better.      WYCHERLEY. — Plain 

Dealer  (1674),  Act  i,  I. 

Titles  are  marks  of  honest  men  and  wise ; 

The  fool  or  knave  that  wears  a  title,  lies. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  i,  137. 

The  label  is  bigger  than  the  package. 

Old  Greek  prov. 
TOASTS 

Then  who  need  care  a  fig 

Who's  a  tory  or  whig  ? 
Here's  a  health  to  all  honest  men  ! 
TOM  BROWN. — Song:  Every  man  take 
a  glass  in  his  hand. 

Drink  ye  to  her  ^hat  each  loves  best, 

And  if  you  nurse  a  flame 
That's  told  but  to  her  mutual  breast, 

We  will  not  ask  her  name. 

CAMPBELL. — Drink  ye  to  Her. 

But  the  standing  toast  that  pleased  the 

most, 
Was — The  wind  that  blows,  the  ship  that 

goes, 
And  the  lass  that  loves  a  sailor. 

C.  DIBDIN. — Standing  Toast. 

We  drank  Sir  Condy's  good  health  and 
the  downfall  of  his  enemies,  till  we  could 
stand  no  longer  ourselves. 
Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Castle  Rackrent,  ch  12. 


Drink  to  me  only  with  thine  eyes, 
And  I  will  pledge  with  mine  ; 

Or  leave  a  kiss  but  in  the  cup, 
And  I'll  not  look  for  wine. 

BEN  JONSON. — Forest. 

Drink  !   to  our  father  that  begot  us  men, . 

To  the  dead  voices  that  are  never  dumb, 

Then  to  the  land  of  all  our  loves,  and  then 

To  the  long  parting,  and  the  age  to  come. 

SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — Sacr amentum 

Supremum  (1915). 

Be  in  their  flowing  cups  freshly  remem- 
bered. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  4,  3. 

Here's  to  the  maiden  of  bashful  fifteen  ; 

Here's  to  the  widow  of  fifty  ; 
Here's  to  the  flaunting  extravagant  quean  ; 
And    here's    to    the    housewife    that's 
thrifty ! 

Let   the  cup   pass, 
Drink  to   the  lass, 

I'll  warrant  she'll  prove  an  excuse  for  the 
glass. 

SHERIDAN. — School  for  Scandal, 
Act  3,  3. 

Here's  a  health  to  you  and  yours, 
Likewise  to  us  and  ours  ; 
And  if  ever  you  and  yours 
Need  help  that's  in  our  powers, 
We'll  do  as  much  for  you  and  yours 
As  you  have  done  for  us  and  ours. 

Old  Saying. 

Here's  a  health  to  all  those  that  we  love, 
Here's  a  health  to  all  those  that  love  us, 
Here's  a  health  to  all  them  that  love  them 

that  love  those 

That  love  them  that  love  those  that  love  us. 

Old  Toast. 

Here's  to  thee  and  me  and  aw'on  us  ! 
May  we  ne'er  want  nought,  none  of  us  ! 
Neither  thee  nor  me  nor  anybody  else, 
Aw*  on  us — nawn  on  us  !     Old  Toast. 

Here's  to  you  in  water  ; 
I  wish  was  in  the  wine  : 
You  drink  to  your  true  love, 
An'  I'll  drink  to  mine. 

Scottish  toast. 
TOBACCO 

Little  tube  of  mighty  power, 
Charmer  of  an  idle  hour. 

ISAAC  H.  BROWNE. 

The  sweet  post-prandial  cigar. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — London  Poems. 

Tobacco,  divine,  rare,  superexcellent  to- 
bacco, which  goes  far  beyond  all  the  pan- 
aceas,   potable    gold,    and    philosopher's 
stones,  a  sovereign  remedy  to  all  diseases. 
BURTON. — Anat.  Melan.,  Ft.  3. 

Sublime  tobacco  !  which,  from  east  to  west, 

Cheers  the  tar's  labour  or  the  Turk  man's 

rest  BYRON. — The  Island,  2,  19. 


512 


TOBACCO 


TOLERATION 


Divine  in  hookas,  glorious  in  a  pipe  ! 

BYRON. — The  Island,  2,  19. 

Like  other  charmers,  wooing  the  caress 
More  dazzlingly  when  daring  in  full  dress; 
Yet  thy  true  lovers  more  admire  by  far 
Thy  naked  beauties — give  me  a  cigar. 

BYRON. — 76. 

Sweet,  when  the  morn  is  grey, 
Sweet  when  they've  cleared  away 
Lunch  ;  and  at  close  of  day 

Possibly  sweetest. 
C.  S.  CALVERLEY.— Ode  to  Tobacco. 

You  abuse  snuff !   Perhaps  it  is  the  final 
cause  of  the  human  nose. 
COLERIDGE. — Table  Talk  (Jan.  4,  1823). 

Pernicious  weed !    whose  scent   the   fair 

annoys, 

Unfriendly  to  society's  chief  joys, 
Thy  worst  effect  is  banishing  for  hours 
The  sex  whose  presence  civilises  ours. 

COWPER. — Conversation. 

A  custom  loathsome  to  the  eye,  hateful 
to  the  nose,  harmful  to  the  brain,  danger- 
ous to  the  lungs,  and  in  the  black,  stinking 
fume  thereof  nearest  resembling  the  hor- 
rible Stygian  smoke  of  the  pit  that  is 
bottomless. 

JAMES  I.  (OF  ENGLAND). — Counterblast 
to  Tobacco  (1604). 

Neither  do  thou  lust  after  that  tawny 
weed  tobacco. 

BEN  JONSON. — Bartholomew  Fair. 

Ods  me !  I  marvel  what  pleasure  or 
felicity  they  have  in  taking  their  roguish 
tobacco.  It  is  good  for  nothing  but  to 
choke  a  man,  and  fill  him  full  of  smoke 
and  embers.  BEN  JONSON. — Every  Man 
in  his  Humour,  Act  3,  3. 

For  thy  sake,  tobacco,  I 
Would  do  anything  but  die. 

LAMB. — Farewell  to  Tobacco. 

O  thou  weed, 
Who  art  so  lovely  fair,  and  smell'st  so 

sweet, 

That  the  sense  aches  at  thee,  would  thou 
hadst  ne'er  been  born  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  2  (not 
so  applied  by  Shakespeare). 

Ye?,  social  friend,  I  love  thee  well, 

In  learned  doctor's  spite  ; 
Thy  clouds  all  other  clouds  dispel, 

And  lap  me  in  delight. 

C.  SPRAGUE. — Tony  Cigar. 

James  the  First  was  a  knave,  a  tyrant, 
a  fool,  a  liar,  a  coward ;  but  I  love  him, 
I  worship  him,  because  he  slit  the  throat 
of  that  blackguard  Ralegh,  who  invented 
this  filthy  smoking. 

SWINBURNE. — Spoken  in  the  Arts  Club. 

2H  513 


A  cigarette  is  the  perfect  type  of 
pleasure.  It  is  exquisite  and  it  leaves 
one  unsatisfied.  What  more  can  you 
wantv?  OSCAR  WILDE. — Dorian  Gray. 

Tobacco  is  a  filthy  weed — 

I  like  it ! 
It  satisfies  no  normal  need — 

I  like  it ! 

It  makes  vou  grow  both  thin  and  lean, 
It  takes  the  hair  right  off  your  bean, 
It's  the  worst  darned  stuff  I've  ever  seen. 
I  like  it ! 

ANON. — (American  College  Magazine, 
1919). 

And  when  the  pipe  is  foul  within 
Think  how  the  soul's  defiled  with  sin  ; 
To  purge  with  fire  it  does  require, 
Thus  think  and  drink  tobacco. 

Pitta  to  Purge  Melancholy  (1699). 

TO-DAY 

There  is  an  old  proverb,  quoth  she 
[Dame  Prudence],  that  the  goodness  that 
thou  mayst  do  this  day,  do  it ;  and  abyde 
not  ne  delaye  it  not  till  to-morrow. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  oj  Melibeus,  sec.  71. 

To-day  is  ours  ;  what  do  we  fear  ? 
To-day  is  ours  ;  we  have  it  here. 
Let's  treat  it  kindly,  that  it  may 
Wish,  at  least,  with  us  to  stay. 

COWLEY. — The  Epicure. 

Happy  the  man,  and  happy  he  alone, 
He  who  can  call  to-day  his  own  : 
He  who,  secure  within,  can  say, 
To-morrow,  do  thy  worst,  for  I  have  lived 

to-day. 

DRYDEN. — Imit.  of  Horace,  Bk.  3,  29. 

TOLERATION 

Toleration  is  good  for  all  or  it  is  good 


for   none. 


BURKE. — Speech,  1773. 


"  Well,  well.    Brer    Jack,"  said  Uncle 
Remus,  soothingly,  "  in  deze  low  groun's 
er  sorrer,  you  des  [just]  got  ter  lean  back 
en  make  "lowances.  fer  all  sorts  er  folks. 
You  got  ter  'low  fer  dem  dat  knows  too 
much  same  ez  dem  w'at  knows  too  little." 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  ch.  42. 

Not  to  be  able  to  endure  all  the  bad 
characters  of  which  the  world  is  full,  is 
not  the  sign  of  a  very  good  character ;  in 
commerce  there  must  be  gold  and  also 
small  change. 

LA  BRUYERE. — De  la  Socicii,  37. 

In  essentials,  unity  ;  in  matters  doubt- 
ful, liberty ;  in  all  things,  charity. 

"  RUPERTUS  MELDENIUS." — Pamnesis 
Votiva  (1622). 

You  all  are  right  and  all  are  wrong  : 
When  next  you  talk  of  what  you  view 
Think  others  see  as  well  as  you. 

J.  MERRICK. — The  Chameleon,. 


TOMBS 


TORIES 


Yet  if  all  cannot  be  of  one  mind, — as 
who  looks  they  should  be  ? — this  doubt- 
less is  more  wholesome,  more  prudent, 
and  more  Christian,  that  many  be  tolerated 
rather  than  all  compelled. 

MILTON. — Liberty  of  Unlicensed 
Printing. 
And  when  religious  sects  ran  mad, 

He  held,  in  spite  of  all  their  learning, 
That  if  a  man's  belief  is  bad, 

It  will  not  be  improved  by  burning. 

W.  M.  PRAED. — Vicar,  st.  9. 

Forgive  me  if,  midst  all  Thy  works, 

No  hint  I  see  of  damning  ; 
And  think  there's  faith  among  the  Tirrks, 

And  hope  for  e'en  the  Brahmin. 

THACKERAY. — Jolly  Jack. 

Of  all  superstitions  is  not  the  most 
dangerous  that  of  hating  your  neighbour 
for  his  opinions  ? 

VOLTAIRE. — On  Tolerance. 

The  great  principle  of  the  Roman  senate 

and  people  was :    It  is  for  the  gods  alone 

to  trouble  about  offences  against  the  gods. 

VOLTAIRE. — Ib. 

For  as  by  discipline  of  Time  made  wise, 
We  learn  to  tolerate  the  infirmities 
And  faults  of  others — gently  as  he  may, 
So  with  our  own  the  mild  Instructor  deals, 
Teaching  us  to  forget  them  or  forgive. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pi.  3,  35. 

TOMBS 

Dear  was  our  chief,  and  dear  to  us  his 

tomb, 

For  dear  the  life  it  hides  ; 
Aidoneus,  O  Aidoneus,  send  him  forth  ; 
Thou  who  dost  lead  the  dead  to  Earth 

again, 
Yea,  send  Darius. 

/ESCHYLUS. — Persee,  650  (Plumptre  tr.). 

May  no  rude  hand  deface  it, 
And  its  forlorn  hie  jacet ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Ellen  Irwin. 

TO-MORROW 

Defer  not  till  to-morrow  to  be  wise, 
To-morrow's  sun  on  thee  may  never  rise  ; 
Or  should  to-morrow  chance  to  cheer  thy 

sight 

With  her  enlivening  and  unlocked  for  light, 
How  grateful  will  appear  her  dawning  rays, 
As  favours  unexpected  doubly  please. 

CONGREVE. — Letter  to  Cobham. 

To-morrow  ! — Why,  To-morrow  I  may  be 
Myself  with  Yesterday's  Seven  Thousand 
Years. 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  21. 

To-morrow  to  fresh  woods  and  pastures 
new.  MILTON. — Lycidas,  ad  fin. 


To-morrow  shall  be  like 
To-day,  but  much  more  sweet. 

CHRISTINA  ROSSETTI. — The  Unseen 
World. 

To-morrow,  and  to-morrow,  and  to-mor- 
row, 

Creeps  in  this  petty  pace  from  day  to  day, 
To  the  last  syllable  of  recorded  time. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

We  were,  fair  queen, 
Two  lads  that  thought  there  was  no  more 

behind 

But  such  a  day  to-morrow  as  to-day. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  i,  2. 

To-morrow  yet  would  reap  to-day. 

TENNYSON. — Love  thou  the  Land. 

In  human  hearts  what  bolder  thoughts 

can  rise 
Than  man's  presumption  on  to-morrow's 

dawn  ! 
Where  is  to-morrow  ? 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  Bk.  i,  374. 

TOO  LATE 

Ah,  "  all  things  come  to  those  who  wait," 
(I  say  these  words  to  make  me  glad), 
But  something  answers,  soft  and  sad, 
"  They  come,  but  often  come  too  late." 
VIOLET  FANE. — Tout  vient  a  qui  sail 
attendre. 

A  message  late  is  a  message  lost. 
SIR  H.  NEWBOLT. — The  Last  Word,  st.  5. 

Love  that  conies  too  late, 
Like  a  remorseful  pardon  slowly  carried, 
To  the  great  sender  turns  a  sour  offence. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  5,  3. 

Late,  late,  so  late  !  and  dark  the  night  and 

chill! 

Late,  late,  so  late  !  but  we  can  enter  still. 

Too  late,  too  late  !  ye  cannot  enter  now. 

TENNYSON. — Guinevere,  160. 

TOOTHACHE 

Of  all  our  pains,  since  man  was  curst, 
I  mean  of  body,  not  the  mental, 
To  name  the  worst  among  the  worst, 
The  dental  sure  is  transcendental. 

HOOD. — True  Story. 

For  there  was  never  yet  philosopher 
That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado  About 
Nothing,  Act  <s.  i. 
TORIES 

The  rising  hope  of  those  stern  and  un- 
bending Tories.        MACAULAY.— Gladstone 
on  Church  and  State. 

Toryism  is  an  innate  principle  o'  human 
nature — Whiggism  but  an  evil  habit. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  (Ettrick 

Shepherd) . 


TOWNS 


TRADITION 


TOWNS 

Everyone  for  himself  is  the  gospel  of  all 
the  large  towns. 

BALZAC. — Cesar  Birotteau. 

Her    towns,    where    civic    independence 

flings 
The  gauntlet  down  to  senates,  courts,  and 

kings.  CAMPBELL. — Theodric. 

He  likes  the  country,  but  in  truth 
Most  likes  it  when  he  studies  it  in  town. 
COWPER. — Retirement,  573. 

The  city  is  recruited  from  the  country. 
EMERSON  — Manners. 

Away  in  towns,  where  eyes  have  nought 

to  see 
But  dead  museums  and  miles  of  misery, 

And  life  made  wretched  out  of  human  ken, 

And  miles  of  shopping  women  served  by 

men.   JOHN  MASEFIELD. — Biography. 

A  house  is  much  more  to  my  taste  than 
a  tree, 

And  for  groves,  O  !   a  good  grove  of  chim- 
neys for  me. 

CHAS.  MORRIS. — The  Contrast. 

All  capitals  are  alike  ;  all  races  mix 
there,  all  manners  are  confused  together ; 
it  is  not  there  one  should  go  to  study 
nations.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Towns  are  the  destructive  whirlpool  of 
the  human  race.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

TRADE 

The  buying  and  the  selling,  and  the  strife 
Of  little  natures. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — London  Poems. 

Merchants,  unimpeachable  of  sin 
Against  the  charities  of  domestic  lifci 
Incorporated,  seem  at  once  to  lose 
Their  nature ;  and,  disclaiming  all  regard 
For  mercy  and  the  common  rights  of  man, 
Build    factories    with    blood,    conducting 

trade 

At  the  sword's  point. 
COWPER. — The  Task :  Winter  Evening,  676. 

A  tradesman  behind  his  counter  must 
have  no  flesh  and  blood  about  him,  no 
passions,  no  resentment ;  he  must  never 
be  angry — no,  not  so  much  as  seem  to  be 
so. 

DEFOE. — Complete  English  Tradesman. 

We  are  indeed  a  nation  of  shopkeepers. 
DISRAELI. — Young    Duke.      (Napoleon 

was  the  originator  of  this  saying.) 
Trade  which,  like  blood,  should  circularly 
flow. 

DRYDEN. — Annus  Mirabilis.  st.  z. 


The  philosopher  and  lover  of  man  have 
much  harm  to  say  of  trade  ;  but  the  his- 
torian will  see  that  trade  was  the  prin- 
ciple of  Liberty ;  that  trade  planted 
America  and  destroyed  Feudalism  ;  that 
it  makes  peace  and  keeps  peace. 
EMERSON. — The  Young  American  (1844;. 

Trade  goes  to  make  the  governments 
insignificant  and  to  bring  every  kind  of 
faculty  of  every  individual,  that  can  in 
any  manner  serve  any  person,  on  sale. 

EMERSON. — Ib. 

The  greatest  meliorator  of  the  world  is 
selfish,  huckstering  trade. 

EMEKSON. — Works  and  Days. 

In  every  age  and  clime  we  see 
Two  of  a  trade  can  ne'er  agree. 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  i,  21. 

Trade's    proud    empire    hastes    to    swift 
decay. 

JOHNSON. — Line  added  to  "  The 
Deserted  Village." 

We  are  not  here  to  sell  a  parcel  of  boilers 
and  vats,  but  the  potentiality  of  growing 
rich  beyond  the  dreams  of  avarice. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  at  Sale  of  Thrale's 
Brewery. 

It  is  of  less  importance  to  learn  a  trade 
in  order  to  know  a  trade  than  to  conquer 
the  prejudices  which  despise  it. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Let  us  choose  an  honest  trade ;  but 
remember  always  that  there  is  no  honesty 
without  utility.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

Mind  your  till  and  till  your  mind. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars." 

Everyone  lives  by  selling  something. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Beggars. 

I  cannot  sit  still,  James,  and  hear  you 
abuse  the  shopocracy. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes.- 

Who  will  sell  the  cow  must  say  the  word. 
Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert). 

There  is  a  mystery  in  the  meanest  trade. 
Prov.  (Ray.) 

Who  buys  has  need  of  a  hundred  eyes  ; 
who  sells  needs  only  one.  Old  Prov. 

Keep  your  shop  and  your  shop  will  keep 
you.  Quoted  by  Steele,  Spectator,  509 

TRADITION 

The  idols  of  the  market-place  are  the 
most  troublesome  of  all — those  namely 
which  have  entwined  themselves  round 
the  understanding  from  the  associations 
of  words  and  names. 

BACON. — Novum  Organum,  Bh.  i,  59. 


TRAGEDY 


TRAITORS 


For  bow  can  that  be  false,  which 

every  tongue 

Of  every  mortal  man  affirms  for  true  ? 
SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Nosce  Teipsum. 

Tradition  is  the  sigh 
Of  one  who  hath  no  hope  ;  and  History 
Bears,    like    a    river    deep,    tumultuous, 

wide, 

Gloom,  guilt,  and  woe  on  his  eternal  tide. 
EBENF.ZER  ELLIOTT. — Love,  Bk.  2. 

Say  what  you  will  against  Tradition, 
we  know  the  significance  of  words  by 
nothing  but  Tradition. 

SELDEN. — Table  Talk. 

This  story  shall  the  good  man  teach  his 
son. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  4,  3. 

TRAGEDY 

A  perfect  tragedy  is  the  noblest  pro- 
duction of  human  nature. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  39. 

The  black  and  white  literature  of  pain. 
G.  K.  CHESTERTON. — The  Defendant. 

That  long  drip  of  human  tears 
Which  peoples  old  in  tragedy 
Have  left  upon  the  centuried  years. 
T.  HARDY. — On  an  Invitation  to  the 
United  States. 

Such  is  generally  the  case  in  real  life : 
Serioys  things  and  mere  trifles,  laughable 
things  and  things  that  cause  pain,  are  wont 
to  be  mixed  in  strangest  medley.  It  is 
necessary  then  that  Tragedy,  as  being  a 
mirror  of  life,  must  leave  room  for  an 
element  of  comic  humour. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  28 
(£.  K.  Francis  tr.\. 

Sometime  let  gorgeous  Tragedy 
In  sceptred  pall  come  sweeping  by. 
MILTON. — //  Penseroso,  97. 

It  is  observable  that  the  ladies  frequent 
tragedies  more  than  comedies.  The  reason 
may  be  that  in  tragedy  their  sex  is  deified 
and  adored  ;  in  comedy  exposed  and  ridi- 
culed. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Ah  me,  what  act, 

That  roars  so  loud,  and  thunders  in  the 
index  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet.  Act  3,  4. 

Between  the  acting  of  a  dreadful  thing 
And  the  first  motion,  all  the  interim  is 
Like  a  phantasma,  or  a  hideous  dream. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ctesar,  Act  2,  i. 

Very  tragical  mirth. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,  Act  5,  i. 


'Tis    double    death    to    drown    in  ken  of 
shore.     SHAKESPEARE. — Lucrece,  160. 

Sorrow,  terror,  anguish,  despair  itself, 
are  often  the  chosen  expressions  of  an 
approximation  to  the  highest  good.  .  .  . 
Tragedy  delights  by  affording  a  shadow 
of  the  pleasure  which  exists  in  pain. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  of  Poetry  (1821). 

Tragedy  openeth  the  greatest  wounds, 
and  showeth  forth  the  ulcers  that  are 
covered  with  tissue. 

SIR  P.  SIDNEY. — Apology  for  Poetry. 

I  chanced  to  cast  my  eye  upon  a  part 
in  the  Tragedy  of  Richard  the  Third,  which 
filled  my  mind  with  a  very  agreeable 
horror. 

Taller,  No.  go,  Nov.  5,  1709. 

She  weaves  and  multiplies 
Exceeding  pleasure  out  of  extreme  pain. 
SWINBURNE. — Laus  Venerit. 

TRAINING 

Train  up  a  fig-tree  in  the  way  it  should 
go,  and  when  you  are  old  sit  under  the 
shade  of  it.  [Capt.  Cuttle.] 

DICKENS. — Dombey,  ch.  19. 

This  sort  of  thing  takes  a  deal  of  training. 
SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ruddigore. 

Just  as  the  twig   is   bent  the  tree's  in- 
clined. 

POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  i,  150. 

He  amongst  us  who  best  knows  how  to 
bear  the  good  and  the  evil  of  this  life  is  in 
my  view  the  best  brought  up. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

The  bearing  and  the  training  of  a  child 
Is  woman's  wisdom. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  5,  456. 

TRAITORS 

He's  Judas  to  a  tittle,  that  man  is, 
Just  such  a  face  ! 

BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo. 

The  smyler  with  the  knyf  under  the  cloke. 
CHAUCER. — Knight's  Tale,  1141. 

Princes  in  this  case 

Do  hate  the  traitor,  though  they  love  the 
treason.  S.  DANIEL. — Cleopatra. 

This  principle  is  old,  but  true  as  fate, 
Kings  may  love  treason,  but  the  traitor 
hate.  DEKKER. — Honest  Whore, 

Pt.  i,  Act  4,  4. 

Hast  thou  betrayed  my  credulous  inno- 
cence 

With  vizored  falsehood  and  base  forgery  ? 
MILTON. — Comus . 


TRANSIENCY 


TRANSIENCY 


The  man  was  noble, 

But  with  his  last  attempt  he  wiped  it  out  : 
Destroyed  his  country,  and  his  name  re- 
;       mains 
To  the  ensuing  age  abhorred. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  5,  3. 

To  say  the   truth,  so  Judas   kissed   his 

master, 

And  cried  "  All  hail !  "  whereas  he  meant 
all  harm. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Pt.  3, 
Act  5,  7. 

Traitors  are  hated  even  by  those  they 
have  benefited.  TACITUS. — Annals,  Bk.  i. 

To  call  men  traitors 
May  make  men  traitors. 

TENNYSON. — Sir  J.  Oldcastle. 

TRANSIENCY 

What's  not  destroyed  by  Tune's  devouring 

hand? 
Where's  Troy,  and  where's  the  Maypole 

in  the  Strand  ? 

J.  BRAMSTON. — Art  of  Politics. 

Loveliest  of  lovely  things  are  they, 
On  earth  that  soonest  pass  away. 
The  rose  that  lives  its  little  hour 
Is  prized  beyond  the  sculptured  flower. 
W.  C.  BRYANT. — The  Banks  of  the 
Hudson. 

And  like  a  passing  thought  she  fled 
In  light  away. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

But  pleasures  are  like  poppies  sr-read  ! 
You  seize  the  flower,  its  bloom  is  shed  ! 
Or  like  the  snowfall  in  the  river, 
A  moment  white — then  melts  for  ever. 
BURNS. — Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

The  comet  of  a  season. 

BYRON. — Churchill's  Grave. 

Thus  ever  fade  my  fairy  dreams  of  bliss. 
BYRON. — Corsair,  i,  14. 

Alas,  the  moral  brings  a  tear  ! 

'Tis  all  a  transient  hour  below  ; 
And  we  that  would  detain  thee  here, 

Ourselves  as  fleetly  go  ! 

CAMPBELL. — To  J.  S.  Kemble. 

Life's  joy  for  us  a  moment  linaers, 
And  death  seems  in  that  word — farewell. 
CAMPBELL. — Song. 

Some  pleasures  live  a  month  and  some  a 

year, 

But  short  the  date  of  all  we  gather  here. 
COWPER. — Retirement,  459. 

The  bloom  of  a  rose  passes  quickly  away, 

And  the  pride  of  a  butterfly  dies  in  a  day. 

J.  CUNNINGHAM. — ROM  and  Butterfly. 

You  know  how  little  while  we  have  to  stay, 

And,  once  departed,  may  return  no  more. 

FITZGERALD. — Fitbdndt,  st.  3. 


The  Worldly  Hope  men  set  their  Hearts 

upon 

Turns  Ashes— or  it  prospers  ;  and  anon, 
Like  Snow  upon  the  Desert's  dusty  Face, 
Lighting  a  little  hour  or  two — is  gone. 

FITZGERALD. — Ib.,  st.  ift. 

One  Moment  in  Annihilation's  Waste, 
One  Moment,  ot  the  Well  of  Life  to  taste — 
The  Stars  are  setting  and  the  Caravan 
Starts   for   the   Dawn   of   Nothing — Oh, 
make  haste  ! 
FITZGERALD. — Ib.,  st.  48  (is/  Ed.). 

Sweet  day,  so  cool,  so  calm,  so  bright, 
The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky, 
The  dew  shall  weep  thy  fall  to-night, 
For  thou  must  die. 

HERBERT. — Vertue. 

Sweet  rose,  whose  hue,  angry  and  brave, 
Bids  the  rash  gazer  wipe  his  eye, 
Thy  root  is  ever  in  the  grave. 

And  thou  must  die.     HERBERT. — Ib. 

Catch  then,  O  catch  the  transient  hour  ; 

Improve  each  moment  as  it  flies  ; 
Life's  a  short  summer — man  a  flower  : 

He  dies — alas,  how  soon  be  dies  ! 

JOHNSON. — Winter. 

All  that's  bright  must  fade, — 
The  brightest  still  the  fleetest 

MOORE. — All  that's  bright 

May's  flowers  outlast  not  May  ; 

And  when  the  hour  has  fled- 

A  round  the  roses  dead 

The  mournful  echoes  say-' 

Summer  has  seen  decay. 

GEO.  MOOPE. — Rondel  Summer  has 
seen  decay. 

A  pilgrim  panting  for  the  rest  to  come  ; 
An  exile,  anxious  for  his  native  home  ; 
A  drop  dissevered  from  the  boundless  sea  ; 
A  moment  parted  from  eternity. 

HANNAH  MORE. — Kin?  Hezekiah.  izq. 

Yet  ah  !    how  short  the  vernal  hour 
Allowed  for  mortal  bliss  to  blow  ! 

Fate  from  the  storm  soon  shakes  the  flut 

tering  flower, 
That  drops  and  dies  belo\v. 

PINDAR. — Pythian  Odes,  8,  131  (Mooretr.). 

Before  my  breath,  like  blazing  flax, 
Man  and  his  marvels  pass  away, 

And  changing  empires  wane  and  wax, 
Are  founded,  flourish,  and  decay. 

SCOTT. — The  Antiquary. 

Like  the  dew  on  the  mountain. 
Like  the  foam  on  the  river, 

Like  the  bubble  on  the  fountain, 
Thou  art  gone,  and  for  ever. 
SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  3,  16. 

A  violet  in  the  youth  of  primy  nature, 
Forward,     not     permanent,     sweet,     not 

lasting. 

The  perfume  and  suppliance  of  a  minute. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  I,  3, 


5'7 


TRANSITION 


TRAVEL 


The  earth  hath  bubbles,  as  the  water  hath, 
And  these  are  of  them. 

SHAKESPEARE — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

But  thou  art  fled 
Like  some  frail  exhalation. 

SHELLEY. — Queen  Mab. 

O  Kings,  bethink  ye  then  how  vain 

The  pride  and  pomp  of  earthly  things  ; 
A  little  pain,  a  little  gain, 
Then   dust  in  dust   are   the  bones   of 

Kings. 
ARTHUR  SYMONS. — Ballade  of  Kings. 

Our  little  systems  have  their  day : 
They  have  their  day  and  cease  to  be. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  Intro. 

Time,  like  an  ever-rolling  stream, 

Bears  all  its  sons  away. 
They  fly  forgotten,  as  a  dream 

Dies  at  the  opening  day. 

ISAAC  WATTS. — 0  God,  our  Help. 

What  is  this  passing  scene  ? 

A  peevish  April  day  ! 
A  little  sun — a  little  rain, 
And  then  night  sweeps  along  the  plain, 

And  all  things  fade  away. 
H.  K.  WHITE. — On  Disappointment. 

The  Rainbow  comes  and  goes, 
And  lovely  is  the  Rose. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  c.  2. 

But    garlands    wither ;     festal    shows 

depart, 
Like   dreams   themselves :    and  sweetest 

sound — 

(Albeit  of  effect  profound) 
It  was — and  it  is  gone  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pi.  2,  No.  39. 

Till  another  king  arose,  which  knew  not 
Joseph.  Acts  vii,  18. 

TRANSITION 

Wandering  between  two  worlds,  one  dead, 
The  other  powerless  to  be  born. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Grande  Chartreuse. 

TRANSLATORS 

Nor  ought  a  genius  less  than  his  that  writ 
Attempt  translation. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — To  Sir  R.  Fanshaw. 

Some  hold  translations  not  unlike  to  be 
The  wrong  side  of  a  Turkey  tapestry. 

J.  HOWELL. — Of  Translations. 

Translations   increase   the   faults   of   a 
work  and  spoil  its  beauties. 

VOLTAIRE. — Fs*av  on  Epic  Pnetrv. 


S'S 


TRAVEL  .' 

What  singular  emotions  fill 
Their  bosoms  who  have  been  induced  to 
roam  !     BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  3,  21. 

How  much  a  dunce  that  has  been  sent  to 

roam 

Excels  a  dunce  that  has  been  left  at  home  ! 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  414. 

Travelling  is  the  rain  of  all  happiness. 
There's  no  looking  at  a  building  here  after 
seeing  Italy.  [Mr.  Meadows,  "  Man  of 
the  Ton."] 

MME.  D'ARBLAY. — Cecilia,  Bk.  2,  ch.  6. 

Fain  would  I  travel  to  some  foreign  shore, 
Never  to  see  my  native  country  more, 
So  might  I  to  myself  myself  restore. 
DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Cinyra*  and  Myrrha. 

The  superstition  of  Travelling. 

EMERSON. — Civilization. 

One  use  of  travel  is  to  recommend  the 
books  and  works  of  home.  We  go  to 
Europe  to  be  Americanised. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life:  Culture. 

Travelling  is  a  Fool's  Paradise. 

EMERSON. — S  el  J- Reliance. 

Anxious  through  seas  and  land  to  search 

for  rest 

Is  but  laborious  idleness  at  best. 
In  desert  Ulubrs?  the  bliss  you'll  find, 
If  you  preserve  a  firm  and  equal  mind. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Epistles,  Bk.  i,  n. 

A  prudent  traveller  never  disparages 
his  own  country.  GOLDONI. 

A  man  who  leaves  home  to  mend  himself 
and  others  is  a  philosopher ;  but  he  who 
goes  from  country  to  country,  guided  by 
the  blind  impulse  of  curiosity,  is  a  vaga- 
bond. 
GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World,  No.  7. 

Creation's  heir,   the  world,  the  world  is 
mine.  GOLDSMITH. — Traveller. 

To  pass  the  seas  some  think  a  toil ; 
Some  think  it  strange  abroad  to  roam 
Some  think  it  grief  to  leave  their  soil, 
Their  parents,  kinsfolk  and  their  home. 
Think  so  who  list,  I  like  it  not ; 
I  must  abroad  to  try  my  lot. 

BARNABE  GOOGE. — In  Praise  of 

Seafaring  Men. 

Some   minds   improve   by   travel,   others 

rather 

Resemble  copper  wire  or  brass, 
Which  gets  the  narrower  by  going  farther. 
HOOD.— Ode  to  R.  Wilson. 

We  come  to  this ;  when  all  the  world  we 

range, 
'Tis  but  our  climate,  not  pur  minds  we 

change.  HORACE. — Epistles,  i,  n,  27 
(Conington  tr.). 


TRAVEL 

Lord  of  the  main  !  direct  aright, 
With  toils  unvexed,  their  prosperous  way. 
PINDAR. — Olympic  Odes,  6,  149. 

Change  of  soil  and  climate  has  in  it  much 
that  is  pleasurable. 

PLINY  THE  YOUNGER. 

Wandering  from  clime  to  clime,  observant 

strayed, 
Their   manners   noted,    and    their   states 

surveyed.     POPE. — Odyssey,  Bk.  x,  5. 

I  hold  it  an  indisputable  maxim  that  he 
who  has  only  seen  one  race  of  people,  in- 
stead of  knowing  men,  merely  knows  the 
people  with  whom  he  has  lived. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emilc. 

There  is  a  great  deal  of  difference 
between  travelling  to  see  countries  and 
travelling  to  see  peoples. 

ROUSSEAU. — lb. 

A  traveller !    By  my  faith,  you    have 
reason  to  be  sad.     I  fear  you  have  sold 
your  own  lands  to  see  other  men's. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  4,1. 

And  of  the  cannibals  that  each  other  eat, 
The  Anthropophagi,  and  men  whose  heads 
Do  grow  beneath  their  shoulders. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  3. 

Travellers  ne'er  did  lie, 
Though  fools  at  home  condemn  'em. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Tempest,  Act  3,  3. 

If  you  want  to  see  how  selfish  people  are, 
and  how  skin-deep  fashionable  politeness 
is,  take  a  voyage. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Irrational  Knot,  ch.  18. 

A  man  is  the  happier  for  life  for  having 
once  made  an  agreeable  tour. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Lectures  on  Moral 
Philosophy,  No.  22. 

An  Englishman  does  not  travel  to  see 
Englishmen. 

STERNE. — Sent.  Journey,  Preface. 

I  pity  the  man  who  can  travel  from  Dan 
to  Beersheba,  and  cry  '"Tis  all  barren." 

STERNE. — Ib.,  In  the  Street,  Calais. 

There's  nothing  under  heaven  so  blue 
That's  fairly  worth  the  travelling  to. 
R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Song  of  the  Road. 

A  perfect  Englishman,  travelling  with- 
out design,  buying  modern  antiques  at  an 
excessive  price,  regarding  everything  witli 
a  haughty  air,  and  despising  the  saints  and 
their  relics.  VOLTAIRE. — La  Pucclle. 

A  book  like  Mandeville's,  that  yields  de- 
light, 
And  puts  poor  probability  to  flight. 

J.  WOLCOT. — Ep.  to  James  Bruce. 


TREES 

He  travelled  here,  he  travelled  there, 
But  not  the  value  of  a  hair 
Was  head  or  heart  the  better. 

WORDSWORTH. — Peter  Bell,  Pt.  i. 

I  travelled  among  unknown  men 

In  lands  beyond  the  sea  ; 
Nor,  England,  did  I  know  till  then 

What  love  I  bore  to  thee. 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  on  the  Affections, 
No.  9  (1799)  • 

A    Passage    perillus    makyth    a    Port 
pleasaunt. 

Inscription  on  a  harbour  at  Lake  Como. 

TREACHERY  AND  TREASON 

Ah  me  !    with  what  a  foot  doth  treason 

post, 

While  loyalty,  with  all  her  sp^.ed,  is  slow 
M.  ARNOLD. — Merope  (Areas). 

But  treason  is  not  owned  when  'tis  des- 
cried ; 
Successful  crimes  alone  are  justified. 

DRYDEN. — The  Medal. 

Treason  doth  never  prosper ;    what's  the 

reason  ? 

For  if  it  prosper,  none  dare  call  it  treason. 
SIR  J.  HARRINGTON. — Epigram. 

0  for  a  tongue  to  curse  the  slave 
Whose  treason,  like  a  deadly  blight, 

Comes  o'er  the  councils  of  the  brave 
And  blasts  them  in  their  hour  of  might ! 
MOORE. — Lalla  Rookh  :  The  Fire- 
Worshippers. 

I  love  the  treason,  but  I  do  not  praise 
the   traitor.  PLUTARCH. 

Why,  as  a  woodcock  to  mine  own  springe, 
Osric : 

1  am  justly  killed  with  mine  own  treachery. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

Treason  is  but  tricked  like  the  fox 

Who,  ne'er  so   tame,   so    cherished    and 

locked  up, 
Will  have  a  wild  trick  of  his  ancestors. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i, 
Act  5,  2. 

He  is  composed  and  framed  of  treachery. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  5,  i. 

TREES 

Trees  can  smile  in  light  at  the  sinking  sun 
Just  as  the  storm  comes,  as  a  girl  would 

look 
On  a  departing  lover — most  serene. 

BROWNING. — Pauline,  726. 

No  tree  in  all  the  grove  but  has  its  charms, 
Though  each  its  hue  peculiar. 

COWPER. — The  Task,  Bk.  i,  /.  307. 

Good  luck  to  dem  w'at  come  and  go, 
W'at  set  in  de  shade  er  de  sycamo'. 
J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle  Remus. 

ch.  38. 


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TRIALS 

And  garnished  with  trees  that  a  man  might 

cut  down, 
Instead  of  his  own  expenses. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Poems  are  made  by  fools  like  me, 
But  only  God  can  make  a  tree. 

JOYCE  KILMER. — Trees. 

The  birch,  most  shy  and  lady-like  of  trees. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Indian  Summer. 

Cedar,   and  pine,  and  fir,  and  branching 

palm, 

A  sylvan  scene,  and  as  the  ranks  ascend 
Shade  above  shade,  a  woody  theatre 
Of  stateliest  view. 

MILTON.- — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  139. 

Welcome,  ye  shades  !   ye  bowery  thickets, 

hail! 

Ye  lofty  pines  !    ye  venerable  oaks  ! 
Ye  ashes  wild,  resounding  o'er  the  steep  ! 
Delicious  is  your  shelter  to  the  soul. 

THOMSON. — Seasons  ;  Summer,  469. 

And  he  spake  of  trees,  from  the  cedar 
tree  that  is  in  Lebanon  even  unto  the 
hyssop  that  springeth  out  of  the  wall. 

i  Kings  iv,  33. 

TRIALS  AND  TRIBULATIONS 

Restless  Anxiety,  forlorn  Despair, 
And  all  the  faded  family  of  Care. 

SIR  S.  GARTH. — Dispensary. 

The  weariness,  the  fever,  and  the  fret, 
Here,  where  men  sit  and  hear  each  other 
groan.    KEATS. — Ode  to  a  Nightingale. 

Eye  me,  blest  Providence,  and  square  my 

trial 
To  my  proportioned  strength. 

MILTON. — Comus,  329. 

Comfort's  in  heaven  ;    and  we  are  on  the 

earth, 
Where  nothing  lives  but  crosses,  care,  and 

grief. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  2,  2. 

Till  from  the  straw  the  flail  the  corn  doth 

beat 

Until  the  chaff  be  purged  from  the  wheat, 
Yea,  till  the  mill  the  grain  in  pieces  tear, 
The  richness  of  the  flour  will  scarce  appear. 
GEO.  WITHER. 

The  finest  diamond  must  be  cut.    Prov. 

TRIFLES 

Trifles  make  perfection,  and  perfection 
is  no  trifle. 

MICHAEL  ANGELO. — Attributed. 

Small  matters  win  great  commendation. 
BACON. — Essays :  Of  Ceremonies. 


TRIFLES 

He  that  shuns  trifles  must  shun  the 
world.  CHAPMAN. — Dedication,  Hero  and 

Leander. 

It  is  a  life  of  toys  and  trinkets.  We  are 
too  easily  pleased. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. — Domestic  Life. 

Small  things  are  best ; 

Grief  and  unrest 
To  rank  and  wealth  are  given  ; 

But  little  things 

On  little  wings 
Bear  little  souls  to  heaven. 
F.  W.  FABER. — In  a  Child's  Album. 

To  a  philosopher  no  circumstance,  how- 
ever trifling,  is  too  minute. 

GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World, 
No.  30. 

Xot  oaks  alone  are  trees,  nor  roses  flowers  ; 
.Much    humble    wealth    makes    rich    this 
world  of  ours. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — On  reading  Pomfret's 
"  Choice." 

Those  who  apply  themselves  too  much 
to  little  things  usually  become  incapable 
of  great  things.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

These  are  small  things,  but  it  was  by 

not  despising  these  small  things  that  our 

ancestors  achieved  this  very  great  thing. 

LIVY.— Hist.,  Bk.  6. 

The  smallest  effort  is  not  lost ; 

Each  wavelet  on  the  ocean  tossed 

Aids  in  the  ebb-tide  or  the  flow  ; 

Each  raindrop  makes  some  flow'ret  blow  ; 

Each  struggle  lessens  human  woe. 

C.  MACKAY. — Old  and  New,  44. 

Since  trifles  make  the  sum  of  human  things, 
And    half    our   misery   from    our    foibles 

springs  ; 
Since  life's  best  joys  consist  in  peace  and 

ease  ; 
And  though  but  few  can  serve  yet  all  may 

please  ; 

Oh,  let  the  ungentle  spirit  learn  from  hence 
A  small  unkindness  is  a  great  offence. 

HANNAH  MORE. — Sensibility. 

Little  drops  of  water,  little  grains  of  sand, 
Make  the  mighty  ocean  and  the  pleasant 

land  ; 
Thus  the  little  minutes,  humble  though 

they  be, 
Make  the  mighty  ages  of  eternity. 

FRANCES  OSGOOD. — Little  Things 

And  trifles  I  alike  pursue, 
Because  they're  old,  because  they're  new. 
PRIOR. — Alma,  3,  362. 

Trifles,  light  as  air, 

Are  to  the  jealous  confirmation  strong 
As  proofs  of  holy  writ. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  3,  3. 


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TROUBLES 


Are  there  not  little  chapters  in  every- 
body's life  that  seem  to  be  nothing,  and 
yet  affect  all  the  rest  of  the  history  ? 

THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair. 

The     dangerous    bar    in     the    harbour's 
mouth  is  only  grains  of  sand. 
M.  F.  TUPPER. — Proverbial  Philosophy. 

Think  nought   a   trifle,    though   it   small 

appear ; 
Small  sands  the  mountain,  moments  make 

the  year, 
And  trifles  life. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  6. 

He  that  contemneth  small  things  shall 
fall  by  little  and  little.  Ecclesiasticus  six,  1. 

Law  does  not  concern  itself  about  trifles. 
Legal  Maxim. 

To  know  how  cherries  and  berries  taste, 
ask  children  and  sparrows. 

Prov.  quoted  by  Goethe. 

Despise  not  a  small  wound,  a  poor  rela- 
tion, or  a  humble  enemy.  Danish  prov. 

The  eagle  does  not  catch  flies. 

Latin  prov. 
TRIUMPH 

Joyous  and  bold  as  when  feasting  of  old, 
When  his  battles  were  ended,  triumphant 

and  splendid. 
ARISTOPHANES. — The  Knights  (Frere  tr.). 

It  was  roses,  roses,  all  the  way. 

BROWNING. — The  Patriot. 

Another  hand  thy  sword  shall  wield, 
Another  hand  the  standard  wave, 

Till  from  the  trumpet's  mouth  is  pealed 

The  blast  of  triumph  o'er  thy  grave. 

VV.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — Battlefield. 

Unholy  is  the  voice 

Of    loud    thanksgiving    over    slaughtered 
men.          COWPER. — Odyssey,  22,  412. 

And  hast  thou  slain  the  Jabberwock  ? 
Come  to  my  arms,  my  beamish  boy  ! 
O  frabjous  day  !    Callooh  !    Callay  ! 

He  chortled  in  his  joy. 
C.  L.  DODGSON. — Through  the  Looking- 

Glass. 

Hail    to    the    chief   who   in   triumph  ad- 
vances ! 

SCOTT. — Lady  of  the  Lake,  c.  2,  19. 

Now,  infidel,  I  have  thee  on  the  hip. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  4,  i. 

Not  simple  conquest,  triumph  is  his  aim. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  5. 
TROUBLES 

The  greater  part  of  your  trouble  lies  in 
your  own  imagination,  and  so  you  may 
free  yourself  from  it  when  you  please. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  9,  32. 


Not  such  sorrowful  sighes  as  men  make 
For  woe,  or  elles  when  that  folk  be  sike 
But  easy  sighes,  such  as  been  to  like. 

CHAUCER. — Troilus  and  Cressida. 

There  is  this  of  good  in  real  evils, — they 
deliver  us,  while  they  last,  from  the  petty 
despotism  of  all  that  were  imaginary. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

In  trouble  to  be  troubled 

Is  to  have  your  trouble  doubled. 

DEFOE. — Robinson  Crusoe. 

Life  is  mostly  froth  and  bubble  ; 

Two  things  stand  like  stone  : 
Kindness  in  another's  trouble, 

Courage  in  our  own. 
A.  L.  GORDON. — Weary  Wayfarer. 

"  Law,  Brer  Tarrypin  !  "  sez  Brer  Fox, 
sezee,  "  you  ain't  see  no  trouble  yit.  Ef 
you  wanter  see  sho'  miff  [sure  enough] 
trouble,  you  des  [just]  oughter  go  longer 
me ;  I'm  de  man  w'at  kin  show  you 
trouble,"  sezee.  J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights 
with  Uncle  Remus,  ch.  17. 

Thus  woe  succeeds  a  woe,  as  wave  a  wave. 
HERRICK. — Sorrows  Succeed. 

We  all  have  sufficient  strength  to  bear 
other  people's  troubles. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Of  our  troubles  we  must  seek  some  other 
causes,  and  not  God. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  2,  18  (Davis  tr.). 

If  the  just  man  happen  to  be  in  poverty, 
or  in  diseases,  or  in  any  other  of  those 
seeming  evils,  these  things  to  him  issue 
in  something  good,  either  whilst  alive  or 
after  he  is  dead.  PLATO. — Ib.,  Bk.  10,  12. 

Light  troubles  speak  ;  immense  troubles 
are  silent.  SENECA. — Hippolytus. 

I  could  lie  down  like  a  tired  child, 
And  weep  away  the  life  of  care 
Which  I  have  borne,  and  still  must  bear. 
SHELLEY. — In  Dejection. 

'Gainst  minor  evils  let  him  pray 
Who  fortune's  favour  cumes, — 

For  one  that  big  misfortunes  slay, 
Ten  die  of  "  little  worries." 

GEO.  R.  SIMS. 

In  all  distresses  of  our  friends 
We  first  consult  our  private  ends. 
SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

Disasters,  do  the  best  we  can, 

Will  reach  both  great  and  small ; 
And  he  is  oft  the  wisest  man 

Who  is  not  wise  at  all. 
WORDSWORTH. — Waterfall  and  Eglantine. 

Woes  cluster.     Rare  are  solitary  woes  ; 
They  love  a  train,  they  tread  each  other's 
heel.         YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 


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TRUTH 


A  small  evil  is  a  great  good. 

Greek  prov. 

If  there  were  no  clouds,  we  should  not 
enjoy  the  sun.  Prov. 

TRUST 

But  when  I  trust  a  wild  fool,  and  a  woman, 
May  I  lend  gratis,  and  build  hospitals. 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Scornful 
Lady,  Act  3. 

When  young,  we  trust  ourselves  too 
much  ;  and  we  trust  others  too  little,  when 
old.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

And  oft,  though  Wisdom  wake,  Suspicion 

sleeps 

At  Wisdom's  gate,  and  to  Simplicity 
Resigns  her  charge,  while  Goodness  thinks 

no  ill 
Where  no  ill  seems. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  686. 

Women  and  princes  must  trust  some- 
body. SELDEN. — Women. 

Trust  none  ; 

For  oaths  are  straw,  men's  faiths  are  wafer- 
cakes, 
And  hold-fast  is  the  only  dog. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  2,  3. 

He  was  a  gentleman  on  whom  I  built 
An  absolute  trust. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  4. 

Ha,  ha  !  what  a  fool  Honesty  is  !  and 
Trust,  his  sworn  brother,  a  very  simple 
gentleman  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  4,  3. 

Confidence,  like  the  soul,  never  returns 
to  whence  it  has  departed. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

And  trust  me  not  at  all  or  all  in  all. 

TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien. 

By  trust  I  lost  money ;  by  distrust  I 
saved  it.  THEOGNIS. 

Confidence  is  never  safe. 

VIRGIL. — jEneid,  Bk.  4. 

Words   that   require  no  sanction  from  an 

oath, 

And  simple  honesty  a  common  growth. 
WORDSWORTH. — Sonnets  to  Liberty  and 
Order,  9. 

Since  man  to  man  is  so  unjust, 
No  man  can  tell  what  man  to  trust ; 
I've  trusted  many  to  my  sorrow  : 
Pay  to-day,  take  trust  to-morrow. 

Lines  in  an  Inn  at  Chichester. 
TRUTH 

Plato  and  truth  are  both  dear  to  me, 
but  it  is  my  duty  to  prefer  truth. 

ARISTOTLE. 


Yea,  I  take  myself  to  witness, 

That  I  have  loved  no  darkness, 

Sophisticated  no  truth, 

Nursed  no  delusion, 

Allowed  no  fear. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Empedocles  on  Etna, 
Act  2. 

Ah,  love,  let  us  be  true 
To  one  another !    For  the  world,  which 

seems 

To  lie  before  us  like  a  land  of  dreams, 
So  various,  so  beautiful,  so  new, 
Hath   really  neither  joy,   nor  love,   nor 

light, 

Nor  certitude,  nor  peace,  nor  help  for  pain. 
M.  ARNOLD. — Dover  Beach. 

There  is  only  one  thing  here  worth 
minding,  and  that  is  to  be  true  and  just, 
and  to  show  charity,  even  to  the  untrue 
and  the  unjust. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  6,  47. 

The  inseparable  propriety  of  time,  which 
is  ever  more  and  more  to  disclose  truth. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

Is  truth  ever  barren  ? 

BACON. — In  Praise  of  Knowledge. 

No  pleasure  is  comparable  to  the  stand- 
ing upon  the  vantage  ground  of  truth. 

BACON. — Of  Truth. 

"  What  is  truth  ?  "  said  iesting  Pilate  ; 
and  would  not  stay  for  an  answer. 

BACON. — Ib. 

Words,  phrases,  fashions  pass  away, 
But  truth  and  nature  live  through  all. 

B.  BARTON. — On  Bloomfteld. 

And    much    they  grope    for   Truth,  but 
never  hit. 

BEATTIE. — The  Minstrel,  Bk.  i,  49. 

Truth  can  never  be  told  so  as  to  be  under- 
stood and  not  be  believed. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

Truth  is  the  hardest  taunt  to  bear. 

R.  BRIDGES. — Return  of  Ulysses, 
Act  4,  1688. 
Truth  never  hurts  the  teller. 

BROWNING. — Fijine. 

Truth   is   the   strong   thing.     Let   man's 
life  be  true  ! 

BROWNING. — In  a  Balcony. 

There  is  an  inmost  centre  in  us  all, 
Where  truth  abides  in  fulness. 

BROWNING. — Paracelsus. 

Truth  is  within  ourselves  :  it  takes  no  rise 

From  outward  things,  whate'er  you  may 

believe.  BROWNING. — Pauline. 

Why  with  old  truth  needs  new  truth  dis- 
agree ?  BROWNING. — Red  Cotton 
Nightcap  Country,  Bk.  2. 


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TRUTH 


But  here's  the  plague, 
That  all  this  trouble  comes  of  telling  truth, 
Which  truth,  by  when  it  reaches  him,  looks 

fa'se, 

Seems  to  be  just  the  thing  it  would  sup- 
plant. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  12,  852. 

There  is  truth  in  falsehood,  falsehood 
in  truth. 
BROWNING. — Soul's  Tragedy,  Act  2. 

Truth,  crushed  to  earth,  shall  rise  again  ; 

The  eternal  years  of  God  are  hers  ; 
But  Error,  wounded,  writhes  with  pain, 

And  dies  among  his  worshippers. 

W.  CULLEN  BRYANT. — Battlefield. 

No  one  can  tell  whether  any  single  truth 

may  not  be  so  consequent  on  all  truths, 

for  the  most  part  in  ways  mysterious  and 

unseen,  but  so  notwithstanding  that  on 

denial  of  a  single  one  all  fall  and  dissolve. 

BISHOP  BUTLER. — Analogy  of  Religion, 

Ft.  i,  ch  7. 

For  truth  is  precious  and  divine, 
Too  rich  a  pearl  for  carnal  swine. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  3. 

'Tis  strange,  but  true  ;  for  truth  is  always 

strange ; 
Stranger  than  fiction. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  15,  101. 

Truth,  ever  lovely, — since  the  world  began. 

The  foe  of  tyrants  and  the  friend  of  man. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  Pt.  2. 

Truth,  fact,  is  the  life  of  all  things  ; 
falsity,  "  fiction  "  or  whatever  it  may  call 
itself,  is  certain  to  be  the  death. 

CARLYLE. — Lattcr-Day  Pamphlets,  No.  8. 

Trouthe  is  the  hyeste  thing  that  man 
may  kepe. 

CHAUCER. — Franklin's  Tale,  751. 

Truth  is  bitter  and  disagreeable  to  fools  ; 
but  falsehood  is  sweet  and  acceptable. 

St.  Chrysostom. 
Truth  is  truest  poesy. 

COWLEY. — Davideis. 

All  truth  is  precious,  if  not  all  divine. 

COWPER. — Charity. 

And  differing  judgments  serve  but  to  de- 
clare, 

That  Truth  lies  somewhere,  if  we  knew  but 
where.  COWPER. — Hope,  425. 

Fear  makes  an  enemy  of  truth  itself. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — Godfrida,  Act  3. 

"  It  is,"  says  Chadband,  "  the  ray  of 
rays,  the  sun  of  suns,  the  moon  of  moons, 
the  star  of  stars.  It  is  the  light  of 
Terewth,"  DICKEXS. — Bleak  House,  ch.  25. 


For  truth  has  such  a  face  and  such  a  mien 
As  to  be  loved  needs  only  to  be  seen. 
DRYDEN. — Hind  and  the  Panther,  Pt.  i,  33. 

Truth  is  only  falsehood  well  disguised. 
FARQUHAR. — Constant  Couple,  Act  3,  4. 

The  trouthe,  how  so  it  ever  come, 
May  for  no  time  be  overcome  ; 
It  may  wel  suffre  for  a  throwe, 
But  atte  last  it  shall  be  knowe. 

GOWER. — Conf.  Amantis. 

When  false  things  are  brought  low, 
And  swift  things  have  grown  slow, 
Feigning  like  froth  shall  go, 

Faith  be  for  aye. 
T.  HARDY. — Between  us  Now,   3. 

"  Dat's  so,"  exclaimed  Aunt  Tempy, 
"  dat's  de  Lord's  trufe !  " 

J.  C.  HARRIS. — Nights  with  Uncle 
Remus,  ch.  42. 

Dare  to  be  true.     Nothing  can  need  a  lie  : 

A  fault,  which  needs  it  most,  prows  two 

thereby.      HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Truth  is  for  ever  truth,  and  love  is  love. 
LEIGH  HUNT. — Hero  and  Leander. 

It  is  always  the  best  policy  to  speak  the 
truth,  unless  of  course  you  are  an  ex- 
ceptionally good  liar. 

a   J.  K.  JEROME. — Idler,  Feb.,  1892. 

Truth  is  characterised  by  consistency ; 
fraud,  deceit  and  vainglory  are  shifting 
and  shifty. 

KEBLE. — Lectures  on  Poetry,  No.  5 

(£.  K.  Francis  tr.). 

I  reckon  there's  more  things  told  than  are 

true, 
And  more  things  true  than  are  told. 

KIPLING. — Ballad  of  Minepit  Shaw. 

When  alle  tresours  ben  tryed,  treuth  y's 
the  best. 

LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman 
(c.  1362),  Passus  2,  203. 

Seek  ye  Seint  Trouthe. 
LANGLAND. — Ib.,  Passus  6,  198. 

Truth  is  the  foundation  and  the  reason 
of  all  perfection  and  beauty. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  568. 

Native  and  original  truth  is  not  so 
easily  wrought  out  of  the  mine  as  we,  who 
have  it  ready  dug  and  fashioned  into  our 
hands,  are  apt  to  imagine. 

LOCKE. — Reasonableness  of  Christianity. 

He's  true  to  God,  who's  true  to  man  what- 
ever wrong  is  done, 

To  the  humblest  and  the  weakest  'neath 
the  all-beholding  sun. 
T.  R.  LOWELL. — Interview  with  Miles 
Standish. 


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TRUTH 


TYRANNY 


\Vho  speaks  the  truth  stabs  falsehood  to 

the  heart, 
And  his  mere  word  makes  despots  tremble 

more 
Than  ever  Brutus  with  his  dagger  could. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — L'Envoi. 

But  O  the  truth,  the  truth  !  the  many  eyes 
That  look  on  it  !   the  diverse  things  they 

see  ! 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Ballad  of  Fair  Ladies. 

It  is  a  piece  of  idle  sentimentality  that 
truth,  merely  as  truth,  has  any  inherent 
power  denied  to  error,  of  prevailing  against 
the  dungeon  and  the  stake. 

J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  2. 

The  well-being  of  mankind  may  almost 
be  measured  by  the  number  and  gravity 
of  the  truths  which  have  reached  the  point 
of  being  uncontested.  J.  S.  MILL. — Ib. 

Let  her  and  Falsehood  grapple !  Who 
ever  knew  truth  put  to  the  worse  in  a  free 
and  open  encounter  ? 

MILTON. — Areopagitica. 

Truth  is  as  impossible  to  be  soiled  by 
any  outward  touch  as  the  sunbeam. 

MILTON. — On  Shakespeare. 

Hard  are  the  ways  of   truth   and  rough 

to  walk. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  478. 

And  with  those  few  art  eminently  seen, 
That  labour  up  the  hill  of  heavenly  truth. 
MILTON. — To  a  Virtuous  Lady. 


Truth  alone  wounds. 


NAPOLEON. 


Truth  in  all  states  her  fearless  front  may 

rear, 

Whether  proud  kings  or  fierce  democracies 
Or  sapient  peers  the  public  weal  maintain. 
PINDAR. — Pythian  Odes,  2,  157  (Moore  tr.). 

The  more  I  examine  myself,  the  more 
I  consider,  the  more  I  read  these  words 
written  on  my  soul,  "  Be  true  (juste)  and 
you  will  be  happy."  ROUSSEAU. — Entile. 

General  and  abstract  truth  is  the  most 
precious  of  all  good  things.  Without  it 
man  is  blind  ;  it  is  the  eye  of  reason. 

ROUSSEAU. — Rtveries  d'un  Promeneur 
solitaire,  4. 

In  the  invention  of  fables  I  take  every 
care  that  I  can  that  they  shall  not  be  false- 
hoods, that  is  to  say  that  they  shall  not 
wound  either  justice  or  truth. 

ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

Speaking  truth  is  like  writing  fair,  and 
only  comes  by  practice. 

RUSKIN. — Seven  Lamps,  ch.  2,  i. 

Truth  cannot  appear  naked  before  the 

people.     SCHOPENHAUER. — World  as  Will 

and  Idea,  Supp.  to  Bk.  i,  17. 


"Tis  true  'tis  pity, 
And  pity  'tis  'tis  true. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2,  2. 

O,  while  you  live,  tell  truth  and  shame 
the  devil. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.t  Act  3,  i. 

For  truth  is  truth 
To  th'  end  of  the  reckoning. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  5,  i. 

All  great  truths  begin  as  blasphemies. 
G.  B.  SHAW. — Annajanska   (1918). 

My  way  of  joking  is  to  tell  the  truth. 
It's  the  finest  joke  in  the  world. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — John  Bull's  Other  Island, 
Act  2  (Keegan). 

Dark  is  the  abyss  of  Tune, 
But  light  enough  to  guide  your  steps  is 

given  ; 

Whatever  weal  or  woe  betide, 
Turn  never  from  the  way  of  truth  aside, 
And  leave  the  event,   in  holy  hope,   to 
Heaven. 

SOUTHEY. — Curse  of  Kehama. 

Truth  is  eternal  and  the  son  of  heaven. 
SWIFT. — Ode  to  Sancroft. 

Change  lays  not  her  hand  upon  truth. 
SWINBURNE. — Dedication,  1865. 

Truth  is  that  which  a  man  troweth. 
J.  H.  TOOKE. — Diversions  of  Purley. 

It  is  one  thing  to  wish  to  have  truth  on 
our  side,  and  another  to  wish  sincerely  to 
be  on  the  side  of  truth. 

ARCHBP.  WHATELY. — Essay  on  Truth. 

Truths  that  wake, 
To  perish  never  ; 

Which  neither  listlessness,  nor  mad  en- 
deavour, 

Nor  Man  nor  Boy, 
Nor  all  that  is  at  enmity  with  joy, 
Can  utterly  abolish  and  destroy. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  of 
Immortality,  r.  9. 

Women  are  strongest ;  but  above  all 
things  Truth  beareth  away  the  victory. 

i  Esdras  iii,  12. 

As  for  the  truth,  it  endureth,  and  is 
always  strong ;  it  liveth  and  conquereth 
for  evermore.  i  Esdras  iv  *8. 

Great  is  truth,  and  mighty  above  all 
things.  i  Esdras  iv,  41. 

TYRANNY  AND  TYRANTS 

Take  care  that  you  have  not  too  much 
of  a  Caesar  in  you,  and  that  you  are  not 
dyed  with  that  dye 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  6,  30. 


524 


TYRANNY 


UNCERTAINTY 


Power   gradually    extirpates    from    the 
mind  every  humane  and  gentle  virtue. 
BURKE. — Vindication  of  Natural  Society. 

A  tyrant  is  the  best  sacrifice  to  Jupiter, 
as  the  ancients  held. 

BURTON. — Anal,  of  M elan.,  Pt.  z. 

Their  power  is  hated,  their  life  is 
wretched,  who  prefer  being  feared  to  being 
loved.  CORNELIUS  NEPOS. 

Nature  has  left  this  tincture  in  the  blood, 

That  all  men  would  be  tyrants  if   they 

could.          DEFOE. — Kentish  Petition. 

Of  all  wild  beasts  preserve  me  from  a 
tyrant.  BEN  JONSON. — Sejanus,  Act  i. 

Whatever  crushes  individuality  is  des- 
potism, by  whatever  name  it  may  be 
called,  and  whether  it  professes  to  be  en- 
forcing the  will  of  God  or  the  injunctions 
of  men.  J.  S.  MILL. — Liberty,  ch.  3. 

Tyranny  must  be, 

Though  to  the  tyrant  thereby  no  excuse. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  12,  95. 

Though    sweet   are  pur  friendships,   our 

hopes,  our  affections, 
Revenge  on  a  tyrant  is  sweetest  of  all. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

You  thought  to  grasp  the  world  ;  but  you 

shall  keep 

Its  curses  only  crowned  upon  your  brow. 
You  that  have  fouled  the  purple,  broke 

your  vow. 

And  sowed  the  wind  of  death,  the  whirl: 
wind  shall  you  reap. 
EDEN  THILLPOTTS. — Unto  this  Last. 

For    liberty    and    true    friendship    the 
tyrant's  nature  has  no  relish  whatever. 
PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  g,  3  (Davis  tr.). 

The  bigger  a  state  becomes  the  more 
liberty  diminishes. 
ROUSSEAU. — Contrat  Social,  Bk.  3,  ch.  i. 

Now  in  the  names  of  all  the  gods  at  once, 
Upon  what  meat  doth  this  our  Caesar  feed, 
That  he  is  grown  so  great  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Caesar,  Act  i,  2. 

O  !  it  is  excellent 
To  have   a  giant's  strength  ;    but   it   is 

tyrannous 

To  use  it  like  a  giant.        SHAKESPEARE. — 
Measure  Jor  Measure,  Act  2,  2. 

'Tis  tune  to  fear  when  tyrants  seem  to 
kiss.    SHAKESPEARE. — Pericles,  Act  i,  2. 

Mankind,  it  seems,  is  made  for  you  alone, 
We  but  the  slaves  who  mount  you  to  the 

throne — 
A  base,  ignoble  crowd,  without  a  name. 

VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  11  (Dry den  tr.). 
(Drances,  inveighing  against  Turnus.) 


Still  have  I  found,  where  Tyranny  pre- 
vails, 

That  virtue  languishes  and  pleasure  fails. 
WORDSWORTH. — Descriptive  Sketches. 

Never   may   from   our   souls   one    truth 

depart — 

That  an  accursed  thing  it  is  to  gaze 
On  prosperous  tyrants  with  a  dazzled  eye  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  33. 


u 

UGLINESS 

The  secret  of  ugliness  consists  not  in 
irregularity,  but  in  being  uninteresting. 
R.  W.  EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Li) e:  Beauty. 

If  shape  it  might  be  called  that  shape 
had  none. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  667. 

UNBELIEF 

Be  a  Napoleon,  and  yet  disbelieve ! 
Why  the  man's  mad,  friend,  take  his  light 
away. 

BROWNING. — Bishop  Blougram. 

O  Incredulity  !  the  wit  of  fools, 
That  slovenly  will  spit  on  all  things  fair. 
CHAPMAN. — De  Guiana,  82. 

The  coward's  castle  and   the  sluggard's 
cradle  [Incredulity].     CHAPMAN. — Ib. 

Blind  unbelief  is  sure  to  err, 
And  scan  His  work  in  vain. 

COWPER. — Hymn. 

There  lives  more  faith  in  honest  doubt, 
Believe  me,  than  in  half  the  creeds. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  96. 

It  may  be  that  we  can  no  longer  share 
The  faith  which  from  his  fathers  he  re- 
ceived ; 

It  may  be  that  our  doom  is  to  despair, 
Where  he  with  joy  believed. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — To  James  Bromley. 

UNCERTAINTY 

For  we  are  all,  like  swimmers  in  the  sea, 
Poised  on  the  top  of  a  huge  wave  of  fate, 
Which  hangs  uncertain  to  which  side  to 
fall. 

M.  ARNOLD. — Sohrab  and  Rustum. 

Ah,  half  in  darkness  on  this  earth  we  dwell, 
Not  in  the  light,  but  shadow,  of  the  truth  ; 
Confounding  good  with  evil,  heaven  with 

hell. 
Misjudging  rage  and  hate  for  love  and 

ruth. 
A.  AUSTIN. — Human  Tragedy,  Act  3. 


5*5 


UNCO  GUID 


UNIVERSITIES 


Certainty  is  the  mother  of  Quietness 
and  Repose ;  and  Incertainty  the  cause 
of  variance  and  contentions. 

SIR  E.  COKE. — Institutes,  No.  3,  302. 

Dreams    that    bring    us    little    comfort, 

heavenly  promises  that  lapse 
Into  some  remote  It-may-be,  into  some 

forlorn  Perhaps. 

S.  R.  LYSAGHT. — Confession  of  Unfaith, 

st.  32. 

The  only  thing  certain  is  that  nothing 
is  certain. 

PLINY  THE  ELDER. — Nat.  Hist. 

Nothing  is 
But  what  is  not. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 

This 

I  ever  held  worse  than  all  certitude, 
To  know  not  what  the  worst  ahead  might 

be. 

SWINBURNE. — Marino  Faliero,  Act  5. 

Alternate  hopes    and   fears   their  minds 

possess.  VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  i 

(Dry den  tr). 

Wandering  stars,  to  whom  is  reserved 
the  blackness  of  darkness  for  ever. 

Jude  13. 
UNCO  GUID 

Ye,  wha  are  sae  guid  yourseP, 

Sae  pious  and  sae  holy, 
Ye've  nought  to  do  but  mark  and  tell 
Your  neebour's  fauts  and  folly. 

BURNS. — A  ddress. 

A  Godly  man,  that  has  served  out  his  time 

In  holiness,  may  set  up  any  crime  ; 

As  scholars,  when  they've  taken  their  de- 
grees, 

May  set  up  any  faculty  they  please. 

S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

Several  explanations  of  casuists  to  mul- 
tiply the  catalogue  of  sins  may  be  called 
amendments  to  the  ten  commandments. 
POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

A  nice  man  is  a  man  of  nasty  ideas. 
SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

UNIFORMS 

Such  is  the  country  maiden's  fright, 
When  first  a  red -coat  is  in  sight ; 
Behind  the  door  she  hides  her  face  ; 
Next  time  at  distance  eyes  the  lace. 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  i,  13. 

Apes  are  apes,  though  clothed  in  scarlet. 
BEN  JONSON. — Poetaster,  Act  5,  3. 

See  now  comes   the  captain  all  daubed 
in  gold  lace. 

SWIFT. — Grand  Question  Debated. 

Uniforms  are  often  masks. 

DUKE  OF  WELLINGTON. — Saying 
(attributed). 


UNION  AND  UNITY 

All  colours  will  agree  in  the  dark. 

BACON.— Of  Uniformity  (Prov.). 

One  flag,  one  land,  one  heart,  one  hand, 

One  nation,  evermore ! 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Voyage  oj  the  "Union." 

A  song  for  our  banner  ?    The  watchword 

recall 

Which  gave  the  Republic  her  station : 
United  we  stand — divided  we  fall ! 
It  made  and  preserves  us  a  nation. 

G.  P.  MORRIS. — Flag  of  Our  Union. 

The  union  of  hearts,  the  union  of  hands, 
And  the  Flag  of  our  Union  for  ever. 

G.  P.  MORRIS. — Ib. 

I  would  that  we  were  all  of  one  mind, 
and  one  mind  good. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  5,  4. 

So  we  grew  together, 
Like  to  a  double  cherry,  seeming  parted, 
But  yet  a  union  in  partition  ; 
Two  lovely  berries  moulded  on  one  stem. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  NiglU's 
Dream,  Act  3,  2. 

There  is  always  victory  where  there  is 
unanimity.  PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Foes  in  the  forum  in  the  field  were  friends, 
By  social  danger  bound. 

THOMSON. — Liberty,  Pt.  3,  218. 

Behold  how  good  and  how  pleasant  it 

is  for  brethren  to  dwell  together  in  unity  I 

Psalm  cxxxiii,  i. 

A  threefold  cord  is  not  quickly  broken. 
Ecclesiastes  iv,  12. 
UNIVERSITIES 

Granta,  sweet  Granta,  where,  studious  of 

ease, 
Seven  years  did  I  sleep,  and  then  lost  my 

degrees.        CHR.  ANSTEY. — Epilogue. 

Universities  incline  wits  to  sophistry 
and  affectation. 

BACON. — Valerius  Terminus. 

The  King  to  Oxford  sent  a  troop  of  horse, 
For  Tories  own  no  argument  but  force  ; 
With  equal  care  to  Cambridge  books  hesent, 
For  Whigs  allow  no  force  but  argument. 
SIR  WM.  BROWNE. — Epigram. 

The  true  university  in  these  days  is  a 
collection  of  books. 

CARLYLE. — Miscellanies,  7. 

The  next  evil  is  the  pedantical  vener- 
ation that  is  maintained  at  the  university, 
for  the  Greek  and  Latin,  which  puts  the 
youth  upon  such  exercises  as  many  of 
them  are  incapable  of  performing  with  any 
tolerable  success. 

STEELE. — The  Guardian,  No.  94 
(June  29,  1713)- 


526 


UNKINDNESS 


USELESSNESS 


The  King  observing  with  judicious  eyes, 
The  state  of  both  his  universities, 
To  one  he  sent  a  regiment,  for  why  ? 
That  learned  body  wanted  loyalty  ; 
To  the  other  he  sent  books,  as  well  dis- 
cerning 

How  much  that  loyal  body  wanted  learn- 
ing. 

J.  TRAPP. — On  George  I.  giving  a  Library 
to  Cambridge  University. 

UNKINDNESS 

A  small  unkindness  is  a  great  offence. 

HANNAH  MORE. — Sensibility. 

And  so  the  cruel  word  was  spoken, 
And  so  it  was  two  hearts  were  broken. 

J.  G.  SAXE—  Way  of  the  World. 

This  was  the  most  unkindest  cut  of  all. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  C&sar,  Act  3,  2. 

In  nature  there's  no  blemish  but  the  mind  : 
None  can  be  called  deformed  but  the  un- 
kind. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Twelfth  Night,  Act  3,  4. 

"  Ah  me,"  quoth  Venus,  "  young  and  so 

unkind."  SHAKESPEARE. — 

Venus  and  Adonis,  st.  32. 

And  yet  we  cannot  be  kind  to  each  other 

here  for  an  hour  ; 
We  whisper,  and  hint,  and  chuckle,  and 

grin  at  a  brother's  shame  ; 
However  we  brave  it  out,  we  men  are  a 

little  breed.  TENNYSON. — Maud. 

UNPATRIOTIC 

He  disdaineth  all  things  above  his  reach, 

and  preferreth  all  countries  before  his  own. 

SIR  T.  OVERBURY. — Affectate  Traveller. 

Bind  fast  her  homeborn  foes  with  links  of 

shame, 
More  strong  than  iron  and  more  keen  than 

flame  ; 
Seal  up  their  lips  for  shame's  sake. 

SWINBURNE. — New  Year's  Day  (1889). 

UNPOPULARITY 

To  displease  is  my  pleasure  ;    I  love  to 
be  hated. 

E.  ROSTAND. — Cyrano  de  Bergerac, 

The  more  he  was  with  vulgar  hate  op- 
pressed, 

The  more  his  fury  boiled  within  his  breast. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  12  (Dry den  tr.) 

(Of  Tttrnus) . 

UNREALITY 

His  blissful  soul  was  in  Heaven,  though 

a  breathing  man  was  he  ; 
He  was  out  of  time's  dominion,  so  far  as 

the  living  may  be. 

W.  ALLINGHAM. — Poems. 


We  wake  in  a  dream,  and  we  ache  in  a 

dream, 
And  we  break  in  a  dream,  and  die. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Balder. 

What  shadows  we  are  and  what  shadows 
we  pursue  ! 

BURKE. — Speech  on  Declining  the  Poll. 

UNREASONABLENESS 

Do  I  carry  the  moon  in  my  pocket  ? 

BROWNING. — Master  Hughes. 

Oh  we  are  querulous  creatures  !   Little  less 
Than  all  things  can  suffice  to  make  us 

happy ; 

And  little  more  than  nothing  is  enough 
To  discontent  us. 

COLEPIDGE. — Zapolya,  Pt.  2, 
Act  i,  i. 

Women,  giddy  women  ! 
In  her  the  blemish  of  your  sex  you  prove, 
There  is  no  reason  for  your  hate  or  love. 
MASSINGER. — Very  Woman,  Act  5,  2. 

It's  idle  to  spur  a  hamshackled  horse 
(i.e.  a  horse  with  its  head  fastened  to  one 
of  its  forelegs).  Scottish  prov. 

UNSEEN 

Veil  after  veil  will  lift — but  there  must  be 
Veil  upon  veil  behind. 

SIR  E.  ARNOLD. — Light  of  Asia. 

Unseen  by  all  but  Heaven, 
Like  diamond  blazing  in  the  mine. 
KEBLE. — yrd  Sun.  after  Epiphany. 

What  the  eye  views  not,  the  heart  craves 
not  as  well  as  rues  not. 

W.  PENN. — No  Cross,  No  Crown. 

The  things  which  are  seen  are  temporal ; 
but  the  things  which  are  not  seen  are 
eternal.  2  Corinthians  iv,  18. 

UNSELFISHNESS 

Heaven  doth  with  us  as  we  with  torches  do, 
Not  light  them  for  themselves. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Measure  for  Measure, 
Act  i,  i. 

Selfishness  is  the  only  real  atheism  ; 
aspiration,  unselfishness,  the  only  real 
religion. 

I.  ZANGWILL. — Children  of  the  Ghetto, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  16. 
USELESSNESS 

Once  he  [Mr.  Albany]  took  the  liberty 
to  ask  me  what  service  I  was  to  the  world. 
.  .  .  He  really  bores  me  to  a  degree. 
[Capt.  Aresby.] 

MME.  D'ARBLAY. — Cecilia,  Bk.  2,  ch.  6. 

Dim  lights  of  life,  that  bum  a  length  of 

years, 
Useless,  unseen,  as  lamps  in  sepulchres. 

POPE. — Ele%y. 


527 


USURPATION 


VALENTINE,  ST. 


Remember  that  the  most  beautiful  things 
in  the  world  are  the  most  useless ;  pea- 
cocks and  lilies,  for  instance. 

RUSKIN. — Sesame  and  Lilies. 

USURPATION 

Lord  !    how  they  chided  with  themselves, 

That  they  had  let  him  in  ; 
To  see  him  grow  so  monstrous  now, 

That  came  so  small  and  thin  ! 

HOOD. — Wee  Man. 

This  dog  is  mine,  said  these  poor  children 
[lawless  persons  and  thieves] ;  there  is 
my  place  in  the  sun.  There  you  have 
the  beginning  and  the  emblem  of  the 
usurpation  of  all  the  earth. 

PASCAL. — Pensees,  Pi.  i,  9,  53. 

UTILITY  AND  UTILITARIANISM 

I  learnt  to  see  that  utility  was  the  test 
and  measure  of  all  virtues. 
J.  BENTHAM. — Fragment  on  Government. 

Man  having  enslaved  the  elements  re- 
mains himself  a  slave. 

SHELLEY. — Defence  oj  Poetry  (1821). 

Keep  a  thing  seven  years  and  ye'll  find 
a  use  for  't. 

Scottishprov.  (Scott's  "  Antiquary,"  xxi.) 

UTOPIA 

Things  which  are  not  practicable  are 
not  desirable.  BURKE. — Speech  (1780). 

Utopias  are  often  only  premature  truths. 
LAMARTINK. 

Ah  splendid  Vision,  golden  time  ! 
An  end  of  hunger,  cold,  and  crime, 
An  end  of  rent,  an  end  of  rank, 
An  end  of  balance  at  the  bank, 
An  end  of  everything  that's  meant 
To  bring  investors  five  per  cent. 

A.  LANG. — The  New  Millennium. 

An  acre  in  Middlesex  is  better  than  a 
principality  in  Utopia. 

MACAULAY. — On  Bacon. 

We  are  told  that  a  people  of  true  Chris- 
tians would  form  the  most  perfect  society 
that  can  be  imagined.  I  can  only  see  one 
great  difficulty  in  this  supposition,  and 
that  is  that  a  society  of  true  Christians 
would  be  no  longer  a  society  of  men. 

ROUSSEAU. — Central  Social,  Bk.  4,  en.  8. 


VACILLATION 

And  still  be  doing,  never  done. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  c.  i. 

Enter,  but  this  warning  bear  : 
He  forth  again  departs  who  looks  behind. 
DANTE. — Purgatory ,  c.  9,  124  (Gary  tr.). 


At  Rome  you  long  for  the  country ;  in 
the  country  you  praise  the  absent  town  to 
the  skies.  HORACE. — Sat.,  Bk  2,  7,  28. 

She  [Madame  Oronte]  is  always  of  the 
opinion  of  the  person  who  last  speaks  to 
her.  LE  SAGE. — Crispin. 

I  thought  I'd  go,  I  thought  I'd  not, 
And  then  I  thought  I'd  think  about  it. 

F.  LOCKER-LAMPSON. — Invitation  to 

Rome,  9. 

I  tell  ye  wut,  my  jedgment  is  you're  pooty 

sure  to  fail, 

Ez  Ion'  'z  the  head  keeps  turnin'  back  tor 
counsel  to  the  tail. 

J.  R.  LOWELL.— Biglow  Papers, 
znd  Series,  3. 

No  mortle  man  can  boast  of  perfic*  vision, 
But  the  one  moleblin'  thing  is  Indecision. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Ib.,  n. 

To  the  timid  and  hesitating  everything 
is  impossible  because  it  seems  so. 

SCOTT. — Rob  Roy,  16. 

Letting  "I  dare  not  "wait upon  "I  would," 
Like  the  poor  cat  i'  the  adage. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

Infirm  of  purpose. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  2,  2. 

I  am  a  feather  for  each  wind  that  blows. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  2,  3. 

Unstable  as  water,  thou  shalt  not  excel. 
Genesis  xlix,  4. 

How  long  halt  ye  between  two  opinions  ? 
i  Kings  xviii,  21. 
VAGABONDS 

Under  the  canopy, .  .  .  i'  the  city  of 
kites  and  crows. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Coriolanus,  Act  4,  5. 

But  rough,  in  open  air,  he  chose  to  lie  ; 
Earth  was  his  couch,  his  covering  was  the 

sky  ; 

On  hills  unshorn,  or  in  a  desert  den, 
He  shunned  the  dire  society  of  men. 

VIRGIL. — JEneid,  Bk.  n  (Dry den  tr.). 
(Of  Metabus.) 

As  in  the  eye  of  Nature  he  has  lived, 
So  in  the  eye  of  Nature  let  him  die  ! 
WORDSWORTH. — Old  Cumberland  Beggar. 

VALENTINE,  ST. 

Seint  Valentyne  !    to  you  I  renovele  [re- 
new] 
My  woful  lyf,  as  I  can,  compleyninge  ; 

Upon  your  day  doth  ech  foul  chese  his 
make  [doth  each  bird  choose  his 
mate.] 
CHAUCER. — Complaint  to  my  Mortal  Foe. 


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VALOUR 


VANITY 


Oft  have  I  heard  both  youths  and  virgins 

say, 
Birds  choose  their  mates  and  couple  too 

this  day  ; 

But  by  their  flight  I  never  can  divine 
When  I  shall  couple  with  my  valentine. 

HERRICK. — To  his  Valentine,  on  St. 
Valentine's  Day. 

Hail  to  thy  returning  festival,  old 
Bishop  Valentine  !  Great  is  thy  name  in 
the  rubric,  thou  venerable  arch-flamen  of 
Hymen  ! 

LAMB. — Essays  on  Elia,  Valentine's  Day. 

To-morrow  is  St.  Valentine's  Day, 
All  in  the  morning  betime, 

And  I  a  maid  at  your  window, 
To  be  your  Valentine. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  4,  5. 

VALOUR 

He  whose  valour  scorns  his  sense, 
Has  changed  it  into  impudence. 
Man  may  to  man  his  valour  show, 
ind  'tis  his  virtue  to  do  so  ; 
But  who's  of  his  Maker  not  afraid, 
Is  not  courageous  then,  but  mad. 

DEFOE. — The  Storm. 

Fear  to  do  base  unworthy  things  is  valour  ; 
If  they  be  done  to  us,  to  suffer  them 
Is  valour  too. 

BEN  JONSON. — The  New  Inn,  Act  4,  3. 

In  vain  doth  valour  bleed 
While  Avarice   and    Rapine  share  the 
land.    MILTON. — Sonnet  to  Fairfax. 

When  the  cross  [at  Rome]  had  expelled 
the  eagle,  all  the  Roman  valour  dis- 
appeared. 

ROUSSEAU. — Contrat  Social,  Bk.  4,  ch.  8. 

Valour,  destitute  of  other  virtues,  can- 
not render  a  man  worthy  of  any  true  es- 
teem. ...  A  man  may  be  very  valiant,  and 
yet  impious  and  vicious. 

J.  R.  DE  SEGRAIS. — (As  quoted  and 
translated  by  Dryden,  Dedic.  of  jEneid.) 

This  earth,  that  bears  thee  dead, 
Bears  not  alive  so  stout  a  gentleman. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  5,  4. 

The  better  part  of  valour  is  discretion. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Thou  wilt  be  as  valiant  as  the  wrathful 
dove,  or  most  magnanimous  mouse. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Pt.  z,  Act  3. 

He's  truly  valiant  that  can  wisely  suffer 
The  worst  that  man  can  breathe,  and  make 

his  wrongs 

His  outsides,  to  wear  them  like  his  raiment, 
carelessly. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Timon  of  Athens, 
Act  3,  5. 


VALUE 

What  is  of  little  value  regard  as  dear 
what  is  dear  regard  as  of  little  value. 

CATO. 

The  good  we  never  miss  we  rarely  prize. 
COWPER. — Retirement,  406. 

VANITY  (CONCEIT) 

On  earth  I  confess  an  itch  for  the  praise 
of  fools — that's  Vanity. 

BROWNING. — Solomon  and  Balkis. 

The  sixth  insatiable  Sense  [Vanity], 

CARLYLE. — French  Revolution. 

Vanity,  like  murder,  will  out. 
MRS.  H.  COWLEY. — Belle's  Stratagem, 
Act  i,  4. 

What  dotage  will  not  Vanity  maintain  ? 
COWPER. — Expostulation,  628. 

Virtue  would  not  go  so  far  if  vanity  did 
not  keep  her  company. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  200. 

It  is  impossible  to  count  all  the  varieties 
of  vanity 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  585. 

Every  man  has  just  as  much  vanity  as 
he  wants  understanding. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Let  us  thank  God  for  imparting  to  us 
poor,  weak  mortals  the  inestimable  bless- 
ing of  vanity.  THACKERAY. — The  Artists. 

Vanity  is  an  able  machine  if  it  operates 
to  benevolence. 

HORACE  WALPOLE. — Letter  to  Dr.  W. 
Robertson,  1759. 

Vanity  is  one  of  the  most  amiable  of  the 
large  Family  of  Human  Frailties. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  34. 

VANITY  (EMPTINESS) 

All  our  pride  is  but  a  jest. 
None  are  worst  and  none  are  best ; 
Grief  and  joy  and  hope  and  fear 
Play  their  Pageants  everywhere  : 
Vain  opinion  all  doth  sway, 
And  the  world  is  but  a  play. 

CAMPION. — Whether  Men  do  Laugh. 

How  vain  the  ardour  of  the  crowd, 
How  low,  how  little  are  the  proud, 
How  indigent  the  great ! 

GRAY. — Ode  on  Spring. 

In  order  not  to  hate  men,  it  has  been 
necessary  for  me  to  flee  from  them. 

ROUSSEAU.— Reveries  d'un  Promeneur 
solitaire,  7. 

Vain  is  the  world,  but  only  to  the  vain. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  3. 


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VARIETY 


VERSATILITY 


Why  all  this  toil  for  triumphs  of  an  hour  ? 
What  though  we  wade  in  wealth  or  soar  in 

fame  ? 
Earth's  highest  station  ends  in  "  Here  he 

lies," 
And  "  dust  to  dust  "  concludes  her  noblest 

song.        YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 

Every  man  at  his  best  state  is  altogether 
vanity.  Psalms  xxxix,  5. 

Vanity  of  vanities,  saith  the  Preacher, 
vanity  of  vanities ;  all  is  vanity. 

Ecclesiastes  i,  2 ;  xi,  8. 

The  present  life  is  no  other  than  a  toy 
and  a  plaything  ;  but  the  future  abode  of 
paradise  is  life  indeed.  Koran,  ch.  29. 

VARIETY 

Such    and    so    various    are    the  tastes  of 
men. 

AKENSIDE. — Pleasures  of  Imagination, 
Bk.  3,  567. 
Enchanting  spirit,  dear  Variety. 

R.  BLOOMFIELD. — Farmer's  Boy. 

The  earth  was  made  so  various,  that  the 

mind 

Of  desultory  man,  studious  of  change, 
And  pleased  with  novelty,  might  be  in- 
dulged. COWPER. — The  Sofa. 

Variety's  the  very  spice  of  life, 
That  gives  it  all  its  flavour. 

COWPER. — Time  Piece. 

Variety,  which  all  the  rest  endears. 

SIR  J.  DENHAM. — Cooper's  Hill. 

Variety  is  the  mother  of  enjoyment. 
DISRAELI. — Vivian  Grey,  Bk.  5,  ch.  4. 

The  great  source  of  pleasure  is  variety. 

JOHNSON. — Life  of  Butler. 

They  are  the  weakest-minded  and  the 
hardest-hearted    men,     that    most    love 
variety  and  change. 
RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  2,  Pt.  2,  ch.  7. 

Age  cannot  wither  her,  nor  custom  stale 
Her  infinite  variety. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  2,  2. 

Vary  everything,  except  your  loves. 
VOLTAIRE. — Sur  I'usage  de  la  Vie. 

Variety  is  charming, 
And  not  at  all  alarming. 
Quoted  ("  Essex  Herald,"  Oct.  12,  1830) 
as  from  an  old  song. 
VENICE 

I  stood  in  Venice,  on  the  Bridge  of  Sighs  ; 
A  palace  and  a  prison  on  each  hand. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  41. 

Where  Venice  sat  in  state,  throned  on 
her  hundred   isles.          BYRON. — Ib. 


Thank  God  I  am  here  [Venice].  It  is 
the  Paradise  of  cities. 

RUSKIN. — Letter,  May  6,  1841. 

VERBOSITY 

A    sophistical    rhetorician,    inebriated 

with  the  exuberance  of  his  own  verbositv. 

DISRAELI. — Speech,  1878. 

Avoid  the  barren  exuberance  of  the 
Abbe  de  Bernis  (a  verbose  poet). 

FREDERICK  THE  GREAT. — (Cited  by 
Voltaire  in  his  Memoirs.) 
As  men  abound  in  copiousness  of  lan- 
guage, so  they  become  more  wise  or  more 
mad  than  ordinary. 

HOBBES. — Leviatlian,  ch.  4. 

Copiousness  of  words,  however  ranged, 

is  always  false  eloquence,  though  it  will 

ever  impose  on  some  sort  of  understandings. 

LADY  M.  W.  MONTAGU. — Letter,  1754. 

A  fonde  olde  manne  is  often  as  full  of 
woordes  as  a  woman.  SIR  T.  MORE. 

Such  laboured  nothings,  in  so  strange  a 

style, 
Amaze  the  unlearn'd,  and  make  the  learned 

smile. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  327. 

He  that  useth  many  words  for  the  ex- 
plaining any  subject,  doth,  like  the  cuttle 
fish,  hide  himself  for  the  most  part  in  his 
own  ink.  JOHN  RAY. — On  Creation. 

For  these  fellows  of  infinite  tongue,  that 
can  rhyme  themselves  into  ladies'  favours, 
they  do  always  reason  themselves  out 
again !  SHAKESPEARE.— Henry  V.,  Act  5,  2. 

He  draweth  out  the  thread  Of  his  ver- 
bosity finer  than  the  staple  of  his  argument. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost. 
Act  5,  i. 

Taffeta  phrases,  silken  terms  precise, 
Three-piled  hyperboles,  spruce  affectation, 
Figures  pedantical. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

You  [Pindar]  who  possessed  the  talent 

of  speaking  much  without  saying  anything. 

VOLTAIRE. — Sur  la  Carrousel  de  I'lm- 

peratrice  de  Russie. 

Who  is  this  that  darkeneth  counsel  by 
words  without  knowledge  ?  Job  xxxviii,  2. 

VERSATILITY 

By  different  methods  different  men  excel, 

But  where  is  he  who  can  do  all  things  well? 

CHURCHILL. — To  W.  Hogarth,  573. 

He  was  a  man  (then  boldly  dare  to  say) 
In  whose  rich  soul  the  virtues  well  did  suit, 
In  whom  so  mixed  the  elements  all  lay 
That  none  to  one  could  sovereignty  impute. 


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VICE 


VICISSITUDE 


As  all  did  govern,  yet  all  did  obey  : 
He  of  a  temper  was  so  absolute 
As  that  it  seemed  when  Nature  him  began, 
She  meant  to  show  all  that  might  be  in  man. 
DRAYTON. — Barons'  Wars,  Bk.  3,  st.  40. 

A  man  so  various  that  he  seemed  to  be 
Not  one,  but  all  mankind's  epitome. 

DRYDEN. — Absalom  and  Achitophel, 

Pt.  x,  545- 

Though  equal  to  all  things,  for  all  things 

unfit, 

Too  nice  for  a  statesman,  too  proud  for  a 
wit.  GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

None  so  happy  as  the  versatile,  provided 
they  have  not  their  bread  to  make  by  it. 

C.  READE. — Cloister  and  the  Hearth. 

You  are  not  like  Cerberus,  three  gentle- 
men at  once,  are  you  ? 

SHERIDAN. — Rivals,  Act  4,  2. 

A  man  who  can  do  everything  can  do 
nothing.  Prov. 

VICE 

Vice  itself  lost  half  its  evil  by  losing  all 
its  grossness. 
BURKE. — Reflections  on  French  Revolution. 

If  a  man  should  unfortunately  have  any 
vices,  he  ought  at  least  to  be  content  with 
his  own,  ana  not  adopt  other  people's. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

The  martyrs  to  vice  far  exceed  the  mar- 
tyrs to  virtue,  both  in  endurance  and  in 
number.  So  blinded  are  we  by  our  pas- 
sions that  we  suffer  more  to  be  damned 
than  to  be  saved.  C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Every  vice  hath  a  cloake  and  creepeth 
in  under  the  mask  of  a  virtue. 

GABRIEL  HARVEY. — Commonplace  Book 
(c,  1600). 

When  our  vices  leave  us,  we  flatter  our- 
selves with  the  notion  that  it  is  we  who 
leave  them. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  192. 

Saint  Augustine  !  well  hast  thou  said, 
That  of  our  vices  we  can  frame 

A  ladder,  if  we  will  but  tread 

Beneath  our  feet  each  deed  of  shame. 

LONGFELLOW. — Birds  of  Passage,  Flight  i. 

Vice  is  a  monster  of  so  frightful  mien, 
As,  to  be  hated,  needs  but  to  be  seen  ; 
Yet,  seen  too  oft,  familiar  with  her  face, 
We  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace. 
POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  217. 

The  road  to  vices  is  not  only  smooth, 
but  steep.  SENECA. — Ep.  9. 

No  vice  is  complete  by  itself  (i.e.  one 
vice  leads  to  another).  SENECA. — Ep.  95. 


There  is  no  vice  so  simple  but  assumes 

Some  mark  of  virtue  on  his  outward  parts. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  3,  2. 

Men  touch  them  and  change  in  a  trice 

The  lilies  and  languors  of  virtue 
For  the  raptures  and  roses  of  vice. 

SWINBURNE. — Dolores. 

VICISSITUDE 

Man  was  made  for  joy  and  woe, 
And  when  this  we  rightly  know, 
Safely  through  the  world  we  go. 

WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs. 

Man! 

Thou  pendulum  betwixt  a  smile  and  tear. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  4,  109. 

O  God,  if  you  want  a  man  to  sense  the  pains 

of  hell, 
Before  you  pitch  him  in,  just  keep  him  in 

heaven  a  spell. 

W.  CARLETON. — Gone  with  a  Handsomer 

Man. 
"  I  find,"  said  'e,  "  things  very  much  as 

'ow  I've  always  found, 
For  mostly  they  goes  up  and  down  or  else 
goes  round  and  round." 
P.  R.  CHALMERS. — Roundabouts  and 
Swings. 

O  sodeyn  wo !  that  ever  art  successour 
To  worldly  blisse  ! 

CHAUCER. — Man  of  Law's  Tale. 

Revolving  in  his  altered  soul 
The  various  turns  of  chance  below. 

DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast. 

Nations  and  empires  nourish  and  decay, 
By  turns  command  and  in  their  turns  obey; 
Time  softens  hardy  people,  time  again 
Hardens  to  war  a  soft  unwarlike  train. 
DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Metam.,  Bk.  15. 

For  every  worldes  thing  is  vain, 
And  ever  goth  the  whele  about. 
GOWER. — Con/.  Amantis,  Prol.  560. 

So  goth  the  world  ;  now  wo,  now  weal. 
GOWER. — Ib.,  Bk.  3. 

The  tumult  and  the  shouting  dies, 
The  captains  and  the  kings  depart ; 

Still  stands  thine  ancient  sacrifice, 
A  humble  and  a  contrite  heart. 

Lord  God  of  hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 

Lest  we  forget,  lest  we  forget. 

Ki  PLI  NO. — Recessional. 

The  years  will  pass,  and  hearts  will  range, 
You  conquer  Time  and  Care  and  Change. 
Time,  Change,  nor  Care  hath  learned  the 

art 

To  fleck  your  hair,  to  chill  your  heart, 
To  touch  your  tresses  with  the  snow, 
To  mar  your  mirth  of  long  ago. 

ANDREW  LANG. — Grass  of  Parnassus  : 
Dedication. 


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VICTORY 


VILLAINY 


We've  had  some  happy  hours  together, 
But  joy  must  often  change  its  wing  ; 

And  spring  would  be  but  gloomy  weather, 
If  we  had  nothing  else  but  spring. 

MOORE. — Juvenile  Poems. 

Half  ray  life  is  full  of  sorrow, 
Half  of  joy,  still  fresh  and  new  ; 

One  of  these  lives  is  a  fancy, 
But  the  other  one  is  true. 

ADELAIDE  A.  PROCTER. — Dream  Life. 

The  body  politic,  like  the  human  body, 
begins  to  die  from  the  date  of  its  birth, 
and  carries  in  itself  the  causes  of  its  de- 
struction. 
ROUSSEAU. — Contrat  Social,  Bk.  3,  ch.  11. 

VICTORY 

Hannibal  knows  how  to  gain  a  victory, 
but  not  how  to  use  it. 

BARCA. — (To  Hannibal :  according  to 
Plutarch.) 

Woe    to    the    conquering,   not    the    con- 
quered host. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  25. 

Ye  are  brothers  !   ye  are  men  ! 
And  we  conquer  but  to  save. 

CAMPBELL. — Battle  of  the  Baltic,  5. 

For  they  can  conquer  who  believe   they 
can.        DRYDEN. — Mneid,  Bk.  5,  300. 

Then  conquer  we  must,  for  our  cause  it  is 

just, 
And  this  be  our  motto,  "  In  God  is  our 

trust." 

F.  S.  KEY. — Star-spangled  Banner. 

See  the  conquering  hero  comes 
Sound  the  trumpets,  beat  the  drums  ! 
N.  LEE. — Rival  Queens  (Stage  Edition), 
Act  2,  i. 

England,  so  strong  to  slay,  be  strong  to 

spare ; 

England,  have  courage  even  to  forgive, 
Give  back  the  little  nation  leave  to  live. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — Christmas  in  War- 
Time. 

It  is  more  easy  to  conquer  than  to  rule. 
.    ROUSSEAU. — Control  Social,  Bk.  3,  ch.  6. 

"  But  what  good  came  of  it  at  last  ?  " 

Quoth  little  Peterkin. 
"  Why,  that  I  cannot  tell "  said  he, 
"  But  'twas  a  famous  victory." 

SOUTHEY. — Battle  of  Blenheim. 

He  is  twice  a  conqueror  who  conquers 
himself  in  the  moment  of  victory. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 

Most  victories  are  like  those  of  Cadmus 
— enemies  are  born  of  them. 

VOLTAIRE. — Pensies. 


Friends  strike  at  friends — the  flying  shall 

pursue — 
And  victory  sickens,   ignorant  where   to 

rest. 
WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  2,  36. 

He  came  forth  conquering,  and  to  con- 
quer. Revelation  vi,  2  (R.V.) . 

Another  such  victory  and  we  are  undone. 

Pyrrhus  after  the  "  Pyrrhic  victory  "  of 

Asculum,  where  he  lost  3,500  men. 

VILLAGE  LIFE 

The  hawthorn  bush,  with  seats  beneath 

the  shade, 
For    talking    age    and    whispering   lovers 

made !  GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

In  every  village  marked  with  little  spire, 

Embowered  in  trees,  and  hardly  known  to 

fame.      SHENSTONE. — Schoolmistress. 

Below  me  there  is  the  village,  and  looks 

how  quiet  and  small ! 
And  yet  bubbles  o'er  like  a  city,   with 

gossip,  scandal,  and  spite. 

TENNYSON. — Maud. 

And  villages  embosomed  soft  in  trees. 
THOMSON. — Seasons  :  Spring. 

A  village  is  a  hive  of  glass, 
Where  nothing  unobserved  can  pass. 
Quoted  or  invented  by  C.  H.  Spurgeon 
("  Salt-Cellars"). 
VILLAINY 

0  villain,  villain,  smiling,  damned  villain 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  5. 

My  tables — meet  it  is  I  set  it  down, 
That  one  may  smile,  and  smile,  and  be  a 
villain.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

A  fellow  by  the  hand  of  nature  marked, 
Quoted,  and  signed,  to  do  a  deed  of  shame. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  4,  2. 

A  deed  without  a  name. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  4,  i. 

1  would  not  be  the  villain  that  thou  think'st 
For  the  whole  space  that's  in  the  tyrant's 

grasp, 
And  the  rich  East  to  boot. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  3. 

I  like  not  fair  terms  and  a  villain's  mind. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 

Act  i,  3, 

The  villainy  you  teach  me  I  will  execute ; 
and  it  shall  go  hard  but  I  will  better  the 
instruction.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

Fie,  there   is   no   such   man ;    it    is  im- 
possible. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  4,  2. 


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VILLAS 


VIRTUE 


I  clothe  my  naked  villainy 
With  old  odd  ends  stolen  out  of  holy  writ, 
And  seem  a  saint,  when  most  I  play  to 
devil. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  III.,  Act  i,  3. 

If  one  good  deed  in  all  my  life  I  did, 
I  do  repent  it  from  my  very  soul. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  Andronicus, 
Act  5,  3- 

A  deadly  snake  once  bit  a  Cappadpcian, 
but  it  died.  Greek  epigram. 

VILLAS 

The  woods  we  used  to  walk,  my  love, 

Are  woods  no  more, 
But  "  villas  "  now  with  sounding  names — 

All  name  and  door. 
R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — Love's  Landmarks,  i. 

VINDICTIVENESS 

During  the  late  Irish  rebellion  there  was 
a  banker  to  whom  they  had  a  peculiar  dis- 
like and  on  whom  they  vowed  vengeance. 
Accordingly  they  got  possession  of  as  many 
of  his  banknotes  as  they  could  and  made 
a  bonfire  of  them. 

Miss  EDGEWORTH. — Essay  on  Irish 
Bulls,  ch.  7. 
I  love  you  ; 

I'll  cut  your  throat  for  your  own  sake. 
FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Little 
French  Lawyer,  Act  4. 

The  dog,  to  gain  his  private  ends, 
Went  mad  and  bit  the  man. 

GOLDSMITH. — Mad  Dog. 

That  no  compunctious  visitings  of  nature 
Shake  my  fell  purpose. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  5. 

Each    line    shall    stab,   shall    blast,   like 
daggers  and  a  fire. 

SWIFT. — Ode  to  Bancroft. 

I  would  my  love  could  kill  thee  ;    I  am 

satiated 
With  seeing  thee  live,  and  fain  would  have 

thee  dead.     SWINBURNE. — Anactoria. 

The  Animosities  are  mortal,  but  the 
Humanities  live  for  ever. 

JOHN  WILSON. — ATori«,  35. 

My  father  hath  chastised  you  with 
whips,  but  I  will  chastise  you  with  scor- 
pions, i  Kings  xii,  1 1 . 

Is  it  necessary  to  add  acid  to  the  lemon  ? 
Hindu  prov. 
VIOLENCE 

A  kick  that  scarce  would  move  a  horse, 
May  kill  a  sound  divine. 

COWPER. — Yearly  Distress. 


An  angel  with  a  trumpet  said, 
"  For  ever  more,  for  ever  more, 
The  reign  of  violence  is  o'er  !  " 
LONGFELLOW. — Occultation  of  Orion. 

For  you'll  ne'er  mend  your  fortunes  nor 

help  the  just  cause 

By  breaking  of  windows  or  breaking  of 
laws. 

HANNAH  MORE. — Address  to  a  Meeting 

(1817). 

We  do  it  wrong,  being  so  majestical, 
To  offer  it  the  show  of  violence. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  I,  i. 

What  is  violent  is  not  lasting. 

Latin  prov. 
VIRGIN  MARY 

Yet  some,  I  ween, 
Not  unforgiven  the  suppliant  knee  might 

bend, 

As  to  a  visible  power,  in  which  did  blend 
All  that  was  mixed  and  reconciled  in  thee, 
Of  Mother's  Love  with  Maiden  Purity, 
Of  high  with  low,  celestial  with  terrene, 

WORDSWORTH. — Eccles.  Sonnets,  Pt.  z, 
25  (The  Virgin). 
VIRTUE 

Those  are  necessarily  the  greatest  virtues 
which  are  most  useful  to  others  (e.g.  Jus- 
tice, Courage,  Moderation,  Magnanimity, 
Liberality,  Gentleness,  Reasonableness, 
Wisdom).  ARISTOTLE. — Rhetor.,  i,  ch.  9. 

Apply  thy  minde  to  be  a  vertuous  man  ; 

Avoyd  ill  company,  the  spoyl  of  youth  ; 

To  follow  Vertue  s  lore  doo  what  thou  can, 

Whereby  great  profit  unto  thee  ensuth. 

R.  BARNFIELD. — Affectionate  Shepheard 

(1594). 

Virtue  must  be  the  happiness,  and  vice 
the  misery,  of  every  creature. 

BISHOP  BUTLER. — Analogy  of  Religion, 
Introduction. 

As  beasts  are  hunted  for  their  furs, 
Men  for  their  virtues  fare  the  worse. 
S.  BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  ThougJUs. 

"  The    good,"    said    I,    "  are    Heaven's 

peculiar  care, 
"  And    such    as    honour    Heaven    shall 

heavenly  honour  share." 
DRYDEN. — Tr.  Ovid,  Baucis  and  Philemon. 

Fooled  thpu  must  be,   though  wisest  of 

the  wise, 
Then  be  the  fool  of  virtue,  not  of  vice. 

EMERSON. — From  the  Persian 
(Conduct  of  Life  :  Illusion's). 

Men  proclaim  their  own  virtues,  as  shop- 
keepers expose  their  goods,  in  order  to 
profit  by  them. 

FIELDING. — Jonathan  Wild  (One  of 
his  15  Maxims) . 

Be  in  general  virtuous,  and  you  will  be 
happy. 

B.  FRANKLIN. — On  Early  Marriages. 


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VIRTUE 


VIRTUE 


Hard  was  their  lodging,  homely  was  their 

food 
For  all  their  luxury  was  doing  good. 

SIR  S.  GARTH. — Claremont. 

Virtue  alone  is  true  nobility. 

W.  GIFFORD. — Juvenal. 

The  greatest  offence  against  virtue  is  to 
speak  ill  of  it.  HAZLITT. — On  Cant. 

Only  a  sweet  and  virtuous  soul, 
Like  seasoned  timber,  never  gives, 

But  though  the  whole  world  turn  to  coal 
Then  chiefly  lives. 

HERBERT. — Virtue. 

But  Virtue  dwells  on  high  ; .  . . 
And  at  the  first  to  that  sublime  abode 
Long,  steep,  the  ascent,  and  rough  the 
rugged  road. 

HESIOD. — Works  and  Days,  i,  287 
(Elton  tr.). 

Virtue  is  to  flee  from  vice,  and  the  first 
wisdom  is  to  be  without  folly. 

HORACE. — Epist.,  Bk.  1,41. 

Often  what  we  take  for  virtues  are  only 
vices  resembling  them,  and  disguised  to 
us  by  self-love. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  549. 

Virtue  would  not  go  so  far  if  vanity  did 
not  keep  her  company. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  200. 

Virtue  may  be  assailed,  but  never  hurt, 
Surprised  by  unjust  force,  but  not  en- 
thralled'. MILTON. — Comus,  589. 

Love  Virtue  ;  she  alone  is  free, 
She  can  teach  ye  how  to  climb 
Higher  than  the  sphery  chime  ; 
Or,  if  Virtue  feeble  were, 
Heaven  itself  would  stoop  to  her. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  1019. 

Most  men  admire 
Virtue,  who  follow  not  her  lore. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  i,  482. 

Beauty,  strength,  youth,  are  flowers  but 

fading  seen  ; 

Duty,  faith,  love,  are  roots,  and  ever  green. 
G.  PEELE. — Polyhymnia. 

Virtue  does  not  spring  from  riches  ;  but 
riches  and  all  other  human  blessings,  both 
private  and  public,  from  virtue. 

PLATO. — Apol.  of  Socrates,  17  (Gary  tr.). 

Virtue,  then,  as  it  seems,  is  a  kind  of 
health,  beauty,  and  good  habit  of  the  soul ; 
and  vice  its  disease,  deformity,  and  in- 
firmity. 

PLATO. — Republic,  Bk.  z,  19  (Davis  tr.). 

Never  at  any  time  is  that  man  neglected 
by  the  gods,  who  inclines  earnestly  to 
endeavour  to  become  just,  and  practises 
virtue  as  far  as  it  is  possible  for  man  to 
resemble  God.  PLATO. — Ib.,  Bk.  10,  12. 


Know  then  this  truth  (enough  for  man  to 

know), 
"  Vktue  alone  Is  happiness  below." 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  300. 

Who  ne'er  knew  joy  but  friendship  might 

decide, 

Or  gave  his  father  grief,  but  when  he  died. 
POPE. — On  S.  Har court. 

And  conscious   virtue,   still  its   own  re- 
ward.        POPE. — Statius,  Bk.  i,  758. 

I  know  and  I  feel  that  to  do  good  is  the 
truest  happiness  that  the  human  heart  can 
taste. 

ROUSSEAU. — Reveries  d'un  Promeneur 
solitaire,  6. 

So  clear  in  his  great  office,  that  his  virtues 
Will  plead  like  angels,  trumpet-tongued, 

against 
The  deep  damnation  of  his  taking  off. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  7. 

He  hath  a  daily  beauty  in  his  life. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  5,  i. 

Only  the  actions  of  the  just 
Smell  sweet  and  blossom  in  the  dust. 
JAS.  SHIRLEY. — Ajax  and  Ulysses. 

Virtue  concealed  within  orir  breast 
Is  inactivity  at  best. 

SWIFT. — Horace,  Bk.  4,  Ode  9 

A  virtuous  gentlewoman,  deeply  wronged. 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien. 

But  what  is  virtue  but  repose  of  mind  ? 

THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence, 

c.  i,  16. 

Be  virtuous  and  you  will  be  eccentric. 
MARK  TWAIN. — Mental  PJwtographs. 

I  love  virtue  very  much,  but  sensible 
people  know  that  those  who  talk  about  it 
too  much  never  have  enough. 

VOLTAIRE. — Le  Depositaire. 

Men  and  women  are  very  frail ;  beware 
of  reckoning  upon  virtue. 

VOLTAIRE. — La  Pucdle. 

Yet  though  thou  fade, 
From  thy  dead  leaves  let  fragrance  rise, 

And  teach  the  maid 

That  Goodness  Time's  rude  hand  defies, 
That  Virtue  lives  when  Beauty  dies. 
H.  K.  WHITE.— Added  to  Waller's  "  Go, 
lovely  Rose." 

I  hope  you  have  not  been  leading  a 
double  life,  pretending  to  be  wicked  and 
being  really  good  all  the  time.  That 
would  be  hypocrisy. 

OSCAR  WILDE. — Importance  of  being 
Earnest. 

Men  who  can  hear  the  decalogue,  and  feel 
No  self-reproach. 
WORDSWORTH. — Old  Cumberland  Beggar. 


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VISIONS 


VISIONS 


Virtue  is  the  roughest  way, 
But  proves  at  night  a  bed  of  down. 
SIR  H.  WOTTON. — On  the  Imprisonment 
of  the  Earl  of  Essex. 
Sinking  in  virtue  as  you  rise  in  fame. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts.  5. 

Virtue  alone  outbuilds  the  pyramids ; 
Her  monuments  shall  last,  when  Egypt's 
fall.  YOUNG.— Ib.,  6. 

Virtue  now  is  in  herbs  and  stones  and 
words  only.  Prov.  (Geo.  Herbert) . 

There  is  no  going  to  heaven  in  a  sedan. 

Prov. 

Purchase  the  next  world  with  this  ;  you 
will  win  both.  Arabic  prov. 

It's  gude  to  be  gude  in  your  time ;  ye 
kenna  how  long  it  may  last.    Scottish  prov. 

VISIONS  AND  VISIONARIES 

Still  bent  to  make  some  port  he  knows  not 

where, 
Still  standing  for  some  false  impossible 

shore.      M.  ARNOLD. — Summer  Night. 

Father,  O  father,"',  what  do  we  here, 
In  this  land  of  unbelief  and  fear  ? 
The  land  of  dreams  is  better  far, 
Above  the  light  of  the  morning  star. 
WM.  BLAKE. — The  Land  of  Dreams. 

What   is  now   proved   was   once   only 
imagined.   WM.  BLAKE. — Proverbs  of  Hell. 

We  are  led  to  believe  a  lie 
When  we  see  with  not  through  the  eye. 
WM.  BLAKE. — Ib. 

When  I  build  castles  in  the  air, 
Void  of  sorrow,  void  of  fear. 
BURTON. — Anat.  of  M  elan.,  Author's 
Abstract. 

And  what's  impossible  can't  be, 
And  never,  never  comes  to  pass. 

G.  COLMAN. — Maid  oj  the  Moor. 

Sometimes   he   thinks   that    Heaven    the 

vision  sent, 

And  ordered  all  the  pageants  as  they  went ; 
Sometimes,  that  only  'twas  wild  Fancy's 

play, 
The  loose  and  scattered  relics  of  the  day. 

COWLEV. — Davideis,  Bk.  2,  789. 

Dream  after  dream  ensues, 
And  still  they  dream  that  they  shall  still 

succeed, 
And  still  are  disappointed. 

COWPER. — The  Garden. 

From  reveries  so  airy,  from  the  toil 

Of  dropping  buckets  into  empty  wells, 

And  growing  old  in  drawing  nothing  up. 

COWPER. — Ib. 


I  strongly  wish  for  what  I  faintly  hope  ; 
Like  the  day-dreams  of  melancholy  men, 
I  think  and  think  on  things  impossible, 
Yet  love  to  wander  in  that  golden  maze. 
DRYPEN. — Rival  Ladies,  Act  3,  i. 

I  seche  [seek]  that  I  may  nought  finde  ; 

I  haste  and  ever  am  behinde. 

GOWER. — Confessio  Amantis,  Bk.  .\,  289. 

Do  I  sleep  ?  Do  I  dream  ? 
Do  I  wander  and  doubt  ? 
Are  things  what  they  seem  ? 
Or  is  visions  about  ? 
BRET  HARTE. — Further  Language. 

Was  it  a  vision  or  a  waking  dream  ? 
Fled  is  that  music  : — Do  I  wake  or  sleep  ? 
KEATS. — Ode  to  a  Nightingale. 

Dreamer  of  dreams,  born  out  of  my  due 

time, 
Why  should  I  strive  to  set  the  crooked 

straight  ? 

W.  MORRIS. — Earthly  Paradise. 

We  are  near  awakening  when  we  dream 
that  we  dream. 

NOVALIS. — (As  tr.  by  Carlyle.) 

Suppose  the  chariot  of  the  Sun  were  given 
you,  what  would  you  do  ? 

OVID. — Metam.,  Bk.  2  (Apollo's  question 

to  Phaeton). 

Love  to  his  soul  gave  eyes  ;  he  knew  things 

are  not  as  they  seem. 

The  dream  is  his  real  life :    the  world 
around  him  is  the  dream. 
F.  T.  PALGRAVE. — Dream  of  Maxim 
Wledig. 

All  that  we  see  or  seem 
Is  but  a  dream  within  a  dream. 

E.  A.  POE. — A  Dream. 

To  see  clearly  is  poetry,  prophecy,  and 
religion, — all  in  one. 
RUSKIN. — Modern  Painters,  3,  Pt.  4,  c.  16. 

Dark  is  the  shadow  of  invisible  things 
On  us  who  look  not  up,  whose  vision  fails. 
GEO.  RUSSELL. — Shadows  and  Lights. 

Youth  is  a  fine  carver  and  gilder. 
SIR  VV.  SCOTT. — Diary,  Sept.,  1826. 

Is  this  a  dagger  which  I  see  before  me, 
The  handle  towards  my  hand  ?   Come,  let 

me  clutch  thee — 
I  have  thee  not  and  yet  I  see  thee  still. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  i. 

A  dagger  of  the  mind,  a  false  creation, 
Proceeding  from  the  heat-oppressdd  brain. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

He  had  been  eight  years  upon  a  project 
for  extracting  sunbeams  out  of  cucumbers, 
which  were  to  be  put  into  phials  her- 
metically sealed,  and  let  out  to  warm  the 
air  in  raw  inclement  summers. 

SWIFT. — Laputa. 


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VISITS 


VOTES 


I  seemed  to  move  among  a  world  of  ghosts, 

And  feel  myself  the  shadow  of  a  dream. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  i,  17. 

While  poets  dream  by  lamplight  of  the 

morn, — 
Dream  that  they  feel  what  they  have  never 

known. 

F.  TENNYSON. — Isles  of  Greece,  Alcaus, 

3,78. 

Ten  thousand  great  ideas  filled  his  mind  ; 
But  with  the  clouds  they  fled,  and  left  no 

trace  behind. 
THOMSON. — Castle  of  Indolence,  c.  i,st.  59. 

Do  me  eyes  deceive  me  earsight  ?  Is 
it  some  dreams  ? 

ARTEMUS  WARD. — Moses,  the  Sassy. 

Confiding,    though    confounded :     hoping 

on, 

Untaught  by  trial,  unconvinced  by  proof, 
And  ever  looking  for  the  never  seen. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

Your  old  men  shall  dream  dreams,  your 
young  men  shall  see  visions.  Joel  ii,  28. 

Leave  not  the  meat  to  gnaw  the  bones, 
Nor  break  your  teeth  on  worthless  stones. 
Old  Saying. 
VISITS 

Its  visits 

Like  those  of  angels,  short  and  far  between. 
R.  BLAIR. — The  Grave  (1743). 

What  though  my  winged  hours  of  bliss 

have  been, 

Like  angel-visits,  few  and  far  between. 
CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  PI.  2 
(1799)- 

A  visit  should  never  exceed  three  days — 
the  rest  day,  the  drest  day,  and  the 
prest  day. 

Miss  FERRIER. — As  quoted  by  Scott 

(see  Lockhart's  Life,  ch.  64,  note) . 

Visits  are  for  the  most  part  neither  more 

nor  less  than  inventions  for  discharging 

upon  our  neighbour  somewhat  of  our  own 

unendurable  weight.    NICOLE. — Thoughts. 

The  real  impediment  to  making  visits  is 
that  derangeable  health  which  belongs  to 
old  age.  . . .  This  made  the  wise  man  say 
that  a  man  should  give  over  arguing  at 
thirty,  riding  at  sixty,  and  visiting  at 
seventy. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter,  Dec.  3,  1843. 

VIVACITY 

Of  all  fools  the  liveliest  are  the  most  in- 
tolerable.         DUCLOS. — Considerations  on 
the  Manners  of  the  Age,  c.  13. 
It  is  with  narrow-souled  people  as  with 
narrow-necked  bottles,  the  less  they  have 
in  them  the  more  noise  they  make  in  pour- 
ing it  out. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


VOCATION 

It  is  the  first  of  all  problems  for  a  man 
to  find  oiit  what  kind  of  work  he  is  to  do 
in  this  universe. 

CARLYLE. — Address  at  Edinburgh, 
1866. 

Whether   with   reason,   or   with   instinct 

blest, 
Know,  all  enjoy  that  power  which  suits 

them  best ; 

To  bliss  alike  by  that  direction  tend, 
And  find  the  means  proportioned  to  their 

end. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  2,  79. 

Why,  Hal,  'tis  my  vocation,  Hal ;  'tis 
no  sin  for  a  man  to  labour  in  his  vocation. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

VOICE 

The  devil  hath  not,  in  all  his  quiver's 

choice, 

An  arrow  tor  the  heart  like  a  sweet  voice. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  15,  5- 

Man  was  never  meant  to  sing  ; 
And  all  his  mimic  organs  e'er  expressed 
Was  but  an  imitative  howl  at  best. 
J.  LANGHORNE. — Country  Justice,  Pt.  2, 

223. 
How  sweetly  sounds  the  voice  of  a  good 

woman  ! 

It  is  so  seldom  heard  that,  when  it  speaks, 
It  ravishes  all  senses. 

MASSINGER. — The  Old  Law,  Act  4,  2. 

Her  voice  was  like  the  voice  the  stars 
Had  when  they  sang  together. 

ROSSETTI. — The  Blessed  Damozel. 

Her  voice  was  ever  soft, 
Gentle,   and  low  ;   an  excellent  thing  in 
woman. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  5,  3. 

I  will  roar  you  as  gently  as  any  sucking 
dove :  I  will  roar  you  as  'twere  any 
nightingale. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Midsummer  Night's 

Dream,  Act  i,  2. 

How  silver-sweet  sound  lovers'  tongues  by 

night, 
Like  softest  music  to  attending  ears. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 

Act  2,  2. 

VOLTAIRE 

Thou  art  so  witty,  profligate,  and  thin. 
Thou  seem'st  a  Milton  with  his  Death  and 
Sin.      YOUNG. — Epigram  on  Voltaire. 

VOTES 

The   freeman,   casting  with   unpurchased 

hand 

The  vote  thatshakes  the  turrets  of  the  land. 
O.  W.  HOLMES. — Metrical  Essay. 


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VULGARITY 


WANDERERS 


The  English  people  imagine  that  they 
are  free  ;  they  greatly  deceive  themselves. 
It  is  only  during  the  election  of  members 
of  parliament  that  they  are  so.  As  soon 
as  these  are  elected  the  people  are  slaves  ; 
they  are  nothing.  In  the  brief  moments 
of  their  liberty  the  use  they  make  of  it  is 
such  that  they  thoroughly  deserve  to  lose 
it.  ROUSSEAU. — Contrat  Social,  Bk.  3, 

ch.  15. 

The  moment  a  people  gives  itself  a 
representative  system,  it  is  no  longer  free  ; 
it  no  longer  exists.  ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

Is   a   vote   a   coat  ?    Will  franchise  feed 

you  ?       SWINBURNE. — Word  from  the 

Psalmist. 

The  votes  of  veering  crowds  are  not 

The  things  that  are  more  excellent. 
SIR  VV.  WATSON. — Things  that  are  more 
Excellent. 
VULGARITY 

The  vulgar  of  England  are,  without 
exception,  the  most  barbarous  and  un- 
knowing of  any  in  Europe. 

GOLDSMITH. — Bee,  7. 

I  believe  that  vulgarity  is  generally  as 

much  opposed  to  wisdom  as  it  is  to  good 

taste.  SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 

Bk.  2,  ch.  5. 

Vulgarity   is    only   in    concealment    of 
truth  or  .affectation. 
RUSKIN  — Modern  Painters,  2,  Pi.  2,  c.  6. 

The.  higher  a  man  stands,  the  more  the 
word  "  vulgar "  becomes  unintelligible 
to  him.  RUSKIN. — Ib.,  3,  Pi.  4,  c.  7. 

Highly  fed  and  lowly  taught. 
SHAKESPEARE. — All's  Well,  Act  2,  2. 

To  endeavour  to  work  upon  the  vulgar 
with  fine  sense  is  like  attempting  to  hew 
blocks  with  a  razor. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 


w 

WAGERS 

Fools  for  arguments  use  wagers. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pi.  2,  c.  i. 

For  most  men  (till  by  losing  rendered  sager) 

Will  back  thek  own  opinions  with  a  wager. 

BYRON. — Beppo,  st.  27. 

Ducks  lay  eggs,  geese  lay  wagers.     Prov. 

Lay  no  wagers. 

"  The  Twelve  Good  Rules  "  (No.  12) 
(ascribed  to  diaries  I.  See  Goldsmith's 
"  Deserted  Village,"  I.  232). 


WAGES 

The  labourer  is  worthy  of  his  hire. 

St.  Luke  x,  7. 

When  wages  are  paid,  work  is  over. 

Prov.  (from  the  Spanish  ?). 
WAISTS 

Her  ringlets  are  in  taste  : 

What  an  arm  !   and  what  a  waist 

For  an  arm  ! 

F.  LOCKER-LAMPSON. — London  Lyrics   : 
My  Grandmother . 
A  narrow  compass,  and  yet  there 
Dwelt  all  that's  good,  and  all  that's  fair : 
Give  me  but  what  this  riband  bound. 
Take  all  the  rest  the  sun  goes  round. 

WALLER. — On  a  Girdle. 
WALKING 

Never  walk  fast  in  the  streets,  which  is 
a  mark  of  vulgarity,  ill  befitting  the  char- 
acter of  a  gentleman  or  a  man  of  fashion, 
though  it  may  be  tolerable  in  a  tradesman. 
LORD  CHESTERFIELD. — Advice  to  his  Son. 

I    nauseate    walking ;     'tis    a    country 
diversion  :    I  loathe  the  country. 
CONGREVE. — Way  of  the  World,  Act  4,  i. 

I   am  for  the  Peripatetics  against  all 
other  philosophers. 

SIR  A.  HELPS. — Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  i,  ch.  3  (Milverton). 

Who  fastest  walks,  but  walks  astray, 
Is  only  furthest  from  his  way. 

PRIOR. — Alma,  c.  3. 
WANDERERS 

Here  awa,  there  awa,  wandering  Willie, 

Here  awa,  there  awa,  baud  awa  hame  ; 

Come  to  my  bosom,  my  ain  only  dearie, 

Tell  me  thou  bring'st  me  my  Willie  the 

same.  BURNS. — Wandering 

Willie,  Founded  on  old  Scottish  Sons.'.. 

He  had  the  passion  and  the  power  to  roam  : 
The  desert,  forest,  cavern,  breaker's  foam 
Were  unto  him  companionship ;  they 

spake 
A  mutual  language. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  13 

I  asked  him  where  he  lived — a  stare 

Was  all  I  got  in  answer, 
As  on  he  trudged  ;    I  rightly  judged 

The  stare  said,  "  Where  I  can,  sir." 
C.  S.  CALVERLEY. — Wanderers 

All  pastors  are  alike 

To  wandering  sheep,   resolved  to  follow 
none.  COWPER. — The  Task,  890. 

O  canny  sons  of  Jacob,  to  fret  and  toiling 

tied, 
We   grudge   you   not   the   birthright   for 

which  your  father  lied  ! 
We  own  the  right  of  roaming,  and  the 

world  is  wide. 

BERTHA  B.  RUNKLE. — Song  of  the  Sons 
of  Esau. 


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WAR 


Wealth  I  ask  not,  hope  iior  love, 
Nor  a  friend  to  know  me  ; 

All  I  ask,  the  heaven  above, 
And  the  road  below  me. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — Vagabond. 

Kind  Nature's  charities  his  steps  attend  ; 
In  every  babbling  brook  he  finds  a  friend  : 
While  chastening  thoughts  of  sweetest  use, 

bestowed 
By  wisdom,  moralise  his  pensive  road. 

WORDSWORTH. — Sketches  during 
Pedestrian  Tour  among  the  Alps, 
WANTS 

Our  real  wants  in  a  small  compass  lie. 
CHURCHILL. — Independence. 

Man  wants  but  little  here  below, 
Nor  wants  that  little  long. 

GOLDSMITH. — Hermit. 

How  can  you  tell  what  you  want  in  the 
future,  when  you  do  not  know  what  you 
want  in  the  present  ? 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — Maxim  517. 

Man  wants  but  little  ;  nor  that  little  long 
YOUNG. — Nigfit  Thoughts,  4 
WAR 

My  voice  is  still  for  war. 

ADDISON. — Cato,  Act  2,  i. 

What  rights  the  brave  ? 

The  sword  I 
What  frees  the  slave  ? 

The  sword ! 
What  cleaves  in  twain 
The  despot's  chain, 

And  makes  his  gyves  and  dungeons  vain  ? 
The  sword  ! 

M.  J.  BARRY. — The  Sword. 

Our  wearisome  pedantic  art  of  war, 

By  which  we  prove  retreat  may  be  success, 

Delay  best  speed,  half-loss,  at  tunes, 

whole  gain.  BROWNING. — Luria. 

A  commonplace  against  war  ;  the  easiest 
of  all  topics. 

BURKE. — Observations  on  "  Present 

State  of  the  Nation." 
It  hath  been  said  that  an  unjust  peace 
is  to  be  preferred  before  a  just  war. 

S.  BUTLER. — "  Speeches  in  the  Rump 

Parliament."     (Founded  on 

Cicero,  Epist.  ad.Att.  7,  14-) 

Ah,  monarchs !   could  ye  taste  the  mirth 

ye  mar, 

Not  in  toils  of  Glory  would  ye  fret ; 
The  hoarse  dull  drum  would  sleep,  and  man 
be  happy  yet. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i,  st.  47. 

War,  war  is  still  the  cry,  "  War  to  the 
knife  !  "  BYRON. — lb.,  86. 

The  unreturning  brave. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  c.  3,  st.  27. 


Battle's  magnificently  stern  array. 

BYRON. — Ib.,  st.  28. 

Rider  and  horse — friend,  foe — in  one  r«d 
burial  blent.  BYRON. — Ib. 

War's  a  brain-spattering,  windpipe-slitting 

art, 
Unless  her  cause  by  right  be  sanctified. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  9,  4. 

The  combat  deepens.     On,  ye  brave, 
Who  rush  to  glory  or  the  grave  ! 
Wave,  Munich,  all  thy  banners  wave. 
And  charge  with  all  thy  chivalry. 

CAMPBELL. — Hohenlinden. 

What  millions  died  that  Caesar  might  be 
great ! 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope. 

Wars  are  to  be  undertaken  in  order  that 
it  may  be  possible  to  live  in  peace  without 
molestation. 

CICERO. — De  Ojficiis,  Bk.  i,  n 

Any  peace  is  better  than  civil  war. 

CICERO. — Philippic,  2,  15. 

In  the  clamour  of  arms  the  laws  are 
dumb.  CICERO. — Pro  Milone. 

War  in  fact  is  becoming  contemptible, 

.and  ought  to  be  put  down  by  the  great 

nations  of  Europe,  just  as  we  put  down  a 

vulgar  mob.  MORTIMER  COLLINS. — 

Thoughts  in  my  Garden,  2,  243. 

War  is  a  game  in  which  princes  seldom 

win,  the  people  never. 

C.  C.  COLTON. — Lacon. 

Nothing  is  to  be  despised  in  war. 

CORNELIUS  NEPOS. — Thrasybulus. 

But  war's  a  game,  which,  were  their  sub- 
jects wise, 
Kings  would  not  play  at. 

COWPER. — Winter  Mornings  Walk. 

From  fear  in  every  guise, 
From  sloth,  from  love  of  pelf, 

By  war's  great  sacrifice 
The  world  redeems  itself. 

J.  DAVIDSON. — War  Song. 

'Tis  startin'  a  polis  foorce  to  prevint 
war  .  . .  How'll  they  be  ar-rmed  ?  What 
a  foolish  question.  They'll  be  ar-rmed 
with  love,  if  coorse.  Who'll  pay  thim  ? 
That's  a  financyal  detail  that  can  be  ar- 
ranged later  on.  What'll  happen  if  wan 
iv  th'  rough-necks  reaches  f'r  a  gun  ? 
Don't  bother  me  with  thrifles. 
MR.  DOOLEY. — On  Making  a  Will,  etc. 
Speech  attrib.  to  Mr.  Bryan  (1920). 

War  is  the  trade  of  Kings. 

DRYDEN. — King  Arthur. 

There  never  was  a  good  war  or  a  bad 
peace.  B.  FRANKLIN. 


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WAR 


Force  and  fraud  are  in  war  the  two  car- 
dinal virtues. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  13. 

And  dearer  to  their  hearts  than  thoughts 

of  home, 

Or  wished  return,  became  the  battle-field. 

HOMER. — Iliad,  Bk.  10,  199  (Lord 

Derby   tr.). 

The  closeness  of  their  intercourse  [the 
intercourse  of  nations]  will  assuredly  render 
war  as  absurd  and  impossible  by-and-by, 
as  it  would  be  for  Manchester  to  fight  with 
Birmingham,  or  Holborn  Hill  with  the 
Strand. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Pref.  to  Poems  (1849). 

Art,  thou  hast  many  infamies, 
But  not  an  infamy  like  this. 

0  snap  the  fife  and  still  the  drum 
And  show  the  monster  as  she  is. 

R.  LE  GALLIENNE. — The  Illusion  of  War. 

War  is  just,  to  those  to  whom  war  is 
necessary.  LIVY. — Hist.,  Bk.  9 . 

Ez  fer  war,  I  call  it  murder — 

There  you  hev  it  plain  an"  flat ; 
I  don't  want  to  go  no  furder 

Than  my  Testyment  fer  that ; 
God  hez  sed  so  plump  an'  fairly, 

It's  ez  long  ez  it  is  broad, 
An'  you've  gut  to  git  up  airly 

Ef  you  want  to  take  in  God. 
J.  R.  LOWELL. — Biglow  Papers,  ist  Ser.,  i. 

Not  but  wut  abstract  war  is  horrid, 

1  sign  to  thet  with  all  my  heart, — 
But  civilisation  doos  git  forrid 

Sometimes,  upon  a  powder-cart. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. — Ib.,  7. 

My  sentence  is  for  open  war  :   of  wiles 
More  unexpert  I  boast  not. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  51. 

For  what  can  war  but  endless  war  still 
breed  ?  MILTON. — Sonnet. 

In  warlike  affairs  the  science  of  a  general 
looks  ahead  with  fine  foresight,  and  ac- 
knowledges no  service  to  the  prophet's 
art,  but  claims  to  rule  it  as  knowing  better 
what  does  and  will  take  place  in  war. 
And  indeed  the  law  enjoins  that  the  pro- 
phet shall  not  rule  over  the  general,  but 
the  general  over  the  prophet. 

PLATO. — Laches,  30. 

When  Archidamus  saw  a  dart  shot  out 
of  an  engine  brought  from  Sicily,  he  ex- 
claimed, "  Good  God  !  true  valour  is  gone 
for  ever." 

PLUTARCH. — Laconic  Apophthegms. 

It  is  the  province  of  kings  to  bring  wars 
about ;  it  is  the  province  of  God  to  end 
them. 

CARDINAL  POLE. — To  Henry  VIII, 


Cursed  is  the  man,  and  void  of  law  and 

right, 

Unworthy  property,  unworthy  light, 
Unfit  for  public  rule,  or  private  care ; 
That  wretch,  that  monster,  who  delights 

in  war.  POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  9,  87. 

Silence  is  the  soul  of  war. 

PRIOR. — Ode. 

The  right  of  war — qui  potest  capere 
capiat,  "  let  him  take  who  can  take  " 

RABELAIS. — Pantagruel. 

War,  the  needy  bankrupt's  last  resort. 
N.  ROWE. — Pharsalia,  Bk.  i,  343. 

Worse  than  war  is  the  fear  of  war. 

SENECA. — Thyestes. 

It  was  great  pity,  so  it  was, 
That  villainous  saltpetre;  should  be  digged 
Out  of  the  bowels  of  the  harmless  earth, 
Which   many  a   good  tall  fellow  had  de- 
stroyed ' 

So  cowardly  ;  and  but  for  these  vile  guns, 
He  would  himself  have  been  a  soldier. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  i,  Act  i,  2. 

Cry  "  Havoc !  "  and  let  slip  the  dogs  of 

war. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ctesar,  Act  3,  i. 

Horribly  stuffed  with  epithets  of  war. 

SHAKESPEARE.— -Othello,  Act  i,  i. 

The  tented  field. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  i,  3. 

Farewell  the  plumed  troops  and  the  big 

wars, 

That  make  ambition  virtue  !   O,  farewell  ! 
Farewell  the  neighing  steed,  and  the  shrill 

trump, 
The  spirit-stirring  drum,  the  ear-piercing 

fife, 

The  royal  banner  and  all  quality, 
Pride,  pomp,  and  circumstance  of  glorious 

war !       SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  3. 

There  was  only  one  virtue,  pugnacity  ; 
only  one  vice,  pacifism.  That  is  an  essen- 
tial condition  of  war. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Heartbreak  House  :  Pref., 
Madness  in  Court. 

Blood  will  have  blood,  revenge  beget  re- 
venge, 
Evil  must  come  of  evil. 

SHELLEY. — Madoc,  Sec.  7. 

War  is  the  statesman's  game,  the  priest's 

delight, 
The    lawyer's   jest,    the   hired    assassin's 

trade.       SHELLEY. — Queen  Mob,  c.  4. 

War  should  be  long  in  preparing  in  order 
that  you  may  conquer  more  quickly. 

PUBLILIUS  SYRUS. 


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WAR 

Wild   War,  who   breaks  the  converse  of 
the  wise. 
TENNYSON. — Third  of  February,  1852. 

And  ever  since  historian  writ, 

And  ever  since  a  bard  could  sing, 

Doth  each  exalt  with  all  his  wit 
The  noble  art  of  murdering. 
THACKERAY. — Chronicle  of  the  Drum. 

Your  interest  in  the  war  should  never  cease : 
But  we  have   felt    enough  to   wish    the 
peace. 
VIRGIL. — Mneid,  Bk.  n  (Dry den  tr.). 

We  do  not  with  God's  name  make  wanton 

play; 
We  are  not  on  such  easy  terms  with 

Heaven  ; 

But  in  Earth's  hearing  we  can  verily  say, 
"  Our  hands  are  pure ;    for  peace,  for 

peace  we  have  striven," 
And  not  by  Earth  shall  he  be  soon  for- 
given 

Who  lit  the  fire  accurst  that  flames  to-day. 

SIR  W.  WATSON. — To  the  Troubler  of  the 

World,  Aug.  5,  1914. 

The  whole  art  of  war  consists  in  getting 
at  what  is  on  the  other  side  of  the  hill. 

DUKE  OF  WELLINGTON. — Saying. 

As  long  as  war  is  regarded  as  wicked  it 
will  always  have  its  fascinations.  When 
it  is  looked  upon  as  vulgar,  it  will  cease  to 
be  popular.  OSCAR  WILDE. — Intentions. 

But  thy  most  dreaded  instrument, 

In  working  out  a  pure  intent, 

Is  Man — arrayed  for  mutual  slaughter — 

Yea,  Carnage  is  thy  daughter. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 
Independence,  Pt.  2,  No.  46. 

But  Man  is  thy  most  awful  instrument 
In  working  out  a  pure  intent ; 
Thou  clpth'st  the  wicked  in  their  dazzling 

mail, 

And  for  thy  righteous  purpose  they  pre- 
vail. 

WORDSWORTH. — (Later  version  sub- 
stituted for  the  foregoing  lines). 

One  to  destroy,  is  murder  by  the  law  ; 
And  gibbets  keep  the  lifted  hand  in  awe  ; 
To  murder  thousands,   takes  a  specious 

name, 
War's  glorious   art,   and  gives  immortal 

fame. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  7. 

It  is  magnificent,  but  it  is  not  war. 
Attrib.  to  Marshal  Canrobert,  in  reference 
to  the  Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade  at 
Balaclava. 

If  there  were  no  fools  there  would  be 
no  war.  Prov. 

Stir  not  the  fire  with  a  sword. 

Greek  prov. 


WEAKNESSES 

WARNING 

I  know  the  warning  song  is  sung  in  vain, 

That  few  will  hear  and  fewer  heed  the 

strain.    COWPER. — Expostulation,  724. 

But  he  shall  meet  a  hideous  doom, 
Prepared  for  him  by — I  know  whom. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Patience. 

Troy  fell  because  Cassandra  was  not 
believed.  PH^EDRUS. — Fables. 

Hear  it  not,  Duncan  ;   for  it  is  a  knell 
That  summons  thee  to  heaven  or  to  hell  ! 
SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  2,  i. 

WARWICKSHIRE 

That  shire  which  we   the  heart  of  Eng- 
land well  may  call. 
M.  DRAYTON. — Polyolbion,  Song  13,  I.  3. 

WASTE 

Waste  is  not  grandeur. 

WM.  MASON. — English  Garden. 

If  you  throw  crumbs  on  the  fire  you  are 
feeding  the  devil.  Old  prov. 

Haste  makes   waste,   waste   want,   want 

strife, 
Betwixt  the  good  man  and  his  wife. 

Prov.  (Ray). 
WATER 

"  You  disliked  the  killibeate  taste,  per- 
haps ?  "  "I  don't  know  much  about  that 
'ere,"  said  Sam.  "  I  thought  they'd  a 
vvery  strong  flavour  o'  warm  flat-irons." 
"  That  is  the  killibeate,  Mr.  Weller," 
observed  Mr.  John  Smauker,  contemp- 
tuously. DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  37. 

I'm  very  fond  of  water  : 
It  ever  must  delight 
Each  mother's  son  and  daughter, — 

When  qualified  aright. 
LORD  NEAVES. — I'm  very  fond  of  Water 
(June,  1861). 

Pure  water  is  the  best  of  gifts  that  man  to 

man  can  bring, 
But  who  am  I  that  I  should  have  the  best 

of  anything  ? 
Let  princes  revel  at  the  pump,  let  peers 

with  ponds  make  free, 
Whisky,   or   wine,   or  even   beer  is  good 

enough  for  me. 

ANON. — See  the  "  Spectator,"  July  31, 
1920,  Attrib.  to  Hon.  G.  W.  E.  Russell,  also 
to  Lord  N 'eaves,  but  not  found  in  his  "  Songs 
and  Verses."  Two  versions  were  given  in 
"Notes  and  Queries,"  Oct.  23,  1897. 

WEAKNESSES 

Very  little  indulgence  for  the  most  ami- 
able weaknesses  of  human  nature. 

GIBBON. — Decline  and  Fall,  ch.  14. 


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WEALTH 


Some  of  our  weaknesses  are  born  in  us  ; 
others  are  the  result  of  education.  It  is  a 
question  which  of  the  two  gives  us  most 
trouble.  GOETHE. 

All  wickedness  is  weakness. 

MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes,  834. 

WEALTH 

Fortunes  .  .  .  come  tumbling  into  some 
men's  laps.  BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning. 

When  a  man  is  rich  he  is  always  worth 
his  price  (i.e.  he  will  always  be  worth  con- 
sideration). BOILEAU. — Sat.  5,  131. 

If  riches  increase,  let  thy  mind  hold  pace 
with  them  ;  and  think  it  not  enough  to  be 
Liberal,  but  Munificent. 

SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Christian  Morals. 

With  loves  and  doves,  at  all  events 
With  money  in  the  Three  per  Cents. 

BROWNING. — Dts  aliter  visutn. 

If  we  command  our  wealth,  we  shall  be 
rich  and  free  ;  if  our  wealth  commands  us, 
we  are  poor  indeed. 

BURKE. — Letters  on  a  Regicide  Peace. 

It  is  the  interest  of  the  commercial  world 
that  wealth  should  be  found  everywhere. 
BURKE. — Letter  to  Samuel  Span. 

It  is  not  the  fact  that  a  man  has  riches 

which  keeps  him  from  the  kingdom  of 

heaven,  but  the  fact  that  riches  have  him. 

DR.  CAIRO. 

Money,  which  is  of  very  uncertain  value 
and  sometimes  has  no  value  at  all  and  even 
less. 

CARLYLE. — Frederick  the  Great,  Bk.  4,  3. 

Midas-eared  Mammonism,  double-bar- 
relled Dilettantism,  and  their  thousand 
adjuncts  and  corollaries,  are  not  the  Law 
by  which  God  Almighty  has  appointed 
this  His  universe  to  go. 

CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present,  ch.  6. 

Surplus  wealth  is  a  sacred  trust  which 
its  possessor  is  bound  to  administer  in  his 
lifetime  for  the  good  of  the  community. 

A.  CARNEGIE.— Gospel  of  Wealth  (1886). 

Men  seyn  that  the  rich  man  hath  seld 
[seldom]  good  counsel  but  if  he  have  it  of 
himself. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibens,  sec.  20. 

Nothing  is  so  characteristic  of  a  narrow 
and  small  mind  as  to  love  riches. 

CICERO. — De  Officiis,  Bk.  i. 

Increase  of  power  begets  increase  of 
wealth.  COWFER. — Winter  Evening,  580. 


WEALTH 

Wealth,  howsoever  got,  in  England  makes 
Lords  of  mechanics,  gentlemen  of  rakes  ; 
Antiquity  and  birth  are  needless  here  ; 
'Tis  impudence  and  money  makes  a  peer. 
DEFOE. — True-born  Englishman.  300. 

Endless  follies  follow  endless  wealth. 
DEKKER. — Old  Fortunatus,  Act  2,  2. 

The  love  of  wealth  seems  to  grow  chiefly 
out  of  the  root  of  the  love  of  the  Beautiful. 
The  desire  ef  gold  is  not  for  gold. . .  It  is 
the  means  of  freedom,  and  benefit. 

EMERSON. — Domcstif  Life. 

There  is  no  country  in  which  so  absolute 
a  homage  is  paid  to  wealth.  In  America 
there  is  a  touch  of  shame  when  a  man  ex- 
hibits the  evidences  of  large  property,  as 
if,  after  all,  it  needed  apology.  But  the 
Englishman  has  pure  pride  in  his  wealth. 
EMERSON. — English  Traits,  10 :  Wealth. 

\  am  not  the  least  versed  in  the  Chrema- 
tistic  art  (i.e.  the  art  of  acquiring 
wealth).  FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  g,  ch.  5. 

For  he  that  needs  five  thousand  pound  to 

live, 

Is  full  as  poor  as  he  that  needs  but  five. 
HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

Wealth  is  the  conjuror's  devil ; 
Whom  when  he  thinks  he  hath,  the  devil 
hath  him.  HERBERT. — Ib. 

Plutus,  as  sponsor,  stood  at  her  font, 
And  Midas  rocked  the  cradle. 

HOOD. — Miss  Kilmansegg. 

Our  Lord  commonly  giveth  riches  to  such 
gross  asses  to  whom  he  affordeth  nothing 
else  that  is  good.  LUTHER. — Colloquies. 

Wealth,  and  plenty,  in  a  land  where  jus- 
tice reigns  not,  is  no  argument  of  a  flourish- 
ing state,  but  of  a  nearness  rather  to  ruin 
and  commotion.  MILTON. — Eikonoclastes. 

They  whom   I   favour   thrive  in   wealth 

amain, 

While  virtue,  valour,  wisdom,  sit  in  want. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  2,  430. 

If  at  great  things  thou  would'st  arrive, 
Get  riches  first. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Regained,  Bk.  4,  426. 

I  am  rich  beyond  the  dreams  of  avarice. 
EDWD   MOORE. — Gamester. 

And    Wealth,    more    bright   with    Virtue 

joined, 

Brings  golden  Opportunity, 
The  sparkling  star,  the  sunbeam  of  man- 
kind. 

PINDAR. — Olympian  Odes,  2,  96 
(Moore  tr.). 


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WEATHER 


The  language  which  calls  the  rich 
happy  is  itself  unhappy,  being  indeed  the 
senseless  language  of  women  and  children, 
and  it  makes  those  who  accept  the  pre- 
cept senseless  in  like  manner. 

PLATO. — Epistle  8. 

To  heirs  unknown  descends  the  unguarded 

store, 

Or  wanders,  heaven-directed,  to  the  poor. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  2,  149. 

Who  sees  pale  Mammon  pine  amidst  his 

store, 

Sees  but  a  backward  steward  for  the  poor  ; 
This  year  a  reservoir,  to  keep  and  spare  ; 
The  next,  a  fountain,  spouting  through 

his  heir.  POPE. — Ep.  3,  171. 

But  Satan  now  is  wiser  than  of  yore, 
And  tempts  by  making  rich,  not  making 
poor.  POPE. — Ib.,  331. 

Joy  is  more  the  friend  of  half-pence  than 
of  sovereigns. 

ROUSSEAU. — Reveries  d'un  Promeneur 
solitaire,  9. 

What  is  really  desired,  under  the  name 
of  riches,  is  essentially  power  over  men. 

RUSKIN. — Unto  this  Last,  Essay  2. 

A  great  fortune  is  a  great  bondage. 

SENECA. — De  Consol.,  26. 

He  most  enjoys  riches  who  least  needs 
riches.  SENECA. — Ep.  14. 

Well,  whiles  I  am  a  beggar,  I  will  rail, 
And  say, — There  is  no  sin,  but  to  be  rich  ; 
And,  being  rich,  my  virtue  then  shall  be, 
To  say, — There  is  no  vice,  but  beggary. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  2,  2. 

The  man  is  mechanically  turned,  and 
made  for  getting.  .  .  It  was  very  prettily 
said  that  we  may  learn  the  little  value  of 
fortune  by  the  persons  on  whom  Heaven 
is  pleased  to  bestow  it. 

STEELE. — Toiler,  No.  203. 

They  who  know  all  the  wealth  they  have 

are  poor  ; 

He's  only  rich  that  cannot  tell  his  store. 
SIR  J.  SUCKLING. — Against  Fruition,  5. 

There   is   a  limit   to  enjoyment,  though 
the  sources  of  wealth  be  boundless 
M.  F.  TUPPER. — Of  Compensation. 

Riches  are  akin 

To  fear,  to  change,  to  cowardice  and  death. 

WORDSWORTH. — Poems  to  National 

Independence,  PL  i,  20. 

Make  to  yourselves  friends  by  means  of 
the  mammon  of  unrighteousness. 

St.  Luke  xvi,  9  (R.V.). 

Seek  to  attain  by  the  means  which  God 

bath  given  thee  the  future  abode  ,of  bliss. 

Koran,  ch.  29. 


WEATHER 

Melancholy  .  .  .  often  conveys  herself 
to  us  in  an  easterly  wind. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  vol.  5,  No.  387. 

A  frosty  winter,  a  dusty  March,  a  rain 

about  April, 
Another  about  the  Lammas  time,  when 

the  corn  begins  to  fill, 
Is  worth  a  pleuch  o'  gowd,  and  a'  her  pins 

theretill. 

GEO.  BUCHANAN. — On  being  asked  what 
would  buv  a  Plough  of  Gold. 

I  like  the  weather  when  it's  not  too  rainy, 
That  is,  I  like  two  months  of  every  year. 
BVRON. — Beppo,  st.  48. 

And  finds  a  changing  clime  a  happy  source 

Of  wise  reflection  and  well-timed  discourse. 

COWPER. — Conversation,  387. 

Liberal  in  all  things  else,  yet  Nature  here 
With  stern  severity  deals  out  the  year. 
COWPER. — Table  Talk. 

Snowy,  Flowy,  Blowy, 
Showery,  Flowery,  Bowery, 
Hoppy,  Croppy,  Droppy, 
Breezy,  Sneezy,  Freezy. 
GEO.  ELLIS. — The  Twelve  Months. 

'Tis  the  hard  grey  weather 

Breeds  hard  English  men. 
C.  KINGSLEY. — Ode  to  N.E.  Wind. 

But  methought  it  lessened  my  esteem  of 
a  king,  that  he  should  not  be  able  to  com- 
mand the  rain. 

PEPYS. — Diary,  July  19,  1662. 

'Tis  a  naughty  night  to  swim  in. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Lear,  Act  3,  4. 

Mine  enemy's  dog, 
Though  he  had  bit  me,  should  have  stood 

that  night 
Against  my  fire. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  4,  7. 

The  beauty  of  our  English  weather  is 
that  when  it  is  bad  we  may  hope  it  will 
soon  change.  Its  fault  is  that  when  it  is 
good  we  may  be  pretty  sure  it  will  soon 
alter.  C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "  Salt-Cellars." 

We  have  no  climate,  but  only  weather. 
C.  H.  SPURGEON. — Ib. 

A   coming   shower    your   shooting   corns 
presage.  SWIFT. — City  Shower. 

Commend  me  to  the  bold,  bricht,  blue, 
black,  boisterous,  and  blusterin"  beauty  o' 
the  British  heavens ! 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  25. 

First  it  rained,  and  then  it  snew, 
Then  it  friz,  and  then  it  thew, 

And  then  it  friz  again.  ANON. 


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WEST,  THE 


If  the  oak's  before  the  ash, 
Then  you'll  only  get  a  splash  ; 
If  the  ash  is  before  the  oak, 
Then  you  may  expect  a  soak. 

Old  Saying. 
When  the  sand  doth  feed  the  clay  [i.e.  in  a 

wet  summer!, 

England  woe  and  well-a-day  ! 
But  when  the  clay  doth  feed  the  sand, 
Then  it  is  well  with  England. 

Old  Say  ing  (Ray). 

Winter's  thunder  and  summer's  flood 
Never  boded  Englishman  good. 

Old  Saying  (Ray). 

"  When  you  are  all  agreed  upon  a  time," 
quoth  the  vicar,  "  I'll  make  it  rain." 

Prov. 

Little  kens  the  wife,  that  sits  by  the  fire, 
How  the  wind  blows  cold  in  hurle  burle 
swyre.  Scottish  prov.  (Ray) . 

Mist  in  May  and  heat  in  June 
Make  the  harvest  richt  sune. 

Scottish  prov. 

Mony  rains,  mony  rowans  (fruit  of  ash 
trees) :  mony  rowans,  mony  yewns  (refuse 
of  grain  blown  away  by  the  fanners.) 

Scottish  prov. 

When  clouds  appear  like  rocks  and  towers, 
The     earth's     refreshed     with     frequent 

showers. 
Scottish  prov.  (Andrew  Cheviot  Collection). 

Mony  a  frost  and  mony  a  thowe, 

Soon  maks  mony  a  rotten  yowe  [ewe.] 

Scottish  saying. 

To  talk  of  the  weather  it's  nothing  but  folly, 
For  when  it's  rain  on  the  hills,  it  may  be 
sun  in  the  valley. 

Scottish  saying  (Dr.  Robt.  Ckambers's 
Collection,  1826). 

'Tween  Martinmas  [Nov.  n]  and  Yule, 

Water's  wine  in  every  pool. 

Scottish  saying. 

If  it  rains  on  St.  Medard's  day  [June  8], 
it  will  rain  for  six  weeks  after,  unless  St. 
Barnabas  [June  n]  has  put  everything 
right.  Swiss  prov.  (cp.  ST.  SWITHIN). 

As  the  Devil  said  to  Noah,  "  It's  bound 
to  clear  up !  " 

Prov.  saying.  (A  Yorkshire  variant  of 
this  saying  attributes  it  to  a  Pudsey  man,  who 
declined  Noah's  offer  of  a  passage  in  the 
ark  because  the  fare  was  too  high.) 

WEDDING  RING 

Oh,  how  many  torments  be  in  the  small 
circle  of  a  wedding-ring  ! 

C.  GIBBER. — Double  Gallant,  Act  i,  2. 

Let  nothing  break  our  bond  but  Death, 

For  in  the  world  above 
'Tis  the  breaker  Death  that  soldereth 

Our  ring  of  Wedded  Love. 
GERALD  MASSEY. — On  a  Wedding  Day. 


Constancy  and  Heaven  are  round, 
And  in  this  the  emblem's  found. 

Wedding  Ring  Posy  (c.  1620). 

WELCOME 

'Tis  sweet  to  hear  the  honest  watch-dog's 

bark 
Bay,  deep-mouthed  welcome,  as  we  draw 

near  home ; 

'Tis  sweet  to  know  there  is  an  eye  will  mark 
Our  coming,  and  look  brighter  when  we 

come.    BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  i,  123. 

Sae  true  his  heart,  sae  smooth  his  speech, 

His  breath  like  cauler  air, 
His  very  foot  has  music  in't, 

As  he  comes  up  the  stair. 

W.  J.  MICKLE. — Song. 

Small  cheer  and  great  welcome  makes  a 
merry  feast. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Comedy  of  Errors, 
Act  3,  i. 

Sir,  you  are  very  welcome  to  our  house  : 

It  must  appear  in  other  ways  than  words, 

Therefore  I  scant  this  breathing  courtesy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merch.  of  Venice, 

Act  5,  i. 

Welcome  ever  smiles 
And  farewell  goes  out  sighing. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus  and  Cressida, 
Act  3,  3. 
WEST,  THE 

'Tis  inspiration 

Expounds  experience ;  'tis  the  west  ex- 
plains 

The  east.  BAILEY. — Festus. 

Westward  the  course  of  empire  takes  its 
way. 

BP.  BERKELEY. — Planting  Arts  and 
Learning  in  America. 

It's  the  white  road  westwards  is  the  road 

I  must  tread 
To  the  green  grass,  the  cool  grass,  and  rest 

for  heart  and  head, 
To  the  violets  and  the  brown  brooks  and 

the  thrushes'  song 

In  the  fine  land,  the  west  land,  the  land 
where  I  belong. 

JOHN  MASEFIELD. — The  West 
Wind. 

Her  blue  eyes  sought  the  west  afar, 
For  lovers  love  the  western  star. 
SCOTT. — Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  c.  3. 

Olivia.    There  lies  your  way,  due  west. 
Viola.    Then  westward-ho ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Tewlfth  Night, 
Act  3,  i. 

I  think  it  was  Jekyll  who  used  to  say 
that  the  further  he  went  west,  the  more 
convinced  he  felt  that  the  wise  men  came 
from  the  east.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — Saying. 


543 


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WILL 


WESTMINSTER  ABBEY 

Here's  an  acre  sown  indeed 
With  the  richest,  royalest  seed. 
FRANCIS  BEAUMONT. — On    Westminster 

Abbey. 

That  temple  of  silence  and  reconciliation 
where  the  enmities  of  twenty  generations 
lie  buried,  the  Great  Abbey  which  has 
during  many  ages  afforded  a  quiet  resting- 
place  to  those  whose  minds  and  bodies  have 
been  shattered  by  the  contentions  of  the 
Great  Hall.  MACAULAY. — Warren 

Hastings. 

Westminster  Abbey,  or  Victory ! 
Nelson's  exclamation  on  boarding  the  "  San 
Josef"  at  the  Battle  of  Cape  St.  Vincent. 

WICKEDNESS 

There  is  a  method  in  man's  wickedness  ; 
It  grows  up  by  degrees. 
BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — King  and 
No  King,  Act  5,  4. 
All  wickedness  comes  of  weakness. 

ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

The  life  of  a  wicked  or  worldly  man  is 
a  very  drudgery,  infinitely  more  toilsome, 
vexatious,  and  unpleasant  than  a  godly 
life  is.  BISHOP  ROBT.  SANDERSON. 

What  rein  can  hold  licentious  wickedness 
When  down  the  hill  he  holds  his  fierce 
career  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  V.,  Act  3,  3. 

I  have  seen  the  wicked  in  great  power, 
and  spreading  himself  like  a  green  bay 
tree.  Psalm  xxxvii,  35. 

WIDOWS 

These  widows,  sir,  are  the  most  perverse 
creatures  in  the  world. 

ADDISON. — Spectator,  Vol.  5,  No.  335. 

Your  husband  left  you  wealthy,  ay,  and 

wise ; 
Continue  so,  sweet  duck — continue  so. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — The 
Scornful  Lady,  Act  1,3. 

Take  example  by  your  father,  my  boy, 
be  wery  careful  o'  widders  all  your  life. 
[Sam  Weller,  sen.] 

DICKENS. — Pickwick  Papers,  ch.  20. 

When  widows  exclaim  loudly  against 
second  marriages,  I  would  always  lay  a 
wager  that  the  man,  if  not  the  wedding- 
day,  is  absolutely  fixed  on. 

FIELDING. — Amelia,  Bk.  6,  ch.  8. 

Why  are  those  tears  ?     Why  droops  your 

head? 

Is  then  your  other  husband  dead  ? 
Or  does  a  worse  disgrace  betide  ? 
Hath  no  one  since  his  death  applied  ? 

GAY. — Fables,  Pt.  i,  37. 


Why  is  a  garden's  wildered  maze 

Like  a  young  widow,  fresh  and  fair  ? 
Because  it  wants  some  hand  to  raise 
The  weeds,  which  "  have  no  business 
there." 

MOORE. — To  Lady  H.  (1805). 

Thus  day  by  day,  and  month  by  month, 

we  passed  ; 
It  pleased  the  Lord  to  take  my  spouse  at 

last. 
I  tore  my  gown,  I  spoiled  my  locks  with 

dust, 
And  beat  my  breast — as  wretched  widows 

must : 

Before  my  face  my  handkerchief  I  spread , 

To  hide  the  flood  of  tears  I  did — not  shed . 

POPE.— The  Wife  of  Bath. 

He  that  woos  a  maid  must  come  seldom 

in  her  sight, 
But  he  that  woos  a  widow  must  woo  her 

day  and  night.  Prov.  (Ray). 

WIFE,  see  WIVES 

WILFULNESS 

Muse  not  that  I  thus  suddenly  proceed  ; 
For  what  I  will,  I  will,  and  there  an  end. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gent,  of  Verona, 
Act  i,  3. 

Will  was  his  guide,  and   grief e   led  him 
astray. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Quecne,  Bk,  i,  12. 

It  has  been  said,  and  may  be  sae, 
A  wilfu*  man  wants  never  wae, 
Thocht  he  gets  little  gains. 

Cherry  and  the  Slae. 

Where  is  the  man  that  hath  the  power  and 

skill, 

To  stem  the  torrent  of  a  woman's  will  ? 
For  if  she  will,  she  will,  you  may  depend 

on  't 
And  if  she  won't,  she  won't ;  so  there's  an 

end  on  't.      Inscription  at  Canterbury. 

WILL 

No  man  can  rob  us  of  our  will. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS. — u,  36. 

In  idle  wishes  fools  supinely  stay, 

Be  there  a  will,  and  wisdom  finds  a  way. 

CRABBE. — The  Birth  of  Flattery. 

Everything  in  this  world  depends  upon 
will.  DISRAELI. — Endymion,  ch.  65. 

And  binding  nature  fast  in  fate 
Left  free  the  human  will. 

POPE. — The  Universal  Prayer. 

Will  is  the  zealous  slave  of  the  passions 
and  the  tyrant  of  reason. 

DE  RIVAROL. — Of  Language,  sec.  4. 


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WINE 


GoJ  can,  because  he  wills  ;  it  is  his  will 
which  makes  his  power. 

ROUSSEXU. — Emilc. 

What  I  will  not,  that  I  cannot  do. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Meas.  for  Meas.,  Act  2,  2. 

O  well  for  him  whose  will  is  strong  ! 
He  suffers,  but  he  will  not  suffer  long  ! 
He  suffers,  but  he  cannot  suffer  wrong. 

TENNYSON. — Will. 

The  Will  is  the  Man. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes. 

WILLINGNESS 

Oh,  whistle,  and    I'll   come   to  you,    my 
lad.  BURNS. — Song. 

Barkis  is  willin'. 
DICKENS. — David  Copperfield,  eft.  5. 

"  When  a  man  says  he's  willin',"  said 
]Ur.  Barkis,  "  it's  as  mnch  as  to  say,  that 
man's  a-waitin'  for  a  answer." 

DICKENS. — Ib.,  ch.  8. 

The  readiness  of  doing  doth  express 
No  other  but  the  doer's  willingness. 
HERRICK. — Hesperides  :  Readiness. 

WILLS 

No  customer  brings  so  much  grist  to  the 

mill, 
As  the  wealthy  old  woman  who  makes  her 

own  Will. 

LORD  NEAVES. — The  Jolly  Testator  who 
makes  his  own  Will. 

The  man  who  has  not  made  his  will  at 
forty  is  worse  than  a  fool — almost  a  knave. 
JOHN  WILSON. — Noctes,  10. 
WINDOWS 

From  a  window  richly  peint 
With  lives  of  many  divers  seint. 

CHAUCER. — Chaucer's  Dream. 

And  storied  windows  richly  dight, 
Casting  a  dim  religious  light. 

MILTON. — //  Penserosf, 
WINDS 

Perhaps  the  wind 

Wails  so  in  winter  for  the  summer's  dead, 
And  all  sad  sounds  are  nature's  funeral 

cries 

For  what  has  been  and  is  not. 
GEO.  ELIOT. — The  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  i. 

It's  a  warm  wind,  the  west  wind,  full  of 
birds*  cries. 

J.  MASEFIELD. — West  Wind. 

So  near  to  mute  the  zephyrs  flute 

That  only  leaflets  dance. 
GEO.  MEREDITH.— -Outer  and  Inner,  st.  19. 

Take  a  straw  and  throw  it  up  into  the 
air,  and  you  may  see  by  that  which  way  tho 
wind  is.  SEI.DEN. — Table  Talk  :  Libels. 


Cease,  rude  Boreas !  blustering  railer  1 
G.  A.  STEVENS. — The  Storm 

Yet  true  it  is  as  cow  chews  cud, 
And  trees  at  spring  do  yield  forth  bud, 
Except  wind  stands  as  never  it  stood 
It  is  an  ill  wind  turns  none  to  good. 

T.  TUSSER. — A  Description  of  the 
Properties  of  Winds  (Ed.  1580). 
The  south  wind  brines  wet  weather  ; 
The  north  wind  wet  and  cold  together  ; 
The  west  wind  always  brings  us  rain  ; 
The  east  wind  blows  it  back  again. 

Old  Saying. 

When  the  wind  is  in  the  east, 
It's  neither  good  for  man  nor  beast ; 
When  the  wind  is  in  the  west, 
Then  the  fishes  bite  the  best ; 
When  the  wind  is  in  the  north, 
Then  it  blows  the  fishes  forth  ; 
When  the  wind  is  in  the  south, 
It  blows  the  bait  in  the  fishes'  mouth. 
Old  Saying. 
East  and  Wast, 
The  sign  o'  a  blast ; 
North  and  South, 
The  sign  o'  a  drouth. 

Scottish  savin?. 
WINE 

I  love  good  wine 

As  I  love  health  and  joy  of  heart,  but  tem- 
perately. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Wit 
without  Money,  Act  3. 

"  I  rather  like  bad  wine,"  said  Mr. 
Mountchesney  :  "  one  gets  so  bored  with 
good  wine."  DISRAELI. — Sybil,  ch.  i. 

And  much  as  Wine  has  played  the  Infidel, 
And  robbed  me  of  my  Robe  of  Honour, — 

Well, 

I  wonder  often  what  the  Vintners  buy 

One-half  so  precious  as  the  stuff  they  soil. 

FITZGERALD. — Rubdiydt,  st.  95. 

Claret  is  the  liquor  for  boys  ;  port  for 
men  ;  but  he  who  aspires  to  be  a  hero  must 
drink  brandy.  JOHNSON. — Remark,  1779. 

O  for  a  beaker  full  of  the  warm  South, 
Full  of  the  true,  the  blushful  Hippocrene. 
With  beaded  bubbles  winking  at  the  brim. 
And  purple  staine'd  mouth. 

KEATS. — Ode  to  a  Nightingale. 

Note  the  superiority  of  wine  over  Venus 
— J  may  say  the  magnanimity  of  wine  ! 
Our  jealousy  turns  on  him  that  will  not 
share  !  GEO.  MEREDITH. — Egoist,  ch.  19. 

Come,  come !  Good  wine  is  a  good 
familiar  creature,  if  it  be  well  used. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  2,  3. 

Wines  that,  Heaven  knows  when, 
Had  sucked  the  fire  of  some  forgotten  sun. 
And  kept  it  through  a  hundred  years  ot 

gloom. 

TENNYSON. — Golden  Supper,  I.  192. 


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WINTER 


Look  not  thou  upon  the  wine  when  it  is 
red.  Proverbs  xxiii,  31. 

Drink  no  longer  water,  but  use  a  little 
wine  for  thy  stomach's  sake. 

i  Timothy  v,  23. 

Firm  and  erect  the  Caledonian  stood ; 
Sound  was  his  mutton,  and  his  claret  good  ; 
"  Let  him  drink  port !  "  the  English  states- 
man cried : 

He  drank  the  poison,  and  his  spirit  died. 
ANON. — (Dodd's  Epigramtnatists,  1870, 
p.  423. — See  "Scotland.") 

WINTER 

The  tendinous  part  of  the  mind,  so  to 
speak,  is  more  developed  in  winter ;  the 
fleshy,  in  summer.  I  should  say  winter 
had  given  the  bone  and  sinew  to  litera- 
ture, summer  the  tissues  and  the  blood. 

JOHN  BURROUGHS. — The  Snow-Walkers. 

On  Linden  when  the  sun  was  low, 
All  bloodless  lay  the  untrodden  snow, 
And  dark  as  winter  was  the  flow 
Of  Iser,  rolling  rapidly. 

CAMPBELL. — Hohenlinden . 

I  crown  thee  king  of  intimate  delights, 
Fireside  enjoyments,  homeborn  happiness. 
COWPER. — Winter  Evening. 

In  winter  when  the  dismal  rain 
Came  down  in  slanting  lines, 

And  wind,  that  grand  old  harper,  smote 
His  thunder-harp  of  pines 

ALEX.  SMITH. — Life  Drama. 

We  have  had  a  superb  summer,  but  I 
am  glad  it  is  over.  I  am  never  happy  till 
the  fires  are  lighted. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. — Letter  to  Mrs. 
Meynell,  1843. 

See,  Winter  comes  to  rule  the  varied  year, 
Sullen  and  sad.         THOMSON. — Winter,  i. 

An  air  [early]  winter  makes  a  sair  [sore] 
winter. 

Scottish  proy.  (The  English  version  is  : 
"An  early  winter,  a  surly  winter.") 

Seagull,  seagull,  sit  on  the  sand ; 
It's  never  guid  weather  when  you're  on  the 
land.  Scottish  saying. 

Under  snaw,  bread ; 

Under  water,  dearth. 

Scottish  saying  (as  to  the  respective  effects  of 
a  snowy  or  a  wet  winter) . 
WISDOM 

He  thought  as  a  sage,  though  he  felt  as 
a  man.  BEATTIE. — The  Hermit. 

Knowledge  is  proud  that  he  has  learned  so 

much ; 

Wisdom  is  humble  that  he  knows  no  more. 
COWPER. — Winter  Morning  Walk. 


WISDOM 

Raphael  paints  wisdom,  Handel  sings 
it,  Phidias  carves  it,  Shakespeare  writes  it, 
Wren  builds  it,  Columbus  sails  it,  Luther 
preaches  it,  Washington  arms  it,  Watt 
mechanizes  it.  EMERSON. — Civilization. 

They  who  travel  in  pursuit  of  wisdom 
walk  only  in  a  circle,  and,  after  all  their 
labour,  at  last  return  to  their  pristine 
ignorance. 

GOLDSMITH. — Citizen  of  the  World,  37. 

Yet  his  look  with  the  reach  of  past  ages 

was  wise, 
And  the  soul  of  eternity  thought  through 

his  eyes. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — Feast  of  Poets. 

Wisdom  is  to  the  soul  what  health  is  to 

the  body.  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. — 

Maxim  620. 

For  only  by  unlearning  Wisdom  comes. 
J.  R."  LOWELL. — Parting  of  the  Ways. 

People  are  never  so  near  playing  the 
fool  as  when  they  think  themselves  wise. 

LADY  M.  WORTLEY  MONTAGU. — 

Letter,  March  i,  1755. 

Many  agree  with  you  [Hippias,  a  venal 

sophist]  that  the  wise  man  should  be  wise 

for  himself  especially.     The  definition  of 

such  a  wise  man  is,  "  He  who  can  make 

most  money."  PLATO. — Hippias  Major,  6. 

Wisdom  and  knowledge  are  the  most 
powerful  of  all  human  things. 

PLATO. — Protagoras,  104  (Gary  tr.). 
(Remark  of  Protagoras.) 

No  mortal  is  wise  at  all  times. 

PLINY  THE  ELDER. 

We   live    and   learn,  but   not   the  wiser 
grow.  J.  POMFRET. — Reason. 

Be  wisely  worldly,  be  not  worldly  wise. 
QUARLES. — Emblems. 

Unmuzzle  your  wisdom. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  i,  2. 

Thou  speakest  wiser  than  thou  art  ware  of. 
SHAKESPEARE. — fb.,  Act  2,  4. 

Some  folks  are  wise,  and  some  are  other- 
wise. SMOLLETT. — Roderick  Random,  ch.  6. 

A  good  life  is  the  best  way  to  under- 
stand wisdom  and  religion. 

JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

Wearing  his  wisdom  lightly. 

TENNYSON. — Dedication. 

To   the   first   (Pleasure),   in   a   gallant 

fashion,  he  gave  two  kisses  in  passing  ; 

to  the  second  (Wisdom),  he  gave  his  heart. 

VOLTAIRE. — Sesostris. 


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WIT 


Wisdom  alone  is  true  ambition's  aim 
Wisdom  the  source  of  virtue,  and  of  fame, 
Obtained  with  labour,  for  mankind  em- 
ployed, 

And  then,  when  most  you  share  it,  best 
enjoyed. 

W.  WHITEHEAD. — On  Nobility. 

Disasters,  do  the  best  we  can, 

Will  reach  both  great  and  small ; 

And  he  is  oft  the  wisest  man 
Who  is  not  wise  at  all. 

WORDSWORTH. — Oak  and  Broom. 

Thy  wisdom  all  can  do,  but — make  thee 
wise.         YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 

No  doubt  but  ye  are  the  people,  and 
wisdom  shall  die  with  you.          Job  xii  2. 

Wisdom  is  better  than  rubies. 

Proverbs  viii,  n. 

In  much  wisdom  is  much  grief. 

Ecclesiastes  i,  18. 

The  words  of  the  wise  are  as  goads. 

Ecclesiastes  xii,  n. 

Do  you  not  know  with  how  little  wisdom 
the  world  is  governed  ? 
Attrib.  to  Count  Axel  Oxenstierna  of  Sweden 
(1583-1654).     See  Government. 

Some  men  are  wise,  and  some  are  other- 
wise. Prov.  (Ray). 

He  is  very  wise  who  is  not  foolish  for 
long.  Latin  prov. 

WISHES 

Time  teaches  us  that  oft  One  Higher, 

Unasked,  a  happier  lot  bestows, 
Than  if  each  blighted  dream-desire 
Had  blossomed  like  a  rose. 

SIR  F.  H.  C.  DOYLE. — Dedicatory 
Stanzas,  8. 

I  have  often  had  the  fool's  hectic  of 
wishing  about  the  unalterable. 

GEO.  ELIOT. — Theophrastus  Such  : 
Looking  Backward. 
I  wish  I  knew  the  good  of  wishing. 

H.  S.  LEIGH. — Wishing. 
Wishers  were  ever  fools. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Antony  and  Cleopatra, 
Act  4,  13. 

Thy    wish    was    father,    Harry,    to    that 
thought. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV. ,  Pt.  2, 
Act  4,  4. 

In  such  a  case  they  talk  in  tropes, 
And  by  their  fears  express  their  hopes. 

SWIFT. — On  the  Death  of  Dr.  Swift. 

What  most  we  wish,  with  ease  we  fancy 
near.    YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  3. 

Wishing  of  all  employments,  is  the  worst. 
YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  4. 


Wishing,  that  constant  hectic  of  a  fool. 
YOUNG.  —  Ib. 
Like  our  shadows, 

Our  wishes  lengthen,  as  our  sun  declines. 
YOUNG.  —  Ib.,  5. 

What  ardently  we  wish,  we  soon  believe. 
YOUNG.  —  Ib.,  7. 
WIT 

What  foolish  people  wits  are  ! 

BEAUMARCHAIS.  —  Barber  of  Seville. 

What  things  have  we  seen 
Done  at  the  Mermaid  !   heard  words  that 

have  been 

So  nimble,  and  so  full  of  subtile  flame. 
As  if  that  everyone  from  whence  they  came 
Had  meant  to  put  his  whole  wit  in  a  jest, 
And  had  resolved  to  live  a  fool  the  rest 
Of  his  dull  life. 

F.  BEAUMONT.  —  Letter  to  B.  Jonson. 

We  grant  although  he  had  much  wit, 
He  was  very  shy  of  using  it. 

BUTLER.  —  Hudibras,  Pt.  i,  i. 

Wit  is  that  which  excites  agreeable  sur- 
prise in  the  mind  by  the  strange  assemblage 
of  related  images  presented  to  it. 

G.  CAMPBELL.  —  Philosophy  of  Rhetoric 


Wit  will  shine 
Through  the  harsh  cadence  of  a  rugged 
line. 
DRYDEN.  —  In  Memory  of  Mr.  Oldham. 

His  wit  is  of  the  lambent  and  not  of  the 
forked  kind  :  it  lights  up  every  topic  with 
grace  and  variety,  and  it  hurts  nobody. 

SIR  A.  HELPS.  —  Friends  in  Council, 
Bk.  2,  ch.  3. 

Wit  is  the  clash  and  reconcilement  of 
incongruities  ;  the  meeting  of  extremes 
round  a  corner. 

LEIGH  HUNT.  —  Wit  and  Humour. 

There  are  no  fools  so  troublesome  as 
those  who  have  wit. 

LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD.  —  Maxim  451. 

His  wit  burns  at  the  expense  of  his 
memory.  LE  SAGE.  —  Gil  Bias,  Bk.  3, 

ch.  ii  (Of  Carlos  Alonso  de  la  Ventoleria). 

Whose  wit,  in  the  combat,  as  gentle  as 

bright, 
Ne'er  carried  a  heart-stain  away  on  its 

blade.  MOORE.  —  On  Sheridan. 

True  wit  is  nature  to  advantage  dressed, 
What  oft  was  thought,  but  ne'er  so  well 
expressed.         POPE.  —  Criticism,  297. 

Some  men's  wit  is  like  a  dark  lantern, 
which  serves  their  own  turn  and  guides 
them  their  own  way,  but  is  never  known 
(according  to  the  Scripture  phrase)  either 
to  shine  forth  before  men  or  to  glorify 
their  Father  in  heaven. 

POPE.  —  Thoughts  on  Various  Sub  ects. 


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WIVES 


Generally  speaking  there  is  more  wit 
ihan  talent  in  this  world.  Society  swarms 
uith  witty  people  who  lack  talent. 

DE  RIVAROL. — On  Mme.  de  Stacl. 

And  wit  that  loved  to  play,  not  wound. 
SCOTT. — Marmion,  Intro. 

Honesty  sometimes  keeps  a  man  from 

growing  rich,  and  civility  from  being  witty. 

J.  SELDEN.— Wit. 

You  have  a  nimble  wit ;  I  think  it  was 
made  of  Atalanta's  heels. 

SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It, 
Act  3,  2. 

I  am  not  only  witty  in  myself,  but  the 
cause  that  wit  is  in  other  men. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  IV.,  Pt.  2, 
Act  i,  2. 

Your  wit's   too   hot,  it   speeds   too   fast. 

'twill  tire.  SHAKESPEARE. — 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  Act  2,  i. 

Thy  wit  is  a  very  bitter  sweeting  :  it  is 
most  sharp  sauce. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Romeo  and  Juliet, 
Act  2,  4. 

Surprise  is  so  essential  an  ingredient  of 
wit  that  no  wit  will  bear  repetition  :  — at 
least  the  original  electrical  feeling  pro- 
duced by  any  piece  of  wit  can  never  be 
renewed.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — 

Lectures  on  Moral  Philosophy,  No.  10. 

It  is  with  wits  as  with  razors,  which  are 
never  so  apt  to  cut  those  they  are  employed 
on  as  when  they  have  lost  their  edge. 
SWIFT. — Tale  of  a  Tub :  Author's  Preface. 

And  wit  its  honey  lent,  without  the  sting. 
THOMSON. — On  Lord  Talbot. 

Nae  wut  [wit]  without  a  portion  o'  im- 
pertinence. 

JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes  Ambrosiana. 

For  though  he  is  a  wit,  he  is  no  fool. 

YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame.  Sat.  2. 

May  those  perish  who  have  said  our 
good  things  before  us  ! 
Attrib.  to  Donatus ;  also  to  St.  Augustine. 

WITCHES 

I  have  ever  believed,  and  do  now  know, 
that  there  are  Witches.  They  that  are 
in  doubt  of  these  . . .  are  obliquely  and 
upon  consequence  a  sort,  not  of  Infidels, 
but  of  Atheists.  SIR  T.  BROWNE. — 

Religio  Medici,  Pt.  i,  30. 

What  are  these, 

So  withered  and  so  wild  in  their  attire  ; 
That  look  not  like  the  inhabitants  o*  the 

earth, 
And  yet  are  on  it  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  i,  3. 


The  Devil  will  ietch  me  now  in  fire, 

My  witchcrafts  to  atone  ; 
And  I,  who  have  rifled  the  dead  man's 

grave, 
Shall  never  have  rest  in  my  own. 

SOUTHEY. — Old  Woman  of  Berkeley. 

WIVES 

Nothing  can  match,  where'er  we  roam, 
An  English  wife  in  English  home. 

A.  AUSTIN. — On  Returning  to 
England,  I.  148. 
So  bent  on  self-sanctifying, — 
That  she  never  thought  of  trying 
To  save  her  poor  husband  as  well. 

R.  BUCHANAN. — Fra  Giacomo. 

Were  such  the  wife  had  fallen  to  my  part, 

I'd  break  her  spirit,  or  I'd  break  her  heart. 

BURNS. — Henpecked  Husband. 

I  hae  a  wife  o'  my  ain. 

BURNS. — /  hae  a  Wife. 

Man's  best  possession  is  a  loving  wife. 

BURTON. — Tr.  of  Euripides. 

The  flour  of  wyfly  patience. 

CHAUCER. — Clerk's  Tale. 

A  wife  is  goddes  gifte  verily, 
All  other  manner  gif  tes  hardily,  [assuredly] 
As  londes,  rentes,  pasture,  or  commune, 
Or  moebles  [moveable  chattels],  alle  ben 

giftes  of  fortune, 
That  passen  as  a  shadow  upon  a  wall. 

CHAUCER. — Merchant's  Tale,  67. 

Ther  been  ful  good  wyves  many  a  one, 
And  ever  a  thousand  good  against  one  bad. 
CHAUCER. — Miller's  Prol.,  46. 

Men  seyn  that  three  things  dryven  a 

man  out  of  his  house  :    that  is  to  seyn, 

smoke,  dropping  of  rain,  and  wicked  wives. 

CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus,  sec.  15. 

What  rugged  ways  attend  the  noon  of  life  ! 
Our  sun  declines,  and  with  what  anxious 

strife, 
What  pain,  we  tug  that  galling  load,  a 

wife  ! 
CONGREVE. — Old  Bachelor,  Act  5,  5. 

O  Mrs.  Higden,  Mrs.  Higden,  you  was  a 
woman  and  a  mother,  and  a  mangier  in 
a  million  million. 

DICKENS. — Mutual  Friend,  Bk.  2,  ch.  9. 

There  is  no  worse  evil  than  a  bad  woman; 
and  nothing  has  ever  been  produced  better 
than  a  good  one. 

EURIPIDES. — Melanippe. 

One  wife  is  too  much  for  most  husbands 

to  bear, 
But  two  at  a  time  there's  no  mortal  can 

bear. 

GAY. — Beggar's  Opera,  Act  2,  2. 


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WIVES 


If  you'll  marry  me,  I'll  scrub  for  you  and 

bake  for  you  ; 
If  you'll  marry  me,  all  others  I'll  forsake 

for  you. 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Sorcerer. 

She  will  tend  him,  nurse  him,  mend  him, 

Air  his  linen,  dry  his  tears  ; 
Bless  the  thoughtful  fates  that  send  him 

Such  a  wife  to  soothe  his  years  ! 

SIR  W.  S.  GILBERT. — Ib. 

Sure,  I  said,  Heaven  did  not  mean, 
Where  I  reap  thou  shouldst  but  glean, 
Lay  thy  sheaf  a  down  and  come, 
Share  my  harvest  and  my  home. 

HOOD.— Ruth. 

Alas  !  another  instance  of  the  triumph 
of  hope  over  experience. 

JOHNSON. — -Remark  in  reference  to  the 
second  marriage  of  a  friend  who  had  been 
unfortunate  in  hit  first  wife.  (Sir  J.  Haw- 
kins's Collective  Ed.  of  Johnson,  1787.) 

Being  married  to  those  sleepy-souled 
women  is  just  like  playing  at  cards  for 
nothing  :  no  passion  is  excited  and  the 
time  is  filled  up.  I  do  not,  however,  envy 
a  fellow  one  of  those  honeysuckle  wives 
for  my  part,  as  they  are  but  creepers  at 
best  and  commonly  destroy  the  tree  they 
so  tenderly  cling  about. 

JOHNSON. — Remark  as  Recorded  by 
Mrs.  Piozzi. 

She  is  my  own  lawfully  begotten  wife, 
In  wedlock. 

BEN  JONSON. — New  Inn,  Act  4,  3. 

I  fear  that  in  the  election  of  a  wife, 
As  in  a  project  of  war,  to  err  but  once 
Is  to  be  undone  for  ever. 

MIDDLETON. — Anything  for  a  Quiet 
Life,  Act  i,  i. 

God  is  thy  law,  thou  mine  ;    to  know  no 

more 
Is  woman's  happiest  knowledge  and  her 

praise. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  4,  637. 

My  fairest,  my  espoused,  my  latest  found, 

Heaven's    last   best    gift,    my    ever   new 

delight.  MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  5,  18. 

For  nothing  lovelier  can  be  found 
In  woman,  than  to  st'idy  household  good, 
And  good  woiks  in  h-r  husband  to  pro- 
mote. MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  9,  232. 

The  wife,  where  danger  or  dishonour  lurks, 

Safest  and  seemliest  by  her  husband  stays. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  267. 

This  woman,  whom  thou  mad'st  to  be  my 

help, 

And  gav'st  me  as  thy  perfect  gift,  so  good, 
So  fit,  so  acceptable,  so  divine. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  10,  137. 


Well-dowered  wives  bring  evil  and  loss 
to  their  husbands. 

PLAUTUS. — A  ulularia,  sc.  1 7. 

All  other  goods  by   Fortune's  hand  are 

given, 
A  wife  is  the  peculiar  gift  of  heaven. 

POPE. — January  and  May,  51. 

She  who  ne'er  answers  till  a  husband  cools, 
Or,  if  she  rules  him,  never  shows  she  rules  ; 
Charms  by  accepting,  by  submitting 

sways, 

Yet  has  her  humour  most  when  she  obeys. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  2,  261. 

A  guardian  angel,  o'er  his  life  presiding, 
Doubling    his    pleasures    and    his    cares 
dividing.  ROGERS. — Human  Life. 

The  partner  of  my  soul, 
My  wife,   the   kindest,   dearest,   and  the 

truest, 
That  ever  wore  the  name. 

N.  ROWE. — Royal  Convert,  Act  2,  i. 

You  are  my  true  and  honourable  wife  ; 
As  dear  to  me  as  are  the  ruddy  drops 
That  visit  my  sad  heart. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Julius  Ceesar,  Act  2,  i. 

A  fellow  almost  damned  in  a  fair  wife, 
That  never  set  a  squadron  in  the  field 
Xor  the  division  of  a  battle  knows, 
More  than  a  spinster. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Othello,  Act  i,  i. 

My  wife  !  my  wife  !  what  wife  ? — I  have 
no  wife.     SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  5,  2. 

Such  duty  as  the  subject  owes  the  prince, 

Even  such  a  woman  oweth  to  her  husband. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Taming  of  the  Shrew, 

Act  5,  2. 

She  is  mine  own  ; 

And  I  as  rich  in  having  such  a  jewel, 

As  twenty  seas,  if  all  their  sand  were  pearl, 

The  water  nectar,  and  the  rocks  pure  gold. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  oj 

Verona,  Act  2,  4. 

Men  may  be  bad,  but  still  they  like 
A  pious  wife  that  lives  for  heaven. 
WALTER  C.  SMITH. — Olrig  Grange,  Bk.  3. 

Richard  Penlake  was  a  cheerful  man, 

Cheerful  and  frank  and  free, 
But  he  led  a  sad  life  with  Rebecca  his  wife, 

For  a  terrible  shrew  was  she. 

SOUTHEY. — St.  Michael's  Chair. 

He  will  hold  thee,  when  his  passion  shall 

have  spent  its  novel  force, 
Something  better  than  his  dog,  a  little 

dearer  than  his  horse. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

When  the  man  wants  weight,  the  woman 

takes  it  up, 
And  topples  down  the  scales. 

TENNYSON. — Princess,  c.  5,  434. 


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WOMAN 


A    good   housewife   is   of   necessity   a 
humbug. 
THACKERAY. — Vanity  Fair,  Bk.  i,  ch.  17. 

But  when  the  closer  view  of  wedded  life 
Hath  shown  that  nothing  human  can  be 

clear 
From  frailty,   for   that   insight  may  the 

Wife 
To  her  indulgent  Lord  become  more  dear  ! 

WORDSWORTH. — Sonnet,  On  the  Eve  of 
the  marriage  of  a  Friend,  1812. 

Giving  honour  unto  the  wife,  as  unto  the 
weaker  vessel.  i  St.  Peter  iii,  7. 

The  wife  of  every  Englishman  is  counted 
blest.  Song  (c.  1596). 

A  good  wife  and  health  are  a  man's  best 
wealth.  Prov. 

Better  a  fortune  in  a  wife  than  with  a 
wife.  Prov. 

Husbands  can  earn,  but  only  wives  can 
save.  Prov. 

If  your  wife  be  crust,  mind  that  you  are 
crumb.  Prov. 

It  is  a  good  horse  that  never  stumbles, 
And  a  good  wife  that  never  grumbles. 

Prov. 

A  diamond  daughter  turns  to  glass  as 
a  wife.  Dutch  prov. 

Go  down  the  ladder  when  thou  chopsest 

a  wife,  go  up  when  thou  choosest  a  friend. 

Hebrew  prov. 

Wae's  the  wife  that  wants  the  tongue, 
but  weel's  the  man  that  gets  her. 

Scottish  prov. 

Mony  wyte  [blame]  their  wife  for  their 
ain  thriftless  life.  Scottish  prov. 

A'  are  guid  lasses,  but  where  dp  a'  the 
ill  wives  come  frae  ?  Scottish  prov. 

The  foot  at  the  cradle  and  the  hand  at  the 

reel 

Is  a  sign  that  a  woman  means  to  do  weei. 
Scottish  saying. 
WOE 

A  woman's  counsel  brought  us  first  to  woe. 
And  made  her  man  his  paradise  forgo. 

DRYDEN. — Cock  and  the  Fox. 

In  all  the  sad  variety  of  woe. 

W.  GIFFORD. — Baviad. 

And  her  woe  began  to  run  afresh, 
As  if  she'd  said  Gee  woe  ! 

HOOD. — Sally  Brmon. 

When  our  heads  are  bowed  with  woe, 
When  our  bitter  tears  o'erflow. 

DEAN  MILMAN. — Hymn. 


Weep  on  :   and  as  thy  sorrows  flow, 
I'll  taste  the  luxury  of  woe. 

MOORE. — Anacreontic. 

Aghast  I  stood,  a  monument  of  woe. 

POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  12,  311. 
WOMAN 

Woman's  love  is  writ  in  water  ! 
Woman's  faith  is  traced  in  sand. 
W.  E.  AYTOUN. — Chas.  Edwards. 

But    woman,    wakeful    woman's    never 

weary, 
Above  all,  when  she  waits  to  thump  her 

deary  !      R.  H.  BARHAM. — The  Ghost. 

Man  had  a  Conscience  to  obey  his  will, 
And  never  would  be  tempted  thereunto, 
Untill  the  Woeman,  shee,  did  wprke  man 

woe.    R.  BARNFIELD. — Conscience  and 

Covetousnesse  (1598). 

Not  she  with  trait'rous  kiss  her  Saviour 

stung, 

Not  she  denied  Him  with  unholy  tongue  ; 
She,  while  apostles  shrank,  could  danger 

brave, 

Last  at  His  cross  and  earliest  at  His  grave. 
EATON  S.  BARRETT. — Woman. 

Poets,  beware  !   Never  compare 
Women  to  aught  in  earth  or  in  air. 

T.  H.  BAYLY. — Son.?. 

The  fool  that  willingly  provokes  a  woman 
Has  made  himself  another  evil  angel, 
And  a  new  hell,  to  which  all  other  torments 
Are  but  mere  pastime. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Cupid's 
Revenge  (c.  1612),  Act  3. 

Tell  me   the   cause  ;    I   know   there  is  a 

woman  in  't. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Humorous 
Lieutenant,  Act  4,  3, 

There  is  no  other  purgatory  but  a  woman. 

BEAUMONT  AND  FLETCHER. — Scornful 

Lady,  Act  3. 

Let  men  say  what  they  will, 
Woman,  woman,  rules  them  still. 

1.  BICKERSTAFFE. — Sultan. 

Womanliness  means  only  motherhood  ; 
All  love  begins  and  ends  there. 

BROWNING. — Inn  Album. 

Mothers,  wives,  and  maids, 
These    be    the    tools    wherewith    priests 
manage  men. 
BROWNING. — Ring  and  the  Book,  4,  503. 

A  woman's  always  younger  than  a  man 
At  equal  years. 
E.  B.  BROWNING. — Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  2. 

Perhaps  a  better  woman  after  all, 

With  chubby  children  hanging  on  my  neck 

To  keep  me  low  and  wise. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. — Ib. 


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WOMAN 


There  is  no  solace  under  heaven, 
Of  all  that  a  man  may  neven, 
That  should  a  man  so  much  glew, 
As  3.  good  woman  that  loveth  trew. 
ROBERT  DE  BRUNNE. — Handlyng  of  Sins. 

And  farewell,  dear,  deluding  woman, 
The  joy  of  joys  ! 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  Jas.  Smith. 

Auld  Nature  swears  the  lovely  dears 
Her  noblest  work  she  classes,  O  ; 

Her  prentice  hand  she  tried  on  man, 
And  then  she  made  the  lasses,  O. 

BURNS. — Green  grow  the  rashes. 

The  wisest  man  the  warl*  e'er  saw, 
He  dearly  loved  the  lasses,  O. 

BURNS. — Ib. 

Their  tricks  and  craft  hae  put  me  daft, 

They've  ta'en  me  in,  and  a'  that, 
But  clear  your  decks,   and — Here's  the 

sex  ! 
I  like  the  jads  for  a'  that. 

BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

'Twas  a  strange  riddle  of  a  lady. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  i. 

For  'tis  in  vain  to  think  or  guess 
At  women  by  appearances. 

BUTLER. — Ib.,  Pt.  3. 

The  souls  of  women  are  so  small 
That  some  believe  they've  none  at  all. 
BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

Not  much  he  kens,  1  ween,  of  woman's 

breast, 
Who  thinks  that  wanton  thing  is  won  by 

sighs. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  2,  34. 

There  is  a  tide  in  the  affairs  of  women 
Which,   taken   at   the   flood,   leads — God 
knows  where. 

BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  6,  2. 

Believe  a  woman  or  an  epitaph, 
Or  any  other  thing  that's  false. 

BYRON. — English  Bards^ 

The  world  was  sad  ;  the  garden  was  a  wild  •' 
And  man,  the  hermit,  sighed — till  woman 
smiled. 

CAMPBELL. — Pleasures  of  Hope,  2. 

0  sely  womman,  ful  of  innocence, 

Ful  of  pitee,  of  trouthe,  and  conscience, 
What  maked  yow  to  men  to  trusten  so  ? 
CHAUCER. — Dido. 

For  lakke  of  answer  noon  of  [t]hem  shall 
dyen. 

CHAUCER. — Merchant's  Tale,  1027. 

1  am  a  wooman,  needes  most  [must]   I 

speke, 

Or  elles  [else]  swelle  til  myn  hertd  breke. 
CHAUCER. — Ib.,  1061. 


P'or  also  siker  [sure]  as  In  principio 

Mulier  est  hominis  confusio  ; 

Madame,  the  sentence  [meaning]  of  this 

Latin  is — 

Womman  is  mannes  loye  and  al  his  blis. 
CHAUCER. — Nun  Priest's  Tale,  343. 

There  said  once  a  clerk :  "  What  is  better 
than  gold  ?  Jasper.  What  is  better  than 
Jasper  ?  Wisdom.  And  what  is  better 
than  Wisdom  ?  Woman.  And  what  is 
better  than  a  good  Woman  ?  Nothing."  i 
CHAUCER. — Tale  of  Melibeus,  sec.  15. 

What  is  woman  ?  Only  one  of  Nature's 
agreeable  blunders. 

MRS.  H.  COWLEY. — Who's  the  Dupe  ? 
Act  2,  2. 

While  learning,  once  the  man's  exclusive 

pride, 

Seems  verging  fast  towards  the  female  side. 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  428. 

Women  may  be  whole  oceans  deeper 
than  we  are,  but  they  are  also  a  whole 
paradise  better.  She  may  have  got  us  out 
of  Eden,  but  as  a  compensation  she  makes 
the  earth  very  pleasant. 

JOHN  OLIVER  HOBBES. 
— The  Ambassador,  Act  3. 

Were  there  no  women,  men  might  live 

like  gods.      DEKKER. — Honest  Whore, 

Pt.  i,  Act  3,  i. 

There's  no  music  when  a  woman  is  in 
the  concert. 

DEKKER. — Ib.,  Pt.  2,  Act  4,  3- 

What  all  your  sex  desire  is  Sovereignty. 
DRYDEN. — Wife  of  Bath. 

A  woman  should  always  stand  by  a 
woman.  EURIPIDES. — Helena. 

I  hate  a  learned  woman. 

EURIPIDES. — Hip.,  640. 

But  sure  among  all  those 
Who  have  with  breath  and  reason  been 

endued, 
We  women  are  the  most  unhappy  race. 

EURIPIDES. — Medea,  230 
(Woodhull  tr.). 

How  a  little  love  and  conversation  im- 
prove a  woman  ! 
FARQUHAR. — Beaux'  Stratagem,  Act  4,  2. 

Our    sex    still  strikes  an  awe  upon  the 

brave, 

And  only  cowards  dare  affront  a  woman. 
FARQUHAR. — Constant  Couple,  Act  5,  i. 

A  woman  friend  I    He  tnat  believes  that 

weakness, 
Steers  in  a  stormy  night  without  a  compass. 

FLETCHER. — Woman  Pl/assd,  Act  2.  i. 


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WOMAN 


Yet  when  I  hold  her  best,  she's  but  a 

woman, 
As  full  of  frailty  as  of  faith  ;  a  poor  slight 

woman, 

And  her  best   thoughts  but  weak  forti- 
fications. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Little 
French  Lawyer,  Act  3 

Woman,  T  tell  you,  is  a  microcosm  : 
and  rightly  to  rule  her,  requires  as  great 
talents  as  to  govern  a  state. 

S.  FOOTE. — The  Minor. 

Tis  woman  that  seduces  all  mankind. 

GAY. — Beggar's  Opera. 

And  when  a  lady's  in  the  case, 

You  know  all  other  things  give  place. 

GAY. — Fables. 

Man  has  his  will, — but  woman  has  her 
way. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. — Poems  from  the  Auto- 
crat of  the  Breakfast  Table.     Prologue. 

Still,  for  all  slips  of  hers, 
One  of  Eve's  family. 

HOOD. — Bridge  of  Sighs. 

Owning  her  weakness, 
Her  evil  behaviour, 
And  leaving,  with  meekness, 
Her  sins  to  her  Saviour  ! 

HOOD. — Ib. 

Man,  born  of  woman,  must  of  woman  die. 
HOOD. — Valentine. 

0  woman  !  thou  wert  fashioned  to  beguile  ; 
So  have  all  ages  said,  all  poets  sung. 

JEAN  INGELOW. — Four  Bridges,  st.  68. 

One  woman  reads  another's  character 
Without  the  tedious  trouble  of  deciphering. 
BEN  JONSON. — New  Inn,  Act  4. 

Of  all  the  plagues  with  which  the  world  is 

curst, 

Of  every  ill,  a  woman  is  the  worst. 
LORD  LANSDOWNE. — British  Enchanters, 

Act  2. 

Standing  with  reluctant  feet 
Where  the  brook  and  river  meet, 
Womanhood  and  childhood  fleet. 

LONGFELLOW. — Maidenhood. 

Earth's    noblest    thing,    a    Woman    per- 
fected. J.  R.  LOWELL. — Irene. 

God's  rarest  blessing  is,  after  all,  a  good 
woman. 
GEO.  MEREDITH. — Richard  Fever  el,  ch.  34. 

1  always  thought  a  tinge  of  blue 
Improved  a  charming  woman's  stocking. 

R.  MONCKTON  MlLNES  (LORD  HOUGHTON). 

-Four  Lovers,  2 ;  In  Summer. 


What  she  wills  to  do  or  say 
Seems     wisest,     virtuousest,     discreetest, 

best: 

All  higher  knowledge  in  her  presence  falls 
Degraded. 

MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  3,  549. 

Thus  it  shall  befall 

Him,  who  to  worth  in  women  overtrusting, 
Lets  her  will  rule.     Restraint  she  will  not 

brook  ; 

And  left  to  herself,  if  evil  thence  ensue, 
She  first  his  weak  indulgence  will  accuse. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  9,  1182. 

A  bevy  of  fair  women,  richly  gay 
In  gems  and  wanton  dress. 

MILTON. — Ib.,  Bk.  n,  582. 

Wisest  men 

Have  erred,  and  by  bad  women  been  de- 
ceived, 

And  shall  again,  pretend  they  ne'er  so 
wise.  MILTON. — Samson  Agonistes. 

Feminine     policy     has     a     mysterious 

method  ;   it  is  better  to  leave  it  to  them. 

MONTAIGNE. — Essays,  Bk.  3,  5. 

Howe'er  man  rules  in  science  and  in  art, 
The  sphere  of  woman's  glories  is  the  heart. 
MOORE. — Epilogue  to  "  Ina." 

My  only  books 
Were  women's  looks, 
And  folly's  all  they've  taught  me. 

MOORE. — Irish  Melodies. 

Disguise  our  bondage  as  we  will 
'Tis  woman,  woman,  rules  us  still. 

MOORE. — Sovereign  Woman. 

The  light  that  lies 
In  woman's  eyes, 
Has  been  my  heart's  undoing. 

MOORE.— The  Time  I've  lost. 

We  cannot  tell  what  blessed  forces  move 
And  so  transform  the  careless  girlish  heart 
To  bear  so  high  a  part. 
We  cannot  tell :   we  can  but  praise. 

SIR  L.  MORRIS. — Ode  of  Perfect  Years, 

Pt.  2,  53- 

So  I   wonder  a  woman,   the  Mistress  of 

Hearts, 
Should  descend  to  aspire  to  be  Master  of 

Arts; 

A  Ministering  Angel  in  Woman  we  see, 

And  an  Angel  need  covet  no  other  Degree. 

LORD  NEAVES. — O  why  should  a 

Woman  not  get  a  Degree  ? 

Destructive,  damnable,  deceitful  woman  ! 

OTWAY. — Orphan. 

What  mighty  ills  have  not  been  done  by 
woman  ? 

Who  lost  Mark  Antony  the  world  ?  A 
woman  !  OTWAY. — Ib. 


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O  woman,  lovely  woman,  nature  made  thee 
To  temper  man  ;  we  had  been  brutes  with- 
out you  ; 
Angels  are  painted  fair  to  look  like  you. 

OTWAY. — Venice  Preserved,  Act  i,  i. 

Forbear  to  distribute  amongst  all  women 
the  guilt  of  a  few.  OVID. — Ars  Amat. 

Woman's  at  best  a  contradiction  still. 
POPE. — Moral  Essays,  Ep.  2. 

Those  who  always  speak  well  of  women 
do  not  know  them  sufficiently  ;  those  who 
always  speak  ill  of  them  do  not  know  them 
at  all.  GUILLAUME  PIGAULT-LEBRUN 

(I753-I835)- 
Men,  some  to  business,  some  to  pleasure 

lake; 
But  every  woman  is  at  heart  a  rake. 

POPE.— Ib. 

Nothing  so  true  as  what  you  once  let  fall, 

"  Most  women  have  no  characters  at  all." 

POPE. — Ib. 

O  woman,  woman,  when  to  ill  thy  mind 
Is  bent,  all  hell  contains  no  fouler  fiend. 

POPE. — Iliad,  Bk.  n,  531. 

Women,  as  they  are  like  riddles  in  being 
unintelligible,  so  generally  resemble  them 
in  this  that  they  please  us  no  longer  when 
once  we  know  them. 

POPE. — Thoughts  on  Various  Subjects. 

Too  far,  I  own,  the  girl  was  tried — 
The  women  all  were  on  my  side. 

PRIOR. — Conversation,  59. 

As  for  the  women,  though  we  scorn  and 

flout"  em, 
We  may  live  with,  but  cannot  live  without 

'em.  F.  REYNOLDS. — The  Will. 

Every  girl  ought  to  have  her  mother's 
religion,  and  every  wife  her  husband's. 
ROUSSEAU. — Emile 

The  more  women  wish  to  resemble  men 
the  less  they  govern  men  ;  and  it  is  thus 
that  men  will  be  truly  the  masters. 

ROUSSEAU. — Ib. 

VVoman  has  more  wit  and  man  has  more 

genius  ;  woman  observes  and  man  reasons. 

ROUSSEAU. — Ib, 

Women  in  general  love  none  of  the  arts, 

are  proficient  in  none,  and  have  no  genius. 

ROUSSEAU. — Letter  to  D'Alembert. 

Such,  Polly,  are  your  sex — part  truth,  part 
fiction  : 

Some  thought,  much  whim,  and  all  a  con- 
tradiction. 

R.  SAVAGE. — To  a  Young  Lady. 

Women  in  their  hearts  believe  that  men 
are  intended  to  earn  money  so  that  they 


may  spend  it — if  possible  during  the  hus- 
band's lifetime,  but  at  any  rate  after  his 
death.  SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Women. 

The  fundamental  fault  in  the  character 
of  women  is  that  they  have  no  sense  of 
justice.  SCHOPENHAUER. — Ib. 

A  woman  who  is  perfectly  truthful  and 
does  not  dissemble  at  all,  is  perhaps  an 
impossibility.  SCHOPENHAUER. — Ib. 

Women  are  and  remain,  taken  alto- 
gether, most  thorough  and  incurable 
philistines.  SCHOPENHAUER. — Ib. 

They  would  have  all  men  bound  and  thrall 
To  them,  and  they  for  to  be  free. 

ALEX.  SCOT. — Womankind. 

Like  all  rogues  he  was  a  great  calumniator 
of  the  fair  sex. 

SCOTT. — Heart  of  Midlothian,  ch.  18. 

We  hold  our  greyhound  in  our  hand, 

Our  falcon  on  our  glove  ; 
But  where  should  we  find  leash  or  band 

For  dame  that  loves  to  rove  ? 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  i,  17. 

With  a  smile  on  her   lips   and  a  tear  in 
her  eye.  SCOTT. — Ib.,  5,  12. 

0  woman  !  in  our  hours  of  ease 
Uncertain,  coy,  and  hard  to  please, 
And  variable  as  the  shade 

By  the  light  quivering  aspen  made, — 
When  pain  and  anguish  wring  the  brow, 
A  ministering  angel  thou  ! 

SCOTT. — Ib.,  6,  30. 

Who  is  't  can  read  a  woman  ? 

SHAKESPEARE. — Cymbeline,  Act  5,  5. 

Frailty,  thy  name  is  woman. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  2. 

1  have  heard  of  your  paintings  too,  well 
enough.    God  hath  given  you  one  face,  and 
you  make  yourselves  another. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  i. 

She's  beautiful,  and  therefore  to  be  wooed  ; 
She  is  a  woman,  therefore  to  be  won. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Henry  VI.,  Act  5,  3. 

A  child  of  our  grandmother  Eve,  a 
female  ;  or,  for  thy  more  sweet  under- 
standing, a  woman. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  i,  i. 

She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  wooed  ; 
She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  won  ; 
She  is  Lavinia,  therefore  must  be  loved. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Titus  Andronicus, 
Act  2,  i. 
Women  are  angels,  wooing. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Troilux,  Act  i,  2. 


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Woman  reduces  us  all  to  the  common 
denominator. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Great  Catherine, 
sc.  i. 

The  fickleness  of  the  woman  I  love  is 
only  equalled  by  the  infernal  constancy 
of  the  women  who  love  me. . 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Philanderer,  Act  2. 

Woman's  dearest  delight  is  to  wound 
Man's  self-conceit,  though  Man's  dearest 
delight  is  to  gratify  hers. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  5. 
(Sidney  Trefusis.) 

You  sometimes  have  to  answer  a  woman 

according  to  her  womanishness,  just  as  you 

have  to  answer  a  fool  according  to  his  folly. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Ib.,  ch.  18. 

Can  man  be  free  if  woman  be  a  slave  ? 

SHELLEY. — Islam. 

Lor',  but  women's  rum  cattle  to  deal  with, 
the  first  man  found  that  to  his  cost, 

And  I  reckon  it's  just  through  a  woman 
the  last  man  on  earth'll  be  lost. 
G.  R.  SIMS. — Moll  Jarvis  o'  Morley. 

The  weaker  sex,  to  piety  more  prone. 

EARL  OF  STIRLING. — Doomsday, 
5th  Hour,  55. 

Lose  no  time  to  contradict  her, 
Nor  endeavour  to  convict  her  ; 
Only  take  this  rule  along, 
Always  to  advise  her  wrong, 
And  reprove  her  when  she's  right ; 
She  may  then  grow  wise  for  spite. 

SWIFT. — Daphne. 

The  women  were  proposed  to  be  taxed 
according  to  their  beauty  and  skill  in 
dressing  . .  .  but  constancy,  charity,  good 
sense,  and  good  nature  were  not  to  be 
rated,  because  they  would  not  bear  the 
charge  of  collecting.  SWIFT. — Laputa. 

Your  sweet  faces  make  good  fellows  fools 
And  traitors. 

TENNYSON. — Geraint  and  Enid,  400. 

Lo  now,  what  hearts  have  men !    they 

never  mount 
As  high  as  woman  in  her  selfless  mood. 

TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  440. 

For  men  at  most  differ  as  Heaven  and 

Earth, 
But  women,  worst  and  best,  as  Heaven  and 

Hell.  TENNYSON. — Ib.,  812. 

O  miracle  of  noble  womanhood  ! 

TENNYSON. — Princess:  Prologue,  48. 

With  prudes  for  proctors,  dowagers  for 

deans, 
And  sweet  girl-graduates  in  their  golden 

hair.  TENNYSON. — Ib.,  141. 


"  They  hunt  old  trails,"  said  Cyril,  "  very 

well ; 

But  when  did  women  ever  yet  invent  ?  " 
TENNYSON — Ib.,  c.  2,  368. 

Man  for  the  field,    and   woman   for    the 

hearth ; 

Man  for  the  sword,  and  for  the  needle  she  ; 
Man  with  the  head  and  woman  with  the 

heart ; 

Man  in  command  and  woman  to  obey. 
All  else  confusion. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  5,  437. 

The  woman  is  so  hard 
Upon  the  woman. 

TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  6,  205. 

The  woman's  cause  is  man's  ;   they  rise 

or  sink. 
Together.  TENNYSON. — Ib.,  c.  7,  243 . 

When  I  say  that  I  know  women,  I  mean 
that  I  know  that  I  don't  know  them. 
Every  single  woman  I  ever  knew  is  a 
puzzle  to  me,  as  I  have  no  doubt  she  is  to 
herself. 

THACKERAY. — Mr.  Brown's  Letters. 

How  much  finer  a  woman's  nature 
than  a  man's !  THACKERAY. — The  Proser. 

The  man  that  lays  his  hand  upon  a  woman, 

Except  in  the  way  of  kindness,  is  a  wretch, 

Whom  'twere  gross  flattery  to  name  a 

coward.  J.  TOBIN. — Honeymoon. 

Regard  the  society  of  women  as  a  neces- 
sary unpleasantness  of  social  life,  and  avoid 
it  as  far  as  possible.  TOLSTOY. — Diary. 

Woman   is   more   impressionable   than 

man.    Therefore  in  the  Golden  Age  they 

were  better  than  men  ;  now  they  are  worse. 

TOLSTOY. — Ib. 

He  is  a  fool  who  thinks  by  force  or  skill 
To  turn  the  current  of  a  woman's  will. 

SIR  S.  TUKE. — Five  Howry. 

Let  our  weakness  be  what  it  will,  man- 
kind will  still  be  weaker  ;   and  whilst  ther 
is  a  world,  'tis  woman  that  will  govern  it. 
VANBRUGH. — Provoked  Wife,  Act  3 
(Lady  Brute). 

Woman  is  man's  confusion. 

VINCENT  OF  BEAUVAIS. 
(In  translating  this  from  the  Latin,  in  the 
"  Nonne  Prieste's  Tale,"  Chaucer  humor • 
ously  "confused"  it  by  rendering  it: 
"  Womann  is  mannes  joye  and  all  his 
blisse."  See  p.  551.) 

Here  cease  thy  vaunts  and  own  my  vic- 
tory ; 

A  woman  warrior  was  too  strong  for  thee. 

Yet  if  the  ghosts  demand  the  conqueror's 
name, 

Confessing  great  Camilla,  save  thy  shame. 
VIRGIL. — AZneid,  Bk.  n.  (Dry den  tr.). 


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WOMEN'S  LOGIC 


WONDER 


The  female  woman  is  one  of  the  greatest 

institooshuns  of  which  this  land  can  boast. 

ARTEMUS  WARD. 

There  are  only  two  kinds  of  women,  the 
plain  and  the  coloured. 

OSCAR  WILDE.  —  Dorian  Gray,  ch.  3. 

Gerald.     There  are  many  different  kinds 
of  women,  aren't  there  ? 

Lord  Illingworth.      Only   two   kinds   in 
Society  :  the  plain  and  the  coloured. 

OSCAR  WILDE.  —  Woman  of  No 
Importance,  Act  3. 

Women  are  in  churches,  saints  ;  abroad, 
angels  ;  at  home,  devils. 

G.  WILKINS.  —  Miseries  of  Enforced 
Marriage,  Act  i. 

A  spirit,  yet  a  woman  too  ! 

Her  household  motions  light  and  free, 

And  steps  of  virgin  liberty  ; 

A  countenance  in  which  did  meet 

Sweet  records,  promises  as  sweet  ; 

A  creature  not  too  bright  or  good 

For  human  nature's  daily  food. 
WORDSWORTH.  —  She  was  a  Phantom  of 
Delight. 

A  perfect  woman,  nobly  planned, 
To  warn,  to  comfort,  and  command. 

WORDSWORTH.  —  Ib. 

Thou,  while  thy  babes  around  thee  cling, 
Shalt  show  us  how  divine  a  thing 
A  Woman  may  be  made. 

WORDSWORTH.  —  To  a  Young  Lady 
(1803). 

All  wickedness  is  but  little  to  the  wicked- 
ness of  a  woman.       Ecclesiasticus  xxv,  19. 

Between  a  woman's  Yes  and  No 
There  is  not  room  for  a  pin  to  go. 

Old  Saying  (from  the  Spanish)  . 

Women's  chief  weapon  is  their  tongue, 
and  they  will  not  let  it  rust.  French  prov. 

All  women  are  good  for  something  or 
nothing.  Old  Saying. 

WOMEN'S  LOGIC 

With  women   the  heart   argues,   not   the 
mind.  M.  ARNOLD. 


First,    then,    a    woman    will,    or   won't, 

depend  on't  ; 
If  she  will  do't,  she  will,  and  there's  an 

end  on't. 

AARON  HILL.  —  Epilogue  to  Zara. 

The  weakness  of  their  reasoning  faculty 
also  explains  why  women  show  more  sym- 
pathy for  the  unfortunate  than  men  ;  .  .  . 
and  why,  on  the  contrary,  they  are  inferior 
to  men  as  regards  justice,  and  less  honour- 
able and  conscientious. 

SCHOPENHAUER.  —  On  Women. 


I  have  no  other  but  a  woman's  reason  : 
I  think  him  so,  because  I  think  him  so. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Two  Gentlemen  of 
Verona,  Act  i,  2. 

WONDER  AND  WONDERS 

How  inexperienced  is  that  man  and  how 
ludicrous  does  he  appear,  who  makes  a 
\yonder  of  anything  he  meets  with  in  this 
life  !  MARCUS  AURELIUS. — Bk.  12,  13. 

My  religion  consists  mainly  of  wonder 
and  gratitude.  This  is  the  religion  of 
paradise  and  of  childhood. 

DR.  JOHN  BROWN. 

Amaze, 

(Not  long  the  inmate  of  a  noble  heart.) 
DANTE. — Purgatory,  c.  26,  65.  (Gary's  tr.). 

"  Never  see  ...  a  dead  post-boy,  did 
you  ?  "  inquired  Sam. ..."  No,"  rejoined 
Bob,  "  I  never  did."  "  No  !  "  rejoined 
Sam  triumphantly.  "  Nor  never  vill ; 
and  there's  another  thing  that  no  man 
never  see,  and  that's  a  dead  donkey." 

DICKENS. — Pickwick,  ch.  51. 

Men  love  to  wonder  and  that  is  the  seed 
of  our  science. 

EMERSON. — Works  and  Days. 

Not  to  admire,  is  of  all  means  the  best, 
The  only  means,  to  make  and  keep  us 

blest. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Epistle*  Bk.  i,  6. 

For  to  admire  an*  for  to  see, 

For  to  be'old  this  world  so  wide — 
It  never  done  no  good  to  me, 

But  I  can't  drop  it  if  I  tried  ! 
KIPLING. — For  to  Admire :   The  Seven 

Seas. 

E'en  what  we  now  with  greatest  ease  re- 
ceive, 
Seemed  strange  at  first,   and  we  could 

scarce  believe ; 

And  what  we  wonder  at,  as  years  increase, 
Will  seem  more  plain,  and  all  our  wonder 

cease. 

LUCRETIUS. — De  Rerum  Natura,  2,  1027 
(Creech  Ir.}. 

Wonder  [said  Socrates]  is  very  much  the 
affection  of  a  philosopher  ;   for  there  is  no 
other  beginning  of  philosophy  than  this. 
PLATO. — Thecetetus,  32,(Cary  tr.) 

O    wonderful,     wonderful,     and    most 
wonderful    wonderful !     and     yet     again 
wonderful,    and    after    that,    out    of    all 
whooping. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  3,  2. 

There  are  more  things  in  heaven  and  earth, 

Horatio, 
Than  are  dreamt  of  in  your  philosophy. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i.  5. 


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WORDS 

"  I  have  seen  so  many  extraordinary 
things,"  said  Martin,  "  that  nothing  is 
any  longer  extraordinary." 

VOLTAIRE. — Candide,  ch.  21. 

The   weight    of   sadness    was    in    wonder 
lost.       WORDSWORTH. — Beloved  Vale. 

For  wonder  is  involuntary  praise. 

YOUNG. — The  Revenge. 

\Ve  nothing  know,  but  what  is  marvellous  ; 

Yet  what  is  marvellous,  we  can't  believe. 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  7. 

Nothing  but  what  astonishes  is  true. 
YOUNG. — lb.,  9. 

Fools  are  aye  seein'  ferlies  [wonders]. 

Scottish  prov. 
WORDS 

Waste  words  addle  questions. 

BISHOP  ANDREWES. 

Words  are  but  the  current  tokens  or 
marks  of  popular  notions  of  things. 

BACON. — Adv.  of  Learning,  Bk.  2. 

They  come  home  to  men's  business  and 
bosoms.  BACON. — Preface  to  Essays. 

'Tis  not  Good  wordes  that  can  a  man  main- 

taine  ; 
Wordes  are  but  winde  ;    and  winde  is  all 

in  vaine.  R.  BARNFIELD. — 

Complaint  of  Poetrie  (1598). 

What  so  wild  as  words  are  ? 

BROWNING. — Woman's  iMSt  Word. 

A  very  great  part  of  the  mischiefs  that 
vex  this  world  arises  from  words. 

BURKE. — Letter  (c.  1795). 

Words    are    but    pictures,    true    or    false 

designed. 

To  draw  the  lines  and  features  of  the  mind. 

BUTLER. — Upon  the  A  buse  of  Human 

Learning. 

But  words  are  things,  and  a  small  drop  of 

ink, 

Falling  like  dew  upon  a  thought,  produces 
That    which    makes    thousands,    perhaps 
millions,  think. 

BYRON.— Don  Juan,  c.  3,  88. 

Examine  Language  ;  what,  if  you  except 
some  few  primitive  elements  (of  natural 
sound),  what  is  it  all  but  Metaphors,  re- 
cognised as  such,  or  no  longer  recognised  ? 
CARLYLE. — Sartor  Resartus,  Bk.  i,  ch.  n. 

How   strong   an    influence  works  in  well- 
placed  words ! 
CHAPMAN. — Gentleman  Usher,  Act  4,  2. 

Men's   words   are   ever  bolder  than  their 
deeds.          COLERIDGE. — Piccolomini. 

Words  will  not  build  walls. 

<~RATINUS  (according  to  Plutarch). 


WORDS 

With  words  we  govern  men. 
DISRAELI. — Contarini  Fleming,  ch.  21. 

I  trade  both  with  the  living  and  the  dead 

for  the  enrichment  of  our  native  language. 

DRYDEN. — Dedic.  of  JEneid  (on  the 

practice  of  coining  word?). 

And   torture    one   poor  word  a  thousand 
ways.     DRYDEN. — MacFlecknoe,  208. 

Though  the  origin  of  most  of  our  words 
is  forgotten,  each  word  was  at  first  a  stroke 
of  genius.  EMERSON. — The  Poet. 

Xew  words    and  lately  made  shall  credit 

claim 

If  from  a  Grecian  source  they  gently  stream. 
P.  FRANCIS. — Horace,  Art  of  Poetry. 

An  undisputed  power 
Of  coining  money  from  the  rugged  ore. 
Xor  less  of  coining  words,  is  still  confessed, 
1  f  with  a  legal  public  stamp  impressed. 

P.  FRANCIS. — Ib. 

While  words  of  learned  length  and  thun- 
dering sound 

Amazed  the  gazing  rustics  ranged  .around. 
GOLDSMITH. — Deserted  Village. 

Words  are  the  only  things  that  last  for 
ever.  W.  HAZLITT. — Thought  and  Action. 

Nowadays  a  word  is  a  deed  whose  con- 
sequences cannot  be  measured. 

HEINE. — Reisebilder,  Last  Words. 

The  arrow  belongs  not  to  the  archer  when 
it  has  once  left  the  bow  ;  the  word  no 
longer  belongs  to  the  speaker  when  it  has 
once  passed  his  lips,  especially  when  it  has 
been  multiplied  by  the  press. 

HEINE. — Religion  and  Philosophy, 
Pref.  (1852). 

Rolled  under  the  tongue  as  a  sweet 
morsel. 

MATTHEW  HENRY. — Commentaries. 

Words  are  wise  men's  counters  ;  they 
do  but  reckon  by  them  :  but  they  are  the 
money  of  fools. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  Pt.  i. 

Words  are  the  soul's  ambassadors,  who  go 
Abroad  upon  her  errands  to  and  fro. 

J.  HOWELL.— Of  Words. 

I  am  not  yet  so  lost  in  lejficography  as 
to  forget  that  words  are  the  daughters  of 
earth,  and  that  things  are  the  sons  of 
heaven. 

JOHNSON. — Dictionary,  Pref.  (stated  by 
Sir  W.  Jones  to  be  an  Indian  saying). 

Words  that  mav  become  alive  and  walk 

up  and  down  in  the  hearts  of  the  hearers. 

KIPLING. — Academy  Banquet  Speech. 


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WORDS 


\Ve  should  have  a  great  many  fewer 
disputes  in  the  world  if  words  were  taken 
for  what  they  are,  the  signs  of  our  ideas 
only,  and  not  for  things  themselves. 

LOCKE. — Essay,  3,  10. 

Cato's  words  were  few.  but  they  came 
from  a  heart  full  of  truth. 

Luc  ANUS. — Pharsal  ia . 

Words  die  so  soon  when  fit  but  to  be  said  ; 

Words  only  live  when  worthy  to  be  read. 

E.  R.  BULWER-LYTTON,  EARL  OK 

LYTTON  (1831-1891). — The  Orator. 

His  words,  like  so  many  nimble  and  airy 
servitors,  trip  about  him  at  command. 

MILTON. — Apology  for  Smeclymnuus. 

With  high  words,  that  bore 
Semblance  of  worth,  not  substance. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  i,  528. 

That  would  have  made  Quintilian  stare 
and  gasp.  MILTON. — Sonnet. 

How  many  quarrels,  and  how  important, 

has  the  doubt  as  to  the  meaning  of  this 

syllable  "  Hoc  "  produced  for  the  world  ! 

MONTAIGNE. — Essays,  Bk.  2,  12. 

(Referring  to  the  controversies  on  transub- 

stantiation — "  Hoc  est  corpus  meum."} 

So  spake  those  wary  foes,  fair  friends  in 
look, 

And  so  in  words  great  gifts  they  gave  and 
took, 

And  had  small  profit,  and  small  loss  there- 
by. W.  MORRIS. — Jason,  Bk.  8,  379. 

This  the  just  right  of  poets  ever  was, 
And  will  be  still,  to  coin  what  words  they 
please.   J.  OI.DHAM  — I  mil.  of  Horace. 

Things  were  first  made,  then  words. 

SIR  T.  OVERBURY. — A  Wife. 

Grant  me  the  power  of  saying  things, 
Too  simple  and  too  sweet  for  words. 
C.  PATMORE. — Angel  in  the  House, 
Bk.  i,  c.  i. 
When  things  are  small  the  terms  should 

still  be  so, 

For  low  words  please  us  when  the  theme 
is  low.  C.  PITT. — Vida's  A  rt  of  Poetry. 

Each  word-catcher,  that  lives  on  syllables. 
POPE. — Prol.  to  Satires,  166. 

Words  are  like  leaves  ;    and  where  they 

most  abound, 
Much   fruit   of   sense    beneath    is   rarely 

found.  POPE. — Criticism,  309. 

In  words,  as  fashions,  the  same  rule  will 

hold :    • 

Alike  fantastic,  if  too  new,  or  old : 
Be  not  th.°  first  by  whom  the  new  are  tried, 
Nor  yet  the  last  to  lay  the  old  aside. 

POPE. — Ib.,  333. 


WORDS 

Every  word  man's  lips  have  uttered 
Echoes  in  God's  skies. 

A.  A.  PROCTER. — Words. 

0  !    many  a  shaft,  at  random  sent, 
Finds  mark  the  archer  little  meant ! 
And  many  a  word,  at  random  spoken, 
May  soothe  or  wound  a  heart  that's  broken. 

SCOTT. — Lord  of  the  Isles. 

Men  should  use  common  words  to  say 
uncommon  things  ;  but  they  do  the  re- 
verse. SCHOPENHAUER. — On  Authorship. 

Syllables  govern  the  world. 

J.  SELDEN. — Power. 

That's  an  ill  phrase,  a  vile  phrase ; 
"  beautified  "  is  a  vile  phrase. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  2.  2. 

Words,  words,  words  ! 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

Suit  the  action  to  the  word,  the  word 
to  the  action  ;  with  this  special  observ- 
ance that  you  o'erstep  not  the  modesty 
of  nature.  SHAKESPEARE. — Ib.,  Act  3,  2. 

Zounds  !    I  was  never  so  bethumped  with 
words. 
SHAKESPEARE. — King  John,  Act  2,  2. 

They  have  been  at  a  great  feast  of  lan- 
guages and  stolen  the  scraps. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Love's  Labour's  Lost, 
Act  5,  i. 

The  word  is  well  culled,  chose  ;  sweet,  and 
apt, 

1  do  assure  you,  sir,  I  do  assure. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

His  words  are  a  very  fantastical  ban- 
quet, just  so  many  strange  dishes. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Much  Ado,  Act  2,  3. 

So  all  my  best  is  dressing  old  words  new. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  76. 

Words  pay  no  debts. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  3,  2. 

I  am  well  aware  that  I  do  not  express 
myself  with  exact  ability.  Ladies  and 
gentlemen  have  that  power  over  words 
that  they  can  always  say  what  they  mean, 
but  a  common  man  like  me  can't. 

G.  B.  SHAW. — Unsocial  Socialist,  ch.  4. 

The  arts  Babblative  and  Scriblative. 
SOUTHEY. — Colloquies. 

Many  a  pang  has  been  incurred, 
Through  a  single  hasty  word. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON.— "  Salt-Cellars." 

For  words,  like  Nature,  half  reveal 
And  half  conceal  the  soul  within. 

TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  3. 


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WORK 


WORK 


As  shadows  attend  substances,  so  words 
follow  upon  things. 

ARCHBP.  TRENCH. — Study  of  Words. 

Some  of  those  old  American  words  have 
a  kind  of  bully  swing  to  them. 

MARK  TWAIN. — Tramp  Abroad. 

You  phrase-tormenting  fantastic  chorus, 
With  strangest  words  at  your  beck  and 

call. 
SIR  W.  WATSON. — Orgy  on  Parnassus. 

Would  you  repeat  that  again,  sir,  for  it 
soun's  sae  sonorous  that  the  words  droon 
the  ideas  ?  JOHN  WILSON. — Nodes,  27. 

The  Intellect  can  raise, 
From  airy  words  alone,  a  Pile  that  ne'er 
decays. 
WORDSWORTH. — Inscriptions,  No.  4. 

Say  not  you  love  a  roasted  fowl, 
But  you  may  love  a  screaming  owl, 
And,  if  you  can,  the  unwieldy  toad, 
That  crawls  from  his  secure  abode. 
WORDSWORTH. — Loving  and  Liking. 

From  generation  to  generation  men  are 
the  dupes  of  words. 

WORDSWORTH. — Postscript  (to  Preface) 

(i835). 

Fair  words  enough  a  man  shall  find  ; 
They   be   good   cheap  ;     they   cost   right 

nought ; 
Their  substance  is  but  only  wind. 

SIR  T.  WYATT. — Dissembling  Words, 

How  forcible  are  right  words  ! 

Job  vi,  25. 

The  words  of  his  mouth  were  smoother 
than  butter,  but  war  was  in  his  heart ;  his 
words  were  softer  than  oil,  yet  were  they 
drawn  swords.  Psalm  Iv,  21. 

A  word  spoken  in  due  season,  how  good 
is  it !  Proverbs  xv,  23. 

A  word  fitly  spoken  is  like  apples  of  gold 
in  pictures  ["  baskets  "  in R.V.]  of  silver. 
Proverbs  xxv,  u. 

Let  no  man  deceive  you  with  vain 
words.  Ephesians  v,  6. 

Hold  fast  the  form  of  sound  words. 

2  Timothy  i,  13. 

A  man  of  words  and  not  of  deeds 
Is  like  a  garden  full  of  weeds. 

Old  Rhyme. 
Whose  words  were  half  battles. 

Saying  in  reference  to  Luther. 
WORK 

Work  I  may  dispense 
With  talk  about,  since  work  in  evidence, 
Perhaps  in  history  ;  who  knows  or  cares  ? 
BROWNING. — A  Forgiveness. 


A  Man  ! — a  right  true  man,  however, 
Whose  work  was  worthy  a  man's  endeavour. 
BROWNING. — Christmas  Eve,  c.  15. 

Man's  work  is  to  labour  and  leaven — 
As  best  he  may — earth  here  with  heaven  ; 
'Tis  work  for  work's  sake  he  is  needing. 

BROWNING. — Of  Pacchiarotlo. 

For  work    is    a    good    investment,    and 
almost  always  pays. 

W.  CARLETON. — Out  o*  the  Fire. 

Work  is  the  grand  cure  of  all  the  mala- 
dies and  miseries  that  ever  beset  mankind. 
CARLYLE. — Address,  1886. 

The  best  worship,  however,  is  stout  work- 
ing. CARLYLE. — Letter  to  his  wife  (1831). 

All  work,  even  cotton-spinning,  is  noble. 
CARLYLE. — Past  and  Present,  Bk.  3,  ch.  4. 

Blessed  is  he  who  has  found  his  work  ; 
let  him  ask  no  other  blessedness. 

CARLYLE. — Ib.,  ch.  n. 

The  glory  of  a  workman,  still  more  of  a 
master-workman,  that  he  does  his  work 
well,  ought  to  be  his  most  precious  posses- 
sion ;  like  the  "  honour  of  a  soldier," 
dearer  to  him  than  life. 

CARLYLE. — Shooting  Niagara,  7  (1867). 

My  life  is  one  demd  horrid  grind  ! 

DICKENS. — Nicholas  Nickleby,  ch.  64. 

Work  is  victory.  Wherever  work  is 
done,  victory  is  obtained.  There  is  no 
chance,  and  no  blanks. 

EMERSON. — Conduct  of  Life  : 
Worship . 

"  He  can  toil  terribly,"  said  Cecil  of 
Sir  Walter  Raleigh.  These  few  words 
sting  and  bite  and  lash  us  when  we  are 
frivolous.  Let  us  get  out  of  the  way  of 
their  blows,  by  making  them  true  of  our- 
selves. EMERSON. — Greatness. 

The  sum  of  wisdom  is  that  the  time  is 
never  lost  that  is  devoted  to  work. 

EMERSON. — Success. 

The  gods  sell  us  all  good  things  for  hard 
work.  EPICHARMUS. — (Greek.) 

Our  best  friend  is  ever  work. 
COLLIN  D'HARLEVILLE. — Mceurs  du 
Jour. 

Now  God  bless  all  true  workers,  let  us  pray: 
The  night-time  cometh  when  we  all  must 

rest. 

Strive  we  and  do,  lest  by  and  by  we  sit 
In  that  blind  life,  to  which  all  other  fate 
Is  cause  for  envy  ;  with  the  naked  souls 
Who  never  lived,  knowing  nor  praise  nor 

blame, 

But  kept  themselves  in  mean  neutrality, 
Hateful  alike  to  God  and  to  his  foes. 

EMILY  H.  HICKEY. — Michael  Villiers. 


WORK 


WORLD 


I  like  work  ;  it  fascinates  me.  I  can 
sit  and  look  at  it  for  hours.  I  love  to  keep 
it  by  me  :  the  idea  of  getting  rid  of  it 
nearly  breaks  my  heart. 

J.  K.  JEROME. — Three  Men  in  a  Boat, 
ch.  15. 

He  that  will  not  live  by  toil 
Has  no  right  on  English  soil ! 
C.  KINGSLEY. — Alton  Locke's  Song. 

For  men  must  work,  and  women  must  weep, 
And  there's  little  to  earn,  and  many  to 

keep, 
Though  the  harbour  bar  be  moaning. 

C.  KINGSLEY. — Three  Fishers. 

But  till  we  are  built  like  angels,  with  ham- 
mer and  chisel  and  pen, 

We  will  work  for  ourself  and  a  woman,  for 
ever  and  ever,  Amen. 

KIPLING. — Imperial  Rescript. 

And  the  Sons  of  Mary  smile  and  are  blessed 
— they  know  the  angels  are  on  their 
side  ; 

They  know  in  them  is  the  Grace  confessed, 
and  for  them  are  the  Mercies  mul- 
tiplied ; 

They  sit  at  the  Feet,  they  hear  the  Word, 
they  see  how  truly  the  Promise  runs  ; 

They  have  cast  their  burden  upon  the  Lord, 
and — the  Lord  He  lays  it  on  Martha's 
Sons  !  KIPLING. — The  Sons  of  Mary. 

And    learne    to    labour    with    hands,  for 
livelihood  is  swete. 
LANGLAND. — Piers  Plowman,  Passus  6. 

When  I  die,  may  I  be  taken  in  the  midst 
of  work.  OVID. — Amores,  2,  10,  36. 

Do  not  work  for  necessity  ;  work  for  the 
glory  of  working.  ROUSSEAU. — Emile. 

Dusting,    darning,    drudging,    nothing  is 

great  or  small, 
Nothing   is  mean  or   irksome,   love  will 

hallow  it  all. 

WALTER  C.  SMITH.— Hilda,  Bk.  2. 

O  what  an  endlesse  %vorke  have  I  in  hand. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene, 

C.   12,   I. 

Men  that  wrought  by  the  grace  of 
thought  and  toil  things  goodlier  than 
praise  dare  trace. 

SWINBURNE. — On  the  South  Coast. 

Men  my  brothers,  men  the  workers,  ever 

reaping  something  new ; 
That  which  they  have  done  but  earnest  of 

the  things  that  they  shall  do. 

TENNYSON. — Locksley  Hall. 

The  Father  of  all  did  not  will  that  the 

way  of  cultivating  the  soil  should  be  easy. 

VIRGIL. — Georgic  I. 


Their  works  do  follow  them. 

Revelation  xiv,  13. 

Man  is  immortal  till  his  work  is  done. 

ANON. — Fuller  (Church  History,  Bk.  3) 
has:  "God's  children  are  immortal 
while  their  Father  has  anything  for 
them  to  do  on  earth." 

The  workman  makes  the  work,  but  the 
work  also  makes  the  workman. 

Old  Saying. 

WORLD,  THE 

It's  a  weary  warld  and  nobody  bides  in 
it.         SIR  J.  M.  BARE?" — T.ittle  Minister, 

ch.4. 

This  world's  no  blot  for  us, 
Nor  blank  ;  it  means  intensely,  and  means 

good :  « 

To  find  its  meaning  is  my  meat  and  drink. 
BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo  Lippi. 

Was  it  likelier,  now, 

That  this  our  one  out  of  all  worlds  beside, 
The  what-d'you-call-'em  millions,  should 

be  just 

Precisely  chosen  to  make  Adam  for, 
And  the  rest  o'  the  tale  ?    Yet  the  tale's 
true,  you  know. 

BROWNING. — Mr.  Sludge. 

If  there's  another  world,  he  lives  in  bliss  : 

If  there  is  none,  he  made  the  best  of  this. 

BURNS.— On  a  Friend. 

'Tis  but  a  worthless  world  to  win  or  lose. 
BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  i. 

There's  not  a  joy  the  world  can  give  like 
that  it  takes  away. 

BYRON. — Stanzas  for  Music. 

Courts  and  camps  are  the  only  places 
to  learn  the  world  in. 

EARL  OF  CHESTERFIELD. — Letter  to  his 

Son. 
The  world  is  good  in  the  lump. 

G.  COLMAN,  JR. — Torrent. 

Well  then  ;   I  now  do  plainly  see 
This  busy  world  and  I  shall  ne'er  agree. 
COWLEY. — The  Wish. 

Behold  the  world  how  it  is  whirled  round, 
And  for  it  is  so  whirled  is  nam&d  so. 

SIR  JOHN  DAVIES. — Orchestra. 

This  pendent  world,  in  bigness  as  a  star 
Of  smallest  magnitude,  close  by  the  moon. 
MILTON. — Paradise  Lost,  Bk.  2,  1052. 

All  the  world's  a  stage, 
And  all  the  men  and  women  merely  players ; 
They  have  their  exits  and  their  entrances, 
And  one  man  in  his  time  plays  many  parts. 
SHAKESPEARE. — As  You  Like  It,  Act  2,  7. 

O,  how  full  of  briers  is  this  working-day 
world  !     SHAKESPEARE. — /&.,  Act  i   3 


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WORTH 


I  hold  the  world  but  as  the  world,  Gra- 

•  tiano, 

A  stage,  where  every  man  must  play  a  part, 
And  mine  a  sad  one. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Merchant  of  Venice, 
Act  i,  i. 

You  have  too  much  respect  upon  the  world : 

They  lose  it  that  do  buy  it  with  much  care. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Ib. 

This  fine  old  world  of  ours  is  but  a  child 
Yet   in   the   go-cart.     Patience !    give  it 

time 
To  learn  its  limbs  :    there  is  a  hand  that 

guides. 
TENNYSON. — Princess  :    Conclusion. 

The  world  is  a  comedy  to  those  that 
think  ;   a  tragedy  to  those  who  feel. 

HORACE  WALPOLE. — Letter,  1770. 

The  fretful  stir 

Unprofitable,  and  the  fever  of  the  world. 
WORDSWORTH. — Tintern  Abbey,  I.  51. 

The  world  is  too  much  with  us  ;   late  and 

soon, 
Getting  and  spending,  we  lay  waste  our 

powers. 

WORDSWORTH. — The  World  is  too  much 

with  us. 

Let  not  the  cooings  of  the  world  allure  thee! 
Which  of  her  lovers  ever  found  her  true  ? 
YOUNG. — ^7ight  Thoughts,  8. 

To  know  the  world,  not  love  her,  is  thy 

point. 

She  gives  but  little,  nor  that  little  long. 
YOUNG. — Ib. 

It's  a  very  good  world  that  we  live  in, 

To  lend  or  to  sp^nd  or  to  give  in  ; 

But  to  borrow,  or  beg,  or  to  come  by  your 

own, 
It's  the  very  worst  world  that  ever  was 

known. 

ANON. — (Traced  back  to  I737-) 

WORLDLY  WISDOM 

Worldly  in  this  world, 
I  take  and  like  its  way  of  life. 

BROWNING. — Bp.  Blougram. 

I  may  not  be  Meethoosalem,  but  I  am 
not  a  child  in  arms. 

DICKENS. — Dombey,  ch.  44. 

Stay,  Worldling,  stay ;    whither  away  so 

fast? 
Hark,   hark   awhile   to  Virtue's  counsel; 

current !     J.  SYLVESTER. — Spectacles. 

Man  of  the  World  (for  such  wouldst  thou 

be  called) — 
And   art   thou   proud   of   that  inglorious 

style  ? 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  8. 


WORSHIP 

Compared  with  this,  how  poor  religion's 

pride, 
In  all  the  pomp  of  method  and  of  art ! 

BURNS. — Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

Devotion's  every  grace,  except  the  heart. 
BURNS. — Ib. 

Here  some  are  thinkin'  on  their  sins, 
And  some  upo'  their  claes. 

BURNS. — Holy  Fair. 

Man  always  worships  something ;  al- 
ways he  sees  the  Infinite  shadowed  forth 
in  something  finite  ;  and  indeed  can  and 
must  so  see  it  in  any  finite  thing. 

CARLYLE. — Essays  :  Goethe's  Works. 

Worship  is  transcendent  wonder. 

CARLYLE. — Heroes,  Sec.  i 

Wherever  God  erects  a  house  of  prayer, 
The  Devil  always  builds  a  chapel  there  ; 
And  'twill  be  found,  upon  examination, 
The  latter  has  the  largest  congregation. 
DEFOE. — True-Born  Englishman,  Pt.n. 

Resort  to  sermons,  but  to  prayers  most, 
Praying's  the  end  of  preaching. 

HERBERT. — Church  Porch. 

One  wishes  worship  freely  given  to  God, 
Another  wants  to  make  it  statute-labour. 
HOOD. — Ode  to  Rae  Wilson,  Esquire. 

WORTH 

For  what  is  worth  in  anything 
But  so  much  money  as  'twill  bring? 
BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  2,  c.  i. 

Wisdom  and  worth  were  all  he  had, 
But  these  were  all  to  me. 

GOLDSMITH. — The  Hermit. 

He  has  not  left  a  wiser  or  better  behind. 
GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation. 

The  "  value  "  or  "  worth  "  of  a  man  is, 
as  of  all  other  things,  his  price  ;  that  is  to 
say,  so  much  as  would  be  given  for  the  use 
of  his  power. 

HOBBES. — Leviathan,  ch.  10. 

Not  oaks  alone  are  trees,  nor  roses  flowers, 
Much  humble  wealth  makes  rich  this  world 
of  ours. 

LEIGH  HUNT. — On  reading  Pomfret's 
"  Choice." 

This  mournful  truth  is  everywhere  con- 
fessed, 

So  slow  rises  worth  by  poverty  depressed. 
JOHNSON. — London. 

Worth  makes  the  man,  and  want  of  it  the 

fellow  ; 
The  rest  is  all  but  leather  or  prunella. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  4,  203  ^ 


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YOUTH 


What  is  aught  but  as  'tis  valued  ? 
SHAKESPEARE. — Troilus,  Act  2,  2. 

WRITING 

Of  all  those  arts  in  which  the  wise  excel 
Nature's  chief  masterpiece  is  writing  well. 
DUKE  OF  BUCKINGHAM. — Essay  on 
Poetry. 

Why  did  I  write  ?  what  sin  to  me  unknown 
Dipped  me  in  ink, — my  parents',  or  my 
own  ? 

POPE. — Epistle  to  Arbuthnot,  125. 

True  ease  in  writing  comes  from  art,  not 

chance, 
As  those  more  easiest  who  have  learned 

to  dance. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Criticism,  361. 

I  once  did  hold  it,  as  our  statists  do, 

A  baseness  to  write  fair,  and  laboured  much 

How  to  forget   that  learning  ;    but,  sir, 

now 
It  did  me  yeoman's  service. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  5,  2. 

Put  not  things  in  black  and  white, 
If  they  will  not  bear  the  light. 

C.  H.  SPURGEON. — "Salt-Cellars" 

Pens  are  most  dangerous  tools,  more  sharp 

by  odds 
Than  swords,   and  cut   more  keen   than 

whips  or  rods. 
JOHN  TAYLOR. — Three  Satirical  Lashes. 

Who  can  write  so  fast  as  men  run  mad  ? 
YOUNG. — Love  of  Fame,  Sat.  i. 

WRONGS 

Some  kind  of  wrongs  there  are  which  flesh 

and  blood 
Cannot  endure. 

FLETCHER  AND  MASSINGER. — Little  French 
Lawyer,  Act  i,  i. 
If  of  all  words  of  tongue  and  pen, 
The  saddest  are,  "  It  might  have  been," 
More  sad  are  these  we  daily  see, 
"  It  is,  but  it  hadn't  ought  to  be." 

BRET  HARTE. — Mrs.  Jenkins. 

Some  grave  their  wrongs  on  marble  ;    He, 

more  just, 
Stooped  down  serene  and  wrote  them  on 

the  dust. 

DR.  R.  R.  MADDEN. — Poems. 

And  Sorrow  tracketh  wrong, 
As  echo  follows  song. 

H.  MARTINEAU. — Hymn. 

And  simple  truth  miscalled  simplicity, 
And  captive  good  attending  captain  ill. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Sonnet  66. 

It  often  falls,  in  course  of  common  life, 
That    right    long    time   is   overborne   of 

wrong. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Quecne,  Bk.  5,  c.  n. 


Wrong  and  right 
Are  twain  for  ever  :  nor,  though  night  kiss 

day, 
Shall  right  kiss  wrong  and  die  not. 

SWINBURNE. — Marino  Faliero. 


YARNS 

There  are  a  set  of  heads  that  can  credit 
the  relations  of  Mariners. 
SIR  T.  BROWNE. — Religio  Medici,  Pt.  121. 

He  loves  to  talk  with  mariners 
That  come  from  a  far  countree. 

COLERIDGE. — Ancient  Mariner, 
Pt.  7- 
YEARS,  THE 

Years  steal 
Fire  from  the  mind,  as  vigour  from  the 

limbs ; 

And  life's  enchanted  cup  but  sparkles  near 
the  brim. 

BYRON. — Childe  Harold,  c.  3,  st.  8. 

The  years,  as  they  come,  bring  with 
them  many  things  to  our  advantage  ;  as 
they  leave,  they  take  many  away. 

HORACE. — De  Arte  Poelica,  175. 

Each  year  bears  something  from  us  as  it 

flies; 

We  only  blow  it  farther  with  our  sighs. 
W.  S.  LANDOR. — Miscell.,  No.  274. 

Our  noisy  years  seem  moments  in  the  being 
Of  the  eternal  silence. 

WORDSWORTH. — Intimations  oj 
Immortality,  9. 
YESTERDAY 

All  our  yesterdays  have  lighted  fools 
The  way  to  dusty  death. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Macbeth,  Act  5,  5. 

O,  call  back  yesterday,  bid  time  return. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Richard  II.,  Act  3,  2. 

O  for  yesterdays  to  come ! 

YOUNG. — Night  Thoughts,  2. 

Whose  yesterdays  look  backward  with  a 
smile.  YOUNG. — Ib. 

YOUTH 

Youth  calls  for  Pleasure,   Pleasure  calls 
for  love.  AKENSIDE. — Love. 

A  man  that  is  young  in  years  may  be 
old  in  hours,  if  he  have  lost  no  time. 

BACON. — Of  Youth. 

I  was  between 

A  man  and  a  boy,  A  hobble-de-hoy, 
A  fat,  little,  punchy  concern  of  sixteen. 
R.  H.  BARHAM. — Aunt  Fanny. 


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YOUTH 


YOUTH 


You  should  not  take  a  fellow  eight  years 

old 
And  make  him  swear  to  never  kiss  the 

girls.  BROWNING. — Fra  Lippo. 

O  Life  !  how  pleasant  is  thy  morning, 
Young  Fancy's  rays  the  hills  adorning  ! 

BURNS. — Epistle  to  Jos.  Smith. 

And  still  my  delight  is  in  proper  young 
men.  BURNS. — Jolly  Beggars. 

What  can  a  young  lassie,  what  shall  a 

young  lassie, 
What  can  a  young  lassie  do  wi'  an  auld 

man  ?  BURNS. — Song. 

Youth  with  swift  feet  walks  onward  in  the 

way  ; 

The  land  of  joy  lies  all  before  his  eyes  ; 

Age,  stumbling,  lingers  slowly  day  by  day, 

Still  looking  back,  for  it  behind  him  lies. 

FRANCES  BUTLER. 

Alas,  they  were  so  young,  so  beautiful. 
BYRON. — Don  Juan,  c.  2,  192. 

In  life's  morning  march,  when  my  bosom 
was  young. 

CAMPBELL. — Soldier's  Dream. 

Tis  the  defect  of  Age  to  rail  at  the 
pleasures  of  Youth. 

MRS.  CENTLIVRE. — Basset  Table,  Act  i. 

Young  men  think  old  men  are  fools  ; 
but  old  men  know  young  men  are  fools. 

CHAPMAN. — All  Fools,  Act  5,  i. 

The  atrocious  crime  of  being  a  young 
man.  ...  I  shall  never  attempt  to 
palliate  or  deny. 

WILLIAM    PITT    (EARL   OF   CHATHAM). — 
Speech,  1740.    (As  reported  by  Dr.  Johnson.) 

As  I  like  a  young  man  in  whom  there  is 

something  of  'the  old,  so  do  I  like  an  old 

man  in  whom  is  something  of  the  young. 

CICERO. — De  Senectute,  ch.  2. 

A  man  whose  youth  has  no  follies,  will 
in  his  maturity  have  no  power. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. — Thoughts  in  my 
Garden,  z,  108. 

A  young  Apollo,  golden  baked, 

Stands  dreaming  on  the  verge  of  strife, 
Magnificently  unprepared 

For  the  long  littleness  of  life. 

MRS.  CORNFORD. — On  Rupert 
Brooke  (1915). 

Our  most  important  are  our  earliest  years. 
COWPER. — Progress  of  Error,  353. 

Almost  everything  that  is  great  has  been 
done  by  youth.  [Sidonia.] 

DISRAELI. — Coningsby,  Bk.  3,  ch.  i. 


The  blunders  of  youth  are  preferable  to 
the  triumphs  of  manhood,  or  the  success  of 
old  age.  DISRAELI. — Lothair,  ch.  31. 

The  Youth  of  a  Nation  are  the  Trustees 
of  Posterity. 

DISRAELI. — Sybil,  Bk.  6,  ch.  13. 

In  flower  of  youth,  in  beauty's  pride. 
DRYDEN. — Alexander's  Feast,  st.  i. 

There's  a  hope  for  every  woe, 
And  a  balm  for  every  pain, 

But  the  first  joys  o'  our  heart 
Come  never  back  again. 

R.  GILFILLAN. — Exile's  Song. 

Youth  should  be  allowed  its  own  course. 
It  does  not  stick  very  long  to  false  maxims; 
life  soon  snatches  or  charms  it  away  from 
them.  GOETHE. — Autob.,  Bk.  6. 

Youth  on  the  prow,  and  pleasure  at  the 
helm.  GRAY. — The  Bard,  c.  2,  2. 

Youth  is  unselfish  in  its  thoughts  and 
feelings.  On  that  account  it  feels  truth 
most  deeply.  HEINE. — Don  Quixote. 

O  Youth,  alas,  why  wilt  thou  not  incline 
And  unto  ruled  reason  bowe  thee, 

Syn  Reason  is  the  verray  straighte  line 
That  leadeth  folk  into  felicitee  ? 

HOCCLEVE. — La  male  Regie. 

There  are  worse  losses  than  the   loss  of 
youth. 
JEAN  INGELOW. — Star's  Monument. 

Towering  in  the  confidence  of  twenty- 
one.  JOHNSON. — Letter  (1758). 

The  imagination  of  a  boy  is  healthy,  and 
the  matureimaginationof  a  man  is  healthy; 
but  there  is  a  space  of  life  between,  in 
which  the  soul  is  in  a  ferment,  the  character 
undecided,  the  way  of  life  uncertain,  the 
ambition  thick-sighted  :  thence  proceeds 
mawkishness. 

KEATS. — Pref.  to  Endymion. 

There  is  no  need  to  say  "  forget,"  I  know, 

For  youth  is  youth  and  time  will  have  it  so. 

A.  LANG. — Good-bye. 

A  boy's  will  is  the  wind's  will, 
And  the  thoughts  of  youth  are  long,  long 
thoughts. 

LONGFELLOW. — Lost  Youth. 

For  ah,  my  heart !   how  very  soon 
The  glittering  dreams  of  youth  are  past ! 

And  long  before  it  reach  its  noon, 
The  sun  of  life  is  overcast. 

MOORE. — Elegiac  Stanzas. 

I've  wandered  east,  I've  wandered  west, 

Through  mony  a  weary  way  ; 
But  never,  never  can  forget 

The  love  of  life's  young  day. 

W.  MOTHERWELL. — Jeanie  Morrison. 


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But  never  twice  is  a  woman  young. 
LOUISE  C.  MOULTON. — Song  for  Rosalys. 

When  the  brisk  minor  pants  for  twenty- 
one.      POPE. — Ep.  of  Horace,  Ep.  i,  38. 

When  all  things  pleased,  for  life  itself  was 

new, 
And  the  heart  promised  what  the  fancy 

drew. 

ROGERS. — Pleasures  of  Memory,  Pi.  i. 

Youth  is  the  time   to  study  wisdom  ; 
old  age  is  the  time  to  practise  it. 

ROUSSEAU. — Rtveries  d'un  Promeneur 
solitaire. 

Youth  is  a  fine  carver  and  gilder. 

SCOTT. — Diary,  1826. 

Just  at  the  age  'twixt  boy  and  youth, 
When  thought  is  speech,   and  speech   is 
truth. 

SCOTT. — Marmion,  c.  2,  Intro. 

The  canker  galls  the  infants  of  the  spring, 
Too  oft  before  their  buttons  be  disclosed  ; 
And  in  the  morn  and  liquid  dew  of  youth, 
Contagious  blastments  are  most  imminent. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Hamlet,  Act  i,  3. 

A  very  riband  in  the  cap  of  youth. 

SHAKESPEARE. — lb.,  Act  4,  7. 

Two  lads  that  thought  there  was  no  more 

behind, 

But  such  a  day  to-morrow  as  to-day, 
And  to  be  boy  eternal. 

SHAKESPEARE. — Winter's  Tale,  Act  i,  2. 

Small  show  of  man  was  yet  upon  his  chin. 
SHAKESPEARE. — Lover's  Complaint,  14. 

When  youth  hath  passed  away, 
With  all  its  follies  light, 
What  sorrow  is  not  there  ? 
What  trouble  then  is  absent  from  our  lot  ? 
SOPHOCLES. — Oedipus  Col.,  1289 
(Plumptre  tr.). 

Gather   therefore   the  rose  whilst  yet  is 

prime, 
For  soone  comes  age,  that  will  her  pride 

defloure. 
SPENSER. — Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  2,  c.  12,  75. 

Youth  is  wholly  experimental. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON. — To  a  Young 
Gentleman. 

They  do  their  Maker  wrong, 
Who,  in  the  pride  of  age, 
Cry  down  youth's  heritage, 
And  all  the  eager  throng 
Of  thoughts  and  plans  and  schemes, 
With  which  the  young  brain  teems. 

C.  W.  STUBBS. — The  Conscience: 
A  Prayer  of  Age, 

Whose  youth  was  full  of  foolish  noise. 
TENNYSON. — In  Memoriam,  c.  53. 


Brave  hearts  and  clean  !    and  yet — God 
guide  them — young  ! 
TENNYSON. — Merlin  and  Vivien,  29. 

Old  the  proverb, — old,  but  true — 
Age  should  think  and  Youth  should  do. 

D.  W.  THOMPSON. — Sales  Attici. 

In  youth  alone  unhappy  mortals  live ; 
But  ah  !   the  mighty  bliss  is  fugitive  : 
Discoloured  sickness,  anxious  labour,  come, 
And  age,  and  death's  inexorable  doom. 
VIRGIL. — Georgics,  3,  66  (Dryden  tr.). 

Maidens  withering  on  the  stalk. 

WORDSWORTH. — Personal  Talk. 

For  him — a  Youth  to  whom  was  given 
So  much  of  earth,  so  much  of  heaven, 
And  such  impetuous  blood. 

WORDSWORTH. — Ruth . 

It  is  good  for  a  man  that  he  bear  the 
yoke  in  his  youth.        Lamentations  iii,  27. 

Life   let   us   cherish,  while  yet  the  taper 

glows, 

And  the  fresh  flowret  pluck  ere  it  close. 
Song  (from  Ndgelis's  "  Volkslied  " 
words  by  Johan  Martin  Usteri). 

Let  no  man  despise  thy  youth. 

i  Timothy  iv,  12. 

Age,  I  do  abhor  thee  ; 

Youth,  I  do  adore  thee. 

ANON. — Passionate  Pilgrim,  No.  10. 

Happy  is  he  that  knows  his  follies  in  bis 
youth.  Prov.  (Ray.) 

Youth  and  white  paper  take  any  im- 
pression. Prov.  (Ray.) 

A  young  cowte  (colt)  will  canter,  be  it 
uphill  or  down.  Scottish  prov. 


ZEAL 

Religious  persecution  may  shield  itself 
under  the  guise  of  a  mistaken  and  over- 
zealous  piety. 

BURKE. — Impeachment  of  W.  Hastings, 
Feb.,  1788. 

For  zeal's  a  dreadful  termagant, 
That  teaches  Saints  to  tear  and  rant. 

BUTLER. — Hudibras,  Pt.  3.  c.  a. 

The  soberest  saints  are  more  stiff-necked 
Than  the  hottest-headed  of  the  wicked. 

BUTLER. — Miscellaneous  Thoughts. 

I  do  not  love  a  man  who  is  zealous  for 
nothing. 

GOLDSMITH. — Vicar  of  Wakefield 
(expunged  portion). 


563 


ZEAL 

For  modes  of  faith  let  graceless  zealots 

fight; 
His  can't  be  wrong  whose  life  is  in  the 

right. 

POPE. — Essay  on  Man,  Ep.  3,  305. 

But  zeal  is  weak  and  ignorant,   though 

wondrous  proud, 
Though  very  turbulent  and  very  loud. 

SWIFT. — Ode  to  Sancroft. 

Violent  zeal  for  truth  has  a  hundred  to 
one  odds  to  be  either  petulancy,  ambition, 
or  pride. 

SWIFT. — Thoughts  on  Religion. 

Is  it  not  a'shameful  thing  that  the  fanatics 
have  all  the  zeal  and  that  the  wise  have 


ZEAL 

none  ?    It  is  right  to  be  prudent,  but  one 
should  not  be  timid. 

VOLTAIRE. — Dialogues,  No.  26. 

Crime  has  its  heroes,  error  has  its  mar- 
tyrs :  of  the  true  zeal  and  the  false  what 
vain  judges  we  are  ! 

VOLTAIRE. — Henriade. 

It  is  good  to  be  zealously  affected  always 
in  a  good  thing.  Galatians  iv,  18. 

Zeal  is  like  fire  ;  it  needs  both  feeding 
and  watching.  Prov. 

Zeal  without  knowledge  is  a  runaway 
horse.  Prov. 


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INDEX    OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 

WITH 

CROSS-REFERENCES 

By  the  use  of  this  Index  the  consulter  will  readily  be  able  to  find  quotations 

on  any  subject  treated    in    the    book,  no    matter    under    what    heading    it    is 

included.     All  the  subject-headings  are  given  in  the  Index  ;  these  are  printed 

in  Clarendon  type.       Other    sections    that    deal    with    the    same    or    similar 

subjects,  to  which  the  consulter  is  directed    for    further    applicable    extracts, 

are    given    immediately  beneath   the    subject-heading    in    small    type ;    while 

topics  that  are  dealt  with  under  various    headings    but    that    have    not    been 

treated    under    a    separate    heading    of    their    own    are    shown    in 

Clarendon  Italic. 


Abasement,  i 

Humility 

Meekness 

Self-condemnation 

Submission 

Subservience 
Ability,  i 

Accomplishments 

Cleverness 

Distinction 

Efficiency 

Genius 

Skill 

Talents 

Versatility 
Abridgment 

Books  (Montaigne) 
Absence,  i 

Alibi 

Departure 

Dislike 

Distance 

Exile 

Farewell 

Forgetfulness 

Poetry  (Keble) 

Return 
Absent-mindedness 

Detachment 
Abstinence,  i 

Alcohol 

Asceticism 

Drinking 

Drunkenness 

Moderation 


Prohibition 

Simple  Life 

Teetotallers 

Temperance 

Water 

Wine 
Abstruseness,  i 

Argument 

Depth 

Metaphysics 

Profundity 

Reason 

Theology 
Absurdity,  2 

Eccentricity 

Extremes 

Folly 

Humour 

Jesting 

Laughter 

Nonsense 

Ridicule 

Stupidity 
Abundance,  2 

Money 

Number 

Plenty 

Sufficiency 

Wealth 
Abuse,  2 

Affronts 

Backbiting 

Bitterness 

Calumny 

Disaster 

Ill-will 

Injuries 

565 


Insults 

Libel 

Malice 

Quarrels 

Raillery 

Rancour 

Recrimination 

Revilers 

Scolding 

Slander 
Abuses,  2 

Evils 
Accident 

Adventures 

Chance 

Destiny 

Luck 
Accomplishments;  2 

Ability 

Action 

Skill 

Talents 

Versatility 
Accountancy,  2 

Algebra 

Arithmetic 

Calculation 

Figures 

Mathematics 
Accuracy 

Criticism  (Disraeli) 

Preciseness 
Accusation    2 

Abuse 

Bloodguiltiness 

Calumny 

Condemnation 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Excuses 

Adam  and  Eve,  5 

Sorrow 

Guilt 

Pedigree 

Tears 

Law 

Silence  (Langland) 

Tribulation 

Remorse 

Tales  (Browning) 

Troubles 

Sin 

Woe 

Vicissitude 

Achievement,  3 

Women 

Woe 

Accomplishmen  t 

World 

Advertisement,  6 

Actions 

Adaptability,  5 

Benefits 

Attainment 

Affability 

Bluster 

Completeness 

Amenability 

Boasting 

Consummation 

Gentlemen 

Promise  (Johnson) 

Courage 

Opportunism 

Rhetoric 

Decision 

Admiration,  5 

Vanity  (Conceit) 

Deeds 

Applause 

Advice,  7 

Difficulty  (Spenser) 

Aspiration  (Wordsworth) 

Admonition 

Fruition 

Attractiveness 

Books  (Bacon) 

Performance 

Criticism  (Stevenson) 

Counsel 

Results 

Excellence 

Warning 

Acquaintanceship,  3 

Fables 

Wisdom 

Comrades 

Fascination 

Advocacy,  7 

Fellowship 

Life  (Wordsworth) 

Barristers 

Friendship 

Praise 

Eloquence 

Acquiescence,  3 

Superiority 

Lawyers 

Agreement 

Wonder 

Orators 

Compatibility 

Admission,  5 

Affability,  7 

Quarrels 

Confession 

Adaptability 

War 

Error  (Swift) 

Agreeableness 

Acquisitiveness,  3 

Guilt 

Amenability 

Avarice  (q.v.) 

Admonition,  5 

Charm 

Beggars 

Warning 

Courtesy 

Executors 

Adornment,  5 

Disposition 

Extortion 

Dress 

Gentlemen 

Greed 

Ornament 

Humility 

Money 

Rhetoric 

Kindness 

Possession 

Uniforms 

Modesty 

Property 

Ad  sum,  5 

Politeness 

Wealth 

Submission 

Affectation,  8 

Action,  Actions,  3,  4 

Adullam,   Cave  of 

Art  (Congreve) 

Accomplishment 

Disaffection 

Eccentricity 

Achievement  i 

Advantage,  5 

Fashion 

Aspiration  (R.  Browning) 
Decision 

Opportunity 
Selfishness 

Foppery 
Formality 

Deeds 

Triumph 

Humour  (Swift) 

Dreams 

Adventure,  5 

Mannerisms 

Exultation 

Courage 

Naturalness 

Fruition 

Desperation 

Nerves 

Good  Deeds 

Difficulty 

Pedantry 

Greatness 

Enterprise 

Perfume 

Human  Nature  (Charron) 

Rashness 

Pretentiousness 

Performance 

Recklessness 

Shallowness 

Results 

Valour 

Singularity 

Work 

Adversity,  6 

Taste 

Activity,  4 

Affliction 

Universities 

Energy  (q.v.) 

Books  (Irving) 

Verbosity 

Actors,  4 

Calamity 

Vulgarity  (Ruskin) 

Artists  (Thackeray) 

Compassion 

Words  (Shakespeare, 

Aspirations 

Convulsion 

Watson,  Wilson,  etc.) 

Drama 

Disaster 

Affection,  8 

Elocution 

Distress 

Ambition  (Byron) 

Superiority  (Shakespeare) 

Failure 

Constancy 

Theatres 

Fortune 

Cordiality 

Tragedy 

Grief 

Destiny 

Words  (Shakespeare) 

Misery 

Friendship 

Acts  ol  Parliament,  5 

Misfortune 

Judgment 

Law 

Pain 

Kindness 

Legislation  (Helps) 

Reverses 

Love 

Parliament 

Ruin 

Affection,  Partiality  of,  8 

566 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Affection,  Unrequited,  9 

Agreeableness,  1  1 

Alliance,  13 

Love 

Affability 

Friendship 

Affections,  8 

Amenability 

Alliteration,  13 

Passions 

Attractiveness 

Theology  (Langland) 

Affinities,  9 

Charm 

Allurement,  13 

Introspection 

Courtesy 

Bribery 

Resemblance 

Gentlemen 

Charm 

Sympathy  (Longfellow, 

Manners 

Fascination 

etc.) 

Modesty  (Steelc,  Swift, 

Gifts 

Affliction,  9 

etc.) 

Invitation 

Adversity 

Pleasing 

Spiders 

Bitterness 

Politeness 

Temptation 

Calamity 

Sport 

World  (Young) 

Compassion 

Subservience 

Almanac,  13 

Compensation 

Agreement,  n 

Back-numbers 

Disaster 

Acquiescence 

Dates 

Distress 

Compatibility 

Days 

Failure 

Complacency 

New  Year 

Fortune 

Quarrels 

Aloofness,  13 

Misery 

Sociability 

Destitution    (Words- 

Misfortune 

Unity 

worth) 

Sorrow 

War 

Detachment 

Suffering 

Agriculture,  n 

Disposition 

Tears 

April 

Exclusiveness 

Trial 

Capital 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Tribulation 

Commerce 

Pride 

Troubles 

Farmers 

Seclusion 

Vicissitude 

February 

Selfishness 

Woe 

Harvest 

Solitude 

Affronts,  9 

January 

Alternatives,  13 

Abuse 

Labour 

Choice 

Candidates 

Land 

Variety 

Challenge 

Timidity  (ad  fin.) 

Altruism,  13 

Indignities 

Weather 

Duty 

Insults 

Ailments,  12 

Sacrifice 

Quarrels 

Gout 

Selfishness 

Recrimination 

Hypochondria 

Unselfishness 

Revilers 

Physicians 

Amateurs,  13 

Scolding 

Aim,  12 

Dilettanti 

Unkindness 

Alarms,  12 

Painting 

Wrongs      _j 

Bogies 

(Ruskin) 

Africa,  9 

Cowards 

Smatterers 

Bluster 

Fright 

Amazement 

Patriotism    (Browning) 

Terror 

Astonishment 

Rivalry  (Rhodes) 

Timidity 

Surprise 

Superfluities  (Swift) 

Alcohol,  12 

Wonder 

Afternoon;  9 

Abstinence 

Ambassadors,  13 

Tea  (Wilson) 

Drinking 

Messengers 

After-Thoughts,  10 

Drunkenness 

Poets  (Dryden) 

Cogitation 

Wine 

Ambiguity,  13 

Consideration 

Ale,  12 

Answers 

Reflection 

Beer 

Complacency 

Thought 

Christmas 

Doubt 

After-Wisdom,  10 

Conviviality 

Equivocation 

Prophets 

Drunkenness 

Obscurity  of  Style 

Superiority  (Rousseau) 

Algebra,  12 

Prevarication 

Age,  10 

Calculation 

Punctuation 

Middle  Age 

Mathematics 

Religion 

Old  Age 

Alibi,  12 

Theology 

Senility 

Absence 

Ambition,  13 

Time 

Allegorical  art,  12 

Aspiration 

Trust  (Cotton) 

Metaphors 

Bequests 

Youth 

Allegory 

Building 

Ages,  The  Seven,  10 

Fables 

Chivalry  (Scott) 

Life 

Figures  of  Speech 

Death  (Scott) 

Longevity 

Legends 

Emulation 

Mankind 

Metaphors 

Fame 

567 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Glory 

Demagogues 

Cuckoo 

Government 

Government 

Dogs 

Greatness 

Lawlessness 

Horrors 

Love  (Congreve) 

Liberty  (Froude) 

Horses 

Lovers  (Byron) 

Rebellion 

Humaneness 

Power 

Rulers 

Insects 

Scrupulousness 

Anecdotage,  16 

Lions 

Sin 

Tales 

Robin 

Soldiers  (Southern) 

Talk 

Squirrels 

Success 

Tediousness 

Swans 

Talents  (Young) 

Yarns 

Animals,  Future  Existence 

War 

Angels,  1  6 

of,  1  8 

Amenability,  15 

Actions  (Fletcher) 

Annihilation,  18 

Adaptability 

Ambition    (Pope,    Shake- 

Devastation 

Affability 

speare,  etc.) 

Extinction 

Amiability 

Bereavement  (Long- 

Future Existence 

Charm 

fellow) 

Annotation,  18 

Manners 

Chastity  (Milton) 

Commentators 

Opportunism 
Temporising 

Epitaphs 
Help  (Massey) 

Annoyance 

Anger 

Amends 

Thought  (Vaughan) 

Irritation 

Compensation 

Visits 

Anonymity,  18 

America,  15 

Anger,  16 

Rumour 

Eloquence 

Advice  (Publilius 

Scandal 

England  (Emerson) 

Syrus) 

Answer,  18 

Generalities 

Animosities 

Argument 

Modesty 

Annoyance 

Disputes 

Nations  (Dickens) 

Bitterness 

Reply 

Titles  (Thackeray) 

Blood  thirstiness 

Anticipation,  18 

Trade  (Emerson) 

Calm 

Apprehension 

American  Flag 

Discord 

Augury 

Flags 

Envy 

Destiny 

Americans,  16 

Forbearance 

Expectancy 

Cant 

Hatred 

Fall 

Paris 

Ill-will 

Fate 

Travel  (Emerson) 
Wealth  (Emerson) 

Irritation 
Misunderstanding 

Foreboding 
Omens 

Words  (M.  Twain) 

Passions 

Prophets 

Amiability,  16 
Affability 

Quarrels 
Resentfulness 

Self-deception 
Anti-Climax,  19 

Affection 

Resignation 

Bathos 

Amenability 

Retaliation 

Antiquities,  19 

Amity 

Revenge 

Abuses 

Charm 

Temper 

Age 

Cynicism 

Temperament 

Archives 

Fascination 

Threats            • 

Art  (Lang) 

Friendship 

Vindictiveness 

Custom 

Kindness 

Violence 

Decadence 

Manners 

Wrath 

Monuments 

Unselfishness 

Anglers  and  Angling,  17 

Old  Fashions 

Amorousness,  16 

Christmas  (Fisherman's 

Past 

Coyness 

saying) 

Records 

Love 

Failure  (Prov.) 

Stonehenge 

Sentiment 

Fishing 

Travel  (Voltaire) 

Amusement,  16 

Sport 

Westminster  Abbey 

Enjoyment 

Winds 

Anxiety,  19 

Entertainment 

Anguish,  Mental,  18 

Anticipation 

Festivities 

Despair 

Apprehension 

Pleasure  (q.v.) 

Desperation 

Care 

Anachronisms,  16 

Disquiet 

Despair 

Dates 

Remorse 

Foreboding 

Analysis,  16 

Repentance 

Trials 

Definitions 

Suffering 

Apathy,  19 

Research 

Woman  (Scott) 

Carelessness 

Anarchy,  16 

Animals,  18 

Casualness 

Chaos 

Birds 

Rashness 

Communism 

Cats 

Recklessness 

568 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Apology,  19 

Transiency 

Engravers 

Confession 

Weather 

Fancy 

Error  (Gay) 

Arbitrators,  21 

Ignorance  (Jonson) 

Excuses 

Impartiality 

Moderation  (Ruskin) 

Explanation 

Judges 

Painting 

Forgiveness 

Judgment 

Pictures 

Apparitions,  19 

Justice 

Portraits 

Bogies 

Law 

Royal  Academy 

Ghosts 

Archbishops,  21 

Sculptures 

Spirits 

Archdeacons 

Simplicity   (Schopen- 

Spiritualism 

Clergy  (Sydney  S:uit!i) 

hauer) 

Superstition 

Architecture,  21 

Statuary 

Appeal,  20 

Achievement  (Emerson* 

Sublime 

Attention 

Buildings 

Talents 

Rallying  Cry 

Epitaphs  (on  Sir  J. 

Taste 

Appearance,  20 

Vanbrugh  ) 

Thoroughness 

Apprehension 

Ornament 

Truth  (La  Rochefoucauld) 

Dissimulation 

Paradox  (Euler) 

Artfulness,  24 

Honesty  (Guarini) 

Taste  (Voltaire) 

Craftiness 

Opinions  (Sir  A.  Helps) 

Archives,  21 

Cunning 

Pretence 

Antiquities 

Artifices,  24 

Woman  (Butler) 

Chroniclers 

Cunning 

Appetite,  20 

Records 

Plots 

Banquets 

Argument,  21 

Stratagems 

Breakfast 

Ambiguity 

Artistic  licence 

Conviviality 

Asseveration 

Licence 

Dinner 

Caution 

Wisdom  (Emerson) 

Epicures 

Combativeness 

Artists,  24 

Feasts 

Contention 

Arts,  The,  24 

Food 

Contradiction 

Geometry 

Greed 

Debate 

Paintings 

Applause,  20 

Dispute 

Sculpture 

Admiration 

Logic 

Taste 

Approbation 

Opinion 

Woman  (Rousseau) 

Criticism 

Quarrels 

Asceticism,  25 

Popularity 

Reason 

Puritanism 

Praise 

Sophistry 

Teetotallers 

Apples 

Speech 

Temperance 

Antiquity  (Webster) 

Syllogisms 

Unco  Guid 

Choice  ' 

Visits  <S.  Smith) 

Asia  Minor,  25 

Food  (Lamb) 

Women's  Logic 

Asking 

Apprehension,  21 

Words 

Importunity 

Anticipation 

Arithmetic,  21 

Aspiration,  25 

Anxiety 

Accountancy 

Ambition 

Augury 

Calculation 

Antiquities  (Swinburne) 

Care 

Ciphers 

Appeal 

Content  (Morris) 

Mathematics 

Buttons 

Cowardice 

Reckoning 

Elevation 

Death  (Shakespeaie) 

Statistics 

Endeavour 

Despair 

Arrival,  23 

Fame 

Desperation 

Adornment 

Greatness 

Fate 

Return 

Possibilities 

Fear 

Visits 

Sublime 

Foreboding 

Arrogance 

Unselfishness 

Omens 
Timidity 

Ignorance  (Butler) 
Art,  23 

Visionaries 
Assassination,  26 

Approbation,  21 

After-Thoughts 

Monarchy  (Seneca; 

Advice 

Artistry 

Murder 

Attractiveness 

Artists 

Scrupulousness     (Shake- 

Blessing 

Athens 

speare) 

Compliment 

Authority  (Shakespeare) 

Virtue  (Shakespeare) 

Criticism 

Commerce  (Cowper) 

Tyranny 

Disparagement 

Connoisseurs 

Assent 

Favours 

Criticism 

Acquiescence 

Praise 

Dilettanti 

Agreement 

April,  21 

Dissimulation 

Complacency 

Spring  (Shakespeare,  etc.) 

Education  (Plato) 

Consent 

569 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Assertiveness 

Disputes 

Art  (Heine) 

Asseveration 

Personalities 

Artists 

Contradiction 

Quarrels 

Bathos 

Positiveness 

Recrimination 

Books 

Asseveration,  26 

Spitefulness 

Business 

Argument 

Vindictiveness 

Chaucer 

Confidence 

War 

Comedy 

Contradiction 

Attainment,  27 

Commentators 

Positiveness 

Accomplishmen  t 

Criticism 

Assiduity,  26 

Achievement 

Drama 

Diligence 

Consummation 

Excellence  (Dryden) 

Industry 

Results 

Fiction 

Thoroughness 

Attention,  27 

Homer 

Work 

Appeal 

Literature 

Association,  26 

Caution 

Milton 

Alliance 

Listeners 

Poets 

Colleagues 

Attractiveness,  27 

Praise  (Scott) 

Combination 

Admiration 

Publishers 

Committees 

Beauty 

Readers 

Comrades 

Charm 

Shakespeare 

j.   Fellowship 

Fascination 

Style 

,    Propinquity 
i    Sociability 

Grace 
Perfection 

Tales 
Voltaire 

Society 

Audacity,  27 

Words 

r   Sympathy 

Assassination 

Writing 

Astonishment 

Boldness 

Autocracy,  31 

Admiration 

Courage 

Despotism 

Surprise 

Daring 

Government 

Wonder 

Rashness 

Kings 

Astrology 

Recklessness 

Power 

Superstition  (Voi- 
taire) 

Shamelessness 
Wilfulness 

Royalty 
Rulers 

Astronomy,  27 
Moon 

Auguries,  28 
Chance 

Tyranny 
Automobiles,  31 

Stars 

Foreboding 

Inventors 

Superstition  (Vol- 
taire 

Omens 
Oracles 

Speed 
Steam 

Atheism,  27 

A  usterity 

Autumn,  31 

Blasphemy 
Doubt 

Asceticism 
Harshness 

Death  (Hemans) 
November 

God 

Mirth  (Voltaire) 

October 

Hypocrites 
Infidelity 
Miracles 

Puritanism 
Severity 
Solitude  (Plato) 

Weather  (Ellis) 
Avarice,  31 

Acquisitiveness 

Night  (Young) 
Physicians  (Prov.) 
Athens,  27 

Unco  Guid 
Australia,  28 
Agriculture  (Jerrold) 

Ambition  (Landor) 
Beggars  (Chaucer) 
Covetousness 

Art 

Authority,  28 

Money 

Athleticism,  27 

Commands 

Wealth 

Exercise 

Corruption 

Averages 

Games 

Government 

Lawyers  (Helps) 

Sport 

Kings 

Aversion,  32 

Training 

Magistrates 

Dislike 

Atoms,  27 

Office 

Hatred 

Trifles 

Politicians 

Ill-nature 

Attack,  27 

Position 

Prejudice 

Battles 

Power 

Vindictiveness 

Blows 

Royalty 

Aviation,  32 

Cavillers 

Rulers 

Inventors 

Censoriousness 

Sovereignty 

Speed 

Combat 

Tyranny 

Steam 

Conflict 

Usurpation 

Utility 

Contention 

Authors,  28 

Awkwardness,  32 

Contentiousness 

Abuse  (Dryden) 

Eccentricity 

Contest 

Adaptability 

Englishmen  (Heine) 

Daring 

(Rogers) 

Manners 

Deed 

Ambition  (Pascal) 

Singularity 

570 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Combativeness 

Drunkenness 

Danger 

Soldiers  (Marlborough) 

Babies,  32 

Defeat 

Trade  (Johnson) 

Birth 

Despair 

Bees,  36 

Children  (Swinburne) 
Infancy 
Mothers 

Disputes 
Eagerness 
Enjoyment  (Dryden) 

Industry  (Watts) 
Optimism  (Emerson) 
Pleasure 

Bachelors,  32 

Exultation 

Beggars,  36 

Celibacy 
Epitaphs  (Goldwin 
Smith) 

Faction 
Fallen  in  Battle 
Heroes 

Charity 
Poverty 
Wanderers 

Marriage  (Montaigne, 
Shakespeare,     Webster, 
etc.) 

Misunderstanding 
Navy 
Peace 

World  (ad  fin.) 
Beginnings,  36 
Cause  and  Effect 

Back  Numbers,  32 

Readiness 

Change 

Old  Age 

Retreat 

Endings 

Old  Fashions 

Triumph 

Inventors 

B  GCI/IC88 

Victory 

Modesty  (S.  Smith) 

Corruption 
Depravity 

Fvil 

War 
Wives  (Shakespeare) 
Beach,  33 

Pioneers 
Belief,  37 
Christ 

dvll 

c;n 

Sea 

Credulity 

O1I1 

Wickedness 
Baldness 

Sailors 
Beating,  33 
Blows 

Creeds 
Dogma 
Faith 

Grief  (Cicero) 

Combat 

Future 

Ballads 

Punishment 

Ghosts 

Children  (Longfellow) 

Beauty,  33 

God 

Songs 
Banishment,  32 

Admiration 
Appearance 

Religion 
Spirits 

Exile 

Art 

Supernatural 

Banquets,  32 

Attractiveness 

Unbelief 

Appetite 

Characteristics 

Bells,  37 

Companionship 

Charm 

Discord  (Shakespeare) 

Cookery 

Colours 

Duty 

Dinner 

Complexion 

Endings  (Hawes) 

Feasts 

Criticism  (Stevenson) 

Noon 

Food 

Distress 

Benefits,  38 

Guests 

Dress    (Hood,    Tennyson) 

Benevolence 

Music 

Duty 

Charity 

Sociability 

Envy  (Moore) 

Favours 

Wine 

Epitaphs 

Generosity 

Barbers 

Fascination 

Gratitude 

Preparation    (Ital.    prov.) 

Gifts 

Ingratitude 

Shaving 

Girlhood 

Philanthropy 

Silence  (Plutarch) 

Grace 

Selfishness 

Bargains,  33 

Hands 

Thanksgiving 

Commerce 

Idealism 

Benevolence,  38 

Exaction 

Morning  (Campbell) 

Adversity  (Goldsmith) 

Markets 

Optimism  (Browning) 

Benefits 

Merchandise 

Ornament 

Charity 

Trade 

Perfection 

Favours 

Baronets,  33 

Statuary 

Friendship 

Englishmen  (Tennyson) 

Sublime 

Generosity 

Barristers,  33) 

Taste 

Gratitude 

Advocacy 

Truth 

Humanity 

Fees 

Uselessness 

Kindness 

Bashfulness 

Virtue  (Shakespeare) 

Philanthropy 

Coyness 

Woman 

Pity 

Modesty 

Bed,  36 

Sympathy 

Bathos,  33 

Idleness  (Watts) 

Thanksgiving 

Anti-climax 

Rest 

Bequests,  38 

Criticism 

Sleep 

Executors 

Folly 

Sloth 

Madness  (Swift) 

Battles,  33 

Beer,  36 

Wills 

Cannon 

Ale 

Bereavement,  3- 

Combat 

Drinking 

Affliction. 

INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Cheerfulness  (Scottish 

saying) 
Comfort 
Comrades 
Consolation 
Dead 
Epitaphs 

Friendship  (Montgomery 
Grief 

Loneliness 
Loss 

Mourning 
Resignation 
Sorrow 
Trial 
Trouble 
Betrayal,  40 

Confidence  Misplaced 
Faithlessness 
Falsehood 
Fraud 
Rogues 
Traitors 
Treachery 
Villainy 
Wrongs 
Bible,  40 
Christianity 
Contradiction 
Creeds 
Epitaphs 

Hypocrisy  (Shake- 
speare) 
Philosophy 
Religion 
Bigotry,  41 
Fanaticism 
Intolerance 
Superstition 
Zeal 

Billiards,  41 
Billingsgate 

Language  (S.  Smith) 
Biographers,  41 

History  (Bolingbroke) 
Inspiration  (Words- 
worth) 
Realism 
Records 

Tales  (Shakespeare) 
Birds,  41 
Artistry 
Captivity 
Cheerfulness 
Cuckoo 
Lark 
Marriage 
Nature 
Night  (Hood) 
Nightingale 
Robin 

Silence  (Anon.) 
Singers  (Tennyson) 
Slaughter 
Solemnity 
Spring 
Swans 


Valentine,  St. 
Winter 
Birth,  42 
Breeding 
Fathers 

Humble  Origin 
Mothers 
Nobility 
Pedigree 
Pride 
Rank 
Titles 

Birth,  Noble,  42 
Birth  (q.v.) 
Nobility 
Birthdays,  42 

Days 
Birthplace,  43 

Home 

Birthrate,  43 
Birthright,  43 
Freedom 
Liberty 
Bishops,  43 
Clergy 
Congt  ffilire 
Ecclesiastics 
Priests 

Refusal  (Dryden) 
Bitterness,  43 
Anger 
Ill-will 

Ingratitude  (Dante) 
Malevolence 
Spitefulness 
Uncharitableness 
Vindictiveness 
Blackballing,  43 
Blame 
Advice 
Calumny 
Censoriousness 
Censure 
Criticism 
Disapproval 

Fashion  (Rochefoucauld) 
Hypercriticism 
Idleness  (Danish  prov.) 
Mediocrity 
Praise 
Rebuke 
Spitefulness 
Unpopularity 
Blarney  stone,  43 

Flattery 
Blasphemy,  43 
Atheism 
Innovations 
Irreverence 
Oaths 
Profanity 
Truth  (Shaw) 
Blessing,  44 
Ambiguity 
Approval 
Cheerfulness 
Curses 

572 


Discontent 
Loss  (Young) 
Blindness,  44 
Darkness 
Enlightenment 
Extremes 
Homer 
Blockade,  44 

Navy 

Bloodthirstiness,  44 
Battles 
Cruelty 
Revenge 
Soldiers 
Vindictiveness 
Blows,  44 
Attack 
Battles 
Beating 
Combat 
Controversy  (Johnson. 

Merrick,  etc.) 
Duels 
Violence 
Blunders,  44 
Crime 
Error 
Ireland 
Life  (Disraeli) 
Mistakes 
Youth 

Bluntness,  44 
Candour 

Outspokenness  (q.v.) 
Speech 
Blushes,  44 
Modesty 
Shame 
Bluster,  45 
Boasting 
Bombast 
Braggadocio 
Challenge 
Pride 
Rant 
Boasting,  45 
Action  (Newbolt) 
Americans 
Bluster 
Bombast 
Braggadocio 
Concert 
Englishmen 
(Emerson) 
Fighting 
Ostentation 
Pretentiousness 
Pride 
Vanity 
Boating,  45 

Education  (Emerson) 
Rivers 
Sailors 
Ships 

Bogies,  45 
Alarms 
Apparitions 


INDEX    OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


(.hosts 

Cheerfulness  (Dunbar. 

Contempt 

Monsters 

Heywood) 

Domesticity 

Spirits 

Debt 

England 

Boldness,  45 

Finance 

Enterprise 

Audacity 

Trust 

Folly  (Young) 

Daring 

World  (Anon.) 

Government  (Milton) 

Greatness  (Homer) 

Boundaries,  50 

Ireland 

Rashness 

Nations 

John  Bull 

Recklessness 

Neighbours 

Navy 

Wilfulness 

Boyhood,  50 

Scotland 

Bombast,  45 

Childhood 

Suicide  (Young) 

Boasting 

Children  (S.  Smith) 

Wales 

Braggadocio 

Education 

British  Flag,    52 

Challenge 

Life  (Disraeli) 

Flags 

Rant 

Manners  (Watts) 

Britons,  52 

Bondage,  45 

Retrospect 

Britain 

Captivity 

Seven  Ages 

Colonies 

Prison 

Youth 

Englishmen  (q.v.) 

Servitude 

Braggadocio,  30 

Broadmindedness,  52 

Slavery 

Bluster 

Tolerance 

Book  Inscriptions,  46 

Boasting 

Brotherhood,  53 

Book  Learning,  46 

Bombast 

Cheerfulness  (Dunbar) 

Mankind 

Ostentation 

Citizenship 

Pedantry 

Pretentiousness 

Comrades 

Shallowness 

Brains,  50 

Conviviality 

Theories 

Dullness 

Co-operation 

Books,  46 

Genius 

Disputes 

Antiquity  (Goldsmith) 

Talent 

Distress 

Biographers 

Bread,  50 

Duty 

Book  Inscriptions 
Book  Learning 

Diet 
Food 

Fraternity 
Friendship  (quoted  by 

Building 

Breakfast,  50 

Goethe) 

Busy-bodies 

Breeding,  50 

Inequality 

Comfort 

Birth 

Mankind 

Criticism 

Birth,  Noble 

(Russell) 

Decadence 

Gentility 

Sociability 

(Wordsworth) 
Dullness 

Gentlemen 
Manners 

Unity 
Brutality,  53 

Experience  (Disraeli) 
Learning  (Chaucer) 

Brevity,  50 
Beauty  (Watson) 

Cruelty 
Shamelessness 

Leisure 

Compression 

Building,  53 

Library 

Conciseness 

Achievement 

Pedantry 

Obscurity  (Horace) 

Antiquities 

Reading 

Songs  (Goldsmith) 

Architecture 

Retirement 

Speech 

Cities 

Study 

Talk 

Cottages 

Universities  (Carlyle) 

Words 

Lawyers  (Scottish  prov.) 

Words 

Bribery,  50 

Ornament 

Boredom,  49 

Candidates 

Ostentation 

Anecdotage 

Corruption 

Taste  (Voltaire) 

Continuance 

Councils 

Thoroughness 

Englishmen  (Heine) 

Elections 

Bullies,  53 

Heroes  (Emerson) 

Honours 

Bluster 

Life  (Schopenhauer) 

Justice 

Cowardice 

Prolixity 

Money 

Tyrants 

Rest  (Voltaire) 

Votes 

Burdens,  53 

Society  (Byron) 

Brides    and  Bridegrooms, 

Exploration 

Stories 

51 

Burglars,  53 

Tales 

Honeymoon 

Barristers 

Talk 

Husbands 

Crime  (Shakespeare) 

Tediousness 

Marriage 

Rogues 

Verbosity 

Wives 

Burials,  53 

Vivacity 

Bridesmaids,  51 

Church  and  Churchyard 

Borrowers  and  Lenders, 

Brilliancy,  51 

Dead 

5° 

Britain,  51 

Death  (Cicero) 

Book  Inscriptions 

Colonies 

Epitaphs 

Carelessness 

Constitution 

Funerals 

573 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Grave 

Misery 

Danger 

Honour  (Collins) 
Immortality 

Misfortune 
Sorrow 

Fighting 
Soldiers 

Monuments 

Trial 

War 

Occupation  (Steele) 

Woe 

Canons 

Sermons  (German  prov.) 

Calculation,  54 

Deans 

Tombs 

Arithmetic 

Cant,  56 

Business,  53 

Reckoning 

Criticism 

Boldness 

Statistics 

Dissimulation 

Clerks 

Callousness,  54 

Hypocrisy 

Commerce 

Cruelty 

Sentiment 

Conduct 

Cynicism 

Capital,  56 

Despatch 

Hard-heartedness 

Money 

Holidays 

Heartlessness 

Property 

London 

Inhumanity 

Rent 

Merchandise 

Irresponsiveness 

Wealth 

Money 

Unkindness 

Capital  Punishment,  50 

Occupation 

Calm,  54 

Punishment 

Towns 

Greatness  (Seneca) 

Speech  (Defoe) 

Trade 

Philosophy 

Captiousness 

Wages 

Quiet 

Cavillers 

Wanderers  (Runkle) 

Repose 

Censoriousness 

Wealth 

Retirement 

Hypercriticism 

Work 

Rural  Life 

Mediocrity 

Worldly  Wisdom 

Serenity 

Rebuke 

Busy-bodies,  54. 

Stedfastness 

Captivity,  56 

Business 

Calumny,  54 

Bondage 

Cabals 

Abuse 

Prison 

Duty  (Plato) 

Backbiting 

Servitude 

Fussiness 

Dead  (Shelley) 

Slavery 

Gossip 

.     Detraction 

Cards,  56 

Idleness 
Inquisitiveness 

Disparagement 
Envy 

Beginnings  (Scottish 
prov.) 

Meddling 

Libel 

Games 

Schemes 

Misunderstanding 

Gaming 

Slander 

Report 

Care,  56 

Village  Life 

Rumour 

Anxiety 

Butter,  54 

Scandal 

Apprehension 

Diet 

Slander 

Cheerfulness 

Easter 

Suspicion 

Conviviality 

Buttons,  54. 
Fortune  (Shakespeare) 

Theology  (Voltaire) 
Unkindness 

Enjoyment 
Foreboding 

Village  Life 

Mirth  (Wither) 

Cambridgeshire,  55 

Pessimism 

Universities 

Pleasure  (Milton) 

Candidates,  55 

Sleep  (Shakespeare) 

C 

Bribery 

Sorrow 

Demagogues 

Timidity 

Cabals,  54 

Democracy 

Troubles 

Busy-bodies 

Elections 

Woe 

Conspiracies 

Opportunism 

Carelessness,  56 

Disagreement 

Party 

Apathy 

Disquiet 

Place-seekers 

Art  (Congreve) 

Dissension 

Politicians 

Borrowing 

Fame  (Arnold) 

Politics 

Bravado 

Gossip 

Popularity 

Casualness 

Mischief 

Prevarication 

Chance 

Plots 

Time-servers 

Conscience 

Schemes 

Candour,  55 

Forgetfulness 

Secrets 

Accusation 

Indifference 

Cacoethes  Scnbendi 

Bluntness 

Rashness 

Authors  (Juvenal) 
Calamity,  54 

Frankness 
Outspokenness 

Recklessness 
Thoughtlessness 

Adversity 

Rebuke 

Castles 

Affliction 

Cannon,  56 

Home 

Disaster 

Battles 

Modesty  (W.  Morris) 

Failure 

Blockade 

Ruin  (Byron) 

574 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Castles  In  the  Air,  57 

Critics 

Chance,  59 

Idealists 

Cynicism 

Accident 

Visionaries 

Faults 

Atoms 

Visions 

Hypercriticism 

Auguries 

Utopia 

Rebuke 

Carelessness 

Casualness,  57 

Unco  Guid 

Casualness 

Carelessness  (q.v.) 

Celibacy,  58 

Circumstances 

Weather  (prov.  say- 

Bachelors 

Coincidence 

ing) 

Husbands 

Creeds 

Casuistry,  57 

Marriage 

Destiny 

Advocacy 

Celt,  58 

Fame  (Byron) 

Argument 

Censoriousness,  58 

Fate 

Cavillers 

Censure  (q.v.) 

Fortune 

Disputes 

Censure,  58 

Gaming 

Hypercriticism 

Advice 

Guessing 

Lawyers 

Attack 

Luck 

Oratory 

Blame 

Providence 

Persuasion 

Cavillers 

Risk 

Rhetoric 

Censoriousness 

Superstition 

Words 

Condemnation 

Wagers 

Catchwords,  57 

Criticism 

Change,  59 

Nicknames 

Critics 

Fickleness 

Words 

Eminence 

Friendship  (Voltaire) 

Cathedrals 

Fault-finding 

Improvement 

Architecture 

Faults 

Inconstancy 

Cities 

Judgment 

Innovations 

Cats,  57 

Mediocrity 

Mutability 

Irritation 

Praise  (La  Rochefou- 

Novelty 

Prejudice  (Shakespeare) 
Cause,  57 

cauld) 
Rebuke 

Opinion 
Reform 

Chivalry 
Enthusiasm 

Spitefulness 
Ceremony,  58 

Time 
Transiency 

Fighting 

Etiquette 

Variety 

Integrity  (Southern) 
Object 

Festivities 
Formality 

Vicissitude 
Change  of  Opinion, 

Cause  and  Effect,  57 

Ritual 

60 

Beginnings 

Certainty 

Doubt 

Chance 

Asseveration 

Error  (Swift) 

Effect 

Cause  and  Effect 

Fickleness 

Endings 

Cocksureness 

Renegades 

Motives 

Doubt 

Time-servers 

Research 

Error  (Mill) 

Uncertainty 

Results 

Judgment 

Chaos,  60 

Science 

Knowledge 

Anarchy 

Caution,  57 

Positiveness 

Confusion 

Anxiety 

Preciseness 

Discontent 

Apprehension 

Self-sufficiency 

Discord 

Attention 

Uncertainty 

Order 

Business 

Challenge,  58 

Character,  60 

Care 

Affront 

Calumny 

Change 

Bombast 

Carelessness 

Confidence 

Braggadocio 

Complexity 

Cowardice 

Combat 

Disposition 

Diffidence 

Courage 

Education   (Spencer) 

Fear 

Defiance 

Elevation 

Judgment 

Fighting 

Extremes 

Preciseness 

Rallying  Cry 

Integrity 

Prudence 

Threats 

Manners 

Safety 

Champagne,  59 

Nations  (Marvell, 

Timidity 

Wine  (Keats) 

Spencer,  etc.) 

Vacillation 

Champions,  59 

Temperament 

Cavillers,  58 

Combat 

Virtue 

Attack 

Combativeness 

Characteristics,  61 

Bitterness 

Conflict 

Human  Nature 

Blame 

Leaders 

Mankind 

Censoriousness 

Rallying  Cry 

Temperament 

Censure 

Rulers 

Woman  (Swift) 

575 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Charity,  61 

Accusations 

Beggars 

Benefits 

Bequests 

Christianity 

Condemnation 

Conscience  (Tusser) 

Destitution 

Firmness 

Forgiveness 

Generosity 

God  (Tusser) 

Judgment  (Wordsworth) 

Kindness 

Mercy 

Philanthropy 

Toleration 

Truth  (Aurelius) 

Unkindness 

Zeal 
Charlatans 

Dupes 

Lying 

Mystery 

Positiveness 

Quackery  (q.v.) 
Charm,  61 

Affability 

Amenability 

Amiability 

Attractiveness 

Beauty 

Fascination  (q.v.) 

Grace 

Manners 

Pleasing 

Scenery 

Serenity 

Sex 

Tears 

Variety 

Voice 

Waists 

Woman 

Youth 
Chase,  62 

Hunting  (q.v.) 
Chastity,  62 

Calumny 

Inconstancy  (Pope) 

Modesty  (Emerson) 

Purity 

Suspicion  (Young) 
Chatter 

Irresponsibility 

Patter 

Talk 

Verbosity 
Chaucer,  62 

SLakespeare  (Jonson) 
Cheating,  62 

Commerce 

Deception 

Dupes 

Fraud 

Mystery 


Quackery 

Rogues 

Self-deception 
Cheerfulness,  62 

Contentment 

Gaiety 

Laughter 

Mirth 

Optimism 

Pleasure 

Rejoicing 

Resignation 

Sailors 

Sighing 

Smiles 
Cheese,  64 
Chess,  64 

Delay  (prov.) 
Childhood,  64 

Books  (Cowper) 

Boyhood 

Children 

Education 

Flowers  (Watts) 

Mothers 

Schools 

Youth 
Childishness,  64 

Innocence  (q.v.) 
Children,  65 

Affection 

Babies 

Bereavement 

Birth 

Childhood 

Dancing 

Daughters 

Domesticity 

Education 

Family 

Fathers 

Home 

Ignorance 

Infancy 

Mothers 

Noise 

Orphans 

Simplicity 

Sons 

Youth  (q.v.) 
China,  66 

Collectors 

Connoisseurs 

Dilettanti 

Self-Control 
Chinaman,  66 
Chivalry,  66 

Adventures 

Disputes  (Scott) 

Enemies 

Honour 

Nobility 

Sportsmanship 
Choice,  67 

Alternatives 

Clothing 

Comparisons 

576 


Elections 

Evils 

Inconstancy  (Gay) 

Marriage  (Scottish  prov.) 

Popularity 

Selection 
Christ,  67 

Death  (Shakespeare) 

Discord 

Freedom  (Heine) 

Religion 

Suffering  (Dekker; 
Christianity,  68 

Clergy 

Ethics 

Evils 

Human  Nature  (Mather) 

Intolerance 

Persecution 

Philosophy 

Religion  (q.v.) 

Sects 

Theology 
Christmas,  68 

Easter 
Chronic,  69 
Chroniclers,  69 
Church 

Archbishops 

Architecture 

Bishops 

Cathedrals 

Clergy 

Controversy  (Wotton) 

Creeds 

Curates 

Ecclesiastics 

Liturgy 

Religion 

Ritual 

Sects 

Worship 

Church  and  Churchyard,  69 
Church  and  State,  69 
Church  of  England,  69 

Church  (q.v.) 
Church  Music,  69 
Churches  (Buildings),  69 
Churches,  the,  70 

Antiquities  (Rogers) 

Architecture 

Ecclesiastics 

Sects 

Worship 
Cider 

Drunkenness 
Ciphers,  70 

Nonentities 
Circles,  70 

Children  (Epitaph) 

Completeness 

Cycles 
Circumlocution,  70 

Bombast 
Committees 

Condensation 

Officialism 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Preaching 

Sedition 

Talent 

Verbosity 
Circumspection,  70 

Shouting 
War 

Wisdom 
Cliffs,  73 

Caution  (q.v.) 

Zeal 

Elevation 

Preciseness 

Classes,  71 

Mountains 

Prudence 
Circumstances,  70 

Demagogues 
Disaffection 

Scenery 
Storm 

Chance 

Snobs 

Climate,  73 

Coincidence 

Society 

Autumn 

Destiny 

Classical  Learning,  71 

Clouds 

Events 

Authors  (Voltaire) 

Englishmen  (Helps) 

Fate 

Education 

Seasons 

Happenings 

Greece 

Spring 

Vicissitude 

Homer 

Summer 

Cities,  70 

Knowledge 

Weather 

Authors  (Horace) 

Learning 

Winter 

Birthplace 

Scholarship 

Clocks 

Cockneys 

Schools 

Parochialism 

Faction  (Plutarch) 

Cleanliness,  71 

Time    (Berridge,    Jonson, 

Gardens 

Civilisation 

Young) 

London 

Dirt 

Clothing,  73 

Mountains 

Purity 

Dress 

Music  (Tennyson) 

Sanitation 

Fashion 

Nations  (Rousseau) 

Clearness,  72 

France 

Rome 

Candour 

Ostentation 

Rural  Life 

Decisiveness 

Seamstresses 

Towns 

Directness 

Shoemakers 

Venice 
Citizenship,  71 

Eloquence  (Denham) 
Obscurity 

Uniforms 
Clouds,  73 

Cities 
Cosmopolitanism 

Outspokenness 
Style 

Climate 
Troubles  (ad  fin.) 

Idleness  (Rousseau) 
Mankind  (Lowell) 

Truth  (Blake) 
Words 

Weather 
Clubs,  74 

Nations 

Clergy  and  Clerics, 

Parliament 

Patriotism 

72 

(Dickens) 

Civil  War 

Bishops 

Coalitions,  74 

Rebellion 

Christianity 

Association 

Strife 

Creeds 

Colleagues 

War 

Curates 

Combination 

Civilisation,  71 

Deans 

Comrades 

Correspondence 

Doctrines 

Parties 

Culture 

Dress  (Hazlitt) 

Coarseness,  74 

Discontent 

Dullness  (Pope) 

Oaths 

Evolution 

Ecclesiastics 

Profanity 

Exploration 

Estimates 

Vulgarity 

Government 

Money  (Butler) 

Cockneys,  74 

Law 

Preaching 

London 

Perfection 

Religion 

Cocksureness,  74 

Progress 

Sermons 

Asseveration 

Ships  (Emerson) 

Clerks,  73 

Cause  and  Effect 

War  (Lowell) 
Civility 

Accountancy 
Business 

Certainty 
Contradiction 

Affability 

Servants 

Obstinacy 

Chivalry 

Service 

Positiveness 

Conciliation 

Trade 

Security 

Courtesy 

Cleverness,  73 

Wilfulness 

Gentlemen 

Craftiness 

Coercion,  74 

Manners 

Cunning 

Compulsion 

Politeness 

Endeavour 

Force 

Clamour,  71 

Genius 

Improvement 

Abuse 

Girlhood 

Repression 

Condemnation 

Ingenuity 

Threats 

Demagogues 

Knowledge 

Coffee,  74 

Discord 

Sagacity 

Cogitation,  74 

Faction 

Self  -Sufficiency 

After-thought 

Outspokenness 

Skill 

Reflection 

Rebuke 

Subtlety 

Thought 

577 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Coincidence,  74 

Victory 

Dullness 

Affinities 

Vindictiveness 

Obvious 

Association 

War 

Servility 

Chance 

Combatlveness,  76 

Solemnity 

Circumstances 

Combat  (q.v.) 

Talk 

Destiny 

Companionship 

Tediousness 

Fate 

Obstinacy 

Weather 

Happenings 

Wilfulness 

Common  Sense,  77 

Cold  Weather,  74 

Combination,  76 

Englishmen  (Montes- 

Despondency 

Association 

quieu) 

Extremes 

Cabals 

Fair-dealing 

Weather 

Coalitions 

Genius  (Shaw) 

Winter 

Comrades 

Science  (Holmes) 

Colleagues,  74 

Conspiracy 

Wisdom 

Coalition 

Co-operation 

Common  Things,  78 

Comrades 

Union 

Trifles 

Fellowship 

Unity 

Communicativeness,  78 

Government 

Comedy,  76 

Affability 

Office 

Drama  (Hugo) 

Amenability 

Officialism 

Farce 

Interviewers 

Parties 

Humour 

Publicity 

Politicians 

Jesting 

Reticence 

Renegades 

Laughter 

Speech 

Rulers 

Parody 

Talk 

Collections,  74 

Plato 

Words 

Generosity 

Ridicule 

Communism,  78 

Gifts 

Smiles 

Socialism 

Sympathy  (Spurgeon) 
Collectors,  74 

Tragedy  (Keble,  Pope) 
Comfort,  76 

Utopian  ism 
Companionship  and  Com- 

Antiquities 

Affection  (Shakespeare) 

pany,  78 

Art 

Competence 

Affection 

China 

Luxury 

Association 

Connoisseurs 

Comforters,  76 

Brotherhood 

Numismatics 

Consolation 

Comrades 

Paintings 

Encouragement 

Fellowship 

Trifles 

Idealism  (Hardy) 

Friendship 

Colleges,  74 

Patience 

Sociability 

Education 

Suffering 

Society 

Schools 

Trials 

Solitude 

Universities 

Commands,  76 

Virtue  (Barnfield) 

Colonies,  75 

Authority 

Comparisons,  78 

Australia 

Government 

Contrast 

Britain 

Insubordination 

Figures  of  Speech 

Exploration 

Royalty 

Metaphor 

Soldiers  ("M.R.C.S.") 

Rulers 

Resemblance 

Union  (Bacon) 

Soldiers 

Similes 

Colours,  75 

Commentators,  76 

Compassion,  79 

Complexion 

Annotation 

Charity 

Flowers 

Criticism 

Comforters 

Ornament 

Commerce,  76 

.    Consolation 

Union  (Bacon) 

Agriculture 

Greatness  (Campbell) 

Combat,  75 

Business 

Mercy 

Anger 

Clerks 

Pity 

Attack 

Drudgery 

Suffering 

Battles 
Blows 

Dutch 
London 

Sympathy 
Compatibility,  79 

Challenge 

Merchandise 

Affability 

Champions 

Money 

Agreeableness 

Conflict 

Prosperity 

Amenability 

Contention 

Speculation 

Charm 

Contest 

Thriftlessness  (Bacon) 

Courtesy 

Dispute 

Trade 

Disposition 

Duels 

Wealth 

Kindness 

Exhaustion 

Committees,  77 

Politeness 

Fighting 

Government 

Compensation,  79 

Quarrels 

Commonplace,  77 

Chance 

Recrimination 

Conversation 

Fate 

57* 


INDEX    OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Fortune 

Compliment,  80 

Concessions,  82 

Nemesis 

Applause 

Conciliation 

Retribution 

Flattery 

Compromise 

Competence,  79 

Politeness 

Conciliation,  82 

Comfort 

Praise 

Concessions 

Contentment 

Compression,  So 

Compromise 

Country 

Brevity 

Courtesy 

Happiness  (Pope) 

Conciseness 

Ireland 

Moderation 

Obscurity  (Horace) 

Magnanimity 

Money 

Compromise,  80 

Pacification 

Rural  Life 

Agreeableness 

Conciseness,  82 

Sufficiency 

Agreement 

Brevity 

Superfluities 

Church  of  England 

Compression 

Wants 

Concessions 

Epitomes 

Wealth 

Conciliation 

Concord,  83 

Competition,  79 

Subservience 

Agreement  (q.v.) 

Challenge 

Temporising 

Condemnation,  83 

Emulation 

Time-servers 

Abuse 

Endeavour 

Compulsion,  81 

Rebuke 

Rewards 

Civilisation  (Mill) 

Reproach 

Rivalry 

Coercion 

Self-condemnation 

Complacency,  80 

Force 

Condensation 

Compliance 

Freedom  (Mill,  Thorn 

Brevity 

Conceit 

son) 

Compression 

Optimism 

Improvement 

Conciseness 

Partiality 
Self-sufficiency 

Threats 
Comrades,  81 

Obscurity  (Horace) 
Condolence,  83 

Vanity 
Complaint,  80 

Alliance 
Brotherhood 

Comforters 
Courage  (Gordon) 

Blame 

Companionship 

Grief 

Cavillers 

Company 

Patience 

Censoriousness 

Comrades 

Sorrow 

Censure 

Country 

Suffering 

Discontent 

Danger 

Sympathy 

Fault-finding 

Fellowship 

Conduct,  83 

Faults 

Friendship 

Actions 

Grumblers 

Misfortune  (Swift) 

Character 

Injury 

Sociability 

Deeds 

Pessimism 

Society 

Extremes 

Rebuke 

Solitude 

Good  Deeds 

Trouble 

Toasts 

Life 

Completeness    and     Com- 

Virtue (Barn- 

Temperament 

pletion,  So 

field) 

Versatility 

Sufficiency 

Concealment,    82 

Confederates,  83 

Thoroughness 

Prudence 

Association 

Complexion,  80 

Reticence 

Colleagues 

Characteristics 

Secrecy 

Combination 

Colours 

Conceit,  82 

Companionship 

Face 

After-wisdom 

Comrades 

Complexity  ol    Character, 

Asseveration 

Conspiracies 

80 

Authors  (Kernahan) 

Co-operation 

Conflict  of  Passions 

Boasting 

Confession,  83 

Englishmen 

Bombast 

Admission 

Human  Nature 

Braggadocio 

Apology 

Ireland 

Breakfast  (S.  Smith) 

Error  (Gay) 

Mankind 

Cleverness 

Faults 

Passions 

Complacency 

Remorse 

Versatility 

Egotism 

Repentance 

Compliance,  80 

Flattery 

Self-condemnatior 

Affability 

Pride 

Confidence,  83 

Agreeableness 

Selfishness 

Asseveration 

Agreement 

Society  (Thackeray) 

Conversation 

Amenability 

Superiority 

Credulity 

Compatibility 

Vanity 

Reciprocity 

Complacency 

Concentration,  83 

Self-help 

Consent 

Endeavour 

Self-reliance 

Opportunism 

Thoroughness 

Self-respect 

579 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Trust 

Youth  (Johnson) 
Confidence  Misplaced,  84 

Enemies 

Friends 

Treachery 
Confiscation,  84 

Robbery 
Conflict,  84 

Battles 

Combat 

Combativeness 

Defeat 

Disputes 

Faction 

Heroes 

Misunderstanding 

Peace 

Readiness 

Retreat 

Strife 

Triumph 

Victory 

War 
Conflict  of  Passions,  84 

Passions 

Conformabllity,  and  Con- 
formity, 84 

Adaptability 

Agreement 

Amenability 

Convention 

Custom 

Nonconformity 

Opportunism 

Temporising 
Confusion,  84 

Anarchy 

Chaos 

Discontent 

Discord 

Order 

Conge  d'filire,  84 
Conjecture,  84 

Imagination 

Theory 

Visions 
Conjurers 

Cheating 

Cunning  (Butler) 

Oaths 

Self-deception 
Connoisseurs,  84 

Art 

Artists 

Collectors 

Dilettanti 

Furniture 

Taste 
Conquest,  85 

Battles 

Courage 

Defeat 

Devastation 

Exploration 

Fortune  (Voltaire) 

Success 


Triumph 

Victory 
Conscience,  85 

Contrition 

Deceit 

Drama 

(Shakespeare) 

Guilt  (Watkyns) 

Integrity  (Tennyson) 

Irresolution 

Loyalty  (Tennyson) 

Remorse 

Self-condemnation 
Conscientiousness, 
86 

Goodness 

Integrity 

Virtue 

Worth 
Consent,  86 

Agreement  (q.v.) 
Conservatism,  86 

Parties 

Reform  (Emerson) 

Toasts 

Tories 
Consideration,  86 

After-thought 

Forbearance 

Gentlemen  (Fisher) 

Reflection 

Thought 
Consistency,  86 
Consolation,  86 

Affection  (Shakespeare) 

Bereavement 

Comforters 

Condolence 

Death  (Longfellow) 

Encouragement 

Patience 

Suffering 

Sympathy 
Conspiracies,  87 

Busy-bodies 

Cabals 

Intrigues 

Renegades 

Schemes 

Secrets 

Traitors 

Treachery 
Constancy,  87 

Melodrama 

Truth 

Woman  (Shaw) 
Constituents,  87 

Parties 

Politicians 
Constitution 

Force  (S.  Smith) 

Habeas  Corpus 

Juries 

Property  (Adams) 
Constraint 

Coercion 

Compulsion 

S8o 


Duty  (Words- 
worth) 

Fear  (Swinburne) 
Consummation,  87 

Achievement 

Beginnings 

Endings 

Inventors 

Contemplative  Faculties, 
87 

Consideration 

Observation 

Reflection 

Thought 
Contemporaries,  88 

Present 

Retrospect 
Contempt,  88 

Abuses 

Defiance 

Disdain 

Indifference 

Sarcasm  t 

Satire 

Scoffers 

Scorn 
Content,  88 

Ambition  (Pindar, 
etc.) 

Aspiration  (Marcus 
Aurelius) 

Cheerfulness 

Competence 

Happiness 

Humour 

Laughter 

Mirth 

Optimism 

Simple  Life 

Wants 
Contention,  89 

Argument 

Combat 

Combativeness 

Conflict 

Contradiction 

Controversy 

Debate 

Disputes 

Dissension 

Eagerness 

Feasts  (ad  fin.) 

Justice  (Euripides) 

Quarrels 

Strife 
.  Uncertainty 

Words 
Contentiousness,  89 

Contention  (q.v.) 
Contest,  90 

Battles 

Blows 

Combat 

Contention 

Quarrels 

Strife 

War 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Continuance,  90 

Sociability 

Counterplot,  95 

Endurance 

Toasts 

Cabals 

Thoroughness 

Convulsion,  93 

Conspiracies 

Contradiction,  90 

Chaos  (q.v.) 

Plots 

Argument 

Cookery,  93 

Schemes 

Asseveration 

Domesticity 

Secrets 

Difficulty 

France  (Moore,  Voltaire) 

Country,  95 

Human  Nature  (Char- 

Co-operation,  93 

Nature 

ron) 

Fellowship 

Rural  Life 

Positiveness 
Woman  (Swift) 

Unity 
Cordiality,  93 

Scenery 
Courage,  95 

Contraries 

Cheerfulness 

Achievement 

Opposition 

Enthusiasm 

Audacity 

Contrariety 

Friendship 

Boldness 

Opposition  (q.v.) 
Contrast,  90 

Greeting 
Vehemence 

Care 
Daring 

Comparison 
Difference 

Zeal 
Cornwall,  93 

Death 
Determination 

Disagreement 
Disproportion 
Paradox 

Food  (King) 
Corporal  Punishment,  93 

Beating 

Gallantry 
Heroes 
Knowledge  (Emerson) 

Variety 

Punishment 

Modesty  (Emerson) 

Contrition,  90 

Corporations,  93 

Rashness 

Humility 

Cities 

Soldiers 

Penitence 

Councils 

Valour 

Remorse 

Localism 

Victory 

Repentance 

Mayors 

Virtue 

Self-condemnation 

Towns 

War 

Vicissitude  (Kipling) 

Corpse,  93 

Courtesy,  96 

Controversialists,  90 
Contention  (q.v.) 

Dead 
Correspondence,  93 

Conciliation 
Deference 

Controversy,  90 

Argument 
Combativeness 

After-thoughts 
Letters 
Postscript 

Manners 
Politeness 
Wit    (Selden,     Thomson, 

Contention 

Corruption,  94 

etc.) 

Contradiction 

Bribery 

Courtiers 

Debate 

Decadence 

Ambiguity 

Disputes 
Ecclesiastics 

Degeneracy 
Incorruptibility 

Disgrace 
Lawyers  (Chapman) 

Strife 

Justice 

Romance 

Theology 

Law  (Terence) 

Suitors 

Convention,  91 

Parties 

World  (Chesterfield) 

Conformity 

Pensions 

Courting,  96 

Custom 

Petitions 

Choice 

Nonconformity 

Place-seekers 

Despatch 

Conversation,  91 

Votes 

Dualism 

Commonplace 

Cosmopolitanism,  94 

Jilted 

Discourse       • 

Amenability 

Love 

Etiquette 

Artists  (Emerson) 

Lovers 

Speech 

Patriotism  (Shaw) 

Marriage 

Table  Talk 

Cottages,  94 

Romance 

Talk 

Agriculture 

Soldiers 

Weather  (Cowper) 

Gentility 

Suitors 

Words 

Home 

Covetousness,  97 

Conversion,  92 

Ostentation 

Acquisitiveness 

Change 

Villages 

Ambition  (Landot) 

Change  of  Opinion 

Councils,  94 

Avarice 

Renegades 

Committees 

Beggars  (Chaucer) 

Tracts 

Corporations 

Money 

Conviction,  92 

Counsel 

Property 

Argument  (q.v.) 

Government 

Rent 

Conviviality,  92 

Counsel,  95 

Wealth 

Banquets 

Advice 

Cowardice,  97 

Comrades 

Books  (Bacon) 

Bullies 

Dinner 

Discord 

Caution 

Drinking 

Prudence 

Cruelty 

Feasts 

Wisdom 

Dissimulation 

581 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Lying  (Southern) 

Faith 

Queens 

Pusillanimity 
Soldiers 

Religion 
Sects 

Royaltv 
Cruelty,  "102 

Suicide 

Sneering 

Bloodthirstiness 

Timidity 

Theology 

Brutality 

Valour 

Cricket,  99 

Callousness 

Coward's  Castle 

Education  (Emerson) 

Hard-heartedness 

Unbelief 

Sport  (Kipling) 

Harshness 

Cows 

Crime,  99 

Hatred 

Agriculture 

Actions  (Pindar) 

Heartlessness 

April 

Cleverness 

Inhumanity 

Cheerfulness  (Lear) 
Eating 

Debt 
Depravity 

Oppression 
Schoolboys  (Tennyson) 

Food  (Scottish  prov.) 
Trade 

Dishonesty 
Dishonour 

Slaughter 
Tyranny 

Coyness,  97 

Fear  (Voltaire) 

Unkindness 

Doubt 

Guilt 

Cuckoo,  102 

Hesitation 

History 

April 

Modesty 

Law 

Birds 

Singers 

Punishment 

Cheerfulness 

Timidity 

Rogues 

Summer 

Craftiness,  97 

Villainy 

Culture,  102 

Artfulness 

Criminality,  99 

Art  (q.v.) 

Artifices 

Crime  (q.v.) 

Education 

Credulity 

Crisis,  99 

Taste 

Cunning 

Danger  (q.v.) 

Cunning,  102 

Deception 

Leadership  (Thompson) 

Allurement 

Dissimulation 

Periods 

Artfulness 

Plots 

Transition 

Artifices 

Stratagems 

Vicissitude 

Craftiness 

Cranks,  98 

Criticism,  99 

Dissimulation 

Eccentricity 

Advice    (Dryden,     Helps, 

Plots 

Singularity 

etc.) 

Stratagems 

Visionaries 

After-wisdom 

Curates,  103 

Creative  Faculty,  98 

Blame 

Stoutness 

Authors 

Busy-bodies 

Curiosity,  103 

Genius 

Calumny 

Busy-bodies 

Inventors 

Cavillers 

Inquisitiveness 

Poets 

Censure 

Interviewers 

Creatures,  98 

Commentators 

Questions 

Mankind 

Character 

Research 

Credit,  98 

Charity 

Spies 

Confidence 

Criticism 

Curses,  103 

Finance 

Discontent 

Abuse 

Trust  (ad  fin.) 

Fault-finders 

Oaths 

Credulity,  98 

Friendship  (Pascal) 

Profanity 

Belief 

Hypercriticism 

Custom,   103 

Creeds 

Judgment 

Antiquity 

Critics  (Churchill) 

Rebuke 

Change 

Deception 
Doubt 

Responsibility 
Self-condemnation 

Conformity 
Convention 

Faith 

Silence  (Helps) 

Fashion 

Imagination 

Wit 

Habit 

Jealousy 

Critics,  10  1 

Hardness 

Unbelief 

Criticism  (q.v.) 

Law 

Visionaries 

Cross,  101 

Prejudice  (Voltaire) 

Creeds,  98 

Christ 

Cycles,   104 

Action  (Longfellow) 

Palestine 

Repetition  (q.v.) 

Beauty  (Wilde) 

Crowds 

Vicissitude 

Belief 

Cities 

Cyclists,   104 

Christianity 

Friendship  (Bacon) 

Travel  (Smith) 

Conscience 

Mob 

Cynicism,  104 

Death  (Tennyson) 

Multitude 

Callousness 

Despondency  (Words- 

Press (Chaucer) 

Criticism 

worth) 

Crowns,   101 

Dissimulation 

Doctrine 

Cross 

Illusion 

Doubt  (Tennyson) 

Kings 

Pessimism 

582 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Sarcasm 
Satire 
Sneering 
Vanity 


Daintiness 

Fastidiousness 

Luxury 

Preciseness 
Daisies,  104 

Flowers 

Service  (Wordsworth) 

Spring 
Dalliance,  104 

Idleness 

Sensuality 
Damnation 

Consolation  (Voltaire) 

Curses 

Despair 

Hell  (q.v.) 

Music  (Shaw) 
Dancing,  104 

Charm  (Shakespeare) 

Deportment 

Entertainment 

Feet 

Festivities 

Revelry 
Danger,  105 

Abuses 

Battles 

Chance 

Comrades 

Co-operation 

Courage 

Crisis 

Difficulty 

Doctors 

Foreboding 

Rashness 

Recklessness 

Risk 

Threats 

Travel  (ad  fin.) 
Daring,  105 

Audacity 

Courage  (q.v.) 
Darkness,  105 

Despair 

Light 

Uncertainty  (ad  fin.) 
Dates,  106 

History 
Daughters,  106 

Beauty   (Horace) 

Bereavement 

Brides 

Deceit 

Family 

Fathers 

Maxims  (Tennyson) 

Mothers 


Days,  1 06 

Friday 

Good  Deeds  (Shakespeare) 

Monday 

New  Year 

Sabbath 

St.  Swithin 

Sunday 

Time 

Transiency 
Dead,  106  " 

Bereavement 

Burial 

Church  and  Churchyard 

Corpse 

Envy 

Fallen  in  Battle 

Farewell 

Funerals 

Future  Existence 

Ill-nature 

Immortality 

Monuments 

Mourning 

Tombs 
Dead,  Attacks  on  the,  108 

Biography 

Posthumous  Fame 
Dead,  The    Distinguished, 
108 

Distinction  (q.v.) 

Fallen  in  Battle 

Fame 

Glory 

Woman  (Tennyson) 
Dead,  Tributes  to  the,  108 
Dead  Sea  Fruit* 

Illusion 

Vanity 
Dcadness,   108 

Silence 
Deafness 

Irresponsiveness 

Senses 
Deans,   108 

Preachers  (Pope) 
Death,  108 

Achievement  (Milton) 

Adsum 

Ambition  (Shakespeare) 

Anticipation 

Bereavement 

Childhood  (Phillpotts, 
Wordsworth,  etc.) 

Corpse 

Debts 

Departure 

Endings 

Epitaphs 

Exile 

Existence 

Fatalism 

Fate 

Folly  (Young) 

Future  Existence 

Immortality 

Life 


Mortality 

Mourning 

Old  Age 
Death,  Premature,  113 

Childhood 

Youth  (Shakespeare) 
Death,  Sudden,  114 
Death,  United  In, 

114 
Deathbeds,  114 

Death  (q.v.) 
Debaters,  114 

Argument 

Blows 

Contention 

Contentiousnes; 

Controversy 

Conviction 

Disputes 

Logic 

Opinion 

Orators  (q.v  . 

Quarrels 

Words 
Debt,  114 

Borrowers 

Dues 

Finance 

Independence         (Long- 
fellow, Lowell) 

Money 

Soldiers 

Thriftlessness 
Decadence,  114 

Chivalry 

Decay 

Degeneracy 

Depravity 
Decay,  115 

Diminution 

Smallness 
Cecelt,  115 

Deception 

Delusion 

Dissimulation 

Dupes 

Guile 

Insincerity 

Lying 

Quackery 

Rogues 

Self-deceit 

Truth  (Keblel 
Decency,  115 

Authors  (Scott) 

Carelessness 

Clothing 

Decorum 

Propriety 

Prudery 
Deception,  115 

Deceit  (q.v.) 
Decision,  116 

Achievement 

Action 

Deeds 

Firmness 


53} 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Stability 

Postponement 

Fascination 

Thoroughness 

Procrastination 

Manners 

Decorum,  116 

Respite 

Depravity,  119 

Decency  (q.v.) 

Tardiness 

Decadence 

Deeds,  116 

Too  Late 

Degeneracy 

Accomplishment 

Deliberateness,   117 

Degradation 

Achievement 

Anger  (Seneca) 

Education 

Action 

Appeal 

(Voltaire) 

Aspiration 

Business 

Imitation  (Juvenal) 

(R.  Browning) 

Caution 

Rogues 

Creeds 

Circumspection 

Shamelessness 

Danger 

Delay  (q.v.) 

Sin 

Decision 

Discretion 

Vice 

Fame  (Byron,  etc.) 

Prudence 

Depression,  120 

Glory  (Swinburne) 

Statesmen  (Milton) 

Dejection  (q.v.) 

Life  (Swinburne) 

Delight 

Discouragement 

Thoroughness 

Charm 

Depth,  120 

Youth  (Thompson) 
Defeat,  116 

Fame  (Milton) 
Pleasure 

Abstruseness 
Despair  (Milton) 

Battles 

Study 

Profundity 

Conquest 

Deliverance,  118 

Deputations,  120 

Failure 

Remedies 

Advocacy 

Fall  (Dryden, 

Safety 

Description,  120 

etc.) 

Delusion,  118 

Demonstration 

Retreat 

Deceit 

Reason 

Reverses 

Deception 

Desert,  120 

Victory 

Error 

Affliction 

Defence,  116 

Demagogues,  118 

Diffidence 

Defiance 

Candidates 

Honour 

Despair 

Catchwords 

Honours  (Rewards) 

Security 

Clamour 

Merit 

Deference,  116 

Democracy 

Promotion 

Defiance,  116 

Mob 

Reward 

Fate 

Orators 

Value 

Independence 

Parties 

Worth 

Definitions,  117 

Politicians 

Desertion,  120 

Explanation 

Democracy,  118 

Betrayal 

Identity 

Candidates 

Change 

Labels 

Catchwords 

Change  of  Mind 

Degeneracy,  117 

Extremes 

Renegades 

Decadence 

Government 

Traitors 

Degradation 

Mob 

Treachery 

Depravity 

Multitude 

Desire,  120 

Degradation,  117 

People 

Expectancy 

Conscience 

Rebellion 

Hope 

Degeneracy 

Sedition 

Prayer 

Depravity 

Votes 

Wishes 

Dejection,  117 

Demons,  119 

Despair,  120 

Conscience 

Apparitions 

Anguish 

Depression 

Spirits 

Authors  (Shaw) 

Despair 

Demonstration,   M-I 

Coercion 

Desperation 

Argument 

Conscience 

Despondency  (q.v.) 

Clearness 

Desperation 

Loss 

Explanation 

Fear  (Stirling) 

Philosophy  (Cicero) 

Reason 

Misery 

Sadness 

Theory 

Prisons  (Wilde) 

Self-condemnation 

Denseness,  119 

Remorse 

Sighing 

Stupidity 

Self-condemnation 

Sorrow 

Departure,  119 

Suicide 

Woe 

Absence 

Trials 

Delay,  117 

Dying 

Woe 

Agriculture 

Farewell 

Despatch,  121 

(Cicero) 

Return 

Americans  (Emerson) 

Anger  (Seneca) 

Visits 

Haste 

Beginnings  (Quintilian) 

Deportment,  119 

Promptitude 

Caution 

Dancing 

Prudence  (Bacon) 

Deliberation 

Decorum 

Speed 

584 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Desperation,  121 

Humility   (Rochefou- 

Diplomacy 

Despair  (q.v.) 

cauld) 

Ambassadors 

Rashness 

Loyalty 

Dissimulation 

Recklessness 

Worship 

Cavillers 

Despondency,  122 

Zeal 

Orientalism 

Dejection 

Dialect,   124 

Politicians 

Despair 

Grammar 

Politics 

Grief 

Spelling 

Statesmen 

Life  (Burns) 

Diaries,  124 

Words  (Morris) 

Sorrow 

Almanacs 

Direction,  126 

Despotism,  122 

Diet,  124 

Guidance 

Autocracy 

Drinking 

Leadership 

Government 

Eating 

Pioneers 

Kings 

Food 

Directness,  126 

Oppression 

Difference,  124 

Clearness  (q.v.) 

Rulers 

Comparison 

Dirt,  126 

Tyranny 

Contrast 

Cleanliness 

Destiny,  122 

Disagreement 

Disaffection,  126 

Actions  (Fletcher) 

Variety 

Envy 

Affinities 

Difficulty,  124 

Faction 

Chance 

Achievement 

Malevolence 

Character 

Chance 

Mutiny 

Circumstances 

Endeavour 

Sedition 

Crime 

Mischief 

Disagreement,  126 

Fatalism 

Problems 

Discord 

Fate 

Diffidence,  124 

Incongruity 

Fortune 

Apprehension 

Disappearance,  126 

God 

Caution 

Departure 

Place 

Cowardice 

Invisibility 

Prayer  (^Eschylus) 

Coyness 

Disappointment,  126 

Providence 

Doubt 

Absence 

Vicissitude 

Hesitation 

Ambition 

Destitution,  123 

Modesty 

Anti-climax 

Poverty  (q.v.) 

Timidity 

Aspiration  (Gordon) 

Destruction,  123 

Uncertainty 

Hope  (Wrother) 

Annihilation 

Vacillation 

Vanity 

Devastation 

Digestion,  125 

Visions  (Cowper) 

Disorder 

Banquets 

Disaster,  127 

Fall 

Feasts  (Shakespeare) 

Adversity 

Ruin 

Food  (S.  Smith) 

Affliction 

Self-destruction 

Dignity,  125 

Calamity 

Detachment,  123 

Charm 

Defeat 

Aloofness 

Grandeur 

Misery 

Exclusiveness 

Greatness 

Misfortune 

Pride 

Ostentation 

News 

Seclusion 

Digressions,  125 

Trial 

Solitude 

Discursiveness 

Troubles 

Detection 

Irrelevance 

Wisdom   (Wordsworth) 

Crime 

Dilettanti,  125 

Discipline,  127 

Cunning 

Connoisseurs  (q.v.) 

Order 

Determination,   123 

Diligence,  125 

Disclaimer,  127 

Cheerfulness 

Industry  (q.v.) 

Contradiction 

Effort 

Diminution,  125 

Refusal 

Detraction,  123 

Dinner,  125 

Repudiation 

Calumny  (q.v.) 
Devastation,  123 

Banquets 
Companionship 

Discontent,  127 
Aspiration  (Watson) 

Destruction  (q.v.) 

Diet 

Cheerfulness  (Morris,  etc  ) 

Devil,  123 

Epicures  (S.  Smith) 

Comparison 

Ambition 
Caution 

Feasts 
Food 

Complaint 
Disaffection 

Eminence 

Guests 

Englishmen  (Defoe) 

Enemies 

London  (Middleton) 

Enjoyment 

Sarcasm  (Carlyle) 

Music  (Disraeli) 

Faction 

Devonshire,  124 

Reform  (Emerson) 

Fault-finders 

Food  (King) 

Sociability 

Forbearance 

Devotion,  124 

Study  (Smith) 

(Wordsworth) 

Comrades 

Wine 

Fretfulness 

585 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Grumblers 

Illusion 

Disquiet,  132 

Malevolence 

Mistakes 

Discord  (q.v.) 

Pessimism 

Vanity  (Empti- 

Dissension (q.v.) 

Unreasonableness 

ness) 

Dissension,  132 

Discord,   128 

Disinterestedness, 

Cabals  (q.v.) 

Agreement 

130 

Disagreement 

Faction 

Chivalry 

Discontent  (q.v.) 

Malevolence 

Loyalty 

Discord 

Music  (Spenser) 

Service 

Disputes 

Mutiny 

Zeal 

Disquiet 

Discouragement, 

Dislike,  131 

Mischief 

128 

Aversion 

Dissimulation,  132 

Adversity  (q.v.) 

Hatred  (q.v.) 

Appearances 

Discourse,  128 

Disloyalty 

Death-beds 

Conversation  (q.v.) 

Betrayal 

Duplicity 

Speech  (q.v.) 

Disaffection 

Equivocation 

Discourtesy,  129 

Traitors 

Faithlessness 

ill-nature 

Treachery 

Frauds  (Pious) 

Insult 

Dismissal,  131 

Hypocrisy 

Personalities 

Rejection 

Innocence  (Shakespeare) 

Sneering 

Repudiation 

Language  (Young) 

Discoverers,  129 

Disorganisation,  131 

Life  (Wilde) 

Inventors 

Chaos 

Orientalism 

Pioneers 

Discipline 

Pretence 

Discretion,  129 

Interruption 

Prevarication 

Caution  (q.v.) 

Disparagement,  131 

Quackery 

Discrimination,  129 

Blame 

Rogues 

Judgment  (q.v.) 

Cavillers 

Straightforwardness 

Discursiveness,  129 

Censure 

Dissipation,  133 

Digression 

Contempt 

Gallantry 

Irrelevancy 

Criticism 

Profligacy 

Discussion 

Dislike 

Sensuality 

Debaters  (q.v.) 

Fault-finders 

Society  (Gibbon) 

Disputes 

Judgment 

Distance,  133 

Speech 

Rebuke 

Absence 

Disdain,  129 

Sneering 

Familiarity 

Contempt 

Display,  131 

Distinction,  133 

Defiance 

Brilliancy 

Ambition 

Discourtesy 

Dress 

Elevation 

Diseases,  129 

Jewels 

Eminence 

Concealment 

Magnificence 

Excellence 

Death  (Heber) 

Ornament 

Fame 

Diet 

Ostentation 

Greatness  (q.v.) 

Physicians 

Pomp 

Integrity 

Remedies 

Vanity  (Conceit) 

Pre-eminence 

Disgrace,  129 

Displeasure 

Rivalry 

Degradation 
Fall 

Anger  (q.v.) 
Blame 

Superiority 
Worth 

Infamy 

Frowns 

Distress,  134 

Disgust,  129 

Disposition,  131 

Adversity  (q.v.) 

Contempt  (q.v.) 

Character 

Distrust,  134 

Dishonesty,  129 

Passions 

Decision 

Bargains 
Cheating 

Temperament 
Versatility 

Doubt  (q.v.) 
Divine  Presence,  134 

Commerce 

Disproportion,  131 

God 

Dupes 

Comparisons 

Divinity  in  Man,  134 

Neutrality  (Scribe) 

Contrast 

Mankind  (q.v.) 

Rogues 

Dispute,  132 

Division,  134 

Dishonour,  130 

Argument  (q.v.) 

Equality  (q.v.) 

Disgrace 

Children 

Doctors 

Infamy 

Common  Sense 

Ailments 

Notoriety 

Contention 

Art  (Hippocrates) 

Shamelessness 

Contentiousness 

Disagreement 

Disillusionment,  130 

Controversy 

Diseases 

Disappointment 

Conversion 

Disputes 

Dupes 

Opinion 

Hospitals 

Experience 

Quarrels  (q.v.) 

Illness 

INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Mankind    (Schopenhauer) 

Deliberation 

Champagne 

Medicine 

Distrust 

Cheerfulness  (Burns) 

Nerves 

Faith 

Christmas 

Physicians 

Indecision 

Cider 

Surgery 

Misgivings 

Conviviality 

Doctrine,  134 

Mistrust 

Courage 

Clergy 

Suspicion 

Dinner 

Creeds 

Tardiness 

Epicures 

Dogmatism 

Uncertainty 

Excess 

Sects 

Vacillation 

Soldiers 

Teaching 

Dowry,  136 

Temperance 

Theology 

Estimates 

Toasts 

Doggedness,   134 

Heiresses 

Drowning,  139 

Obstinacy 

Marriage 

Criminality 

Persistence  (q.v.) 

Money  (Burns) 

Melancholy 

Dogma,  134 

Wives  (Plautus) 

Navy 

Contradiction 

Drama,  136 

Sailors 

Creeds 

Actors 

Sea 

Doctrine   (q.v.) 

Artists  (Thackeray) 

Suicide 

Dogmatism,  134 

Authors  (Pope,  etc.) 

Tragedy  (Shakespeare) 

Doctrine  (q.v.) 

Comedy 

Drudgery,  140 

Dogs,  134 

Culture  (Shakespeare) 

Aspiration  (E.  B.  Brown- 

Beating 

Discrimination 

ing) 

Blood 

Elocution 

Assiduity 

Cheerfulness  (Prov.) 

Emptiness 

Business" 

Commonplace  (Gilbert) 

Epilogues 

Diligence 

Favours  (Ital.  prov.) 

Farce 

Industry  (q.v.) 

Greed 

Faultlessness 

Work 

Instinct 

Sensationalism 

Drugs,  140 

Pleasures  (French  prov.) 
Subservience  (Pope) 

Superiority  (Shakespeare) 
Theatres 

Drunkenness 

Drinking  (q.v.) 

Doles,   135 

Tragedy 

Dry  ness,  140 

Gifts  (q.v.) 
Domesticity,  135 

Words  (Shakespeare) 
Dreams,  137 

Preaching  (Scottish 
prov.) 

Affections 

Disillusion 

Sermons  (Heine) 

Children 

Endings  (Swift) 

Dualism,  140 

Content  (Rousseau) 

Idealism 

Affinity 

Family 

Illusions 

Duplicity 

Home 
Housekeeping 

Impotence 
Nations  (Swinburne) 

Equivocation 
Resemblance 

Houses 

Thought  (Vaughan) 

Successors 

Winter 

Transiency 

Swans 

Wives 

Unreality 

Twins 

Donations 

Visions 

Union 

Collections  (q.v.) 

Youth 

Unity 

Doom,  135 

Dress,  138 

Dublin,  140 

Fate 

Art  (Congreve) 

Ireland 

Fortune 

Clothing 

Duels,  140 

Hell 

Fashion 

Combat  (q.v.) 

Self-condemn  a  t  ion 

France  (Shakespeare) 

Dues,  140 

Uncertainty 

Gloves 

Debts 

Doomsday,  135 

Haste  (Prov.) 

Income  Tax 

Hell  (q.v.) 

Hats 

Taxation 

Dotage,  135 

Old  Fashions 

Dullness,  140 

Old  Age  (q.v.) 

Ornament 

Commonplace 

Doubleness 

Ostentation 

Dignity 

Dissimulation  (q.v.) 

Seamstresses 

Dunces 

Doubt,  135 

Strangeness 

Impressivcness 

Ambiguity 

Uniforms 

Solemnity 

Atheism 

Woman  (Milton) 

Stupidity 

Bible 

Worship 

Tediousness 

Certainty 

Drinking,  138 

Ugliness  (Emerson) 

Contempt 

Abstinence 

Dunces,  141 

Credulity 

Alcohol 

Dullness  (q.v.) 

Creeds 

Ale 

Travel  (Cowper) 

Decadence  (Wordsworth) 

Argument  (Wilson) 

Dupes,  141 

Delay 

Beer 

Deceit  (q.v.) 

587 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Duplicity,  141 

Cranks 

Love  (Steele) 

Dissimulation  (q.v.) 

Fame  (Wisdom  of 

Mothers  (Prov.) 

Virtue  (Wilde) 

Solomon) 

Schools 

Dutch,  141 

Foppery 

Teaching 

Destruction 

Incoherence 

Training 

Holland 

Mannerisms 

Universities 

Nations  (Lucas) 

Poverty  (H.  J.  Byron) 

Effect 

Duty,   141 

Shallowness 

Cause  and  Effect 

Achievement  (Voltaire) 

Singularity 

Chance 

Discipline 

Virtue  (M.Twain) 

Results  (q.v.) 

Effort 

Ecclesiasticism, 

Effeminacy,  146 

Sacrifice 

144 

Affectation 

Stewardship 
Virtue  (Peele) 

Ecclesiastics  (q.v.) 
Ecclesiastics,  144 

Foppery 
Efficiency,  146 

Work 
Dying,  142 

Archbishops 
Asceticism 

Accomplishment 
Achievement 

Dead 

Bishops 

Actions 

Death  (q.v.) 

Church 

Deeds 

Departure 

Clergy 

Completeness 

Fervour 
Old  Age 

Controversy 
Curates 

Consummation 
Decision 

Deans 

Deeds 

Monasticism 

Difficulty 

Nuns 

Endings 

E 

Preaching 

Performance 

Ritual 

Results 

Eagerness,  142 

Sects 

Skill 

Energy 

Sermons 

Talents 

Enthusiasm 

Theology 

Thoroughness 

Preparation 

Economics 

Effort,  146 

Promptitude 
Readiness 

Chivalry 
Political  Economy 

Co-operation 
Difficulty 

Earls,  143 

Socialism 

Endeavour 

Titles 

Statistics 

Energy 

Early  rising,  143 

Economy,  145 

Incompleteness 

Sleep 

Frugality 

Self-help 

Early  to  bed,  143 

Meanness 

Eggs 

Ears 

Niggardliness 

Easter 

Abuse  (Publilius  Syrus) 

Thrift 

France  (Moore) 

Evidence 

Ecstasy,  145 

Sermons  (Eliot) 

Senses 

Imagination 

Egotism,  147 

Earth,  143 

Inspiration 

Empire 

World  (q.v.) 

Music 

Englishmen  (Heine) 

Earthquakes,  143 

Passions 

Isolation 

Disaster  (Milton) 

Poets 

Self 

Remedies 

(Shakespeare) 

Selfishness 

Ease,  143 

Visions 

Solitude 

Awkwardness 

Edification,  145 

Election 

Charm 

Education 

Blackballing 

Grace  (Dryden) 

Instruction 

Candidates 

Idleness 

Preaching 

Conek  d'Elire 

Inaction 

Sermons 

England  (Voltaire) 

Retirement 

Teaching 

Parliament 

Rural  Life 

Editors,  145 

Votes 

East,   143 

Commentators 

Elections,    Parliamentary, 

Asia  Minor 

Journalism 

147 

Orientalism 

Newspapers 

Bribery 

West  winds 

Press 

Candidates 

Wisdom  (S.  Smith) 

Education,  145 

England  (Voltaire) 

Easter,  143 

Books 

Liberty 

Charm  (Suckling) 

Childhood 

Parties 

Eating,   143 

Civilisation 

Politics 

Drinking  (Stevenson) 

Colleges 

Politicians 

Englishmen  (Helps) 

Communicativeness 

Popularity 

Food  (q.v.) 

Hypocrisy  (Hazlitt) 

Prevarication 

Eccentricity,  144 

Instruction 

Time-servers 

Affectation 

Lessons 

Votes 

s88 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Electricity,  147 

Envy 

Strife 

Modernity 

Rivalry 

Trifles  (Prov.) 

Elevation  of  Character,  147 

Enchantment,  150 

Energy,  153 

Distinction  (q.v.) 

Charm 

Eagerness  (q.v.) 

Elizabethan  Age,  147 

Delusion 

Enthusiasm 

Shakespeare 

Fascination 

Epitaphs  (at  Ravenna) 

Elocution,  147 

Magic 

Industry  (q.v.) 

Actors 

Supernatural 

Thoroughness 

Drama 

Encouragement,  150 

England,  153 

Enunciation 

Comforters  (q.v.) 

Archives 

Oratory 

Despondency 

Arts  (Voltaire) 

Rhetoric 

Help 

Britain 

Voice 

Sympathy 

British 

Words 

Encroachments,  150 

British  Flag 

Eloquence,  147 

Acquisitiveness 

Britons 

Advocacy 

Land 

Cambridgeshire 

Athens 

Possession 

Casualness 

Blarney  Stone 

Property 

Christmas 

Duty  (Shakespeare) 

Endeavour,  150 

Climate 

Oratory 

Aspiration 

Colonies 

Rhetoric 

Attempt 

Constitution 

Statesmen 

Duty  (Whittier,  etc.) 

Cornwall 

Talk 

Effort  (q.v.) 

Courage  (Watson) 

Words 

Endings,  151 

Decadence 

Elysium,  149 

Achievement  (q.v.) 

Devonshire 

Happiness  (q.v.) 

Beginnings 

Discord  (Doyle) 

Embrace,   149 

Change 

Duty  (Nelson,  Spurgeon) 

Affection 

Completeness 

Encouragement 

Kisses 

Consummation 

Essex 

Eminence,  149 

Epilogues 

Freedom  (Cowper, 

Ambition 

Extinction 

Dryden,  Tennyson, 

Distinction  (q.v.) 

Finality 

Wordsworth) 

Envy 

Forecast 

Future 

Glory 

Results 

Gambling 

Greatness 

Endurance,  152 

Hatred 

Superiority  (q.v.) 

Adversity  (q.v.) 

(Lissauer) 

Emotion,  149 

Advice 

Home  (Hemans) 

Excitement 

Affliction 

Horses  (Shaw) 

Impressionability 

Content 

John  Bull 

Pathos 

Hardness 

Liberty   (Campbell,    Kip- 

Sentiment (q.v.) 

Martyrdom 

ling,  Shaw) 

Empire,  149 

Pain 

London 

Ambition 

Patience 

Music  (Shaw) 

India 

Suffering 

Nations 

Magnanimity 

Training 

Navy 

Monarchy 

Enemies,  153 

Parliament 

Nations 

Agreement 

Patriotism 

Rome 

Anger  (Blake) 

Pharisaism,  etc. 

Sea  (Byron) 

Chivalry 

Right  (Newbolt) 

Transiency  (Scott) 

Combativeness 

Trade  (Disraeli) 

Tyranny 

Contentiousness 

Victory 

War  (Campbell) 

Danger 

English  Flag 

Employers  and   Servants, 

Death 

Flags 

149 

(Bunyan,  Sterne) 

English  Language,  155 

Servants 

Failure 

Speech 

Service 

Defence 

Spelling 

Employment,  150 

Defiance 

Words 

Activity  (Colton) 

Disagreement 

English  Men  and  Women, 

Occupation 

Enmity 

155 

Service 

Envy 

America 

Vocation 

Experience  (Ovid) 

Americans 

Emptiness,  150 

Friendship 

Argument  (Voltaire) 

Vanity  (Emptiness) 

(Southey,  Emerson) 

Awkwardness 

Empty-mindedness,  150 

Hatred 

Britons 

Dunces  (q.v.) 

Nations  (Aristophanes) 

Cant 

Emulation,  150 

Quarrels 

Chaucer 

Ambition 

Reconciliation 

Clergy 

589 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Common  Sense 

Entreaty,  159 

Equivocation,  163 

Disputes 

Persuasion 

Ambiguity 

Eating 

Petitions 

Euphemism 

Education 

Prayer 

Lying 

Enthusiasm 

Request 

Obscurity  of  Style 

Extremes 

Enunciation,  159 

Prevarication 

Food  (Wilson) 

Elocution  (q.v.) 

Error,  163 

Gentlemen 

Envy,  159 

Beauty  (Pope) 

Houses 

Abuse 

Blunders 

Humour  (Helps) 

Admiration  (S.  Smith) 

Books  (Barnfield 

John  Bull 

Anger  (Ecclesiasticus) 

Goldsmith) 

Law 

Applause 

Charity  (Rogers) 

Mankind  (Swift) 

Authors 

Criticism  (Pope) 

Morality  (Shaw) 

Blame 

Critics 

Parties 

Books  (Barnfield) 

Disputes 

Payment 

Calumny 

Explanation 

Property  (Voltaire) 

Criticism 

Failure 

Rural  Life  (Defoe)     • 

Dead  (Shelley) 

Fallacies 

Scotland  (Saying) 

Death  (Bacon) 

Faults 

Sea  (Waller) 

Discord 

Fools 

Soldiers  (Colton) 

Emulation 

Ignorance 

Trade 

Fame 

Judgment 

Travel   (Sterne,   Voltaire, 

Hatred 

Knowledge  (Rousseau) 

etc.) 

Jealousy 

Mistakes 

Votes  (Rousseau) 

Malevolence 

Pride  (Ruskin) 

Wealth  (Emerson) 

Retaliation 

Sects 

Weather  (Kingsley) 

Ridicule  (Plato) 

Self-deception 

Wives 

Rivalry 

Speech  (Hooker) 

Wives  (Song  c.  1596) 

Spitefulness 

Stupidity 

Engravers,  157 

Suspicion 

Superstition  (Rogers) 

Art 

Vindictiveness 

Theory 

Artists 

Violence 

Truth  (Bryant) 

Enjoyment,  157 

Wrath 

Woman  (Milton' 

Content 

Epicures,  160 

Youth  (Disraeli) 

Discontent 

Dinner 

Esquire,  164 

Festivities 

Eating 

Squires 

Games 

Food 

Essex,  164 

Happiness 

Wine 

Flat  Countries 

Intellect 

Epilogues,  1  60 

Scenery  (Chesterton,  Rus- 

Pleasure 

Endings  (q.v.) 

kin,  etc.) 

Enlightenment,  158 

Prefaces 

Estimates,  164 

Education  (q.v.) 

Epitaphs,  160 

Figures 

Intellect  (Zangwill) 

Biography  (ad  fin.) 

Statistics 

Progress 

Children  (ad  fin.) 

Estrangement,  164 

Truth  (Southey) 
Enmity,  158 

Critics 
Dead,  Tribute  to 

Enmity  (q.v.) 
Friendship 

Enemies  (q.v.) 

Monuments 

Eternity,  164 

Enterprise,  158 

(Johnson,  etc.) 

Future  Existence 

Energy 

Posterity  (Southey) 

Immortality 

Enthusiasm 

Tombs 

Infinity 

Irresolution 
Pioneers 

Woman  (Byron) 
Epithets,  162 

Trifles  (Osgood) 
Ethics,  164 

Thoroughness 

Condemnation  (q.v.) 

Evil 

Zeal 

Praise  (q.v.) 

Goodness 

Entertainment,  158 

Epitomes,  162 

Philosophy 

Enjoyment  (q.v.) 

Conciseness   (q.v.) 

Religion 

Enthusiasm,  158 

Equality,   162 

Etiquette,  165 

Church 

Division 

Society  (Shaw) 

Eagerness 
Ecstasy 
Fanaticism 

Inequality 
Equanimity 

Disaster 

Euphemism,  165 
Equivocation  (q.v.) 
Evening,  165 

Fervour 

Elevation 

Bells 

Martyrs 

Philosophy  (q.v.) 

Endings 

Patriotism 

Equator 

Sunset 

Visions 

Criticism 

Events,  165 

Vouth 

Equity,   162 

Circumstances 

Zeal 

Justice  (q.v.) 

Commonplace 

590 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Decadence 

Faults 

Thrift 

Facts 

Perfection 

Thriftlessness 

Folly  (Livy) 

Excess,  167 

Experience,  169 

Forecast 

Democracy 

Days 

Happenings 

Extremes 

Memory 

Results 
Evidence,  165 

Friendship  (Voltaire) 
Justice  (Voltaire) 

Mirth  (Shakespeare) 
Retrospect 

Books  (Voltaire) 

Superfluities 

Suffering  (q.v.) 

Gossip 

Excise,  167 

Worldly  Wisdom 

Juries 

Taxation 

Years 

Report 

Excitability,  167 

Experiment,  170 

Rumour 

Excitement  (q.v  ) 

Inventors 

Scandal 

Excitement,  107 

Pioneers 

Evil,   1  66 

Ecstasy 

Explanation,  170 

Compensation 

Emotion 

Disclaimer  (q.v.) 

Conduct 

Enthusiasm 

Exploration,  170 

Conquest 

Passions 

Colonies 

Crime 

Sensationalism 

Travel 

Despair 

Exclusiveness,  167 

Explosives,  170 

Good  Deeds 

Aloofness  (q.v.) 

Soldiers 

Ill-nature 

Excuses,   1  68 

War  (Shakespeare) 

Imagination 

Apology 

Expression,  170 

Infamy 

Extenuation 

Face  (q.v.) 

Talents  (Tennyson) 

Necessity 

Extenuation,  170 

Vice 

Ridicule  (Voltaire) 

Excuse  (q.v.) 

Villainy 

Executors,  168 

Extinction,   171 

Wickedness 

Pessimism  (Shakespeare) 

Annihilation  (q.v.) 

Wrongs 

Exercise,  168 

Extortion,  171 

Evil  Deeds,  166 

Athleticism 

Exaction  (q.v.) 

Calumny  (Hesiod) 

Boating 

Extravagance,  171 

Crime 

Games 

Corruption 

Envy  (q.v.) 

Medicine 

Expenditure 

Fame  (Shakespeare) 

Recreation 

Improvidence 

Murder 

Sport 

Thriftlessness 

Slaughter 

Walking 

Extremes,  171 

Evils,   1  66 

Exhaustion,   168 

Cities  (Colton) 

Inequality 

Confusion 

Excess 

Injuries 

Labour 

Extravagance 

Injustice 

Rest 

Moderation 

Wrongs 

Work 

Exultation,  171 

Evolution,  1  66 

Exile,   1  68 

Battles 

Progress 

Absence 

Conceit 

Exaction,   166 

Banishment 

Example  (Wordsworth) 

Extortion 

Exploration 

Triumph 

Taxation 

Fate  (Homer) 

Victory 

Waiters  (Dickens) 

Remembrance 

Eyes,  171 

Exaggeration,  166 

Scotland  (Wilson) 

Abuse  (Publ.  Syrus) 

Anger  (Plutarch) 
Eloquence 

Transiency  (More) 
Existence,  108 

Blindness 
Censoriousness  (Vol- 

Licence 

Life  (q.v.) 

taire) 

Lying 

Expectancy    and    Expor- 

Charm   (Milton,     Rogers, 

Tales  (Pope) 

tation,   169 

Shakespeare) 

Examinations,   166 

Anticipation 

Conduct 

Questions 

Disappointment 

Dress 

Example,   167 

Prophets 

Evidence 

Children  (Scottish 

Waiting 

Expression 

saying) 

Wishes 

Favours  (Moore) 

Preachers 

Expediency,  169 

Hypercriticism 

Precedent 

Candidates 

Imagination  (Trumbull) 

Saints 

Opportunism 

Infirmities 

Teaching 

Politicians 

Inspiration  (Milton) 

Theory 

Politics 

Invisibility 

Excellence,  167 

Scrupulousness 

Lovers  (Hunt) 

Admiration 

Time-servers 

Morning  (D'Avenant) 

Antiquity  (Emerson) 

Expenditure,  169 

Observation  (Dickens, 

Distinction  (q.v.) 

Economy  (q.v.) 

etc.) 

Envy  (Thomson) 

Money  (q.v.) 

Senses 

591 


INDEX  OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Toasts  (Jonson) 
Visions  (A.  Ward) 
Woman  (Moore) 


F 

Fables,  172 

Fiction 

Legends 

Libel 

Stories 

Tales 
Face,   173 

Artists  (Tuckerman) 

Attractiveness 

Beauty 

Complexion 

Expression 

Eyes 

Fascination  (Phillips) 

Friendship 

(Lamb,  Bacon,  Burns) 

Inconstancy 

Inscrutability 

Noses 

Perfection  (Tuckerman) 

Ruin  (Milton) 

Severity  (Sheridan) 

Singers 

Smiles 

Statuary 

Woman   (Tennyson,   etc.) 
Faction,  173 

Busy-bodies 

Cabals 

Casuistry 

Cause 

Conspiracies 

Dissension 

Mischief 

Party 

Plots 

Schemes 

Secrets 
Facts,   173 

Events 

History  (Rousseau) 
Failings,  174 

Cavillers 

Error 

Faults 

Frailty 

Imperfection 

Weaknesses 
Failure,  174 

Aspiration  (Browning) 

Defeat 

Disappointment 

Endeavour 

Fall 

Ruin 

Success 
Faint-heartedness,  174 

Timidity  (q.v.) 


Fair  Dealing,  174 

Honesty 

Straightforwardness 

Trust 
Fairies,  174 

Midnight 

Romance 

Supernatural 
Faith,   175 

Atheism 

Belief 

Childhood 

Credulity 

Creeds 

Death  (Milton) 

Doubt 

Duty  (Southey) 

Endurance 

Fanaticism 

Fidelity 

Future  Existence 

Ghosts 

God 

Hope  (Milton) 

Integrity 

Religion 

Spirits 

Supernatural 

Truth  (Hardy) 

Unbelief 

Virtue  (Peele) 
Faithfulness,  176 

Loyalty  (q.v.) 
Faithlessness,  176 

Betrayal  (q.v.) 
Fall,   176 

Failure  (Smollett) 

Ruin  (q.v.) 
Fallacies,  176 

Error 

Mistakes 

Reason 

Theory 
Fallen  in  Battle,  176 

Dead 

Glory 

Sacrifice 

Sailors 

Soldiers 
Fallibility,  177 

Error  (q.v.) 
False  Reports,  177 

Betrayal 

Libel 

Rumour  (q.v.) 
Falsehood,  177 

Calumny  (q.v.) 

Charm  (Sheridan) 

Conversation 

Error  (Jewell) 

Lying 

Rumour 

Scandal 
Fame,  177 

Adventure 

Ambition 

Authors  (S.  Smith) 

592 


Death 

Discouragement 

Distinction 

Effort 

Elevation 

Eminence 

Glory 

Greatness 

Happiness  (Pindar) 

Heroes 

Illusion 

Indifference  (Pope) 

Luck  (Byron) 

Posthumous  Fame 

Pre-eminence 

Renown 

Reputation 

Superiority 

Worth 
Familiarity,  180 

Abuses 

Affability 

Nicknames 
Family,  180 

Brothers 

Children 

Daughters 

Fathers 

Home 

Kindred 

Mothers 

Relations 
Famine,   180 

Farmers  (Garth) 

Profit  (Prov.) 
Fanaticism,  180 

Bigotry 

Enthusiasm 

Intolerance 

Persecution 

Tolerance 

Zeal 
Fancy,  181 

Dreams  (Shakespeare) 

Genius  (Burns) 

Imagination 

Speculation 

Superstition  (Johnson) 

Visions 
Farce,  181 

Absurdity 

Comedy 

Epitaphs 

(Dirge,  ad  fin.) 

Parody 
Farewell,  181 

Departure 

Greeting 

Parting 
Farmers,  182 

Agriculture 

Barter 

Harvest 

Land 

Supervision 

Timidity  (Scottish  prov.) 

Weather 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Fascination,  182 

Fault-  tinders,  184 

Hospitality 

Amiability 

Cavillers 

Music 

Attractiveness 

Censoriousness 

Pleasure 

Beauty 

Censure 

Reckoning 

Charm 

Charity 

Sociability 

Grace 

Critics 

February,  187 

Infatuation 

Judgment 

Valentine,  St. 

Sex 

Unco  Guid 

Feelings,  187 

Fashion,  182 

Weaknesses 

Deeds 

Affectation 

Fault-finding,    184 

Despondency 

Art  (Lang) 

Cavillers  (q.v.) 

Inspiration  (Scott) 

Attire 

Faultlessness,  185 

Intuition 

Christmas 

Perfection 

Passions 

Clothing 

Faults,  185 

Sentiment 

Convention 

Authors  (Voltaire) 

Sympathy  (q.v.) 

Custom 

Beauty  (Pope) 

Temperament 

Distinction 

Captiousness 

Fees,  187 

Dress 

Cavillers 

Barristers 

Faith  (Shakespeare) 

Censoriousness 

Bribery  (Milton) 

France  (Shakespeare) 

Censure 

Wages 

Old  Fashions 

Charity 

Waiters 

Ostentation 

Compassion 

Feet,  187 

Seamstresses 

Confession 

Activity 

Taste 

Criticism 

Awkwardness 

Truth  (Burton) 

Error 

Dancing 

Fastidiousness,  183 

Failings 

Fell,  Dr. 

Affectation 

Hypercriticism 

Aversion 

Preciseness 

Imperfection 

Fellowship,  187 

Pretentiousness 

Indulgence 

Association  (q.v.) 

Singularity 

Leadership  (Shakespeare) 

Femininity,  187 

Taste 

Suspicion 

Sex 

Fasting,   183 

Toleration 

Women 

Abstinence 

Unco  Guid 

Fervour,  187 

Hunger 

Vanity  (Conceit)  (Wilson) 

Enthusiasm  (q.v.) 

Lent 

Weaknesses 

Festivities,  187 

Fatalism,  183 

Youth 

Banquets 

Destiny 

Favourites,  186 

Dinner 

Fate 

Favours 

Entertainments 

Foreboding 

Favours,  186 

Feasts 

Omens 

Greatness  (Cervantes) 

Recreation 

Pessimism 

Kindness  (q.v.) 

Rejoicing 

Fatality,   183 

Fear,  186 

Revelry 

Fate,   183 

Caution 

Sociability 

Chance 

Concessions 

Feuds,  1  88 

Days 

Courage  (Plato) 

Classes 

Destiny 

Cowardice 

Disputes 

Endurance 

Death  (Hood) 

Hatred  (q.v.) 

Fatalism 

Discretion 

Religion 

Fortune 

Guilt 

Vindictiveness 

Man  (Tennyson) 

Hope  (La  Rochefou- 

Fickleness, 188 

Misfortune 

cauld,  Swinburne) 

Britons  (Milton) 

Success 

Hopelessness 

Change 

Vicissitude 
Fathers,  184 

Pusillanimity 
Soldiers 

Change  of  Opinion 
Falsehood  (Longfellow) 

Children 

Terror 

Flirtation 

Daughters 

Timidity 

Friendship 

Family 

Valour 

Gallantry 

Heredity 

Feasts,  186 

Honour  (Lovelace) 

Home 

Appetite 

Inconstancy 

Mercy  (Virgil) 

Banquets 

Novelty 

Sons 

Christmas 

Opinion 

Fatigue 

Companionship 

Transiency 

Activity  (Colton) 
Exhaustion  (q.v.) 

Dinner 
Ease 

Variety 

Vicissitude 

Fatness,  184 

Epicures 

Fiction,  1  88 

Flesh 

Food 

Fancy 

Stoutness 

Guests 

Novels 

2  M 


593 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Stories 

Friendship  (Wilson) 

Stupidity 

Tales 

Imitation 

Talk 

Travel 

Insincerity 

Unreasonableness 

Fidelity,  188 

Kings 

Vivacity 

Faith 

Popularity 

Food,  195 

Lovalty  (q.v.) 

Praise 

Agriculture  (Voltaire) 

Fighting,  1  88 

Preparation  (Ital.  prov.) 

Appetite 

Battles 

Self 

Bread 

Braggadocio 

Self-sufficiency 

Breakfast 

Cannon 

Vanity  (Conceit) 

Butter 

Caution 

Flesh,  192 

Cheese 

Champions 

Fatness 

Coffee 

Children  (Scottish  prov.) 

Sensuality 

Content  (Calverley) 

Combat  (q.v.) 

Stoutness 

Conviviality 

Combativeness 

Flight,  192 

Cookery 

Contest  (q.v.) 

Aviation 

Democracy 

Conviviality 

Conquest 

Destitution 

Discretion 

Speed 

Diet 

Quarrels 

Flirtation,  192 

Digestion 

Soldiers 

Courting 

Dinner 

War 

Gallantry 

Drinking 

Figures  of  Speech,  189 

Inconstancy 

Eating 

Comparisons 

Flood,  192 

Englishmen  (Helps) 

Metaphors 

Rain 

Epicures 

Similes 

Slow  and  Sure 

Excess 

Slang 

Flowers,  192 

Famine 

Finality,  189 

Daisies 

Feasts 

Endings  (q.v.) 
Ultimatum 

Imagination  (Blake) 
Impressionability 

Fish 
France  (Moore,  Voltaire) 

Finance,  189 

(Wordsworth) 

Fruit 

Economy 

Nature 

Gluttony 

Money 

Obscurity  of  Life  (Gray) 

Hunger 

Stock  Exchange 

Primroses 

Indigestion 

Taxation 

Roses 

Luxury 

Trust 

Spring 

Meat 

Thrift 

Transiency 

Oysters 

Wealth 

Fog,  193 

Principle 

Fire 

Darkness 

Soldiers 

Cause  and  Effect 

Obscurity  of  Language 

Strawberries 

Cold 

Folly  and  Fools,  194 

Supper 

Firmness,  189 

Actions  (Pindar) 

Taste  (Thackeray) 

Decision  (q.v.) 

Admiration  (Boileau) 

Tea 

Stability 

Amazement 

Vulgarity  (Shakespeare) 

Fish  and  Fishing,  190 

Amusement 

Waste 

Angling 

Argument  (Cowper) 

Fools,  see  Folly 

Freedom  (Ruskin) 
Oppression  (Shakespeare) 

Captiousness 
Criticism  (Pope) 

Fools'  Paradise,  196 

Travel  (Emerson) 

Winds 

Dancing 

Football,  196 

Fishmongers,  190 

Dunces 

Sport  (Kipling) 

Oaths  (Smith) 

England 

Foppery,  196 

Flags,  190 

Error 

Affectation  (q.v.) 

British  Flag 

Futility 

Dress 

Independence  (Lowell) 

Humour  (Shakespeare) 

Forbearance,  196 

Rejoicing 
Ships 

Ignorance 
Inequality  (Terence) 

Patience  (q.v.) 
Forbidden  Fruit,  196 

Soldiers  (Seneca) 

Innocence  (Cowper) 

Prohibition 

Union 

Joy  (Pope) 

Sin  (Wilde) 

Flat  Countries,  190 

Knavery 

Force,  196 

Essex 

Majorities 

Coercion 

Scenery 

Mankind  (Swift) 

Compulsion 

Flattery,  190 

Obscurity  of  Thought 

Government 

Applause 

Old  Age 

Militarism 

Blarney  Stone 

Persistency  (Blake) 

Violence 

Compliment 

Rashness 

War  (Hobbes) 

Conceit 

Ridicule  (Pope) 

Foreboding,  196 

Demagogy 

Rumour  (Plutarch) 

Auguries 

Englishmen  (Chapman) 

Scoffers 

Chance 

594 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Danger 

Frailty 

Adversity    (Dryden, 

Destiny 

Censure 

La  Rochefoucauld) 

Fatalism 

Chastity 

Affection 

Fate 

Faults 

Agreement 

Friendship  (Swift) 

Suspicion  (Young) 

Alliance 

Omens 

Weaknesses 

Amiability 

Oracles 
Prophets 

Woman  (Fletcher,  Hood) 
France,  199 

Anger  (Blake) 
Antiquity  (Gold- 

Warning 
Forecast,  197 

Argument  (Voltaire) 
Authors  (Pope) 

smith) 
Benevolence 

Anticipation 

Books  (Rousseau) 

Betrayal 

Fortune  Telling 

Champagne 

Blunders 

Prophets 

Climate 

Books 

Warning 

Critics 

Brotherhood 

Foreign  Lands,  197 

French  Leave 

Candour 

Cosmopolitanism 

Languages 

Comforters 

Exploration 

Nations  (Prov.) 

Comrades 

Travel 

Frankness,  200 

Confidence 

Foreigners 

Candour 

Consolation 

Exclusiveness 

Dissimulation 

Courting 

Foresight,  197 

Free  Speech 

Criticism 

Prophets  (q.v.) 
Forgetfulness,  197 

Outspokenness 
Plain  Speech 

Dead 
Death  (United  in) 

Absence 

Straightforwardness 

Deference 

Departure 

Fraternity,  200 

Dissension 

Ingratitude 

Brotherhood 

Distance 

Oblivion 

Fellowship 

Distrust 

Thoughtlessness 
Forgiveness,  197 

Fraud 

Bargains 

Domesticity 
Drinking  (Gay) 

Anger  (De  Quincev) 

Caution 

Enemies 

Charity 

Con  tri  t  ion 

Cunning 
Deceit 

Enmity 
Familiarity 

Dead  (Carleton) 
Impenitence 
Leniency 
Mercy 
Oblivion  (Swinburne) 
Pity 
Sin  (FitzGerald) 
Formality,  198 
Affectation 

Duplicity 
Friendship  (Fielding) 
Rogues 
War  (Hobbes) 
Frauds,  Pious,  200 
Friendship  (Fielding) 
Freedom,  200 
Captivity 
Climate 

Flattery  (Seneca) 
Gratitude  (Shakespeare) 
Kings  (Junius) 
Love  (Rousseau) 
Passions  (Burke) 
Silence  (Helps) 
Sociability 
Society  (Cowper) 
Solitude  (Cowper) 

Cant 

Criticising 

Suspicion    (La  Rochefou 
i  j\ 

Ceremony 
Circumlocution 

England 
Genius  (Mill) 

cauld) 
Sympathy 

Etiquette 
Preciseness 
Prudery 
Formulas 

Labour  (Whittier) 
Liberty 
Sacrifice 
Slavery 

Toasts 
Troubles 
Wives  (Hebrew  prov.) 
Woman  (Fletcher) 

Cant 

Votes 

Frowns,  205 

Formality  (q.v.) 
Fortune,  198 
Chance 

Freemasonry,  201 
Building 
Secrecy  (Ireland) 

Combat 
Innuendo 
Frugality,  205 

Death 

Free  Speech,  201 

Economy 

(Merivale) 
Destiny 

Candour 
Outspokenness 

Improvidence 
Thrift  (q.v.) 

Failure 

Free  Trade,  201 

Fruit,  205 

Fatalism 

Cosmopolitanism 

Strawberries 

Fate 

Free  Will,  201 

Fruition,  205 

Happiness  (Pindar) 
Luck 

Independence 
French  Leave,  202 

Accomplishment 
Achievement 

Self-help 

Fretfulness,  202 

Actions 

Success 

Discontent  (q.v.) 

Beginnings 

Wealth 

Friday,  202 

Deeds 

Fortune  Telling,  199 

Davs 

Endings 

Prophets 

Friendship,  202 

Performance 

Fox-hunting,  199 
Hunting  (q.v.) 

Abuse  (Sheridan) 
Acquaintanceship 

Results 
Thoroughness 

595 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Funerals,  205 

Chivalry 

Challenge  (Shakespeare) 

Soldiers  (Plato) 

Cricket 

Cowardice 

Furniture,  205 

Football 

Demons 

Associations 

Skittles 

Shadows 

Dreams  (Tennyson) 

Sport 

Spirits 

Sociability 

Whist 

Spiritualism 

Fussiness,  206 

Gardens,  208 

Supernatural 

Preciseness  (q.v.) 

Agriculture 

Tales  (Shakespeare) 

Futility,  206 

Comfort 

Visions 

FoDy  (q.v.) 

Flowers 

Girts,  211 

Nothing 

Home  (Monkhouse) 

Caution 

Future,  206 

Labour  (Voltaire) 

Distinction 

Anticipation 

Leisure 

Enemies 

Confidence 

Promise?  (Shakespeare) 

Generosity 

Destiny 

Generalities,  208 

Importunity 

Endeavour 

Theory 

Intellect 

Fate 

Generosity,  208 

Jewels 

Festivities  (ad  fin.) 

Benefits 

Seduction 

Foreboding 

Benevolence 

Talents 

Fortune  Telling 

Charity 

Wives  (Chaucer) 

Hope 

Favours 

Gipsies,  212 

Improvidence 

Gifts 

Nature  (Borrow) 

Omens 

God  (Tusser) 

Vagabonds 

Prophets 

Gratitude 

Politics  (Borrow) 

Future  Existence,  206 

Kindness 

Girlhood,  212 

Animals 

Philanthropy 

Affection  (Thackeray) 

Annihilation 

Sympathy 

Brides 

Aspiration  (Plato) 

Virtue 

Daughters 

Bereavement 

Wealth 

Disposition 

Dead 

Genius,  209 

Inexperience 

Death 

Art 

Virgins 

Doubt 

Brains 

Youth 

Epitaphs 

Childishness 

Glory,  212 

Eternity 

Clearness 

Ambition 

Immortality 

Clergy 

Aspiration 

Soul 

Eccentricities 

Chivalry 

Spirits 

Energy 

Elevation 

Enthusiasm 

Eminence 

Humble  Origin 

Envy 

Respectability 

Fame 

G 

Sublime 

Greatness 

Talents 

Happiness  (Pindar) 

Gain,  207 

Versatility 

Heroes 

Chance 

Gentility,  210 

Illusion 

Drudgery 

Birth 

Posthumous  Fame 

Envy 

Blood 

Renown 

Money 

Bombast 

Reputation 

Profit 
Wealth 

Breeding 
Classes 

Superiority 
Triumph 

Gallantry,  207 

Commerce 

Worth 

Courting 

Esquire 

Glory,  Vanity  of,  213 

Flirtation 

Gentlemen 

Illusion 

Inconstancy 
Gambling,  207 

Knights 
Pedigree 

Vanity  (Emptiness) 
Gloves,  213 

Beginnings 

Snobs 

Posies 

(Scottish  prov.) 

Titles 

Gluttony,  213 

Cards 

Gentlemen,  210 

Epicures 

Chance 

Gentility  (q.v.) 

Excess 

Luck 

Suffering  (Dekker) 

Food  (q.v.) 

Prodigals 

Gentleness,  211 

Greed 

Soldiers 

Kindness  (q.v.) 

God,   213 

Wagers 

Persuasion  (Shakespeare) 

Aspiration  (Bacon) 

Games,  208 

Virtue 

Atheism 

Amusements 

Geometry,  air 

Christ 

Billiards 

Calculation 

Cleverness 

Cards 

Ghosts,  211 

Conduct 

Chess 

Apparitions 

Confidence 

596 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Conjecture 

Gossip,  21  6 

Building 

Creative  Faculty 

Back-biting 

Burial 

Creeds 

Busy-bodies 

Dead 

Criticism  (Pope) 

Calumny 

Death 

Decision 

Enemies  (Tennyson) 

Depression 

Destiny 

Envy 

Epitaphs 

Divine  Presence 

Notoriety 

Immortality 

Doctors 

Report 

Mankind 

Manhood  (Voltaire) 

Rumour 

Monuments 

Nature  (Browning,  etc.) 

Scandal 

Greatness,  219 

Optimism 

Talk 

Adversity 

Patience 

Gout 

Advertisement 

Providence 

Diet 

Aim 

Troubles  (Plato) 

Fame  (Browning) 

Ambition 

Virtue  (Plato) 

Government,  216 

Distinction 

Gold,  214 

Change 

Elevation 

Bluster 

Coalitions 

Eminence 

Corruption 

Colleagues 

Empire 

Finance  (Anon.) 

Committees 

Fame 

Honours  (Plautus) 

Compromise 

Glory 

Money 

Constitution 

Heroes 

Superfluities 

Democracy 

Illusion 

Toleration  (La  Bruyete) 

Discontent 

Magnanimity 

Wealth 

Empire 

Posthumous  Fame 

Woman  (Chaucer) 

Freedom  (Tennyson) 

Renown 

Good  Deeds,  214 

Kings 

Statesmen 

Actions  (Herbert) 

Ministries 

Superiority 

Calumny 

Monarchy 

Westminster  Abbey 

Character 

Morality  (Emerson) 

Worth 

Conduct 

Opposition 

Greece,  220 

Courage  (Gordon) 

Party 

Artists  (Wilde) 

Deeds 

People 

Asia  Minor 

Discord 

Republics 

Athens 

Kindness 
Merit 

Royalty 
Rulers 

Authors  (Voltaire) 
Classical  Learning 

To-day 

Statesmen 

Gifts 

Villainy 

Supremacy 

Intolerance 

Virtue 

Usurpation 

Old  Age  (Prov.) 

Worth 

Votes 

Scholarship 

Goodfellowship 

Amity 
Brotherhood 

Wisdom  (ad  fin.) 
Words  (Disraeli) 
Grace,  218 

Universities  (Steele) 
Words  (Francis) 
Greed  (of  Food) 

Comrades 

Art  (Shakespeare) 

Eating 

Fellowship 
Fraternity 
Friendship 

Attractiveness 
Beauty 
Charm 

Epicures 
Gluttony  (q.v.) 
Greenhouse 

Sociability  (q.v.) 
Goodness,  215 

Dancing 
Paris 

Gardens 
Greeting,  221 

Beauty  (Emerson, 
Rousseau) 

Perfection 
Grace  before  Meat,  218 

Guests 
Society 

Boldness 

Blessing 

Welcome 

Character 

Grace,  Spiritual,  218 

Grief,  221 

Cleverness 

Rectitude 

Anguish,  Mental 

Conscience 

Grammar,  218 

Bereavement 

Conscientiousness 

Illiteracy 

Comforters 

Endeavour  (Kingslcy) 

Spelling 

Condolence 

Girlhood 

Style 

Consolation 

Honour 

Grandeur,  218 

Content 

Integrity 

Display  (q.v.) 

Dejection 

Nobility 

Grandfathers 

Depression 

Rectitude 

Authoritv  (Lowell) 

Despondency 

Righteousness 

Gratitude,  219 

Hopelessness 

Virtue 

Benefits 

Loss 

Worth 

Ingratitude 

Misery 

Good  Night,  216 

Thanksgiving 

Misfortune 

Farewell  (Barbauld, 
Shakespeare,  Swinburne 

Grave,  219 

Agriculture  (Shakespeare) 

Mourning 
Patience 

597 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Regret 

Hair,  224 

Haste,  226 

Sorrow 

Beauty  (Pope) 

Anger  tl-eneca) 

Suffering 

Mannerisms  (Tennyson) 

Business 

Sympathy 

Woman  (Tennyson) 

Delay 

Tears 

Hands,  224 

Despatch 

Trials 

Actions  (Swinburne) 

Impulsiveness 

Woe 

Mannerisms  (Hood) 

Prematureness 

Grumblers,  222 

Handwriting,  224 

Slow  and  Sure 

Complaint 

Illiteracy 

Speed 

Discontent 

Writing 

Hate  and  Hatred, 

Englishmen  (Scott) 

Hanging 

226 

Fault-finders 

Capital  Punishment 

Abuses 

Fretfulness 

Cleverness 

Aversion 

Pessimism 

Determination 

Citizenship 

Grundy,  Mrs. 

Drowning 

Deference 

Morality 

Injustice  (ad  fin.) 

Destiny 

Prudery 

Punishment 

Discord 

Restraint 

Happenings,  224 

Dislike 

Preciseness 

Events 

Dissension 

Righteousness 

Facts 

Envy 

Unco  Guid 
Guessing,  222 

Happiness,  224 

Abuses 

Estrangement 
Fame  (Gascoigne) 

Chance  (q.v.) 

Amiability 

Feuds 

Guests,  222 

Cheerfulness 

Ill-nature 

Companionship 

Competence 

Ill-will 

Hospitality 

Content 

Ireland 

Welcome 

Elysium 

Magnanimity 

Visits 
Guidance,  222 

Englishmen  (Thackeray) 
Fortune  (La  Rochefou- 

Revenge 
Spitefulness 

Common-sense 

cauld) 

Unpopularity 

Conscience 

Freedom  (Voltaire,  etc.) 

Vindictiveness 

Direction 

J°y 

Hats 

Faith  (Milton) 

Laughter 

Dress  (Scottish  prov.) 

Leadership 

Light-heartedness 

Englishmen  (B6ranger) 

Pioneers 

Mirth 

Love  (Shakespeare  — 

Visions  (Morris) 

Misfortune  (La  Rochefou- 

Much Ado.) 

Guile,  222 

cauld) 

Prayer  (Browne) 

Deceit  (q.v.) 

Optimism 

Self-reliance  (Oldham) 

Guilt,  223 

Rejoicing 

Servility 

Accusation 

Simple  Life 

Health,  227 

Actions  (Pindar) 

Sundials 

Childhood 

Admission 

Sympathy  (Byron) 

Exercise 

Bloodguiltiness 

Hard-neartedness,  225 

Gifts 

Confession 

Blood  thirstiness 

Happiness 

Remorse 

Callousness 

Hypochondria 

Repentance 

Cruelty 

Illness 

Shame 

Harshness 

Medicine 

Silence  (Sophocles) 

Heartlessness 

Physicians 

Sin 

Inhumanity 

Hearing 

Guineas 

Oppression 

Abuse  (Publ.  Syrus) 

Money  (Vanbrugh) 

Tyranny 

Attention 

Gunpowder 

Unkindness 

Charm 

Civilisation 

Vindictiveness 

Evidence 

War  (Shakespeare) 

Hardness,  225 

Infirmities 

Endurance 

Senses 

Pain 

Heartlessness,  228 

Harmony,  226 

Hard-heartedness  (q.v.) 

Concord 

Hearts,  228 

H 

Music 

Human  Nature  (E.    B. 

Singers  and  Singing 

Browning) 

Habeas  Corpus,  223 

Stars 

Idealism 

Habit,  223 
Character 
Custom 

Harshness,  226 
Cruelty  (q.v.) 
Harvest,  226 

Immortality  (Ovid) 
I  mpressionability 
Inclination 

Fashion 

Autumn 

Inconstancy 

Mannerisms 

Farmers 

Insincerity 

Hailstorm,  224 

Weather 

Intention 

598 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Logic 

History,  230 

Merit 

Love  (Carlyle) 

Antiquity 

Truth 

Heat 

Archives 

Honours  (Rewards),  234 

Argument 

Authors  (Helps) 

Greatness 

Climate 

Biography  (Emerson) 

Literature 

Common  Sense 

Books 

Money  (Ovid) 

Extremes 

Chroniclers 

Place-seekers 

Heaven,  228 

Decadence 

Titles 

Annihilation 

Epitomes 

Hope,  234 

Asceticism 

Fables 

Agriculture 

Creeds 

Legends  (Voltaire,  etc.) 

Anticipation 

Epitaphs 

Records 

Aspiration  (Wordsworth) 

Expectation 

Tradition 

Casuistry 

Future  Existence 

Holidays,  231 

Confidence 

Paradise 

Christmas 

Death  (Hood) 

Vicissitude  (Carleton) 

Idleness  (Shakespeare) 

Despair 

Height 

Travel 
Holland,  231 

Disappointment 
Endurance 

Heiresses,  228 

Destruction 

Life  (Payne) 

Dowry 
Money  (Burns) 
Wives  (Plautus) 
Hell,  228 

Dutch 
Nations  (Lucas) 
Home,  231 
Birthplace 

Oppression 
Optimism 
Past  (Moore) 
Patience 

Annihilation 

Books  (Beecher) 

Possibilities 

Asceticism 

Building 

Transiency 

Comfort 

Visionaries 

Despair 
Future  Existence 
Perdition 
Sermons  (Heine) 
Toleration  (Thackeray) 
Vicissitude  (Carleton) 
Help,  228 
Co-operation 
Friendship 
Guidance  (q.v.) 

Destitution 
Domesticity 
Farewell  (Sophocles) 
Housekeeping 
Houses 
Ostentation 
Return 
Scotland  (Wilson) 
Homeless 

Wishes 
Wives  (Johnson) 
Hopelessness,  237 
Despair  (q.v.) 
Horrors,  237 
Pessimism 
Sensationalism 
Horses,  237 
Action  (Guiney! 

Sympathy 
Heraldry 

Cities 
Vagabonds 
Wanderers 

Blood 
Coarseness 
Comrades 

Display 
Titles  (Emerson) 
Heredity,  229 
Childhood 

Homer,  232 

Birthplace 
Commentators 
Critics  (Voltaire) 

Cruelty 
Dissipation 
England  (Proverb  — 
Italian  ?     Shaw) 

Children 

17-^  4-1,     — 

Fancy 

Hunting 

r  athers 

Fiction 

Sport 

Mothers 

Tediousness 

Visits  (Smith) 

Heresy,  229 

Honesty,  232 

Hospitality,  238 

Doctrine 

Constancy 

Guests 

Dogma 

Credulity 

Welcome 

Dogmatism 
Persecution 
Protestantism 
Theology 

Integrity 
Policy  (Shakespeare) 
Simplicity  (Wordsworth) 
Statesmen 

Hospitals,  238 
Sleep  (Hamilton-King) 
Trust 
Housekeeping,  238 

Heroes,  229 

Greatness  (q.v.) 

Straightforwardness 
Truth 

Cookery 
Domesticity 

Intuition 

Trust  (Shakespeare) 

Home 

Victory 

Virtue 

Marriage  (Nursery 

Hesitation,  230 

Honeymoon,  233 

Rhyme,  ad  fin.) 

Doubt 

Honour,  233 

Wives 

Speech  (Holmes) 

Arts  (Cicero) 

Houses,  238 

Uncertainty 

Chivalry 

Building 

Vacillation 

Danger 

Cottages 

Woman  (Old  Saying) 

Debts 

Lawyers  (Scottish  prov.) 

Highlands 

Distinction 

Ostentation 

Choice  (Scottish    saying) 

Faithfulness 

Towns 

Localism 

Family 

Villas 

Hints,  230 

Independence 

Human  Nature,  239 

Innuendo 

(Napoleon) 

Mankind 

599 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Humaneness,  239 

Impressionability 

Kindness  (q.v.) 
Humanity 

Actors  (Shakespeare) 

Gentlemen  (Ruskin) 

Limitations 

Mankind  (q.v.) 
Humble  Origin,  240 

Inventions 

Moderation  (Shakespeare) 

Obscurity  of  Life 
Humility,  240 

Abasement 

Contrition 

Critics  (Helps) 

Deference 

Enemies 

Knowledge  (Bacon) 

Meekness 

Modesty 

Self-condemnation 

Servility 

Submission 

Subservience 

Vicissitude  (Kipling) 
Humour,  241 

Anger  (Wilson) 

Cheerfulness 

Comedy 

Englishmen 

(Defoe,  Helps,  Pepys) 

Jesting 

Laughter 

Mirth 

Ridicule 

Songs  (Smith) 

Tragedy 

Wit 
Hunger,  241 

Appetite  (q.v.) 

Famine 

Fasting 
Hunting,  241 

Chase 

Comrades 

Fox-hunting 

Pursuits 

Savages 

Sport 

Squires 

Unkindness  (Tennyson) 
Husbands,  242 

Advice  (Burns) 

Bachelors 

Bridegrooms 

Comradeship 

Destiny 

Drama  (Meredith) 

Frugality 

Luck  (Mickle) 

Marriage 

Mothers-in-law 

Wives 
Hyper  criticism,  242 

Cavillers  (q.v.) 
Hypochondria,  242 


Hypocrisy,  242 

Cant 
Criticism 
Dissimulation 
Religion  (Montaigne) 
Ruskin 
Statesmen 
Virtue  (Wilde) 
Hypothesis,  243 
Castles  in  the  Air 
Fancy 
If 

Imagination 
Uncertainty 


I 


Idealism  and  Ideals,  244 

Castles  in  the  Air 

Hypothesis  (q.v.) 

If 

Speculation 

Utopia 

Visions 
Identity,  244 

Resemblance 

Sons  (Greek  prov.) 

Twins 
Idleness,  244 

Action 

Actions 

Allurement 

Billiards 

Chess 

Dalliance 

Dilettanti 

Early  Rising 

Ease 

Education  (Spurgeon, 
etc.) 

Exercise 

Inaction 

Nonentities 

Relaxation 

Sluggards 

Solitude  (Johnson) 

Spleen 
If,   246 

Hypothesis 

Speculation 
Ignorance,  246 

Admiration  (Trench) 

Art  (Quintilian,  Shaw) 

Astronomy  (Shake- 
speare) 

Assassination 

Books  (Barnfield) 

Concentration 

Contempt 

Dunces 

Empty-mindedness 

Fables 

Fools 

Hate  (Watson) 

Illiteracy 

600 


Knowledge,       (Baxter, 
Beattie,  Rousseau) 

Prejudice 

Shallowness 

Toleration 
Ill-nature,  247 

Aversion 

Calumny 

Cavillers 

Censure 

Country 

Dislike 

Fault-finders 

Hatred 

Impotence 

Malevolence 

Malice 

Rancour 

Spitefulness 

Vindictiveness 
Illegitimacy 

Birth 
Illiteracy,  247 

Grammar 

Spelling 
Illness,  247 

Diseases 

Health 

Hypochondria 

Medicine 

Physicians 

Surgery 
Illusion,  247 

Credulity 

Disillusion 

Self-deception 
Imagination,  247 

Apprehension 

Castles  in  the  Air 

Children  (Macaulay) 

Creative  Faculty 

Credulity 

Depravity 

Dreams 

Faith 

Fancy 

Fiction  (q.v.) 

Guessing 

Idealism 

Illusion 

Inventions 

Invisibility 

Ridicule  (Swift) 

Poets 

Romance 

Speculation 

Theory 

Troubles 

Visions 

Youth  (Keats) 
Imitation,  248 

Parody 

Resemblance  (q.v.) 
Immortality,  249 

Aspiration  (Plato) 
(Wordsworth) 

Bereavement 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Birth 

Impudence,  251 

Indifference,   255 

Dead 

Bombast 

Contempt 

Eternity 

Ireland 

Hypocrisy 

Fame 

Politicians  (Aristo- 

Insensibility (q.v.) 

Future  Existence 

phanes) 

Reaction 

Glory 

Wealth  (Defoe) 

Religion  (Burke) 

Soul 

Wit  (Wilson) 

Indignities,  255 

Impartiality 

Impulsiveness,  251 

Affronts   (q.v.) 

Arbitrators 

Action 

Indlspensabillty,  255 

Judgment 

Affection 

Life  (Rousseau) 

Justice 

Haste 

Woman  (Reynolds) 

Law 

Impetuousness 

Individualism,  255 

Impeachment 

Rashness 

Assiduity 

Accusation 

Recklessness 

Association 

Admission 

Inaction,  252 

Public  Opinion  (Plutarch) 

Impenitence,  250 

Epitaphs  (Tired  Woman) 

Self-reliance 

Obstinacy  (q.v.) 

Idleness  (q.v.) 

Indulgence,  255 

Imperfection,  250 

Inappropriateness,  252 

Charity 

Faults  (q.v.) 

Incongruity 

Tolerance 

Youth  (Wordsworth) 

Office  (S.  Smith) 

Industry,  256 

Impetuousness,  250 

Inclination,  252 

Diligence 

Impulsiveness  (q.v.) 

Opinion 

Effort 

Importunity,  250 

Taste 

Energy 

Consent 

Incoherence,  252 

Epitaphs  (Latin) 

Petitions 

Obscurity  of  Style 

Genius  (Reynolds) 

Impossibility,  250 

Verbosity 

Labour 

Dogma 

Words 

Persistence 

Faith 

Income  tax,  252 

Self-help 

Identity 

Taxation 

Thoroughness 

Utopia 

Incompleteness,  252 

Toil 

Vacillation  (Scott) 

Endings  (q.v.) 

Work 

Visions  (Colmaa) 

Insufficiency 

Inequality,  256 

Impostors 

Incongruity,  252 

Injustice  (Wordsworth) 

Cheating 

Inappropriateness 

Inexactitude 

Credulity 
Dupes 

Office  (S.  Smith) 
Inconsistency,  253 

Euphemism 
Inexperience,  256 

Justice  (Butler) 

Constituents 

Error 

Quackery 

Disagreement 

Folly 

Impotence,  250 

Inconstancy,  253 

Ignorance 

Despair  (q.v.) 

Betrayal 

Shallowness 

Help 

Change  of  Opinion 

Simplicity 

Impracticable 

Dreams 

Dissimulation 
Falsehood 

Smatterers 
Superficiality 

Idealism 

Fickleness  (q.v.) 

Theory 

Utopia 

Incorruptible 

Infallibility 

Visions 

Honesty 

Asseveration 

Impressionability,  250 

Influence 

Inconstancy  (Carlyle) 
Integrity  (Tennyson) 

Certainty 
Dogmatism 

Inspiration 

Indecision,  254 

Fallibility 

Instinct 

Doubt 

Positiveness 

Intuition 

Neutrality 

Infancy,  257 

Italy 

Tardiness 

Ages,  The  Seven 

Sincerity  (Prov.) 

Uncertainty 

Babies 

Youth  (ad  fin.) 

Vacillation 

Birth 

Woman  (Tolstoy) 

Independence,  254 

Birthdays 

Impressiveness,  251 

Britain 

Children 

Remembrance  (q.v.) 

Freedom  (Voltaire) 

Death,  Premature 

Impromptu,  251 

Indifference 

Domesticity 

Wit 

Individualism 

Home 

Improvement,  251 

Liberty 

Life 

Change 

Self-reliance 

Mothers 

Innovations 

Indescribable,  The,  254 

Infatuation,  257 

Reform 

Mystery 

Fascination 

Improvidence,  251 

Natune  (Byron) 

Infidelity,  257 

Building 

Sighing 

Atheism 

Extravagance 

Indexes,  254 

Faith 

Thriftlessness 

India,   255 

Miracles 

60 1 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Scepticism 

Inscrutability,  260 

Recrimination 

Unbelief 

Abstruseness 

Revilers 

Infinity,  257 

Profundity 

Scolding 

Eternity  (q.v.) 

Insects,  260 

Unkindness 

Influence,  257 

Clamour 

Wrongs 

Impressionability 

Parasites 

Integrity,  261 

Instinct 

Transiency 

Calumny 

Ingratitude,  257 

Insensibility,  260 

Character 

Benefits 

Indifference  (q.v.) 

Conscience 

Benevolence 

Insignificance,  260 

Conscientiousness 

Children  (Shakespeare) 

Ciphers 

Goodness 

Gratitude 

Humble  Birth 

Honesty 

Injuries 

Humility 

Honour 

Inhumanity,  258 

Individualism 

Virtue 

Brutality 

(Shakespeare) 

Intellect,  262 

Callousness 

Littleness 

Contemplative  Faculties 

Cruelty  (q.v.) 

Nonentities 

Culture 

Injuries,  258 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Education 

Abuse 

Retirement 

Knowledge 

Complaint 

Village  Life 

Learning 

Forgiveness 

Insincerity,  260 

Literature  (Wordsworth) 

Ingratitude 

Betrayal 

Mind 

Injustice 

Falsehood 

Thought 

Insults 

Insinuation 

Wisdom 

Resentfulness 

Hints 

Intelligibility 

Revenge 

Innuendo 

Clearness  (q.v.) 

Unkindness 

Insipidity 

Intention,  263 

Wrongs 

Kisses  (Hood) 

Achievement        (Words- 

Injustice, 258 

Inspiration,  260 

worth) 

Antiquity  (Jerrold) 

Dreams 

Malevolence 

Evil 

Idealism 

Meaning 

Independence  (Vol- 

Literature (Plutarch) 

Interest 

taire) 
Injuries 
Law 
Lukewarmness 
Punishment  (Fielding) 
Unkindness 
Wrongs 
Innocence,  258 
Beauty  (Young) 
Calumny 
Children 
Integrity  (Southern) 
Moderation 

Thought 
Visions 
West 
Instability,  261 
Change 
Change  of  Opinion 
Opinion 
Transiency 
Vacillation 
Instinct,  261 
Belief  (Arnold) 
Common  Sense 
Conscience 

Flattery 
Persuasion  (Napoleon) 
Straightforwardness 
Interpretation 
Explanation  (Sheridan) 
Jesting 
Translators 
Interruption,  263 
Intervention,  263 
Busy-bodies 
Intolerance,  263 
Asseveration 

Simplicity 

Cowardice 

Bigotry 

Stratagems 
Worldly  Wisdom 

Error  (Cowper) 
Intention 

Dogma 
Extremes 

Innovations,  259 

Intuition 

Persecution 

Change  (q.v.) 
Truth  (Browning) 

Instruction,  261 
Education  (q.v.) 

Theology 
Tolerance 

Inns,  259 

Insubordination,  261 

Zeal 

Beauty  (Saying) 
Drinking  (Masefield) 
Waiters 

Disaffection 
Faction  (q.v.) 
Insufficiency,  261 

Introspection,  263 

Analysis 
Self-consciousness 

Innuendo,  259 

Incompleteness 

Self-knowledge 

Hints 

Sufficiency 

Intuition,  264 

Inquisltiveness,  259 

Want 

Instinct  (q.v.) 

Answers 

Insularity 

Faith  (Wordsworth) 

Busy-bodies 

Britain 

Inventors  and  Inventions, 

Curiosity 

Insults,  261 

264 

Interviewers 

Abuse 

Achievement  (Pindar) 

Learning  (Butler) 

Affronts 

America  (Emerson) 

Questions 

Candidates 

Discoverers 

Spies 

Challenge 

Failure 

Insanity,  260 

Indignities 

Imagination  (Voltaire) 

Madness 

Quarrels 

Modernity 

602 


INDEX    OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Pioneers 

Jealousy,  266 

Inexperience 

Utility 

Artists 

Law 

Woman  (Tennyson) 

Dead  (Tennyson) 

Leniency 

Invisibility,  264 

Envy  (q.v.) 

Opinions 

Unseen 

Jesting,  266 

Positiveness 

Invitation,  264 

Dullness 

Prejudice 

Guests 

Humour 

Retribution 

Spiders 

Laughter 

Science 

Visits 

Levity 

Wisdom 

Willingness 

Mirth  (Milton) 

June,  269 

Ireland,  264 

Money  (T.  E.  Brown) 

Harvest 

Business 

Punning 

Weather 

Disputes 

Ridicule 

Junias 

Dublin 

Sarcasm 

Anonymity 

Funerals 

Satire 

Juries,  269 

Hate  (Watson) 

Scoffers 

Law  (Pope) 

Magnanimity 

Sneering 

Justice,  269 

Scotland  (Saving) 

Truth  (Shaw) 

Confidence 

Servility  (Swift) 

Wit 

Corruption 

Soldiers  (Colton) 

Jewels,  267 

Delay 

Vindictiveness 

Wives  (Shakespeare) 

Equity 

Irrelevance 

Woman  (Milton,  etc.) 

Expediency 

Digressions 

Jews,  267 

Government 

Discursiveness 

Jilted,  267 

Greatness  (Voltaire) 

Tediousness 

Choice 

Humility 

Irresolution,  265 

Inconstancy  (q.v.) 

Integrity 

Change  of  Opinion 

Lovers  (Scott,  etc.) 

Judgment 

Doubt 

John  Bull,  267 

Juries 

Uncertainty                    , 

Americans 

Kings  (Defoe) 

Vacillation 

Antiquity 

Law 

Irresponsibility,  265 

Englishmen  (Jerrold, 

Patience  (Pliny) 

Demagogues 

Scott) 

Retribution 

Property 

Journalism,  267 

Right 

Irretrievable,  The,  265 

Facts 

Truth 

Nevermore 

Interviewers 

Virtue  (Plato) 

Past 

Newspapers 

Woman  (Schopenhauer) 

Remorse 

Press 

Women's  Logic 

Tears  (Percy) 

Repetition 

Irreverence 

Joviality 

Blasphemy  (q.v.) 

Coarseness 

Irritation,  265 

Conviviality 

K 

Anger 

Sociability 

Fretful  ness 

Joy,  268 

Kent,  270 

Quarrels 

Adversity 

Kill-joy* 

Isolation,  265 

Comedy 

Moralists 

Loneliness 

Compensation 

Puritanism  (Voltaire) 

Minorities 

Enjoyment 

Unco  Guid 

Retirement 

Festivities 

Kindness,  270 

Solitude 

Extremes 

Amiability 

Italy,  266 

Happiness 

Conciliation 

Naples 

Imagination  (Bridges) 

Good  Deeds 

Nations  (Prov.) 

Optimism 

Goodness 

Rome 

Pleasure 

Humaneness 

Travel 
Venice 

Rejoicing 
Wealth  (Rousseau) 

Impressionability 
Ingratitude  (Thackeray) 

World  (Byron) 

Troubles  (Gordon) 

Judges,  268 

Unselfishness 

Judgment  (q.v.) 

Kindred,  270 

Judgment,  268 

Relations 

J 

Caution 

Kings,  270 

Censure 

Assassination 

January,  266 

Charity  (Wordsworth) 

Betrayal 

War 

Condemnation 

Bombast 

Weather 

Conscience 

Calumny 

Jargon 

Counsel 

Cannon 

Pedantry 

Discrimination 

Choice  (Shakespeare) 

Obscurity  of  Style 

Equity 

Corruption 

603 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Crowns 

Exhaustion 

Humour 

Custom 

Fame  (Milton) 

Ireland 

Despotism 

Genius 

Jesting  (Goldsmith) 

Dissimulation 

Idleness  (Chaucer) 

Mirth 

Ecclesiastics 

Industry 

Ridicule 

Fate  (Shirley) 

Inequality  (Chinese 

Smiles 

Flattery 

saying) 

Sociability 

Law  (Gower) 

Persistence 

Tales  (Burns) 

Loyalty 

Self-help 

Wit 

Monarchy 

Study 

Law,  275 

Rulers 

Thoroughness 

Acts  of  Parliament 

Sceptre 

Toil 

Anger   (Publilius   Syrus) 

Stuarts 

Wages 

Antiquities 

Supremacy 

Work 

Autocracy 

Titles 

Lakes 

Calumny 

Transiency  (Symons) 

Calm 

Compulsion 

Vicissitude  (Kipling) 

Lambs 

Doubt  (Coke) 

War 

Country 

England  (Voltaire) 

Kisses,  271 

Candidates 
Conviviality 
Error   (Macdonald) 
Farewell  (Burns) 

Lamentation 

Depression  (q.v.) 
Land  and  Landowners,  274 
Agriculture 

Equity 
Evils 
Expediency 
Fees 
Fortune    (Shakespeare) 

Inconstancy    (Ayton) 
Lovers  (Shakespeare) 

Cottages 
Farmers 

Habeas  Corpus 
Judges 

Traitors 
Youth  (Browning) 
Knights,  272 
Gentlemen 
Idleness  (Gifford) 

Property 
Rent 
Wives  (Chaucer) 
Landscape 

Flat  Countries 

Judgment 
Justice 
Lawyers 
Legislation 
Magistrates 

Soldiers  (Scott) 

Mountains 

Punctuation 

Knowledge,  272 

Nature  (Dyer) 

Severity 

Art   (Herschel) 

Scenery 

Trifles 

Astronomy  (Shakespeare) 
Book  Learning 

Languages,  274 

Antiquities    (Bentley) 

War  (Cicero) 
Lawyers,  278 

Books 

Arts  (Helps) 

Accusations 

Charity 

Classical  Learning 

Advocacy 

Colleges 

Dialect 

Argument  (Wycherley) 

Communicativeness 

Education 

Casuistry 

Demonstration 

English  Language 

Controversy  (Shakespeare) 

Doubt 

Foreign  Lands 

Judges 

Education 

Grammar 

Mankind    (Schopenhauer) 

Ignorance 

Italy 

Statesmen 

Intuition 

Letters 

Wills 

Learning 

Music  (Rogers,  Rousseau, 

Leadership,  278 

Religion  (Bacon) 

Weber,  Wilson,  etc.) 

Champions 

Research 

Scholarship 

Compulsion 

Scholars 

Schools 

Deliverance 

Study 

Slang 

Despair 

Teaching 

Speech 

Example 

Wisdom 

Spelling 

Guidance 

Universities 

Pioneers 

Verbosity 

Rulers 

Words 

Leanness,  278 

L 

Lark,  274 

Stoutness 

Birds 

Learning,  278 

Labels,  273 

Lateness,  274 

Book  Learning 

Titles  (ad  fin.) 

Tardiness 

Books 

Labour,  273 

Too  Late 

Classical  Learning 

Agriculture 

Latin 

Education 

Aspiration 

Classical  Learning 

Error  (ad  fin.) 

Difficulty 

Education 

Example  (ad  fin.) 

Diligence 

Universities   (Steele) 

Ignorance 

Dishonesty 

Laughter,  274 

Instruction 

Effort 

Cheerfulness 

Knowledge  (q.v.) 

Energy 

Existence  (Shelley) 

Research 

Epitaplis 

Folly  (Ecclesiastes) 

Scholarship 

604 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Schools 

Detraction 

Transiency 

Study 

Slander 

Troubles 

Teaching 

Liberal,  282 

Vanity   (Koran) 

Universities 

Extremes 

Vicissitude 

Wisdom 

Libertines 

Youth 

Women  (Cowper, 

Gallantry 

Light,  288 

Euripides) 
Leaves 

Inconstancy 
Prodigals 

Brilliancy 
Enlightenment  (q.v.) 

Death 

Self-love 

Lilie* 

Lectures 

Liberty,  282 

Uselessness 

Gifts  (Whitman) 
Legacies 

America 
Americans 

Vice  (Swinburne) 
Limitations,  288 

Bequests 

Captivity 

Littleness 

Legends,  280 

Corruption 

Localism  (q.v.) 

Romance 

Democracy 

Moderation 

Tales  (q.v.) 

England 

Pettiness 

Legislation,  280 

Acts  of  Parliament 

Extremes 
Freedom 

Lions,  288 
Daring 

Habeas  Corpus 
Constituents 

Genius  (Mill) 
Labour  (Whittier) 

Rivalry 
Timidity 

Force  (S.  Smith) 

Monarchs 

Listeners,  288 

Leicestershire 

Food  (King) 
Leisure    281 

Mountains  (Words- 
worth) 
Sacrifice 

Attention 
Conversation 
Evidence 

Books  (Seneca) 
Business  (Plutarch) 

f  oc^i 

Slavery 
Toleration 
Votes 

Stupidity 
Table  Talk 
Literature,  288 

iiase 
Employment 
Epitaphs  (Tired  Woman) 
Idleness 

Library,  283 
Books  (q.v.) 
Licence,  283 

Arts  (Voltaire) 
Audacity  (Heine) 
Authors 

Inaction 

Liberty  (Milton) 

Books 

Recreation 
Relaxation 

Revolution  (Milton) 
Life,  283 

Business 
Chaucer 

T?/»cf 

Action  (Scott) 

Comedy 

£XC3l 

Retirement 

I.'  11--  i]      T  if» 

Art   (Hippocrates) 
Bed 

Commentators 
Criticism 

ixurai  i^iie 
Lenders 

Book  Inscriptions 
Borrowers 

Cheerfulness      (Masefield, 
Morris,  etc.) 
Childhood  (Phillpotts) 
Effort 

Drama 
Fiction 
Journalism 
Milton 

Finance 

Endeavour 

Novels 

Trust 
World  (ad  fin.) 
Leniency,  281 
Mercy  (q.v.) 

Endings  (Swin- 
burne) 
England  (Milton) 
Existence 

Poetry 
Poets 
Publishers 
Readers 

Lent 

Fasting 

Christianity 
Conduct 

Shakespeare 
Style 

Lessons,  281 

Death 

Writing 

Schools  (q.v.) 

Decay 

Littleness,  289 

Letters  (Alphabetical), 

Deeds 

Limitations 

281 

Destiny 

Pettiness  (q.v.) 

Spelling 
Letters     (Correspondence) 

Display 
Dissimulation 

Liturgy,  289 
Creeds 

281 

Ease 

Death,  Sudden 

Correspondence 

Future  (Lucretius) 

Local  Self-government 

Handwriting 
Postscripts 

Happiness  (Spencer) 
Hope  (Spalding) 

Government  (Motley) 
Localism,  289 

Levellers,  281 

Humaneness  (Dryden) 

Birth-place 

Inequality 

Ignorance          (Sophocles, 

Cities 

Socialism 
Levity,  281 

Spencer,   etc.) 
Improvement 

Law  (Montaigne) 
Parochialism 

Jesting  (q.v.) 

Mankind 

Place 

Liars 

Problems 

Towns 

Lying   (q.v.) 

Rivers 

Village  Life 

Libel,  282 

Tales  (Shakespeare) 

Logic,  289 

Back-biting 

Thought    (Cicero,    Des- 

Argument (q.v.) 

Calumny 

cartes) 

vVomen's   Logic 

605 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


London,  289 

Courting 

Subjects 

Cities 

Deceit 

Vows 

Clubs 

Devotion 

Luck,  298 

Cockneys 

Diffidence 

Chance 

Drama  (Shaw) 

Drama 

Destiny 

Fog 

Dress  (Hood) 

Fortune 

Future 

Dualism 

Extravagance 

Lord  Mayors 

Enthusiasm 

Fate 

Neigbours  (Walpole) 
Xight  (Wordsworth) 

Estrangement 
Exercise 

Fortune 
Gaming 

Rural  Life  (Helps,   Wal- 

Extremes 

Guessing 

pole) 

Farewell 

Odd  Numbers 

Ships  (Ruskin) 

Fear 

Providence 

Society  (Gilbert) 

Flirtation 

Superstition 

Thames 

Folly 

Lucky  Days 

Transiency   (Bramston) 

Forgiveness 

Days 

Westminster  Abbey 

Fortune    (Shakespeare, 

Lukewarmness,  298 

Loneliness,  291 

etc.) 

Indifference  (q.v.) 

Cheerfulness 

Freedom  (Lovelace) 

Luxury,  298 

Solitude  (q.v.) 

Gallantry 

Comfort 

Longevity,  291 

Hate 

Content 

Age 

Human  Nature  (Leigh 

Extravagance 

Nonagenarians 

Hunt) 

Spleen 

Old  Age 

Humaneness 

Superfluities 

Lord  Mayors,  291 

Jealousy 

Lying,  298 

Lords,  291 

Logic 

Debt 

Destiny 

Loss 

Deceit 

Servility 

Lukewarmness 

Deception 

Statesmen 

Marriage 

Envy 

Subservience 

Persuasion 

Equivocation 

Swearing 

Pity 

Excuses 

Titles  (q.v.) 

Poets 

False  Reports 

Lord's  Prayer 

Romance 

Falsehood 

Proverbs  (Mediasval  defi- 

Selfishness (Keats) 

Fraud 

nition) 

Sentiment 

Greece 

Loss,  291 

Service 

Hypocrisy  (Hood,  etc.) 

Apathy 

(Massinger) 

Justice  (Butler) 

Bereavement 

Sighing 

Malevolence 

Chance 

Sympathy 

Old  Age 

Commerce 

Wives 

(Shakespeare) 

Comrades 

Women 

Prevarication 

Delusion 

Youth 

Self-deception 

Despair 

Lovers,  297 

Truth  J 

Disappointment 
Envy 

Ages,  The  Seven 
Argument  (Voltaire) 

Gain 

Blarney  Stone 

Reverses 

Business 

M 

Suffering 

Cheerfulness 

Tears 

Choice 

Madness,  299 

Love,  292 

Departure 

Art   (Phillpotts) 

Absence  (May) 

Embrace 

Attack 

Acquaintanceship 

Endings 

Desperation 

Affection 

Inconstancy 

Eccentricity 

Affinities 

Jealousy 

Genius 

Age  (Dekker) 
Ambition 

Jilted 
Love 

Incoherence 
Insanity 

Amiability 
Amorousness 

Marriage 
Poetry  (Shakespeare) 

Obsession 
Magic,  299 

Audacity  (Heine) 

Lowliness 

Supernatural 

Betrayal 

Ambition 

Magistrates,  300 

Blushes 

Humility 

Magnanimity,  300 

Charity 

Meekness 

Greatness  (q.v.) 

Concealment 

Modesty  (q.v.) 

Virtue 

Conquest 

Loyalty,  297 

Magnificence,  300 

Conscience 

Integrity 

Display  (q.v.) 

Constancy 

Kings 

Mahometans,  300 

Courage  (Burns) 

Service 

Religion  (Koran) 

606 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Majorities,  300 

Consent 

Collections 

Minorities 

Daughters 

Generosity 

Malevolence    and    Malice, 

Heiresses 

Money 

300 

Honeymoon 

Niggardliness 

Calumny 

Hope  (Prov.) 

Wealth 

Country 

Husbands 

Weather  (prov.  saying) 

Critics 

Incongruity  (Ovid) 

Meat,  309 

Ill-nature 

Jilted 

Ale 

Injustice 

Love   (Edgeworth,    Pope, 

Appetite 

Lukewarmness  (Burke) 

Ramsay,    Shakespeare, 

Beef 

Mischief 

Voltaire,  Wilde) 

Drinking 

Rancour 

Posies 

Food 

Spitefulness 
Vindictiveness 

Wedding  Ring 
Widows 

Sea-sickness  (Byron) 
Soldiers  (Marlborough) 

Mankind,  301 

Wives 

Meddling,  309 

Actors  (Shakespeare) 

Martyrdom,  307 

Busy-bodies  (q.v.) 

Actions  (Fletcher) 

Enthusiasm 

Duty  (Plato) 

Adam  and  Eve 

Vice  (Cotton) 

Fussiness 

Christianity 

Marvellous 

Interruption 

Confidence 

Apparitions 

Intervention 

Creatures 

Magic 

Medicine,  309 

Cruelty 

Miracles 

Cheerfulness  (Webster) 

Divinity  in  Man 

Supernatural 

Doctors 

Greatness  (Watson) 

Surprise 

Hospitals 

Human  Nature 

Wonder 

Physicians 

Life  (Disraeli) 

Masters,  308 

Remedies 

Misanthropy 

Employers 

Mediocrity,  309 

Religion 

Labour 

Ciphers 

Sex 

Rulers 

Middle  Classes 

Syllogisms 

Servants 

Nonentities 

Woman 

Service 

Solemnity 

Manliness,  303 

Slavery 

(Voltaire) 

Sport 
Mannerisms,  303 

Tyrants 
Maternity 

Stories 
Subservience  (Spurgeon) 

Affectation  (q.v.) 

Babies 

Meekness,  309 

Manners,  304 

Birth 

Abasement 

Affronts 

Children 

Contrition 

Awkwardness 

Daughters 

Deference 

Breeding 

Mothers 

Humility 

Change 

Sons 

Modesty 

Children  (Scots  Rhyme) 
Company 
Courtesy 

Mathematics,  308 
Arithmetic 
Books 

Purity 
Submission 
Subservience 

Deportment 

Calculation 

Melancholy,  309 

Discourtesy 

Geometry 

Autumn 

Nations  (Wilson) 

Ignorance  (Swift) 

Cheerfulness 

Politeness 

Matter,  308 

Darkness 

Self-reliance 

Metaphysics 

Depression 

Man's  Ages,  304 

Philosophy 

Despair 

Manufactures,  304 

Maxims,  308 

Despondency 

Agriculture 
Commerce 

Generalities 
Proverbs 

Discontent 
Error  (Shakespeare) 

Industry  (q.v.) 
Inventions 
Trade 

Talk  (Longfellow) 
Teaching 
May,  308 

Genius 
Idleness    (Burton) 
Music  (Shakespeare, 

Utility 

Amorousness 

etc.) 

March,  304 

Harvest 

Sadness 

Weather 
Marriage,  304 

Marriage  (Ovid) 
Opportunity  (Edwards) 

Sensitiveness 
Solitude 

Advice 

Spring 

Sorrow 

Bachelors 

Summer 

Trial 

Bridegrooms 
Brides 

Transiency 
Weather 

Troubles 
Vanity  (Emptiness) 

Bridesmaids 

Meaning,  308 

Woe 

Celibacy 

Meanness,  309 

Melodrama,  310 

Chastity 
Choice 

Actions  (Emerson) 
Avarice 

Drama  (Hugo) 
Sensationalism 

607 


INDEX  OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Tragedy 

Youth  (Keats) 
Mementoes,  310 

Posies 

Remembrance 
Memory,  310 

Absence 

Judgment 

Past  (q.v.) 

Records 

Remembrance 

Retrospect 

Sorrow 
Merchandise,  311 

Commerce 

Comparisons 

Trade 
Mercy,  311 

Condemnation 

Contrition 

Cruelty 

Despair 

Epitaphs 

God  (Spenser) 

Harshness 

Humaneness 

Kindness 

Judgment 

Leniency 

Pity 

Sympathy 

Unkmdness 
Merits,  311 

Censure 

Desert 

Distinction 

Eminence 

Epitaphs 

Fortune 

(Shakespeare) 

Goodness 

Greatness 

Rewards 

Worth 
Messengers,  311 

Correspondence 

Letters 

News 

Too  Late 
Metaphor,  311 

Comparisons 

Figures  of  Speech 

Similes 

Slang 

Wishes  (Swift) 

Words 
Metaphysics,  312 

Common  Sense 

Philosophy 
Method,  312 

Business 

Despatch 

Formality 

Order 

Preciseness 

Study  (Spenser) 

Thrift 


Metres,  312 

Bible  (Keble) 
Metromania 

Authors  (Voltaire) 
Middle  Age,  312 

Age 

Ages  of  Man 

Mankind  (Wilson) 
Middle  Classes,  313 

Trade 
Middlesex 

Utopia 
Midnight,  313 

Melancholy  (Milton) 
Militarism,  313 

War  (q.v.) 

Military  Music,  314 
Milk 

Evidence  (Thoreau) 
Milton,  314 

Decadence 

Distinction  (Wordsworth) 

England  (Swinburne) 

Genius  (Gray) 

Liberty  (Wordsworth) 

Poets  (Wordsworth) 
Mind,  314 

Beauty  (Cooke) 

Disposition 

Example  (Wordsworth) 

Genius 

Greatness  (Watts) 

Independence  (Voltaire) 

Intellect 

Philosophy  (S.  Smith) 

Reason 

Stedfastness 

Thought 
Ministries,  314 

Government 

Politicians  (Su  Tung-p'o) 
Minorities,  314 

Individualism 

Isolation 

Majorities  (Swift) 
Miracles,  314 

Supernatural 

Wonders 
Mirth,  314 

Cheerfulness 

Constancy 

Content   (Udall) 

Conviviality 

Festivities 

Folly  (Scott) 

Humour 

Jesting 

Laughter 

Ridicule 

Sociability 

Wit 
Misanthropy,  315 

Cynicism 

Envy 

Epitaphs  (of  Timon) 

Friendship   (Pope) 

Ill-nature 

608 


Misogyny 

Pessimism 
Mischief,  315 

Busy-bodies 

Cabals 

Conspire 

Disaffection 

Intrigues 

Malevolence 

Rancour 

Schemes 

Traitors 

Treachery 

Troubles  (Harris) 
Misery,  315 

Adversity 

Affliction 

Calamity 

Compensation 

Content     (La     Rochefou- 
cauld) 

Despair 

Disaster 

Fortune  (La  Rochefou- 
cauld) 

Guilt 

Reverses 

Trials 

Woe 
Misfortune,  316 

Adversity 

Affliction 

Calamity 

Champions 

Chance 

Chivalry 

Compensation 

Comrades 

Disaster 

Fall 

Fortune 

Luck 

Reverses 

Troubles 

Vicissitude 
Misgivings,  316 

Scrupulousness 
Misogyny,  316 

Woman  (q.v.) 
Misrepresentation,  316 

Calumny  (q.v.) 

Commentators 

Jesting 

Translators 
Missionaries 

Conversion 

Ecclesiastics 

Tracts 
Mistakes,  316 

Blunders 

Error 

Experience 

Failings 

Faults 

Frailty 

Weaknesses 

Wives  (Middleton) 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Misunderstanding,  317 

Monastlclsm,  319 

Religion 

Commen  tators 

Ecclesiasticism 

Scoffers 

Disclaimer 

Ecclesiastics 

Sects 

Disputes  (q.v.) 

Reformation 

Unco  Guid 

Doubt 

Monday,  310 

Virtue 

Envy 

Days  (q.v.) 

Morning,  323 

Greatness 

Money,  319 

Breakfast 

(Emerson) 

Alternatives 

Dreams 

Incredulity 

Authorship  (Johnson) 

Early  Rising 

Jesting 
Misrepresentation 

Avarice 
Borrowers 

Nature  (Milton) 
Sunrise 

Quarrels 

Bribery 

Mortality,  324 

Trust 

Business 

Dead 

Unbelief 

Capital 

Death 

War 

Competence 

Dying 

Mob,  317 

Conduct 

Life 

Demagogues 

Estimates 

Mankind 

Democracy 

Expenditure 

Old  Age 

Multitude 

Finance 

Transiency 

People 

Generosity 

Youth  (Shakespeare) 

Politicians 

Gold 

Mothers,  324 

Popularity 

London    (Pope) 

Authors  (Disraeli) 

Press  (Chaucer) 

Stock  Exchange 

Beauty  (Horace) 

Moderation,  317 

Trade 

Birth 

Competence 

Wealth 

Children 

Content 

Wisdom 

Daughters 

Controversy 

Worth  (Plato) 

Heredity 

Government  (Seneca) 

World  (ad  fin.) 

Wives 

Greatness  (Massinger) 

Monopolists,  322 

Woman 

Legislation 

Genius  (Shaw) 

Mothers-in-Law,  324 

Mediocrity 

Privilege 

Brides 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Profit 

Motives,  325 

Submission 

Months 

Cause  and  Effect  (q.v.) 

Temperance 

April 

Intention 

Virtue 

Autumn 

Mountains,  325 

Wants 

Days 

Boundaries 

Modernity,  318 

February 

Choice  (Scottish  saying) 

Innovation 

January 

Nature    (Ruskin,    Words- 

Invention 

June 

worth,  etc.) 

Novelty 

March 

Scenery 

Realism 

May 

Spring 

Modesty,  318 

New  Year 

Mourning,  325 

Ambition 

November 

Bereavement  (q.v.) 

Amenability 

October 

Cheerfulness   (Scottish 

Beauty  (Juvenal) 

Oysters 

saying) 

Blushes 

Spring 

Dead 

Clothing 

Weather  (Ellis) 

Epitaphs 

Conversation 

Winter 

Grief 

Coyness 

Monuments,  322 

Occupation  (Steele) 

Diffidence 

Burial 

Regret 

Epitaphs  (Pope) 
Fallibility 

Dead 
Epitaphs 

Sadness 
Sighing 

Gentleness 

Stonehenge 

Sonow 

Greatness 

Tombs 

Tears 

Humility 

Moon,  322 

Trial 

Innocence 
Meekness 

Astronomy 
Moralising   and   Moralists, 

Troubles 
Multitude,  The,  326 

Obscurity 

322 

Democracy 

Retirement 

Morality  (q.v.) 

Mob 

Self-Condemnation 

Morality,  323 

People 

Simplicity 
Submission 

Cheerfulness  (Voltaire) 
Christianity 

Politicians 
Popularity 

Virtue 

Dogma 

Press  (Chaucer) 

Monarchy,  318 

Fiction 

Public  Opinion 

Government  (Goldsmith) 
Kings 

Money  (Shaw) 
Philosophy 

World 
Municipality 

Queens 

Protestantism 

Cities 

2  N 


609 


INDEX  OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Citizenship 

Corpprations 

Public  Service 

Towns 
Murder,  326 

Assassination 

Blood  thirstiness 

Capital  Punishment 

Crime 

Epitaphs  (on  Wm. 
Weare) 

Guilt 

Love  (Fletcher  and 
Massinger) 

Scrupulousness 

Slaughter 

Villainy 

War  (Thackeray, 

Young) 
Music,  326 

Arts 

Banquets 

Beauty 

Church  Music 

Cities 

Concord 

Consolation 

Dancing 

Dilettanti 

Discord 

Harmony 

Inspiration 

Intuition 

Language  (Wilson) 

Memory  (Wordsworth) 

Military  Music 

Noise 

Organs 

Pessimism  (Swinburne) 

Singers  and  Singing 

Songs 

Sounds 

Voice 
Mutability,  329 

Change  (q.v.) 

Transiency 

Variety 
Mutiny,  329 

Disaffection  (q.v.) 
Mystery,  329 

Ghosts 

Law  (Burke) 

Magic 

Miracles 

Mysticism 

Secrecy 

Sensationalism 

Spirits 

Supernatural 

Superstition 

Religion  (prov.  quoted  by 
Goethe) 

Research 

Trade 

Wonder 
Mysticism,  329 

Supernatural  (q.v.) 


N 

Names,  329 

Fame     (Byron,     Dryden, 
Halleck,  Johnson,  Pope, 
Shakespeare,   Swift, 
Tennyson) 

Familiarity 

Glory  (Massinger,  Words- 
wortn,  Ecclesiasticus) 

Immortality 

Nicknames 

Notoriety 

Punning  (Shenstone) 

Surnames 

Traditions 
Naples,  330 
Nations,  330 

America 

Apathy  (Wordsworth) 

Asia  Minor 

Britain 

Boundaries 

Casualness 

Celts 

Commerce 

Degeneracy 

Education    (Cicero, 
Diogenes) 

Empire 

England 

Englishmen 

Enthusiasm 

France 

Gentlemen    (ad   fin.) 

Germany 

Greece 

Happiness  (Milton) 

Holland 

Honour  (Lowell) 

Ireland 

Italy 

Jews 

Law  (Cicero,  Galus, 
Milton) 

London 

Manners  (Wilson). 

Patriotism 

Religion  (Blake) 

Rome 

Rural  Life  (Rousseau) 

Scotland 

Ships  (Emerson) 

Spain 

Suspicion   (Bacon,  Emer- 
son) 

Travel     (Rousseau) 

Vicissitude  (Dryden) 

War  (Leigh  Hunt) 

Youth  (Disraeli) 
Native  Land,  331 

Patriotism  (q.v.) 
Naturalness,  332 

Simplicity 
Nature,  332 

Aloofness 

Art  (Kipling,  Seneca) 

610 


Authors  (Old  Greek  say- 
ing) 

Cause  and  Effect 

Co-operation 

Criticism 

Critics 

Custom  (Daniel) 

Drama 

Health  (Emerson) 

Human  Nature 

Inconstancy  (Rochester) 

Inspiration  (Pindar) 

Law  (Cicero) 

Miracles 

Moderation  (Young) 

Mountains 

Music 

Pessimism  (Voltaire) 

Preachers  (Wordsworth) 

Providence 

Research 

Rural  Life 

Scenery 

Simplicity 

Sunday  (Southey) 

Truth  (Barton) 

Wanderers 

Weather 

Winds 
Navy,  335 

Britain 

Insubordination 

Office  (Gilbert) 

Providence  (Dibdin) 

Sailors 

Ships 

Submarines 
Necessity,  336 

Comrades 

Resignation 

Submission  j 
Neglect,  336 

Contempt 

Indifference  (q.v.) 
Negroes,  336 

Cruelty 

Education   (Negro  prov.) 

Liberty  (Lowell) 
Neighbours,  336 

Friendship  (q.v.) 
Nemesis,  336 

Retribution 

Self-destruction 
Nerves 

Apprehension 

Affectation 

England  (Shaw) 

H  ypochondria 

Imagination 

Insanity 

Spleen 

Timidity 
Neutrality,  336 

Doubt  (q.v.) 

Indecision 

Uncertainty 

Vacillation 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Nevermore,  336 

Irretrievable  (q.v.) 
New  Year,  336 

Years  ^ 

News,  337 

Events 

False  Reports 

Jealousy  (Shakespeare) 

Messengers 

Newspapers 
Newspapers,  337 

Criticism  (Shakespeare) 

Editors 

Interviewers 

Journalism 

Press 

Publicity 
Nicknames,  338 

Abuse  (Scottish  prov.) 

Familiarity 
Niggardliness,  338 

Meanness  (q.v.) 
Night,  338 

Darkness 

Despair 

Evening 

Midnight 

Moon 

Morning  (Tennyson) 

Stars 

Nightingale,  338 
Nil  Admirari 

Admiration 

Cynicism 

Pessimism 

Placidity 

Wonder 
Nobility,  339 

Chivalry 

Controversy  (Old  Ballad) 

Earls 

Gentlemen 

Pedigree 

Rank 

Titles 

Virtue 
Noise,  339 

Bluster 

Discord 

Sounds 

Nonagenarians,  339 
Nonconformity,  339 

Convention  (q.v.) 
Nonentities,  339 

Ciphers 

Nothing 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Uselessness 

Work  (Hickey) 
Nonsense,  340 

Absurdity  (q.v.) 

False  Reports 

Folly 

Obscurity  of  Style 

Patter 

Pedantry 

Verbosity 


Noon,  340 
North,  The,  340 

South 

Winds 
Noses,  340 

Britain  (Shakespeare) 

Senses 

Sensitiveness 

Tobacco  (Coleridge) 
Nothing,  340 

Futility 

Nonentities 
Notoriety,  340 

Criticism    (Burns) 

Fame  (q.v.) 

Infamy 

Names 
Novelty,  340 

Change 

Cynicism 

Fashion 

Fickleness 

Innovations 

Opinion 

Reform 

Tune 

Transiency 

Variety 

Vicissitude 
November,  341 
Number,  341 

Abundance  (q.v.) 
Numismatics,  341 
Nuns,  341 


Oak,  341 
Oaths,  341 

Cursing 

Profanity 

Soldiers 

Swearing 

Trust 

Vows 
Obedience,  341 

Command 

Discipline 

Evils 

Faith 

Submission 

Subservience 
Oblivion,  342 

Forgetfulness  (q.v.) 

Infamy  (Milton) 

Injuries 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Remembrance 
Obscurity  (of  Language  or 
Thought),  342 

Ambiguity 

Chroniclers 

Complacency 

Insignificance 

Mysticism 

611 


Verbosity 

Words 

Worth 
Obscurity  (of  Life),  342 

Nonentities  (q.v.) 
Observation,  343 

Discoverers  (Pope) 

Outlook 

Perception 

Rousseau 

Spies 

Travel 

Truth    (Meredith) 

Visions  (Ruskin) 

World  (Browning) 
Obsession,  344 

Delusion 

Enthusiasm 

Zeal 
Obstinacy,  344 

Danger 

Persistency 

Visions  (Young) 

Zeal 
Obvious,  The,  344 

Commonplace  (q.v.) 
Occupation,  344 

Activity  (Colton) 

Deeds 

Employment 

Idleness 

Leisure 

Shoemakers 

Vocation 
October,  345 

Months 
Odd  Numbers,  345 

Luck 

Three 
Odours,  345 

Perfume 

Scent 
Offences,  345 

Affronts  (q.v.) 

Crime  (q.v.) 
Office  (Public),  345 

Authority 

Character 

Circumlocution 

Fortune  (Shakespeare) 

Government 

Magistrates 

Place-seekers 

Preferment 

Rulers 

Soldiers  (Shaw) 
Officiousness,  345 

Busy-bodies  (q.v.) 
Old  Acquaintance,  345 

Comrades  (q.v.) 
Old  Age,  345 

Age 

Avarice  (Voltaire; 

Childhood 

Confidence 

Covetousuess 

Disputes 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Dotage 

Time-servers 

Speech 

Experience 

Vacillation 

Statesmen 

Folly 

Opportunity,  350 

Style 

Illusion 

Chance  (q.v.) 

Talk 

Life  (Disraeli) 

Comparisons 

Words 

Longevity 

Delay 

Order,  353 

Nonagenarians 

Failure  (Moore) 

Formality 

Prudence  (Goldsmith) 

Incompleteness 

Inequality  (Pope) 

Senility 

Philosophy  (Harris) 

Method  (q.v.) 

Suspicion 

Talents 

Organ-grinders 

Vigour 

Temptation 

Discord 

Youth  (Burns,  Chapman, 
Centlivre,  Cicero,Shake- 

Wealth  (Pindar) 
Opposition,  351 

Music  (Holmes) 
Organs,  354 

speare,  Stubbs) 
Old  Fashions,  348 

Contradiction 
Difficulty  (q.v.) 

Death  (Emerson) 
Music  (Gray) 

Antiquities 

Discontent 

Orientalism,  354 

Chivalry 

Human  Nature 

East  (q.v.) 

Custom 

Perversity 

Originality,  354 

Fashion 

Woman  (Swift) 

Education  (Jeffrey) 

Pageantry 

Oppression,  351 

Genius  (q.v.) 

Past 

Benevolence  (Pope) 

Self-reliance 

Omens,  348 

Calumny 

Ornament,  354 

Auguries 

Champions 

Brilliancy 

Fatalism  (q.v.) 

Deliverance 

Display 

Fate 

Democracy 

Ostentation 

Forecast 

Injuries 

Simplicity 

Omission,  348 

Injustice 

Taste 

Injustice  (Aurelius) 

Law  (Bacon,   etc.) 

Verbosity 

Refusal 

Martyrdom 

Ostentation,  354 

Omnibus 

Persecution 

Display 

If 

Optimism,  352 

Magnificence 

Onions,  348 

Censoriousness 

Ornament 

Food  (S.  Smith) 

Cheerfulness 

Pomp 

Grief  (Shakespeare) 

Childhood  (Phillpotts) 

Pretentiousness 

Onlookers,  349 

Complacency 

Superiority 

Observation  (q.v.) 

Content 

Taste 

Open-mlndedness,  340 

Hope 

Outcasts,  354 

Tolerance  (q.v.) 

Patriotism 

Outlaws 

Opinion,  349 

Suicide  (Voltaire) 

Vagabonds 

Belief 

Winds  (Tusser) 

Wanderers 

Change  of  Opinion 

Oracles,  352 

Outlaws,  354 

Compulsion 

Ambiguity 

Outcasts  (q.v.) 

Conscience 

Answers 

Outlook,  355 

Doubt  (q.v.) 

Dogmatism  (q.v.) 

Observation  (q.v.) 

Heresy 

Public  Opinion 

Outspokenness,  355 

Pliability 

(Plutarch) 

Bluntness 

Positiveness 

Oratory,  352 

Candour 

Speculation 

Abstmseness  (Gold- 

Cavillers 

Thought 

smith) 

Censure 

Tides  (Eliot) 

Advocacy 

Clearness 

Toleration 

Boldness 

Criticism  (Pope,  etc.) 

Uncertainty 

Casuistry 

Soldiers  (Keble, 

Vacillation 

Conciseness 

Shakespeare) 

Vanity  (Emptiness)  (Cam- 

Condensation 

Speech 

pion) 

Demagogues 

S  traigh  tf  orwardness 

Wisdom 

Diffidence 

Oxford,  355 

Opportunism,  352 

Elocution 

Universities 

Adaptability 

Eloquence 

Oysters,  355 

Agreeableness 

Enunciation 

Destiny  (Hood) 

Complacency 

Exaggeration 

Drinking  (Dickens) 

Compliance 

Excess 

Fish 

Conformity 

Greece 

Health  (Paley) 

Incompleteness 

Outspokenness 

Law  (Pope) 

Politicians 

Rhetoric 

Love  (Sheridan) 

Politics  (Borrow,  etc.) 

Sedition 

Seclusion 

Statesmen 

Soldiers    (Keble,    Shake- 

Soldiers   (Shakespeare) 

Temporizing 

speare,  Sterne) 

Solemnity 

612 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


p 

Statesmen 

Heroes 

Votes 

Integrity 

Pacification,  355 

Parochialism,  357 

Nations 

Conciliation  (q.v.) 

Localism 

Native  Land 

Pageantry,  355 
Display  (q.v.) 

Superiority  (Spurgeon) 
Parody,  357 

Poets  (Wordsworth) 
Sacrifice 

Old  Fashions 

Farce 

Sentiment 

Ostentation 

Parties,  357 

Squires 

Pain,  356 

Candidates 

Statesmen 

Affliction 

Catchwords 

Patronage,  365 

Compensation 

Cavillers 

Authorship  (Johnson) 

Death,  Sudden 

Coalitions 

Patter,  365 

Distress 

Colleagues 

Nonsense  (q.v.) 

Hope  (Jones) 

Conservatism 

Pauperism  and  Poor  Laws, 

Life  (Plato,  Scott,  Shake- 

Consistency 

365 

speare) 

Demagogues 

Poverty  (q.v.) 

Mankind  (Bentham) 

Disorganisation 

Payment,  365 

Misery 

Elections 

Reckoning 

Pleasure 

Moderation  (Pope) 

Peace,  365 

Suffering 

Place-seekers 

Acquiescence 

Woman  (Scott) 

Toasts  (Brown) 

Agreement 

Painting,  356 

Tories 

Ambition  (Young) 

After-thoughts 

Parting,  359 

Compatibility 

Art 

Farewell  (q.v.) 

Conciliation 

Arts 

Passions,  359 

Conscience 

Artists 

Affections 

Consolation 

Brains 

Conflict  of  Passions 

Defence 

Christ 

Femininity 

Disputes  (Pope) 

Criticism   (Taylor) 

Genius  (Burns) 

Disquiet 

Flattery  (Gold- 

Philosophy (Rousseau) 

Government  (Francis) 

smith) 

Self-control     (Shake- 

Mortality (Porteus) 

Pictures 

speare) 

Pacification 

Portraits 

Sensationalism 

Reconciliation 

Realism 

Temper 

Strife 

Palestine,  35* 

Tragedy 

War 

Paradise,  356 

Uncharitableness 

Peasantry,  366 

Heaven  (q.v.) 

Vice  (Colton) 

Labour 

Paradox,  356 

Past,  360 

Rural  Life 

Contradiction  (q.v.) 

Absence 

Shepherds 

Parasites,  356 

Antiquities 

Pedantry,  367 

Insects  (q.v.) 

Chivalry 

Book  Learning 

Politics  (Green) 

Decay 

Style,  Literarv 

Parents,  356 

Memory 

(Plato) 

Affection 

Old  Fashions 

Universities 

Children 

Remembrance 

Verbosity 

Daughters 

Retrospect 

Words 

Fathers 

Yesterday 

Pedigree,  367 

Heredity 

Pathos,  362 

Gentlemen 

Home  (q.v.) 

Emotion  (q.v.) 

Nobility 

Mothers 

Patience,  362 

Self-help 

Punishment 

Adversity 

Titles 

Stepfathers 

Affliction 

Penitence,  367 

Paris,  356 

Attention 

Confession 

Cities 

Beggars 

Contrition  (q.v.) 

Convention 

Calumny 

Remorse 

France 

Casuistry 

Repentance 

If 

Endurance 

Self-condemnation 

Parks,  357 

Forbearance 

Sorrow 

Parliament,  357 

Genius  (Buffou) 

Pensions,  367 

Acts  of  Parliament 

Martyrdom 

Competence 

Blarney  Stone 

Pain 

People,  368 

Bribery 

Resignation 

Democracy 

Candidates 

Self-control 

Ministries 

England  (Voltaire) 

Submission 

Mob 

Legislation 

Tolerance 

Multitude  (q.v.) 

Oratory 

Patriotism,  363 

Perception,  368 

Politics  (q.v.) 

Affection 

Observation  (q.v.) 

613 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Perdition,  368 

Hell  (q.v.) 

Ruin  (q.v.) 
Perfection,  368 

Accomplishments 

Faultlessness 

Trifles 

Truth  (La  Rochefoucauld) 

Woman  (Lowell) 
Performance,  368 

Accomplishment 

Achievement  (q.v.) 
Perfume,  369 

Odoursj 

Scent 
Periods,  369 

Transition 

Vicissitude 
Perjury,  369 

Falsehood  (q.v.) 
Persecution,  369 

Contemporaries 

Intolerance 

Martyrdom 

Protestantism 

Reformation 

Zeal 
Persistence,  369 

Cheerfulness 

Determination  (q.v.) 

Endurance 

Englishmen    (Emerson) 

Error 
Personalties,  370 

Affronts  (q.v.) 

Criticism 

Politeness 

Wit     (Selden,    Thomson, 

etc.) 
Persuasion,  370 

Allurement 

Beauty  (Shakespeare) 

Casuistry 

Coercion 

Compulsion 

Eloquence 

Entreaty 

Eyes 

Seduction 
Perversity,  370 

Contradiction 

Depravity 

Disappointment 

Faction 

Temper 

Widows  (Addison) 

Wilfulness 

Woman  (Swift) 
Pessimism,  371 

Belief  (Gordon) 

Censoriousness 

Cheerfulness 

Contemporaries 

Decadence 

Degeneracy 

Depression 

Disaffection 


Disparagement 

Happiness  (Young) 

Malcontents 

Melancholy 

Misanthropy 

Patriotism  (Lloyd  George) 

Suicide 

Thought  (H.  and  J.  Smith) 

Tragedy 
Pestilence 

Climate 
Petitions,  372 

Importunity  (q.v.) 

Prayer 

Prolixity  (Campbell) 

Suitors 
Pettiness,  372 

Advertisement 

Insignificance 

Littleness 

Parasites 

Pusillanimity 

Unkindness  (Tennyson) 
Philanthropy,  372 

Benefits 

Benevolence 

Charity 

Generosity 

Kindness 

Sociability 
Philosophy,  372 

Arts  (Voltaire) 

Beauty  (Wilde) 

Books 

Cause  and  Effect 

Cheerfulness   (Voltaire) 

Christianity 

Consolation 

Death 

Doubt 

Goodness  (Tennyson) 

Idleness 

Kings  (Aurelius) 

Music  (Plato) 

Prosperity  (Scott) 

Religion  (Heine,   Horace, 
Landor) 

Trifles 

Wonder  (Plato) 
Physicians,  374 

Art  (Hippocrates) 

Disagreement 

Diseases 

Disputes 

Health 

Hospitals 

Illness 

Mankind    (Schopenhauer 

Medicine 

Nerves 

Remedies 
Pictures,  374 

Art  (q.v.) 
Pioneers,  374 

Inventors  (q.v.) 
Pity,  375 

Adventures  (Shakespeare) 

614 


Benevolence 

Compassion  (q.v.) 

Envy 

Firmness 

Human  Nature  (Virgil) 

Mercy 

Sympathy 
Place,  375 

Localism  (q.v  ) 
Place-seekers,  375 

Opportunism  (q.v.) 

Politicians  (Edgeworth) 

Whigs 

Plagiarism,  375 
Pleasing,  376 

Affability  (q.v.) 
Pleasure,  376 

Actors    (Voltaire) 

Chanty  (Rogers) 

Englishmen 

Enjoyment 

Idleness  (Edgeworth) 

Improvidence 

Influence 

Knowledge  (S.  Smith) 

Moralising 

Remembrance   (Words- 
worth) 

Remorse 

Sin  (Byron) 

Skating 

Talents  (Smith) 

Wisdom  (Voltaire) 

Youth 
Plenty,  378 

Abundance  (q.v.) 

Peace  (Hayman) 
Plots,  378 

Counterplot  (q.v.) 
Poachers,  378 

Doctrine 
Poetry,  378 

Beginnings  (Byron) 

Bible  (Keble) 

Drama  (yoltaire) 

Imagination 

Literature 

Metres 

Music  (Shakespeare) 

Poets 

Rhyme 

Similes 

Songs 

Sonnets 
Poets,  381 

Abuse  (Drydcn) 

Action  (Carlyle) 

Anachronisms 

Antiquities  (Wordsworth) 

Blame 

Cause  and  Effect  (Wilson) 

Chaucer 

Children  (Shenstone) 

Clearnesss 

Contemporaries 

Creative  Faculty 

Critics 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Faith 

Fancy 

Fiction 

Homer 

Imitation 

Legislation 

Literature 

Observation 

Omissions 

Prophets  (Shakespeare) 

Rhyme 

Shakespeare 

Speech 

Visions  (F.  Tennyson) 
Poison,  385 

Murder 
Police,  385 

Restraint 

War 
Policy,  385 

Statesmen  (q.v.) 

Woman  (Montaigne) 
Politeness,  385 
Compliment 

Courtesy 
Deference 
Deportment 

Manners 

Wit(Selden,Thomson,etc.; 
Political  Economy,  386 

Socialism 
Politicians,  386 
Agriculture  (Swift) 
Blarney    Stone 
Boldness 
Candidates 
Cavillers 
Champions' 
Change 

Change  of  Opinion 
Coffee 

Constituents 
Demagogues 
Disaffection 
Faction 

Friendship  (Aristophanes) 
Place-seekers 
Policy 

Selfishness   (Lowell) 
Statesmen 
Time-servers 
Tories 
Votes 

Politics,  387 
Change 
Concentration 
Conservation 
Constitution 
Criticism 
Deputations 
Elections 
England 
Experiments 
Holidays 
Magnanimity 
Majorities 
Ministries 


Parties 

Votes 
Pollution,  388 

Corruption 

Depravity  (q.v.) 
Pomp,  389 

Bombast 

Building 

Display 

Fastidiousness 

Funerals 

Grandeur 

Ostentation  (q.v.) 
Popularity,  389 

Applause 

Candidates 

Catchwords 

Champions 

Choice 

Demagogues 

Discord 

Parties 

Politicians 

Politics 

Public  Service 

Statesmen 

Time-servers 
Portraits,  389 

Painting 

Realism 

Resemblance 
Posies,  389 

Marriage 

Prosperity  (Scott) 
Position,  390 

Eminence 

Greatness  (q.v.) 
Positiveness,  390 

Contradiction 

Credulity 

Dogmatism 

Fallibility 

Folly  (Hare) 

Opinions 

Ultimatum 

Zeal 
Possession,  390 

Achievement 

Acquisitiveness  (q.v.) 

Land 

Property 

Wealth 
Possibilities,  390 

Achievement  (Young) 

Comparisons 

Endeavour  (q.v.) 

Impossibility 
Posterity,  391 

Contemporaries 

Discoverers 

Fame  (Seneca) 

Future  (q.v.) 

History  (Burke) 
Posthumous  Fame,  391 

Fame  (Landor,  Meredith, 
Sterne,  Voltaire) 

Soldiers  (Plato) 

615 


Postponement,  391 

Procrastination 

Tardiness 

Too  Late 
Postscript,  391 

After-thoughts 
Poverty,  391 

Avarice 

Beggars 

Champions 

Charity 

Children  (Stevenson) 

Christmas 

Cities 

Classes 

Coercion 

Commerce 

Content 

Despair  (Scott, 
etc.) 

Destitution 

Discouragement 

Distress 

Error  (Colton) 

Misery 

Pauperism 

Peace  (Hayman) 

Reverses 

Thrift 

Thriftlessness 
Power,  393 

Ambition 

Enthusiasm 

Force 

Government 

Office 

Place-seekers 

Rulers 

Strength 
Practice,  393 

Persistence  (q.v.) 

Self-help 
Praise,  393 

America  (Holmes) 

Applause 

Approval 

Calumny 

Character 

Compliment 

Criticism  (Steelc, 
etc.) 

Disparagement 

Envy 

Fashion 

Influence 

Justice  (Pope) 

Kings  (Cowper) 

Reciprocity 

Wonder  (Young) 
Prayer,  395 

Agriculture  (Zoroaster) 

Destiny 

Humaneness 

Importunity 

Petitions 

Self-help 

Worship 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Preachers  and  Preaching, 

Pretentiousness,  400 

Oaths  (q.v.) 

^,396 

Ostentation  (q.v.) 

Swearing 

Clergy 

Prevarication,  400 

Profit,  403 

Direction 

Ambiguity 

Commerce 

Ecclesiastics 

Equivocation 

Money 

Fervour 

Lying  (q.v.) 

Speculation 

Sermons 

Politicians   (Burke) 

Trade 

Teaching 

Prey,  400 

Wealth 

Precedent,  397 

Hunting 

Profundity,  403 

Freedom  (Tennyson) 

Slaughter 

Abstruseness 

Law  (Tennyson) 

Pride,  400 

Depth 

Preciseness,  397 

Abuses 

Pedantry 

Method  (q.v.) 

Affability 

Verbosity 

Precocity,  398 

Bombast 

Progress,  403 

Death,  Premature 
Predestination 

Charity 
Classes 

Change  (q.v.) 
Compromise 

Destiny 

Clergy 

Discontent 

Pre-eminence 

Complacency 

Improvement 

Ambition 

Conceit  (q.v.) 

Innovation 

Character 

Criticism 

Reform 

Distinction 

Ecclesiastics 

Slow  and  Sure 

Eminence  (q.v.) 

Folly  (Swift) 

Prohibition,  404 

Superiority 

Gentility 

Forbidden  Fruit 

Prefaces,  398 

Ostentation  (q.v.) 

Prolixity,  404 

Beginnings 
Explanation 

Pharisaism 
Vanity 

Boredom  (q.v.) 
Tediousness 

Preferment,  398 

Primroses,  401 

Promises,  405 

Office 

Flowers 

Disappointment 

Promises 

Princes,  401 

Hope 

Prejudice,  398 

Disillusion 

Pronunciation,  405 

Aversion 

Royalty 

Elocution 

Cavillers  (q.v.) 

Trust  (Selden) 

Voice 

Dislike 

Principle,  401 

Propaganda 

Envy 

Inconsistency 

Opinion 

Hatred 

Printing,  401 

Tracts 

Ignorance 

Books 

Property,  405 

Vindictiveness 

Civilisation 

Conformity 

Prematureness,  399 

Letters 

Covetousness 

Haste  (q.v.) 

Press 

Economy 

Precocity 

Words  (Heine) 

Land 

Preparation,  399 

Prisons,  401 

Money  (Ovid) 

Caution  (q.v.) 

Bondage 

Possession 

Foresight 

Captivity 

Wives  (Chaucer) 

Readiness 

Freedom  (Dickens) 

Prophets     and     Prophecy, 

Safety 

Privilege,  402 

406 

Security 

Rights 

Deceit 

Presence  'of  Mind,  399 

Prizes 

Feasts   (Jonson) 

Resourcefulness 

Chivalry  (Newbolt) 

Forecast 

Present,  The,  399 

Competition 

Future 

Contemporaries 

Rewards 

Poets  (Sidney, 

Modernity 

Probability,  402 

etc.) 

Retrospect 
Thought  (Pascal) 

Deception  (Gay) 
Doubt  (q.v.) 

Statesmen  (Coleridge) 
Supernatural 

Time 

Problems,  402 

War  (Plato) 

To-day 

Procrastination,  402 

Warning 

Press,  The,  399 

Delay 

Proportion,  407 

Editors 

Postponement 

Exaggeration 

Englishmen  (Swedenborg) 

Tardiness 

Prosaic,  The,  407 

Interviewers 

Too  Late 

Bathos 

Journalism 

Work  (Jerome) 

Commonplace 

Newspapers 

Prodigals    and    Profligacy, 

Poetry  (Coleridge) 

Printing 

403 

Prosperity,  407 

Words  (Heine) 

Thriftlessness 

Adversity 

Presumption,  399 

Profanity,  403 

Commerce 

Pride  (q.v.) 

Blasphemy 

Success 

Pretence 

Children  (Old  Saying  ;  ad 

Triumph 

Dissimulation  (q.v.) 

fin.) 

Victory 

616 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Protestantism,  407 

Punning,  411 

Silence 

Civilisation 

Strawberries 

Solitude 

Reformation,  The 

Puritanism,  411 

Sounds 

Protestation,  407 

Christmas 

Quotation,  413 

Excuses 

Prudery 

Bible 

Proverbs,  407 

Unco  Guid 

Classical 

Maxims 

Purity,  411 

Learning 

Soldiers  (Army 

Chastity 

provs.) 

Honour  (Hare) 

Providence,  408 

Integrity 

Chance 

Pollution 

R 

Destiny 

Suspicion 

Fate 

Pursuits,  411 

Race 

Fortune 

Occupation  (q.v.) 

Asia  Minor 

God 

Pusillanimity,  411 

Celts 

Vicissitude 

Cowardice 

Chinese 

Prudence,  408 

Fear 

East 

Caution 

Pettiness 

Heredity 

Chance 

Timidity 

Jews 

Change 

Language 

Compromise 

Manners 

Deliberation 

Nations  (q.v.) 

Discretion 

Negroes 

Government  (Plato) 

Q 

Orientalism 

Preparation 

Raillery,  414 

Procrastination 

Quackery,  412 

Disdain 

Self-control 

Authors    (Colton) 

Humour 

Statesmen 

Doctors 

Jesting 

Wisdom 

Dupes 

Sarcasm 

Prudery,  409 

Medicine 

Satke 

Propriety 

Self-deception 

Scoffers 

Puritanism 

Quarrels,  412 

Railways,  414 

Restraint 

Abuse 

Modernity  (Wordsworth) 

Severity 

Affronts 

Steam 

Virgins 

Argument 

Rain,  414 

Public  Opinion,  409 

Authors     (Landor,    Pope, 

Clouds 

Opinion  (q.v.) 

etc.) 

Despondency 

Public  Service,  409 

Blows 

Drinking  (Calverley) 

Politicians 

Combat  (q.v.) 

Foresight 

Service 

Common   Sense 

Hail 

Statesmen 

Contention 

Months 

Publicity,  410 

Disputes 

Spring 

Concealment 

Duels 

Storm 

Frankness 

Englishmen  (Emerson) 

Weather 

Free  Speech 

Fighting 

Winter 

Press 

Intervention 

Rainbow,  414 

Publishers 

Justice  (Shakespeare) 

Transiency  (Words- 

Authors (Colton) 

Peace 

worth) 

Punctuality,  410 

War 

Rallying  Cry,  414 

Tardiness  (q.v.) 

Queens,  412 

Challenge  (q.v.) 

Punctuation,  410 

Royalty 

Rancour,  414 

Punishment,  410 

Swearing  (Old  Ballad) 

Abuse 

Beating 

Questions,  413 

Anger 

Capital  Punishment 

Answers 

Back-biting 

Corporal  Punishment 

Curiosity 

Calumny 

Cfime 

Examinations 

Envy 

Determination 

Inquisitiveness  (q.v.) 

Hatred  (q.v.) 

Disgrace 

Quiet,  413 

Malice 

Dishonour 

Calm 

Sarcasm 

Encouragement 

Content 

Sneering 

(Voltaire) 

Noise 

Spitefulness 

Nemesis 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Vindictiveness 

Prisons 

Peace 

Rank,  415 

Retribution 

Repose 

Ambition 

Schools  (Hood) 

Rest 

Birth 

Severity 

Retirement 

Esquire 

Speed 

Rural  Life 

Gentility 

617 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Gentlemen 

Reality,  416 

Relaxation 

Knights 

Accomplishment 

Walking 

Lords 

Achievement 

Recrimination,  418 

Nobility 

Actions 

Abuse  (q.v.) 

Pedigree 

Anticipation 

Rectitude,  418 

Position 

Appearances 

Goodness  (q.v.) 

Preferment 

Deeds 

Reflection,  419 

Soldiers 

Facts 

After-thoughts 

Titles 

Positiveness 

Cogitation 

Rant,  415 

Realism 

Consideration 

Clamour  (q.v.) 

Results 

Repentance 

Verbosity 

Thoroughness 

Thought 

Words 

Reason     and     Reasoning, 

Reform  and  Reformation, 

Rashness,  415 

416 

419 

Advantage 

Abstruseness 

Change 

Boldness 

Appeal 

Custom  (Mill) 

Casualness 

Argument 

Compromise 

Challenge 

Casuistry 

Evolution 

Courage 

Conjecture 

Improvement 

Daring 

Conscience 

Innovations  (q.v.) 

Despair 

Contradiction  (Jacob!) 

Reformation,  The,  419 

Desperation 

Controversy 

Protestantism  (q.v.) 

Pusillanimity 

Credulity 

Refusal,  419 

Recklessness 

Dogma 

Chastity  (Montagu,  Over- 

Suicide 

Explanation 

bury) 

Ratiocination 

Faith  (Rousseau) 

Dismissal 

Argument 

Intellect  (Pope) 

Rejection 

Controversy 

Logic 

Repudiation 

Disputes 

Opinion 

Regret,  420 

Logic 

Passions  (Pope) 

Grief  (q.v.) 

Opinion 

Philosophy 

Past 

Proportion   (Vol- 

Self-control 

Remorse 

taire) 

Woman  (Shakespeare) 

Sorrow 

Reason 

Women's  Logic 

Rejoicing,  420 

Rats,  415 

Rebellion,  417 

Festivities 

Desertion 

Cabals 

Flags 

Slaughter 

Clamour 

Joy 

Reaction,  415 

Conspiracy 

Thanksgiving 

Adversity 

Disaffection 

Relapse,  420 

Affliction 

Faction 

Reaction  (q.v.) 

Dejection 

Kings  (Burke) 

Relations,  420 

Despondency 

Mutiny 

Daughters 

Reform 

Revolt 

Dinners  (Wilde) 

Relapse 

Revolution 

Fathers 

Reverses 

Sedition 

Friendship  (French  prov.) 

Sorrow 

Rebuke,  417 

Kindred 

Woe 

Blame 

Mothers 

Readiness,  415 

Candour 

Sons 

Effort 

Reproach  (q.v.) 

Stepmothers 

Preparation 

Reciprocity,  417 

Tediousness  (Coleridge) 

Prudence 

Brotherhood  (q.v.) 

Trifles  (Prov.) 

Security 

Recklessness,  417 

Relaxation,  421 

Reading,  415 

Casualness 

Recreation  (q.v.) 

Authors 

Danger 

Religion,  421 

Book  Learning 

Desperation 

Architecture    (Keble, 

Books 

Martyrdom  (ad  fin.) 

Ruskin) 

Education 

Rashness  (q.v.) 

Asceticism 

Knowledge 

Reckoning,  418 

Aspiration 

Learning 

Payment 

Bigotry 

Library 

Reconciliation,  418 

Christ 

Literature  (q.v.) 

Peace  (q.v.) 

Christianity 

Research 

Records,  418 

Churches 

Study 

Archives  (q.v.) 

Civilisation 

Realism,  416 

Recreation,  418 

Combat 

Modernity 

Athleticism 

Comrades 

Reality 
Sensationalism 

Boating 
Games 

Conformity 
Controversy 

618 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Devotion 

Seclusion 

Repudiation,  427 

Disillusion 

Solitude 

Disclaimer 

Doctrine 

Renegades,  425 

Dismissal 

Dogma 

Betrayal 

Rejection 

Drama  (Tolstoy,  Voltaire) 

Selfishness 

Reputation,  427 

Drinking  (Byron) 

Traitors 

Ages,  The  Seven 

Ecclesiastics 

Treachery 

Authorship 

Education   (Wellington) 

Renewal,  425 

Calumny 

Ethics 

Renown,  425 

Carelessness 

Enjoyment 

Fame 

Fame  (q.v.) 

Extremes 

Glory 

Glory 

Eyes  (Prov.) 

Idleness  (Thomson) 

Honour 

Freedom  (Hemans) 

Luck 

Names 

God 

Notoriety 

Research,  427 

Heresy 

Reputation 

Cause  and  Effect 

Human  Nature 

Rent,  425 

Discoverers 

Hypocrisy 

Finance 

Exploration 

Jews 

Land 

Inventors 

Law  (Burke) 

Wives  (Chaucer) 

Pioneers 

Mahometans 

Repentance,  426 

Reading 

Malevolence  (Steele) 

Atonement 

Study 

Morality 

Confession 

Thought 

Nature  (Clough) 

Contrition 

Resemblance,  428 

Opinions  (Robertson) 

Penitence 

Identity 

Philosophy  (Bacon,  etc.) 

Remorse 

Successors 

Prayer 

Sin 

Resentments,  428 

Protestantism 

Tears 

Anger  (q.v.) 

Puritanism 

Repetition,  426 

Resignation,  428 

Righteousness 

Cycles 

Bereavement 

Sects 

Routine 

Challenge 

Selfishness  (Shelley) 

Satiety 

Content 

Simple  Life 

Sufficiency 

Patience  (q.v.) 

Superstition 

Tediousness 

Submission 

Theology 

Reply,  426 

Subservience 

Woman  (Rousseau) 

Answers 

Resolution,  428 

Worship 

Examinations 

Action 

Remedies,  423 

Letters 

Cheerfulness 

Affliction  (Prior) 

Questions 

Despair 

Concealment 

Woman  (Chaucer) 

Determination 

Doctors 

Report,  426 

Doubt 

Misfortune  (Anon.) 

Calumny  (q.v.) 

Effort 

Physicians 

Messengers 

Endeavour 

Surgery 

News 

Irresolution 

Remembrance,  424 

Rumour 

Persistence 

Dead 

Traditions 

Procrastination  (Young) 

Evening  (Moore) 
Friendship  (Opie) 
Glory  (Moore) 

Repose,  426 
Beauty  (Ruskin) 
Boredom 

Results 
Resourcefulness,  428 
Presence  of  Mind 

Immortality 

Calm 

Respect 

Past 

Moderation  (Longfellow) 

Fear  (Wordsworth) 

Records 

Obscurity 

Honour 

Retrospect 

Quiet 

Reputation 

Sorrow 

Rest 

Submission 

Remorse,  425 

Retirement 

Respectability,  429 

Anguish 

Rural  Life 

Formality  (q.v.) 

Conscience 

Reproach  and  Reproof, 

Genius  (Browning) 

Contrition! 

426 

Mirth  (Chesterfield) 

Despair 

Back-biters 

Restraint 

Regret 

Blame 

Unco  Guid 

Repentance 

Candour 

Respite,  429 

Self-condemnation 

Criticism,  etc. 

Delay  (q.v.) 

Remoteness,  425 

Fault-finders 

Responsibility,  429 

Absence 

Hypercriticism 

Duty 

Distance 

Rebuke 

Government  (q.v.) 

Exile 

Republics,  427 

Rest,  429 

Melancholy 

Government  (Longfellow) 

Death  (Parker) 

Retirement 

Kings  (Shakespeare) 

Effort 

619 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Obscurity 

Return,  433 

Bribery 

Quiet  (q.v.) 

Absence 

Chivalry 

Recreation 

Exile 

Combat 

Repose 

Farewell 

Competition 

Retirement 

Home 

Distinction 

Rural  Life 

Re-union 

Endeavour 

Restlessness,  430 

Welcome 

Fortune  (Seneca) 

Action 

Re-  union,  434 

Honours 

Activity 

Return  (q.v.) 

Labour  (Livy) 

Energy  (q.v.) 

Revelry,  434 

Motives 

Zeal 

Banquets 

Office 

Restraint,  430 

Christmas 

Payment 

Coercion 

Conviviality 

Place-seekers 

Compulsion 

Dancing 

Preferment 

Force 

Dinner 

Titles 

Results,  430 

Drinking 

Wages 

Accomplishment 

Feasts 

Rhetoric,  437 

Achievement 

Festivities 

Bible  (More) 

Actions 

Music 

Figures  of  Speech 

After-wisdom 

Mutability 

Language 

Anti-climax 

Pageantry 

Orators 

Beginnings 

Pleasure 

Speech 

Completeness 

Recreation 

Style 

Consummation 

Rejoicing 

Rhine,  437 

Deeds 

Sociability 

Ruin  (Byron) 

Endings  (q.v.) 

Toasts 

Rhyme,  437 

Finality 

Revenge,  434 

Metres 

Forecast 

Ambition  (Milton) 

Poetry 

Victory 

Anger 

Song 

Retaliation,  430 

Blood  thirstiness 

Verbosity  (Shakespeare) 

Revenge  (q.v.) 

Britons 

Words 

Reticence,  430 

Despair 

Ridicule   and   the   Ridicu- 

Caution 

Desperation 

lous,  437 

Conduct 

Determination 

Contempt 

Reserve 

Envy 

Disdain 

Seclusion 

Kindness  (Shakespeare) 

Good  Deeds  (Fielding) 

Secrecy 

Nemesis 

Humour 

Silence 

Resentfulness 

Jesting 

Solitude 

Retaliation 

Laughter 

Talk 

Retribution 

Mirth 

Words 

Vindictiveness 

Raillery 

Retirement,  431 

War  (Shelley) 

Sarcasm 

Competence 

Reverence,  435 

Satire 

Domesticity 

Deference 

Scoffers 

Happiness  (Voltaire) 

Religion  (q.v.) 

Scorn 

Independence  (Gray) 
Obscurity 

Submission 
Subservience 

Sneering 
Sublime 

Rural  Life 

Reverses,  435 

Riding 

Solitude 

Adversity  (q.v.) 

Horses  (q.v.) 

Retreat,  432 

Revolt,  435 

Roads 

Battles 

Revolution  (q.v.) 

Visits  (S.  Smith) 

Caution 

Revolution,  436 

Right,  438 

Combat 

Audacity 

Battles 

Flight 

Cabals 

England 

Reverses 

Conspiracy 

Freedom 

War 

Cranks 

Justice 

Retribution,  433 

Experiments 

Law 

Compensation 

Insubordination 

Liberty 

Fate 

Liberty 

Truth 

Nemesis 

Rebellion 

War  (Barry,  etc.) 

Revenge  (q.v.) 

Revolt 

Righteousness,  438 

Retrospect,  433 

Sedition 

Cowardice 

Memory 

Treason 

Death  (ad  fin.) 

Past 

Rewards,  436 

Extremes 

Remembrance  (q.v.) 

Achievement  (Whittier) 

Goodness 

Time 

Authors      (Corbet, 

Integrity 

Yesterday 

Overbury) 

Nations    (Prov.  14,  34) 

620 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Right 

Survival 

Virtue 

Transiency 

Rights,  438 

Trifles  (Hunt) 

Sabbath 

Liberty  (q.v.) 

Triumph 

Scotland 

Privilege 
Ring  Posies 

Vice  (Swinburne) 
Routine,  441 

Sunday 
Sacrament,  444 

Constancy 
Posies 

Repetition  (q.v.) 
Royal  Academy,  441 

Words  (Montaigne) 
Sacrifice,  444 

Prosperity 

Royalty,  441 

Altruism 

Risk 

Calumny 

Aspiration 

Chance 
Luck 

Command 
Disillusionment    (Shake- 

(Wordsworth) 
Duty 

Rashness  (q.v.) 

speare) 

Flowers   (Watts) 

Speculation 

Kings 

Martyrdom 

Ritual,  438 

Monarchy 

Unselfishness 

Ceremony 

Princes 

Sadness,  445 

Controversy 
Formality 

Queens 
Sceptre 

Anguish  of  Mind 
Cheerfulness 

Rivalry,  438 

Sovereignty 

Dejection 

Competition 

Stuarts 

Depression 

Emulation 

Swearing  (Old 

Despair 

Envy 

Ballad) 

Desperation 

Friendship  (Gondinet) 

Rudeness 

Despondency 

Jealousy 

Discourtesy  (q.v.) 

Grief 

Jilted 

Ruin  and  Ruins,  442 

Melancholy 

Superiority 

Antiquities 

Sighing 

Usurpation 

Calamity 

Sorrow 

Rivers,  439 

Danger 

Tears 

Boating 

Decadence 

Trial 

Calm 

Destiny 

Tribulation 

Country 

Disaster 

Woe 

Rhine 

England  (Murphy) 

Safety,  445 

Scenery 

Fall 

Carelessness 

Slow  and  Sure 

Monuments 

Caution 

Struggle 

Perdition 

Discretion 

Roads,  439 

Reverses 

Preparation 

Wanderers 

Self-destruction 

Prudence 

Robin,  439 

Stonehenge 

Readiness 

Birds 

Rulers,  442 

Security 

Rocks,  439 

Boldness 

Sailors,  445 

Cliffs 

Choice  (Shakespeare) 

Epitaphs  (Stevenson) 

Nature  (Wordsworth) 

Command 

Hope  (Ovid) 

Rogues,  439 

Common  Sense 

Navy 

Cheating 

Decadence    (Words- 

Providence 

Choice  (Peacock) 

worth) 

Ships 

Dishonesty 

Glory  (Dyer) 

Soldiers  (Johnson) 

Dupes 

Government 

Submarines 

Freebooters 

Ministries 

Toasts  (Dibdin) 

Humour  (Emerson) 

Self-control 

Yarns 

Plunder 

Soldiers  (Livy) 

St.  Swithln,  446 

Quackery 

Statesmen 

Weather 

Robbery 

Supremacy 

Saints,  446 

Villainy 

Rumour,  443 

Common  Sense 

Romance,  440 

Report  (q.v.) 

Contemporaries 

Sentiment  (q.v.) 

Rural  Life,  443 

Sarcasm,  447 

Rome,  440 

Competence 

Cynicism 

Comparisons 

Country 

Ill-nature 

Italy 

Mountains 

Jesting  (q.v.) 

Romish  Church,  440 

Nature 

Ridicule 

Roses,  441 

Peasantry 

Satire 

Affectation 

Retirement 

Scoffers 

Beauty  (Phillips) 

Scenery 

Scorn 

Death,  Premature 

Spleen 

Sneering 

June 

Squires 

Vindictiveness 

Marriage  (Shake- 

Towns 

Satiety,  447 

peare) 

Vacillation  (Horace) 

Sufficiency 

Spring 

Village  Life 

Superfluities 

621 


INDEX  OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Satire,  447 

Sarcasm  (q.v.) 
Saturday 

Friday 
Savages,  448 

Civilisation 
Scandal,  448 

Banquets 

Calumny  (q.v.) 

Gossip 

Libel 

Notoriety 

Rumour 

Slander 

Talk 
Scenery,  448 

America  (Emerson) 

Country 

Flat  Countries 

Mountains 

Nature 

Rural  Life 

Sea 

Splendour 

Sunrise 

Sunset 
Scent,  449 

Odours 

Perfume 
Scepticism,  449 

Atheism 

Doubt 

Hopelessness 

Incredulity 

Infidelity 

Suspicion 

Unbelief 
Sceptre,  449 

Royalty  (q.v.) 
Scholarship,  449 

Smatterers 

Talk  (Shakespeare) 

Unco  Guid 
Schools    and    Schoolboys, 

449 

Ages,  The  Seven 
Boyhood 

Children  (Shenstone) 
Education 
Knowledge  (Keble) 
Songs      (Harrow     School 

Song) 
Sport 

Timidity  (Blair) 
Science,  450 
Arts  (Helps) 
Bible 

Cause  and  Effect 
Common  Sense 
Concentration 
Education 
Knowledge  (Taylor) 
Pioneers 
Progress 

Religion  (Bacon) 
Research 


Utility 

Wonder  (Emerson,  Plato) 
Scoffers,  451 

Atheism 

Bible 

Cynicism 

Disparagement 

Infidelity 

Raillery 

Ridicule 

Sarcasm 

Satire 

Sneering 
Scolding,  451 

Abuse  (q.v.) 
Scorn,  451 

Condemnation 

Contempt  (q.v.) 

Defiance 

Magnanimity 
Scotland,  451 

Disputes 

Englishmen  (Wilson) 

Humour  (S.  Smith) 

Metaphysics 

Nations  (Wilson) 

Soldiers  (Colton) 

Wine 
Scrupulousness,  452 

Doubt 

Preciseness 

Timidity 

Uncertainty 

Vacillation 
Sculpture,  452 

Statuary 
Sea,  452 

Aviation 

Beach 

Britain 

Cliffs 

England 

Limitations  (ad  fin.) 

Sailors 

Scenery 

Shells 

Ships 

Tides 

Travel  (Pindar) 
Sea-sickness,  454 
Seasons,  454 

Autumn 

Months 

Spring 

Summer 

Weather 

Winter 

Seaweed,  454 
Seclusion,  454 

Remoteness 

Retirement 

Rural  Life 

Solitude 
Secrecy,  454 

Cabals 

Despatch 
Reticence 

622 


Schemes 

War  (Prior) 
Sects,  455 

Churches 

Extremes  (Coleridge) 

Persecution 

Religion 

Theology 

Toleration 
Security,  455 

Abuses 

Safety  (q.v.) 
Sedition,  455 

Clamour 

Insubordination 

Rebellion  (q.v.) 

Treachery 
Seduction 

Allurement  (q.v.) 
Selection 

Choice  (q.v.) 
Self,  455 

Association 

Conscience 

Greed  (q.v.) 

Selfishness 

Unselfishness 
Self-condemnation,  456 

Charity 

Conscience  (q.v.) 

Content  (Morris) 

Discontent 

Egotism 
Self -consciousness,  456 

Sensitiveness 
Self-control,  456 

Reticence    (Swinburne) 
Self-deception,  457 

Delusion 
Self-destruction,  457 

Suicide 
Self-help,  457 

Fortune  (Voltaire) 

Humble  Origin  (q.v.) 
Self-knowledge,  457 

Affliction  (D.ivies) 

Conscience 

Introspection  (q.v.) 
Self-love,  457 

Jealousy 

Justice      (La     Roche- 
foucauld, Rousseau) 
Self-possession 

Presence  of  mind  (q.v.) 

Self-reliance 
Self-reliance,  458 

Individualism 

Public  Opinion  (Plutarch) 
Self-respect,  458 

Affection  (Ovid) 

Calumny 

Conscience  (q.v.) 

Englishmen  (Rossetti) 

Introspection 
Selfishness,  458 

Advantage 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Artists  (Shaw) 

Service,  461 

Ships,  464 

Boredom 

Affections 

Acquaintance  (Long- 

Consistency 

Devotion 

fellow) 

Disappointment 

Favourites 

Aviation 

Self 

Freedom  (Plato) 

Boating 

Troubles  (Swift) 

Government  (Cousin) 

Caution 

Unselfishness 

Ingratitude  (Lyttelton) 

Clouds 

Senility,  459 

Old  Fashions 

England  (Wordsworth) 

Age  (q.v.) 

Readiness 

Navigation 

Sensationalism,  459 

Servants  (q.v.) 

Navy 

Horrors 

Servility,  462 

Sailors 

Melodrama 

Slavery 

Snoring 

Simplicity  (Words- 

Submission 

Submarines 

worth) 

Subservience 

Toasts  (Dibdin) 

Tragedy 

Servitude,  462 

Shoemakers,  465 

Sin  (Wilde) 

Slavery  (q.v.) 

Shouting,  465 

Sense,  459 

Seven  Ages 

Clamour  (q.v.) 

Breeding 

Ages,  The  Seven 

Sighing,  465 

Common  Sense  (q.v.) 

Man's  Ages 

Adventures  (Shakespeare) 

Woman  (Swift) 

Severity,  462 

Affliction 

Senses,  The,  459 

Condemnation 

Cheerfulness  (Herbert) 

Evidence 

Education 

Consolation 

Eyes 

Harshness 

Desire 

Nose 

Judgment 

Despondency 

Scent  (q.v.) 

Preciseness 

Error  (Macdonald) 

Taste 

Prudery 

Eyes  (Hunt) 

Sensitiveness,  460 

Punishment  (q.v.) 

Grief 

Impressionability 

Religion 

Inconstancy  (Shake- 

Sensuality, 460 

(Cowper) 

speare) 

Dalliance 

Unco  Guid 

Pessimism 

Sin  (Wilde) 

Sex,  462 

Sympathy 

Sentiment  and    Sentimen- 

Mankind 

Tears  (Wolcot) 

talism,  460 

Woman 

Troubles 

Emotion 

Shadows,  463 

Woman  (Byron) 

Hearts 

Unreality 

Years 

Love 

Shakespeare,  463 

Sights 

Melodrama 

Aim 

Magnificence 

Romance 

Authors 

Silence,  465 

Songs   (Taylor) 
September 

England  (Swinburne) 
Epitaphs 

Abuse  (Swinburne) 
Calumny 

Oysters 

Glory 

Concealment 

Serenity,  460 

Liberty  (Wordsworth) 

Conversation 

Calm  (q.v.) 

Shallow  ness,  464 

Danger 

Cheerfulness 

Book  Learning 

Englishmen  (Carlylc) 

Inscrutability 

Pedantry 

Indescribable 

Repose 

Superficiality 

Oblivion 

Seriousness,  460 

Theories 

Quiet 

Dullness 

Shame,  464 

Reticence 

Folly 

Confession 

Secrecy 

Solemnity 

Contrition 

Talk 

Sermons,  460 

Decadence 

War  (Prior) 

Goodness 

Degeneracy 

Words 

(Ruskin) 

Error 

Similes,  466 

Preaching  (q.v.) 

Infamy 

Metaphors  (q.v.) 

Similes  (Fuller) 

Integrity 

Simple  Life,  467 

Tales 

(Shakespeare) 

Obscurity  of  Life 

Worship 

Remorse 

Retirement  (q.v.) 

Servants,  461 

Sin 

Simplicity,  467 

Anger  (F.cclesiasticus) 

Villainy 

Architecture 

Employers 

Shapelessness 

Brilliancy 

England    (Proverb, 

Ugliness 

Charm 

Italian  ?) 

Shaving,  464 

Common  Sense 

Faults  (Swift) 

Preparation 

Commonplace 

Gossip 

Silence  (Plutarch) 

Credulity 

Labour 

Shells,  464 

Cunning 

Masters 

Shepherds,  464 

Innocence 

Service  (q.v.) 

Rural  Life 

Knowledge  (Bacon) 

623 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Trust 

Night 

Soldiers,  473 

Wrongs 

Rest  (q.v.) 

Ages,  The  Seven 

Sin,  467 

Sloth,  471 

Armour 

Appearances 

Early  Rising 

Attack 

Christianity 

England  (Herbert) 

Britons 

Compromise 

Idleness   (Gower, 

Busy-bodies 

Contrition 

Horace,  etc.) 

Captains 

Depravity 

Tardiness 

Cheerfulness 

Despair 

Temporising 

Citizenship 

Envy 

Timidity 

Comrades 

Guilt 

Slow  and  Sure,  471 

Courage 

Hypocrisy  (Butler) 

Tardiness  (q.v.) 

Cowardice 

Repentance 

Small  Things 

Creeds 

Sorrow  (Prov.) 

Pettiness 

Democracy 

Villainy 

Stature 

Epitaphs 

Wickedness 

Trifles  (q.v.) 

Evidence  (Dickens) 

Sincerity,  468 

Smatterers,  471 

Failure 

Candour  (q.v.) 

Amateurs 

(Shakespeare) 

Controversy 

Books 

Fallen  in  Battle 

Enthusiasm 

Education 

France  (Dryden) 

Innocence 

Superficiality 

Funerals 

Truth 

Smiles,  471 

Glory 

Singers  and  Singing, 

C   O 

Beauty  (Campbell) 

Government  (Colton) 

460 

Charm 

Heroes 

Artistry 

Cheerfulness 

Idleness  (Gifford) 

Music 

Circles 

Justice  (Emerson) 

Song  (q.v.) 
Voice 
Singularity,  469 

Cynicism  (Shakespeare) 
Disparagement 
Innocence  (Harte) 

Laughter  (Scott) 
Leadership  (Thompson) 
Love  (Sterne) 

Affectation  (q.v.) 

Interviewers 

Merit 

Sisters,  469 
Daughters 

Laughter  (Milton,  Shake- 
speare) 

Militarism 
Profanity 

Religion  (Tennyson) 

Mirth  (Milton) 

Sacrifice 

Skating,  469 

Villainy 

Sailors  (Johnson) 

Skittles,  469 
Slander,  469 
Calumny  (q.v.) 

Sneering,  471 

Cynicism  (q.v.) 
Snobs,  471 

Triumph 
Uniforms 
Victory 

Detraction 
Integrity  (Tennyson) 
Misunderstanding 
Slang,  469 

Shakespeare  (Shaw) 
Snoring,  471 
Sleep  (q.v.) 

C         ff 

War 
Solemnity,  476 
Cheerfulness  (Voltaire) 
Dullness 

Words 
Slaughter,  469 

onur/7 

Tobacco 

Folly  (Lamb) 
Seriousness 

Battles 

Sociability,  472 

Solitude,  476 

Death 

Agreement 

Cities 

Exultation 

Association 

Loneliness 

Murder 

Clubs 

Monarchy  (Cowper) 

Sensationalism 

Comrades 

Remoteness 

Soldiers 

Conviviality 

Retirement 

Slavery,  470 

Error  (Burns) 

Seclusion 

Bondage 

Society  (q.v.) 

Survival 

Freedom 

Solitude 

Song  and  Songs,  477 

Ignorance 

Socialism,  472 

Consolation 

Labour 
Liberty 

Art  (Shaw) 
Gentility  (Shaw) 

Conviviality 
Discourse 

Oppression 

Utopia 

Endings    (Milton,    Shake- 

Servility 

Society,  472 

speare) 

Servitude 

Cities 

England  (Moore) 

Suppression 

Companionship 

Folly 

Toil 

Contentiousness 

Good  Deeds  (Austin) 

Sleep,  470 

Convention 

Human    Nature    (Brown- 

Beauty (Keats) 

England  (Shaw) 

ing) 

Bed 

Flattery 

Melancholy 

Caution  (Old  Saying) 

(Vauvenargues) 

Music  (Addison) 

Dreams  (Young) 

Snobs 

Revelry 

Gentleness 

Wit  (de  Rivarol) 

Singers 

Good-night 

Woman  (Tolstoy,  Wilde) 

Sonnets,  477 

624 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Sons,  478 

Conciseness 

Spring,  483 

Fathers 

Credulity  (Stevenson) 

April 

Heredity 

Discourse 

Birds 

Mothers 

Elocution 

Flowers 

Virtue  (Pope) 

Eloquence 

March 

Sophistry,  478 

Englishmen  (Sweden- 

May 

Ambiguity 

borg) 

Nature  (Bruce) 

Casuistry 

Error  (Hooker) 

Vicissitude  (Moore) 

Chivalry 

Free  Speech 

Squires,  483 

Conciliation 

Languages 

Subservience 

Equivocation 

Liberty 

Stability,  483 

Syllogisms 

Orators 

Strength  (q.v.) 

Universities 

Outspokenness 

Stars,  483 

Sorrow,  478 

Reticence 

Abasement 

Anguish,  Mental 

Rhetoric 

Astronomy 

Bereavement 

Statesmen 

Common  Sense  (Spur- 

Cheerfulness 

Thought 

geon) 

Comforters 

Verbosity 

Ignorance 

Condolence 

Wisdom. 

Instability 

Consolation 

Words 

Uncertainty 

Dejection 

Speed,  482 

Statesmen,  484 

Depression 

Aviation 

Government  (q.v.) 

Despondency 

Chance 

Statistics,  485 

Extremes 

Despatch 

Arithmetic  (q.v.) 

Grief 

Haste 

Statuary,  485 

Hopelessness 

Slow  and  Sure 

Achievement  (Roscoe) 

Knowledge  (Byron) 

Spelling,  482 

Antiquities 

Loss 

Spheres,  Music  of  the 

Art 

Misery 

Silence  (Dryden) 

Artists 

Misfortune 

Stars 

Honours 

Mourning 

Spiders,  482 

Monuments 

Pathos 

Insects 

Sculpture 

Patience 

Spies,  482 

Stature,  485 

Regret 

Busy-bodies  (q.v.) 

Characteristics 

Sighing 

Spirits,  482 

Steam,  486 

Suffering 

Dead 

Railways 

Sympathy 

Demons 

Stedfastness,  486 

Tears 

Mystery 

Calmness 

Trial 

Pretentiousness 

Decision 

Troubles 

Soul 

Firmness 

Woe 
Soul,  479 

Supernatural 
Spitefulness,  482 

Stability 
Strength 

Future  Existence 

Unkindness 

Stepmothers  and  Step- 

Greatness (Watts) 

Unreasonableness 

fathers,  486 

Immortality 

Spleen,  482 

Stewardship,  486 

Impulsiveness 

Conciliation 

Service  (q.v.) 

Memory   (Plato) 

Envy 

Stock  Exchange,  486 

Spirits 
Woman  (Butler) 

Superstition  (Pope) 
Tea  (Farquhar) 

Speculation  (q.v.) 
Stonehenge,  486 

Sounds,  480 

Sport  and  Sportsmen,  482 

Stories,  486 

Noise 

Action 

Fiction  (q.v.) 

Winds 

Athleticism 

Tales 

South,  480 

Blood 

Yarns 

Winds 

Chase 

Storm,  486 

Sovereignty,  480 

Comrades 

Despair 

Commands  (q.v.) 

Controversy  (Pope) 

Stoutness,  486 

Woman  (Dryden) 

Education 

Characteristics 

Spain,  480 

England   (Disraeli) 

Fatness 

Empire  (ad  fin.) 

Fox-hunting 

Leanness 

Speculation,  480 

Games 

Stature 

Building 

Hunting 

Straightforwardness,  487 

Commerce 
Possibilities 

Laughter  (Milton) 
Skating 

Candour  (q.v.) 
Strangers 

Stock  Exchange 

Skittles 

Courtesy 

Speech,  480 

Slaughter 

Pusillanimity 

Attention 

Squires 

Stratagems,  487 

Charm 

Swimming 

Cunning  (q.v.) 

2  O 


625 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Strawberries,  487 

Confidence 

Leadership  (q.v.) 

Angling    (Walton) 

Endeavour 

Rivalry 

Strength,  487 

Results 

Supernatural,  The,  494 

Decision 

Triumph 

Ghosts  (q.v.) 

Firmness 

Victory 

Magic  (q.v.) 

Force  (q.v.) 

Successors,  491 

Miracles 

Stability 

Resemblance  (q.v.) 

Spirits 

Stedfastness 

Suffering,  491 

Witches 

Tyrants 

Adversity 

Superstition,  494 

Strife,  487 

Affliction 

Bigotry 

Conflict  (q.v.) 

Endurance 

Birds  (ad  fin.) 

Struggle,  487 

Pain 

Credulity 

Conflict  (q.v.) 

Sorrow  (q.v.) 

Fanaticism 

Stuarts,  487 

Sympathy 

Intolerance 

Obsession 

Trial 

Luck 

Study,  488 

Trouble 

Magic 

Arts,  The 

Sufficiency,  491 

Marriage  (Prov.) 

Assiduity 

Competence 

Religion 

Books 

Excess 

Soldiers   (Seneca) 

Cheerfulness  (Voltaire) 

Fortune  (Martial) 

Solitude  (Johnson) 

Concentration 

Plenty 

Supernatural  (q.v.) 

Education  (q.v.) 

Satiety 

Tolerance  (Voltaire) 

Fame   (Milton) 

Superfluities 

Supervision,  494 

Knowledge 

Suicide,  491 

Rulers  (q.v.) 

Learning 

Despair 

Supper,  494 

Reading 
Research 

Suitors,  492 
Courtship 

Suppression,  495 
Compression 

Scholars 

Lovers 

Publicity 

Teaching 
Thought 
Universities 

Petitions 
Summer,  492 
Clouds 

Supremacy,  495 
Government 
Rulers    (q.v.) 

Wisdom 
Stupidity,  489 
Denseness 

Immortality 
June 
Nature 

Suretyship,  495 
Borrowing  (q.v.) 
Surfeit 

Folly 
Shallowness 
Unreasonableness 
Style  (Literary),  489 

A     T-f 

Transiency  (G.  Moore) 
Weather 
Winter 
Summer-time 

Food 
Gluttony 
Greed 
Satiety 

Art 
Authors 
Bathos 

Time  (Jonson,  Pope) 
Sunday,  492 

Superfluities 
Surgery,  495 

Brilliancy 
Eloquence 
Grammar 
Imitation 
Orators 

Bells 
Sabbath 
Sun-dials,  493 
Sunrise,  493 

Morning 
Nature  (Milton) 

Operations 
Surnames,  495 
Names  (q.v.) 
Surprise,  495 
Joy  (Adam  Smith) 
Wonder    (q.v.) 

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Verbosity 

\A7__Jc 

Sunset,  493 
Evening 

Survival,  495 

Bereavement 

vvorus 
Sublime,  The,  489 

Supererogation 

(Oliphant,     Swinburne, 
_x_  \ 

Aspiration  (q.v.) 
Submarines,  489 
Submission,  490 
Challenge 

Excess 
Superfluities 
Superficiality,  493 
Shallowness  (q.v.) 

etc.) 
Longevity 
Old  Age 
Suspense 

Coyness 
Humility 
Modesty 
Patience 

Superfluities,  493 
Sufficiency  (q.v.) 
Superiority,  493 
Ambition 

Anxiety 
Apprehension 
Suspicion,  495 
Christians  (Shakespeare) 

Resignation 

Buttons 

Discontent 

Retreat 

Distinction 

Guilt 

Subservience 
Subservience,  490 

Elevation 
Eminence 

Jealousy 
Misunderstanding 

Modesty 

Englishmen  (Shaw) 

Swallows 

Servility 

Envy 

South 

Submission  (q.v.) 

Fame 

Summer 

Success,  490 

Glory 

Swan,  496 

Cheerfulness    (Voltaire) 

Greatness 

Dualism 

626 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Swearing,  496 

Secrecy 

Tediousness,  503 

Profanity  (q.v.) 

Speech 

Boredom 

Sweetness,  497 

Table  Talk 

Discursiveness 

Beauty  (Voltaire,  Waller) 

Tales 

Prolixity 

Culture 

Tediousness  (q.v.) 

Stories 

Satiety 

Verbosity 

Teeth,  504 

Swimming,  497 

Challenge 

Words 
Tardiness,  500 

Incongruity 
(Ital.  prov.) 

Drowning 

Delay 

Toothache 

Switzerland,  497 

Lateness 

Teetotallers 

Scotland  (Smith) 

Sloth 

Beer 

Sivorda 

Temporising 

Husbands 

Action  (Wordsworth) 

Too  Late 

Temperance  (q.v.) 

Attack 
War 

Taste,  501 

Architecture 

Telegraph 

Inventions 

Syllogisms,  497 
Argument 
Casuistry 

Art 
Connnoisseurs 
Dilettanti 

Temper,  504 
Anger  (q.v.) 
Characteristics 

Sophistry  (q.v.) 
Sympathy,  497 
Amenability 

Fashion 
Fastidiousness 
Inclination 

Temperament 
Temperament,  504 
Characteristics 

Compassion 

Painting 

Creeds 

Comrades 
Co-operation 
Cordiality 
Flattery  (Selden) 

Pictures 
Variety 
Vulgarity 
Taunts 

Disposition 
Human  Nature 
Italy 
Mankind 

Sorrow 

Abuse  (q.v.) 

Passions  (q.v.) 

Suffering  (q.v.) 

Taxation,  501 

Agriculture  (Gibbon) 

Woman  (Swift) 
Temperance,  504 

HXCttG 

Abstinence 

Extortion 

T 

Income  Tax 

Alcohol 
Asceticism 

Table-Talk,  498 

Tea,  502 

Feasts 

Beer 

Conversation  (q.v.) 

Scandal 

Conduct 

Tact 

Discretion  (q.v.) 
Feelings 
Gentlemen 
Gentleness  (q.v.) 

Teaching,  502 
Creeds 
Education  (q.v.) 
Instruction 
Intolerance  (Plato) 

Content 
Drinking  (q.v.) 
Moderation     (Longfellow  , 
Milton) 
Prohibition 

\l/«f  of 

Judgment  (q.v.) 
Talents,  498 
Accomplishments 
Authors  (Emerson) 
Cleverness 
Endeavour 

Tears,  502 

Achievement  (Milton) 
Affection 
Affliction 
Bereavement 
Cheerfulness  (Morris,  Wil- 

water 
Temporising,  504 
Opportunism  (q.v.) 
Time-servers 
Temptation,  504 
Allurement 

Envy  (Swift) 
Genius 
Wit  (De  Rivarol) 

cox) 
Children  (Scot,  prov.) 
Consolation 

Charity 
Entreaty 
Excitability 

T?lAflt 

Tales,  498 

Brevity 

Death 
Dissimulation 

rlesn 
Judgment  (Langhorne) 

Charm  (Shakespeare) 

Elocution 

Terror,  505 

Deception  (Gay) 
Fiction 

Epitaphs 
Farewell 

Fear  (q.v.) 
Thanksgiving,  505 

Gossip 

Flowers   (Words- 

Discontent 

Legends 

worth) 

Forgiveness  (Swin- 

Stories 

Grief  (Shakespeare) 

burne) 

Travellers  (Shakespeare) 
Yarns 

Hypocrisy  (Bacon) 
Immortality  (Ennius) 

Gratitude  (q.v.) 
Rejoicing 

Talk,  499 

Insensibility 

Theatres,  505 

Actions  (Swinburne) 

Memory  (Wordsworth) 

Actors 

Commonplace 

Morning  (Campbell) 

Drama 

Conversation 

Mourning 

Elocution 

Deeds 

Singers  (Rossetti) 

Emptiness 

Discourse 

Sorrow 

Farce 

Discursiveness 

Sympathy 

Tragedy 

Eloquence 

Woe 

Words  (Shakespeare) 

627 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Theft 

Charity 

Cheating 

Dishonesty 

Rogues  (q.v.) 
Theology,  505 

Ambiguity 

Bigotry 

Church 

Common  Sense 

Doctrine 

Dogma 

God 

Mankind    (Schopenhauer 

Mysticism 

Politics  (Gladstone, 
Holmes) 

Religion  (q.v.) 

Sects 
Theory,  506 

Statesmen 

Utopia 

Words 
Thirst,  506 
Cheerfulness  (Burns) 
Conviviality 

Drinking  (q.v.) 
Thoroughness,  506 

Efficiency  (q.v.) 
Thought,  506 
Art  (Emerson) 
Castles  in  the  Air 
Cogitation 
Consideration 
Error  (Mill) 
Flowers  (Wordsworth) 
Happiness  (Oldham) 
Ignorance  (Gray) 
Imagination  (Byron) 
Inspiration 
Intellect 
Irresolution 
Leanness 
Magnificence 
Meditation 
Reflection 
Wisdom 

Thoughtlessness 
Carelessness  (q.v.) 
Casualness 
Forgetf  ulness 
Improvidence 
Thought 
Threats,  508 

Appearance  (Threaten- 
ing) 

Blood  thirstiness 
Bluster 
Bombast 
Challenge 
Defiance 

Englishmen  (Chapman) 
Sensationalism 
Ultimatum 

Three  (Number),  508 
Reunion 
Union  (ad  fin.> 


Thrift,  508 

Conduct 

Courtesy  (Danish  prov.) 

Economy  (q.v.) 

Frugality 

Improvidence 
Thriftlessness,  508 

Expenditure 

Extravagance  (q.v.) 

Improvidence 
Tides,  508 

Opportunity(Shakespeare 

Time  (Tennyson) 
Tiger 

Danger 

Horrors 
Time,  508 

Absence  (Dryden) 

Actions  (Pindar) 

Authority  (Coke) 

Change 

Days 

Destiny 

Eternity 

Evening 

Fortune  (Shakespeare) 

Genius  (Johnson) 
Happiness 

Incompleteness 
Morning 
Terror  (Ruskin) 
Transiency 
Years 
Time-servers,  510 

Opportunism  (q.v.) 
Timidity,  511 
Apprehension 
Caution  (q.v.) 
Coyness 
Diffidence 
Doubt 

Fain  thear  tedness 
Foreboding 
Prudence 
Vacillation 
Tithes,  511 

Clergy 
Titles,  511 
Baronets 
Books  (Voltaire) 
Earls 
Esquire 

Heredity  (M.  Twain) 
Honours 

Kings  (Defoe,  Dryden) 
Knights 
Lords 
Merit 
Names 

Wealth  (Defoe) 
Toasts,  512 
Conviviality 
Equivocation 
Soldiers  (Shakespeare) 
Tobacco,  512 
Husbands 
Soldiers 

628 


To-day,  513 

Content 
Endurance 
Present 

Procrastination  (q.v.) 
Toil 
Despair 

Greatness  (Gray) 
Labour 
Work 

Toleration,  513 
Broadmindedness 
Charity 
Creeds 
Forbearance 
Intolerance  (q.v.) 
Judgment 
Tombs,  514 
Burial 
Dead 
Epitaphs 
Grave 
Monuments 
To-morrow,  514 
Discoverers 
Endurance 
Future 

Life  (Shakespeare) 
Procrastination 
Too  Late,  514 
Delay 
Lateness 

Procrastination  (q.v.) 
Tardiness 
Toothache,  514 

Philosophy  (Shakespeare) 
Teeth 
Tories,  514 
Conservatism 
Parties 
Reform 
Toasts 
Torture 

Hate  (Swinburne) 
Newspapers  (Wilde) 
Punishment 
Towns,  515 
Cities 
Country 

Critics  (Phillpotts) 
London 
Rural  Life 
Society 
Toys 

Destructiveness 
Mankind  (Stevenson) 
Trifles 
Trade,  515 
Business 
Commerce 
Disagreement 
Drudgery 
Dutch 

Envy  (Lat.  Prov.) 
Free  Trade 
Lying  (Shakespeare) 
Merchandise 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Money 

Trials     and     Tribulations 

Faithfulness 

Quarrels  (Hesiod) 

520 

Fiction 

Shoemakers 

Affliction  (q.v.) 

Honour  (Hare) 

Speculation 

Confidence 

Injustice 

Tradition,  515 

Trifles,  520 

Integrity  (Tennyson) 

Common  Sense 

Commonplace 

Lying  (q.v.) 

Fables 

Common  Things 

Preciseness 

Legends 

Duty 

Speech  (Anon.) 

Romance 

Ease 

Trust 

Sentiment 

Enthusiasm 

Turtle 

Tragedy,  516 

Hypercriticism 

Food 

Comedy 

Insignificance 

Twilight 

Drama  (Hugo) 
Training,  516 

Parasites 
Pettiness 

Evening 
Twins 

Athleticism  (q.v.) 

Pleasure  (Pope) 

Dualism 

Education  (q.v.) 
Traitors,  516 
Betrayal 

Terror  (Ruskin) 
Triumph,  521 
Battles 

Resemblance 
Tyranny  and  Tyrants,  524 

Bullies 

Cowardice 
Faithlessness 
Kings  (Shake- 

Dead 
Envy 
Exultation 

Democracy 
Despotism 
Extremes 

speare) 
Rebellion 
Renegades 
Treachery 
Villainy 

Glory 
Success 
Victory 
Troubles,  521 
Adversity  (q.v.) 

Flattery  (Jonson) 
Government  (Longfellow) 
Habeas  Corpus 
Independence   (Campbell) 
Injustice 

Wrongs 
Transiency,  517 
Change 

Courage 
Encouragement 
Grumblers 

Kings  (Burke) 
Oppression 
P&isccu  tion 

Death  (Early) 

Reverses 

Violence 

Fickleness 

Truisms 

Mutability 

Commonplace 

Novelty  (q.v.) 

Obvious 

Time 

Solemnity 

Vicissitude 

Truth 

u 

Transition,  518 

Trumpets 

Change  (q.v.) 

Battles 

Ugliness,  525 

Translations,  518 

Military  Music 

Architecture 

Languages 

Music  (Dryden) 

Expression 

Travel,  518 

Trust,  522 

Face 

Adventure 

Conduct 

Taste 

Books 

Confidence   (q.v.) 

Umbrellas 

Britain 

Credit 

Foresight 

Colonies 

Faithfulness 

Unbelief,  525 

Cosmopoli  tanism 

Honour 

Atheism 

Discoverers 

Reciprocity 

Doubt 

Divine  Presence 

Trusts  (Commercial) 

Incredulity 

Exile 

Trade  (Cowper) 

Infidelity 

Exploration 

Truth,  522 

Scepticism 

Foreign  Lands 

Abuses 

Uncertainty,  525 

Pioneers 

Antiquity  (Pascal) 

Definitions 

Wanderers 

Art  (Phillpotts) 

Doubt  (q.v.) 

Treachery     and     Treason, 

Beauty  (Emerson, 

Fortune 

519 

Keats) 

Transiency 

Music  (Shakespeare) 

Commonplace 

Vacillation 

Traitors  (q.v.) 

Concealment 

Unco  Guld,  526 

Villainy 

Conduct 

Asceticism 

Treating 

Consolation 

Fussiness 

Conviviality      (Leigh, 

Controversy  (Penn) 

Hypocrisy 

Ward) 

Cosmopolitanism 

Morality  (Macaulay) 

Trees,  519 

Creeds 

Officiousness 

Agriculture   (Whittier) 

Deliberation 

Puritanism 

Antiquity  (Morris) 

Dying 

Religion  (S.  Smith) 

Nature 

Enlightenment 

Righteousness 

Oak 

Enthusiasm 

Severity  (Burns) 

Training 

Error 

Temptation 

Village  Life 

Facts 

Virtue  (Voltaire) 

629 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Unconventionalism 

Admission  (Shakespeare) 

Singularity  (q.v.) 
Unfairness 

Cheating  (q.v.) 

Cunning 

Dupes 

Sport 
Uniforms,  526 

Dress 

Soldiers 
Union  and  Unity,  526 

Agreement 

Alliance 

Association 

Cities 

Combination 

Comrades 

Co-operation 

Fellowship 

Flags 

Nations 

Toleration 
Universities,  526 

Woman  (Neaves,   Tenny- 
son) 
Unkindness,  527 

Ill-nature  (q.v.) 

Trifles  (More) 
Unlearning 

Learning  (Seneca) 

Wisdom  (Lowell) 
Unpatriotic,  527 

Patriotism  (q.v.) 
Unpopularity,  527 

Enemies  (q.v.) 

Public  Service 
Unpanctuality 

Nature  (Arnold) 

Tardiness  (q.v.) 

Too  late 
Unreality,  527 

Fiction    (q.v.) 

Reality 

Visions  (q.v.) 
Unreasonableness,  527 

Intolerance  (q.v.) 

Obstinacy  (q.v.) 
Unreliability 

Independence  (Spurgeon) 
Unseen,  527 

Invisibility 

Supernatural  (q.v.) 

Uselessness 

Visions  (Russell,  Young) 
Unselfishness,  527 

Altruism 

Duty 

Sacrifice 

Selfishness 
Unsuitability 

Incongruity 
Unwillingness 

Compulsion 

Coyness 

Reluctance  (q.v.) 


Uselessness,  527 

Nonentities  (q.v.) 
Usurpation,  528 

Greediness 

Tyranny 

Utility  and  Utilitarianism 
528 

Beauty  (Ruskin) 

Inventors 

Modernity 

Prosaic,  The 

Railways 

Realism 

Virtue 
Utopia,  528 

Castles  in  the  Air 

Future 

Progress 

Visionaries 


Vacillation,  528 

Doubt 

Hesitation 

Indecision 

Irresolution 

Opportunism 

Pliability 

Scrupulousness 

Statesmen 

Time-servers 

Timidity 

Weakness 
Vagabonds,  528 

Destitution 

Nature  (Wordsworth) 

Wanderers 
Valentine,  St.,  528 
Valetudinarianism 

Hypochondria 
Valleys 

Choice  (Scottish  saying) 

Humility 

Nature 

Scenery 
Valour,  529 

Caution 

Courage  (q.v.) 

Discretion 

Immortality  (Horace) 

Prudence 
Value,  529 

Money  (q.v.) 

Worth 
Vanity  (Conceit),  529 

Advice 

America  (Holmes) 

Boasting 

Compliments 

Conceit  (q.v.) 

Curiosity 

Exultation 

Flattery 

Ignorance 

630 


Monuments  (Stevenson) 

Pride 
Vanity  (Emptiness),  529 

Ambition  (Shakespeare) 

Decadence 

Disillusionment 

Glory  (q.v.) 

Mankind  (Thackeray) 
Variety,  530 

Change  (q.v.) 

Conversation  (Praed) 

Immortality 

Versatility 

Woman  (Tennyson) 
Venality 

Betrayal 

Bribery 

Corruption  (q.v.) 
Venice,  530 
Verbosity,  530 

Boredom 

Circumlocution 

Compression 

Eloquence 

Irresponsibility 

Patter 

Speech 

Talk  (Cato) 

Vivacity 

Words 
Versatility,  530 

Complexity 

Knowledge  (Tayloi) 

Talent 

Variety 
Vice,  531 

Atheism  (Dryden) 

Candour 

Cities 

Corruption 

Evil 

Fashion 

Human  Nature  (Pope) 

Hypocrisy  (Juvenal, 
La  Rochefoucauld) 

Selfishness 

Sin 

Villainy 

Wickedness 
Vicissitude,  531 

Adversity 

Chance 

Change 

Destiny 

Fate 

Fortune 

Innovation 

Transiency 

Variety 
Victory,  532 

Chivalry 

Combat 

Confidence 

Conquest 

Defeat 

Despair 

Effort 


INDEX   OF    SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Exultation 

Mutability 

Civil  War 

Imagination 

Perception 

Combat 

Moderation  (Palgrave) 

Self-deception 

Conflict 

Pacification 

Supernatural 

Conquest 

Success 

Unreality 

Contentiousness 

Triumph 

Utopia 

Defeat 

War  (Southey) 

Visits,  536 

Delay 

Village  Life,  532 

Guests 

Discord 

Country 

Welcome 

Disputes  (Pope) 

Rural  Life 

Vivacity,  536 

Faction 

Villainy,  532 

Conversation 

Fallen  in  Battle 

Evil 

Eloquence 

Glory 

Integrity 

Impromptu 

Government  (Cicero) 

Rogues  (q.v.) 

Wit 

Hardness 

Sin 

Vocation,  536 

Heroes 

Traitors 

Employers 

Independence  (Lowell) 

Treachery 

Employment 

Inventions 

Vice  (q.v.) 

Service  (q.v.) 

Justice  (Plutarch) 

Villas,  533 

Trade 

Militarism 

Houses  (q.v.) 

Voice,  536 

Money  (Defoe,  Herrick) 

Ostentation 

Charm 

Mortality  (Porteus) 

Vlndictlveness,  533 

Speech  (q.v.) 

Opinion  (Swift) 

Anger  (q.v.) 

Voltaire,  536 

Peace 

Malice 

Bible  (Cowper) 

Secrecy  (Prior) 

Punishment 

Votes,  536 

Triumph 

Revenge 

Parties 

Victory 

Spitefulness 

Politics  (q.v.) 

War  Office 

Violence,  533 

Vows 

Soldiers  (Shaw) 

Anger  (q.v.) 

Oaths 

Warning,  540 

Force 

Persuasion  (Shakespeare) 

Auguries 

Intervention 

Promises 

Foreboding 

Oppression 

Vulgarity,  537 

Forecast 

Revolution 

Common  Things 

Prophets 

Tyranny  (q.v.) 

Manners 

Warwickshire,  540 

Zeal 

Snobs 

Waste,  540 

Virgin  Mary,  533 

Thriftlessness 

Virtue,  533 

Water,  540 

Accomplishments 

Sea  (Coleridge) 

Actions  (Pindar) 

W 

Weaknesses,  540 

Adversity  (Bacon) 

Conceit 

Boldness 

Wagers,  537 

Concessions 

Calumny 

Gambling  (q.v.) 

Failings 

Character 

Wages,  537 

Faults  (q.v.) 

Commerce 

Labour 

Moderation    (Vauvenar- 

Crimes  (Dryden) 

Payment 

gues) 

Decorum 

Rewards 

Pusillanimity 

Disgrace 

Socialism 

Vanity  (Conceit) 

Disinterestedness 

Soldiers  (ad  fin.) 

Wickedness 

Glory 

Waist,  537 

Wealth,  541 

Goodness 

Walking,  537 

Acquisitiveness 

Heroes  (Johnson) 

Feet 

Avarice 

Human     Nature     (Pope, 

Wanderers 

Capital 

Shakespeare) 

Wanderers,  537 

Chance 

Integrity 

Endurance  (Morris) 

Cities 

Roses 

Travel  (q.v.) 

Commerce 

Vice 

Vagabonds 

Competence 

Worldly  Wisdom 

Wants,  538 

Display 

Visions    and     Visionaries, 

Competence 

Ecclesiastics  (Pope) 

535 

Country 

Finance 

Accomplishment 

Necessity 

Fortune 

Aspiration 

Superfluities 

Freedom  (Goldsmith) 

Castles  in  the  Air 

Wishes 

Generosity 

Disillusion 

War,  538 

Gifts 

Ecstasy 

Attack 

Gold 

Future  (Tennyson) 

Blockade 

Government  (Plato) 

Genius  (Gray) 

Blood  thirstin  ess 

Greed 

Inspiration 

Cannon 

Heiresses 

631 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Loss 

Inconstancy 

Hope  (q.v.) 

Money 

Ingratitude  (Shakespeare) 

Self-Deception 

Prosperity 

Music  (Shakespeare) 

Wants 

Spleen 

Noise 

Wit,  547 

Thrift 

Sailors 

Brevity 

Trade 

Storm 

Commonplace 

Virtue  (Plato) 

Weather 

Common  Sense 

Weather,  542 

Wine,  545 

Conversation 

Autumn 

Abstinence 

Drama  (Villiers) 

Birds 

Age 

Humour  (q.v.) 

Climate 

Alcohol 

Impromptu 

Clouds 

Antiquity     (Goldsmith, 

Jealousy 

Cold 

Webster) 

Laughter 

Despondency  (Longfellow) 

Banquets 

Politeness  (Young) 

Foreboding  (S.  Smith) 

Champagne 

Vivacity 

Fortune  (Ovid) 

Conviviality 

Witches,  548 

Hailstorm 

Dinner 

Wives,  548 

Rain 

Drinking 

Advice  (Burns) 

St.  Swithin 

Friendship  (Tennyson) 

Bachelors' 

Spring 

Fruit 

Brides 

Storm 

Inaction 

Children 

Summer 

Music  (Oldham) 

Choice 

Sun-dials 

Revelry 

Clothing 

Winds 

Scotland  (Neaves) 

Comrades 

Winter 
Wedding  Ring,  543 

Sociability 
Temperance 

Destiny 
Discipline 

Posies  (q.v.) 

Toasts 

Domesticity 

Welcome,  543 

Water 

Epitaphs 

Greeting  (q.v.) 

Winter,  546 

Family 

Guests 

Age 

Frugality 

Toasts 

Autumn 

Home 

West,  The,  543 

Christmas 

Honeymoon 

East  (q.v.) 

Climate 

Housekeeping 

Westminster  Abbey,  544 

Cold  Weather 

Husbands 

Architecture     (Words- 

Seasons 

Marriage  (q.v.) 

worth) 

Skating 

Posies 

Fame  (Beaumont) 

Tales 

Wedding  Ring 

Whigs 

Truisms 

Wizards 

Moderation 

Weather 

Magic 

Parties 

Wisdom,  546 

Woe,  550 

Place-seekers 

Appearances 

Adversity 

Whist 

Books 

Affliction  (q.v.) 

Cards 

Common  Sense 

Calamity 

Critics  (Thompson) 

Distinction 

Charity 

Hearts 

East 

Compassion 

Widows,  544 

Education 

Grief 

Grief  (Leland) 

Empire 

Sorrow 

Wile,  see  Wives 

Estimates 

Trial 

Wilfulness,  544 

Government     (Oxen- 

Troubles 

Obstinacy  (q.v.) 

stierna) 

Woman,  550 

Will,  544 

Happiness  (Colton) 

Adam  and  Eve 

Determination 

Ignorance 

Advice 

Firmness 

Immortality  (Plato) 

Affections 

Inclination 

Knowledge    (Cowper, 

Age  (Gilbert,  Goldsmith) 

Mind 

Holmes,     Quarles, 

Ambition 

Obstinacy 

Tennyson,  Voltaire) 

Anger  (Dryden) 

Persistence 

Learning   (Selden) 

Argument 

Perversity 

Superiority 

Beating 

Willingness,  545 

Virtue 

Beauty 

Actions 

Worldly  Wisdom 

Betrayal 

Wills,  545 

Worth 

Calumny 

Windows,  545 

Wishes,  547 

Charm 

Winds,  545 

Ambition 

Children 

Adversity  (Herbert) 

Aspiration 

Constancy 

Cheerfulness  (Old  Saying) 

Credulity 

Conviviality 

Climate 

Desire 

Cookery 

Fish 

Expectancy 

Courting 

632 


INDEX   OF   SUBJECT-HEADINGS 


Delay  (Plautus) 

Kindness 

Drama  (Hugo,  Sheridan) 

Lip-service 

Education  (Defoe) 
England     (  Proverb, 
Italian  ?) 
Extravagance 

Literature  (Words- 
worth) 
Opinions  (Dryden) 
Patter 

Yarns,     561 

Tales  (q.v.) 
Years,  561 

Failings 
Faults 
Femininity 

Speech 
Style 
Traditions 

Days 
Disillusion 
Experience 

Flattery 
Greatness  (Morley) 
Hate 

Truth  (Barton) 
Verbosity 
Work,  558 

Lateness 
New  Year 
Past 

Home  (Warton) 
Housekeeping 
Mankind  (Tennyson) 
Misogyny 

Drudgery 
Duty 
Effort 
Holidays 

Retrospect 
Time  (q.v.) 
Yesterday,  561 
Past 

Perversity 
Sex 
Society 

Industry 
Labour 
Prayer 

Retrospect 
Youth,  561 

Superstition 
Tears 
Trust  (Selden) 
Truth  (i  Esdras) 
Unreasonableness 

Results  (q.v.) 
Routine 
Shoemakers 
Socialism 
Soldiers  (ad  fin.) 

Age 
America  (Wilde) 
Aspiration 
Authority  (Lowell) 
Boyhood 
Children 

Women  Friends 

Toil 
World,  The,  559 

Confidence 
Credulity 

Friendship    (Fletcher, 
Gondinet,    Lyttelton, 
Sichel) 

Appearances 
Earth 
Life  (Cory,  Moore) 

Death  (Premature) 
Dissipation 
Education 

Women's  Logic,  555 

Problems 

Enthusiasm 

Wonder  and  Wonders,  555 

Providence  (Procter) 

Fnllv 

Adventure 

Vanity  (Emptiness) 

J.   \JLL\ 

Girlhood 

Amazement 

Vicissitude 

Illusion 

Indescribable 
Sensationalism 
Surprise 

Worldly  Wisdom,  560 

Cynicism  (q.v.) 
Worship,  560 

Inexperience 
Life     (Disraeli,     Words- 
worth) 

Travel 
Worship 

Devotion 
God 

Mistakes  (Stevenson) 
Old  Age 

Words,  556 

Prayer 

Abuse 
Action  (Wordsworth) 

Superstition  (Wilson) 
Theology 

r^ieasure 
Sleep  (French  prov  ) 
Trust 

Actions  (Swinburne) 
Affectation 

Work  (Carlyle) 
Worth,  560 

Visions  (Scott,  etc.) 
Years 

Ambiguity 

Distinction  (q.v.) 

j 

Art  (Heine) 

Value 

Children  (Old  Saying) 

Writing,  561 

Conciseness 

Handwriting 

Consolation  (Swinburne) 

Letters 

Z 

Deeds 

Literature  (q.v.) 

Determination 

Wrongs,  561 

Zeal,  563 

Dialect 

Conduct 

Bigotry 

Dissimulation 

Crime 

Creeds 

Eloquence 

Endeavour 

Dissimulation 

Epitaph 

Injustice 

Enthusiasm 

Equivocation 

Magnanimity 

Excess 

Exultation 

Oppression 

Fanatics 

Futility 

Philanthropy 

Intolerance  (q.v.) 

Incoherence 

Tyranny  (q.v.) 

Service 

033 


LIST    OF    QUOTED  AUTHORS 

(Names  without  any  Nationality  Note  are  those  of  English  Writers) 


Adams,       John 

Quincy          ..   U.S.A.. .         1767-1848 
Adams,    Samuel  U.S.A,  1722-1803 

Addison,  Joseph  1672-1719 

jEschylus  ..  Greek  ..  B.C.  525-456 
Agesilaus  . .  Greek  B.C.  398-^360 
Akenslde,  Mark  ..  1721-1770 

Albertano         of 

Brescia  ..   Hal.     '..         ft.  c.  1246 

Albery,      James  -.         1838-1889 

Alcuin,        Arch- 
bishop of  York, 

alias  Ealwhine 

or  Albinus     . .  . .  735-804 

Aldrich,   Henry, 

D.D.,  Dean  of 

Christ  Church, 

Oxford  ..  ..          1647-1710 

Alexander      the 

Great  . .  Macedonian  B.C.  356—323 

Alexander,     Sir 

Wm.,   Earl   of 

Stirling  ..  Scot  ..  1567^-1640 
Alford,  Henry, 

Dean    of    Can- 
terbury         ..  ..         1810-1871 
Allbert,      Jean 

Louis,  Baron. .  French  ..  1766-1837 
Alison,  Richard  ..  i6th  century 

Allalnval,     Leo- 

nore  Soulas  ..  French..  17007-1753 
Alllngbam, 

William         ..    Irish    ..         1824-1889 
Allston,     Wash- 
ington ..    U.S.A...         1779-1843 
Anacharsis       . .   Greek    . .        c.  B.C.  600 
Anstey,      Chris- 
topher           ..  ..         1724-1805 
Antisthenes     ..  Greek    ..  c.  5.^440-370 
Apollonius 

(Apollonius 

Rhodius)  ..  Greek  ..  ft.  B.C. 222-181 
Appleton,  Thos. 

Gold  ..  ..  U.S.A...  1812-1884 
Aquinas,  St. 

Thos.  ..    Ital.      ..    •:.  I227?-I274 

Arblay,  Madame 

D'  (Fanny  Bur- 

ney)  ..  ..          1752-1840 

Arbuthnot, 

John,  M.D.  ..  Scot  ..  1667-1735 
Archimedes  ..  Greek  ..  c.  B.C.  287-212 
Aristophanes  . .  Greek  ..  ft.  c.  B.C.  434 


Aristotle          ..    Greek    ..     B.C.  384-322 
Armstrong, 

John,  M.D.    ..   Scot  1700-1770 

Arne,      Thomas 

Augustine     ..  ..         1710-1778 

Arnold,         Sir 

Edwin  ..  ..         1832-1904 

Arnold,  Thomas  ..         1795-1842 

Arnold, 

Matthew        ..  ..         1822-1888 

Ascham,    Roger  ..         1515-1568 

Ashby-S  terry, 

Joseph  ..  ..  b.  1845 

Ashe,  Rev.  Thomas  ..         1836-1889 

Athenaeus        . .  Greek    . .       c.  A.D.  230 
Ati well,     Henry  ..     igth  century 

Aubrey,  John ..  ..         1626-1697 

Aubrotas, 

see  Mira;us 
Augler,       Guil- 

laume     Victor 

ftmile  ..   French..  1820-1889 

Augustine,     St.  Numidian  354-430 

Aulus  Gellius..   Roman.,  fl.  c.  117-180 
Aurellus, 

Marcus     (Mar- 
cus      Aurelius 

Antoninus), 

Emperor        ..  Roman..  121-180 

Ausonlus,  Deci- 

mus  Magnus..   Roman.,         c.  310-394 
Austen,       Jane  ..         1775-1817 

Austin,  Alfred. .  ..         1835-1913 

Avebury,   Lord, 

see  Lubbock, 

Sir  John. 

Aveline,  Mrs.  . .  ..  d.c.  1850 

Ay  I  me  r,    Mrs...  ..  c.  1865 

Ayton,5ir  Robert.  Scot      ..         1570-1638 
Aytoun,       Wm. 

Edmonstoune     Scot      ..         1813-1865 
Azals,     Pierre 

Hyacinthe    . .   French  . .         1766-1845 


B 

Bacon,    Francis 

Lord  Verulam, 

Viscount      St. 

Albans  ..  ..  1561-1626 

Bailey,  Philip  J.  ..  1816-1902 

Baillie,  Joanna  Scot  ..  1762-1851 
Bain,  Alexander, 

LL.D.  ..     Scot    ..         1818-1903 


635 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Baker,  Sir  Rich- 

Bentham,   Jere- 

ard 

1568-1645 

my 

1748-1833 

Balfour,  Arthur 

Bentley,      Rich- 

James           .  .   Scot 

b.  1848 

ard     .. 

1662-1742 

Ball,  John,  priest 

d.  1381 

Beranger, 

Ballanche,  Pierre  French  .  . 

1786-1847 

Pierre     Jean 

Ballantine, 

de 

French..         1780-1857 

James             .  .   Scot 

1808-1877 

Berkeley, 

Balzac,    Honore 

George,  Bp.  of 

de        .  .          .  .  French  .  . 

1799-1850 

Cloyne 

Irish     ..         1685-1753 

Bampfylde, 

Bernard,  St.  .  . 

Burgundian  c.  1091-1153 

John   Codring- 

Berridge,    John 

ton 

1754-1796 

(Rev.) 

1716-1793 

Banks,      George 

Bias  of  Priene  . 

Greek    .  .      fl.  B.C.  566 

Linnasus 

1821-1881 

Bickerstafte, 

Barbauld,  Anna 

Isaac 

Irish    ..           d.  1812  ? 

Letitia 

1743-1825 

Binyon,        Lau- 

Barbour,   John  Scot 

I3I6P-I395 

rence 

b.    1869 

Barca      (Hamil-  Cartha- 

Birrell,     Augus- 

car Barca)     .  .  ginian  .  . 

d.   B.C.   229 

tine 

b.    1850 

Barham,  Richard 

Bismarck,  Hirst 

German  .         1815-1898 

Harris  (Rev.) 

1788-1845 

Blackie,     John 

Barlow,    George 

b.  1847 

Stuart 

Scot       .  .         1809-1895 

Barnes,  Thomas, 

Blacklock, 

Editor  of  "The 

Thomas,    D.D. 

Scot      ..         1721-1791 

Times  " 

1817-1841 

Blackstone,    Sir 

Barnfleld,  Rich- 

William 

1723-1780 

ard     .. 

1574-1627 

Blair,  Robert   .. 

Scot       .  .         1699-1746 

Barrett,     Eaton 

Blake,    William 

1757-1827 

Stannard      .  .   Irish     .  . 

1786-1820 

Bland,  Mrs.,  see 

Barrie,  Sir  James 

Nesbit,     Edith 

Matthew        ..   Scol 

b.   1860 

Blind,  Mathilde 

1847-1896 

Harrington, 

Boileau      (Nic- 

Geo.      (actual 

olas      Boileau- 

surname    Wal- 

Despreaux)    .  . 

French..         1636-1711 

dron)  .  .          .  .                ,  . 

b.  1755 

Bolingbroke,  v. 

Barry,  Michael  J.  Irish    .. 

igth  century 

Saint-John. 

Bartheiemy 

Borrow,  George 

1803-1881 

(Jules        Bar- 

Bossuet, 

thelemy        St. 

Jacques 

French..          1627-1704 

Hilaire)          .  .   French.  . 

1805-1895 

Bourchier,  John, 

Barton,  Bernard 

1784-1849 

2nd  Baron  Ber- 

Barton,       John, 

ners 

1467-1533 

Senr  

b.    1773 

Bowles,  William 

Barton,  Richard 

ft.  i737-i75i 

Lisle   .. 

1762-1850 

Basse,     William 

d.  1653  ? 

Boyle,  John,  sth 

Bates,    William. 

Earl  of  Cork  .  . 

1707-1762 

D.D.  ..      .; 

1625-1699 

Bradford,    John 

d.    1555 

Baxter,   Richard 

1615-1691 

Brady,  Nicholas, 

Bayly,        Thos. 

D.D  

1659-1726 

Havnes 

1707-1839 

Bramston, 

Baynes,  John 

1758-1787 

James 

1694  ?-i  744 

Beattie,     James  Scot 

1735-1803 

Braxfleld,   Lord, 

Beaumarchais, 

see  Macqueen. 

Pierre  de      .  .   French.  . 

1732-1799 

Breton,    Nicho- 

Beaumont, Fran- 

las 

.  .    1545  ?-i626  ? 

cis 

1584-1616 

Bridges,   Robert, 

Beecher,  Henry 

poet   laureate 

b.    1844 

Ward  (Rev.)..    U.S.A... 

1813-1887 

Bright,    John  .  . 

1811-1889 

Beeching,  Henry 

Brillat  -  Savarin, 

Charles   (Rev.) 

1859-1919 

Anthelme 

French..         1756-1826 

Begbie,     Harold 

b.   1871 

Brome,    Richard 

d.    1652 

Belloc,      Hilaire 

b.    1870 

Brooke,   Rupert 

1887-1915 

Bendall.F.W.D. 

2oth  century 

Brooks,  Mary  G. 

Beneke,  F.  E.  .  .   German  . 

1798-1854 

(nte  Aiken)    ..    U.S.A...     c.  1795-1845 

Benjamin,  Park  U.S.A.  . 

1809—1864 

Brougb,    Robert 

Bennett,  Arnold 

b    1867 

Barnabas 

1828-1860 

636 


LIST   OP   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Brougham, 

Burroughs, 

Henry      Peter, 

John               ..    U.S.A... 

b.    1837 

Baron  Brough- 

Burton,   Robert 

1577-1640 

am  and   Vaux  Scot 

1778-1868 

Bushnell,    G.  .. 

d.    1918 

Brown,       John, 

Bussy,  see  Rabu- 

M.D  Scot      .. 

1810-1882 

tin. 

Brown,    Thomas  Scot      .. 

1663-1704 

Butler,    Frances 

Brown,    Thomas 

A.    (nee    Kem- 

Edward  (Rev.) 

1830-1897 

ble)      .. 

1809-1893 

Browne,  Charles 

Butler,     Joseph, 

F  a  r  r  e  r  ,    see 

D.C.L.,  Bishop 

Ward,  Artemus. 

of  Durham 

1692-1752 

Browne,      Isaac 

Butler,     Samuel 

I6I2-I680 

Hawkins 

1705-1760 

Byrom,    John  .. 

1692-1763 

Browne,          Sir 

Byron,    Henry 

Thomas 

1605-1682 

James 

1834-1884 

Browne, 

Byron,    Lord 

William 

1590-1643  ? 

(George  Gordon 

Browning,  Eliza- 

Noel Byron) 

1788-1824 

beth      Barrett 

1809-1861 

Browning, 

Robert 

1812-1889 

Bruce,      Michael  Scot 

1746-1767 

Brunne,    Robert 

C 

de     (or     M  an- 

ii  yng) 

ft.  1288-1338 

Csesar,     Caius 

Bruyere,      Jean 

Julius..          ..   Roman.. 

B.C.    IOO-44 

de  la               .  .  French   . 

1644-1696 

Calne,          Sir 

Bryant,        Wm. 

Thomas  Henry 

Cullen            ..    U.S.A... 

1794-1878 

Hall 

b.  1853 

Brydges,     Sir  S. 

Calrd,         John, 

Egerton 

1762-1837 

LL.D.             ..  Scot      .. 

1820-1898 

Buchanan, 

Calllmachus     .  .  Greek    .  . 

d.  C.  B.C.  240 

George           .  .  Scot 

1508-1582 

Calverley, 

Buchanan, 

Charles  Stuart               .  . 

1831-1884 

Robert  VV.     .  .   Scot 

1841-1901 

Cambridge, 

Buckingham, 

Richard  Owen 

I7I7-I802 

Duke     of,    see 

Campbell, 

Villiers,   Geo. 

George,   D.D.  .   Scot 

1719-1796 

Buckingham- 

Campbell, John, 

shire,  Duke  of, 

ist  Baron 

see       Sheffield. 

Campbell       .  .  Scot      .  . 

I779-I86I 

John. 

Campbell, 

Bucks  tone, 

Thomas          .  .  Scot      .  . 

1777-1844 

John  Baldwin  . 

1802-1879 

Campbell,     Wil- 

Button,    George 

frid                 .  .   Canada  . 

b.  1861 

Louis  Leclerc 

Campion, 

Comte  de       .     French    . 

1707-1788 

Thomas 

1567-1619 

Bunn,  Alfred    . 

ft.  1816-1840 

Canning,  George 

1770-1827 

Bunyan,  John  . 

1628-1688 

Canrobcrt, 

Burges,  Geo.    . 

1786  ?-i864 

Francois     Cer- 

Burghley, Lore  , 

tain,  Marshal  .  .  French   . 

1809-1895 

see  Cecil,    Wil- 

Carew, Mrs. 

1595  ?-i639  ? 

liam. 

Carey,    Henry.. 

1693-1743 

Burgon,  John 

Carleton,     Will.   U.S.A... 

1845-1913 

William,  Dean 

Carl  ton, 

of  Chichester.  . 

1813-1888 

Thomas         ..    U.S.A.  . 

1808-1874 

Burke,   Edmund    Irish    .  . 

1729-1797 

Carlyle, 

Burnet,    Gilbert 

Thomas         .  .  Scot 

i795-i88i 

Bishop  of  Salis- 

Carnegie,      An 

bury 

1643-1715 

drew               .  .   Scot 

1837-1919 

Burney,    Fanny, 

Carney,  Julia  A., 

see  Arblay. 

see        Osgood, 

Burns,       James 

Frances. 

Drummond 

Carroll,      Lewis, 

(Rev.)             ..   Scot 

1823-1864 

see       Dodgson 

Burns,  Robert  .  .  Scot 

1759-1796 

C.   L. 

637 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Cary,     Henry 

Churchill,    Win- 

Francis 

1772-1844 

ston     Leonard 

Cary,  Phoebe    ..   U.S.A.  . 

1824-1871 

Spencer 

b.  1874 

Cato,     Marcus 

Cibber,  Colley.. 

i67i-i757 

Portius  {"  The 

Cicero,      Marcus 

Censor")       ..  Roman,. 

B.C.  234-149 

Tullius           .  .  Roman  .  . 

B.C.  106-43 

Cato,         Marcus 

Clark,    Willis 

Portius  ("  Uti- 

Gaylord         ..   U.S.A.  . 

1810-1841 

censis  ")         ..   Roman.. 

B.C.  95-46 

Claudlanus, 

Catullus,     Caius 

Claudius        ..  Roman.. 

365  ?-4o8  ? 

Valerius         .  .   Roman  .  . 

B.C.  87-40 

Claudius         (Ti- 

Cecil,       Robert 

berius  Claudius 

Arthur  Talbot 

Drusus),      Em- 

(3rd Marquis  of 

peror              .  .   Roman  .  .    B 

c.  io-A.n.54 

Salisbury) 

1830-1903 

Clemens, 

Cecil,      William 

Samuel     Lang 

ist  Baron 

home       (Mark 

Burghley 

1520-1598 

Twain)              .    U.S.A... 

1835-1910 

Centlivre, 

Cleveland,    John 

1613-1658 

Susannah     (nee 

Clough,     Arthur 

Freeman) 

1667  ?-i723 

Hugh 

1819-1861 

Cervantes  (Miguel 

Cobbett,        Wil- 

Cervantes     de 

liam 

1762-1835 

Saavedra)       .  .   Spanish  . 

I547-l6l6 

Codrlngton, 

Chalmers, 

Christopher 

1668-1710 

Thomas,  D.D..   Scot      .. 

1780-1847 

Coke,       Sir 

Chamberlain,  J. 

Edward 

1552-1634 

Austen 

b.  1863 

Coleridge,  Hart- 

Chamberlain, 

ley 

1796-1849 

J  oseph 

1836-1914 

Coleridge,    Sam- 

Chambers, 

uel  Taylor     .. 

1772-1834 

Charles 

Collin,    d'Harle- 

Haddon         .  .  A  ustral- 

ville,          Jean 

ian    .  . 

b.  1860 

Francois         ..   French.. 

1755-1806 

Channlng, 

Collins,        Mor- 

William 

timer 

1827-1876 

Ellery,  D.D...   U.S.A.  . 

1780-1842 

Collins,         Wil- 

Chapman, George 

1559  ?-i634 

liam               .  .               .  . 

1721-1759 

Charles    V., 

Colman,  George, 

Emperor       .  .  Fleming  . 

1500-1558 

the     Elder    .. 

1732-1794 

Chatham,   Lord, 

Colman,  George, 

see  Pitt. 

the  Younger.. 

1762-1836 

Chatterton, 

Colton,     Charles 

Thomas 

1752-1770 

Caleb  (Rev.).. 

1780-1832 

Chaucer,  Geof- 

Colton,    Walter  U.S.  A... 

1797-1851 

frey 

1340  7-1400 

Columella, 

Chaulieu,    Guil- 

Lucius  Junius 

laume   Amfrye 

Moderatus     ..  Roman.. 

ist  cent.  A.D. 

de                  .  .  French   . 

1639-1720 

Combe,        Wil- 

Ch'en   Tzu-aglg  Chinese  . 

7th  cent. 

liam 

1741-1823 

Chesterfield, 

[  ?  B.C.  or  A.  D. 

Confucius         .  .   Chinese  . 

55i?-478 

Lord,  see  Stan- 

Congreve,    Wil- 

hope. 

liam 

1670-1729 

Chesterton, 

Constable, 

Gilbert    Keith 

b.  1874 

Thomas 

Cheviot,  Andrew  Scot 

ft.  1896 

Constant,  de  Re- 

Chilo  of  Sparta   Greek    . 

ft.  B.C.  556 

becque,   Henri 

Choate.Rufus  ..   U.S.A.. 

I799-I85Q 

Benjamin      .  .  French  .  . 

1767-1830 

Chrysostom,    St.  Syrian 

347  P-407 

Cook,       Eliza 

1818-1889 

Churchill, 

Cooke,       Jo.  (? 

Charles 

1731-1764 

Joshua) 

ft.  1614 

Churchill,  John, 

Cooper,  Anthony 

ist     Duke     of 

Ashley,        3rd 

Marlborough 

1650-1722 

Earl  of  Shaf  tes- 

Churchill,    Lord 

bury 

1671-1713 

Randolph 

Coope'r,       John 

Henry  Spencer 

1849-1895 

Gilbert 

1723-1769 

638 


LIST    OF    QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Corbet,  Richard, 

Curlus  Dentatus, 

D.D.,     Bishop 

see  Dentatus. 

of  Oxford  and 

Currle,      Lady 

Norwich         .  .                .  . 

1582-1635 

•  (nee        Mary 

Cork,  Earl  of,  see 

Montgomerie 

Boyle. 

Lamb) 

Cornellle, 

("  Violet  Fane") 

1843-1905 

Pierre             .  .   French  .  . 

1606-1684 

Cornelius    Nepos  Roman.  . 

B.C.  99  ?-24 

Cornford,    Fran- 

ces 

zoth  century 

D 

Cornwall, 

Barrv,    see 

Dalgne,  D.       ..  French.. 

igth  century 

Procter,  B.  W. 

D'Allalnval,  see 

Cory,    William 

Allainval. 

Johnson 

1823-1892 

Dalton,       John, 

Cosln.John.D.D., 

D.D. 

1709-1763 

Bishop  of  Dur- 

Daniel,    Samuel 

1562-1619 

ham 

1594-1672 

Dante,    Alighieri  Italian.. 

1265-1321 

Cotton,    Nath- 

Danton, Georges 

aniel 

1705-1788 

Jacques         ..  French.. 

1759-1794 

Couch,     Sir 

Darwin,    Eras- 

Arthur Thomas 

mus 

1731-1802 

Quiller- 

6.  1863 

D'Avenant,     Sir 

Cowley,  Abraham 

1618-1667 

William 

1606-1668 

Cowley,        Han- 

Davidson,   John  Scot 

1857-1909 

nah  (nee  Park- 

Davies,  Sir  John 

1569-1626 

house) 

1743-1809 

Davles,    Richard  Welsh  .. 

1  635-1  708 

Cowper,  William 

1731-1800 

Davies,      Scrope 

Cox,          George 

Berdmore 

1771  ?-i852 

Valentine 

1786-1875 

Davis,    Henry, 

^ 

Crabbe,     George 

1754-1832 

M.A.,     transla- 

Craig,    Isa,    see 

tor  of  Plato 

b.  1849 

Knox. 

Davlson,  Francis 

1541-1608 

Cralgle,    Pearl 

Davlson,  Walter 

1581-1608  ? 

Mary     Teresa 

Davy,   Sir  Hum- 

(nee Richards'! 

phry 

1778-1829 

("  John  Oliver 

Decatur, 

Hobbes")      ..   U.S.A... 

1867-1906 

Stephen         ..   U.S.A... 

1779-1820 

Cralk,         Dinah 

Defoe,  Daniel 

1661-1731 

Maria    (nrc 

Dekker,  Thomas 

1570  7-1641  ? 

Mulock) 

1826-1887 

Delany,   Patrick, 

Cranch,     Chris- 

Dean of  Down  Irish     .  . 

16857-1768 

topher    Pearse  U.S.  4... 

1813-1892 

De   Maistre, 

Crashaw,     Rich- 

Xavier,  see 

ard 

1613-1649 

Maistre. 

Cratlnus           .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.      520-423 

D«  Morgan,  Au- 

Creech, Thomas, 

gustus           .  . 

1806-1871 

B.D. 

1659—1700 

Demosthenes,  .  .   Greek    .  . 

B.C.  384-322 

Crlpps,  A.  S. 

igth  century 

Denham,  Sir 

Crockett, 

John 

1615-1669 

David             ..    U.S.A... 

1786-1836 

Denman.Thomas, 

Croly,        George  Irish     .  . 

1780-1860 

Lord    Denman, 

Cromwell, 

Lord         Chief 

Oliver 

1599-1658 

Justice 

1779-1854 

Cross,        Marian 

Dennis,         John 

1657-1734 

(nee       Evans) 

Dentatus,  Marcus 

("  George  Eliot  ") 

1819-1880 

Ci'rius            ..  Roman.. 

d.  B.C.  265 

Crowne,       John 

d.  1703  ? 

De  Qulncey, 

Cruger,  M.P.  for 

Thomas 

1785-1859 

Bristol 

ft.  1774 

Destouches, 

Culpeper,    Nich- 

Philippe   Neri- 

olas                .  .               .  . 

1616-1654 

cault               .  .   French  .  . 

1680-1754 

Cumberland, 

De  Vere,  Sir  Au- 

Richard 

1732-1811 

brev               .  .  Irish     .  . 

1788-1846 

Cunningham, 

Dibdln,     Charles 

1745-1814 

Allan              ..  Scot 

1784-1842 

Dlbdin,    Thomas 

1771-1841 

639 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Dick,        Charles 

Du        Maurier, 

George      Cots- 

George     Louis 

ford 

1846-1911 

Palmella    Bus- 

Dickens,  Charles 

1812-1870 

son 

1834-1896 

Dlgby,              Sir 

Duncan,      Mary 

Kenelm 

1603-1665 

Lundie           .  .  Scot 

fl.  1846 

Digby,      Kenelm 

Dwight,       Tim- 

Henry 

1800-1880 

othy  ..         ..   U.S.A.  . 

1752-1817 

Dillon,       Went- 

Dyer,    Sir     Ed- 

worth,         4th 

ward 

d.  1607 

Earl    of    Ros- 

Dyer,  John      ..  Welsh  .. 

1700  7-1758 

common         .  .   Irish 

1633  7-1685 

Diogenes           .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.  412-324 

Diogenes,    Laer- 

tius                .  .  Greek    .  . 

fl.   2nd  cent. 

A.D. 

E 

Dionyslus,        of 

Halicarnassus  .  Greek    .  . 
Disraeli,       Ben- 

fl. B.C.  78-54 

Edgeworth,  Maria 
Edmeston,  James 
Edwards,     Rich- 

1767-1849 
1791  7-1867 

jamin  (Earl  of 
Beaconsfield)  . 
D'Israeli,    Isaac 

1804-1881 
1766-1818 

ard 
Eliot,       George, 

1523  7-1566 

Dobell,     Sydney 
Thompson 
Dobson,     Henry 
Austin 

1824-1874 
b.  1840 

see  Cross. 
Ellerton,        Ed- 
ward 
Elliott,       Eben- 

1770-1851 

Doddridge, 
Philip,  D.D... 
Dodgson,  Charles 

1702-1751 

ezer 
Ellis,         George 
("  Sir  Gregory 

1781-1849 

Lutwidge 
(Lewis  Carroll)               ,  . 
Dodsley,    Robert 
Domergue,  Fran- 
cois Urbain   .  .  French  .  . 
Donne,       John, 
clccin.     of      St 

1832-1898 
1703-1764 

1745-1810 

Gander    )      .  .                •  • 
Emerson,   Ralph 
Waldo           ..     U.S.A. 
Ennius,   Quintus  Roman  .  . 
Epicharmus      .  .  Greek    .  . 
Epicurus           ..  Greek    .. 
Erasmus,    Desi- 

1803-1882 

B.C.  239—169 
B.C.  540-450 
B.C.  342-270 

Paul's 
Dorset,    Earl  of, 
see     Sackville, 

1573-1631 

derius             .  .  Dutch   .  . 
Erskine,    Ralph  Scot 
Esprit,     Jacques  French.. 
Etienne,   Charles 

1467-1536 
1685-1752 
1611-1678 

i  nomas. 
Doudney,  Sarah 
Douglas,  Lord 
Alfred      Bruce  Scot 
Douglas,     Jesse 
Doyle,              Sir 

b.  1843 

b.  1870 
c.  1840 

Guillaume     .  .  French  .  . 
Euler,     Leonard  Swiss    .. 
Eupolis    (quoted 
by  Cicero)      .  .  Greek    .  . 
Euripides         ..  Greek    .. 

1778-1845 
1707-1783 

B.C.  4467-4II 
B.C.  480-406 

Arthur    Conan 

b.  1859 

Evelyn,      John. 

I62C—I7O6 

Doyle,             Sir 

Francis      Has- 

tings Charles 

1810-1888 

Drake,      Joseph 

F 

Rodman        ..   U.S.A... 

1795-1820 

Drayton,  Michael 

1563-1631 

Faber,  Frederick 

Droz,     Francois  French  .  . 

1773-1851 

William  (Rev.) 

1814-1863 

Drummond,  Wil- 

Fairfax,  Edward 

I58O?-l635 

liam,  of  Haw- 

Falconer,      Wil- 

thornden       .  .   Scot 

1585-1649 

liam               .  .  Scot 

1733-1769 

Drummond,    Sir 

Fane,  Violet,  see 

William          ..   Scot      .. 

1770  7-1828 

Currie,    Lady. 

Drummond,  Wil- 

Farquhar, George  Irish    .  . 

1678-1707 

liam    Henry..   7mA     .. 

1854-1907 

Fawkes,   Francis 

1720-1777 

Dryden,  John 

1631—1700 

Felkin,         Hon. 

Duclos,    Charles 

Mrs.  A.  L.,  see 

Pineau           .  .  French   . 

1704-1772 

Fowler. 

Dumas,       Alex- 

Ferguson,  David  Scot 

d.  1598 

andre             .  .  French   . 

1802-1870 

Ferrlar,  John 

1761-1815 

Dumas,       Alex- 

Ferrier,      Susan 

aodre  (son)    .  .  French   . 

1824-1876 

F.dmonstone    .   Scot      .  . 

1782-1854 

640 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Feuerbach,  Lud- 

wig                 .  .  German  . 

1804-1872 

Field,   Eugene..    U.S.A.  . 

i850?-i895 

Galus  (also  Caius)  Roman  .  . 

no  ?-i8o 

Field,  Michael 

Gale,  Norman 

b.  1863 

(Miss  Bradley, 

Gannett,        Wil- 

d.    1914,     and 

liam  Channing, 

Miss  Cooper,  d. 

author           of 

1913)      (Publi- 

" Studies       in 

cations      date 

Longfellow," 

from  1884     to 

1884               ..U.S.A... 

b.  1840 

1913.) 
Fielding,    Henrv 

ft.  1884-1913 
1707-1754 

Garrlck,     David 
Garth,             Sir 

I7I7-I779 

Fields,       James 

Samuel          .  .               .  . 

1661-1719 

Thomas          .  .    U.S.  A 

1816-1881 

Gascolgne, 

Fisher,        John, 

George 

1525  ?-i577 

Lord    Fisher 

1841-1920 

Gaston,     Pierre, 

FitzGerald, 

Due  de   Levis  French.. 

1764-1830 

Edward 

1809-1883 

Gay,  John 

1685-1732 

Fleetwood, 

George,      David 

William,  D.D., 

Lloyd             ..   Welsh  .. 

6.  1863 

Bishop  of  Ely.                .  . 

1656-1723 

Gibbon,  Edward 

1737-1794 

Fletcher,        An- 

Gibbons, 

drew  (Fletcher 

Thomas 

1720-1785 

of  Saltoun)    .  .   Scot 

1655-1716 

Gilford,      Hum- 

Fletcher,      John 

1579-1625 

phrev 

ft  1580 

Fletcher,     Phin- 

Gilford",       Rich- 

eas 

1582-1650 

ard 

1725-1807 

Fontaine,      Jean 

Glfford,         Wil- 

de la               .  .  French  .  . 

1621-1695 

liam 

1756-1826 

Foote,    Lucius 

Gilbert,    Sir  Wil- 

Harwood      ..    U.S.A... 

b.  1826 

liam  Schwenck 

1836-1911 

Foote,  Samuel.. 

1720-1777 

Gilfillan,  Robert  Scot      .. 

1798-1850 

Ford,  Henry     ..    U.S.A.  . 

b.  1863 

Giulio,    Romano 

Ford,  John 

1586-1640  ? 

(also        Giulio 

Foster,  John     .  . 
Fouche,    Joseph, 

1770-1843 

Pippi)             ..   Italian.. 
Gladstone,     Wil- 

1492-1546 

Due  d'Otranto  French.. 

1763-1820 

liam  Ewart 

1809-1898 

Fowler,        Ellen 

Godolphin,     Sid- 

Thorneycroft 

ney 

1610-1643 

(Hon.  Mrs.  A. 

Goethe,     Johann 

Laurence   Fel- 
kin) 

b.  c.  1870 

Wolfgang    von  German  . 
Goldonl,       Carlo  Italian   . 

1749-1832 
1707-1793 

Fox,          Charles 

Goldsmith, 

James,    states- 

Oliver            .  .   Irish     .  . 

1728-1774 

man,  son  of  ist 

Gondinet,    E.  ..  French   . 

1829-1888 

Baron  Holland 

1749-1806 

Googe,    Barnabe 

1540-1594 

Fox,   George 

1624-1691 

Gordon,      Adam 

Fox,  Henry,  ist 

Lindsay         .  .  A  ustralian 

1833-1870 

Baron  Holland 

1705-1774 

Cower,    John  .. 

1325  ?-i4o8 

Francis,  Edwaid 

Graham,   James, 

Kershaw 

b.  1857 

Marquis         of 

Francis,    Philip.   Irish    .. 

1708  P-I773 

Montrose       .  .  Scot 

1612-1650 

Franklin,      Ben- 

Grahame, James  Scot 

1765-1811 

jamin             ..   U.S.A... 

1706-1790 

Grainger,  James  Scot 

1721  P-I766 

Fraser,             Sir 

Granville, 

Keith        Alex- 

George (Baron 

ander             .  .   Scot 

b.  1867 

Lansdowne) 

1667-1735 

Frederick        the 

Grattan,     Henry  7mA     .. 

1746-1820 

Great,  King  of 

Graves,      Alfred 

Prussia           .  .   German  . 

1712-1786 

Perceval        .  .   Irish    .  . 

b.  1846 

French,  William 

1786-1849 

Gray,     Thomas 

1716-1771 

Frere,          John 

Greeley,    Horace  U3.A... 

1811-1872 

Hookham 

1769-1846 

Green,  Joseph 

Froude,      James 

Henry 

1791-1863 

Anthony 

1818-1894 

Green,   Matthew 

1696-1737 

Fuller,    Thomas 

1608-1661 

Greene,   Edward 

Fusell,   Henry..   Swiss    .. 

1741-1825 

Burnaby 

d.  1788 

2  P- 

641 

LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Greene,     Robert 

1560  7-159- 

Harleville,d', 

Gregory  I.,  Pope  Italian.. 

540  ?-6oi 

see  Collin. 

Gregorius    Naz- 

Harris,          Joel 

ianzen      (St.)  Cappadocian 

c.  325-c.  390 

Chandler        ..   U.S.A... 

1848-1908 

Greville,       Mrs. 

Harrison,    Fred- 

Fanny 

ft.  1753 

eric 

b.  1831 

Greville,          Sir 

Harte,      Francis 

Fulke           (ist 

Bret               ..    U.S.A  .. 

1839-1902 

Baron  Brooke) 

1554-1628 

Harvey,   Gabriel 

1545  7-1630 

Grey,  Sir  Edwd. 

Hastings,    Lady 

(Lord   Grey  of 

Flora  Elizabeth 

1806-1839 

Falloden) 

b.  1862 

Havard,  William 

1710  7-I778 

Grimoald,    Nich- 

Hawels,     Hugh 

olas  (also  Grim- 

Reginald 

1838-1901 

aid    or    Giim- 

Hawes,   Stephen 

d.  1523  1 

alde) 

1519-1562 

Hawkins,  Sir  An- 

Gulney,    Louise 

thony  Hope 

b.  1863 

Imogen          ..   U.S.A.  . 

b.  1861 

Hawkins,        Sir 

Henry,    Baron 

Brampton, 

Judge 

1817-1907 

Hay,  John       ..   U.S.A... 

1838-1905 

Hayes,     Ruther- 

Haflz,     Moham- 

ford Birchard.    U.S.A.  . 
Hayman,  Robert 

1822-1893 
d.  1631  7 

med  Shems-Ed- 

Hazlitt,         Wil- 

Deen             .  .  Persian  . 
Hale,               Sir 

13107-1389? 

liam 
Heath,      Robert 

1778-1830 
ft.  1650 

Matthew 

1609-1676 

Heber,  Reginald, 

Haliburton, 

Bishop  of  Cal- 

Thos. Chandler 

cutta 

1783-1826 

("Sam  Slick") 
Halifax,  Marquis 
of,   see   Savile, 

1796-1865 

Helps,     Sir    Ar- 
thur 
Hemans,    Felicia 

1813-1875 

Sir  George. 
Hall,        Joseph, 

Dorothea    (nee 
Browne) 

1793-1835 

Bishop  of  Exe- 
ter and  of  Nor- 

Henley, William 
Ernest 

1849-1903 

wich 

1574-1656 

Henry»  Matthew, 

Hall,    Robert  .. 

1764-1831 

Nonconf  .  Minis- 

Halleck,      Fitz- 

ter 

1662-1714 

Greene           ..    U.S.A... 
HalllweU, 

1790-1867 

Henry,   Patrick.    U.S.A.  . 
Henry,  Philip 

1736-1799 
1631-1696 

James  Orchard 

Heraclltus        .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.  540-475 

(afterwards 

Herbert,    George, 

Halliwell-Phil- 
lipps) 
Hamerton, 

1820-1889 

rector  of  Bemer- 
ton,  Wilts 
Herbert,   Leon  . 

1593-1633 

c.  1850 

Philip  Gil- 
bert 

1834-1894 

Herder,   Johann 
Gottfried  von  .   German  . 

1744-1803 

Hamilton,   Alex- 

Herodotus       .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.  484-428 

ander             .  .  Scot 

d.  1732  ? 

Herrick,    Robert 

I59I-I674 

Hamilton,     Wil- 

Herschel,         Sir 

John  Frederick 

g.ar              ..  Scot 

1704-1754 

William 

I792-I87I 

Hamilton-King, 

Harriet  Eleanor  Scot 

b.  iS^o 

Hervey,       John 
Baron   Hervey 

1696-1743 

Hamley,          Sir 

Hervey,  Thomas 

Edward  Bruce, 
General          •  .                •  • 

1824-18^3 

Kibble 
Hesiod               ..  Greek   .. 

1799-1859 
C.  B.C.  9OO 

Hammond, 

Heywood,     Jas- 

James 
Hardy,    Thomas 

1710-17-42 
b.  1840 

per 
Heywood,    John 

1535-1598 
1497  7-I580? 

Hare,      Julius 
Charles 

1795-1855 

Heywood, 

Thomas 

d.  1650  ? 

Hailngton,      Sir 
John 

1561-161  - 

HIckey,  Emily  . 
Henrietta    '  .  .  Irish     .  . 

6.  1845 

LIST   OF    QUOTED    AUTHORS 


Hlckson,    Wil- 

Hunting ton, 

liam  Edward. 

1803-1870 

WilliamS.  S... 

1745-1813 

Hill,    Aaron      . 

1685-1750 

Hurdls,    James. 

1763-1801 

Hinkson,     Kath 

Hutcheson, 

arine  Tynan  .     Irish 

b.  1861 

Francis,        the 

Hipplas    '          .     Greek 

ft.  B.C.  435  ? 

Elder             .  .  Scot 

1694-1746 

Hippocrates      .     Greek 

B.C.  460-357 

Hutchinson, 

Hobbes,    John 

Horatio  Gor- 

Oliver,   see 

don 

ft.  1859 

Craigie. 

Huxley,  '/Thomas 

Hobbes,  Thomas 
Hoc  cl  eve,  Thomas 

1588-1679 
1370  P-I450  ? 

Henry 

1825-1895 

Hodgkin, 

Thomas,  M.D. 

1798-1866 

Hogg,        James, 

"  The    Ettrick 

I 

Shepherd  "    .  .   Scot 
Holcroft, 
Thomas 
Holland,  ist 
Baron,  see  Fox, 

1770-1835 
1745-1809 

Ibsen,  Henrik..  Nor- 
wegian .  . 
Ingelow,  Jean.. 
Ingram,       John 
Kells              ..  Irish    .. 

1828-1906 
1820-1897 

1823-1907 

Henry. 
Holland,      Hugh 
Holmes,    Oliver 
Wendell         ..    U.S.A.  . 
Home,  John      .  .  Scot 
Homer              .  .   Greek    ft. 
Hood,  Thomas 
Hook,  Theodore 
Edward 

d.  1633 

1809-1894 
1722-1808 
8.0.962-927  ? 
1799-1845 

1788-1841 

Ireland,   William 
Henry            .  . 
Irving,       Wash- 
ington           .  .   U.S.A  .  . 
Isidore.  St.,  His- 
palensis          .  .  Spanish 
Isidore,    St.,    of 
Pelusium       .  .  Greek    .  . 

1777-1835 
1783-1859 
560-636 
370  ?-450  ? 

Hooker,  Richard 

1554  ?-i6oo 

Hooper,       Ellen 

(nee  Sturgis) 

fl.  1840 

Hope,   Anthony, 

J 

see     Hawkins, 

Sir     Anthony 

Jacob!,     Johann 

Hope. 

Georg             .  .   German  . 

1740-1814 

Hopkinson, 

James  I,  of  Scot- 

Joseph          ..    U.S.A... 

1770-1842 

land                .  .   Scot 

I394-U37 

Hopwood,     Ron- 

James,     George 

ald 

2oth  century 

Payne     Rains- 

Horace             .  .  Roman  .  . 

B.C.  65-B.c.  8 

ford 

11799-1860 

Houghton,  Lord, 

Jefferson, 

see  Milnes. 

Thomas          ..    U.S.A.  . 

743-1826 

Housman,  Alfred 

Jeffrey,     Francis 

Edward 

ft.  1859 

Lord  Jeffrey  .  .  Scot 

1773-1850 

Housman,    Law- 

Jennings, Chas., 

rence 

ft.  1867 

reputed  libret- 

Hovey, Richard,   U.S.A... 

1864-1900 

tist  of  Handel's 

Howard,   Henry, 

"Saul,"  1738. 

Earl  of  Surrey 

1517  ?-i547 

Jenyns,  Soame  . 

1704-1787 

Howard,         Sir 

Jerome,    Jerome 

Robert 

1626^1698 

Klapka 

ft.  1859 

Howartb,    Ellen 

Jerome,  St.  (Eu- 

Clementine 

sebius  Hierony- 

(neeDoran)    ..    U.S.A... 

1827-1899 

mus    Sophron- 

Howe,  Julia  (nee 

ius)                 .  .   Roman  .  . 

331-420 

Ward)           ..    U.S.A... 

ft.  1819-1910 

Jerrold,      Doug- 

Howe, Nathanael  U.S.A... 

1764-1837 

las  William 

1803-1857 

Howell,      James  Welsh  .. 

1594  ?-i666 

John     of     Salis- 

Howltt, Mary 

bury,  Bishop  of 

(nee  Botham)  . 

1799-1888 

Chartres 

d.  1180 

Hugo,    Victor 

Johnson,  Esther, 

Marie              .  .  French   . 

1802-1885 

"  Stella  "       .  . 

1681-1728 

Hume,  David  .  .  Scot 

1711-1776 

Johnson,  Samuel 

1709-1784 

Hunt,         James 

Jones,         Henry 

Henry  Leigh 

1784-1859 

Arthur 

ft.  i85T 

643 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Jones,    Sir    Wil- 

L 

liam 

1746-1794 

Jonson,  Ben 

1573  ?-i637 

Labiche,  Eugene 

Joubert,  Joseph.  .French 

1754-1824 

Marin             .  .   French   . 

1815-1888 

Jouffroy,      Theo- 

La Bruyfere,   see 

dore                  .  .  French 

1796-1842 

Bruyere. 

Jovian,  Emperor  Roman.  . 

332  P-364 

Lactantius,    Fir- 

"Junius,"  ?  Sir 

mianus           .  .  Roman  .  . 

250?-330? 

Philip    Francis 

La  Fontaine,  see 

1740-1818. 

Fontaine. 

Letters         by. 

La   Harpe,  Jean 

published  1768- 

Francois  de  .  .   French   . 

1739-1803 

i?73 

Lamartine,      Al- 

Juvenal            .  .  Roman  .  . 

60?-  140  ? 

phonse     Marie 

Louis              .  .   French   . 

1790-1869 

Lamb,  Charles.  . 

1775-1834 

Lancaster, 

K 

Joseph           .  . 

1778-1838 

Lanrton,    Letitia 

Karr,  Jean  Bap- 

Elizabeth 

1802-1838 

tiste  Alphonse  French   . 

1808-1890 

Landor,     Walter 

Keats,  John 

1795-1821 

Savage 

1775-1864 

Keble,  John 

1792-1866 

Lang,  Andrew  .  .  Scot 

1844-1912 

Kelly,  James,  Col- 

Langbridge, 

lector   of   Scot- 

Frederick 

b.  1849 

tish     Proverbs, 

Langhorne,  John 

1735-1779 

published    1721 

Langland,      Wil- 

(London) 

liam 

1330  ?  -1400  ? 

Kemble,  Frances 

Lansdowne, 

Anne,  see  But- 

Lord, see  Gran- 

ler. 

ville. 

Kemble,      John 

La     Rochefou- 

Philip 

1757-1823 

cauld,          see 

Kempis,  Thomas 

Rochefoucauld. 

(Thomas    from 

Latlmer,     Hugh, 

Kempen,  near 

Bishop  of  Wor- 

Cologne) 

cester 

1485  7-1555 

(Thomas  Ham- 

Lear,  Edward 

1812-1888 

merken)         .  .  German  . 

1380  P-I47I 

Lebrun,  see  Pig- 

Ken,        Thomas, 

ault-Lebrun. 

Bishop  of  Bath 

Ledwldge,   Fran- 

and Wells 

1637-17" 

cis       .  .         .  .   Irish     .  . 

1890-1917 

Kent,  Armine 

Lee,  Nathaniel  .  . 

1653  ?-i692 

Thos. 

2oth  century 

Le        Gallic  nne, 

Kepler,  John  .  .  German  . 

1571-1630 

Richard 

b.  1866 

Kernahan,  Coul- 

Legouv6,      Gab- 

son 

b.  1858 

riel  Marie  Jean 

Key,     Francis 

Baptiste        .  .  French   . 

1730-1782 

Scott              ..   U.S.A.    . 

1780-1843 

Leifchlld,  Dr.  .  . 

1  8th  century 

Kilmer,  Joyce  ..   U.S.A.  . 

1886-1918 

Leigh,         Henry 

King,  H.  E.  Ham- 

Sambrooke 

1837-1883 

ilton,  see  Ham- 

Leland,   Charles 

ilton. 

Godfrey         ..   U.S.A.   . 

1824-1903 

King,  William 

1685-1763 

Lemlerre,      An- 

Klnglake,   Alex- 

toine Marin    .  .  French    . 

1733-1793 

ander   William 

1809-1891 

Le    Sage,   Alain 

Klngsley, 

Rene              .  .  French  .  . 

1668-1747 

Charles 

1819-1875 

Lever,      Chas. 

Kipling,       Rud- 

James            .  .   Irish     .  . 

1806-1872 

yard 

b.  1865 

Levls,  Due  de,  see 

Knowles,   James 

Gas  ton. 

Sheridan        .  .   Irish     .  . 

1784-1862 

Liancourt,  Due  de 

Knox,    Isa    (nee 

(Francois  Alex- 

Craig)             .  .   Scot 

1831-1903 

andre  Frederic, 

Knox,  William  .  .  Scot 

1789-1825 

Due      de      La 

Krudener,  Baron- 

Rochefoucauld 

ess  de            .  .  Russian 

1766-1824 

Liancourt)     .  .  French  .  . 

1747-1827 

644 


LIST   OF   QUOTED    AUTHORS 


Llllo,    George 

1693-1739 

Lincoln,      Abra- 

ham, President  U.S.A.  . 

1809-1865 

Macaulay,  Thos. 

LInley,  George  . 

1798-1865 

Babbington, 

Linnaeus,  Carolus 

Lord  Macaulay  Scot 

1800-1859 

(Karl  von  Linne)  Swedish 

1707-1778 

Macdonald, 

Lissauer,     Ernst   German 

b.  1882 

George           .  .  Scot 

1824-1905 

LIvyf  Titus  Livius 

Macfarlan, 

Patavinus)     ..    Roman  c.  B.C.  59-A.D.  17 

James            ..  Scot 

1832-1862 

Locke,  John 
Locker-Lampson, 

1632-1704 

Mackall,  John 
William          ..  Scot 

b.  1859 

Frederick 

1821-1895 

Mackay,  Charles  Scot 

1814-1889 

Lockhart,     John 

Mackay,  Eric  .. 

1851-1899 

Gibson           .  .   Scot 

1794-1854 

Mackenzie, 

Lockler,  Francis, 

Henry            .  .  Scofl 

1745-1831 

Dean  of  Peter- 

Mackintosh,   Sir 

borough 

1667-1740 

James            .  .  Scot 

1765-1832 

Logan,  John,  Pres- 

Macklin, Charles  Irish    .  . 

1697  ?-i797 

byterian  divine  Scot 

1748-1788 

McLennan,  Mur- 

Longfellow, 

doch              .  .  Scot 

1  8th  century 

Henrv  \V  a  d  s- 

MacNelll,      Hec- 

wortti            ..   U.S.A... 

1807-1882 

tor                 ..  Scot 

1746-1818 

Louis  XI.           ..  French.. 

1423-1483 

Macqueen, 

Lovelace,    Rich- 

Robert,    Lord 

ard 

1618-1658 

Braxfield        .  :   Scot 

1722-1799 

Lovell,         Maria 

Macrobius        ..  Roman.. 

ft-   395-423 

Anne           (nee 

Madden,  Richard 

Lacy) 

1803-1877 

Robert           .  .   Irish     .  . 

1798-1886 

Lover,  Samuel..  Irish.     .. 

1797-1868 

Maine,  Sir  Henry 

Lowell,      James 

James  Sumner 

1822-1888 

Russell           ..   U.S.A.  . 

1819-1891 

Maistre,  Xavier, 

Lowth,     Robert, 

Comte  de            French  .  . 

1763-1852 

Bishop  of  Lon- 

Maistre,   Le,   de 

don 

1710-1787 

Sacy,        Louis 

Lubbock,         Sir 

Isaac             ..i  French.. 

1613-1684 

John,  Baronet, 

Mallet,  David  .  .  Scot      .  . 

1700  ?-i7&5 

ist  Baron  Ave- 

Malory,,          Sir 

bury 

1834-1913 

Thomas 

ft.  1470 

Lucari      (Marcus 

Manners,      Lord 

Annaeus  Lucanus)  Roman 

39-65 

John       (after- 

Lucas,     Edward 

wards           7th 

Verrall 

b.  1868 

Duke  of  Rut- 

Lucretius   (Titus 

land) 

1818-1906 

Lucretius  Catus)  Roman  .  . 

B.C.   ?    96-52 

Mantuanus,  Joh- 

Lucullus,       Lu- 

annes Baptista 

1448-1516 

cius  Licinius  '  .  .   Roman  .  . 

B.C.  115  ?-66  ? 

Marcus  Aurelius, 

Luther,   Martin    German.  . 

1483-1546 

see  Aurelius. 

Lydgate,   John  . 

1370?-  1451  ? 

Markham,      Ed- 

Lyly, John 

i554.?-i6o6 

win                .  .   U.S.A  .  .  . 

b.  1852 

Lyndsay,       Sir 

Marlborough, 

David             .  .  Scot 

1490-1555 

Duke    of,     see 

Lysaght,   Sidney 

Churchill,  John. 

Royse             .  .  Irish     .  . 

6.  1860? 

Marlowe,    Chris- 

Lyte, Henry 

topher 

1564-1593 

Francis 

1793-1847 

Marmlon,  Shack- 

Lyttelton, 

erley 

1603-1639 

George,  ist  Lord 

Marston,  John  . 

1575  ?-i634 

Lvttelton 

1709-1773 

Martial  .  .          .  .   Roman.. 

41-104 

Lytt'on,    Edward 

Martlneau,    Har- 

George     Earle 

riet 

1802-1876 

Lytton  Bulwei-. 

Martinus,  Dumi- 

ist  Baron  Lyt- 

ensis 

d.  c.  580 

ton 

1803-1873 

Marvell, 

Lytton,    Edward 

Andrew 

1621-1678 

Robert       Bul- 

Masetield,    John 

2oth  century 

wer,    ist    Earl 

Mason,    William 

1724-1797 

of  Lytton 

1831-1891       Massey,     Gerald 

1828-1907 

645 


LIST   OF    QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Massias,     Baron 

Montgomery, 

Nicolas          .  .   French 

1764-1848 

James     .  .      .  .   Scot 

1771-1854 

Massinger,  Philip 

1583-1640 

Montgomery, 

Mather,     Cotton  U.S.A. 

1663-1728 

Robert 

1807-1855 

Mather,   Increase  U.S.A. 

1639-1723 

Mqntrose,     Mar- 

May, Thomas   .  . 

1595-1657 

quis  of,  see  Gra- 

Mayhew,   Henry 

1812-1880 

ham  James    .  . 

Mee,   William    .. 

igth  century 

Moore,  Abraham 

1766-1822 

Meldeaius,      Ru- 

Moore,      Charles 

pertus       (prob. 

Leonard         ..    U.S.A... 

b.  1854 

pseud,    of   Gre- 

Moore,    Edward 

1712-1757 

gorius  Francke)  German 

1583  ?-i6si 

Moore,  George..  Irish     .. 

b.  1853 

Melville,          see 

Moore,    Thomas  7mA     .  . 

1779-1852 

Whyte-Melville. 

More,  Hannah.. 

1745-1833 

Menander          .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.  342-291 

More,  Henry 

1614-1687 

Merchel,       Wil- 

More,               Sir 

helm  von       .  .  German  .  . 

1803-1861 

Thomas 

M78-I535 

Meredith,  George 

1828-1909 

Morgan,  Sydney 

Merlvale,     John 

(Lady  Morgan) 

Herman 

1779-1844 

nee     Owenson  Irish     .  . 

i783?-iS59 

Merrick,    James 

1720-1769 

Morley,        John, 

Meynell,    Alice 

Viscount  Morley 

(nee  Thompson) 

b.  1855  ? 

of  Blackburn 

b.  1838 

Michael  Angelo, 

Morris,     Charles 

1745-1838 

Buonarotti    .  .  Italian  .  . 

1475-1564 

Morris,      George 

Mlckle,    William 

Pope  ..          ..    U.S.A... 

1802-1864 

Julius..         ..  Scot 

1735-1788 

Morris,            Sir 

Middieton, 

Lewis  .  .          .  .    Welsh  .  . 

1833-1908 

Thomas 

1570  7-1627 

Morris,    William 

1834-1896 

Mill,  John'Stuart  Scot      .  . 

1806-1873 

Morton,  Thomas 

1764  7-1838 

Miller,    Hugh  .  .  Scot      .  . 

1802-1856 

Moss,  Thomas 

1  740?-!  808 

Miller,     Joaquin 

Motley,    John 

(Cincinnatus 

Lothrop         ..    U.S.A... 

1814-1877 

Hiner  Miller)  ..    U.S.A... 

1842-1913 

Motteux,     Peter  Fr.  Huguenot 

Milman,     Henry 

Anthony       .  .  settled  in  London  d.  1718 

Hart,  Dean  of 

Moulton,    Ellen 

St.  Paul's 

1791-1868 

Louise    (n6e 

Milnes,    Richard 

Chandler)       ..    U.S.A... 

1835-1908 

Monckton- 

Munday,        An- 

(Baron Hough- 

thony 

1553-1633 

ton)     .. 

1809-1885 

Murphy,  Arthur  Irish     .. 

1727-1805 

Milton,     John.. 

1608-1674 

Murphy,   Joseph 

Mirabeau, 

John 

1827-1894 

Honor6  Gabriel 

Murray,  Robt.  F. 

1863-1894 

Riquetti,  Comte 

• 

de       ..         ..  French.. 

1749-1791 

Mirseus,      (Mire) 

Aubert  .          .  .  Flemish 

1573-1640 

Moir,         David 

N 

Macbeth       ..  Scot 

1798-1851 

Moliere,        Jean 

Nairne,  Carolina 

Baptiste  (Jean 

Oliphant, 

Baptiste      Po- 

Baroness 

1766-1845 

quelin)           ..  French,. 

1622-1673 

Napoleon  I. 

Monkhouse, 

(Buonaparte)  .  .  Corsican 

1769-1821 

William  Cosmo               .  . 

1840-1901 

Neale,          John 

Montagu,     Lady 

Mason,  D.D. 

1818-1866 

Mary   Wortley 

1689-1762 

Heaves,  Charles, 

Montaigne, 

Lord    Neaves, 

Michel  de       ..  French.. 

1533-1592 

Judge             .  .   Scot 

1800-1876 

Montanus,        .  .  Phrygian 

fl.  2nd    cen- 

Nelson,   Horatio 

Montesquieu, 

tury  A.D. 

Viscount        .  .               .  . 

1758-1805 

Charles     Louis 

Nepos,    see  Cor- 

de Secondat, 

nelius. 

Baron  de        ..  French.. 

1689-1755 

Nesbit,   Edith, 

Montgomerle, 

Mrs.  Hubert 

Alexander     .  .  Scot 

1556  ?-i6io  ? 

Bland.. 

b.  1858 

646 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Newbolt,         Sir 

Oxenham,   John 

Henry  John 

b.  1862 

(pen-name     of 

Newman,     John 

Mr.  Dunkerly), 

Henry,      Car- 

has   published 

dinal 

1801-1890 

verse  and  prose 

Newton,          Sir 

since  1898 

b.  c.  1870 

Isaac 

1642-1727 

Oxenstlerna, 

Nichols,  J.B.  B. 

2Oth  century 

Axel.  Count  ..  Swedish. 

1593-1654 

Nicole,  Pierre  ..   French.. 

1625-1695 

Nietzsche,         * 

Friedrich   Wil- 

helm  .  .          .  .  German  .  . 

1844-1900 

p 

Nodier,    Charles 

Emmanuel     .  .  French  .  . 

1780-1844 

Paine,         Robt. 

Noel,   Thomas 

1799-1861 

Treat  ..          ..   U.S.A... 

1773-1811 

Normanby,  Mar- 

Paine,    Thomas 

1737-1809 

quis     of,      see 

Paley,     William 

1743-1805 

Phipps. 

Palgrave,    Fran- 

Norris,   John    .. 

1657-1711 

cis  Turner      .  . 

1824-1897 

Norris,     William 

Palmerston,  Vis- 

Edward 

b.  iS47 

count,           see 

North,         Chris- 

Temple. 

topher,          see 

Parker,   Edward 

Wilson,    John. 

Hazen            ..    U.S.A... 

1823-1896 

Norton,   Caroline 

Parker,     Martin 

d.  1656? 

Elizabeth  Sarah 

Parnell, 

(nee   Sheridan), 

Thomas          .  .   Irish     .  . 

1679-1718 

afterwards 

Pascal,  Blaise  ...  French.. 

1623-1662 

Lady    Stirling- 

Patmore,  Coven- 

Maxwell        .  .  Irish     .  . 

1808-1877 

try         Kersey 

No  vails      (Fried- 

Dighton 

1823-1896 

rich  von  Har- 

Patticius     (Fran- 

denberg)        .  .  German  .  . 

1772-1801 

cesco     Patrizi) 

Nugent,     Robert 

Bishop  of  Gaeta  Italian  .  . 

1529-1597 

(afterwards 

Paul,    Jean,   see 

Robert  Craggs) 

Richter. 

Earl  Nugent.  . 

1702-1788 

Paulding,   James 

Kirke..          ..    U.S.A... 

1779-1860 

Payne,  John 

1842-1917 

Payne,         John 

Howard         ..    U.S.A... 

1791-1852 

Peacock,  Thomas 

o 

Love 

1785-1866 

Peele,    George.. 

I558?-I597? 

Occleve,  see  Hoc- 

Penn,  William 

1644-1718 

cleve. 

Pepys,  Samuel 

1633-1703 

O'Hara,  Kane  .  .  Irish     .. 

1714  7-1782 

Percival,    James 

O'Keelfe,    John  Irish     .  . 

1747-1833 

Gates..         ..   U.S.A... 

1795-1856 

Oldham,  John.  . 

1653-1683 

Percy,  Thomas  . 

1729-1811 

Oldys,  William  . 

1696-1761 

Periander          .  .  Greek    .  . 

d.  B.C.  585 

Oliphant,     Caro- 

Perlin,   Stephen  French  .  . 

fl.  1558 

lina,              see 

Persius  .  .  '       .  .  Roman  .  . 

34-62 

Xairne. 

Petlt-Senn,  Jean  French.. 

i8oo?-i86i? 

Oliphant, 

Petrarch    (Fran- 

Thomas         .  .  Scot      .  , 

1790-1873 

cesco  Petrarca)  Italian.  . 

1304-1374 

Opie,  John,  R.A. 

1761-1807 

Petronlus, 

Osborne,  Francis 

1593-1659 

Arbiter           ..  Roman.. 

d.  A.D.  66 

Osgood,    Frances 

Peyrat,  Alphonse  French  .  . 

1812-1891 

Sargent      (nee 

Phsedrus           .  .  Macedo- 

Locke)           ..    U.S.A... 

1811-1850 

nian  ? 

fl.    ist     cen- 

Otway, Thomas 

1652-1685 

Phelps,    Edward 

tury  A.D. 

"  Oulda,"  Louise 

John  .  .          .  .    U.S.A..  . 

1822—1900 

De   la    Ramee 

1840-1908 

Philips,  Ambrose 

1675  ?-i749 

Outram,   George  Scot 

1805-1856 

Philips,  John 

1676-1709 

Overbury,       Sir 

Phillips,   Stephen 

1868-1915 

Thomas 

1581-1613 

Phillpotts, 

Owen,  Robert  .  .   Welsh  .  . 

1771-1858 

Eden  .  . 

I.  1862 

647 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Philostratus     .  .   Greek    .  . 

172  P-250 

Pyrrhus             ..   Greek    ..   B 

.0.318  P-272 

Phipps,         Con- 

Pythagoras       ..  Greek    ..ft. 

B.C.  540-510 

stantine  Henry, 

jst  Marquis  of 

Normandy 

1797-1863 

Pigault  -  Lebrun, 

Q 

Charles       An- 
toineGuillaume  French. 
Pindar     .         .  .   Greek    .  . 
Pindar,       Peter, 
see  Wolcot. 
Pinero,             Sir 
Arthur  Wing.. 

1753-1835 

B.C.  522-443 

b.  1855 

Quarles,    Francis 
Quiller-Couch, 

see  Couch. 
Quinault, 
Philippe         ..   French.. 
Quintilian         ..  Roman.. 

1592-1644 

1635-1688 
35  ?-95  ? 

Piozzi,  Mrs.  (Mrs. 

Thrale,         nee 

Salusbury) 

1741-1821 

R 

Pitt,  Christopher 

1699-1748 

Pitt,         William, 

Rabelais,     Fran- 

ist    Earl      of 

cois     .  .         .  .  French  .  . 

I490?-i553 

Chatham 

1708-1788 

Rabutin,     Roger 

Pitt,  William     .  . 

1759-1806 

de,    Comte   de 

Pitt,  William 

1790  7-1840 

Bussy..         ..  French.. 

1618-1693 

Pittacus             .  .   Greek    .  . 

B.C.  652  P-5&9 

Ralegh,          S  i  r 

Pix6rieourt, 

Walter 

1552  ?-i6i8 

Rene     Charles 

Ramsay,  Allan  .  .  Scot 

1686-1758 

Guilbert  de    .  .   French  .  . 

1773-1844 

Randolph, 

Plato       ..         ..   Greek    .. 

B.C.  428P-347 

Thomas 

1605-1635 

Plautus,       Titus 

Ray,  James 

ft.  1745-6 

Maccius          ..   Roman.. 

B.C.  2547-184 

Ray,  John 

1627-1705 

Pliny,  the  Elder.   Roman.. 

A.D.   23—79 

Reade,      Charles 

1814-1884 

Pliny,              the 

Reid,   Thomas..  Scot      .. 

1710-1796 

Younger         ..   Roman.. 

A.D.   6I-II3 

Renan,      Joseph 

Plumptre,       Ed- 

Ernest          .  .  French  .  . 

1823-1892 

ward  Hayes 

1821-1891 

Retz,      Cardinal 

Plutarch           .  .   Greek   .  . 

46  ?—  I2O  ? 

de  (Jean  Fran- 

Poe, Edgar  Allan  U.S.A... 

1809-1849 

cois     Paul    de 

Pole,     Reginald, 

Gondi)            .  .   French  .  . 

1614-1679 

Cardinal 

1500-1558 

Reynolds, 

PoUok,      Robert  Scot      .. 

1798-1827 

Frederic 

1764-1841 

Pomfret,   John 

Reynolds,        Sir 

(Rev.)    -        .. 

I667-I7O2 

Joshua 

1723-1792 

Poole,  John     .. 

1786  ?-i872 

Rhoades,   James 

b.  1850? 

Pope,    Alexander 

1688-1744 

Rhodes,  William 

Porson,    Richard 

1759-1808 

Barnes 

1772-1826 

Porteus,     Beilby 

1731-1808 

Richter,   Johann 

Postgate,      Mar- 

Paul     ("  Jean 

garet 

2oth  century 

Paul  ")           .  .  German  . 

1763-1825 

Potter,      Robert 

1721-1804 

Ridge,      William 

Powell,     George 

Pett    .. 

b.  1867  ? 

Herbert 

b.  1860  ? 

Rivarol,  Antoine, 

Praed,     William 

Comte  de       ..  French.. 

1754-1801 

Mackworth 

1802-1839 

Robertson, 

Prior,      Matthew 

1664—1721 

Frederick  Wil- 

Procter,       Ade- 

liam 

1816-1853 

laide  Ann 

1825-1864 

Robertson,  F. 

Procter,      Bryan 

Robinson,  Robert 

fl.  1580 

Waller  ("  Barry 

Rochefoucauld, 

Cornwall  ")    .  . 

1787-1874 

La,      Francois 

Proctor,       Edna 

(Due      de      la 

Dean  ..          ..    U.S.A.   . 

b.  1838 

Rochefoucauld)  French.. 

1613-1680 

Proudhon, 

Rochefoucauld- 

Pierre    Joseph  French  .  . 

1809-1865 

Liancourt,  La, 

Prynne,   William 

1600-1669 

see    Liancourt. 

Publilius     Syrus  Roman.. 

ft.  B.C.  44 

Rochester,    Earl 

Pulteney,      Wil- 

of, see  Wilmot. 

liam,   Earl    of 

Rogers,    J.     E. 

Bath  .. 

1684-1764 

Thorold         .  .               ,  . 

1823-1890 

648 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


Rogers,     Robert 

Sarkadi-Schul- 

Cameron 

b.  1862 

ler,  Leo,  author 

Rogers,    Samuel 

1763-1855 

of        "  Within 

Roland,      de    la 

Four     Walls," 

Platiere,    Mme.  French  .  . 
Remains,    Jules, 

1754-1793 

1900              .  .   Hungarian 
Savage,   Richard 

2Oth  centurv 
16987-1743 

see  Giulio. 

Savlle,             Sir 

Roscoe,         Mrs. 

George,      Mar- 

Henry, author 

quis  of  Halifax 

1633-1695 

of      "  Vittoria 

Saxe,   John  God- 

Colonna " 

ft.  1868 

frey     ..                U.S.A... 

1816-1887 

Roscoe,    William 

1753-1831 

Scaliger,   Joseph 

Roscommon,  Earl 

Justus           ..  French.. 

1540-1609 

of,  see   Dillon. 

Schelling,   Fried- 

Rose,         George 

rich      Wilhelm 

("  Arthur 

Joseph  von    .  .   German  . 

1775-1854 

Sketchley  ")  .  . 

1817-1882 

Schopenhauer, 

Rosebery,  Archi- 

Arthur         .  .   German  . 

1788-1860 

bald  Primrose, 

Scipio  Africanus, 

5th  Earl  of    ..  Scot 

b.  1847 

Major                   Roman  .  . 

B.C.   234-183 

Ross,  Alexander  Scot 

1699-1784 

Scot    (or    Scott), 

Rossettl,     Chris- 

Alexander     .  .  Scot 

1525  ?-I534  ? 

tina    Georgina 

1830-1894 

Scott,  Sir  Walter  Scot      .  . 

I77I-I832 

Rossettl,     Dante 

Scott,      William, 

Gabriel 

1828-1882 

Baron    S  to  well 

1745-1836 

Rostand, 

Scribe,       Augus- 

Edmond        .  .   French  .  . 

b.  1868 

tine   Eugene..   French.. 

I79I-I86I 

Routh,      Martin 

Scrope,  SirCarr 

1649-1680 

Joseph 

1755-1854 

Seaman,  Sir  Owen 

b.  iv,  i 

Rowlands, 

Sedley,            Sir 

Samuel 

1570  7-1630  ? 

Charles 

1639  ?-i  7°i 

Rulhieres,  Claude 

Se?rais,         Jean 

Carloman  de  .  .  French  .  . 

I735-I79I 

Regnault  de  .  .   French  .  . 

1624-1701 

Rumbold,  Richard 

1622  ?-i6Ss 

S6gur,         Louis 

Runkle,     Bertha 

Philippe, 

Brooks           ..   U.S.A... 

2oth  century 

Comte  de      .  .     French  .  . 

I753-I833 

Ruskin,    John.. 

1819-1900 

Selden,   John 

1584-1654 

Russell,    George 

Seneca,      Lucius 

("M") 

b  1867 

Annseus               Roman  .  .  B.C.  3  P-A.D.  65 

Russell,        John 

Seneca,     Marcus 

ist  Earl  Russell 

Annasus          ..   Roman..   B.C.  61  ?-A.  D. 

(known  as  Lord 

32? 

John  Russell). 

1792-1878 

Sewall,  Jonathan 

Rutland,      Duke 

Mitchell         ..    U.S.A... 

1748-1808 

of,  see  Manners. 

Seward,  Thomas 

1708-1790 

Seward,  William 

Henry..          ..   U.S.A... 

1801-1872 

Sewell,      George 

d.  1726 

Shadwell, 

s 

Thomas 

1642  7-1692 

Shaftesbury, 

Sackville, 

Earl     of,      see 

Thomas,        ist 

Cooper. 

Earl  of  Dorset 

1536-1608 

Shakespeare, 

Saint-John, 

William 

1564-1616 

Henry,  ist  Vis- 

Shanks, Edward 

count     Boling- 

Buxton          ..               .. 

b.  1892 

broke 

1678-1751 

Shaw,       George 

Salisbury,     Mar- 

Bernard        .  .   Irish     .  . 

b.  1856 

quess    of,     see 

Sheffield,    John, 

Cecil. 

ist     Duke     of 

Sallust     .          ..   Roman.. 

B.C.  86-34 

Buckingham- 

Sampson, Lt-Col. 

shire 

1648-1721 

Dudley 

2oth  century 

Shelley,       Percy 

Sanderson,  Robert, 

Bvsshe 

1792-1822 

D.D.,  Bishop  ot 

Shehstone,    Wil- 

Lincoln 

1587-1633 

liam    .  . 

1714-1763 

649 


LIST   OF   QUOTED    AUTHORS 


Sheppard, 

Southwell, 

Elizabeth  Sara 

1830-1862 

Robert,   Jesuit 

Sheridan,   Richd. 

martyr    " 

1561  P-I595 

Brinsley          .  .   Irish     .  . 

1751-1816 

Spalding,      John 

Sheridan,    Thos.  Irish     .  . 

1687-1738 

Lancaster      .  .    U.S.A.  .  . 

b.  1840 

Sherlock,    Thos., 

Spalding,   Susan 

Bishop  of  Lon- 

(neeMarr)     ..    U.S.A... 

fl.  1892 

don 

1678-1761 

Spencer,  Herbert 

1820-1903 

Sherman,   Frank 

Spencer,        Wil- 

Dempster      .    V  S.-l.    .. 

b.  1860 

liam  Robert 

1769—1834 

Shirley,      James 

1596-1666 

Spenser,  Edmund 

1552  ?-i599 

Shorthouse, 

Spinoza,  Baruch 

Joseph  Henry 

1834-1903 

(or     Benedict)  Dutch  .. 

1632-1677 

Sichel,         Edith 

Sprague,  Charles  U.S.A... 

1791-1875 

Helen 

b.  1862 

Spurgeon,   Chas. 

Siddons,      Sarah 

Haddon 

1834-1892 

(nee  Kemble) 

1755-1831 

StaSl-Holstein, 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip 

1554-1586 

Anne  Louise 

Sigismund,    Em- 

Germaine 

peror    of    Ger- 

Necker, Baron- 

many .  .          .  .  Bohemian 

1368-1437 

ess  de  (Madame 

Sillery,     Charles 

diStagl)         ..  French.. 

1766-1817 

Doyne            .  .   Irish     .  . 

1807-1836 

Stanhope,  Philip 

Sims,         George 

Dormer,       4th 

Robert 

b.  1847 

Earl  of  Chester- 

Singleton,  Mary 

field    .. 

1694-1773 

Montgomerie 

Statius,    Publius 

(n£e    Lamb) 

Papinius        .  .   Roman  .  . 

45  ?-96  ? 

("Violet  Fane") 

Steele,             Sir 

afterwards  Lady 

Richard         .  .   Irish     .  . 

1672-1729 

Currie,  q.  v. 

Stein,  E.  de    .  . 

2oth  century 

Sirmond,  Jacques  French  .  . 

1559-1651 

"  Stella,"    see 

"  Slick,     Sam," 

Johnson, 

see  Haliburton. 

Esther. 

Smart,       Chris- 

Sterne, Laurence  Irish     .  . 

1713-1768 

topher 

1722-1771 

Sternhold, 

Smiles,     Samuel  Scot 

1812-1904 

Thomas 

d.  1549 

Smith,  Adam    ..  Scot 

1723-1700 

Stevens,    George 

Smith,  Alexander  Scot 

1830-1867 

Alexander 

1710-1784 

Smith,    Goldwin, 

Stevenson, 

D.C.L. 

1823-1910 

Louisa  Pyrland 

ft.  1890 

Smith,  Horace 

1779-1849 

Stevenson, 

Smith,  James 

1775-1839 

Robert     Louis 

Smith,  John 

1579-1631 

Balfour          .  .  Scot 

1850-1894 

Smith,  Mary 

Still,            John, 

("  May  ") 

Bishop  of  Bath 

Louise  Riley.  .    U.S.A... 

b.  1842 

and  Wells 

1543  --1608 

Smith,  Dr.  Sam- 

Stillingfleet, 

uel  Francis    ..    U.S.A... 

1808-1895 

Benjamin 

1702-1771 

Smith,  Sydney.  . 

1771-1845 

Stirling,  Earl  of, 

Smith,  Walter 

see  Alexander. 

Chalmers       .  .  Scot 

1824-1908 

Stobaeus,  Joannes  Greek  .. 

5tb     century 

Smollett,   Tobias 

A.D. 

George           .  .  Scot 

1721-1771 

Stodart      (Miss), 

Solon     ..         ..  Greek    .. 

B.C.  638  ?- 

M.  A. 

.  b.  1815  ? 

558? 

Stone,       Samuel 

Somerville,   Wil- 

John 

b.  1837 

liam 

1675-1742 

Story,    Joseph       U.S.A... 

1779-1845 

Sophocles         .  .  Greek 

B.C.      495-406 

Stowe,      Harriet 

South,  Dr.  Rob- 

Elizabeth  (n6e 

ert 

I633-I7I6 

Beecher)         ..    U.S.A... 

1811-1896 

Southerne, 

Stowell,  Lord,  see 

Thomas          .  .   Irish     .  . 

1660-1746 

Scott,  William. 

Southey,      Caro- 

Stubbes,    Philip 

fl.    1583-1591 

line  Anne  (nee 

Stubbs,     Charles 

Bowles) 

1786-1854 

William,  Bishop 

Southey,  Robert 

1774-1843 

of  Truro 

1845-1912 

650 


LIST   OF   QUOTED  AUTHORS 


Suckling,     Sir 

Terence             .  .  Roman  .  . 

B.C.  I94?-I59? 

John 

1609-1642 

Tertulllan          .  .   Carthaginian      160-240 

Suetonius          .  .   Roman  .  . 

fl.    A.D.    QO 

Thackeray,   Wil- 

Suldas   ..          ..  Greek    .. 

fl.   nth  cen- 

liam        Make- 

tury A.D. 

peace 

1811-1863 

Sully.Maximilien 

Themlstocles    .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.  5i4?-449? 

de       Bethune, 

Theobald,   Lewis 

1688-1744 

Ducde           ..  French.. 

1560-164! 

Theognis           ..  Greek    .. 

ft.  B.C.  549 

Surrey,  Earl  of. 

Thomas  a  Kempis, 

see       Howard, 

see  Kempis. 

Henry. 

Thompson,  D'Arcy 

Surtees,    Robert 

Wentworth 

1829-1892 

Smith 

1803-1864 

Thompson, 

Su  Tung-p'o    .  .  Chinese  .  . 

1  1  th    century 

Francis 

1860-1907 

Swain,  Charles.. 

1801-1874 

Thompson,    Wil- 

Swedenborg, 

liam  Hepworth 

1810-1886 

Emanuel        .  .  Swedish 

1688-1772 

Thomson,  James  Scot 

1700-1748 

Swift,    Jonathan  Irish    .  . 

1667-1745 

Thoreau,   Henry 

Swinburne,     Al- 

David .         ..   U.S.A... 

1817-1862 

gernon  Charles 

1837-1909 

Thtele,        Mrs., 

Sylla,   or   Sulla, 

see  Piozzi. 

Lucius  Corne- 

Thucydldes      .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.C.  471-401? 

lius                .  .  Roman  ,  . 

c.  B.C.  138-78 

Tibullus             ..   Roman.. 

B.C.  54?- 

Sylvester, 

B.c.   18? 

Joshua 

1563-1618 

Tickell,   Thomas 

1686-1740 

Syrnons,    Arthur 

b.  1865 

Tobln,  John 

1770-1804 

Syrus,  Publilius, 

Tolstoy,        Leo, 

see  Publilius. 

Count  .          .  .  Russian.  . 

1828-1910 

Tomson,  Graham 

R.       .. 

2oth  century 

Tooke,         John 

Home 

1736-1812 

Tabb,  John'Banistcr 
Tabley,  Lord  de, 

b.  1845 

Tourneur,   Cyril 
Trapp,  Joseph 

1575-1626 
1679-1747 

see  Warren. 

Trench,   Richard 

Tachos,  King  of 

reigned 

Chenevix,  Arch- 

Egypt .          .  .  Egyptian 
Tacitus,            ..  Roman.. 

B.C.    364-361 

A.D.  60  ?-I2O? 

bishop  of  Dub- 
lin     .. 

1807-1886 

Talleyrand  -P6r» 

Trevelyan,    Geo. 

Igord,  Charles 

Macaulay 

b.   1876 

Maurice  de  .  .   French  .  . 

1754-1838 

Trollope,        An- 

Tasso, Torquato  Italian.. 
Tate,  Nahum 

1544-1595 
I652-I7I5 

thony 
Trumbull,    John  U.S.A... 

1815-1882 
1750-1831 

Taylor,           Ann 

Trusler,    John.. 

1735-1820 

(Mrs.  Gilbert)  . 

1782-1866 

Tucker  man, 

Taylor,     Bayard  U.S.A... 

1825-1878 

Henry      Theo- 

Taylor, Sir  Henry 

1800-1886 

dore    ..          ..    U.S.A... 

1813-1871 

Taylor,    Jane 

1783-1824 

Tuke,              Sir 

Taylor,    Jeremy, 

Samuel 

d.  1674 

Bishop  of  Down 
and  Connor 

1613-1667 

Tupper,     Martin 
Farquhar 

1810-1889 

Taylor,         John 

Turbervllle, 

(the  Water  Poet) 

1580-1653 

George 

J54O?-i6io? 

Taylor,  Tom 
Taylor,    William 

I8l7-l88o 

Turgot,        Anne 
Rol>ert  Jacques  French.  . 

1727-1781 

(called  "  of  Nor- 

Tusser,   Thomas 

i524?-i58o 

wich  ")           .  .                .  . 

1765-1836 

Twain,        Mark, 

Temple,     Henry 

see  Clemens. 

John,  3rd  Vis- 

Tynan, Katharine, 

count   Palmer- 

see  Hinkson. 

ston 

1784-1865 

Tyrrell,      George  Irish    .. 

1861-1909 

Temple,  Sir  Wil- 

liam 

1628-1699 

Tennyson, 

u 

Alfred,  Lord 

1809-1892 

Tennyson,  Fred- 

Udall,    Nicholas 

1505-1656 

erick 

1807-1898       Ulplan    ..          ..   Roman.. 

d.  A.D.  228 

651 


LIST   OF   QUOTED   AUTHORS 


v 

Watson,          Sir 

V 

William 

b.  1858 

Valerius,      Max- 

Watts,  Isaac    .. 

1674-1748 

imus    .  .          .  .  Roman  .  . 

ft.    ist    cen- 

Watts -Dunton, 

tury  A.  D. 

Theodore 

1846-1914 

Vanbrugh,      Sir 

Weatherley, 

John 

1664-1726 

Frederick 

Van  Dyke,  Henry,  U.S.A..  . 

b.  1852 

Edward 

b.  1848 

Vaughan,  Henry,  Welsh  .  . 

1622-1695 

Webber,     Byron 

fl.  1881 

Vauvenargues, 

Weber,         Karl 

Luc  de  Clapiers, 

Julius            .  .  German  .  . 

1767-1832 

Marquis  de     .  .   French  .  . 

1715-1747 

Webster,  Augusta 

Vaux,     Thomas, 

(nee  Davies)    . 

1840-1894 

2nd  Lord  Vaux 

1510-1556 

Webster,  Daniel  U.S.A... 

1782-1852 

Verstegen,  Rich- 

Webster,     Jean  U.S.A... 

1876-1918 

ard      (Richard 

Webster,    John 

1580  ?-i625  ? 

Rowlands) 

Wellington,D  uke 

antiquary 

fl.    1565-1620 

of        .  .          .  .  Irish    .  . 

1769-1852 

Villiers,   George, 

Werner,  Alice 

b.  1859 

ist      Duke    of 

Wesley,    John 

1703-1791 

Buckingham 

1592-1628 

Wesley,    Samuel 

1691-1739 

Villiers,    George, 

Wessel,    John  .  .  Dutch  .  . 

1420-1489 

2nd    Duke    of 

Whately,     Rich- 

Buckingham.. 

1628-1687 

ard,      Archbp. 

Vincent  ofBeau- 

of  Dublin 

1787-1863 

vais    .  .         .  .  French  .  . 

c.  1190  ?- 

Whistler,    James 

1264  ? 

Abbott  McNeill  U.S.A... 

1834-1903 

Virgil     .  .          .  .   Roman  .  . 

B.C.    7O-I9 

White,        Henry 

Voltaire      (Fran- 

Kirke.. 

1785-1806 

cois           Marie 

Whitehead,   Paul 

1710-1774 

Arouet)          ..  French.. 

1694-1778 

Whitehead,   Wil- 

liam 

1715-1785 

Whitman,    Walt  U.S.A... 

1819-1892 

Whitten,   Wilfred 

b.  1870? 

Whittier,     John 

W 

Greenleaf       .  .    U.S.  A  .  .  . 

1807-1892 

Whyte    -    Mel- 

Waley,    Arthur, 

ville,     George 

translator      of 

John 

1821-1878 

Chinese  poetry, 

Wllberforce, 

1918-1919,  etc. 

2oth  century 

Samuel,  Bishop 

Walker,  William 

1623-1684 

of  Oxford  and 

Wallace,    Edgar 

b.  1875 

of    Winchester 

1805-1873 

Wallace,       Wil- 

Wilcox,     Carlos  U.S.A... 

1794-1827 

liam  Ross       ..   U.S.A... 

1819-1881 

Wilcox,          Ella 

Waller,    Edmund 

1606-1687 

Wheeler         ..   U.S.A... 

1855-  1919 

Walpole,  Horace, 

Wilde,         Oscar 

Earl  of  Orford 

1717-1797 

O'Flahertie 

Walsh,    William 

1663-1708 

Wills  .  .         .  .  Irish     .  . 

1856-1900 

Walton,      Izaak 

1593-1683 

Wilkins,  George 

fl.  1607 

Ward,     Artemus 

Willard,     Emma 

(Charles  Farrer 

(nee  Hart)      ..    U.S.A... 

1787-1870 

Browne)         ..    U.S.A... 

1836-1868 

Williams,  Joshua 

1813-1881 

Ward,           Mary 

Williams,   Sarah 

Augusta    (Mrs. 

("  Sadie  ")     .  . 

1837-1868 

Humphry 

Wilmot,      John, 

Ward)         (nee 

2nd     Earl     of 

Arnold) 

1851-1920 

Rochester 

1647-1680 

Warren,       John 

Wilson,       John 

Byrne  Leicester, 

("  Christopher 

3rd    Baron    de 

North  ")         .  .   Scot      .  . 

1785-1854 

Tabley 

1835-1895 

Wilson,    John.. 

d.  1889 

Warton,  Thomas 

1728-1790 

Wilson,  Thomas, 

Washington, 

Bishop  of  Sodor 

George            ..    U.S.A... 

1732-1799 

and  Man 

1663-1755 

Watkyns,    Row- 

Winter, William  U.S.A... 

1836-1917 

land    .. 

fl.  1660 

Wither,    George 

1588-1667 

652 

LIST   OF   QUOTED    AUTHORS 


Wolcot,        John 

X 

("  Peter      Pin- 

dar ") 

1738-1819 

Xenophon        .  .  Greek    .  . 

B.c.444?-354? 

Wolfe,      Charles  Irish 

1791-1823 

Wordsworth, 

William 

1770-1850 

Y 

Wotton,          Sir 
Henry 
Wright,     James 

1568-1639 

Young,  Arthur.. 
Young,   Edward 

1741-1820 
1683-1765 

F  

.  .    aoth  century 

Wrother,      Miss, 

song  writer  .  . 

igth  century 

Wyatt,            Sir 

Zamoiskl,  Jan..  Pole     .. 

1541-1605 

Thomas 

15037-1542 

Zangwlll,   Israel 

b.  1864 

Wycherley,  Wil- 

Zoroaster (Zara- 

liam 

i64O?-i7i6 

thustra)          .  .  Persian  .  . 

ft.  B.C.  800  ? 

653 


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